Data Analytics Contracts

Data Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analytics over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 255 218
Rank change year-on-year +35 -37 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 479 586 1,176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.11% 1.05% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.18% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 343 409 849
10th Percentile £326 £350 £405
25th Percentile £403 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £653
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 15 20
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.94 £9.92
25th Percentile £15.81 £24.63 £28.63
Median hourly rate £25.00 £78.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.95% +122.86% +25.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £79.19 £35.94
90th Percentile - £85.68 £46.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.06 £78.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -73.01% +122.86% +45.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics.

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analytics over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 9 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +31 420 £525 -4.55% 454
London +12 239 £563 -2.17% 236
UK excluding London +26 179 £500 -4.76% 232
Work from Home +39 156 £500 -4.76% 214
Midlands +47 72 £400 -25.93% 51
West Midlands +40 58 £450 -16.67% 37
South East -2 38 £360 -29.41% 47
North of England +25 34 £550 -6.38% 61
North West +20 28 £550 +29.41% 36
East Midlands +14 14 £365 -27.00% 14
Wales +30 12 £550 - 5
South West +3 10 £569 -24.17% 31
East of England -3 8 £363 -23.53% 13
Scotland +10 6 £425 -29.75% 23
Yorkshire +4 5 £515 -14.17% 17
Northern Ireland +2 1 - - 6
North East - 1 - - 8

Data Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.38%) SAS
2 13 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.09%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 6 (1.25%) Confluence
5 4 (0.84%) Apache
5 4 (0.84%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.84%) govService
5 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.63%) CMS
7 2 (0.42%) CICS
7 2 (0.42%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.21%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.21%) IIS
8 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (5.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.04%) CPLEX
6 3 (0.63%) SPSS
7 2 (0.42%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.21%) InVision
8 1 (0.21%) Sketch
8 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.21%) Stata
Business Applications
1 5 (1.04%) Endur
1 5 (1.04%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 4 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.63%) Shopify
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.21%) Cloudability
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 112 (23.38%) Azure
2 110 (22.96%) Power Platform
3 60 (12.53%) AWS
4 32 (6.68%) GCP
5 24 (5.01%) Snowflake
6 17 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (2.51%) PaaS
7 12 (2.51%) SaaS
8 11 (2.30%) Adobe Analytics
8 11 (2.30%) Google Analytics
9 10 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 10 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 10 (2.09%) GitHub
10 7 (1.46%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.46%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (1.25%) Serverless
12 5 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.04%) IaaS
12 5 (1.04%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.92%) Firewall
2 12 (2.51%) VPN
3 9 (1.88%) LAN
3 9 (1.88%) MPLS
3 9 (1.88%) Network Security
3 9 (1.88%) PBX
3 9 (1.88%) VoIP
3 9 (1.88%) WAN
3 9 (1.88%) WLAN
4 5 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (1.04%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (1.04%) DHCP
4 5 (1.04%) DNS
4 5 (1.04%) Internet
4 5 (1.04%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.42%) Intranet
6 2 (0.42%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (22.76%) Power BI
2 59 (12.32%) Data Warehouse
3 57 (11.90%) Tableau
4 42 (8.77%) Big Data
5 38 (7.93%) MySQL
6 35 (7.31%) Amazon Redshift
7 21 (4.38%) Data Lake
8 18 (3.76%) SQL Server
9 15 (3.13%) KDB
10 14 (2.92%) BigQuery
10 14 (2.92%) Hadoop
10 14 (2.92%) Relational Database
11 12 (2.51%) Looker
12 11 (2.30%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (2.30%) Crystal Reports
13 10 (2.09%) Data Mining
13 10 (2.09%) NoSQL
14 8 (1.67%) Metadata
15 7 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
15 7 (1.46%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 44 (9.19%) Git
2 23 (4.80%) JIRA
3 12 (2.51%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.09%) GitLab
4 10 (2.09%) Selenium
5 7 (1.46%) Postman
6 6 (1.25%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.04%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.84%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.63%) Maven
10 2 (0.42%) Bugzilla
10 2 (0.42%) JMeter
10 2 (0.42%) JUnit
10 2 (0.42%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.42%) Storybook
10 2 (0.42%) TestNG
10 2 (0.42%) TestRail
11 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.21%) Cucumber
General
1 130 (27.14%) Finance
2 126 (26.30%) Social Skills
3 111 (23.17%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (10.23%) Banking
5 38 (7.93%) Retail
6 31 (6.47%) Public Sector
7 23 (4.80%) Marketing
8 22 (4.59%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.71%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.71%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.30%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.67%) Front Office
12 8 (1.67%) Legal
13 7 (1.46%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.46%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.04%) Advertising
15 4 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (19.62%) Analyst
2 61 (12.73%) Senior
3 57 (11.90%) Developer
4 56 (11.69%) Architect
5 55 (11.48%) Data Analyst
6 40 (8.35%) Data Engineer
7 30 (6.26%) Lead
8 29 (6.05%) Analytics Manager
9 28 (5.85%) Project Manager
10 26 (5.43%) Data Analytics Manager
11 25 (5.22%) Data Manager
12 19 (3.97%) Data Architect
13 18 (3.76%) Consultant
13 18 (3.76%) Senior Analyst
14 15 (3.13%) KDB Developer
15 13 (2.71%) Business Analyst
16 12 (2.51%) Enterprise Architect
16 12 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
17 11 (2.30%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 11 (2.30%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.55%) PySpark
2 16 (3.34%) Web Services
3 14 (2.92%) .NET
4 13 (2.71%) HTML
5 10 (2.09%) CSS
6 9 (1.88%) jQuery
6 9 (1.88%) Middleware
7 8 (1.67%) Pandas
8 7 (1.46%) JSON
9 6 (1.25%) AngularJS
9 6 (1.25%) Flask
9 6 (1.25%) pytest
10 5 (1.04%) Django
10 5 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (1.04%) Kafka
10 5 (1.04%) React
10 5 (1.04%) REST
10 5 (1.04%) Swagger
11 4 (0.84%) .NET Framework
11 4 (0.84%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 44 (9.19%) Management Information System
2 17 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 15 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 14 (2.92%) Fixed Income
5 13 (2.71%) NHS
6 11 (2.30%) Security Posture
7 10 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.88%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.88%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.46%) Cloud Native
9 7 (1.46%) FMCG
9 7 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
10 6 (1.25%) CMDB
10 6 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.04%) Life Science
11 5 (1.04%) Marketing Technology
11 5 (1.04%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.84%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.80%) Linux
2 22 (4.59%) Windows
3 11 (2.30%) Unix
4 7 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.63%) VMS
6 2 (0.42%) zOS
7 1 (0.21%) AIX
7 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.21%) Solaris
7 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (100.00%) Analytics
2 152 (31.73%) Agile
3 126 (26.30%) Business Intelligence
4 97 (20.25%) ETL
5 88 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
6 85 (17.75%) Data Modelling
7 73 (15.24%) Project Management
8 67 (13.99%) Visualisation
9 60 (12.53%) Scrum
10 59 (12.32%) Data Management
11 56 (11.69%) Data Analysis
11 56 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
12 53 (11.06%) DevOps
13 51 (10.65%) Requirements Gathering
14 48 (10.02%) Data Science
15 46 (9.60%) Computer Science
16 45 (9.39%) Data Governance
16 45 (9.39%) Machine Learning
16 45 (9.39%) Software Engineering
17 43 (8.98%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 164 (34.24%) SQL
2 113 (23.59%) Python
3 23 (4.80%) R
4 19 (3.97%) C#
5 17 (3.55%) Java
6 14 (2.92%) JavaScript
7 12 (2.51%) Scala
8 11 (2.30%) Shell Script
9 10 (2.09%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 7 (1.46%) Search Processing Language
12 6 (1.25%) Perl
13 5 (1.04%) ABAP
13 5 (1.04%) C
13 5 (1.04%) F#
13 5 (1.04%) VBA
14 4 (0.84%) PowerShell
14 4 (0.84%) REXX
14 4 (0.84%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 80 (16.70%) Degree
2 74 (15.45%) Security Cleared
3 59 (12.32%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (2.92%) Azure Certification
5 14 (2.92%) CISSP
6 13 (2.71%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.09%) Numerate Degree
9 9 (1.88%) CCIE
9 9 (1.88%) CCIE Data Center
9 9 (1.88%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.84%) CCNP
11 4 (0.84%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.63%) CISM
12 3 (0.63%) PMP
13 2 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.42%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (10.02%) Data Quality
2 26 (5.43%) QA
3 10 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.09%) PMO
4 8 (1.67%) GDPR
5 7 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.04%) GAMP
6 5 (1.04%) GxP
7 4 (0.84%) SLA
8 3 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.21%) MiFID
10 1 (0.21%) NIST
10 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (2.51%) Docker
2 5 (1.04%) HDFS
3 4 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.42%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 31 (6.47%) Grafana
2 16 (3.34%) Terraform
3 12 (2.51%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.04%) Ansible
5 3 (0.63%) Graylog
5 3 (0.63%) Matomo
5 3 (0.63%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.42%) Nagios
7 1 (0.21%) Ganglia
7 1 (0.21%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.21%) Nessus
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.21%) Puppet
7 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.21%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 86 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.68%) Databricks
2 32 (6.68%) Google
3 29 (6.05%) Denodo
3 29 (6.05%) Talend
4 27 (5.64%) Oracle
5 19 (3.97%) Adobe
6 14 (2.92%) SAP
7 11 (2.30%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 10 (2.09%) Alteryx
8 10 (2.09%) IFS
8 10 (2.09%) Informatica
8 10 (2.09%) Splunk
9 9 (1.88%) Cisco
10 7 (1.46%) Cloudera
11 6 (1.25%) IBM
11 6 (1.25%) Optimizely
12 5 (1.04%) OpenLink
12 5 (1.04%) Symantec