Data Analytics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 246 211
Rank change year-on-year +23 -35 +59
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 171 211 376
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.83% 0.93% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 1.04% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 151 250
10th Percentile £314 £350 £363
25th Percentile £358 £453 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +3.45%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £702
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 13
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.91 £9.37
25th Percentile £14.78 £20.50 £9.92
Median hourly rate £21.06 £78.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.01% +122.86% +45.83%
75th Percentile £43.75 £78.89 -
90th Percentile - £79.19 -
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £78.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -67.95% +122.86% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,285 20,362 27,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.51% 89.30% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,280 13,968 18,972
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,123 1,246 1,358
10th Percentile £12.40 £10.63 £12.39
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.25 £62.33
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK excluding London

Data Analytics
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Midlands +35 64 £450 -16.67% 59
West Midlands +27 50 £450 -16.67% 42
South East -16 36 £405 -19.96% 39
North of England +31 35 £550 -6.38% 66
North West +31 28 £550 +22.22% 38
East Midlands +14 14 £365 -27.00% 17
Wales +30 12 £550 - 9
South West -2 11 £600 -7.69% 32
East of England +3 8 £363 -23.53% 12
Scotland +4 7 £509 -15.91% 23
Yorkshire +6 6 £533 -11.25% 16
Northern Ireland +5 1 - - 4
North East - 1 - - 12
Data Analytics
UK

Data Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (8.77%) SAS
2 5 (2.92%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.75%) Confluence
4 2 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.58%) Apache
5 1 (0.58%) CICS
5 1 (0.58%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.58%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (7.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.75%) SPSS
5 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (26.32%) Power Platform
2 25 (14.62%) Azure
3 13 (7.60%) AWS
4 5 (2.92%) GitHub
5 4 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (2.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (2.34%) GCP
5 4 (2.34%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (1.75%) Amazon S3
6 3 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.75%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.75%) PaaS
6 3 (1.75%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.17%) IaaS
7 2 (1.17%) SaaS
7 2 (1.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.43%) VPN
2 9 (5.26%) Firewall
2 9 (5.26%) LAN
2 9 (5.26%) MPLS
2 9 (5.26%) PBX
2 9 (5.26%) VoIP
2 9 (5.26%) WAN
2 9 (5.26%) WLAN
3 5 (2.92%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (2.92%) Cisco Firepower
3 5 (2.92%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (2.92%) DHCP
3 5 (2.92%) DNS
3 5 (2.92%) Internet
3 5 (2.92%) SD-WAN
4 4 (2.34%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (2.34%) Network Security
5 2 (1.17%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.17%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (25.73%) Power BI
2 24 (14.04%) Tableau
3 22 (12.87%) MySQL
4 20 (11.70%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (9.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 14 (8.19%) Big Data
7 10 (5.85%) Crystal Reports
7 10 (5.85%) Hadoop
8 7 (4.09%) Data Lake
8 7 (4.09%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.51%) Impala
9 6 (3.51%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.75%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.75%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.17%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 18 (10.53%) Git
2 8 (4.68%) Jenkins
3 7 (4.09%) JIRA
4 6 (3.51%) Cypress.io
5 4 (2.34%) GitLab
6 3 (1.75%) Postman
7 2 (1.17%) Storybook
8 1 (0.58%) AppScan
8 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.58%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.58%) RStudio
8 1 (0.58%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (25.15%) Analytical Skills
2 35 (20.47%) Finance
3 30 (17.54%) Social Skills
4 19 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 13 (7.60%) Public Sector
6 12 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.68%) Retail
8 7 (4.09%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.51%) Banking
10 4 (2.34%) Law
11 3 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.75%) Legal
11 3 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.17%) Automotive
12 2 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.58%) Agriculture
13 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.58%) Marketing
13 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (21.64%) Analyst
2 27 (15.79%) Data Analyst
3 20 (11.70%) Architect
4 19 (11.11%) Developer
4 19 (11.11%) Senior
5 12 (7.02%) Project Manager
6 11 (6.43%) Data Engineer
6 11 (6.43%) Senior Analyst
7 10 (5.85%) Analytics Manager
8 8 (4.68%) Data Analytics Manager
8 8 (4.68%) Data Manager
8 8 (4.68%) Enterprise Architect
9 7 (4.09%) IFS Developer
10 6 (3.51%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 6 (3.51%) Consultant
10 6 (3.51%) Lead
10 6 (3.51%) Splunk Engineer
11 5 (2.92%) Data Architect
11 5 (2.92%) Product Manager
11 5 (2.92%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.85%) Web Services
2 5 (2.92%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (2.34%) Vue
4 3 (1.75%) .NET
4 3 (1.75%) D3.js
4 3 (1.75%) Laravel
4 3 (1.75%) PySpark
4 3 (1.75%) React
5 2 (1.17%) .NET Core
5 2 (1.17%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (1.17%) Kafka
5 2 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.17%) Playwright
5 2 (1.17%) PostGIS
6 1 (0.58%) Flask
6 1 (0.58%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.58%) NumPy
6 1 (0.58%) OpenLayers
6 1 (0.58%) Pandas
6 1 (0.58%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.60%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.43%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.51%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 6 (3.51%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.92%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.92%) Life Science
6 4 (2.34%) Cyber Defence
6 4 (2.34%) NHS
7 3 (1.75%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.17%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.17%) FMCG
8 2 (1.17%) Insider Threat
8 2 (1.17%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.17%) Robotics
8 2 (1.17%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.17%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.58%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.09%) Linux
2 2 (1.17%) Windows
3 1 (0.58%) Unix
3 1 (0.58%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (100.00%) Analytics
2 55 (32.16%) Business Intelligence
3 51 (29.82%) Agile
4 40 (23.39%) ETL
5 34 (19.88%) Project Management
6 26 (15.20%) Scrum
7 25 (14.62%) Dashboard Development
7 25 (14.62%) Data Extraction
7 25 (14.62%) Visualisation
8 23 (13.45%) Software Engineering
9 22 (12.87%) Data Modelling
9 22 (12.87%) Roadmaps
10 21 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
10 21 (12.28%) Process Improvement
11 20 (11.70%) Data Management
12 19 (11.11%) Data Analysis
12 19 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
13 18 (10.53%) Configuration Management
13 18 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (33.92%) SQL
2 37 (21.64%) Python
3 14 (8.19%) R
4 6 (3.51%) Search Processing Language
4 6 (3.51%) Shell Script
5 5 (2.92%) Java
6 4 (2.34%) Bash
7 3 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.75%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.75%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.17%) C#
8 2 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (1.17%) Perl
8 2 (1.17%) PHP
8 2 (1.17%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.17%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.58%) CLIST
9 1 (0.58%) HiveQL
9 1 (0.58%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.58%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 32 (18.71%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.62%) Degree
2 25 (14.62%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.26%) CCIE
3 9 (5.26%) CCIE Data Center
3 9 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.34%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.34%) CCNP
7 3 (1.75%) CISSP
7 3 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.17%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.58%) CBAP
9 1 (0.58%) CISA
9 1 (0.58%) CISM
9 1 (0.58%) IIBA
9 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.53%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.85%) QA
3 5 (2.92%) GAMP
3 5 (2.92%) GxP
3 5 (2.92%) PMO
4 4 (2.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.75%) GDPR
6 1 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (2.92%) Docker
2 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.58%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (11.11%) Grafana
2 4 (2.34%) Ansible
3 3 (1.75%) Graylog
3 3 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.75%) Prometheus
3 3 (1.75%) Terraform
4 2 (1.17%) Nagios
5 1 (0.58%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.58%) Nessus
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.58%) Puppet
5 1 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.58%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 35 (20.47%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.94%) Denodo
2 17 (9.94%) Talend
3 11 (6.43%) Oracle
4 10 (5.85%) IFS
5 9 (5.26%) Cisco
5 9 (5.26%) Splunk
6 5 (2.92%) Autodesk
6 5 (2.92%) CheckPoint
6 5 (2.92%) Infoblox
6 5 (2.92%) Palo Alto
6 5 (2.92%) Symantec
6 5 (2.92%) Zscaler
7 3 (1.75%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.75%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.75%) Databricks
7 3 (1.75%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.17%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.17%) Google
8 2 (1.17%) Teradata