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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 238 210
Rank change year-on-year +17 -28 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 443 641 1,215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.12% 1.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.25% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 436 867
10th Percentile £350 £350 £405
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -1.90% +1.45% +3.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 23
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.21 £9.92
25th Percentile £15.81 £21.88 £19.15
Median hourly rate £25.00 £59.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.63% +68.57% +45.83%
75th Percentile £43.75 £79.19 £36.88
90th Percentile - - £45.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.06 £78.00 £25.52
% change year-on-year -73.01% +205.64% +6.33%

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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 15 May 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 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analytics in the UK

Data Analytics
Top 16 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 15 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
England 0 386 £550 +1.85% 427
London +7 209 £566 -1.52% 221
UK excluding London +7 175 £515 -1.90% 215
Work from Home +27 154 £513 -2.38% 198
Midlands +42 73 £450 -16.67% 43
West Midlands +27 57 £525 -2.78% 35
South East +1 38 £450 -7.69% 27
North of England +16 32 £550 +10.00% 63
North West +25 26 £569 +33.82% 28
East Midlands +22 16 £383 -23.50% 8
Wales +34 12 £550 - 6
East of England +8 8 £363 -15.52% 17
South West +4 7 £600 -7.69% 40
Scotland +13 6 £509 -15.21% 15
Yorkshire +9 5 £515 -6.36% 17
North East +12 1 - - 18

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 17 (3.84%) SAS
2 15 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.35%) Confluence
4 5 (1.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 5 (1.13%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.90%) govService
5 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.68%) CMS
7 2 (0.45%) Apache
7 2 (0.45%) CICS
8 1 (0.23%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.23%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Coherence
8 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 26 (5.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.81%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.13%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.90%) CPLEX
7 3 (0.68%) SPSS
8 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.23%) InVision
9 1 (0.23%) Sketch
9 1 (0.23%) Stata
Business Applications
1 8 (1.81%) Endur
2 5 (1.13%) OpenLink RightAngle
3 4 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.68%) Shopify
5 2 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.45%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.23%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.23%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 106 (23.93%) Power Platform
2 103 (23.25%) Azure
3 63 (14.22%) AWS
4 33 (7.45%) GCP
5 17 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (3.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 17 (3.84%) Snowflake
6 15 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (2.71%) Adobe Analytics
8 11 (2.48%) Google Analytics
9 8 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (1.81%) Serverless
10 7 (1.58%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (1.58%) GitHub
10 7 (1.58%) PaaS
11 6 (1.35%) Amazon S3
11 6 (1.35%) IaaS
12 5 (1.13%) Azure Stack
12 5 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (1.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.16%) Firewall
2 12 (2.71%) VPN
3 9 (2.03%) LAN
3 9 (2.03%) MPLS
3 9 (2.03%) Network Security
3 9 (2.03%) PBX
3 9 (2.03%) VoIP
3 9 (2.03%) WAN
3 9 (2.03%) WLAN
4 5 (1.13%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.13%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (1.13%) Cisco ISE
4 5 (1.13%) DHCP
4 5 (1.13%) DNS
4 5 (1.13%) Internet
4 5 (1.13%) SD-WAN
5 4 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.45%) Intranet
6 2 (0.45%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (23.70%) Power BI
2 60 (13.54%) Data Warehouse
3 43 (9.71%) Tableau
4 34 (7.67%) Big Data
5 28 (6.32%) MySQL
6 25 (5.64%) Amazon Redshift
6 25 (5.64%) Data Lake
7 16 (3.61%) BigQuery
8 13 (2.93%) KDB
8 13 (2.93%) SQL Server
9 12 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (2.71%) Looker
10 10 (2.26%) Crystal Reports
10 10 (2.26%) Metadata
11 8 (1.81%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.81%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.81%) QlikView
11 8 (1.81%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.58%) Data Mining
12 7 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (7.00%) Git
2 24 (5.42%) JIRA
3 10 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.03%) Selenium
5 8 (1.81%) GitLab
6 7 (1.58%) Postman
7 4 (0.90%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.90%) Robot Framework
7 4 (0.90%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.68%) Maven
9 2 (0.45%) Bugzilla
9 2 (0.45%) JMeter
9 2 (0.45%) JUnit
9 2 (0.45%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.45%) Storybook
9 2 (0.45%) TestNG
9 2 (0.45%) TestRail
10 1 (0.23%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.23%) SonarQube
General
1 116 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 114 (25.73%) Finance
3 109 (24.60%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (9.48%) Banking
5 36 (8.13%) Retail
6 35 (7.90%) Public Sector
7 23 (5.19%) Telecoms
8 20 (4.51%) Marketing
9 14 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 14 (3.16%) Manufacturing
9 14 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.26%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.81%) Front Office
11 8 (1.81%) Legal
12 6 (1.35%) Advertising
12 6 (1.35%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.13%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.90%) Law
Job Titles
1 94 (21.22%) Analyst
2 60 (13.54%) Architect
3 58 (13.09%) Senior
4 53 (11.96%) Data Analyst
5 52 (11.74%) Developer
6 31 (7.00%) Project Manager
7 30 (6.77%) Analytics Manager
7 30 (6.77%) Data Engineer
8 28 (6.32%) Data Analytics Manager
9 26 (5.87%) Data Manager
10 24 (5.42%) Lead
11 19 (4.29%) Data Architect
12 17 (3.84%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (3.39%) Business Analyst
13 15 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
14 13 (2.93%) KDB Developer
15 12 (2.71%) Consultant
16 11 (2.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
17 10 (2.26%) Enterprise Architect
17 10 (2.26%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.61%) Web Services
2 13 (2.93%) PySpark
3 12 (2.71%) HTML
4 11 (2.48%) .NET
5 9 (2.03%) CSS
5 9 (2.03%) jQuery
5 9 (2.03%) Middleware
6 7 (1.58%) JSON
6 7 (1.58%) Pandas
7 6 (1.35%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.13%) Flask
8 5 (1.13%) pytest
8 5 (1.13%) REST
8 5 (1.13%) Swagger
9 4 (0.90%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.90%) Django
9 4 (0.90%) DOM
9 4 (0.90%) Node.js
9 4 (0.90%) Spring
9 4 (0.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 42 (9.48%) Management Information System
2 19 (4.29%) Product Ownership
3 15 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.93%) Data Structures
4 13 (2.93%) Fixed Income
5 11 (2.48%) NHS
5 11 (2.48%) Security Posture
6 10 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.03%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.58%) Cloud Native
8 7 (1.58%) CMDB
8 7 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
9 6 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.13%) Life Science
10 5 (1.13%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (1.13%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 4 (0.90%) Equities
11 4 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.51%) Windows
2 19 (4.29%) Linux
3 10 (2.26%) Unix
4 7 (1.58%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.45%) VMS
5 2 (0.45%) zOS
6 1 (0.23%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (100.00%) Analytics
2 125 (28.22%) Business Intelligence
3 124 (27.99%) Agile
4 89 (20.09%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (19.86%) ETL
6 77 (17.38%) Data Modelling
7 71 (16.03%) Project Management
8 70 (15.80%) Visualisation
9 58 (13.09%) Data Analysis
10 57 (12.87%) Data Management
11 54 (12.19%) Stakeholder Management
12 48 (10.84%) DevOps
13 43 (9.71%) Data Integration
13 43 (9.71%) Scrum
14 42 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
14 42 (9.48%) Requirements Gathering
15 41 (9.26%) Data Governance
15 41 (9.26%) Migration
16 39 (8.80%) Machine Learning
17 37 (8.35%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 146 (32.96%) SQL
2 97 (21.90%) Python
3 16 (3.61%) C#
4 15 (3.39%) R
5 14 (3.16%) Java
6 11 (2.48%) JavaScript
6 11 (2.48%) Shell Script
7 10 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (2.26%) Scala
8 7 (1.58%) Kusto Query Language
8 7 (1.58%) Search Processing Language
9 5 (1.13%) ABAP
9 5 (1.13%) C
9 5 (1.13%) F#
9 5 (1.13%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.90%) C++
10 4 (0.90%) COBOL
10 4 (0.90%) Perl
10 4 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (14.90%) Degree
2 62 (14.00%) Security Cleared
3 52 (11.74%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (3.16%) CISSP
6 13 (2.93%) Azure Certification
7 11 (2.48%) Cisco Certification
8 10 (2.26%) Master's Degree
9 9 (2.03%) CCIE
9 9 (2.03%) CCIE Data Center
10 7 (1.58%) CompTIA Security+
10 7 (1.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.90%) CCNP
11 4 (0.90%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
11 4 (0.90%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.68%) CISM
12 3 (0.68%) PMP
13 2 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (10.38%) Data Quality
2 27 (6.09%) QA
3 11 (2.48%) PMO
4 9 (2.03%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.58%) GDPR
6 5 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.13%) GAMP
6 5 (1.13%) GxP
6 5 (1.13%) SLA
7 3 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.23%) MiFID
8 1 (0.23%) NIST
8 1 (0.23%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (1.81%) Docker
2 2 (0.45%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 21 (4.74%) Grafana
2 14 (3.16%) Terraform
3 10 (2.26%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.90%) Ansible
5 3 (0.68%) Graylog
5 3 (0.68%) Matomo
5 3 (0.68%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.45%) Nagios
7 1 (0.23%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.23%) Nessus
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.23%) Puppet
7 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.23%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 88 (19.86%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.45%) Google
3 30 (6.77%) Databricks
4 24 (5.42%) Oracle
5 19 (4.29%) Denodo
5 19 (4.29%) Talend
6 18 (4.06%) Adobe
7 16 (3.61%) SAP
8 10 (2.26%) IFS
8 10 (2.26%) Informatica
8 10 (2.26%) Splunk
9 9 (2.03%) Cisco
10 7 (1.58%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.35%) Alteryx
11 6 (1.35%) IBM
11 6 (1.35%) Optimizely
12 5 (1.13%) Ensighten
12 5 (1.13%) Monetate
12 5 (1.13%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.13%) Tealium