A glimpse into the nonprofit data job market

 

Ben Proctor, Innovation Director, Data Orchard

 

Six months more data

As a side project I send out a list of data vacancies in nonprofits that have caught my eye. Over time, this generates an interesting dataset that paints a picture of the nonprofit data jobs market in the UK. We’ve published some analysis based on this dataset in the past. We looked at salaries by job type, the difference between large and small organisations, and nonprofit data job salaries compared to the wider market.

In a couple of months’ time, we will publish a fresh analysis looking at 24 months of data.

As a bit of a teaser, my colleague Hannah Khwaja has crunched the numbers on the six months from June 2023-November 2023.

This is what she found:

Data analysts, officers and managers dominate

There were 251 vacancies in our dataset:

  • 237 of these were from charities

  • 8 were from housing providers

  • 6 were from other types of nonprofit organisation

Nonprofit data jobs - Average salary by job type

 
 

As in our previous analyses, Officers, Analysts and Managers continued to be the most commonly recruited data roles, together accounting for 57% of all advertised positions.

Salaries have increased for some

The median advertised salaries for Officers, Analysts, and Managers all showed a slight increase compared with averages across our last analysis from June 2022-June 2023:

  • Officers increased from £28,000 to £30,000

  • Analysts from £36,800 to £37,200

  • Managers from £42,000 to £42,500

Our data suggests that roles at the higher end of the salary range have been increasing more rapidly, with median salaries for Lead roles increasing from £46,000 to £50,500. For Head Of roles, this was even more pronounced, jumping from £60,000 to £71,100.

Salaries have not increased for lower-paid roles

Median salaries for Assistants (£25,300) and Administrators (£24,600) remained at the bottom end of the salary range. Salaries for these roles appear to have held stable - or even reduced - compared with our June 2022-23 dataset, where they were £25,600 and £26,700 respectively. But it’s worth noting that the sample sizes were small for these roles.

Salary ranges

We also looked at interquartile range.

Here’s a quick reminder of what the interquartile range shows us:

  • The lowest quartile is the salary where 25% of jobs would be paid less and 75% of people would be paid more.

  • The highest quartile is the salary where 25% of jobs would be paid more and 75% would be paid less.

  • Looking at the range from the lowest quartile to the highest quartile shows you the middle range of salaries. 25% of jobs are paid more and 25% are paid less, but 50% of jobs are within that range.

Nonprofit data jobs - Interquartile range of salary by job type

This shows that 25% of Analyst vacancies are advertised with salaries below £31,800. We don’t have data on how successful organisations are at recruiting (though in our next analysis we’ll look at some indicators of recruitment success).

A minority of nonprofit data vacancies are fully onsite

We started collecting data on working location mid-way through this dataset.

Nonprofit data jobs - Working location

Of 55 vacancies for which we have location data, 51% were advertised as being hybrid working roles, 31% on-site and 18% remote. This compares with 28% of UK workers reporting that they work in a hybrid manner and 16% exclusively from home in the latest ONS data from September 2022 to February 2023. We look forward to exploring how this affects salary in our next full-year analysis.

Get in touch

If you have questions or suggestions for our next big piece of analysis, where we will be considering 24 months of data on nonprofit data job vacancies, please contact us.

 
 
 
 
 
 
Ben Proctor