Data Analyst Contracts in the City of London

Data Analyst
Central London > City of London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the City of London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 103 109
Rank change year-on-year +35 +6 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 60 69 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.78% 1.99% 1.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.92% 2.10% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 50 57
10th Percentile £350 £281 £185
25th Percentile £385 £416 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £556
90th Percentile £680 £700 £600
Central London median daily rate £475 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -17.39% +15.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.00 £12.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £12.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.00% -34.21% -19.15%
75th Percentile £24.00 £12.75 £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £12.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +84.00% -34.21% -19.15%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,053 3,286 4,008
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.09% 94.97% 94.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 2,222 3,008
10th Percentile £346 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% +6.67% +5.14%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £788 £813 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 52
10th Percentile £14.90 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £20.02
Median hourly rate £22.75 £35.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% -3.45% +101.67%
75th Percentile £28.91 £58.75 £52.63
90th Percentile £40.00 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.78 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -23.49% -5.41% +105.84%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the City of London

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in the City of London

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the City of London

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in the City of London

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2024, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 33 (55.00%) Finance
2 21 (35.00%) SQL
2 21 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
2 21 (35.00%) Data Management
3 20 (33.33%) Python
4 18 (30.00%) Data Quality
5 15 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 15 (25.00%) Analytics
5 15 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 15 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 14 (23.33%) Banking
6 14 (23.33%) Power BI
6 14 (23.33%) Data Visualisation
6 14 (23.33%) Visualisation
6 14 (23.33%) Power Platform
7 12 (20.00%) Microsoft
8 10 (16.67%) Metadata
8 10 (16.67%) Tableau
8 10 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (15.00%) Collibra
9 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
9 9 (15.00%) Data Analysis
10 8 (13.33%) Degree
10 8 (13.33%) Azure
11 7 (11.67%) Release Management
11 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (11.67%) MS Visio
12 6 (10.00%) Oracle
12 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
12 6 (10.00%) Migration

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 3 (5.00%) SAS
1 3 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.67%) Jupyter
Applications
1 15 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (11.67%) MS Visio
3 6 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Endur
1 1 (1.67%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.67%) Sprinklr
1 1 (1.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) Power Platform
2 9 (15.00%) Collibra
3 8 (13.33%) Azure
4 2 (3.33%) AWS
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.67%) OCI
5 1 (1.67%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.67%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) Firewall
2 3 (5.00%) DHCP
2 3 (5.00%) DNS
2 3 (5.00%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (23.33%) Power BI
2 10 (16.67%) Metadata
2 10 (16.67%) Tableau
3 4 (6.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.33%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.33%) KDB
4 2 (3.33%) KNIME
4 2 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.67%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.67%) Looker
5 1 (1.67%) MS Access
5 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.67%) RStudio
General
1 33 (55.00%) Finance
2 14 (23.33%) Banking
3 10 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.00%) Social Skills
5 6 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (8.33%) Front Office
6 5 (8.33%) Investment Banking
7 4 (6.67%) Retail
7 4 (6.67%) Retail Banking
8 3 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (3.33%) Financial Institution
9 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.33%) Legal
9 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.67%) Back Office
10 1 (1.67%) Marketing
10 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.67%) Social Science
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.67%) Pandas
1 1 (1.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.67%) Derivative
4 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.33%) CMDB
5 2 (3.33%) Credit Risk
5 2 (3.33%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.67%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.67%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.00%) Windows
2 2 (3.33%) Linux
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
1 21 (35.00%) Data Management
2 15 (25.00%) Analytics
2 15 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 15 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 14 (23.33%) Data Visualisation
3 14 (23.33%) Visualisation
4 9 (15.00%) Data Analysis
5 7 (11.67%) Release Management
5 7 (11.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (10.00%) Data Analytics
6 6 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
6 6 (10.00%) Data Science
6 6 (10.00%) Migration
6 6 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (8.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
7 5 (8.33%) Change Management
7 5 (8.33%) Decision-Making
7 5 (8.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (35.00%) SQL
2 20 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.67%) R
4 3 (5.00%) Java
4 3 (5.00%) VBScript
5 2 (3.33%) C#
5 2 (3.33%) C++
5 2 (3.33%) VBA
6 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.67%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) CISA
2 2 (3.33%) CRISC
3 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.67%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (1.67%) PhD
3 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.33%) GDPR
2 2 (3.33%) SLA
3 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) Oracle
3 5 (8.33%) Alteryx
4 3 (5.00%) Databricks
4 3 (5.00%) Refinitiv
5 2 (3.33%) Adobe
5 2 (3.33%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.67%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.67%) Brandwatch
6 1 (1.67%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.67%) Reuters
6 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.67%) Splunk
6 1 (1.67%) Workday