Data Analyst Contracts in Central London

Data Analyst
London > Central London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in Central London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 70 101
Rank change year-on-year -6 +31 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 53 66 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.65% 2.70% 1.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.86% 2.83% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 42 54
10th Percentile £297 £365 £273
25th Percentile £375 £386 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £565
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -13.72% +11.83%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £650
90th Percentile £675 £680 £711
London median daily rate £475 £500 £516
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.15% +3.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £34.63 £22.00 -
Median hourly rate £34.65 £23.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +50.65% - -
75th Percentile £34.68 £24.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £33.25 £27.75
% change year-on-year -12.57% +19.82% +8.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in Central London

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in Central London

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in Central London

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in Central London

Data Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analyst within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London -4 51 £475 -5.00% 8
City of Westminster - 1 £550 -
Data Analyst
London

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Central London region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 27 (50.94%) SQL
2 24 (45.28%) Finance
3 23 (43.40%) Data Analysis
4 20 (37.74%) Banking
5 18 (33.96%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
7 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (28.30%) Microsoft Excel
8 13 (24.53%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (22.64%) Data Management
9 12 (22.64%) Python
9 12 (22.64%) Power Platform
9 12 (22.64%) Analytics
9 12 (22.64%) Power BI
10 11 (20.75%) Data Governance
10 11 (20.75%) Visualisation
11 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (18.87%) Data Visualisation
12 9 (16.98%) Migration
13 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
13 8 (15.09%) Data Modelling
13 8 (15.09%) Decision-Making
14 7 (13.21%) Tableau
14 7 (13.21%) Data Migration
14 7 (13.21%) Agile
15 6 (11.32%) Investment Banking
15 6 (11.32%) Oracle
15 6 (11.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 6 (11.32%) Project Management
15 6 (11.32%) Front Office

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.89%) Confluence
2 1 (1.89%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (28.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.64%) Power Platform
2 4 (7.55%) Azure
2 4 (7.55%) Snowflake
3 3 (5.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (3.77%) AWS
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (3.77%) GCP
4 2 (3.77%) SaaS
5 1 (1.89%) Apigee
5 1 (1.89%) Collibra
5 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.89%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.64%) Power BI
2 7 (13.21%) Tableau
3 5 (9.43%) SQL Server
4 4 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.66%) Big Data
5 3 (5.66%) Metadata
6 2 (3.77%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.89%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.89%) Looker
7 1 (1.89%) MS Access
7 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.89%) Power Query
7 1 (1.89%) QlikView
7 1 (1.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.77%) JIRA
General
1 24 (45.28%) Finance
2 20 (37.74%) Banking
3 18 (33.96%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (30.19%) Social Skills
5 6 (11.32%) Front Office
5 6 (11.32%) Investment Banking
6 4 (7.55%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (7.55%) Retail
7 3 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.77%) Back Office
8 2 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.77%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.77%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.77%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.89%) Marketing
9 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) JSON
1 2 (3.77%) XML
2 1 (1.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (9.43%) Data Structures
3 4 (7.55%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.66%) Derivative
5 2 (3.77%) Data Fabric
5 2 (3.77%) Equities
5 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.77%) Market Risk
5 2 (3.77%) Reinsurance
5 2 (3.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.89%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.89%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.89%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.89%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.89%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.89%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (43.40%) Data Analysis
2 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (24.53%) Business Intelligence
4 12 (22.64%) Analytics
4 12 (22.64%) Data Management
5 11 (20.75%) Data Governance
5 11 (20.75%) Visualisation
6 10 (18.87%) Data Visualisation
6 10 (18.87%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (16.98%) Migration
8 8 (15.09%) Data Modelling
8 8 (15.09%) Decision-Making
9 7 (13.21%) Agile
9 7 (13.21%) Data Migration
10 6 (11.32%) Project Management
10 6 (11.32%) Requirements Gathering
11 5 (9.43%) Business Analysis
11 5 (9.43%) Data Analytics
11 5 (9.43%) Data Cleansing
11 5 (9.43%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.94%) SQL
2 12 (22.64%) Python
3 2 (3.77%) PL/SQL
3 2 (3.77%) R
3 2 (3.77%) VBA
4 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (3.77%) Degree
1 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
1 2 (3.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.66%) GDPR
2 3 (5.66%) SEPA
3 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.77%) Dodd-Frank
3 2 (3.77%) EMIR
3 2 (3.77%) MiFID
4 1 (1.89%) GAAP
4 1 (1.89%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.89%) PERC
4 1 (1.89%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.32%) Oracle
3 3 (5.66%) SAP
4 2 (3.77%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.89%) dotdigital
5 1 (1.89%) GoldenSource
5 1 (1.89%) Informatica
5 1 (1.89%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.89%) Progress
5 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow