Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Analyst
Central London > City of London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the City of London is £435, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 68 75
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 58 58 55
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.36% 3.10% 2.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.52% 3.31% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 35 40
10th Percentile £284 £306 £262
25th Percentile £356 £375 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.53% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £647
90th Percentile £685 £725 £675
Central London median daily rate £403 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -15.26% -9.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £34.63 £22.00
Median hourly rate - £34.65 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.65% -38.67%
75th Percentile - £34.68 £24.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £34.65 £23.00
% change year-on-year - +50.65% -38.67%

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 2,304 1,750 2,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.81% 93.43% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 1,123 1,398
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £453 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £791
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £551
% change year-on-year - -0.09% -8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 22 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £17.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £20.25 £32.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.69% +20.37% -22.86%
75th Percentile £39.81 £62.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £86.43 £84.25
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -22.89% +8.00% -20.54%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Analyst job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies 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 12 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the City of London

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in the City of London

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 12 July 2026, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of 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 22 (37.93%) SQL
2 19 (32.76%) Data Quality
3 17 (29.31%) Analytics
3 17 (29.31%) Data Modelling
4 16 (27.59%) Power Platform
5 15 (25.86%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (25.86%) Power BI
5 15 (25.86%) Validation
6 13 (22.41%) Migration
7 12 (20.69%) Azure
7 12 (20.69%) Data Analysis
7 12 (20.69%) Data Governance
7 12 (20.69%) Data Migration
8 11 (18.97%) Python
9 10 (17.24%) AI
9 10 (17.24%) Databricks
10 8 (13.79%) Data Mapping
10 8 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
10 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
10 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (13.79%) Visualisation
11 7 (12.07%) Decision-Making
11 7 (12.07%) Snowflake
11 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (10.34%) Data Engineering
12 6 (10.34%) Data Transformation
12 6 (10.34%) NetSuite
12 6 (10.34%) QA
13 5 (8.62%) Asset Management
13 5 (8.62%) Data Analysis Expressions

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.45%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (10.34%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.59%) Power Platform
2 12 (20.69%) Azure
3 7 (12.07%) Snowflake
4 4 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (5.17%) AWS
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.45%) GCP
7 1 (1.72%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.72%) FinancialForce
7 1 (1.72%) Fivetran
7 1 (1.72%) GitHub
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.86%) Power BI
2 4 (6.90%) Metadata
2 4 (6.90%) Tableau
3 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.45%) Power Query
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.72%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.72%) GIS
4 1 (1.72%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (1.72%) PowerPivot
4 1 (1.72%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.45%) GitLab
1 2 (3.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 36 (62.07%) Finance
2 13 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 7 (12.07%) Banking
5 2 (3.45%) Marketing
6 1 (1.72%) Back Office
6 1 (1.72%) Billing
6 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.72%) Front Office
6 1 (1.72%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.72%) Law
6 1 (1.72%) Legal
6 1 (1.72%) Military
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.72%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) PySpark
2 1 (1.72%) GeoJSON
2 1 (1.72%) Great Expectations
2 1 (1.72%) JSON
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.72%) Next.js
2 1 (1.72%) Node.js
2 1 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.72%) Playwright
2 1 (1.72%) pytest
2 1 (1.72%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.90%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.45%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.72%) Derivative
3 1 (1.72%) Equities
3 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.72%) PMI
3 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.72%) Replication
3 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (29.31%) Analytics
1 17 (29.31%) Data Modelling
2 15 (25.86%) Business Intelligence
2 15 (25.86%) Validation
3 13 (22.41%) Migration
4 12 (20.69%) Data Analysis
4 12 (20.69%) Data Governance
4 12 (20.69%) Data Migration
5 10 (17.24%) AI
6 8 (13.79%) Data Mapping
6 8 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (13.79%) Visualisation
7 7 (12.07%) Decision-Making
7 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (10.34%) Data Engineering
8 6 (10.34%) Data Transformation
9 5 (8.62%) Asset Management
9 5 (8.62%) Data Lineage
10 4 (6.90%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 22 (37.93%) SQL
2 11 (18.97%) Python
3 5 (8.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.45%) R
5 1 (1.72%) Java
5 1 (1.72%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (1.72%) CBAP
3 1 (1.72%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (32.76%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.34%) QA
3 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Databricks
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle
3 2 (3.45%) SAP
4 1 (1.72%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.72%) Automation Anywhere
4 1 (1.72%) Dataiku
4 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.72%) Workday