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 £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 76 104
Rank change year-on-year +2 +28 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 48 51 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.73% 2.46% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.91% 2.62% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 37 39
10th Percentile £280 £292 £341
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
75th Percentile £647 £588 £644
90th Percentile £719 £675 £696
Central London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £17.40
25th Percentile £34.63 £22.00 £25.13
Median hourly rate £34.65 £23.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.65% -39.47% +53.54%
75th Percentile £34.68 £24.00 £53.38
90th Percentile - - £62.60
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £30.40 £38.00
% change year-on-year +14.00% -20.01% +53.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,651 1,950 2,878
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.86% 94.25% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 1,232 1,990
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £423 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £774 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +2.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 13
10th Percentile £17.35 £16.49 £14.67
25th Percentile £23.98 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -22.86% -16.17%
75th Percentile £53.50 £85.63 £42.32
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £65.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £35.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -19.57% +14.75% -26.51%

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
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 16 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 16 September 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 City of London region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 29 (60.42%) SQL
2 28 (58.33%) Data Analysis
3 20 (41.67%) Finance
4 18 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
5 17 (35.42%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (31.25%) Python
7 14 (29.17%) Data Quality
7 14 (29.17%) Analytics
7 14 (29.17%) Power BI
7 14 (29.17%) Power Platform
8 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
8 13 (27.08%) Decision-Making
9 12 (25.00%) Data Modelling
10 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
10 11 (22.92%) Visualisation
11 10 (20.83%) Data Governance
11 10 (20.83%) Migration
11 10 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
12 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (14.58%) Agile
13 7 (14.58%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (14.58%) Data Visualisation
13 7 (14.58%) Tableau
13 7 (14.58%) Data Migration
13 7 (14.58%) Actionable Insight
14 6 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
14 6 (12.50%) Business Analysis
14 6 (12.50%) Azure
14 6 (12.50%) Banking

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 2 (4.17%) Confluence
1 2 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.08%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (37.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.08%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.08%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.17%) Power Platform
2 6 (12.50%) Azure
3 5 (10.42%) GCP
3 5 (10.42%) Snowflake
4 3 (6.25%) AWS
4 3 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (4.17%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (4.17%) Collibra
6 1 (2.08%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (2.08%) dbt
6 1 (2.08%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.17%) Power BI
2 7 (14.58%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (14.58%) Tableau
3 4 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 4 (8.33%) Relational Database
3 4 (8.33%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.17%) Star Schema
5 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.08%) Metadata
5 1 (2.08%) MS Access
5 1 (2.08%) MySQL
5 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.08%) Parquet
5 1 (2.08%) QlikView
5 1 (2.08%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) ER Studio
General
1 20 (41.67%) Finance
2 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 10 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Banking
5 4 (8.33%) Marketing
5 4 (8.33%) Retail
6 2 (4.17%) Back Office
6 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
6 2 (4.17%) Front Office
6 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Legal
7 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) Apache Avro
1 1 (2.08%) Kafka
1 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Reinsurance
2 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.17%) Pricing Data
2 2 (4.17%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (58.33%) Data Analysis
2 17 (35.42%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (29.17%) Analytics
4 13 (27.08%) Decision-Making
5 12 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 11 (22.92%) Visualisation
7 10 (20.83%) Data Governance
7 10 (20.83%) Migration
8 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (14.58%) Actionable Insight
9 7 (14.58%) Agile
9 7 (14.58%) Data Migration
9 7 (14.58%) Data Visualisation
10 6 (12.50%) Business Analysis
10 6 (12.50%) Data Cleansing
11 5 (10.42%) ETL
12 4 (8.33%) Asset Management
12 4 (8.33%) Use Case
12 4 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 29 (60.42%) SQL
2 15 (31.25%) Python
3 3 (6.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (6.25%) VBA
4 1 (2.08%) Java
4 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (29.17%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.08%) GAAP
3 1 (2.08%) MiFID
3 1 (2.08%) PERC
Systems Management
1 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.33%) Google
3 3 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (2.08%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.08%) dotdigital
4 1 (2.08%) OneTrust
4 1 (2.08%) Progress
4 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.08%) SAP
4 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.08%) Workday