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 £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 July 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 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 68 102
Rank change year-on-year +4 +34 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 57 55 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.23% 2.60% 1.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.45% 2.73% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 38 50
10th Percentile £326 £324 £281
25th Percentile £377 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £525 £581
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -9.68% +20.97%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £650
90th Percentile £725 £675 £700
Central London median daily rate £481 £525 £555
% change year-on-year -8.33% -5.41% +16.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £16.65
25th Percentile £34.63 £22.00 £23.25
Median hourly rate £34.65 £23.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.65% -38.67% +97.37%
75th Percentile £34.68 £24.00 £54.75
90th Percentile - - £63.15
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £23.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +50.65% -38.67% +97.37%

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 1,653 2,018 3,271
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 95.37% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,050 1,389 2,208
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £455 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -5.83% +5.73%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 19
10th Percentile £17.57 £16.33 £15.24
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.98% -29.64% -18.60%
75th Percentile £62.00 £40.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £86.43 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.24% -22.86% -16.67%

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 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 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 31 (54.39%) SQL
2 26 (45.61%) Finance
2 26 (45.61%) Data Analysis
3 21 (36.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 18 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
4 18 (31.58%) Banking
4 18 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
6 15 (26.32%) Power Platform
6 15 (26.32%) Power BI
6 15 (26.32%) Python
7 14 (24.56%) Data Quality
8 13 (22.81%) Analytics
8 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (22.81%) Data Modelling
8 13 (22.81%) Migration
9 11 (19.30%) Microsoft
9 11 (19.30%) Visualisation
9 11 (19.30%) Data Governance
10 10 (17.54%) Data Visualisation
10 10 (17.54%) Decision-Making
10 10 (17.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (15.79%) Data Migration
11 9 (15.79%) Data Management
11 9 (15.79%) Agile
11 9 (15.79%) Tableau
12 8 (14.04%) Data Cleansing
13 7 (12.28%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (12.28%) SQL Server
13 7 (12.28%) Business Analysis

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 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.51%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) SAS
Applications
1 21 (36.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.51%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.32%) Power Platform
2 5 (8.77%) Azure
2 5 (8.77%) GCP
3 4 (7.02%) Snowflake
4 3 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (5.26%) Collibra
5 2 (3.51%) AWS
5 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.51%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (3.51%) SaaS
6 1 (1.75%) Apigee
6 1 (1.75%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (1.75%) dbt
6 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.75%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.32%) Power BI
2 9 (15.79%) Tableau
3 7 (12.28%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (12.28%) SQL Server
4 5 (8.77%) BigQuery
5 3 (5.26%) Big Data
6 2 (3.51%) Metadata
7 1 (1.75%) Data Hub
7 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.75%) Looker
7 1 (1.75%) MS Access
7 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.75%) Parquet
7 1 (1.75%) Power Query
7 1 (1.75%) QlikView
7 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (1.75%) ER Studio
General
1 26 (45.61%) Finance
2 18 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (31.58%) Banking
3 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.02%) Financial Institution
4 4 (7.02%) Front Office
4 4 (7.02%) Investment Banking
4 4 (7.02%) Retail
5 3 (5.26%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Back Office
6 2 (3.51%) Marketing
6 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Legal
7 1 (1.75%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.51%) JSON
1 2 (3.51%) XML
2 1 (1.75%) Apache Avro
2 1 (1.75%) Kafka
2 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.75%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (7.02%) Reinsurance
3 3 (5.26%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.26%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (3.51%) Data Fabric
4 2 (3.51%) Derivative
4 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.51%) Pricing Data
4 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.75%) Equities
5 1 (1.75%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.75%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (45.61%) Data Analysis
2 18 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (22.81%) Analytics
3 13 (22.81%) Data Modelling
3 13 (22.81%) Migration
3 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (19.30%) Data Governance
4 11 (19.30%) Visualisation
5 10 (17.54%) Data Visualisation
5 10 (17.54%) Decision-Making
5 10 (17.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (15.79%) Agile
6 9 (15.79%) Data Management
6 9 (15.79%) Data Migration
7 8 (14.04%) Data Cleansing
8 7 (12.28%) Business Analysis
9 6 (10.53%) Use Case
10 5 (8.77%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (8.77%) Data Analytics
10 5 (8.77%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 31 (54.39%) SQL
2 15 (26.32%) Python
3 5 (8.77%) VBA
4 2 (3.51%) R
5 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.75%) Java
5 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (1.75%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (24.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.26%) GDPR
2 3 (5.26%) SEPA
3 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.75%) Dodd-Frank
3 1 (1.75%) EMIR
3 1 (1.75%) GAAP
3 1 (1.75%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.75%) MiFID
3 1 (1.75%) PERC
3 1 (1.75%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) Oracle
3 5 (8.77%) Google
4 1 (1.75%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.75%) dotdigital
4 1 (1.75%) Informatica
4 1 (1.75%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.75%) Progress
4 1 (1.75%) SAP
4 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.75%) Workday