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 £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 77 76
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 60 47 51
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.63% 2.61% 2.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.79% 2.79% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 29 39
10th Percentile £314 £278 £262
25th Percentile £356 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -4.88%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £584
90th Percentile £614 £720 £675
Central London median daily rate £430 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -9.53% -2.56% -2.50%
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% -39.47%
75th Percentile - £34.68 £24.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £34.65 £30.40
% change year-on-year - +14.00% -20.01%

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 2,149 1,684 1,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.25% 93.66% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,450 1,121 1,259
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 14
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.87
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £20.88
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +4.91% -25.00%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £89.06
90th Percentile £49.64 £65.39 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £28.33 £34.00
% change year-on-year -15.27% -16.69% -2.86%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 32 (53.33%) SQL
2 25 (41.67%) Data Modelling
3 20 (33.33%) Data Quality
4 19 (31.67%) Analytics
5 18 (30.00%) Data Analysis
5 18 (30.00%) Power BI
5 18 (30.00%) Power Platform
6 17 (28.33%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (28.33%) Validation
7 16 (26.67%) Data Governance
8 14 (23.33%) Agile
9 13 (21.67%) Data Mapping
9 13 (21.67%) Migration
10 12 (20.00%) Data Lineage
10 12 (20.00%) Data Migration
11 11 (18.33%) Azure
11 11 (18.33%) Databricks
11 11 (18.33%) Snowflake
11 11 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (16.67%) Python
12 10 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
12 10 (16.67%) User Stories
13 9 (15.00%) AI
13 9 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
14 8 (13.33%) AWS
14 8 (13.33%) Decision-Making
14 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 7 (11.67%) Data Transformation
15 7 (11.67%) Data Warehouse
15 7 (11.67%) ETL

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 1 (1.67%) Apache
1 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (8.33%) NetSuite
2 2 (3.33%) SAP MDG
2 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.67%) Advent Moxy
3 1 (1.67%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
3 1 (1.67%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 18 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 11 (18.33%) Azure
2 11 (18.33%) Snowflake
3 8 (13.33%) AWS
4 4 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.33%) dbt
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.67%) Fivetran
6 1 (1.67%) GCP
6 1 (1.67%) SaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (30.00%) Power BI
2 7 (11.67%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (11.67%) Metadata
3 5 (8.33%) Tableau
4 3 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (3.33%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.33%) Power Query
5 2 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.33%) SAP BW
6 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.67%) GIS
6 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.67%) PowerPivot
6 1 (1.67%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (1.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 33 (55.00%) Finance
2 16 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.33%) Social Skills
4 10 (16.67%) Banking
5 5 (8.33%) Marketing
5 5 (8.33%) Retail
6 3 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (3.33%) Legal
7 2 (3.33%) Military
7 2 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (3.33%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Advertising
8 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) PySpark
2 1 (1.67%) Great Expectations
2 1 (1.67%) JSON
2 1 (1.67%) Kafka
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.67%) Node.js
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.67%) pytest
2 1 (1.67%) React
2 1 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 3 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (5.00%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.33%) FMCG
4 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Derivative
5 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.67%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (41.67%) Data Modelling
2 19 (31.67%) Analytics
3 18 (30.00%) Data Analysis
4 17 (28.33%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (28.33%) Validation
5 16 (26.67%) Data Governance
6 14 (23.33%) Agile
7 13 (21.67%) Data Mapping
7 13 (21.67%) Migration
8 12 (20.00%) Data Lineage
8 12 (20.00%) Data Migration
9 11 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
10 10 (16.67%) User Stories
11 9 (15.00%) AI
11 9 (15.00%) Data Pipeline
12 8 (13.33%) Decision-Making
12 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 7 (11.67%) Data Transformation
13 7 (11.67%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 32 (53.33%) SQL
2 10 (16.67%) Python
3 4 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (5.00%) R
5 1 (1.67%) Java
5 1 (1.67%) Scala
5 1 (1.67%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.33%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) CBAP
3 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.33%) QA
3 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.33%) GDPR
4 1 (1.67%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Databricks
2 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.67%) SAP
4 2 (3.33%) Informatica
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
5 1 (1.67%) Advent
5 1 (1.67%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.67%) Jitterbit
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.67%) Workday