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 £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 102 115
Rank change year-on-year +40 +13 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 62 72 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.86% 1.99% 1.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.00% 2.09% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 55 60
10th Percentile £363 £289 £185
25th Percentile £385 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £518
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +11.11% +25.45%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £558
90th Percentile £680 £709 £600
Central London median daily rate £475 £555 £501
% change year-on-year -14.41% +10.89% +14.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.00 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 - £28.25
75th Percentile £24.00 - £48.44
90th Percentile - - £65.88
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 - £28.25
% change year-on-year - - +88.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,064 3,451 4,017
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 95.17% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,467 2,348 3,027
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £560
% change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 51
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +105.84%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -5.41% +105.84%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024, 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 32 (51.61%) Finance
2 21 (33.87%) Data Management
3 19 (30.65%) Business Intelligence
4 18 (29.03%) SQL
4 18 (29.03%) Data Quality
5 15 (24.19%) Analytics
5 15 (24.19%) Data Governance
5 15 (24.19%) Python
5 15 (24.19%) Banking
6 14 (22.58%) Data Modelling
6 14 (22.58%) Data Visualisation
6 14 (22.58%) Visualisation
6 14 (22.58%) Power BI
6 14 (22.58%) Power Platform
7 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
8 12 (19.35%) Data Analysis
9 11 (17.74%) Microsoft
9 11 (17.74%) Microsoft Excel
10 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
10 10 (16.13%) Metadata
11 9 (14.52%) Collibra
11 9 (14.52%) Tableau
12 8 (12.90%) Azure
12 8 (12.90%) MS Visio
12 8 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (12.90%) Release Management
13 7 (11.29%) Data Analytics
13 7 (11.29%) Data Lake
13 7 (11.29%) Data Science
13 7 (11.29%) Decision-Making

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 4 (6.45%) SAS
2 1 (1.61%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (17.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (12.90%) MS Visio
3 6 (9.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (4.84%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Endur
1 1 (1.61%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 14 (22.58%) Power Platform
2 9 (14.52%) Collibra
3 8 (12.90%) Azure
4 3 (4.84%) AWS
5 2 (3.23%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.61%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.61%) OCI
6 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.61%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.06%) Firewall
2 4 (6.45%) DHCP
2 4 (6.45%) DNS
2 4 (6.45%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.58%) Power BI
2 10 (16.13%) Metadata
3 9 (14.52%) Tableau
4 7 (11.29%) Data Lake
5 3 (4.84%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.23%) KDB
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.61%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
1 2 (3.23%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.23%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.61%) RStudio
General
1 32 (51.61%) Finance
2 15 (24.19%) Banking
3 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
4 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.68%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (8.06%) Front Office
6 5 (8.06%) Investment Banking
7 4 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (6.45%) Retail
7 4 (6.45%) Retail Banking
8 3 (4.84%) Legal
9 2 (3.23%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (3.23%) Marketing
9 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.61%) Back Office
10 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.61%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.61%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.68%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.06%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.45%) Derivative
4 2 (3.23%) CMDB
4 2 (3.23%) Hedge funds
4 2 (3.23%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.61%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Windows
2 2 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.87%) Data Management
2 19 (30.65%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (24.19%) Analytics
3 15 (24.19%) Data Governance
4 14 (22.58%) Data Modelling
4 14 (22.58%) Data Visualisation
4 14 (22.58%) Visualisation
5 12 (19.35%) Data Analysis
6 8 (12.90%) Release Management
6 8 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (11.29%) Data Analytics
7 7 (11.29%) Data Science
7 7 (11.29%) Decision-Making
7 7 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (9.68%) Data Cleansing
8 6 (9.68%) Data Extraction
8 6 (9.68%) Migration
8 6 (9.68%) Validation
9 5 (8.06%) Application Packaging
9 5 (8.06%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (29.03%) SQL
2 15 (24.19%) Python
3 6 (9.68%) PowerShell
4 5 (8.06%) VBScript
5 2 (3.23%) C#
5 2 (3.23%) C++
5 2 (3.23%) Java
5 2 (3.23%) R
6 1 (1.61%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (9.68%) Degree
2 1 (1.61%) Numerate Degree
2 1 (1.61%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.61%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.61%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (29.03%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.84%) SLA
3 2 (3.23%) GDPR
4 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (17.74%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Oracle
3 4 (6.45%) Alteryx
3 4 (6.45%) Databricks
4 3 (4.84%) Refinitiv
5 2 (3.23%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.23%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.23%) Splunk
6 1 (1.61%) Adobe
6 1 (1.61%) Citrix
6 1 (1.61%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.61%) Reuters
6 1 (1.61%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.61%) SAP