Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Data Analyst
England > East of England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the East of England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 62 73
Rank change year-on-year -32 +11 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 10 22 36
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.63% 1.93% 2.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 2.18% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 21
10th Percentile £440 £183 £260
25th Percentile - £263 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile - £550 £575
England median daily rate £429 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -4.78% -10.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 8
10th Percentile - £15.00 -
25th Percentile - £16.13 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.03 £18.00 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year +27.94% -40.94% -7.65%
75th Percentile - £19.00 £35.77
90th Percentile - £19.60 £38.95
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year +19.82% +25.35% -15.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 East of England with a recognized job title 1,416 1,010 1,555
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.00% 88.67% 89.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 449 888
10th Percentile £185 £213 £200
25th Percentile £335 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £679 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 160 289
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.92 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £21.46 £17.00
Median hourly rate £30.11 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.62% +6.74% +111.90%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.73 £84.49
England median hourly rate £26.40 £36.08 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.83% -19.82% +38.46%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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 East of England.

Data Analyst job vacancy trend in the East of England

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in the East of England

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in the East of England

Data Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Analyst within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire -16 4 £513 +127.78% 30
Cambridgeshire -13 2 £400 -23.81% 16
Norfolk -17 2 - - 10
Essex -5 1 £525 +273.60% 31
Bedfordshire -6 1 £500 -9.09% 14
Data Analyst
England

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 15 December 2025, 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 East of England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) ACCA
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) CIMA
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (10.00%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Big Data
4 1 (10.00%) Budgeting
4 1 (10.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Maximo
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 1 (10.00%) Big Data
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (10.00%) Metadata
2 1 (10.00%) Pentaho
2 1 (10.00%) Power Query
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) Tableau
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Aviation
3 1 (10.00%) Local Government
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Analytics
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (20.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Budgeting
4 1 (10.00%) Business Case
4 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Data Mapping
4 1 (10.00%) Data Sharing
4 1 (10.00%) Data Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (10.00%) Observability
4 1 (10.00%) Requirements Workshops
4 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ACCA
1 2 (20.00%) CIMA
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) Vertica