Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 165 169
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 503 479 584
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.54% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 1.66% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 347 410
10th Percentile £263 £274 £263
25th Percentile £340 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £481
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -6.49% -0.77%
75th Percentile £510 £556 £600
90th Percentile £588 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 33
10th Percentile £21.02 £16.03 £15.87
25th Percentile £23.45 £17.75 £20.50
Median hourly rate £30.11 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% +25.35% -16.77%
75th Percentile £40.65 £33.00 £38.00
90th Percentile £64.35 £43.35 £43.95
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £23.17 £26.25
% change year-on-year +29.48% -11.73% +24.85%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 27,614 28,942 36,723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 92.95% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,664 17,706 25,343
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,686 1,084 1,421
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.33
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +39.11%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.79% +49.17%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 England.

Data Analyst job vacancy trend in England

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in England over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analyst in England over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 24 November 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
London -12 259 £475 +5.56% 171
North of England -17 79 £369 -11.83% 137
South East +4 65 £425 -15.00% 182
Yorkshire -1 49 £350 -12.50% 40
Midlands -21 38 £358 +0.49% 110
South West +16 34 £450 +12.50% 58
North West -30 28 £388 -6.06% 75
West Midlands -13 26 £390 +11.43% 63
East Midlands -7 12 £358 -6.10% 47
East of England -23 11 £500 +25.00% 56
North East -9 2 £465 -35.42% 24
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 November 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 England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 231 (45.92%) SQL
2 184 (36.58%) Data Analysis
3 170 (33.80%) Power Platform
4 167 (33.20%) Business Intelligence
5 165 (32.80%) Power BI
6 138 (27.44%) Microsoft Excel
7 131 (26.04%) Data Quality
8 130 (25.84%) Analytics
8 130 (25.84%) Python
9 123 (24.45%) Visualisation
10 96 (19.09%) Decision-Making
11 93 (18.49%) Data Modelling
12 91 (18.09%) Microsoft
13 90 (17.89%) Actionable Insight
14 89 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
15 83 (16.50%) Data Governance
16 75 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
17 74 (14.71%) Data Visualisation
17 74 (14.71%) Tableau
18 68 (13.52%) Data Management
19 62 (12.33%) Validation
20 61 (12.13%) ETL
21 58 (11.53%) Migration
22 55 (10.93%) Security Cleared
23 51 (10.14%) Data Cleansing
23 51 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 45 (8.95%) Data Transformation
25 44 (8.75%) Data Warehouse
26 43 (8.55%) Azure
27 42 (8.35%) SC Cleared

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 33 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.59%) Confluence
3 3 (0.60%) GeoServer
3 3 (0.60%) SAS
3 3 (0.60%) Smallworld
4 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 138 (27.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (4.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.99%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.39%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.40%) SPSS
7 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.20%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (1.79%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (1.19%) SAP HR
2 6 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.60%) Maximo
3 3 (0.60%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.40%) Actimize
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.40%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.20%) Academy Housing
5 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.20%) ContrOCC
5 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.20%) iTrent
5 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 170 (33.80%) Power Platform
2 43 (8.55%) Azure
3 36 (7.16%) AWS
4 29 (5.77%) Snowflake
5 18 (3.58%) GCP
6 15 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (2.19%) Collibra
7 11 (2.19%) PowerApps
8 8 (1.59%) Amazon S3
8 8 (1.59%) Power Automate
8 8 (1.59%) SaaS
9 7 (1.39%) dbt
9 7 (1.39%) OCI
10 6 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (0.99%) Google Data Studio
12 4 (0.80%) Entra ID
13 3 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.60%) Serverless
14 2 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (32.80%) Power BI
2 74 (14.71%) Tableau
3 44 (8.75%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (5.57%) Metadata
4 28 (5.57%) Power Query
5 22 (4.37%) SQL Server
6 16 (3.18%) BigQuery
7 14 (2.78%) Looker
8 10 (1.99%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.99%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.39%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.39%) PowerPivot
10 6 (1.19%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (0.99%) Big Data
11 5 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (0.80%) Impala
12 4 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 11 (2.19%) JIRA
2 5 (0.99%) Git
3 2 (0.40%) ERwin
3 2 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.40%) Selenium
4 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.20%) LSMW
General
1 173 (34.39%) Finance
2 169 (33.60%) Analytical Skills
3 165 (32.80%) Social Skills
4 55 (10.93%) Banking
5 40 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.98%) Marketing
6 20 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (3.18%) Investment Banking
7 16 (3.18%) Retail
8 13 (2.58%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.99%) Retail Banking
11 9 (1.79%) Legal
11 9 (1.79%) Local Government
12 8 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.19%) Electronics
13 6 (1.19%) Military
14 5 (0.99%) Automotive
15 4 (0.80%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.39%) PySpark
2 5 (0.99%) DAO
3 4 (0.80%) JSON
3 4 (0.80%) Pandas
4 3 (0.60%) NumPy
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.40%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.20%) Altair
6 1 (0.20%) LDAP
6 1 (0.20%) MACH
6 1 (0.20%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.20%) OAuth
6 1 (0.20%) OpenID
6 1 (0.20%) Plotly
6 1 (0.20%) RESTful
6 1 (0.20%) SAML
6 1 (0.20%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.20%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.20%) Swagger
6 1 (0.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.57%) Data Structures
2 20 (3.98%) Onboarding
3 18 (3.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (2.98%) Data Centre
6 14 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.58%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (2.19%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.79%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.19%) CMDB
10 6 (1.19%) Mainframe
11 5 (0.99%) Derivative
11 5 (0.99%) Fixed Income
11 5 (0.99%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.80%) Pricing Data
13 3 (0.60%) Cloud Native
13 3 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.60%) Cybercrime
13 3 (0.60%) NHS
13 3 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.60%) Unix
1 3 (0.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (36.58%) Data Analysis
2 167 (33.20%) Business Intelligence
3 130 (25.84%) Analytics
4 123 (24.45%) Visualisation
5 96 (19.09%) Decision-Making
6 93 (18.49%) Data Modelling
7 90 (17.89%) Actionable Insight
8 89 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
9 83 (16.50%) Data Governance
10 75 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 74 (14.71%) Data Visualisation
12 68 (13.52%) Data Management
13 62 (12.33%) Validation
14 61 (12.13%) ETL
15 58 (11.53%) Migration
16 51 (10.14%) Data Cleansing
16 51 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 45 (8.95%) Data Transformation
18 39 (7.75%) Data Mapping
19 37 (7.36%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 231 (45.92%) SQL
2 130 (25.84%) Python
3 19 (3.78%) R
4 16 (3.18%) VBA
5 13 (2.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (1.39%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.99%) Java
7 5 (0.99%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.60%) Scala
9 2 (0.40%) C#
9 2 (0.40%) C++
9 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.20%) Korn
10 1 (0.20%) Perl
10 1 (0.20%) SAPscript
10 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (10.93%) Security Cleared
2 42 (8.35%) SC Cleared
3 26 (5.17%) Degree
4 4 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (0.80%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.60%) ACCA
5 3 (0.60%) CEH
5 3 (0.60%) CIMA
5 3 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (0.60%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.60%) GIAC
5 3 (0.60%) GREM
5 3 (0.60%) OSCP
6 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.40%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.40%) PMP
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.20%) CIPD
7 1 (0.20%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (26.04%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.37%) GDPR
3 14 (2.78%) QA
4 9 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.40%) IFRS
6 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.20%) FATCA
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.20%) MiFID
7 1 (0.20%) PMO
7 1 (0.20%) SLA
7 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.20%) SCCM
2 1 (0.20%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 91 (18.09%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.55%) Oracle
3 28 (5.57%) SAP
4 23 (4.57%) Salesforce
5 20 (3.98%) Databricks
6 19 (3.78%) ServiceNow
6 19 (3.78%) Workday
7 11 (2.19%) Google
8 7 (1.39%) Informatica
9 6 (1.19%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.99%) Foundry
10 5 (0.99%) Palantir
11 3 (0.60%) ESRI
11 3 (0.60%) Intergraph
11 3 (0.60%) NEC
12 2 (0.40%) Cognos
12 2 (0.40%) ForgeRock
12 2 (0.40%) Micro Focus
12 2 (0.40%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.40%) NetIQ