Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 162 162
Rank change year-on-year -25 0 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 738 513 501
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.82% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 2.00% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 393 312 364
10th Percentile £259 £263 £300
25th Percentile £363 £356 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £556
90th Percentile £600 £625 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 28 20
10th Percentile £15.20 £21.02 £16.22
25th Percentile £21.13 £23.34 £17.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.42 £26.46
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% +7.40% +22.26%
75th Percentile £48.00 £35.63 £32.00
90th Percentile £49.75 £62.53 £39.33
UK median hourly rate £29.28 £28.42 £21.66
% change year-on-year +3.03% +31.19% +0.09%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 43,082 25,631 29,757
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 91.12% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,349 16,509 18,162
10th Percentile £325 £276 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.78%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,775 1,440 1,248
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.10
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.32 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.31 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.23% -41.51% -6.89%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.81 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £41.27
% change year-on-year +65.84% -39.05% -8.30%

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 14 October 2026.

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 14 October 2026.

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 14 October 2026. 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 -45 330 £450 -5.26% 267
South East -28 108 £500 +19.40% 78
North of England -44 107 £425 +11.48% 75
Midlands +2 90 £410 +5.13% 51
West Midlands -5 70 £410 +2.50% 36
South West -4 67 £500 +17.65% 34
North West -29 48 £450 +12.50% 38
Yorkshire -35 48 £425 +13.33% 27
East of England -6 30 £359 -29.95% 27
East Midlands -4 20 £363 -3.33% 15
North East -29 14 £425 -30.61% 11
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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 England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 286 (38.75%) SQL
2 237 (32.11%) Data Quality
3 222 (30.08%) Business Intelligence
4 202 (27.37%) Power BI
4 202 (27.37%) Power Platform
5 187 (25.34%) Data Analysis
6 177 (23.98%) Analytics
7 156 (21.14%) Validation
8 148 (20.05%) Data Governance
9 140 (18.97%) Decision-Making
10 132 (17.89%) Python
11 130 (17.62%) Data Modelling
12 128 (17.34%) Stakeholder Management
13 118 (15.99%) Microsoft Excel
14 117 (15.85%) Migration
15 103 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
16 102 (13.82%) Visualisation
17 98 (13.28%) Actionable Insight
18 90 (12.20%) Data Migration
18 90 (12.20%) Microsoft
19 86 (11.65%) Tableau
20 85 (11.52%) Azure
21 84 (11.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 79 (10.70%) AI
23 77 (10.43%) Agile
24 75 (10.16%) Security Cleared
25 73 (9.89%) Dashboard Development
26 67 (9.08%) Continuous Improvement
26 67 (9.08%) ETL
27 60 (8.13%) 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 20 (2.71%) SAS
2 14 (1.90%) Confluence
3 9 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.54%) Apache
5 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.41%) CMS
6 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 118 (15.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.81%) SPSS
6 2 (0.27%) CATIA
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 9 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.95%) iTrent
3 6 (0.81%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.68%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.54%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.54%) SystmOne
6 3 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.41%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.27%) Eikon
7 2 (0.27%) ENOVIA
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.27%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.27%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 202 (27.37%) Power Platform
2 85 (11.52%) Azure
3 43 (5.83%) AWS
3 43 (5.83%) Snowflake
4 23 (3.12%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (2.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 17 (2.30%) Power Automate
6 17 (2.30%) SaaS
7 16 (2.17%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (1.49%) GCP
9 10 (1.36%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.22%) Collibra
11 8 (1.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.68%) Alation
13 5 (0.68%) dbt
13 5 (0.68%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
14 4 (0.54%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.54%) Internet
2 3 (0.41%) Firewall
3 2 (0.27%) Broadband
4 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (27.37%) Power BI
2 86 (11.65%) Tableau
3 52 (7.05%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (5.56%) Metadata
5 24 (3.25%) Relational Database
6 20 (2.71%) Power Query
7 18 (2.44%) Looker
8 17 (2.30%) Data Lake
9 15 (2.03%) SQL Server
10 11 (1.49%) Big Data
11 9 (1.22%) BigQuery
11 9 (1.22%) Qlik Sense
12 8 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.81%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (0.81%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (0.68%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (0.68%) GIS
14 5 (0.68%) PowerPivot
14 5 (0.68%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 26 (3.52%) JIRA
2 4 (0.54%) Git
2 4 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (0.41%) GitLab
4 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 208 (28.18%) Analytical Skills
2 173 (23.44%) Social Skills
3 168 (22.76%) Finance
4 58 (7.86%) Banking
5 57 (7.72%) Public Sector
6 42 (5.69%) Marketing
7 32 (4.34%) Retail
8 28 (3.79%) Legal
9 19 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.76%) Local Government
12 12 (1.63%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (1.36%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.22%) Manufacturing
15 9 (1.22%) Military
16 8 (1.08%) Automotive
16 8 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
17 7 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.95%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.49%) PySpark
2 10 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.81%) JSON
4 5 (0.68%) EDI
4 5 (0.68%) Pandas
5 3 (0.41%) HTML
5 3 (0.41%) REST
5 3 (0.41%) XML
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.27%) Django
6 2 (0.27%) Kafka
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.27%) SOAP
7 1 (0.14%) ADO
7 1 (0.14%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.14%) SAML
7 1 (0.14%) Spring
7 1 (0.14%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 59 (7.99%) Data Structures
2 36 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
3 24 (3.25%) Product Ownership
4 22 (2.98%) Management Information System
5 18 (2.44%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.36%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.08%) FMCG
9 7 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.95%) Taxonomies
10 6 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.68%) Credit Risk
11 5 (0.68%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.54%) Fixed Income
12 4 (0.54%) NHS
12 4 (0.54%) Social Media
13 3 (0.41%) Pricing Data
13 3 (0.41%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.41%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.54%) Windows
2 3 (0.41%) Linux
3 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (30.08%) Business Intelligence
2 187 (25.34%) Data Analysis
3 177 (23.98%) Analytics
4 156 (21.14%) Validation
5 148 (20.05%) Data Governance
6 140 (18.97%) Decision-Making
7 130 (17.62%) Data Modelling
8 128 (17.34%) Stakeholder Management
9 117 (15.85%) Migration
10 103 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
11 102 (13.82%) Visualisation
12 98 (13.28%) Actionable Insight
13 90 (12.20%) Data Migration
14 84 (11.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 79 (10.70%) AI
16 77 (10.43%) Agile
17 73 (9.89%) Dashboard Development
18 67 (9.08%) Continuous Improvement
18 67 (9.08%) ETL
19 58 (7.86%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 286 (38.75%) SQL
2 132 (17.89%) Python
3 36 (4.88%) R
4 23 (3.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (0.81%) Korn
6 3 (0.41%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.41%) LookML
6 3 (0.41%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.27%) Scala
8 1 (0.14%) Cypher
8 1 (0.14%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (0.14%) Java
8 1 (0.14%) SOQL
8 1 (0.14%) VB
8 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 75 (10.16%) Security Cleared
2 60 (8.13%) SC Cleared
3 41 (5.56%) Degree
4 17 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (0.95%) DBS Check
5 7 (0.95%) ISTQB
6 6 (0.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (0.68%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.54%) PMP
9 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.14%) CBAP
11 1 (0.14%) CFA
11 1 (0.14%) CISM
11 1 (0.14%) CIW
11 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.14%) IIBA
11 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (32.11%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.88%) GDPR
3 35 (4.74%) QA
4 13 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (1.08%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.95%) GRC
6 7 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.68%) SLA
8 4 (0.54%) PMO
9 3 (0.41%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) EMIR
11 1 (0.14%) GMP
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
11 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.27%) SCCM
2 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.99%) Databricks
3 38 (5.15%) SAP
4 34 (4.61%) Oracle
5 17 (2.30%) Salesforce
6 14 (1.90%) Google
7 13 (1.76%) Alteryx
8 10 (1.36%) Workday
9 9 (1.22%) Informatica
10 6 (0.81%) Teradata
11 5 (0.68%) Baan
11 5 (0.68%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.68%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.54%) Palantir
13 3 (0.41%) Foundry
13 3 (0.41%) Siemens
14 2 (0.27%) CODA
14 2 (0.27%) Facebook
14 2 (0.27%) IBM
14 2 (0.27%) NEC