Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 151 153
Rank change year-on-year -33 +2 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 564 433 580
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.79% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 1.92% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 314 394
10th Percentile £305 £256 £276
25th Percentile £363 £338 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £562
90th Percentile £633 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £448 £475
% change year-on-year +0.45% -5.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 21 21
10th Percentile £22.00 £14.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £18.20 £15.23
Median hourly rate £43.00 £28.60 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +50.35% +32.16% -2.35%
75th Percentile £72.50 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.84 £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £28.60 £21.64
% change year-on-year +50.35% +32.16% +4.01%

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 35,285 22,535 34,877
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.23% 92.94% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,231 15,079 23,309
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.80% -1.00% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,327 833 2,302
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.93
25th Percentile £19.96 £20.85 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.94 £34.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% +4.62% -24.14%
75th Percentile £65.13 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.86
UK median hourly rate £38.63 £32.50 £32.90
% change year-on-year +18.86% -1.20% -25.00%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -10 321 £475 +0.96% 106
South East -20 80 £400 -13.51% 71
North of England -52 58 £400 -2.44% 68
Midlands -47 51 £425 +6.25% 50
North West -20 32 £423 -11.05% 24
West Midlands -57 32 £420 +5.00% 19
South West -19 28 £525 +28.36% 30
Yorkshire -49 24 £365 +47.47% 32
East Midlands -23 19 £425 +6.25% 31
East of England -32 13 £538 +2.38% 29
North East -16 4 £475 +5.56% 14
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 April 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.

1 240 (42.55%) SQL
2 185 (32.80%) Business Intelligence
3 177 (31.38%) Data Quality
4 168 (29.79%) Power Platform
5 167 (29.61%) Power BI
6 152 (26.95%) Data Analysis
7 145 (25.71%) Analytics
8 126 (22.34%) Data Modelling
9 125 (22.16%) Python
10 119 (21.10%) Data Governance
11 108 (19.15%) Microsoft Excel
12 105 (18.62%) Decision-Making
13 103 (18.26%) Migration
14 96 (17.02%) Visualisation
15 94 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
16 90 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
17 89 (15.78%) Actionable Insight
18 85 (15.07%) ETL
19 84 (14.89%) Validation
20 83 (14.72%) Security Cleared
21 71 (12.59%) Tableau
22 68 (12.06%) Azure
23 66 (11.70%) Data Management
24 65 (11.52%) Data Migration
25 63 (11.17%) Data Visualisation
25 63 (11.17%) SC Cleared
25 63 (11.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 62 (10.99%) Dashboard Development
27 60 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
28 59 (10.46%) Microsoft

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 15 (2.66%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.60%) SAS
3 7 (1.24%) Confluence
4 3 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.53%) CMS
5 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 108 (19.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.06%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.60%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.06%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.71%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.71%) SystmOne
5 3 (0.53%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.53%) Maximo
5 3 (0.53%) SAP R/3
6 2 (0.35%) Actimize
6 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.35%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.35%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.18%) iTrent
7 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 168 (29.79%) Power Platform
2 68 (12.06%) Azure
3 54 (9.57%) AWS
4 33 (5.85%) Snowflake
5 16 (2.84%) GCP
6 15 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (2.48%) Amazon S3
7 14 (2.48%) Collibra
8 10 (1.77%) OCI
9 9 (1.60%) dbt
9 9 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.60%) SaaS
10 7 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (1.24%) Serverless
11 5 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.89%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (0.71%) Google Tag Manager
12 4 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (29.61%) Power BI
2 71 (12.59%) Tableau
3 60 (10.64%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (8.87%) Metadata
5 16 (2.84%) Power Query
6 13 (2.30%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.13%) Looker
8 11 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.77%) Big Data
10 9 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (1.60%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.42%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.24%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.06%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.06%) KNIME
13 6 (1.06%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.89%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 16 (2.84%) JIRA
2 6 (1.06%) Git
2 6 (1.06%) MSI
3 2 (0.35%) ERwin
3 2 (0.35%) GitLab
3 2 (0.35%) MLflow
3 2 (0.35%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.18%) GCC
4 1 (0.18%) Postman
4 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 179 (31.74%) Analytical Skills
2 163 (28.90%) Finance
3 144 (25.53%) Social Skills
4 60 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.45%) Banking
6 25 (4.43%) Marketing
7 18 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.13%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (1.24%) Law
13 7 (1.24%) Legal
13 7 (1.24%) Retail
14 6 (1.06%) Front Office
14 6 (1.06%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.06%) Military
14 6 (1.06%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.89%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.24%) Pandas
2 6 (1.06%) XML
3 5 (0.89%) JDO
3 5 (0.89%) PySpark
4 4 (0.71%) JSON
4 4 (0.71%) NumPy
4 4 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.53%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.53%) YAML
6 2 (0.35%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.35%) Node.js
6 2 (0.35%) REST
6 2 (0.35%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.35%) SOAP
6 2 (0.35%) Web Services
7 1 (0.18%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.18%) MACH
7 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.18%) Next.js
7 1 (0.18%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 49 (8.69%) Data Structures
2 20 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.30%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.30%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.60%) CMDB
7 9 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.06%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.71%) Credit Risk
9 4 (0.71%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.71%) Hedge funds
9 4 (0.71%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (0.71%) NHS
10 3 (0.53%) Derivative
10 3 (0.53%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.53%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.35%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.71%) Windows
2 1 (0.18%) Unix
2 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (32.80%) Business Intelligence
2 152 (26.95%) Data Analysis
3 145 (25.71%) Analytics
4 126 (22.34%) Data Modelling
5 119 (21.10%) Data Governance
6 105 (18.62%) Decision-Making
7 103 (18.26%) Migration
8 96 (17.02%) Visualisation
9 94 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 90 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 89 (15.78%) Actionable Insight
12 85 (15.07%) ETL
13 84 (14.89%) Validation
14 66 (11.70%) Data Management
15 65 (11.52%) Data Migration
16 63 (11.17%) Data Visualisation
16 63 (11.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 62 (10.99%) Dashboard Development
18 57 (10.11%) Agile
19 51 (9.04%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 240 (42.55%) SQL
2 125 (22.16%) Python
3 27 (4.79%) R
4 19 (3.37%) VBA
5 6 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.53%) Scala
7 2 (0.35%) Java
7 2 (0.35%) Korn
7 2 (0.35%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.35%) VB
8 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.18%) LookML
8 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 63 (11.17%) SC Cleared
3 22 (3.90%) Degree
4 9 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (0.89%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.71%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.35%) PhD
8 1 (0.18%) ACCA
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.18%) CIMA
8 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (31.38%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.50%) QA
3 26 (4.61%) GDPR
4 9 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.89%) PMO
7 4 (0.71%) SLA
7 4 (0.71%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.35%) IFRS
9 2 (0.35%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.18%) FATCA
10 1 (0.18%) GAAP
10 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.35%) Docker
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (0.35%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.35%) SCCM
1 2 (0.35%) Terraform
2 1 (0.18%) Grafana
2 1 (0.18%) Kibana
2 1 (0.18%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 59 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.98%) Databricks
3 36 (6.38%) SAP
4 35 (6.21%) Oracle
5 34 (6.03%) Salesforce
6 24 (4.26%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.48%) Workday
8 11 (1.95%) Google
9 10 (1.77%) Informatica
10 7 (1.24%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.89%) Adobe
11 5 (0.89%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.89%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.71%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.71%) Cognos
12 4 (0.71%) Foundry
12 4 (0.71%) IBM
12 4 (0.71%) Palantir
12 4 (0.71%) Teradata
13 3 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud