Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £437, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 149 172
Rank change year-on-year -21 +23 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 770 529 488
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.90% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.80% 2.08% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 331 358
10th Percentile £257 £263 £270
25th Percentile £356 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £554
90th Percentile £589 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 28 19
10th Percentile £16.91 £21.02 £16.20
25th Percentile £21.49 £24.61 £18.92
Median hourly rate £30.00 £29.72 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +15.24% +13.36%
75th Percentile £48.00 £34.08 £35.00
90th Percentile £49.40 £38.45 £45.35
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £28.42 £21.66
% change year-on-year +5.58% +31.19% +0.74%

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 42,799 25,409 30,683
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.33% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,597 16,371 19,349
10th Percentile £325 £281 £305
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,391 1,355 1,537
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.67 £14.56
25th Percentile £20.88 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -47.05% +8.20%
75th Percentile £68.00 £54.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -42 339 £450 -5.26% 114
South East -15 118 £463 +2.78% 64
North of England -32 112 £420 +11.93% 67
Midlands +1 90 £425 +8.97% 35
South West -9 74 £463 +10.78% 35
West Midlands -11 66 £425 +6.25% 20
Yorkshire -21 61 £400 +14.29% 29
North West -24 41 £450 +12.50% 27
East of England -6 35 £359 -31.62% 21
East Midlands +4 24 £425 +13.33% 15
North East -35 13 £475 -22.45% 11
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 September 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.

1 274 (35.58%) SQL
2 231 (30.00%) Data Quality
3 229 (29.74%) Business Intelligence
4 214 (27.79%) Power BI
4 214 (27.79%) Power Platform
5 189 (24.55%) Data Analysis
6 173 (22.47%) Analytics
7 154 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 145 (18.83%) Data Governance
9 140 (18.18%) Data Modelling
10 135 (17.53%) Validation
11 132 (17.14%) Microsoft Excel
12 127 (16.49%) Python
13 113 (14.68%) Stakeholder Management
14 112 (14.55%) Migration
15 109 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
16 102 (13.25%) Visualisation
17 97 (12.60%) Actionable Insight
18 93 (12.08%) Microsoft
19 92 (11.95%) Azure
20 90 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 88 (11.43%) Tableau
22 79 (10.26%) Dashboard Development
23 78 (10.13%) Data Migration
24 75 (9.74%) AI
25 72 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
26 69 (8.96%) Agile
27 63 (8.18%) Databricks
28 62 (8.05%) Security Cleared
29 57 (7.40%) Data Mapping

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 13 (1.69%) SAS
2 8 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.65%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.39%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) CMS
5 3 (0.39%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 132 (17.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
3 10 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.78%) SPSS
6 2 (0.26%) CATIA
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.56%) iTrent
2 11 (1.43%) SystmOne
3 10 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.78%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.65%) Raiser’s Edge
6 4 (0.52%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.39%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.26%) Eikon
8 2 (0.26%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.26%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.26%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 214 (27.79%) Power Platform
2 92 (11.95%) Azure
3 43 (5.58%) AWS
4 41 (5.32%) Snowflake
5 21 (2.73%) SaaS
6 20 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (2.21%) Power Automate
8 15 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (1.95%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (1.56%) Collibra
9 12 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.17%) GCP
11 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.65%) Alation
12 5 (0.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (0.65%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.52%) Internet
2 2 (0.26%) Broadband
2 2 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (27.79%) Power BI
2 88 (11.43%) Tableau
3 54 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (6.10%) Metadata
5 22 (2.86%) Power Query
6 19 (2.47%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.08%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.95%) Looker
9 11 (1.43%) Big Data
9 11 (1.43%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
11 7 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.78%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.65%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (0.65%) GIS
13 5 (0.65%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.65%) Spark SQL
14 4 (0.52%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 14 (1.82%) JIRA
2 4 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (0.39%) Git
4 2 (0.26%) GitLab
5 1 (0.13%) MLflow
5 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 209 (27.14%) Analytical Skills
2 177 (22.99%) Finance
3 173 (22.47%) Social Skills
4 62 (8.05%) Banking
4 62 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 46 (5.97%) Marketing
6 30 (3.90%) Retail
7 25 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (2.99%) Legal
9 16 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (2.08%) Local Government
10 14 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.56%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.30%) Military
14 9 (1.17%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.04%) Automotive
15 8 (1.04%) Front Office
15 8 (1.04%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.82%) PySpark
2 9 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.78%) JSON
3 6 (0.78%) Pandas
4 5 (0.65%) EDI
5 3 (0.39%) REST
6 2 (0.26%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.26%) Django
6 2 (0.26%) HTML
6 2 (0.26%) Kafka
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.26%) Node.js
6 2 (0.26%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.26%) SOAP
6 2 (0.26%) XML
7 1 (0.13%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.13%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.13%) Seaborn
7 1 (0.13%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 54 (7.01%) Data Structures
2 28 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.60%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.04%) FMCG
9 7 (0.91%) Fixed Income
10 6 (0.78%) Credit Risk
10 6 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.78%) Taxonomies
11 5 (0.65%) NHS
11 5 (0.65%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.52%) CMDB
12 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.52%) Reinsurance
13 3 (0.39%) Marketing Technology
13 3 (0.39%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.78%) Windows
2 3 (0.39%) Linux
3 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (29.74%) Business Intelligence
2 189 (24.55%) Data Analysis
3 173 (22.47%) Analytics
4 154 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 145 (18.83%) Data Governance
6 140 (18.18%) Data Modelling
7 135 (17.53%) Validation
8 113 (14.68%) Stakeholder Management
9 112 (14.55%) Migration
10 109 (14.16%) Problem-Solving
11 102 (13.25%) Visualisation
12 97 (12.60%) Actionable Insight
13 90 (11.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 79 (10.26%) Dashboard Development
15 78 (10.13%) Data Migration
16 75 (9.74%) AI
17 72 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
18 69 (8.96%) Agile
19 57 (7.40%) Data Mapping
20 56 (7.27%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 274 (35.58%) SQL
2 127 (16.49%) Python
3 37 (4.81%) R
4 22 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (0.65%) VBA
6 4 (0.52%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.39%) Scala
8 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.26%) Korn
8 2 (0.26%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.26%) VB
9 1 (0.13%) Cypher
9 1 (0.13%) Java
9 1 (0.13%) LookML
9 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 62 (8.05%) Security Cleared
2 48 (6.23%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.19%) Degree
4 16 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (1.82%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.52%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.39%) PMP
8 2 (0.26%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.13%) CFA
9 1 (0.13%) CISM
9 1 (0.13%) CISSP
9 1 (0.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) IIBA
9 1 (0.13%) ISEB
9 1 (0.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.19%) QA
3 32 (4.16%) GDPR
4 10 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.65%) GRC
6 5 (0.65%) PMO
6 5 (0.65%) SLA
7 4 (0.52%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.26%) IFRS
8 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.13%) EMIR
9 1 (0.13%) GMP
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.13%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.26%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (0.26%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.26%) SCCM
2 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 63 (8.18%) Databricks
3 52 (6.75%) SAP
4 42 (5.45%) Oracle
5 18 (2.34%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.95%) Workday
7 13 (1.69%) Alteryx
8 11 (1.43%) Google
9 8 (1.04%) Teradata
10 7 (0.91%) Informatica
11 6 (0.78%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.65%) Baan
12 5 (0.65%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.65%) Palantir
13 4 (0.52%) Foundry
14 2 (0.26%) Ariba
14 2 (0.26%) CODA
14 2 (0.26%) Facebook
14 2 (0.26%) NEC
14 2 (0.26%) Siemens