Data Analyst Contracts 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 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 167 158
Rank change year-on-year +25 -9 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 520 545 753
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.01% 1.46% 1.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.18% 1.57% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 387 528
10th Percentile £269 £279 £263
25th Percentile £363 £361 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £544 £600
90th Percentile £650 £627 £687
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 23 33
10th Percentile £18.48 £13.50 £15.04
25th Percentile £22.75 £15.56 £17.50
Median hourly rate £26.94 £21.43 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.70% -4.76% -14.29%
75th Percentile £31.73 £40.00 £32.30
90th Percentile £34.95 - £60.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £21.57 £21.05
% change year-on-year +22.86% +2.47% -8.48%

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 23,802 34,689 44,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.93% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,558 22,690 31,723
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 2,587 1,360
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.87 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.80 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.34 £40.00 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% -8.95% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.52 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst 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 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst 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 July 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 2 July 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 +32 296 £494 +3.95% 846
North of England -9 63 £400 -9.30% 207
South East +38 61 £447 +6.69% 259
Midlands +6 42 £400 +8.11% 107
West Midlands +19 35 £400 -5.88% 70
Yorkshire +9 29 £375 -25.00% 67
South West +35 28 £409 -3.76% 53
North West -24 25 £409 -3.82% 117
North East +6 9 £488 -2.50% 24
East of England +8 7 £325 -20.73% 42
East Midlands -6 7 £375 +3.45% 37
Data Analyst
UK

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 252 (48.46%) SQL
2 190 (36.54%) Data Analysis
3 185 (35.58%) Power Platform
4 180 (34.62%) Power BI
5 178 (34.23%) Social Skills
6 171 (32.88%) Business Intelligence
7 163 (31.35%) Finance
8 141 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
9 128 (24.62%) Microsoft Excel
10 125 (24.04%) Python
10 125 (24.04%) Visualisation
11 114 (21.92%) Analytics
12 112 (21.54%) Data Quality
13 99 (19.04%) Tableau
13 99 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
14 98 (18.85%) Data Modelling
15 90 (17.31%) Data Governance
16 81 (15.58%) Migration
17 80 (15.38%) Microsoft
18 78 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
18 78 (15.00%) Decision-Making
19 68 (13.08%) Actionable Insight
20 65 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
21 64 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
21 64 (12.31%) Data Management
22 61 (11.73%) Agile
23 60 (11.54%) Validation
24 59 (11.35%) Banking
25 51 (9.81%) ETL
26 48 (9.23%) Data Migration

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.50%) Confluence
3 5 (0.96%) SAS
4 3 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.58%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 128 (24.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (1.73%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (0.96%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.38%) Bankmaster
3 2 (0.38%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.38%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.38%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.19%) Academy Housing
4 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.19%) ContrOCC
4 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.19%) Maximo
4 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.19%) Summit
4 1 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 185 (35.58%) Power Platform
2 40 (7.69%) Azure
3 35 (6.73%) AWS
4 24 (4.62%) GCP
5 22 (4.23%) Snowflake
6 16 (3.08%) dbt
7 9 (1.73%) Amazon S3
7 9 (1.73%) Dynamics 365
8 8 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 7 (1.35%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.15%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (0.96%) Collibra
11 5 (0.96%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (0.96%) OCI
11 5 (0.96%) SaaS
11 5 (0.96%) Serverless
12 4 (0.77%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.19%) Firewall
1 1 (0.19%) Internet
1 1 (0.19%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 180 (34.62%) Power BI
2 99 (19.04%) Tableau
3 65 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (5.77%) SQL Server
5 18 (3.46%) Data Lake
6 16 (3.08%) Power Query
7 15 (2.88%) BigQuery
7 15 (2.88%) Metadata
8 14 (2.69%) Looker
9 9 (1.73%) Big Data
9 9 (1.73%) Data Mining
9 9 (1.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 8 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.54%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.96%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (0.96%) GIS
12 5 (0.96%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.77%) MySQL
13 4 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (3.65%) JIRA
2 11 (2.12%) Git
3 4 (0.77%) ERwin
4 2 (0.38%) Ant
4 2 (0.38%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.38%) GitLab
4 2 (0.38%) LSMW
4 2 (0.38%) MagicDraw
4 2 (0.38%) TestRail
5 1 (0.19%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.19%) Visual Studio
General
1 178 (34.23%) Social Skills
2 163 (31.35%) Finance
3 141 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (11.35%) Banking
5 25 (4.81%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (3.85%) Local Government
8 18 (3.46%) Investment Banking
9 17 (3.27%) Retail
10 15 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.50%) Marketing
12 12 (2.31%) Front Office
13 8 (1.54%) Corporate Banking
13 8 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.15%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 5 (0.96%) Legal
15 5 (0.96%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.77%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.15%) JSON
2 3 (0.58%) Pandas
2 3 (0.58%) Plotly
2 3 (0.58%) React
2 3 (0.58%) XML
3 2 (0.38%) Kafka
3 2 (0.38%) NumPy
3 2 (0.38%) Swagger
4 1 (0.19%) Altair
4 1 (0.19%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.19%) CSS
4 1 (0.19%) HTML
4 1 (0.19%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.19%) OLE
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.19%) PySpark
4 1 (0.19%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (5.19%) Data Structures
2 13 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
2 13 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
4 10 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (1.92%) Product Ownership
4 10 (1.92%) Reference Data
4 10 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (1.35%) NHS
6 6 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.15%) Hedge funds
6 6 (1.15%) Virtual Team
7 5 (0.96%) CMDB
7 5 (0.96%) Fixed Income
7 5 (0.96%) Reinsurance
7 5 (0.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (0.77%) Data Centre
8 4 (0.77%) IoT
8 4 (0.77%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.19%) Linux
1 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (36.54%) Data Analysis
2 171 (32.88%) Business Intelligence
3 125 (24.04%) Visualisation
4 114 (21.92%) Analytics
5 99 (19.04%) Problem-Solving
6 98 (18.85%) Data Modelling
7 90 (17.31%) Data Governance
8 81 (15.58%) Migration
9 78 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
9 78 (15.00%) Decision-Making
10 68 (13.08%) Actionable Insight
11 64 (12.31%) Data Management
11 64 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 61 (11.73%) Agile
13 60 (11.54%) Validation
14 51 (9.81%) ETL
15 48 (9.23%) Data Migration
16 47 (9.04%) Data Cleansing
17 35 (6.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 34 (6.54%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 252 (48.46%) SQL
2 125 (24.04%) Python
3 25 (4.81%) R
4 19 (3.65%) VBA
5 12 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 7 (1.35%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.15%) PL/SQL
8 3 (0.58%) Java
8 3 (0.58%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.58%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.58%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.38%) PHP
10 1 (0.19%) C++
10 1 (0.19%) LookML
10 1 (0.19%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 38 (7.31%) Security Cleared
2 29 (5.58%) SC Cleared
3 27 (5.19%) Degree
4 6 (1.15%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.77%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.58%) CIPD
6 3 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.38%) CBAP
7 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.38%) PMP
8 1 (0.19%) ACCA
8 1 (0.19%) CASP
8 1 (0.19%) CIMA
8 1 (0.19%) CISA
8 1 (0.19%) CISSP
8 1 (0.19%) HNC
8 1 (0.19%) IIBA
8 1 (0.19%) ISEB
8 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (21.54%) Data Quality
2 23 (4.42%) GDPR
3 18 (3.46%) QA
4 7 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (1.15%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.77%) SEPA
7 3 (0.58%) IFRS
7 3 (0.58%) MiFID
8 2 (0.38%) Basel III
8 2 (0.38%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.38%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) COSHH
9 1 (0.19%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.19%) EMIR
9 1 (0.19%) GAAP
9 1 (0.19%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.19%) SNOMED CT
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.19%) Grafana
2 1 (0.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 80 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 36 (6.92%) Oracle
3 28 (5.38%) SAP
4 24 (4.62%) Google
5 22 (4.23%) Databricks
6 12 (2.31%) Workday
7 10 (1.92%) Informatica
8 9 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.54%) Alteryx
9 8 (1.54%) Palantir
10 7 (1.35%) Ariba
10 7 (1.35%) Foundry
11 5 (0.96%) Salesforce
11 5 (0.96%) Talend
12 4 (0.77%) Denodo
13 3 (0.58%) Adobe
13 3 (0.58%) BMC
13 3 (0.58%) Cognos
13 3 (0.58%) IBM
13 3 (0.58%) Sparx