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 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 155 146
Rank change year-on-year -37 -9 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 500 444 625
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.70% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 1.83% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 327 426
10th Percentile £297 £268 £269
25th Percentile £358 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £636 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 31
10th Percentile £21.60 £16.08 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.64 £19.42 £15.74
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +19.82% +26.57% -0.33%
75th Percentile £51.50 £35.00 £36.83
90th Percentile £64.80 £44.93 £40.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £21.43
% change year-on-year +19.82% +26.57% +1.81%

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 31,296 24,249 35,198
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 93.05% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,862 15,146 23,628
10th Percentile £300 £300 £272
25th Percentile £408 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,999 708 2,116
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.98 £13.17
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £16.54
Median hourly rate £31.46 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% - -7.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £75.00 £72.39
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.52 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.50% -4.23% -2.23%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 13 February 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 -2 288 £475 +1.82% 107
South East -19 66 £400 -20.40% 108
North of England -45 57 £400 -2.44% 51
Midlands -60 35 £400 - 58
North West -29 29 £420 -6.67% 26
South West -13 27 £525 +28.36% 35
Yorkshire -53 25 £365 +36.45% 18
West Midlands -53 23 £400 - 37
East of England -22 13 £525 - 23
East Midlands -30 12 £375 -1.64% 21
North East -13 4 £475 -9.52% 7
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 February 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.

1 227 (45.40%) SQL
2 162 (32.40%) Business Intelligence
3 154 (30.80%) Data Analysis
3 154 (30.80%) Power BI
3 154 (30.80%) Power Platform
4 146 (29.20%) Data Quality
5 135 (27.00%) Analytics
6 110 (22.00%) Python
7 103 (20.60%) Data Governance
8 102 (20.40%) Microsoft Excel
9 98 (19.60%) Data Modelling
10 97 (19.40%) Visualisation
11 93 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
12 92 (18.40%) Decision-Making
13 86 (17.20%) Actionable Insight
14 80 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
15 78 (15.60%) ETL
15 78 (15.60%) Security Cleared
16 71 (14.20%) Migration
17 70 (14.00%) Validation
18 64 (12.80%) Data Visualisation
18 64 (12.80%) Tableau
19 63 (12.60%) Data Management
20 61 (12.20%) Microsoft
21 59 (11.80%) Dashboard Development
22 58 (11.60%) SC Cleared
23 53 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 50 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
25 48 (9.60%) Azure
26 46 (9.20%) AWS

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 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.60%) SAS
3 7 (1.40%) Confluence
4 3 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.60%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.60%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 102 (20.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.40%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.60%) Salesforce CRM
1 8 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.20%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.80%) Maximo
4 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.40%) Actimize
5 2 (0.40%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.40%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 154 (30.80%) Power Platform
2 48 (9.60%) Azure
3 46 (9.20%) AWS
4 34 (6.80%) Snowflake
5 17 (3.40%) GCP
6 14 (2.80%) Amazon S3
7 13 (2.60%) SaaS
8 11 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (2.20%) Collibra
9 9 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.60%) dbt
11 7 (1.40%) OCI
12 6 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.20%) Serverless
13 4 (0.80%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.80%) Google Analytics
14 3 (0.60%) Google Tag Manager
14 3 (0.60%) Matillion
14 3 (0.60%) Power Automate
14 3 (0.60%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (30.80%) Power BI
2 64 (12.80%) Tableau
3 50 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (7.00%) Metadata
5 15 (3.00%) Looker
5 15 (3.00%) Power Query
6 14 (2.80%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.40%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.20%) Big Data
9 10 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (2.00%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.60%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.60%) KNIME
12 6 (1.20%) PowerPivot
13 5 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (1.00%) NoSQL
13 5 (1.00%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.80%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 15 (3.00%) JIRA
2 6 (1.20%) MSI
3 4 (0.80%) Git
4 2 (0.40%) ERwin
4 2 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.20%) GitLab
General
1 162 (32.40%) Analytical Skills
2 153 (30.60%) Finance
3 139 (27.80%) Social Skills
4 44 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 34 (6.80%) Banking
6 20 (4.00%) Marketing
7 14 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
9 8 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.40%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.40%) Legal
10 7 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.20%) Electronics
11 6 (1.20%) Military
12 5 (1.00%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.00%) Law
12 5 (1.00%) Retail
12 5 (1.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.20%) XML
2 4 (0.80%) PySpark
3 3 (0.60%) YAML
4 2 (0.40%) GeoJSON
4 2 (0.40%) JDO
4 2 (0.40%) JSON
4 2 (0.40%) Pandas
4 2 (0.40%) REST
4 2 (0.40%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.40%) SOAP
4 2 (0.40%) Web Services
5 1 (0.20%) ADO
5 1 (0.20%) Kafka
5 1 (0.20%) LDAP
5 1 (0.20%) MACH
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.20%) OAuth
5 1 (0.20%) Plotly
5 1 (0.20%) SAML
5 1 (0.20%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.20%) Data Structures
2 21 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (3.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (3.40%) Data Centre
5 14 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (2.40%) Onboarding
8 11 (2.20%) Management Information System
9 8 (1.60%) CMDB
10 5 (1.00%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.80%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.60%) Cybercrime
12 3 (0.60%) NHS
12 3 (0.60%) Taxonomies
13 2 (0.40%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.40%) Clustering
13 2 (0.40%) Credit Risk
13 2 (0.40%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.60%) Unix
2 2 (0.40%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (32.40%) Business Intelligence
2 154 (30.80%) Data Analysis
3 135 (27.00%) Analytics
4 103 (20.60%) Data Governance
5 98 (19.60%) Data Modelling
6 97 (19.40%) Visualisation
7 93 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
8 92 (18.40%) Decision-Making
9 86 (17.20%) Actionable Insight
10 80 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 78 (15.60%) ETL
12 71 (14.20%) Migration
13 70 (14.00%) Validation
14 64 (12.80%) Data Visualisation
15 63 (12.60%) Data Management
16 59 (11.80%) Dashboard Development
17 53 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 45 (9.00%) Agile
18 45 (9.00%) Data Migration
18 45 (9.00%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 227 (45.40%) SQL
2 110 (22.00%) Python
3 22 (4.40%) R
4 15 (3.00%) VBA
5 8 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.40%) C#
7 2 (0.40%) Java
7 2 (0.40%) Korn
7 2 (0.40%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.40%) Scala
7 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.20%) Perl
8 1 (0.20%) SAPscript
8 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 78 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 58 (11.60%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.00%) Degree
4 6 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.00%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.60%) ACCA
7 3 (0.60%) CEH
7 3 (0.60%) CIMA
7 3 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.60%) GIAC
7 3 (0.60%) GREM
7 3 (0.60%) OSCP
8 2 (0.40%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (29.20%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.80%) GDPR
3 18 (3.60%) QA
4 7 (1.40%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.60%) PMO
5 3 (0.60%) SLA
6 2 (0.40%) IFRS
6 2 (0.40%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.40%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.20%) FATCA
7 1 (0.20%) GAAP
7 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (0.60%) SCCM
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.20%) Terraform
2 1 (0.20%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 61 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.80%) Salesforce
3 28 (5.60%) Oracle
4 25 (5.00%) Databricks
4 25 (5.00%) SAP
5 20 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 16 (3.20%) Workday
7 10 (2.00%) Google
7 10 (2.00%) Informatica
8 9 (1.80%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.20%) Cognos
10 5 (1.00%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.80%) Atlassian
12 3 (0.60%) ESRI
12 3 (0.60%) Foundry
12 3 (0.60%) Intergraph
12 3 (0.60%) Palantir
12 3 (0.60%) Teradata
13 2 (0.40%) ForgeRock
13 2 (0.40%) Splunk