Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £429, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 164 162
Rank change year-on-year -18 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 496 468 587
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 1.60% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 1.72% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 341 407
10th Percentile £269 £263 £263
25th Percentile £350 £325 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -10.00% +3.63%
75th Percentile £523 £556 £600
90th Percentile £596 £675 £671
UK median daily rate £425 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 22 30
10th Percentile £21.31 £16.25 £15.53
25th Percentile £23.03 £18.46 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +19.82% +25.35% -15.14%
75th Percentile £47.50 £34.00 £37.25
90th Percentile £64.85 £43.93 £41.15
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year +28.38% +12.51% -

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 28,356 27,251 35,230
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.21% 92.91% 93.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,121 16,963 24,204
10th Percentile £290 £300 £292
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,744 892 1,356
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.64 £15.29
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £19.87
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.35 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% -21.35% +48.33%

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 December 2025.

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 December 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 14 December 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 -2 267 £475 +5.56% 131
North of England -11 75 £365 -11.25% 128
South East +13 67 £425 -16.67% 148
Yorkshire -14 47 £365 -4.58% 41
South West -1 32 £475 +18.75% 46
Midlands -47 27 £367 +4.71% 89
North West -23 26 £350 -15.15% 67
West Midlands -49 14 £400 +17.65% 52
East Midlands -15 13 £358 -6.10% 37
East of England -34 10 £500 -4.76% 49
North East -12 2 £465 -35.42% 21
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, 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.

1 228 (45.97%) SQL
2 178 (35.89%) Data Analysis
3 169 (34.07%) Business Intelligence
4 160 (32.26%) Power Platform
5 159 (32.06%) Power BI
6 132 (26.61%) Data Quality
7 130 (26.21%) Python
8 128 (25.81%) Analytics
9 117 (23.59%) Microsoft Excel
10 111 (22.38%) Visualisation
11 101 (20.36%) Data Governance
12 97 (19.56%) Data Modelling
13 92 (18.55%) Actionable Insight
14 91 (18.35%) Decision-Making
15 87 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
16 79 (15.93%) Stakeholder Management
17 75 (15.12%) Microsoft
18 70 (14.11%) Data Visualisation
19 67 (13.51%) Tableau
20 64 (12.90%) ETL
20 64 (12.90%) Security Cleared
21 59 (11.90%) Data Management
21 59 (11.90%) Migration
22 58 (11.69%) Validation
23 51 (10.28%) Data Cleansing
23 51 (10.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 48 (9.68%) SC Cleared
25 46 (9.27%) Data Warehouse
26 45 (9.07%) Data Transformation
27 44 (8.87%) Dashboard Development

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 23 (4.64%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.01%) Confluence
2 5 (1.01%) SAS
3 3 (0.60%) GeoServer
3 3 (0.60%) Smallworld
4 2 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 117 (23.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (1.61%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.40%) SPSS
7 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.81%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.21%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.60%) Maximo
4 3 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.40%) Actimize
5 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.40%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.20%) ContrOCC
6 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.20%) iTrent
6 1 (0.20%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 160 (32.26%) Power Platform
2 43 (8.67%) Azure
3 38 (7.66%) AWS
4 31 (6.25%) Snowflake
5 19 (3.83%) GCP
6 14 (2.82%) Collibra
7 10 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (1.61%) Amazon S3
9 7 (1.41%) dbt
9 7 (1.41%) OCI
9 7 (1.41%) SaaS
10 5 (1.01%) Entra ID
10 5 (1.01%) PowerApps
11 4 (0.81%) Google Data Studio
11 4 (0.81%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.60%) Matillion
12 3 (0.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (32.06%) Power BI
2 67 (13.51%) Tableau
3 46 (9.27%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (6.45%) Metadata
5 26 (5.24%) Power Query
6 17 (3.43%) BigQuery
6 17 (3.43%) Looker
6 17 (3.43%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.02%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.81%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (1.41%) Big Data
10 7 (1.41%) PowerPivot
10 7 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (1.21%) Hadoop
12 5 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.81%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.81%) Impala
13 4 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (2.22%) JIRA
2 5 (1.01%) Git
3 2 (0.40%) ERwin
3 2 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.40%) Selenium
4 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
General
1 182 (36.69%) Finance
2 160 (32.26%) Analytical Skills
3 155 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 49 (9.88%) Banking
5 40 (8.06%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.83%) Marketing
7 13 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (2.42%) Investment Banking
8 12 (2.42%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.42%) Retail
9 11 (2.22%) Legal
10 10 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.41%) Retail Banking
12 6 (1.21%) Electronics
12 6 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (1.21%) Local Government
12 6 (1.21%) Military
13 5 (1.01%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.41%) PySpark
2 5 (1.01%) DAO
3 3 (0.60%) JSON
3 3 (0.60%) Pandas
4 2 (0.40%) NumPy
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.40%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.20%) LDAP
5 1 (0.20%) MACH
5 1 (0.20%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.20%) OAuth
5 1 (0.20%) OpenID
5 1 (0.20%) Plotly
5 1 (0.20%) RESTful
5 1 (0.20%) SAML
5 1 (0.20%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.20%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.20%) Swagger
5 1 (0.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.05%) Data Structures
2 21 (4.23%) Onboarding
3 18 (3.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (3.63%) Data Protection Act
4 17 (3.43%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.02%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.61%) CMDB
7 8 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.61%) Reinsurance
8 6 (1.21%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.01%) Derivative
9 5 (1.01%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.81%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.60%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.60%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.60%) Cybercrime
12 2 (0.40%) Low-Code
12 2 (0.40%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.60%) Unix
1 3 (0.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (35.89%) Data Analysis
2 169 (34.07%) Business Intelligence
3 128 (25.81%) Analytics
4 111 (22.38%) Visualisation
5 101 (20.36%) Data Governance
6 97 (19.56%) Data Modelling
7 92 (18.55%) Actionable Insight
8 91 (18.35%) Decision-Making
9 87 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
10 79 (15.93%) Stakeholder Management
11 70 (14.11%) Data Visualisation
12 64 (12.90%) ETL
13 59 (11.90%) Data Management
13 59 (11.90%) Migration
14 58 (11.69%) Validation
15 51 (10.28%) Data Cleansing
15 51 (10.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 45 (9.07%) Data Transformation
17 44 (8.87%) Dashboard Development
18 40 (8.06%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 228 (45.97%) SQL
2 130 (26.21%) Python
3 22 (4.44%) R
4 13 (2.62%) VBA
5 10 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.01%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.81%) Java
7 4 (0.81%) Scala
8 2 (0.40%) C#
8 2 (0.40%) C++
8 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.20%) Korn
9 1 (0.20%) Perl
9 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.20%) SAPscript
9 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 64 (12.90%) Security Cleared
2 48 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.84%) Degree
4 4 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.60%) ACCA
5 3 (0.60%) CEH
5 3 (0.60%) CIMA
5 3 (0.60%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (0.60%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.60%) GIAC
5 3 (0.60%) GREM
5 3 (0.60%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.60%) OSCP
6 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (26.61%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.65%) GDPR
3 15 (3.02%) QA
4 11 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.60%) SLA
7 2 (0.40%) IFRS
7 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.20%) FATCA
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (0.60%) SCCM
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.20%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 75 (15.12%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.66%) Oracle
3 29 (5.85%) SAP
4 25 (5.04%) Salesforce
5 22 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 19 (3.83%) Databricks
7 16 (3.23%) Workday
8 12 (2.42%) Google
9 9 (1.81%) Informatica
10 6 (1.21%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.01%) Foundry
11 5 (1.01%) Palantir
12 4 (0.81%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.60%) Cognos
13 3 (0.60%) ESRI
13 3 (0.60%) Intergraph
14 2 (0.40%) Bloomberg
14 2 (0.40%) Micro Focus
14 2 (0.40%) NEC
14 2 (0.40%) NetIQ