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 24 March 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 150 148
Rank change year-on-year -42 -2 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 538 432 604
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.44% 1.78% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 1.91% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 371 315 411
10th Percentile £305 £263 £263
25th Percentile £363 £339 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £563
90th Percentile £638 £665 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 21 27
10th Percentile £22.25 £14.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £18.20 £15.74
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.60 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +57.34% +32.16% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.43 £35.00 £40.75
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £28.60 £21.64
% change year-on-year +50.35% +32.16% +2.80%

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 34,477 22,633 34,981
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 93.06% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,757 15,111 23,374
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,262 797 2,292
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.51 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.75 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.57% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.66 £77.31 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £36.70 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.92% - -24.42%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -12 308 £475 - 109
South East -17 76 £401 -19.80% 71
North of England -58 56 £400 -2.44% 64
Midlands -50 49 £425 +6.25% 46
North West -20 35 £420 +1.82% 25
West Midlands -55 31 £420 +3.38% 20
South West -24 25 £525 +28.36% 29
Yorkshire -59 19 £365 +4.29% 29
East Midlands -21 18 £425 +6.25% 26
East of England -29 11 £538 +2.38% 30
North East -20 4 £475 +5.56% 12
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 March 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.

1 234 (43.49%) SQL
2 181 (33.64%) Business Intelligence
3 167 (31.04%) Data Quality
4 164 (30.48%) Power Platform
5 163 (30.30%) Power BI
6 147 (27.32%) Data Analysis
7 140 (26.02%) Analytics
8 118 (21.93%) Data Modelling
9 117 (21.75%) Python
10 112 (20.82%) Data Governance
11 104 (19.33%) Microsoft Excel
12 99 (18.40%) Migration
13 96 (17.84%) Decision-Making
13 96 (17.84%) Visualisation
14 87 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
15 85 (15.80%) Stakeholder Management
16 83 (15.43%) Actionable Insight
16 83 (15.43%) ETL
17 82 (15.24%) Security Cleared
18 80 (14.87%) Validation
19 69 (12.83%) Tableau
20 65 (12.08%) Data Management
21 64 (11.90%) Data Migration
22 63 (11.71%) Data Visualisation
23 62 (11.52%) Dashboard Development
24 61 (11.34%) Azure
24 61 (11.34%) SC Cleared
25 59 (10.97%) Data Warehouse
25 59 (10.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 58 (10.78%) Agile

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 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.67%) SAS
3 7 (1.30%) Confluence
4 3 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.56%) CMS
4 3 (0.56%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.56%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 104 (19.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.12%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.12%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.74%) SystmOne
5 3 (0.56%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.56%) Maximo
5 3 (0.56%) SAP R/3
6 2 (0.37%) Actimize
6 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.37%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.37%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 164 (30.48%) Power Platform
2 61 (11.34%) Azure
3 51 (9.48%) AWS
4 33 (6.13%) Snowflake
5 16 (2.97%) GCP
6 15 (2.79%) Amazon S3
6 15 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (2.42%) Collibra
8 10 (1.86%) OCI
9 9 (1.67%) dbt
9 9 (1.67%) SaaS
10 8 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.30%) Serverless
12 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (0.93%) Google Analytics
14 4 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (0.74%) Google Tag Manager
15 3 (0.56%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (30.30%) Power BI
2 69 (12.83%) Tableau
3 59 (10.97%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (8.55%) Metadata
5 15 (2.79%) Power Query
6 13 (2.42%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.23%) Looker
8 10 (1.86%) Big Data
9 9 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (1.67%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (1.67%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.49%) KNIME
10 8 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (1.30%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.30%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.12%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.93%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 15 (2.79%) JIRA
2 6 (1.12%) Git
2 6 (1.12%) MSI
3 2 (0.37%) ERwin
3 2 (0.37%) GitLab
3 2 (0.37%) MLflow
3 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.19%) GCC
4 1 (0.19%) Postman
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 170 (31.60%) Analytical Skills
2 160 (29.74%) Finance
3 139 (25.84%) Social Skills
4 55 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 39 (7.25%) Banking
6 23 (4.28%) Marketing
7 15 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.60%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.30%) Electronics
11 7 (1.30%) Front Office
11 7 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.30%) Retail
12 6 (1.12%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.12%) Law
12 6 (1.12%) Legal
12 6 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 5 (0.93%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.12%) Pandas
1 6 (1.12%) XML
2 5 (0.93%) JDO
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.74%) PySpark
4 3 (0.56%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.56%) JSON
4 3 (0.56%) NumPy
4 3 (0.56%) YAML
5 2 (0.37%) REST
5 2 (0.37%) SOAP
5 2 (0.37%) Web Services
6 1 (0.19%) ADO
6 1 (0.19%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.19%) Kafka
6 1 (0.19%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.19%) Node.js
6 1 (0.19%) RESTful
6 1 (0.19%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.55%) Data Structures
2 22 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.79%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.04%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.67%) Onboarding
8 7 (1.30%) CMDB
9 5 (0.93%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.74%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.74%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (0.74%) NHS
11 3 (0.56%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.56%) Credit Risk
11 3 (0.56%) Derivative
11 3 (0.56%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.19%) Unix
2 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (33.64%) Business Intelligence
2 147 (27.32%) Data Analysis
3 140 (26.02%) Analytics
4 118 (21.93%) Data Modelling
5 112 (20.82%) Data Governance
6 99 (18.40%) Migration
7 96 (17.84%) Decision-Making
7 96 (17.84%) Visualisation
8 87 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
9 85 (15.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 83 (15.43%) Actionable Insight
10 83 (15.43%) ETL
11 80 (14.87%) Validation
12 65 (12.08%) Data Management
13 64 (11.90%) Data Migration
14 63 (11.71%) Data Visualisation
15 62 (11.52%) Dashboard Development
16 59 (10.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 58 (10.78%) Agile
18 50 (9.29%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 234 (43.49%) SQL
2 117 (21.75%) Python
3 24 (4.46%) R
4 17 (3.16%) VBA
5 5 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.56%) Scala
7 2 (0.37%) Korn
8 1 (0.19%) Java
8 1 (0.19%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.19%) LookML
8 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 82 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 61 (11.34%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.46%) Degree
4 8 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.74%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.37%) PhD
8 1 (0.19%) ACCA
8 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.19%) CIMA
8 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (31.04%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.58%) QA
3 23 (4.28%) GDPR
4 7 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.74%) PMO
5 4 (0.74%) SLA
5 4 (0.74%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.37%) IFRS
7 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.19%) FATCA
8 1 (0.19%) GAAP
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.37%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.37%) SCCM
2 2 (0.37%) Terraform
3 1 (0.19%) Grafana
3 1 (0.19%) Kibana
3 1 (0.19%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 55 (10.22%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.81%) Databricks
3 32 (5.95%) Salesforce
4 30 (5.58%) Oracle
5 28 (5.20%) SAP
6 22 (4.09%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.42%) Workday
8 11 (2.04%) Google
8 11 (2.04%) Informatica
9 9 (1.67%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.93%) Adobe
10 5 (0.93%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.74%) Alteryx
11 4 (0.74%) Cognos
11 4 (0.74%) Foundry
11 4 (0.74%) Palantir
11 4 (0.74%) Teradata
12 3 (0.56%) ESRI
12 3 (0.56%) Intergraph
12 3 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud