Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 149 169
Rank change year-on-year -17 +20 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 757 532 487
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.93% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 2.11% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 342 359
10th Percentile £257 £263 £275
25th Percentile £356 £358 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £435 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £555
90th Percentile £600 £650 £626
UK median daily rate £450 £448 £450
% change year-on-year +0.56% -0.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 26 15
10th Percentile £15.80 £21.02 £16.09
25th Percentile £22.94 £23.84 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.35 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.81% +23.27% +2.22%
75th Percentile £48.00 £33.41 £30.50
90th Percentile £49.60 £36.25 £44.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.90 £21.66
% change year-on-year +15.83% +19.58% +1.07%

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 42,395 25,262 30,878
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 91.55% 92.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,601 16,307 20,075
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,221 1,364 1,728
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.66 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.33
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.55%

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 22 August 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 22 August 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 22 August 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 -42 334 £450 -5.26% 176
South East -20 120 £500 +11.92% 74
North of England -31 106 £420 +6.67% 85
Midlands -3 90 £425 +8.97% 44
South West 0 73 £450 +9.76% 35
West Midlands -17 62 £425 +6.25% 23
Yorkshire -21 56 £400 +10.34% 26
North West -31 43 £450 +12.50% 40
East of England +2 31 £359 -22.38% 28
East Midlands +3 28 £425 +13.33% 21
North East -38 10 £525 +16.67% 19
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 August 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.

1 264 (34.87%) SQL
2 225 (29.72%) Business Intelligence
3 218 (28.80%) Data Quality
4 212 (28.01%) Power BI
4 212 (28.01%) Power Platform
5 178 (23.51%) Data Analysis
6 170 (22.46%) Analytics
7 144 (19.02%) Data Governance
8 140 (18.49%) Decision-Making
9 139 (18.36%) Data Modelling
10 127 (16.78%) Microsoft Excel
11 123 (16.25%) Validation
12 117 (15.46%) Python
13 108 (14.27%) Migration
14 106 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
15 104 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
16 99 (13.08%) Visualisation
17 93 (12.29%) Azure
18 89 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
18 89 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 85 (11.23%) Microsoft
20 83 (10.96%) Tableau
21 74 (9.78%) Dashboard Development
21 74 (9.78%) Data Migration
22 70 (9.25%) AI
23 68 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
24 67 (8.85%) Agile
25 63 (8.32%) Databricks
26 59 (7.79%) Data Mapping
27 57 (7.53%) Data Management

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 14 (1.85%) SAS
2 7 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.40%) Apache
5 3 (0.40%) CMS
5 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.26%) Confluence
7 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 127 (16.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.79%) SPSS
6 5 (0.66%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.26%) CATIA
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.59%) iTrent
2 11 (1.45%) SystmOne
3 7 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.79%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.66%) Raiser’s Edge
6 4 (0.53%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.26%) Eikon
7 2 (0.26%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.26%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Moxy
8 1 (0.13%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
8 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 212 (28.01%) Power Platform
2 93 (12.29%) Azure
3 42 (5.55%) AWS
4 38 (5.02%) Snowflake
5 19 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 19 (2.51%) SaaS
6 16 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 16 (2.11%) Power Automate
7 14 (1.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (1.59%) SuccessFactors
9 11 (1.45%) Collibra
10 10 (1.32%) GCP
11 9 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.06%) OCI
13 6 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (0.66%) PowerApps
15 4 (0.53%) Alation
16 3 (0.40%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.53%) 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
1 212 (28.01%) Power BI
2 83 (10.96%) Tableau
3 56 (7.40%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (6.61%) Metadata
5 21 (2.77%) Power Query
6 18 (2.38%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.98%) Data Lake
7 15 (1.98%) Looker
8 10 (1.32%) Big Data
8 10 (1.32%) Qlik Sense
9 9 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (1.06%) SQL Server
11 6 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.79%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.66%) GIS
12 5 (0.66%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (0.53%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.53%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.53%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (1.72%) JIRA
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (0.40%) Git
4 2 (0.26%) MLflow
4 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.13%) GCC
5 1 (0.13%) GitLab
General
1 205 (27.08%) Analytical Skills
2 166 (21.93%) Finance
3 162 (21.40%) Social Skills
4 60 (7.93%) Banking
5 57 (7.53%) Public Sector
6 45 (5.94%) Marketing
7 29 (3.83%) Retail
8 25 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.64%) Legal
10 16 (2.11%) Local Government
11 14 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.59%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
14 9 (1.19%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.19%) Front Office
14 9 (1.19%) Military
15 8 (1.06%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.92%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.72%) PySpark
2 11 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (0.92%) Pandas
4 6 (0.79%) JSON
5 5 (0.66%) EDI
6 2 (0.26%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.26%) Django
6 2 (0.26%) HTML
6 2 (0.26%) JDO
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.26%) Node.js
6 2 (0.26%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.26%) REST
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 44 (5.81%) Data Structures
2 22 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (2.38%) Management Information System
3 18 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (2.11%) Onboarding
5 10 (1.32%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.06%) Fixed Income
7 7 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (0.66%) Credit Risk
8 5 (0.66%) Derivative
8 5 (0.66%) FMCG
8 5 (0.66%) Reference Data
8 5 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.53%) CMDB
9 4 (0.53%) Equities
9 4 (0.53%) NHS
9 4 (0.53%) Reinsurance
9 4 (0.53%) Taxonomies
10 3 (0.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.53%) Windows
2 2 (0.26%) Linux
2 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (29.72%) Business Intelligence
2 178 (23.51%) Data Analysis
3 170 (22.46%) Analytics
4 144 (19.02%) Data Governance
5 140 (18.49%) Decision-Making
6 139 (18.36%) Data Modelling
7 123 (16.25%) Validation
8 108 (14.27%) Migration
9 106 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
10 104 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 99 (13.08%) Visualisation
12 89 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
12 89 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 74 (9.78%) Dashboard Development
13 74 (9.78%) Data Migration
14 70 (9.25%) AI
15 68 (8.98%) Continuous Improvement
16 67 (8.85%) Agile
17 59 (7.79%) Data Mapping
18 57 (7.53%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 264 (34.87%) SQL
2 117 (15.46%) Python
3 31 (4.10%) R
4 20 (2.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (0.92%) VBA
6 3 (0.40%) Scala
7 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.26%) Korn
7 2 (0.26%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.26%) VB
8 1 (0.13%) Cypher
8 1 (0.13%) Java
8 1 (0.13%) LookML
8 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 57 (7.53%) Security Cleared
2 43 (5.68%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.15%) Degree
4 17 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (1.85%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.53%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.40%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.40%) PMP
8 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.26%) PhD
9 1 (0.13%) CBAP
9 1 (0.13%) CFA
9 1 (0.13%) CISM
9 1 (0.13%) CISSP
9 1 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 218 (28.80%) Data Quality
2 38 (5.02%) QA
3 34 (4.49%) GDPR
4 9 (1.19%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.66%) PMO
6 5 (0.66%) SLA
7 4 (0.53%) GRC
7 4 (0.53%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.13%) EMIR
8 1 (0.13%) FATCA
8 1 (0.13%) GMP
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS
8 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.13%) MiFID
8 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.40%) Docker
3 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.40%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.26%) SCCM
3 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 85 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 63 (8.32%) Databricks
3 48 (6.34%) SAP
4 44 (5.81%) Oracle
5 17 (2.25%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.98%) Workday
7 10 (1.32%) Alteryx
7 10 (1.32%) Google
8 8 (1.06%) Teradata
9 6 (0.79%) Informatica
9 6 (0.79%) Palantir
10 5 (0.66%) Baan
10 5 (0.66%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.66%) Foundry
10 5 (0.66%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.26%) Citrix
11 2 (0.26%) IBM
11 2 (0.26%) NEC
11 2 (0.26%) Orchard
11 2 (0.26%) Siemens