Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £435, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 157 166
Rank change year-on-year -14 +9 0
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 498 487 587
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 1.61% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 1.73% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 353 406
10th Percentile £265 £263 £263
25th Percentile £345 £335 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -10.00% +2.83%
75th Percentile £520 £556 £600
90th Percentile £606 £672 £675
UK median daily rate £435 £445 £475
% change year-on-year -2.25% -6.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 22 32
10th Percentile £21.31 £16.25 £15.73
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% -13.44%
75th Percentile £47.50 £34.00 £35.75
90th Percentile £64.85 £43.93 £40.75
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.32 £21.64
% change year-on-year +28.38% +16.98% +0.65%

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 28,233 28,165 35,983
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.17% 92.89% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,092 17,437 24,751
10th Percentile £285 £300 £294
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% -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 1,705 974 1,399
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.34 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.05 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £74.42 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -5 267 £475 +5.56% 153
North of England -23 78 £369 -10.55% 148
South East -12 62 £425 -15.00% 191
Yorkshire -10 47 £365 -6.41% 51
South West -3 34 £465 +16.25% 60
North West -24 29 £375 -11.66% 78
Midlands -39 28 £375 +7.14% 120
West Midlands -37 15 £400 +15.94% 67
East Midlands -13 13 £358 -6.10% 51
East of England -25 11 £500 -4.76% 79
North East -5 2 £465 -35.42% 20
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 232 (46.59%) SQL
2 177 (35.54%) Data Analysis
3 168 (33.73%) Business Intelligence
4 163 (32.73%) Power Platform
5 162 (32.53%) Power BI
6 136 (27.31%) Data Quality
7 132 (26.51%) Python
8 130 (26.10%) Analytics
9 123 (24.70%) Microsoft Excel
10 113 (22.69%) Visualisation
11 98 (19.68%) Data Modelling
12 97 (19.48%) Data Governance
13 92 (18.47%) Decision-Making
14 91 (18.27%) Actionable Insight
15 87 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
16 83 (16.67%) Microsoft
17 78 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
18 72 (14.46%) Tableau
19 70 (14.06%) Data Visualisation
20 64 (12.85%) ETL
21 62 (12.45%) Data Management
22 59 (11.85%) Migration
22 59 (11.85%) Validation
23 58 (11.65%) Security Cleared
24 52 (10.44%) Data Cleansing
25 51 (10.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 44 (8.84%) Data Transformation
26 44 (8.84%) Data Warehouse
27 43 (8.63%) Azure
27 43 (8.63%) SC Cleared

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 25 (5.02%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.00%) SAS
3 3 (0.60%) Confluence
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
1 123 (24.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (1.41%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.40%) SPSS
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.81%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.20%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.60%) Maximo
4 3 (0.60%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.40%) Actimize
5 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.20%) Academy Housing
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%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 163 (32.73%) Power Platform
2 43 (8.63%) Azure
3 38 (7.63%) AWS
4 30 (6.02%) Snowflake
5 19 (3.82%) GCP
6 12 (2.41%) Collibra
7 11 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (1.61%) Amazon S3
9 7 (1.41%) dbt
9 7 (1.41%) OCI
9 7 (1.41%) SaaS
10 6 (1.20%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.80%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.80%) Google Data Studio
13 3 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.60%) Matillion
13 3 (0.60%) Power Automate
13 3 (0.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.40%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (32.53%) Power BI
2 72 (14.46%) Tableau
3 44 (8.84%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (6.63%) Metadata
5 25 (5.02%) Power Query
6 19 (3.82%) SQL Server
7 17 (3.41%) BigQuery
7 17 (3.41%) Looker
8 11 (2.21%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.81%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.41%) PowerPivot
11 7 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.20%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.00%) Big Data
13 5 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
14 4 (0.80%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.80%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (2.01%) JIRA
2 5 (1.00%) Git
3 2 (0.40%) ERwin
3 2 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.40%) Selenium
4 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.20%) LSMW
General
1 179 (35.94%) Finance
2 165 (33.13%) Analytical Skills
3 159 (31.93%) Social Skills
4 51 (10.24%) Banking
5 41 (8.23%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.82%) Marketing
7 17 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.61%) Investment Banking
8 13 (2.61%) Retail
9 12 (2.41%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.21%) Legal
11 10 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (1.61%) Retail Banking
13 7 (1.41%) Local Government
13 7 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.20%) Electronics
14 6 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
14 6 (1.20%) Military
15 5 (1.00%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.41%) PySpark
2 5 (1.00%) DAO
3 4 (0.80%) Pandas
4 3 (0.60%) JSON
4 3 (0.60%) NumPy
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.40%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.20%) LDAP
6 1 (0.20%) MACH
6 1 (0.20%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.20%) OAuth
6 1 (0.20%) OpenID
6 1 (0.20%) Plotly
6 1 (0.20%) RESTful
6 1 (0.20%) SAML
6 1 (0.20%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.20%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.20%) Swagger
6 1 (0.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.22%) Data Structures
2 21 (4.22%) Onboarding
3 19 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
5 16 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.61%) CMDB
8 8 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.61%) Reinsurance
9 6 (1.20%) Mainframe
10 5 (1.00%) Derivative
10 5 (1.00%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.00%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.60%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.60%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.60%) Cybercrime
11 3 (0.60%) NHS
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
1 177 (35.54%) Data Analysis
2 168 (33.73%) Business Intelligence
3 130 (26.10%) Analytics
4 113 (22.69%) Visualisation
5 98 (19.68%) Data Modelling
6 97 (19.48%) Data Governance
7 92 (18.47%) Decision-Making
8 91 (18.27%) Actionable Insight
9 87 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
10 78 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
11 70 (14.06%) Data Visualisation
12 64 (12.85%) ETL
13 62 (12.45%) Data Management
14 59 (11.85%) Migration
14 59 (11.85%) Validation
15 52 (10.44%) Data Cleansing
16 51 (10.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 44 (8.84%) Data Transformation
18 40 (8.03%) Dashboard Development
18 40 (8.03%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 232 (46.59%) SQL
2 132 (26.51%) Python
3 21 (4.22%) R
4 12 (2.41%) VBA
5 9 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.00%) Java
6 5 (1.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.00%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.80%) 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%) SAPscript
9 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 58 (11.65%) Security Cleared
2 43 (8.63%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.02%) Degree
4 4 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (0.80%) Master's 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%) OSCP
6 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.20%) ISEB
7 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (27.31%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.42%) GDPR
3 16 (3.21%) QA
4 11 (2.21%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.40%) IFRS
6 2 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.40%) SLA
7 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.20%) FATCA
7 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.20%) MiFID
7 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.40%) SCCM
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.20%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 83 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.63%) Oracle
3 30 (6.02%) SAP
4 25 (5.02%) Salesforce
5 22 (4.42%) Databricks
5 22 (4.42%) ServiceNow
6 16 (3.21%) Workday
7 12 (2.41%) Google
8 11 (2.21%) Informatica
9 6 (1.20%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.00%) Foundry
10 5 (1.00%) Palantir
11 3 (0.60%) Cognos
11 3 (0.60%) ESRI
11 3 (0.60%) Intergraph
11 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.60%) NEC
12 2 (0.40%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.40%) Micro Focus
12 2 (0.40%) NetIQ