Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026.

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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 151 161
Rank change year-on-year -11 +10 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 683 455 552
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 1.90% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.78% 2.05% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 325 379
10th Percentile £263 £273 £296
25th Percentile £350 £365 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% - -2.63%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £555
90th Percentile £601 £658 £625
UK median daily rate £425 £455 £450
% change year-on-year -6.59% +1.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 21 18
10th Percentile £21.60 £16.32 £13.50
25th Percentile £28.31 £22.98 £15.40
Median hourly rate £31.50 £27.38 £21.54
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% +27.12% -2.82%
75th Percentile £48.00 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £34.68 £42.63
UK median hourly rate £30.75 £26.94 £21.66
% change year-on-year +14.15% +24.37% +9.70%

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 38,362 22,147 33,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.31% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,778 14,732 22,409
10th Percentile £320 £290 £282
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -3.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,659 891 2,479
10th Percentile £15.48 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -21.81% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.38 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.81% -23.30% -18.89%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -7 339 £463 -7.50% 109
South East -21 96 £375 -17.58% 83
Midlands -17 86 £425 +6.25% 42
North of England -45 81 £400 -5.88% 70
West Midlands -23 61 £420 +5.00% 24
South West -7 44 £525 +28.36% 25
Yorkshire -38 41 £375 -7.41% 30
North West -23 37 £423 +2.42% 30
East Midlands -12 25 £425 +7.59% 18
East of England -19 24 £359 -26.36% 27
North East -31 5 £413 -15.38% 11
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 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.

1 255 (37.34%) SQL
2 213 (31.19%) Business Intelligence
3 193 (28.26%) Power Platform
4 192 (28.11%) Power BI
5 187 (27.38%) Data Quality
6 157 (22.99%) Analytics
7 143 (20.94%) Data Analysis
8 138 (20.20%) Data Modelling
9 129 (18.89%) Python
10 126 (18.45%) Decision-Making
11 123 (18.01%) Data Governance
12 115 (16.84%) Microsoft Excel
13 114 (16.69%) Migration
14 113 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
15 107 (15.67%) Validation
16 101 (14.79%) Visualisation
17 92 (13.47%) Actionable Insight
18 85 (12.45%) Tableau
19 81 (11.86%) Azure
20 78 (11.42%) Dashboard Development
21 76 (11.13%) ETL
22 74 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
23 73 (10.69%) Security Cleared
24 72 (10.54%) Data Migration
25 68 (9.96%) Agile
26 65 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
27 64 (9.37%) Data Visualisation
28 63 (9.22%) Data Warehouse
29 62 (9.08%) Data Management
30 60 (8.78%) Microsoft

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 11 (1.61%) SAS
2 9 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.17%) Confluence
4 5 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.73%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.44%) Apache
5 3 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 115 (16.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.88%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.29%) CATIA
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.76%) iTrent
1 12 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.61%) SystmOne
3 7 (1.02%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.44%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.44%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.29%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.29%) Maximo
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 193 (28.26%) Power Platform
2 81 (11.86%) Azure
3 53 (7.76%) AWS
4 29 (4.25%) Snowflake
5 22 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (2.78%) SaaS
7 13 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
8 12 (1.76%) GCP
9 11 (1.61%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.46%) Collibra
11 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.02%) Google Analytics
14 6 (0.88%) dbt
15 5 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.73%) Serverless
16 4 (0.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (0.59%) GitHub
16 4 (0.59%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (28.11%) Power BI
2 85 (12.45%) Tableau
3 63 (9.22%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (7.47%) Metadata
5 16 (2.34%) Power Query
5 16 (2.34%) Relational Database
6 14 (2.05%) Big Data
7 13 (1.90%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.90%) Looker
8 10 (1.46%) BigQuery
8 10 (1.46%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (1.17%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.17%) Qlik Sense
10 7 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.88%) KNIME
12 5 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.73%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.73%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.73%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (2.49%) JIRA
2 6 (0.88%) MSI
3 3 (0.44%) Git
4 2 (0.29%) GitLab
4 2 (0.29%) MLflow
4 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.15%) GCC
5 1 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 195 (28.55%) Analytical Skills
2 174 (25.48%) Finance
3 150 (21.96%) Social Skills
4 59 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 48 (7.03%) Banking
6 31 (4.54%) Marketing
7 20 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.90%) Legal
10 10 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.32%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.17%) Front Office
13 7 (1.02%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.02%) Law
13 7 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.88%) Local Government
14 6 (0.88%) Retail
15 4 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.32%) Pandas
2 8 (1.17%) PySpark
3 5 (0.73%) JDO
3 5 (0.73%) XML
4 4 (0.59%) JSON
4 4 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (0.59%) REST
4 4 (0.59%) SOAP
5 3 (0.44%) EDI
5 3 (0.44%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.44%) NumPy
5 3 (0.44%) YAML
6 2 (0.29%) Kafka
6 2 (0.29%) Node.js
6 2 (0.29%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.29%) Web Services
7 1 (0.15%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.15%) Next.js
7 1 (0.15%) Playwright
7 1 (0.15%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.61%) Data Structures
2 28 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (1.76%) Data Centre
4 12 (1.76%) Management Information System
5 11 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.46%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.17%) NHS
9 7 (1.02%) Product Ownership
10 5 (0.73%) CMDB
10 5 (0.73%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.73%) Fixed Income
10 5 (0.73%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.59%) Derivative
11 4 (0.59%) Equities
11 4 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.59%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.59%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.59%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.29%) Linux
1 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
1 2 (0.29%) Windows
2 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (31.19%) Business Intelligence
2 157 (22.99%) Analytics
3 143 (20.94%) Data Analysis
4 138 (20.20%) Data Modelling
5 126 (18.45%) Decision-Making
6 123 (18.01%) Data Governance
7 114 (16.69%) Migration
8 113 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
9 107 (15.67%) Validation
10 101 (14.79%) Visualisation
11 92 (13.47%) Actionable Insight
12 78 (11.42%) Dashboard Development
13 76 (11.13%) ETL
14 74 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
15 72 (10.54%) Data Migration
16 68 (9.96%) Agile
17 65 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 64 (9.37%) Data Visualisation
19 62 (9.08%) Data Management
20 51 (7.47%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 255 (37.34%) SQL
2 129 (18.89%) Python
3 35 (5.12%) R
4 15 (2.20%) VBA
5 10 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.59%) Scala
7 3 (0.44%) Korn
7 3 (0.44%) VB
8 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.15%) Java
9 1 (0.15%) LookML
Qualifications
1 73 (10.69%) Security Cleared
2 54 (7.91%) SC Cleared
3 26 (3.81%) Degree
4 16 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.76%) DBS Check
6 6 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.29%) PhD
8 1 (0.15%) CBAP
8 1 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (27.38%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.69%) GDPR
2 32 (4.69%) QA
3 8 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (0.73%) PMO
4 5 (0.73%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.44%) SLA
6 2 (0.29%) IFRS
6 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.15%) FATCA
7 1 (0.15%) GAAP
7 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.29%) Docker
2 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.44%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.44%) Terraform
2 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.29%) SCCM
3 1 (0.15%) Grafana
3 1 (0.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 60 (8.78%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.35%) Databricks
3 51 (7.47%) SAP
4 37 (5.42%) Oracle
5 24 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.49%) Workday
7 12 (1.76%) Google
8 11 (1.61%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.32%) Informatica
10 8 (1.17%) Alteryx
11 7 (1.02%) MuleSoft
12 6 (0.88%) Teradata
13 5 (0.73%) Adobe
13 5 (0.73%) Atlassian
13 5 (0.73%) IBM
14 4 (0.59%) Bloomberg
14 4 (0.59%) Cognos
14 4 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 3 (0.44%) Foundry
15 3 (0.44%) Palantir