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 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 151 162
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 668 457 557
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 1.89% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 2.04% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 325 382
10th Percentile £263 £273 £264
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £462
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -2.65% -2.68%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £555
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 22 18
10th Percentile £21.38 £16.26 £13.50
25th Percentile £26.60 £22.27 £15.40
Median hourly rate £31.13 £26.94 £21.54
Median % change year-on-year +15.55% +25.09% -2.82%
75th Percentile £48.00 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £34.55 £41.43
UK median hourly rate £30.51 £26.50 £21.66
% change year-on-year +15.13% +22.35% +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 38,064 22,370 33,771
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.38% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,623 14,863 22,425
10th Percentile £320 £296 £281
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,618 925 2,441
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.23 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +53.95% -21.38% -16.94%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.50% -23.32% -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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -10 331 £463 -2.63% 82
South East -21 93 £375 -17.58% 78
Midlands -7 85 £423 +5.63% 42
North of England -39 80 £406 -7.14% 62
West Midlands -20 60 £416 +2.46% 24
South West -13 41 £525 +28.36% 24
Yorkshire -30 41 £375 -8.54% 26
North West -23 36 £425 +3.03% 27
East of England -8 25 £359 -26.36% 26
East Midlands -11 25 £425 +7.59% 18
North East -27 5 £413 -15.38% 10
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 249 (37.28%) SQL
2 209 (31.29%) Business Intelligence
3 188 (28.14%) Power Platform
4 187 (27.99%) Power BI
5 184 (27.54%) Data Quality
6 149 (22.31%) Analytics
7 140 (20.96%) Data Analysis
8 136 (20.36%) Data Modelling
9 127 (19.01%) Python
10 124 (18.56%) Decision-Making
11 122 (18.26%) Data Governance
12 113 (16.92%) Microsoft Excel
13 112 (16.77%) Migration
14 110 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
15 106 (15.87%) Validation
16 94 (14.07%) Visualisation
17 91 (13.62%) Actionable Insight
18 84 (12.57%) Tableau
19 79 (11.83%) Azure
20 75 (11.23%) Dashboard Development
21 74 (11.08%) ETL
21 74 (11.08%) Security Cleared
21 74 (11.08%) Stakeholder Management
22 71 (10.63%) Data Migration
23 68 (10.18%) Agile
24 61 (9.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 60 (8.98%) Data Management
25 60 (8.98%) Data Warehouse
26 59 (8.83%) Microsoft
27 58 (8.68%) Data Visualisation

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 (1.65%) SAS
2 9 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.20%) Confluence
4 5 (0.75%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.45%) Apache
5 3 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 113 (16.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.90%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.30%) CATIA
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.80%) iTrent
1 12 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.65%) SystmOne
3 7 (1.05%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.45%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.45%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.45%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.30%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.30%) Maximo
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.30%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 188 (28.14%) Power Platform
2 79 (11.83%) Azure
3 52 (7.78%) AWS
4 29 (4.34%) Snowflake
5 22 (3.29%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (2.84%) SaaS
7 13 (1.95%) GCP
7 13 (1.95%) SuccessFactors
8 11 (1.65%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.50%) Collibra
10 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.05%) Google Analytics
13 6 (0.90%) dbt
14 5 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.75%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (0.75%) Serverless
15 4 (0.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (0.60%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (27.99%) Power BI
2 84 (12.57%) Tableau
3 60 (8.98%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (7.19%) Metadata
5 15 (2.25%) Power Query
6 14 (2.10%) Big Data
6 14 (2.10%) Looker
7 13 (1.95%) Data Lake
7 13 (1.95%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.65%) BigQuery
9 10 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (1.20%) Hadoop
10 8 (1.20%) Qlik Sense
11 7 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.90%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.90%) KNIME
13 5 (0.75%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.75%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.75%) SQL Server
13 5 (0.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (2.40%) JIRA
2 6 (0.90%) MSI
3 3 (0.45%) Git
4 2 (0.30%) GitLab
4 2 (0.30%) MLflow
4 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.15%) GCC
5 1 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 194 (29.04%) Analytical Skills
2 168 (25.15%) Finance
3 148 (22.16%) Social Skills
4 59 (8.83%) Public Sector
5 43 (6.44%) Banking
6 30 (4.49%) Marketing
7 20 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.95%) Legal
10 9 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.35%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.20%) Front Office
12 7 (1.05%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.05%) Law
13 6 (0.90%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.90%) Local Government
13 6 (0.90%) Retail
14 4 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.20%) Pandas
1 8 (1.20%) PySpark
2 5 (0.75%) JDO
2 5 (0.75%) XML
3 4 (0.60%) JSON
3 4 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.60%) REST
3 4 (0.60%) SOAP
4 3 (0.45%) EDI
4 3 (0.45%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.45%) NumPy
4 3 (0.45%) YAML
5 2 (0.30%) Kafka
5 2 (0.30%) Node.js
5 2 (0.30%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.30%) Web Services
6 1 (0.15%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.15%) Next.js
6 1 (0.15%) Playwright
6 1 (0.15%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.78%) Data Structures
2 28 (4.19%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (1.80%) Management Information System
5 11 (1.65%) Data Centre
5 11 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.50%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.20%) NHS
9 5 (0.75%) CMDB
9 5 (0.75%) Credit Risk
9 5 (0.75%) Fixed Income
9 5 (0.75%) Product Ownership
9 5 (0.75%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.60%) Derivative
10 4 (0.60%) Equities
10 4 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.60%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.45%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.30%) Linux
1 2 (0.30%) Ubuntu
1 2 (0.30%) Windows
2 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (31.29%) Business Intelligence
2 149 (22.31%) Analytics
3 140 (20.96%) Data Analysis
4 136 (20.36%) Data Modelling
5 124 (18.56%) Decision-Making
6 122 (18.26%) Data Governance
7 112 (16.77%) Migration
8 110 (16.47%) Problem-Solving
9 106 (15.87%) Validation
10 94 (14.07%) Visualisation
11 91 (13.62%) Actionable Insight
12 75 (11.23%) Dashboard Development
13 74 (11.08%) ETL
13 74 (11.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 71 (10.63%) Data Migration
15 68 (10.18%) Agile
16 61 (9.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 60 (8.98%) Data Management
18 58 (8.68%) Data Visualisation
19 49 (7.34%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 249 (37.28%) SQL
2 127 (19.01%) Python
3 35 (5.24%) R
4 14 (2.10%) VBA
5 10 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.60%) Scala
7 3 (0.45%) Korn
7 3 (0.45%) VB
8 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.15%) Java
9 1 (0.15%) LookML
Qualifications
1 74 (11.08%) Security Cleared
2 55 (8.23%) SC Cleared
3 26 (3.89%) Degree
4 15 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.80%) DBS Check
6 6 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.30%) 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
1 184 (27.54%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.79%) QA
3 31 (4.64%) GDPR
4 8 (1.20%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (0.75%) PMO
6 4 (0.60%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.45%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) FATCA
8 1 (0.15%) GAAP
8 1 (0.15%) IFRS
8 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.30%) Docker
2 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.45%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.45%) Terraform
2 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.30%) SCCM
3 1 (0.15%) Grafana
3 1 (0.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 59 (8.83%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.93%) Databricks
3 50 (7.49%) SAP
4 37 (5.54%) Oracle
5 24 (3.59%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.54%) Workday
7 13 (1.95%) Google
8 11 (1.65%) ServiceNow
9 9 (1.35%) Informatica
10 7 (1.05%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.90%) Teradata
12 5 (0.75%) Adobe
12 5 (0.75%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.75%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.75%) IBM
13 4 (0.60%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.60%) Cognos
13 4 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 3 (0.45%) Baan
14 3 (0.45%) Splunk