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 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 160 161
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 596 431 559
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.52% 1.77% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 1.91% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 310 382
10th Percentile £305 £259 £264
25th Percentile £358 £338 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £555
90th Percentile £625 £675 £630
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £470
% change year-on-year - -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 19
10th Percentile £23.05 £14.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £26.54 £18.20 £15.41
Median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +31.12% +32.16% -2.35%
75th Percentile £78.28 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £35.00 £40.95
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year +31.12% +27.11% +9.68%

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 36,247 22,616 34,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.68% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,781 15,117 23,069
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,412 859 2,363
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.38 £12.87
25th Percentile £20.53 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £34.53
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -5.88% -21.17%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.88 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.49
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £30.79 £35.00
% change year-on-year +36.20% -12.02% -22.22%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -6 322 £475 - 133
South East -14 84 £400 -14.67% 93
Midlands -38 62 £420 +5.00% 72
North of England -52 62 £400 -2.44% 104
West Midlands -43 40 £420 +3.38% 37
South West -16 34 £525 +28.36% 26
North West -22 31 £425 -10.53% 46
Yorkshire -44 29 £350 +41.41% 43
East Midlands -19 22 £425 +6.25% 35
East of England -27 19 £359 -26.36% 42
North East -20 4 £475 +5.56% 16
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 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.

1 247 (41.44%) SQL
2 198 (33.22%) Business Intelligence
3 179 (30.03%) Data Quality
4 177 (29.70%) Power Platform
5 176 (29.53%) Power BI
6 151 (25.34%) Data Analysis
7 146 (24.50%) Analytics
8 133 (22.32%) Data Modelling
9 125 (20.97%) Data Governance
10 124 (20.81%) Python
11 113 (18.96%) Microsoft Excel
12 109 (18.29%) Decision-Making
13 105 (17.62%) Migration
14 98 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
15 96 (16.11%) Visualisation
16 90 (15.10%) Validation
17 89 (14.93%) Security Cleared
18 88 (14.77%) Actionable Insight
18 88 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
19 81 (13.59%) ETL
20 76 (12.75%) Tableau
21 71 (11.91%) Azure
22 70 (11.74%) Dashboard Development
23 68 (11.41%) SC Cleared
24 64 (10.74%) Data Migration
24 64 (10.74%) Data Visualisation
24 64 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 63 (10.57%) Data Management
26 62 (10.40%) Microsoft
27 61 (10.23%) 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 14 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.01%) SAS
3 7 (1.17%) Confluence
4 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.50%) CMS
5 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 113 (18.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (1.01%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.34%) iTrent
3 7 (1.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (1.17%) SystmOne
4 5 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
5 4 (0.67%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.67%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.50%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.50%) Maximo
6 3 (0.50%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.34%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.34%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.17%) Actimize
8 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 177 (29.70%) Power Platform
2 71 (11.91%) Azure
3 59 (9.90%) AWS
4 29 (4.87%) Snowflake
5 17 (2.85%) GCP
6 16 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (2.52%) Amazon S3
8 13 (2.18%) Collibra
8 13 (2.18%) SaaS
9 11 (1.85%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (1.51%) dbt
10 9 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.34%) OCI
11 8 (1.34%) Serverless
12 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.84%) Google Analytics
14 4 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (0.67%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (29.53%) Power BI
2 76 (12.75%) Tableau
3 61 (10.23%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (8.22%) Metadata
5 17 (2.85%) Power Query
6 13 (2.18%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.01%) Looker
8 11 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (1.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.68%) Big Data
9 10 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (1.51%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (1.17%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.01%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.01%) KNIME
13 6 (1.01%) NoSQL
13 6 (1.01%) SQL Server
14 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.84%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (2.68%) JIRA
2 6 (1.01%) Git
2 6 (1.01%) MSI
3 2 (0.34%) ERwin
3 2 (0.34%) GitLab
3 2 (0.34%) MLflow
3 2 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.17%) GCC
4 1 (0.17%) Postman
4 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 187 (31.38%) Analytical Skills
2 167 (28.02%) Finance
3 151 (25.34%) Social Skills
4 63 (10.57%) Public Sector
5 45 (7.55%) Banking
6 30 (5.03%) Marketing
7 20 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.85%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.17%) Front Office
11 7 (1.17%) Law
11 7 (1.17%) Legal
12 6 (1.01%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.01%) Local Government
12 6 (1.01%) Military
12 6 (1.01%) Retail
12 6 (1.01%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.17%) Pandas
2 6 (1.01%) PySpark
2 6 (1.01%) XML
3 5 (0.84%) JDO
4 4 (0.67%) JSON
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.50%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.50%) NumPy
5 3 (0.50%) YAML
6 2 (0.34%) Node.js
6 2 (0.34%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.34%) REST
6 2 (0.34%) SOAP
6 2 (0.34%) Web Services
7 1 (0.17%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.17%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.17%) JAX
7 1 (0.17%) MACH
7 1 (0.17%) Playwright
7 1 (0.17%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.72%) Data Structures
2 22 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.18%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.51%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.34%) CMDB
9 6 (1.01%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.84%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.84%) NHS
11 4 (0.67%) Derivative
11 4 (0.67%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.67%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.50%) Equities
12 3 (0.50%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.17%) Unix
2 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (33.22%) Business Intelligence
2 151 (25.34%) Data Analysis
3 146 (24.50%) Analytics
4 133 (22.32%) Data Modelling
5 125 (20.97%) Data Governance
6 109 (18.29%) Decision-Making
7 105 (17.62%) Migration
8 98 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
9 96 (16.11%) Visualisation
10 90 (15.10%) Validation
11 88 (14.77%) Actionable Insight
11 88 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
12 81 (13.59%) ETL
13 70 (11.74%) Dashboard Development
14 64 (10.74%) Data Migration
14 64 (10.74%) Data Visualisation
14 64 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 63 (10.57%) Data Management
16 61 (10.23%) Agile
17 48 (8.05%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 247 (41.44%) SQL
2 124 (20.81%) Python
3 27 (4.53%) R
4 19 (3.19%) VBA
5 5 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.67%) Scala
7 3 (0.50%) Korn
8 2 (0.34%) Java
8 2 (0.34%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.34%) VB
9 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.17%) LookML
Qualifications
1 89 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.41%) SC Cleared
3 20 (3.36%) Degree
4 11 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.17%) DBS Check
6 5 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.34%) PhD
8 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (30.03%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.54%) QA
3 28 (4.70%) GDPR
4 8 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.84%) PMO
6 5 (0.84%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.50%) SLA
8 2 (0.34%) IFRS
8 2 (0.34%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.17%) FATCA
9 1 (0.17%) GAAP
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.34%) Docker
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.50%) Terraform
2 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.34%) SCCM
3 1 (0.17%) Grafana
3 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 62 (10.40%) Microsoft
2 50 (8.39%) Databricks
3 48 (8.05%) SAP
4 36 (6.04%) Oracle
5 33 (5.54%) Salesforce
6 19 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 17 (2.85%) Workday
8 11 (1.85%) Google
9 10 (1.68%) Informatica
10 7 (1.17%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.01%) Teradata
12 5 (0.84%) Adobe
12 5 (0.84%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.84%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.84%) IBM
13 4 (0.67%) Cognos
13 4 (0.67%) Foundry
13 4 (0.67%) Palantir
13 4 (0.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 3 (0.50%) Dell