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 4 May 2026.

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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 157 159
Rank change year-on-year -17 +2 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 622 422 556
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.54% 1.73% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 1.87% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 303 376
10th Percentile £280 £272 £303
25th Percentile £350 £351 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £525 £550 £557
90th Percentile £600 £650 £628
UK median daily rate £437 £463 £463
% change year-on-year -5.51% - -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 19 19
10th Percentile £20.86 £15.90 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.86 £20.12 £15.56
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +17.97% +25.35% -2.35%
75th Percentile £51.50 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £33.66 £40.95
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.13 £21.66
% change year-on-year +17.97% +25.23% +11.11%

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 37,194 22,563 34,184
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.55% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,225 15,022 22,706
10th Percentile £313 £300 £280
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £643
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £503 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.31% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,523 910 2,433
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.62 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.52% -16.12% -18.03%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.82
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.72% -20.55% -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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -7 325 £463 -2.63% 137
South East -19 85 £382 -15.11% 104
Midlands -26 73 £420 +3.38% 51
North of England -30 73 £400 -7.25% 73
West Midlands -34 48 £420 +1.82% 29
Yorkshire -27 38 £350 -12.50% 29
South West -21 34 £525 +28.36% 31
North West -21 33 £425 -4.23% 33
East Midlands -14 25 £425 +6.25% 22
East of England -24 21 £358 -26.56% 33
North East -23 4 £475 +5.56% 12
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 247 (39.71%) SQL
2 202 (32.48%) Business Intelligence
3 182 (29.26%) Power Platform
4 181 (29.10%) Power BI
5 178 (28.62%) Data Quality
6 145 (23.31%) Analytics
7 140 (22.51%) Data Modelling
8 138 (22.19%) Data Analysis
9 128 (20.58%) Python
10 122 (19.61%) Data Governance
11 119 (19.13%) Decision-Making
12 112 (18.01%) Microsoft Excel
13 105 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
14 102 (16.40%) Migration
14 102 (16.40%) Validation
15 95 (15.27%) Visualisation
16 86 (13.83%) Actionable Insight
17 80 (12.86%) Tableau
18 79 (12.70%) Security Cleared
19 77 (12.38%) ETL
20 75 (12.06%) Azure
21 74 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
22 70 (11.25%) Dashboard Development
23 65 (10.45%) Agile
23 65 (10.45%) Data Migration
24 62 (9.97%) Data Visualisation
25 61 (9.81%) Microsoft
26 58 (9.32%) Data Management
26 58 (9.32%) SC Cleared
27 56 (9.00%) Data Warehouse

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 12 (1.93%) SAS
2 9 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.29%) Confluence
4 4 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.48%) CMS
6 2 (0.32%) Apache
6 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 112 (18.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.32%) SPSS
6 1 (0.16%) CATIA
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.77%) SystmOne
3 8 (1.29%) iTrent
4 6 (0.96%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.64%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.48%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.48%) Maximo
7 3 (0.48%) SAP R/3
8 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.32%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.32%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.16%) Advent Geneva
9 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.16%) Misys Midas
9 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 182 (29.26%) Power Platform
2 75 (12.06%) Azure
3 53 (8.52%) AWS
4 26 (4.18%) Snowflake
5 19 (3.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (2.57%) GCP
7 15 (2.41%) SaaS
8 12 (1.93%) Amazon S3
9 11 (1.77%) Collibra
9 11 (1.77%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (0.96%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.96%) dbt
13 5 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (0.80%) Google Analytics
13 5 (0.80%) Serverless
14 4 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (0.64%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (29.10%) Power BI
2 80 (12.86%) Tableau
3 56 (9.00%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (8.36%) Metadata
5 15 (2.41%) Power Query
6 14 (2.25%) Looker
7 13 (2.09%) BigQuery
8 11 (1.77%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.61%) Big Data
9 10 (1.61%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.13%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.13%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (0.96%) KNIME
12 6 (0.96%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
13 5 (0.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (2.73%) JIRA
2 6 (0.96%) MSI
3 5 (0.80%) Git
4 2 (0.32%) GitLab
4 2 (0.32%) MLflow
4 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.16%) ERwin
5 1 (0.16%) GCC
5 1 (0.16%) Postman
5 1 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 189 (30.39%) Analytical Skills
2 162 (26.05%) Finance
3 135 (21.70%) Social Skills
4 63 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 43 (6.91%) Banking
6 29 (4.66%) Marketing
7 19 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.61%) Legal
11 9 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.29%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (1.13%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.13%) Front Office
14 6 (0.96%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.96%) Law
14 6 (0.96%) Local Government
14 6 (0.96%) Military
14 6 (0.96%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.29%) Pandas
2 7 (1.13%) PySpark
3 6 (0.96%) XML
4 5 (0.80%) JDO
5 4 (0.64%) JSON
5 4 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (0.48%) EDI
6 3 (0.48%) GeoJSON
6 3 (0.48%) NumPy
6 3 (0.48%) REST
6 3 (0.48%) SOAP
6 3 (0.48%) YAML
7 2 (0.32%) Kafka
7 2 (0.32%) Node.js
7 2 (0.32%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.32%) Web Services
8 1 (0.16%) Great Expectations
8 1 (0.16%) Next.js
8 1 (0.16%) Playwright
8 1 (0.16%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 53 (8.52%) Data Structures
2 26 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (2.09%) Management Information System
5 12 (1.93%) Data Centre
5 12 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (1.13%) Onboarding
7 6 (0.96%) CMDB
8 5 (0.80%) Credit Risk
8 5 (0.80%) NHS
8 5 (0.80%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.64%) Derivative
9 4 (0.64%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.64%) Hedge funds
9 4 (0.64%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.48%) Equities
10 3 (0.48%) Freedom of Information
10 3 (0.48%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.32%) Windows
2 1 (0.16%) Linux
2 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (32.48%) Business Intelligence
2 145 (23.31%) Analytics
3 140 (22.51%) Data Modelling
4 138 (22.19%) Data Analysis
5 122 (19.61%) Data Governance
6 119 (19.13%) Decision-Making
7 105 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
8 102 (16.40%) Migration
8 102 (16.40%) Validation
9 95 (15.27%) Visualisation
10 86 (13.83%) Actionable Insight
11 77 (12.38%) ETL
12 74 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
13 70 (11.25%) Dashboard Development
14 65 (10.45%) Agile
14 65 (10.45%) Data Migration
15 62 (9.97%) Data Visualisation
16 58 (9.32%) Data Management
17 55 (8.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 49 (7.88%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 247 (39.71%) SQL
2 128 (20.58%) Python
3 35 (5.63%) R
4 16 (2.57%) VBA
5 8 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.64%) Scala
7 3 (0.48%) Korn
7 3 (0.48%) VB
8 2 (0.32%) Java
8 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.16%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.16%) LookML
Qualifications
1 79 (12.70%) Security Cleared
2 58 (9.32%) SC Cleared
3 20 (3.22%) Degree
4 12 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.93%) DBS Check
5 5 (0.80%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.32%) PhD
7 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.16%) CBAP
7 1 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (28.62%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.14%) QA
3 29 (4.66%) GDPR
4 8 (1.29%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (0.80%) PMO
5 5 (0.80%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.48%) SLA
7 2 (0.32%) IFRS
7 2 (0.32%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.16%) FATCA
8 1 (0.16%) GAAP
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.32%) Docker
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.48%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.48%) Terraform
2 2 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.32%) SCCM
3 1 (0.16%) Grafana
3 1 (0.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 61 (9.81%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.88%) Databricks
3 46 (7.40%) SAP
4 32 (5.14%) Oracle
5 30 (4.82%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.41%) Workday
7 14 (2.25%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.93%) Google
9 10 (1.61%) Informatica
10 7 (1.13%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.96%) Teradata
12 5 (0.80%) Adobe
12 5 (0.80%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.80%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.80%) IBM
13 4 (0.64%) Cognos
13 4 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 3 (0.48%) Baan
14 3 (0.48%) Bloomberg
14 3 (0.48%) Palantir