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 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 179 151 159
Rank change year-on-year -28 +8 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 588 441 574
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.50% 1.81% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 1.95% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 318 393
10th Percentile £305 £258 £300
25th Percentile £360 £349 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £555 £555
90th Percentile £630 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 21
10th Percentile £22.77 £14.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £26.57 £21.79 £15.23
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.60 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% +32.16% -2.35%
75th Percentile £76.35 £32.08 £40.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £36.38 -
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £28.60 £21.64
% change year-on-year +11.89% +32.16% +5.25%

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 36,122 22,602 34,731
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.81% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,747 15,141 23,178
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,403 844 2,344
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.84 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.42 £20.41 £16.25
Median hourly rate £43.61 £33.00 £34.11
Median % change year-on-year +32.15% -3.24% -21.71%
75th Percentile £66.38 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £40.54 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year +27.64% -9.26% -21.40%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -8 325 £475 - 106
South East -15 83 £400 -11.70% 71
North of England -50 63 £400 -2.44% 68
Midlands -37 59 £420 +5.00% 50
West Midlands -46 38 £420 +3.38% 19
South West -15 32 £525 +28.36% 30
North West -17 32 £423 -11.05% 24
Yorkshire -43 29 £350 +41.41% 32
East Midlands -20 21 £425 +6.25% 31
East of England -33 13 £538 +10.26% 29
North East -19 4 £475 +5.56% 14
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 249 (42.35%) SQL
2 197 (33.50%) Business Intelligence
3 182 (30.95%) Data Quality
4 178 (30.27%) Power Platform
5 177 (30.10%) Power BI
6 155 (26.36%) Data Analysis
7 148 (25.17%) Analytics
8 132 (22.45%) Data Modelling
9 125 (21.26%) Python
10 123 (20.92%) Data Governance
11 112 (19.05%) Decision-Making
11 112 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
12 103 (17.52%) Migration
13 99 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
13 99 (16.84%) Visualisation
14 91 (15.48%) Actionable Insight
14 91 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
15 89 (15.14%) Security Cleared
15 89 (15.14%) Validation
16 83 (14.12%) ETL
17 75 (12.76%) Tableau
18 71 (12.07%) Azure
19 69 (11.73%) SC Cleared
20 66 (11.22%) Dashboard Development
21 65 (11.05%) Data Management
21 65 (11.05%) Data Visualisation
21 65 (11.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 63 (10.71%) Microsoft
23 62 (10.54%) Data Migration
23 62 (10.54%) 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 15 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.87%) SAS
3 7 (1.19%) Confluence
4 3 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.51%) CMS
5 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 112 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (1.19%) SystmOne
4 6 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.85%) iTrent
6 4 (0.68%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.68%) SAP HR
7 3 (0.51%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.51%) Maximo
7 3 (0.51%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.51%) SAP R/3
8 2 (0.34%) Actimize
8 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.34%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.34%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 178 (30.27%) Power Platform
2 71 (12.07%) Azure
3 59 (10.03%) AWS
4 32 (5.44%) Snowflake
5 17 (2.89%) GCP
6 15 (2.55%) Amazon S3
6 15 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (2.38%) Collibra
8 12 (2.04%) SaaS
9 10 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.53%) dbt
11 8 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (1.36%) OCI
11 8 (1.36%) Serverless
11 8 (1.36%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.85%) Google Analytics
14 4 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (0.68%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (30.10%) Power BI
2 75 (12.76%) Tableau
3 62 (10.54%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (8.67%) Metadata
5 17 (2.89%) Power Query
6 13 (2.21%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.04%) Looker
7 12 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.70%) Big Data
10 9 (1.53%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.36%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.19%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.02%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.02%) KNIME
13 6 (1.02%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.85%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 16 (2.72%) JIRA
2 6 (1.02%) Git
2 6 (1.02%) 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
1 188 (31.97%) Analytical Skills
2 169 (28.74%) Finance
3 149 (25.34%) Social Skills
4 64 (10.88%) Public Sector
5 45 (7.65%) Banking
6 27 (4.59%) Marketing
7 20 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.87%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.36%) Retail
13 7 (1.19%) Front Office
13 7 (1.19%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.19%) Law
13 7 (1.19%) Legal
14 6 (1.02%) Local Government
14 6 (1.02%) Military
14 6 (1.02%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.36%) Pandas
2 6 (1.02%) PySpark
2 6 (1.02%) XML
3 5 (0.85%) JDO
4 4 (0.68%) JSON
4 4 (0.68%) NumPy
4 4 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.51%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.51%) YAML
6 2 (0.34%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.34%) Node.js
6 2 (0.34%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.34%) REST
6 2 (0.34%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.34%) SOAP
6 2 (0.34%) Web Services
7 1 (0.17%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.17%) MACH
7 1 (0.17%) Playwright
7 1 (0.17%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 50 (8.50%) Data Structures
2 20 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.21%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.53%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.36%) CMDB
10 6 (1.02%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.85%) NHS
12 4 (0.68%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.68%) Derivative
12 4 (0.68%) Fixed Income
12 4 (0.68%) Hedge funds
12 4 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
13 3 (0.51%) Equities
13 3 (0.51%) Reinsurance
13 3 (0.51%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.17%) Unix
2 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (33.50%) Business Intelligence
2 155 (26.36%) Data Analysis
3 148 (25.17%) Analytics
4 132 (22.45%) Data Modelling
5 123 (20.92%) Data Governance
6 112 (19.05%) Decision-Making
7 103 (17.52%) Migration
8 99 (16.84%) Problem-Solving
8 99 (16.84%) Visualisation
9 91 (15.48%) Actionable Insight
9 91 (15.48%) Stakeholder Management
10 89 (15.14%) Validation
11 83 (14.12%) ETL
12 66 (11.22%) Dashboard Development
13 65 (11.05%) Data Management
13 65 (11.05%) Data Visualisation
13 65 (11.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 62 (10.54%) Data Migration
15 61 (10.37%) Agile
16 48 (8.16%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 249 (42.35%) SQL
2 125 (21.26%) Python
3 27 (4.59%) R
4 19 (3.23%) VBA
5 5 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.68%) Scala
7 2 (0.34%) Java
7 2 (0.34%) Korn
7 2 (0.34%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.34%) VB
8 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.17%) LookML
Qualifications
1 89 (15.14%) Security Cleared
2 69 (11.73%) SC Cleared
3 22 (3.74%) Degree
4 9 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.19%) DBS Check
6 5 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.34%) PhD
8 1 (0.17%) ACCA
8 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.17%) CIMA
8 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (30.95%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.61%) QA
3 27 (4.59%) GDPR
4 8 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.85%) PMO
7 4 (0.68%) SLA
7 4 (0.68%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.34%) IFRS
9 2 (0.34%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.17%) FATCA
10 1 (0.17%) GAAP
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.34%) Docker
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.51%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.51%) 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 63 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 49 (8.33%) Databricks
3 40 (6.80%) SAP
4 38 (6.46%) Oracle
5 34 (5.78%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.91%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.55%) Workday
8 11 (1.87%) Google
9 10 (1.70%) Informatica
10 7 (1.19%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.02%) Teradata
12 5 (0.85%) Adobe
12 5 (0.85%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.85%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.68%) Cognos
13 4 (0.68%) Foundry
13 4 (0.68%) IBM
13 4 (0.68%) Palantir
14 3 (0.51%) Bloomberg
14 3 (0.51%) Dell