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 14 November 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 164 175
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 533 491 574
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.76% 1.57% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.93% 1.69% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 358 400
10th Percentile £263 £265 £263
25th Percentile £340 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £513 £563 £600
90th Percentile £618 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 23 35
10th Percentile £21.02 £16.03 £15.24
25th Percentile £25.00 £18.92 £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.33 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% +25.35% -16.77%
75th Percentile £37.50 £35.00 £34.86
90th Percentile £63.95 £47.90 £40.75
UK median hourly rate £29.33 £21.66 £21.82
% change year-on-year +35.41% -0.73% +3.66%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 27,559 29,042 36,964
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 93.00% 93.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,706 17,770 25,618
10th Percentile £281 £300 £295
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,648 1,096 1,418
10th Percentile £14.24 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.22 £19.30
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.11
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -11.32% +50.35%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +55.05%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 +7 277 £475 +1.33% 307
North of England -20 82 £367 -13.55% 185
South East +11 69 £425 -15.00% 166
Yorkshire -2 51 £349 -12.69% 50
Midlands -26 38 £383 +9.29% 103
South West +9 36 £450 +12.50% 47
North West -29 29 £388 -8.72% 116
West Midlands -28 28 £395 +12.86% 65
East Midlands -13 10 £367 +1.10% 38
East of England -29 9 £500 +25.00% 58
North East -12 2 £465 -35.42% 20
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 2025, 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.

1 259 (48.59%) SQL
2 199 (37.34%) Data Analysis
3 182 (34.15%) Power Platform
4 177 (33.21%) Power BI
5 174 (32.65%) Business Intelligence
6 147 (27.58%) Python
7 144 (27.02%) Microsoft Excel
8 140 (26.27%) Analytics
9 137 (25.70%) Visualisation
10 131 (24.58%) Data Quality
11 99 (18.57%) Data Modelling
11 99 (18.57%) Microsoft
12 96 (18.01%) Decision-Making
13 92 (17.26%) Actionable Insight
14 91 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
15 87 (16.32%) Tableau
16 84 (15.76%) Data Governance
17 81 (15.20%) Data Visualisation
18 75 (14.07%) Stakeholder Management
19 72 (13.51%) Data Management
20 66 (12.38%) Validation
21 62 (11.63%) Migration
22 58 (10.88%) ETL
23 52 (9.76%) Data Cleansing
23 52 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 51 (9.57%) Data Warehouse
24 51 (9.57%) Security Cleared
25 48 (9.01%) Agile
25 48 (9.01%) Azure
26 47 (8.82%) Data Transformation

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 33 (6.19%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.69%) Confluence
3 3 (0.56%) GeoServer
3 3 (0.56%) SAS
3 3 (0.56%) Smallworld
4 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.38%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 144 (27.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (4.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.88%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.38%) SPSS
8 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (1.50%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (1.13%) SAP HR
2 6 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.56%) Maximo
3 3 (0.56%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.38%) Actimize
4 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.38%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.19%) Academy Housing
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) ContrOCC
5 1 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.19%) iTrent
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 182 (34.15%) Power Platform
2 48 (9.01%) Azure
3 36 (6.75%) AWS
4 30 (5.63%) Snowflake
5 17 (3.19%) GCP
6 12 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (2.06%) Collibra
7 11 (2.06%) PowerApps
8 10 (1.88%) dbt
9 9 (1.69%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.69%) SaaS
10 8 (1.50%) Power Automate
11 7 (1.31%) OCI
12 6 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.94%) Google Data Studio
14 4 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.75%) Entra ID
14 4 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.38%) Internet
2 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (33.21%) Power BI
2 87 (16.32%) Tableau
3 51 (9.57%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (5.25%) Power Query
5 25 (4.69%) Metadata
6 22 (4.13%) SQL Server
7 15 (2.81%) BigQuery
8 14 (2.63%) Data Lake
9 13 (2.44%) Looker
10 11 (2.06%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.31%) Big Data
11 7 (1.31%) PowerPivot
12 6 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.13%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.94%) Geospatial Data
13 5 (0.94%) GIS
13 5 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
14 4 (0.75%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 12 (2.25%) JIRA
2 7 (1.31%) Git
3 2 (0.38%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.38%) ERwin
3 2 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.38%) Selenium
4 1 (0.19%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.19%) LSMW
General
1 189 (35.46%) Finance
2 170 (31.89%) Analytical Skills
2 170 (31.89%) Social Skills
3 59 (11.07%) Banking
4 40 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.75%) Marketing
5 20 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (3.19%) Retail
7 16 (3.00%) Investment Banking
8 15 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (2.25%) Legal
10 11 (2.06%) Local Government
10 11 (2.06%) Manufacturing
11 10 (1.88%) Retail Banking
12 9 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
13 8 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
14 7 (1.31%) Military
15 6 (1.13%) Electronics
16 5 (0.94%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.31%) PySpark
2 5 (0.94%) DAO
3 4 (0.75%) JSON
3 4 (0.75%) Pandas
4 3 (0.56%) NumPy
5 2 (0.38%) Kafka
5 2 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.38%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.19%) Altair
6 1 (0.19%) LDAP
6 1 (0.19%) MACH
6 1 (0.19%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.19%) OAuth
6 1 (0.19%) OpenID
6 1 (0.19%) RESTful
6 1 (0.19%) SAML
6 1 (0.19%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.19%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.19%) Swagger
6 1 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.13%) Data Structures
2 20 (3.75%) Onboarding
3 19 (3.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (2.81%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (1.88%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.69%) Reinsurance
9 6 (1.13%) CMDB
9 6 (1.13%) Mainframe
10 5 (0.94%) Derivative
10 5 (0.94%) Fixed Income
10 5 (0.94%) Pricing Data
10 5 (0.94%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.75%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.75%) NHS
11 4 (0.75%) Smart Meter
11 4 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 3 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.56%) Unix
1 3 (0.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (37.34%) Data Analysis
2 174 (32.65%) Business Intelligence
3 140 (26.27%) Analytics
4 137 (25.70%) Visualisation
5 99 (18.57%) Data Modelling
6 96 (18.01%) Decision-Making
7 92 (17.26%) Actionable Insight
8 91 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
9 84 (15.76%) Data Governance
10 81 (15.20%) Data Visualisation
11 75 (14.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 72 (13.51%) Data Management
13 66 (12.38%) Validation
14 62 (11.63%) Migration
15 58 (10.88%) ETL
16 52 (9.76%) Data Cleansing
16 52 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 48 (9.01%) Agile
18 47 (8.82%) Data Transformation
19 38 (7.13%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 259 (48.59%) SQL
2 147 (27.58%) Python
3 21 (3.94%) R
4 16 (3.00%) VBA
5 14 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (1.50%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.94%) Java
7 5 (0.94%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.56%) Scala
9 2 (0.38%) C#
9 2 (0.38%) C++
9 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.38%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.19%) Korn
10 1 (0.19%) Perl
10 1 (0.19%) SAPscript
10 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 51 (9.57%) Security Cleared
2 37 (6.94%) SC Cleared
3 28 (5.25%) Degree
4 5 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.75%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.56%) ACCA
6 3 (0.56%) CEH
6 3 (0.56%) CIMA
6 3 (0.56%) CIPD
6 3 (0.56%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (0.56%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.56%) GIAC
6 3 (0.56%) GREM
6 3 (0.56%) OSCP
7 2 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.38%) CBAP
7 2 (0.38%) PMP
8 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.19%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (24.58%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.25%) GDPR
3 14 (2.63%) QA
4 11 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.75%) IFRS
7 3 (0.56%) MiFID
8 2 (0.38%) Basel III
8 2 (0.38%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.38%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) COSHH
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) FATCA
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.19%) SLA
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (1.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.19%) SCCM
2 1 (0.19%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 99 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.94%) Oracle
3 27 (5.07%) SAP
4 22 (4.13%) Salesforce
5 21 (3.94%) Workday
6 20 (3.75%) Databricks
7 19 (3.56%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.25%) Google
9 8 (1.50%) Alteryx
10 6 (1.13%) Informatica
11 5 (0.94%) Foundry
11 5 (0.94%) Palantir
12 3 (0.56%) ESRI
12 3 (0.56%) Intergraph
12 3 (0.56%) NEC
13 2 (0.38%) Cognos
13 2 (0.38%) ForgeRock
13 2 (0.38%) Micro Focus
13 2 (0.38%) NetIQ
13 2 (0.38%) OpenText