Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £437, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 152 156
Rank change year-on-year -22 +4 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 619 420 569
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.54% 1.73% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 1.86% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 302 384
10th Percentile £277 £263 £263
25th Percentile £350 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £522 £550 £555
90th Percentile £601 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £437 £456 £475
% change year-on-year -4.22% -3.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 20 19
10th Percentile £21.38 £16.08 £13.50
25th Percentile £26.54 £21.08 £15.56
Median hourly rate £32.25 £27.86 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +15.75% +28.75% -3.09%
75th Percentile £52.50 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £34.71 £40.95
UK median hourly rate £32.25 £27.86 £21.66
% change year-on-year +15.75% +28.64% +5.81%

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 37,244 22,538 34,519
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.63% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,300 15,012 22,927
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,527 898 2,426
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.20 £12.96
25th Percentile £20.90 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £31.64 £35.96
Median % change year-on-year +48.55% -12.01% -20.09%
75th Percentile £67.50 £64.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £29.07 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.36% -19.25% -20.00%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -11 326 £463 -2.63% 99
South East -12 83 £391 -13.69% 101
Midlands -27 72 £420 +5.00% 54
North of England -47 72 £400 -2.44% 79
West Midlands -32 48 £420 +1.82% 28
Yorkshire -37 38 £350 +41.41% 31
South West -16 34 £525 +28.36% 24
North West -25 31 £425 +3.03% 33
East Midlands -12 24 £425 +6.25% 26
East of England -26 21 £358 -26.56% 35
North East -19 5 £433 -3.89% 16
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 (40.23%) SQL
2 201 (32.47%) Business Intelligence
3 179 (28.92%) Power Platform
4 178 (28.76%) Power BI
5 176 (28.43%) Data Quality
6 145 (23.42%) Analytics
7 140 (22.62%) Data Modelling
8 138 (22.29%) Data Analysis
9 129 (20.84%) Python
10 120 (19.39%) Data Governance
11 117 (18.90%) Decision-Making
12 110 (17.77%) Microsoft Excel
13 109 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
14 102 (16.48%) Validation
15 101 (16.32%) Migration
16 96 (15.51%) Visualisation
17 88 (14.22%) Actionable Insight
18 80 (12.92%) Security Cleared
19 79 (12.76%) ETL
20 78 (12.60%) Tableau
21 76 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
22 75 (12.12%) Azure
23 70 (11.31%) Dashboard Development
24 64 (10.34%) Agile
24 64 (10.34%) Data Migration
25 62 (10.02%) Data Visualisation
26 61 (9.85%) Microsoft
27 59 (9.53%) SC Cleared
28 58 (9.37%) Data Management
29 57 (9.21%) 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 (1.94%) SAS
2 9 (1.45%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.29%) Confluence
4 4 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.48%) CMS
6 2 (0.32%) Apache
6 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 110 (17.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (1.13%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.32%) SPSS
6 1 (0.16%) CATIA
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.78%) SystmOne
3 8 (1.29%) iTrent
4 6 (0.97%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.65%) 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
1 179 (28.92%) Power Platform
2 75 (12.12%) Azure
3 54 (8.72%) AWS
4 28 (4.52%) Snowflake
5 19 (3.07%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (2.75%) GCP
7 15 (2.42%) SaaS
8 12 (1.94%) Amazon S3
9 11 (1.78%) Collibra
9 11 (1.78%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (0.97%) dbt
13 5 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (0.81%) Google Analytics
13 5 (0.81%) Serverless
14 4 (0.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (0.65%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (28.76%) Power BI
2 78 (12.60%) Tableau
3 57 (9.21%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (8.08%) Metadata
5 15 (2.42%) Power Query
6 14 (2.26%) Looker
7 13 (2.10%) BigQuery
8 11 (1.78%) Big Data
9 10 (1.62%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.62%) Relational Database
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 (0.97%) KNIME
12 6 (0.97%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.81%) Qlik Sense
13 5 (0.81%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (2.75%) JIRA
2 6 (0.97%) Git
2 6 (0.97%) MSI
3 2 (0.32%) GitLab
3 2 (0.32%) MLflow
3 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.16%) ERwin
4 1 (0.16%) GCC
4 1 (0.16%) Postman
4 1 (0.16%) PowerDesigner
General
1 187 (30.21%) Analytical Skills
2 165 (26.66%) Finance
3 139 (22.46%) Social Skills
4 62 (10.02%) Public Sector
5 43 (6.95%) Banking
6 29 (4.68%) Marketing
7 19 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.62%) 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 (0.97%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.97%) Law
14 6 (0.97%) Local Government
14 6 (0.97%) Military
14 6 (0.97%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.13%) Pandas
1 7 (1.13%) PySpark
2 6 (0.97%) XML
3 5 (0.81%) JDO
4 4 (0.65%) JSON
4 4 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.48%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.48%) NumPy
5 3 (0.48%) REST
5 3 (0.48%) SOAP
5 3 (0.48%) YAML
6 2 (0.32%) EDI
6 2 (0.32%) Kafka
6 2 (0.32%) Node.js
6 2 (0.32%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.32%) Web Services
7 1 (0.16%) MACH
7 1 (0.16%) Next.js
7 1 (0.16%) Playwright
7 1 (0.16%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.72%) Data Structures
2 25 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (2.10%) Management Information System
5 12 (1.94%) Data Centre
5 12 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.29%) Onboarding
7 6 (0.97%) CMDB
7 6 (0.97%) Reference Data
8 5 (0.81%) Credit Risk
8 5 (0.81%) NHS
9 4 (0.65%) Derivative
9 4 (0.65%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.65%) Hedge funds
9 4 (0.65%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.48%) Equities
10 3 (0.48%) Product Ownership
10 3 (0.48%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.32%) Windows
2 1 (0.16%) Linux
2 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (32.47%) Business Intelligence
2 145 (23.42%) Analytics
3 140 (22.62%) Data Modelling
4 138 (22.29%) Data Analysis
5 120 (19.39%) Data Governance
6 117 (18.90%) Decision-Making
7 109 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
8 102 (16.48%) Validation
9 101 (16.32%) Migration
10 96 (15.51%) Visualisation
11 88 (14.22%) Actionable Insight
12 79 (12.76%) ETL
13 76 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 70 (11.31%) Dashboard Development
15 64 (10.34%) Agile
15 64 (10.34%) Data Migration
16 62 (10.02%) Data Visualisation
17 58 (9.37%) Data Management
18 55 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 47 (7.59%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 249 (40.23%) SQL
2 129 (20.84%) Python
3 34 (5.49%) R
4 16 (2.58%) VBA
5 8 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.65%) 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 80 (12.92%) Security Cleared
2 59 (9.53%) SC Cleared
3 20 (3.23%) Degree
4 12 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (1.94%) DBS Check
5 5 (0.81%) 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
1 176 (28.43%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.17%) QA
3 30 (4.85%) GDPR
4 9 (1.45%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (0.81%) PMO
5 5 (0.81%) 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 (9.85%) Microsoft
2 50 (8.08%) Databricks
3 46 (7.43%) SAP
4 31 (5.01%) Oracle
5 30 (4.85%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.26%) ServiceNow
6 14 (2.26%) Workday
7 12 (1.94%) Google
8 10 (1.62%) Informatica
9 7 (1.13%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.97%) Teradata
11 5 (0.81%) Adobe
11 5 (0.81%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.81%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.81%) IBM
12 4 (0.65%) Cognos
12 4 (0.65%) Foundry
12 4 (0.65%) Palantir
12 4 (0.65%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.48%) Bloomberg