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 20 January 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 157 155
Rank change year-on-year -30 -2 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 473 433 594
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.48% 1.64% 1.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 1.76% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 322 407
10th Percentile £270 £266 £263
25th Percentile £358 £340 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £525 £556 £575
90th Percentile £626 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £449 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -0.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 27
10th Percentile £21.53 £17.00 £14.40
25th Percentile £23.84 £22.98 £18.54
Median hourly rate £31.31 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +15.41% +25.35% -0.87%
75th Percentile £45.79 £35.00 £34.71
90th Percentile £64.83 £46.20 £39.67
UK median hourly rate £31.31 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year +15.41% +25.35% +0.65%

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 29,266 24,617 34,257
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.61% 92.97% 93.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,692 15,192 23,207
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
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 1,798 752 1,716
10th Percentile £14.50 £16.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.88
Median hourly rate £28.65 £35.00 £40.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.16% -13.10% +15.07%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.73 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £40.28
% change year-on-year -15.38% -19.30% +15.07%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -3 274 £475 +2.70% 69
South East -6 65 £413 -18.32% 76
North of England -32 62 £358 -12.80% 50
Yorkshire -24 36 £358 +146.55% 17
South West +3 27 £500 +25.00% 24
North West -24 24 £325 -24.64% 27
Midlands -58 23 £400 - 43
East Midlands -26 12 £358 -6.10% 18
West Midlands -50 11 £438 +9.38% 25
East of England -23 9 £513 -2.38% 20
North East -15 2 £465 -19.13% 8
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 January 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.

1 215 (45.45%) SQL
2 165 (34.88%) Data Analysis
3 161 (34.04%) Business Intelligence
4 152 (32.14%) Power BI
4 152 (32.14%) Power Platform
5 136 (28.75%) Data Quality
6 125 (26.43%) Analytics
7 115 (24.31%) Python
8 106 (22.41%) Microsoft Excel
9 102 (21.56%) Data Governance
10 100 (21.14%) Visualisation
11 92 (19.45%) Data Modelling
12 91 (19.24%) Decision-Making
13 81 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
14 80 (16.91%) Stakeholder Management
15 79 (16.70%) Actionable Insight
16 69 (14.59%) ETL
17 67 (14.16%) Security Cleared
18 63 (13.32%) Data Visualisation
18 63 (13.32%) Tableau
19 62 (13.11%) Data Management
19 62 (13.11%) Validation
20 61 (12.90%) Migration
21 56 (11.84%) Microsoft
22 52 (10.99%) SC Cleared
23 47 (9.94%) Dashboard Development
24 46 (9.73%) Data Transformation
25 45 (9.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 44 (9.30%) Data Cleansing
26 44 (9.30%) 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 16 (3.38%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.48%) Confluence
2 7 (1.48%) SAS
3 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.63%) GeoServer
3 3 (0.63%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 106 (22.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.42%) SPSS
7 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.69%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.27%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.63%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.63%) Maximo
5 2 (0.42%) Actimize
5 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.21%) iTrent
6 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.21%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 152 (32.14%) Power Platform
2 41 (8.67%) Azure
3 39 (8.25%) AWS
4 34 (7.19%) Snowflake
5 17 (3.59%) GCP
6 11 (2.33%) Collibra
7 9 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (1.69%) Amazon S3
8 8 (1.69%) SaaS
9 7 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (1.48%) OCI
10 5 (1.06%) dbt
11 4 (0.85%) Entra ID
11 4 (0.85%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.85%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.63%) Matillion
12 3 (0.63%) Serverless
13 2 (0.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 2 (0.42%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (32.14%) Power BI
2 63 (13.32%) Tableau
3 44 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (6.34%) Metadata
5 18 (3.81%) Power Query
6 15 (3.17%) Looker
7 14 (2.96%) SQL Server
8 13 (2.75%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.54%) Big Data
10 9 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.69%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.69%) Relational Database
12 7 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.48%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.48%) PowerPivot
13 6 (1.27%) KNIME
14 5 (1.06%) Star Schema
15 4 (0.85%) Data Mining
15 4 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (3.17%) JIRA
2 5 (1.06%) Git
2 5 (1.06%) MSI
3 2 (0.42%) ERwin
3 2 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.21%) GitLab
General
1 157 (33.19%) Finance
2 143 (30.23%) Analytical Skills
3 138 (29.18%) Social Skills
4 38 (8.03%) Public Sector
5 35 (7.40%) Banking
6 21 (4.44%) Marketing
7 13 (2.75%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.33%) Retail
9 10 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.90%) Investment Banking
10 9 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (1.27%) Electronics
11 6 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.27%) Legal
11 6 (1.27%) Military
11 6 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.06%) Billing
12 5 (1.06%) Retail Banking
13 4 (0.85%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.48%) PySpark
2 3 (0.63%) XML
3 2 (0.42%) Pandas
3 2 (0.42%) SailPoint
3 2 (0.42%) YAML
4 1 (0.21%) LDAP
4 1 (0.21%) MACH
4 1 (0.21%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.21%) NumPy
4 1 (0.21%) OAuth
4 1 (0.21%) OpenID
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.21%) Plotly
4 1 (0.21%) RESTful
4 1 (0.21%) SAML
4 1 (0.21%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 30 (6.34%) Data Structures
2 18 (3.81%) Data Centre
3 17 (3.59%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (2.11%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.69%) CMDB
9 6 (1.27%) Mainframe
9 6 (1.27%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.06%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.85%) Derivative
11 4 (0.85%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.63%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.63%) Cybercrime
12 3 (0.63%) NHS
13 2 (0.42%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.63%) Unix
2 2 (0.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (34.88%) Data Analysis
2 161 (34.04%) Business Intelligence
3 125 (26.43%) Analytics
4 102 (21.56%) Data Governance
5 100 (21.14%) Visualisation
6 92 (19.45%) Data Modelling
7 91 (19.24%) Decision-Making
8 81 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (16.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 79 (16.70%) Actionable Insight
11 69 (14.59%) ETL
12 63 (13.32%) Data Visualisation
13 62 (13.11%) Data Management
13 62 (13.11%) Validation
14 61 (12.90%) Migration
15 47 (9.94%) Dashboard Development
16 46 (9.73%) Data Transformation
17 45 (9.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 44 (9.30%) Data Cleansing
19 43 (9.09%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 215 (45.45%) SQL
2 115 (24.31%) Python
3 22 (4.65%) R
4 14 (2.96%) VBA
5 8 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.42%) C#
7 2 (0.42%) Java
7 2 (0.42%) Korn
7 2 (0.42%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.21%) C++
8 1 (0.21%) Perl
8 1 (0.21%) SAPscript
8 1 (0.21%) Scala
8 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (14.16%) Security Cleared
2 52 (10.99%) SC Cleared
3 21 (4.44%) Degree
4 6 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.63%) ACCA
6 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.63%) CEH
6 3 (0.63%) CIMA
6 3 (0.63%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (0.63%) GIAC
6 3 (0.63%) GREM
6 3 (0.63%) OSCP
7 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 136 (28.75%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.29%) GDPR
3 16 (3.38%) QA
4 11 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.63%) IFRS
6 3 (0.63%) SLA
7 2 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.42%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.42%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (0.63%) SCCM
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.21%) Terraform
2 1 (0.21%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 56 (11.84%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.13%) Oracle
3 28 (5.92%) Salesforce
4 25 (5.29%) SAP
5 20 (4.23%) ServiceNow
6 18 (3.81%) Databricks
7 14 (2.96%) Workday
8 10 (2.11%) Google
9 9 (1.90%) Informatica
10 7 (1.48%) Alteryx
10 7 (1.48%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.63%) Cognos
11 3 (0.63%) ESRI
11 3 (0.63%) Foundry
11 3 (0.63%) Intergraph
11 3 (0.63%) Palantir
12 2 (0.42%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.42%) Micro Focus
12 2 (0.42%) NetIQ
12 2 (0.42%) Teradata