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 March 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 156 149
Rank change year-on-year -37 -7 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 525 434 623
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.74% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 1.87% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 317 423
10th Percentile £302 £263 £276
25th Percentile £363 £343 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £556 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 29
10th Percentile £21.53 £14.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.84 £18.20 £15.89
Median hourly rate £41.72 £27.13 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +53.80% +26.57% -3.29%
75th Percentile £64.69 £33.40 £40.00
90th Percentile £80.82 £35.00 £40.15
UK median hourly rate £36.47 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year +34.44% +25.35% +1.72%

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 33,152 23,173 35,320
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 93.04% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,955 15,154 23,611
10th Percentile £307 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,163 767 2,289
10th Percentile £15.27 £15.55 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.34 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +7.69% -22.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.92
90th Percentile £75.63 £77.31 £71.77
UK median hourly rate £34.95 £33.75 £32.69
% change year-on-year +3.54% +3.24% -20.33%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -19 294 £475 +0.48% 110
South East -6 77 £401 -15.58% 97
North of England -44 57 £400 -2.74% 57
Midlands -48 45 £411 +2.81% 38
North West -15 33 £420 -13.50% 21
South West -21 28 £525 +28.36% 29
West Midlands -51 28 £406 +1.56% 21
Yorkshire -51 22 £367 +34.68% 29
East Midlands -24 17 £418 +4.38% 17
East of England -34 10 £500 -4.76% 22
North East -13 4 £475 -2.56% 8
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 March 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.

1 226 (43.05%) SQL
2 175 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 160 (30.48%) Power Platform
4 159 (30.29%) Power BI
5 158 (30.10%) Data Quality
6 156 (29.71%) Data Analysis
7 140 (26.67%) Analytics
8 114 (21.71%) Python
9 111 (21.14%) Data Modelling
10 106 (20.19%) Data Governance
11 103 (19.62%) Microsoft Excel
11 103 (19.62%) Visualisation
12 92 (17.52%) Decision-Making
12 92 (17.52%) Migration
13 89 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
14 86 (16.38%) Actionable Insight
14 86 (16.38%) Security Cleared
14 86 (16.38%) Stakeholder Management
15 80 (15.24%) ETL
16 79 (15.05%) Validation
17 69 (13.14%) Data Visualisation
18 65 (12.38%) Data Management
18 65 (12.38%) SC Cleared
18 65 (12.38%) Tableau
19 61 (11.62%) Dashboard Development
20 58 (11.05%) Data Migration
21 57 (10.86%) Microsoft
22 56 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 54 (10.29%) Azure
24 53 (10.10%) 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 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.52%) SAS
3 7 (1.33%) Confluence
4 3 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.57%) CMS
4 3 (0.57%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.57%) Smallworld
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 103 (19.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.71%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.14%) SAP HR
4 5 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.57%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.57%) Maximo
6 3 (0.57%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.38%) Actimize
7 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.38%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.38%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.19%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 160 (30.48%) Power Platform
2 54 (10.29%) Azure
3 47 (8.95%) AWS
4 32 (6.10%) Snowflake
5 16 (3.05%) GCP
6 14 (2.67%) Amazon S3
6 14 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (2.10%) Collibra
7 11 (2.10%) SaaS
8 10 (1.90%) OCI
9 9 (1.71%) dbt
9 9 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.33%) Serverless
11 5 (0.95%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.76%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.76%) Google Tag Manager
12 4 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.57%) Fivetran
13 3 (0.57%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (30.29%) Power BI
2 65 (12.38%) Tableau
3 53 (10.10%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (7.43%) Metadata
5 15 (2.86%) Power Query
6 12 (2.29%) BigQuery
6 12 (2.29%) Looker
7 11 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 11 (2.10%) Big Data
8 9 (1.71%) SQL Server
9 8 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (1.52%) Data Lake
9 8 (1.52%) Hadoop
9 8 (1.52%) KNIME
9 8 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (1.33%) Geospatial Data
10 7 (1.33%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.14%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.95%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 15 (2.86%) JIRA
2 6 (1.14%) Git
2 6 (1.14%) MSI
3 2 (0.38%) ERwin
3 2 (0.38%) GitLab
3 2 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.19%) GCC
4 1 (0.19%) Postman
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 167 (31.81%) Analytical Skills
2 158 (30.10%) Finance
3 142 (27.05%) Social Skills
4 51 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 40 (7.62%) Banking
6 24 (4.57%) Marketing
7 16 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.33%) Electronics
12 7 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.33%) Retail
13 6 (1.14%) Front Office
13 6 (1.14%) Legal
13 6 (1.14%) Military
14 5 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.95%) Law
14 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.14%) XML
2 5 (0.95%) JDO
2 5 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (0.95%) Pandas
3 4 (0.76%) PySpark
4 3 (0.57%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.57%) JSON
4 3 (0.57%) NumPy
4 3 (0.57%) YAML
5 2 (0.38%) REST
5 2 (0.38%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.38%) SOAP
5 2 (0.38%) Web Services
6 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.19%) Kafka
6 1 (0.19%) LDAP
6 1 (0.19%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.19%) OAuth
6 1 (0.19%) OpenID
6 1 (0.19%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.38%) Data Structures
2 21 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (3.43%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (3.43%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.90%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.33%) CMDB
8 5 (0.95%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (0.76%) NHS
10 3 (0.57%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.57%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.57%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.57%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.38%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.38%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.38%) Unix
1 2 (0.38%) Windows
2 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 156 (29.71%) Data Analysis
3 140 (26.67%) Analytics
4 111 (21.14%) Data Modelling
5 106 (20.19%) Data Governance
6 103 (19.62%) Visualisation
7 92 (17.52%) Decision-Making
7 92 (17.52%) Migration
8 89 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
9 86 (16.38%) Actionable Insight
9 86 (16.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 80 (15.24%) ETL
11 79 (15.05%) Validation
12 69 (13.14%) Data Visualisation
13 65 (12.38%) Data Management
14 61 (11.62%) Dashboard Development
15 58 (11.05%) Data Migration
16 56 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 52 (9.90%) Agile
18 47 (8.95%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 226 (43.05%) SQL
2 114 (21.71%) Python
3 22 (4.19%) R
4 16 (3.05%) VBA
5 5 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.38%) Korn
6 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.38%) Scala
7 1 (0.19%) C#
7 1 (0.19%) Java
7 1 (0.19%) SAPscript
7 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 86 (16.38%) Security Cleared
2 65 (12.38%) SC Cleared
3 26 (4.95%) Degree
4 8 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.57%) ACCA
7 3 (0.57%) CIMA
8 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 158 (30.10%) Data Quality
2 26 (4.95%) QA
3 24 (4.57%) GDPR
4 7 (1.33%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.57%) PMO
5 3 (0.57%) SLA
6 2 (0.38%) IFRS
6 2 (0.38%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.38%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.19%) GAAP
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (1.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (0.57%) SCCM
2 2 (0.38%) Terraform
3 1 (0.19%) Grafana
3 1 (0.19%) Kibana
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.19%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 57 (10.86%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.48%) Databricks
3 32 (6.10%) Salesforce
4 30 (5.71%) Oracle
5 29 (5.52%) SAP
6 20 (3.81%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.67%) Workday
8 11 (2.10%) Informatica
9 10 (1.90%) Google
10 9 (1.71%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.95%) Adobe
11 5 (0.95%) Cognos
12 4 (0.76%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.76%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.76%) Foundry
12 4 (0.76%) Palantir
12 4 (0.76%) Teradata
13 3 (0.57%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.57%) IBM
13 3 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud