Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £429, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 165 174
Rank change year-on-year -18 +9 0
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 484 479 578
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.58% 1.55% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 1.67% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 346 401
10th Percentile £267 £271 £263
25th Percentile £346 £343 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -5.26% -1.55%
75th Percentile £513 £561 £600
90th Percentile £588 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 33
10th Percentile £21.36 £16.25 £15.87
25th Percentile £26.31 £18.46 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.75 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +24.42% +25.35% -13.44%
75th Percentile £57.98 £34.00 £38.00
90th Percentile £64.93 £43.93 £43.95
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.32 £22.07
% change year-on-year +28.38% +14.70% +5.10%

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 27,864 28,662 36,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.96% 93.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,852 17,623 25,021
10th Percentile £283 £300 £288
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
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 1,683 1,043 1,402
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.23 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.88 £21.02 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +38.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +46.67%

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 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 30 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 30 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 +1 252 £475 +5.56% 181
North of England -25 78 £372 -9.82% 134
South East -4 63 £425 -15.00% 192
Yorkshire +1 48 £358 -10.63% 41
South West +18 35 £458 +14.38% 54
Midlands -32 29 £367 +2.88% 111
North West -30 28 £388 -6.06% 74
West Midlands -28 16 £400 +14.29% 62
East Midlands -13 13 £358 -6.10% 49
East of England -23 11 £500 -4.76% 58
North East -9 2 £465 -35.42% 21
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 226 (46.69%) SQL
2 173 (35.74%) Data Analysis
3 164 (33.88%) Business Intelligence
4 159 (32.85%) Power Platform
5 158 (32.64%) Power BI
6 128 (26.45%) Data Quality
7 126 (26.03%) Python
8 123 (25.41%) Analytics
9 122 (25.21%) Microsoft Excel
10 115 (23.76%) Visualisation
11 91 (18.80%) Data Modelling
12 90 (18.60%) Decision-Making
13 87 (17.98%) Data Governance
14 86 (17.77%) Actionable Insight
15 84 (17.36%) Microsoft
15 84 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
16 76 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
17 71 (14.67%) Data Visualisation
18 69 (14.26%) Tableau
19 62 (12.81%) ETL
20 61 (12.60%) Data Management
21 59 (12.19%) Validation
22 57 (11.78%) Migration
23 55 (11.36%) Security Cleared
24 51 (10.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 50 (10.33%) Data Cleansing
26 43 (8.88%) Data Transformation
26 43 (8.88%) Data Warehouse
27 42 (8.68%) Azure
27 42 (8.68%) SC Cleared

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 27 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.24%) Confluence
3 3 (0.62%) GeoServer
3 3 (0.62%) SAS
3 3 (0.62%) Smallworld
4 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.21%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 122 (25.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (1.45%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.24%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.41%) SPSS
7 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (1.86%) Salesforce CRM
2 7 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.24%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.62%) Maximo
4 3 (0.62%) NEC Housing
4 3 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.41%) Actimize
5 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.21%) Academy Housing
6 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.21%) ContrOCC
6 1 (0.21%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.21%) iTrent
6 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.21%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 159 (32.85%) Power Platform
2 42 (8.68%) Azure
3 38 (7.85%) AWS
4 29 (5.99%) Snowflake
5 20 (4.13%) GCP
6 11 (2.27%) Collibra
6 11 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (1.65%) Amazon S3
8 7 (1.45%) dbt
8 7 (1.45%) OCI
8 7 (1.45%) SaaS
9 6 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (1.24%) PowerApps
10 5 (1.03%) Google Data Studio
11 4 (0.83%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.62%) Matillion
12 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.62%) Power Automate
12 3 (0.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (32.64%) Power BI
2 69 (14.26%) Tableau
3 43 (8.88%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (6.20%) Metadata
5 25 (5.17%) Power Query
6 19 (3.93%) SQL Server
7 18 (3.72%) BigQuery
8 16 (3.31%) Looker
9 10 (2.07%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.86%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.45%) PowerPivot
11 7 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
12 6 (1.24%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.03%) Big Data
13 5 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
14 4 (0.83%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (2.48%) JIRA
2 5 (1.03%) Git
3 2 (0.41%) ERwin
3 2 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.41%) Selenium
4 1 (0.21%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.21%) LSMW
General
1 174 (35.95%) Finance
2 164 (33.88%) Analytical Skills
3 153 (31.61%) Social Skills
4 52 (10.74%) Banking
5 38 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.13%) Marketing
7 18 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (2.89%) Investment Banking
9 12 (2.48%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.48%) Retail
10 10 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.07%) Legal
11 8 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.65%) Retail Banking
12 7 (1.45%) Local Government
13 6 (1.24%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.24%) Electronics
13 6 (1.24%) Military
14 5 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.45%) PySpark
2 5 (1.03%) DAO
3 4 (0.83%) JSON
3 4 (0.83%) Pandas
4 3 (0.62%) NumPy
5 2 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.41%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.21%) LDAP
6 1 (0.21%) MACH
6 1 (0.21%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.21%) OAuth
6 1 (0.21%) OpenID
6 1 (0.21%) Plotly
6 1 (0.21%) RESTful
6 1 (0.21%) SAML
6 1 (0.21%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.21%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.21%) Swagger
6 1 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (5.37%) Data Structures
2 21 (4.34%) Onboarding
3 19 (3.93%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (3.10%) Data Centre
6 14 (2.89%) Legacy Systems
7 12 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.65%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.65%) Reinsurance
9 7 (1.45%) CMDB
10 6 (1.24%) Mainframe
11 5 (1.03%) Derivative
11 5 (1.03%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.03%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.62%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.62%) Cybercrime
12 3 (0.62%) NHS
13 2 (0.41%) Low-Code
13 2 (0.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.62%) Unix
1 3 (0.62%) Windows
2 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (35.74%) Data Analysis
2 164 (33.88%) Business Intelligence
3 123 (25.41%) Analytics
4 115 (23.76%) Visualisation
5 91 (18.80%) Data Modelling
6 90 (18.60%) Decision-Making
7 87 (17.98%) Data Governance
8 86 (17.77%) Actionable Insight
9 84 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
10 76 (15.70%) Stakeholder Management
11 71 (14.67%) Data Visualisation
12 62 (12.81%) ETL
13 61 (12.60%) Data Management
14 59 (12.19%) Validation
15 57 (11.78%) Migration
16 51 (10.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 50 (10.33%) Data Cleansing
18 43 (8.88%) Data Transformation
19 40 (8.26%) Data Mapping
20 39 (8.06%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 226 (46.69%) SQL
2 126 (26.03%) Python
3 20 (4.13%) R
4 11 (2.27%) VBA
5 8 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 6 (1.24%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.03%) Java
7 5 (1.03%) JavaScript
8 4 (0.83%) Scala
9 2 (0.41%) C#
9 2 (0.41%) C++
9 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.21%) Korn
10 1 (0.21%) Perl
10 1 (0.21%) SAPscript
10 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 55 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 42 (8.68%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.96%) Degree
4 4 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (0.83%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.62%) ACCA
5 3 (0.62%) CEH
5 3 (0.62%) CIMA
5 3 (0.62%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (0.62%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.62%) GIAC
5 3 (0.62%) GREM
5 3 (0.62%) OSCP
6 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.21%) ISEB
7 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.21%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (26.45%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.58%) GDPR
3 16 (3.31%) QA
4 10 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.41%) IFRS
6 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.41%) SLA
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.21%) FATCA
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.21%) MiFID
7 1 (0.21%) PMO
7 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.41%) SCCM
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.21%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 84 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.85%) Oracle
3 26 (5.37%) SAP
4 24 (4.96%) Salesforce
5 21 (4.34%) Databricks
5 21 (4.34%) ServiceNow
6 15 (3.10%) Workday
7 13 (2.69%) Google
8 7 (1.45%) Informatica
9 5 (1.03%) Foundry
9 5 (1.03%) Palantir
10 4 (0.83%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.62%) ESRI
11 3 (0.62%) Intergraph
11 3 (0.62%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.62%) NEC
12 2 (0.41%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.41%) Dell
12 2 (0.41%) Micro Focus
12 2 (0.41%) NetIQ