Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £435, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 137 169
Rank change year-on-year -22 +32 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 753 533 531
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.96% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 2.14% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 340 378
10th Percentile £260 £263 £280
25th Percentile £350 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.44% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £542
90th Percentile £600 £651 £625
UK median daily rate £445 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -1.17% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 32 23
10th Percentile £20.07 £16.51 £14.45
25th Percentile £24.78 £21.84 £16.12
Median hourly rate £30.14 £26.94 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +11.87% +25.70% -5.28%
75th Percentile £48.75 £31.73 £40.00
90th Percentile £53.73 £34.95 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.50 £21.57
% change year-on-year +13.21% +22.86% +2.47%

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 41,375 24,958 34,084
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 91.99% 92.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,305 16,240 22,316
10th Percentile £325 £293 £300
25th Percentile £423 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,977 1,223 2,453
10th Percentile £16.03 £13.79 £13.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.99 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.78% -29.55% -6.98%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.02 £75.00 £74.91
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £40.00
% change year-on-year +70.13% -33.88% -5.88%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -31 340 £463 -7.50% 111
South East -17 114 £375 -15.45% 95
North of England -32 109 £425 +6.25% 83
Midlands -3 91 £425 +8.97% 48
West Midlands -29 66 £420 +5.00% 22
South West -2 64 £500 +22.25% 33
Yorkshire -31 56 £400 +6.67% 27
North West -21 50 £451 +10.21% 37
East of England 0 28 £360 +10.77% 29
East Midlands +6 25 £425 +13.33% 26
North East -41 6 £413 -8.33% 19
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 273 (36.25%) SQL
2 231 (30.68%) Business Intelligence
3 213 (28.29%) Power Platform
4 212 (28.15%) Power BI
5 211 (28.02%) Data Quality
6 178 (23.64%) Analytics
7 172 (22.84%) Data Analysis
8 147 (19.52%) Data Modelling
9 143 (18.99%) Decision-Making
10 133 (17.66%) Data Governance
11 126 (16.73%) Python
12 123 (16.33%) Validation
13 122 (16.20%) Microsoft Excel
14 120 (15.94%) Visualisation
15 119 (15.80%) Migration
16 104 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
17 98 (13.01%) Actionable Insight
18 97 (12.88%) Azure
19 93 (12.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 90 (11.95%) Tableau
21 88 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
22 86 (11.42%) Dashboard Development
23 78 (10.36%) Data Migration
23 78 (10.36%) Microsoft
24 74 (9.83%) Agile
25 70 (9.30%) Data Visualisation
26 66 (8.76%) Data Management
27 65 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
27 65 (8.63%) Databricks
27 65 (8.63%) Security 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 12 (1.59%) SAS
2 7 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.80%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.80%) CMS
4 5 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.53%) Confluence
6 3 (0.40%) Apache
6 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 122 (16.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.73%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.53%) SPSS
6 2 (0.27%) CATIA
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.59%) iTrent
2 11 (1.46%) SystmOne
3 8 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.93%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.53%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.53%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.40%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.40%) Raiser’s Edge
7 3 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.40%) SAP R/3
8 2 (0.27%) Maximo
8 2 (0.27%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.27%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.13%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 213 (28.29%) Power Platform
2 97 (12.88%) Azure
3 45 (5.98%) AWS
4 32 (4.25%) Snowflake
5 21 (2.79%) SaaS
6 20 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (1.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (1.73%) SuccessFactors
10 11 (1.46%) Collibra
11 10 (1.33%) GCP
12 9 (1.20%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (1.06%) Power Automate
14 6 (0.80%) GitHub
14 6 (0.80%) Google Analytics
15 5 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.66%) Google Tag Manager
15 5 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
15 5 (0.66%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.13%) Firewall
1 1 (0.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (28.15%) Power BI
2 90 (11.95%) Tableau
3 57 (7.57%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (6.91%) Metadata
5 20 (2.66%) Power Query
6 18 (2.39%) Data Lake
7 16 (2.12%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.99%) Looker
9 10 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (1.33%) Qlik Sense
10 9 (1.20%) Big Data
11 8 (1.06%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.93%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.80%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.80%) SQL Server
14 4 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.53%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.53%) OLAP
14 4 (0.53%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 19 (2.52%) JIRA
2 3 (0.40%) Git
3 2 (0.27%) GitLab
3 2 (0.27%) MLflow
3 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.13%) GCC
4 1 (0.13%) MSI
4 1 (0.13%) Postman
General
1 204 (27.09%) Analytical Skills
2 175 (23.24%) Finance
3 157 (20.85%) Social Skills
4 66 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.70%) Banking
6 46 (6.11%) Marketing
7 21 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.99%) Legal
8 15 (1.99%) Retail
9 14 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.46%) Local Government
12 9 (1.20%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.20%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.20%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.06%) Front Office
14 7 (0.93%) Law
14 7 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.33%) Pandas
2 9 (1.20%) PySpark
3 7 (0.93%) JSON
4 6 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (0.80%) XML
5 5 (0.66%) JDO
6 4 (0.53%) EDI
6 4 (0.53%) REST
6 4 (0.53%) SOAP
7 3 (0.40%) GeoJSON
7 3 (0.40%) NumPy
7 3 (0.40%) YAML
8 2 (0.27%) Kafka
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.27%) Node.js
8 2 (0.27%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.27%) Web Services
9 1 (0.13%) ADO
9 1 (0.13%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.13%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.91%) Data Structures
2 26 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (2.12%) Onboarding
5 15 (1.99%) Management Information System
6 13 (1.73%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.46%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.80%) Fixed Income
9 6 (0.80%) Marketing Technology
9 6 (0.80%) NHS
10 5 (0.66%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.66%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.53%) CMDB
11 4 (0.53%) Derivative
11 4 (0.53%) Equities
11 4 (0.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.53%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.53%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.53%) Windows
2 2 (0.27%) Linux
2 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (30.68%) Business Intelligence
2 178 (23.64%) Analytics
3 172 (22.84%) Data Analysis
4 147 (19.52%) Data Modelling
5 143 (18.99%) Decision-Making
6 133 (17.66%) Data Governance
7 123 (16.33%) Validation
8 120 (15.94%) Visualisation
9 119 (15.80%) Migration
10 104 (13.81%) Problem-Solving
11 98 (13.01%) Actionable Insight
12 93 (12.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 88 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
14 86 (11.42%) Dashboard Development
15 78 (10.36%) Data Migration
16 74 (9.83%) Agile
17 70 (9.30%) Data Visualisation
18 66 (8.76%) Data Management
19 65 (8.63%) Continuous Improvement
20 62 (8.23%) AI
Programming Languages
1 273 (36.25%) SQL
2 126 (16.73%) Python
3 31 (4.12%) R
4 18 (2.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 12 (1.59%) VBA
6 4 (0.53%) Scala
7 3 (0.40%) VB
8 2 (0.27%) Korn
8 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.13%) Cypher
9 1 (0.13%) Java
9 1 (0.13%) LookML
Qualifications
1 65 (8.63%) Security Cleared
2 45 (5.98%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.05%) Degree
4 21 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (1.86%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.53%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.53%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.40%) PMP
8 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.27%) PhD
9 1 (0.13%) CBAP
9 1 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) ISEB
9 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (28.02%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.52%) GDPR
2 34 (4.52%) QA
3 8 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.93%) PMO
5 6 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.66%) SLA
7 4 (0.53%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.40%) GRC
9 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.13%) FATCA
10 1 (0.13%) GMP
10 1 (0.13%) IFRS
10 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 4 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.40%) Docker
3 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.40%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.40%) Terraform
2 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.13%) Grafana
3 1 (0.13%) Kibana
3 1 (0.13%) SCCM
3 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (10.36%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.63%) Databricks
3 47 (6.24%) SAP
4 40 (5.31%) Oracle
5 20 (2.66%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.26%) Workday
7 14 (1.86%) Google
8 8 (1.06%) Alteryx
9 7 (0.93%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.93%) Teradata
10 6 (0.80%) Adobe
10 6 (0.80%) Informatica
10 6 (0.80%) Palantir
11 5 (0.66%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.66%) Foundry
11 5 (0.66%) IBM
12 4 (0.53%) Baan
12 4 (0.53%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.40%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.40%) Splunk