Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 154 163
Rank change year-on-year -29 +9 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 729 526 497
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.57% 1.87% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 2.06% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 323 362
10th Percentile £259 £263 £283
25th Percentile £360 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.61% -5.21%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £556
90th Percentile £600 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £436 £450
% change year-on-year +3.15% -3.06% -2.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 28 20
10th Percentile £17.19 £20.91 £16.22
25th Percentile £21.25 £23.10 £19.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.42 £26.46
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% +7.40% +20.26%
75th Percentile £48.00 £35.63 £32.00
90th Percentile £49.35 £62.53 £39.33
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £28.42 £21.66
% change year-on-year +5.58% +31.19% -0.41%

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 42,663 25,579 30,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.09% 91.10% 93.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,165 16,474 18,507
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.11%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,652 1,417 1,347
10th Percentile £14.56 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.33 £21.37
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.32%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.91
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.39% -3.57%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -47 326 £450 -7.69% 522
South East -23 110 £500 +17.65% 153
North of England -42 105 £423 +10.82% 177
Midlands +3 85 £411 +5.45% 102
South West +2 69 £500 +17.65% 43
West Midlands -9 65 £411 +2.81% 70
Yorkshire -41 50 £413 +10.00% 72
North West -26 44 £450 +12.50% 84
East of England +4 31 £359 -29.95% 51
East Midlands +4 20 £394 +5.00% 32
North East -27 14 £425 -30.61% 22
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 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.

1 266 (36.49%) SQL
2 227 (31.14%) Data Quality
3 222 (30.45%) Business Intelligence
4 201 (27.57%) Power BI
4 201 (27.57%) Power Platform
5 179 (24.55%) Data Analysis
6 167 (22.91%) Analytics
7 144 (19.75%) Validation
8 140 (19.20%) Data Governance
9 139 (19.07%) Decision-Making
10 128 (17.56%) Data Modelling
11 120 (16.46%) Stakeholder Management
12 117 (16.05%) Microsoft Excel
13 115 (15.78%) Python
14 110 (15.09%) Migration
15 106 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
16 100 (13.72%) Visualisation
17 94 (12.89%) Actionable Insight
18 88 (12.07%) Microsoft
19 83 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 82 (11.25%) Data Migration
20 82 (11.25%) Tableau
21 80 (10.97%) Azure
22 75 (10.29%) AI
23 74 (10.15%) Dashboard Development
24 68 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
25 67 (9.19%) Security Cleared
26 66 (9.05%) Agile
27 58 (7.96%) Data Mapping
28 56 (7.68%) Databricks

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 (1.65%) SAS
2 8 (1.10%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.96%) Confluence
4 5 (0.69%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.41%) Apache
6 3 (0.41%) CMS
6 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 117 (16.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.10%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.82%) SPSS
6 2 (0.27%) CATIA
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 11 (1.51%) iTrent
2 8 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.96%) SystmOne
4 6 (0.82%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.69%) Raiser’s Edge
6 4 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.55%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.41%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.27%) Eikon
8 2 (0.27%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.27%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.27%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 201 (27.57%) Power Platform
2 80 (10.97%) Azure
3 39 (5.35%) AWS
3 39 (5.35%) Snowflake
4 22 (3.02%) SaaS
5 21 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (2.33%) Power Automate
7 16 (2.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 16 (2.19%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (1.51%) GCP
9 9 (1.23%) SuccessFactors
10 8 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
10 8 (1.10%) Collibra
11 7 (0.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.69%) Alation
13 5 (0.69%) Amazon S3
13 5 (0.69%) PowerApps
14 4 (0.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.55%) Internet
2 3 (0.41%) Firewall
3 2 (0.27%) Broadband
4 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (27.57%) Power BI
2 82 (11.25%) Tableau
3 50 (6.86%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (5.49%) Metadata
5 21 (2.88%) Relational Database
6 20 (2.74%) Power Query
7 17 (2.33%) Data Lake
8 14 (1.92%) Looker
9 13 (1.78%) SQL Server
10 11 (1.51%) Big Data
11 10 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (1.23%) Qlik Sense
13 6 (0.82%) BigQuery
14 5 (0.69%) Amazon QuickSight
14 5 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (0.69%) GIS
14 5 (0.69%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.69%) PowerPivot
14 5 (0.69%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 17 (2.33%) JIRA
2 4 (0.55%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.27%) Git
3 2 (0.27%) GitLab
4 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 199 (27.30%) Analytical Skills
2 169 (23.18%) Social Skills
3 166 (22.77%) Finance
4 60 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.96%) Banking
6 42 (5.76%) Marketing
7 32 (4.39%) Retail
8 26 (3.57%) Legal
9 20 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.92%) Local Government
11 12 (1.65%) Investment Banking
11 12 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
12 11 (1.51%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.23%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.23%) Military
14 8 (1.10%) Automotive
14 8 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.96%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.65%) PySpark
2 10 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.82%) Pandas
4 5 (0.69%) EDI
4 5 (0.69%) JSON
5 3 (0.41%) REST
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.27%) Django
6 2 (0.27%) HTML
6 2 (0.27%) Kafka
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.27%) SOAP
6 2 (0.27%) XML
7 1 (0.14%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.14%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.14%) SAML
7 1 (0.14%) scikit-learn
7 1 (0.14%) Spring
7 1 (0.14%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.14%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.82%) Data Structures
2 35 (4.80%) Legacy Systems
3 21 (2.88%) Management Information System
3 21 (2.88%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.19%) Onboarding
5 15 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (1.37%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.10%) FMCG
8 7 (0.96%) Taxonomies
9 6 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.82%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.69%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.69%) NHS
11 4 (0.55%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.55%) Reference Data
12 3 (0.41%) Pricing Data
12 3 (0.41%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.41%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.41%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.55%) Windows
2 3 (0.41%) Linux
3 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (30.45%) Business Intelligence
2 179 (24.55%) Data Analysis
3 167 (22.91%) Analytics
4 144 (19.75%) Validation
5 140 (19.20%) Data Governance
6 139 (19.07%) Decision-Making
7 128 (17.56%) Data Modelling
8 120 (16.46%) Stakeholder Management
9 110 (15.09%) Migration
10 106 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
11 100 (13.72%) Visualisation
12 94 (12.89%) Actionable Insight
13 83 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 82 (11.25%) Data Migration
15 75 (10.29%) AI
16 74 (10.15%) Dashboard Development
17 68 (9.33%) Continuous Improvement
18 66 (9.05%) Agile
19 58 (7.96%) Data Mapping
20 54 (7.41%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 266 (36.49%) SQL
2 115 (15.78%) Python
3 35 (4.80%) R
4 22 (3.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (0.69%) Korn
6 4 (0.55%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.41%) Scala
8 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.14%) Cypher
9 1 (0.14%) Java
9 1 (0.14%) LookML
9 1 (0.14%) SOQL
9 1 (0.14%) VB
9 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 67 (9.19%) Security Cleared
2 54 (7.41%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.35%) Degree
4 17 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (1.37%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.55%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.41%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.41%) PMP
8 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.14%) CFA
9 1 (0.14%) CISM
9 1 (0.14%) CISSP
9 1 (0.14%) CIW
9 1 (0.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.14%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.14%) IIBA
9 1 (0.14%) ISEB
9 1 (0.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (31.14%) Data Quality
2 35 (4.80%) QA
3 31 (4.25%) GDPR
4 11 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (1.10%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.96%) GRC
6 7 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.69%) SLA
8 4 (0.55%) PMO
9 3 (0.41%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) EMIR
11 1 (0.14%) GMP
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
11 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.27%) SCCM
2 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.68%) Databricks
3 42 (5.76%) SAP
4 36 (4.94%) Oracle
5 14 (1.92%) Salesforce
5 14 (1.92%) Workday
6 13 (1.78%) Alteryx
7 12 (1.65%) Google
8 8 (1.10%) Informatica
8 8 (1.10%) Teradata
9 5 (0.69%) Baan
10 4 (0.55%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.55%) Palantir
10 4 (0.55%) ServiceNow
11 3 (0.41%) Foundry
12 2 (0.27%) CODA
12 2 (0.27%) Facebook
12 2 (0.27%) NEC
12 2 (0.27%) Siemens
12 2 (0.27%) Splunk