Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 141 164
Rank change year-on-year -16 +23 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 724 499 541
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 2.00% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 2.17% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 329 383
10th Percentile £263 £280 £265
25th Percentile £350 £370 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £547
90th Percentile £600 £653 £629
UK median daily rate £438 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 32 21
10th Percentile £22.20 £18.48 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.53 £22.75 £15.23
Median hourly rate £30.27 £26.94 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +25.70% -3.29%
75th Percentile £48.88 £31.73 £40.00
90th Percentile £65.13 £34.95 -
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £26.50 £21.57
% change year-on-year +13.72% +22.86% +3.68%

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 40,014 23,037 34,822
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.23% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,629 15,128 22,693
10th Percentile £325 £293 £290
25th Percentile £416 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £638
90th Percentile £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,831 1,043 2,688
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £39.53
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -26.63% -10.17%
75th Percentile £67.60 £58.72 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.39
UK median hourly rate £43.25 £27.38 £37.50
% change year-on-year +57.99% -27.00% -14.77%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -31 335 £463 -7.50% 70
South East -16 109 £378 -16.11% 85
North of England -32 99 £420 +0.60% 61
Midlands -8 88 £425 +6.25% 27
West Midlands -29 63 £416 +4.06% 14
South West +3 61 £525 +28.36% 18
Yorkshire -24 51 £388 -1.59% 16
North West -20 45 £450 +7.78% 36
East Midlands 0 25 £425 +11.11% 13
East of England -10 24 £360 +10.77% 17
North East -39 5 £413 -15.38% 9
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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.

1 267 (36.88%) SQL
2 219 (30.25%) Business Intelligence
3 201 (27.76%) Power Platform
4 200 (27.62%) Power BI
5 199 (27.49%) Data Quality
6 166 (22.93%) Analytics
7 156 (21.55%) Data Analysis
8 141 (19.48%) Data Modelling
9 136 (18.78%) Decision-Making
10 125 (17.27%) Python
11 122 (16.85%) Data Governance
12 120 (16.57%) Migration
13 119 (16.44%) Microsoft Excel
14 117 (16.16%) Validation
15 111 (15.33%) Visualisation
16 104 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
17 92 (12.71%) Actionable Insight
18 89 (12.29%) Azure
18 89 (12.29%) Tableau
19 84 (11.60%) Dashboard Development
20 83 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
21 80 (11.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 79 (10.91%) Data Migration
23 70 (9.67%) Data Visualisation
24 69 (9.53%) Agile
25 67 (9.25%) Security Cleared
26 66 (9.12%) Microsoft
27 65 (8.98%) ETL
28 64 (8.84%) Data Management
29 61 (8.43%) AI

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 9 (1.24%) SAS
2 7 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.55%) CMS
5 4 (0.55%) Confluence
6 3 (0.41%) Apache
6 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 119 (16.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.93%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) CATIA
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.66%) iTrent
2 11 (1.52%) SystmOne
3 7 (0.97%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.55%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.41%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.28%) Maximo
7 2 (0.28%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.14%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 201 (27.76%) Power Platform
2 89 (12.29%) Azure
3 52 (7.18%) AWS
4 30 (4.14%) Snowflake
5 21 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (2.90%) SaaS
6 13 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
6 13 (1.80%) SuccessFactors
7 11 (1.52%) Amazon S3
8 10 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (1.38%) GCP
9 9 (1.24%) Collibra
10 8 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.83%) GitHub
11 6 (0.83%) Google Analytics
12 5 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (0.69%) Fivetran
12 5 (0.69%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.69%) Serverless
13 4 (0.55%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (27.62%) Power BI
2 89 (12.29%) Tableau
3 56 (7.73%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (6.49%) Metadata
5 19 (2.62%) Power Query
6 17 (2.35%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.07%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.66%) Big Data
9 11 (1.52%) Looker
10 10 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
10 10 (1.38%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (1.10%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.10%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.83%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.83%) SQL Server
14 4 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.55%) OLAP
14 4 (0.55%) PowerPivot
14 4 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (2.21%) JIRA
2 6 (0.83%) MSI
3 3 (0.41%) Git
4 2 (0.28%) MLflow
4 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.14%) GCC
5 1 (0.14%) GitLab
5 1 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 197 (27.21%) Analytical Skills
2 172 (23.76%) Finance
3 152 (20.99%) Social Skills
4 63 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.32%) Banking
6 36 (4.97%) Marketing
7 21 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.93%) Legal
9 12 (1.66%) Retail
10 11 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.38%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.38%) Local Government
12 9 (1.24%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.10%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.97%) Front Office
14 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.97%) Law
15 6 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.52%) PySpark
2 10 (1.38%) Pandas
3 6 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.83%) XML
4 5 (0.69%) JDO
4 5 (0.69%) JSON
5 4 (0.55%) EDI
5 4 (0.55%) REST
5 4 (0.55%) SOAP
5 4 (0.55%) YAML
6 3 (0.41%) GeoJSON
6 3 (0.41%) NumPy
7 2 (0.28%) Kafka
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.28%) Node.js
7 2 (0.28%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.28%) Web Services
8 1 (0.14%) ADO
8 1 (0.14%) Matplotlib
8 1 (0.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 53 (7.32%) Data Structures
2 28 (3.87%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
4 18 (2.49%) Management Information System
5 14 (1.93%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.24%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (0.83%) NHS
10 5 (0.69%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.69%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.55%) Derivative
11 4 (0.55%) Equities
11 4 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.55%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.55%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.55%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.41%) CMDB
12 3 (0.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.41%) Windows
2 2 (0.28%) Linux
2 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (30.25%) Business Intelligence
2 166 (22.93%) Analytics
3 156 (21.55%) Data Analysis
4 141 (19.48%) Data Modelling
5 136 (18.78%) Decision-Making
6 122 (16.85%) Data Governance
7 120 (16.57%) Migration
8 117 (16.16%) Validation
9 111 (15.33%) Visualisation
10 104 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
11 92 (12.71%) Actionable Insight
12 84 (11.60%) Dashboard Development
13 83 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
14 80 (11.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 79 (10.91%) Data Migration
16 70 (9.67%) Data Visualisation
17 69 (9.53%) Agile
18 65 (8.98%) ETL
19 64 (8.84%) Data Management
20 61 (8.43%) AI
Programming Languages
1 267 (36.88%) SQL
2 125 (17.27%) Python
3 36 (4.97%) R
4 13 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (1.80%) VBA
5 3 (0.41%) Korn
5 3 (0.41%) Scala
5 3 (0.41%) VB
6 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.14%) Cypher
7 1 (0.14%) Java
7 1 (0.14%) LookML
Qualifications
1 67 (9.25%) Security Cleared
2 49 (6.77%) SC Cleared
3 37 (5.11%) Degree
4 19 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.66%) DBS Check
6 6 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.28%) PhD
7 2 (0.28%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.14%) CBAP
8 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.14%) ISEB
8 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (27.49%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.56%) GDPR
3 32 (4.42%) QA
4 6 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.83%) PMO
5 5 (0.69%) SLA
5 5 (0.69%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.28%) GRC
7 2 (0.28%) IFRS
7 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.14%) FATCA
8 1 (0.14%) GAAP
8 1 (0.14%) GMP
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.28%) Docker
1 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.41%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.41%) Terraform
2 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.14%) Grafana
3 1 (0.14%) Kibana
3 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (9.12%) Microsoft
2 61 (8.43%) Databricks
3 46 (6.35%) SAP
4 40 (5.52%) Oracle
5 23 (3.18%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.21%) Workday
7 10 (1.38%) Google
8 7 (0.97%) Alteryx
9 6 (0.83%) Adobe
9 6 (0.83%) Informatica
9 6 (0.83%) Palantir
9 6 (0.83%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.69%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.69%) Foundry
10 5 (0.69%) IBM
11 4 (0.55%) Baan
11 4 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.55%) Teradata
12 3 (0.41%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.41%) Splunk