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 21 March 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 154 148
Rank change year-on-year -36 -6 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 541 436 613
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.44% 1.78% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.57% 1.91% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 316 416
10th Percentile £305 £263 £269
25th Percentile £363 £337 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £562
90th Percentile £638 £663 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 22 28
10th Percentile £22.37 £14.68 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.63 £19.40 £15.82
Median hourly rate £44.00 £27.86 £21.54
Median % change year-on-year +57.92% +29.38% -2.82%
75th Percentile £66.88 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.23 £34.97 £40.75
UK median hourly rate £41.72 £27.86 £21.64
% change year-on-year +49.73% +28.75% +2.80%

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 34,460 22,787 34,959
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.04% 93.03% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,776 15,097 23,367
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 791 2,280
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.16 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.46 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.61
90th Percentile £76.58 £76.25 £71.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £33.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.54% -23.53%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -21 308 £475 - 113
South East -16 80 £401 -19.80% 75
North of England -58 55 £400 -2.44% 71
Midlands -48 48 £423 +5.63% 45
North West -13 35 £420 +1.82% 30
West Midlands -58 30 £420 +3.38% 18
South West -22 25 £525 +28.36% 31
East Midlands -23 18 £425 +6.25% 27
Yorkshire -55 18 £369 +5.43% 31
East of England -22 12 £500 -4.76% 28
North East -18 4 £475 +5.56% 12
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 234 (43.25%) SQL
2 182 (33.64%) Business Intelligence
3 168 (31.05%) Data Quality
4 167 (30.87%) Power Platform
5 166 (30.68%) Power BI
6 150 (27.73%) Data Analysis
7 139 (25.69%) Analytics
8 119 (22.00%) Data Modelling
9 116 (21.44%) Python
10 114 (21.07%) Data Governance
11 105 (19.41%) Microsoft Excel
12 99 (18.30%) Migration
13 97 (17.93%) Visualisation
14 96 (17.74%) Decision-Making
15 88 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
16 87 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
17 85 (15.71%) Security Cleared
18 84 (15.53%) ETL
19 83 (15.34%) Actionable Insight
20 81 (14.97%) Validation
21 69 (12.75%) Tableau
22 66 (12.20%) Data Management
23 65 (12.01%) Dashboard Development
24 64 (11.83%) Data Migration
25 63 (11.65%) Data Visualisation
25 63 (11.65%) SC Cleared
26 62 (11.46%) Azure
27 59 (10.91%) Agile
27 59 (10.91%) Data Warehouse
27 59 (10.91%) Microsoft

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 15 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.66%) SAS
3 7 (1.29%) Confluence
4 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.55%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.55%) CMS
4 3 (0.55%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.55%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 105 (19.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.03%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.66%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.11%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.55%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.55%) Maximo
5 3 (0.55%) SAP R/3
6 2 (0.37%) Actimize
6 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.37%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.37%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.37%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.18%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 167 (30.87%) Power Platform
2 62 (11.46%) Azure
3 51 (9.43%) AWS
4 33 (6.10%) Snowflake
5 16 (2.96%) GCP
6 15 (2.77%) Amazon S3
6 15 (2.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (2.40%) Collibra
8 11 (2.03%) SaaS
9 10 (1.85%) OCI
10 9 (1.66%) dbt
11 8 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.29%) Serverless
13 6 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (0.92%) Google Analytics
15 4 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
15 4 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 4 (0.74%) Google Tag Manager
16 3 (0.55%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 166 (30.68%) Power BI
2 69 (12.75%) Tableau
3 59 (10.91%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (8.69%) Metadata
5 17 (3.14%) Power Query
6 13 (2.40%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (2.03%) Looker
9 10 (1.85%) Big Data
10 9 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (1.66%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.66%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (1.66%) SQL Server
11 8 (1.48%) KNIME
11 8 (1.48%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (1.29%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (1.29%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.29%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.11%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.92%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 16 (2.96%) JIRA
2 6 (1.11%) Git
2 6 (1.11%) MSI
3 2 (0.37%) ERwin
3 2 (0.37%) GitLab
3 2 (0.37%) MLflow
3 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.18%) GCC
4 1 (0.18%) Postman
4 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 170 (31.42%) Analytical Skills
2 162 (29.94%) Finance
3 141 (26.06%) Social Skills
4 54 (9.98%) Public Sector
5 41 (7.58%) Banking
6 22 (4.07%) Marketing
7 15 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (2.59%) Manufacturing
9 9 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.29%) Electronics
11 7 (1.29%) Front Office
11 7 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.29%) Retail
12 6 (1.11%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.11%) Law
12 6 (1.11%) Legal
12 6 (1.11%) Military
13 5 (0.92%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.11%) Pandas
1 6 (1.11%) XML
2 5 (0.92%) JDO
2 5 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.74%) PySpark
4 3 (0.55%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.55%) JSON
4 3 (0.55%) NumPy
4 3 (0.55%) YAML
5 2 (0.37%) REST
5 2 (0.37%) SOAP
5 2 (0.37%) Web Services
6 1 (0.18%) ADO
6 1 (0.18%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.18%) Kafka
6 1 (0.18%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.18%) Node.js
6 1 (0.18%) RESTful
6 1 (0.18%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 47 (8.69%) Data Structures
2 22 (4.07%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.77%) Data Centre
6 12 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.66%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.29%) CMDB
10 5 (0.92%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.74%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.74%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.74%) NHS
12 3 (0.55%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.55%) Credit Risk
12 3 (0.55%) Derivative
12 3 (0.55%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.55%) Windows
2 1 (0.18%) Unix
2 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (33.64%) Business Intelligence
2 150 (27.73%) Data Analysis
3 139 (25.69%) Analytics
4 119 (22.00%) Data Modelling
5 114 (21.07%) Data Governance
6 99 (18.30%) Migration
7 97 (17.93%) Visualisation
8 96 (17.74%) Decision-Making
9 88 (16.27%) Problem-Solving
10 87 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
11 84 (15.53%) ETL
12 83 (15.34%) Actionable Insight
13 81 (14.97%) Validation
14 66 (12.20%) Data Management
15 65 (12.01%) Dashboard Development
16 64 (11.83%) Data Migration
17 63 (11.65%) Data Visualisation
18 59 (10.91%) Agile
18 59 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 50 (9.24%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 234 (43.25%) SQL
2 116 (21.44%) Python
3 24 (4.44%) R
4 17 (3.14%) VBA
5 5 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.55%) Scala
7 2 (0.37%) Korn
8 1 (0.18%) Java
8 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.18%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 85 (15.71%) Security Cleared
2 63 (11.65%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.44%) Degree
4 8 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.29%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.55%) ACCA
7 3 (0.55%) CIMA
8 2 (0.37%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.37%) PhD
9 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (31.05%) Data Quality
2 30 (5.55%) QA
3 24 (4.44%) GDPR
4 7 (1.29%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.74%) PMO
5 4 (0.74%) SLA
5 4 (0.74%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.37%) IFRS
7 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.18%) FATCA
8 1 (0.18%) GAAP
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.37%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.37%) SCCM
2 2 (0.37%) Terraform
3 1 (0.18%) Grafana
3 1 (0.18%) Kibana
3 1 (0.18%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 59 (10.91%) Microsoft
2 42 (7.76%) Databricks
3 33 (6.10%) Salesforce
4 32 (5.91%) Oracle
5 27 (4.99%) SAP
6 22 (4.07%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.59%) Workday
8 11 (2.03%) Informatica
9 10 (1.85%) Google
10 9 (1.66%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.92%) Adobe
11 5 (0.92%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.74%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.74%) Cognos
12 4 (0.74%) Foundry
12 4 (0.74%) Palantir
12 4 (0.74%) Teradata
13 3 (0.55%) ESRI
13 3 (0.55%) Intergraph
13 3 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud