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 10 September 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 152 171
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 767 532 485
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 1.91% 1.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 2.10% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 334 355
10th Percentile £257 £263 £268
25th Percentile £356 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £435 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £590 £643 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £441 £450
% change year-on-year +2.16% -2.11% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 27 19
10th Percentile £16.91 £21.02 £16.20
25th Percentile £21.49 £24.23 £18.92
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.11 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year -0.37% +16.75% +13.36%
75th Percentile £48.00 £34.28 £35.00
90th Percentile £49.40 £38.76 £45.35
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £29.33 £21.66
% change year-on-year +2.28% +35.41% +0.74%

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 42,748 25,384 30,473
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 91.33% 93.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,582 16,362 19,224
10th Percentile £325 £281 £305
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,383 1,348 1,536
10th Percentile £14.94 £13.62 £14.56
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +7.95%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -42 337 £450 -5.26% 115
South East -23 117 £475 +5.56% 64
North of England -35 112 £420 +10.16% 67
Midlands -5 90 £425 +8.97% 36
South West -5 74 £463 +10.78% 38
West Midlands -8 66 £425 +6.25% 21
Yorkshire -27 60 £400 +14.29% 29
North West -37 42 £450 +12.50% 26
East of England -2 35 £359 -31.62% 22
East Midlands 0 24 £425 +13.33% 15
North East -36 13 £475 -10.59% 12
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 September 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.

1 271 (35.33%) SQL
2 229 (29.86%) Data Quality
3 227 (29.60%) Business Intelligence
4 213 (27.77%) Power BI
4 213 (27.77%) Power Platform
5 187 (24.38%) Data Analysis
6 171 (22.29%) Analytics
7 153 (19.95%) Decision-Making
8 145 (18.90%) Data Governance
9 139 (18.12%) Data Modelling
10 133 (17.34%) Validation
11 132 (17.21%) Microsoft Excel
12 124 (16.17%) Python
13 113 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 112 (14.60%) Migration
15 108 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
16 101 (13.17%) Visualisation
17 96 (12.52%) Actionable Insight
18 93 (12.13%) Azure
18 93 (12.13%) Microsoft
19 88 (11.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 86 (11.21%) Tableau
21 79 (10.30%) Data Migration
22 78 (10.17%) Dashboard Development
23 73 (9.52%) AI
24 72 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
25 68 (8.87%) Agile
26 62 (8.08%) Databricks
26 62 (8.08%) Security Cleared
27 59 (7.69%) Data Mapping

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 13 (1.69%) SAS
2 6 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.65%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.39%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) CMS
5 3 (0.39%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 132 (17.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
3 10 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.78%) SPSS
6 2 (0.26%) CATIA
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.56%) iTrent
2 11 (1.43%) SystmOne
3 10 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.78%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.65%) Raiser’s Edge
6 4 (0.52%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.39%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.26%) Eikon
8 2 (0.26%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.26%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.26%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 213 (27.77%) Power Platform
2 93 (12.13%) Azure
3 42 (5.48%) AWS
4 39 (5.08%) Snowflake
5 21 (2.74%) SaaS
6 20 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (2.22%) Power Automate
8 15 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (1.56%) Collibra
9 12 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
10 9 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.17%) GCP
11 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.65%) Alation
12 5 (0.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 5 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (0.65%) PowerApps
13 4 (0.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.52%) Internet
2 2 (0.26%) Broadband
2 2 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (27.77%) Power BI
2 86 (11.21%) Tableau
3 55 (7.17%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.26%) Metadata
5 22 (2.87%) Power Query
6 19 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.09%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.96%) Looker
9 11 (1.43%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
11 9 (1.17%) Big Data
12 6 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.78%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (0.65%) GIS
13 5 (0.65%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.65%) Spark SQL
14 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (0.52%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 14 (1.83%) JIRA
2 4 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (0.39%) Git
4 2 (0.26%) GitLab
5 1 (0.13%) MLflow
5 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 208 (27.12%) Analytical Skills
2 177 (23.08%) Finance
3 172 (22.43%) Social Skills
4 62 (8.08%) Banking
4 62 (8.08%) Public Sector
5 46 (6.00%) Marketing
6 30 (3.91%) Retail
7 25 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 23 (3.00%) Legal
9 16 (2.09%) Local Government
10 15 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.56%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
13 10 (1.30%) Military
14 9 (1.17%) Aerospace
15 8 (1.04%) Automotive
15 8 (1.04%) Front Office
15 8 (1.04%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.83%) PySpark
2 9 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.78%) JSON
3 6 (0.78%) Pandas
4 5 (0.65%) EDI
5 3 (0.39%) REST
6 2 (0.26%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.26%) Django
6 2 (0.26%) HTML
6 2 (0.26%) Kafka
6 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.26%) Node.js
6 2 (0.26%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.26%) SOAP
6 2 (0.26%) XML
7 1 (0.13%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.13%) Middleware
7 1 (0.13%) NumPy
7 1 (0.13%) SAML
7 1 (0.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (7.04%) Data Structures
2 28 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (2.87%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.61%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.30%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (1.04%) FMCG
8 7 (0.91%) Fixed Income
9 6 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.65%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.65%) NHS
10 5 (0.65%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.65%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.52%) CMDB
11 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.52%) Taxonomies
12 3 (0.39%) Pricing Data
12 3 (0.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.78%) Windows
2 3 (0.39%) Linux
3 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (29.60%) Business Intelligence
2 187 (24.38%) Data Analysis
3 171 (22.29%) Analytics
4 153 (19.95%) Decision-Making
5 145 (18.90%) Data Governance
6 139 (18.12%) Data Modelling
7 133 (17.34%) Validation
8 113 (14.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 112 (14.60%) Migration
10 108 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
11 101 (13.17%) Visualisation
12 96 (12.52%) Actionable Insight
13 88 (11.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 79 (10.30%) Data Migration
15 78 (10.17%) Dashboard Development
16 73 (9.52%) AI
17 72 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 68 (8.87%) Agile
19 59 (7.69%) Data Mapping
20 54 (7.04%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 271 (35.33%) SQL
2 124 (16.17%) Python
3 36 (4.69%) R
4 22 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (0.65%) VBA
6 4 (0.52%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.39%) Scala
8 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.26%) Korn
8 2 (0.26%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.26%) VB
9 1 (0.13%) Cypher
9 1 (0.13%) Java
9 1 (0.13%) LookML
9 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 62 (8.08%) Security Cleared
2 48 (6.26%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.22%) Degree
4 16 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (1.83%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.52%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.39%) PMP
8 2 (0.26%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.13%) CBAP
9 1 (0.13%) CFA
9 1 (0.13%) CISM
9 1 (0.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) IIBA
9 1 (0.13%) ISEB
9 1 (0.13%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (29.86%) Data Quality
2 40 (5.22%) QA
3 33 (4.30%) GDPR
4 10 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.65%) GRC
6 5 (0.65%) PMO
6 5 (0.65%) SLA
6 5 (0.65%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.26%) IFRS
7 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.13%) EMIR
8 1 (0.13%) FATCA
8 1 (0.13%) GMP
8 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.13%) MiFID
8 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.26%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (0.26%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.26%) SCCM
2 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (12.13%) Microsoft
2 62 (8.08%) Databricks
3 52 (6.78%) SAP
4 42 (5.48%) Oracle
5 18 (2.35%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.96%) Workday
7 12 (1.56%) Alteryx
8 11 (1.43%) Google
9 8 (1.04%) Teradata
10 7 (0.91%) Informatica
11 6 (0.78%) ServiceNow
12 5 (0.65%) Baan
12 5 (0.65%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.65%) Palantir
13 4 (0.52%) Foundry
14 2 (0.26%) Facebook
14 2 (0.26%) FXall
14 2 (0.26%) IFS
14 2 (0.26%) NEC
14 2 (0.26%) Orchard