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 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 151 163
Rank change year-on-year -22 +12 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 601 420 554
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.52% 1.71% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.65% 1.85% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 302 376
10th Percentile £300 £260 £263
25th Percentile £357 £341 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £555
90th Percentile £625 £650 £628
UK median daily rate £440 £450 £470
% change year-on-year -2.22% -4.26% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 20 19
10th Percentile £22.26 £16.08 £13.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £21.08 £15.56
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.86 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +16.64% +28.75% -2.35%
75th Percentile £72.50 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £34.71 £40.95
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.86 £22.08
% change year-on-year +16.64% +26.19% +7.63%

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 36,522 22,722 34,320
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.70% 92.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,886 15,172 22,851
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,461 869 2,384
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.75 £19.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £67.47 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.93% -13.00% -22.22%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 -14 321 £475 - 122
South East -19 80 £400 -13.51% 87
North of England -37 67 £400 -2.44% 82
Midlands -31 65 £420 +5.00% 61
West Midlands -40 43 £420 +3.38% 28
South West -16 35 £525 +28.36% 22
Yorkshire -48 34 £350 +41.41% 37
North West -33 31 £425 -4.23% 38
East Midlands -20 22 £425 +6.25% 33
East of England -22 20 £358 -26.56% 38
North East -17 4 £475 +5.56% 8
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 April 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.

1 248 (41.26%) SQL
2 197 (32.78%) Business Intelligence
3 178 (29.62%) Power Platform
4 177 (29.45%) Power BI
5 175 (29.12%) Data Quality
6 144 (23.96%) Data Analysis
7 142 (23.63%) Analytics
8 130 (21.63%) Data Modelling
9 127 (21.13%) Python
10 119 (19.80%) Data Governance
11 117 (19.47%) Decision-Making
12 111 (18.47%) Microsoft Excel
13 102 (16.97%) Migration
14 100 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
15 99 (16.47%) Visualisation
16 95 (15.81%) Validation
17 90 (14.98%) Actionable Insight
18 85 (14.14%) Security Cleared
19 82 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
20 80 (13.31%) ETL
21 78 (12.98%) Tableau
22 71 (11.81%) Dashboard Development
23 69 (11.48%) Azure
24 65 (10.82%) Data Migration
24 65 (10.82%) SC Cleared
25 63 (10.48%) Data Visualisation
26 60 (9.98%) Agile
26 60 (9.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
27 58 (9.65%) Data Warehouse
28 57 (9.48%) AWS

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 (2.00%) SAS
2 11 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.16%) Confluence
4 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.50%) CMS
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 111 (18.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.16%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.67%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.33%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.33%) iTrent
2 8 (1.33%) SystmOne
3 5 (0.83%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.67%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.50%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.50%) Maximo
5 3 (0.50%) SAP R/3
6 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.33%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.33%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 178 (29.62%) Power Platform
2 69 (11.48%) Azure
3 57 (9.48%) AWS
4 27 (4.49%) Snowflake
5 18 (3.00%) GCP
6 16 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (2.33%) SaaS
8 13 (2.16%) Amazon S3
9 11 (1.83%) Collibra
9 11 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
10 8 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.33%) OCI
11 7 (1.16%) dbt
11 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
12 6 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
12 6 (1.00%) Serverless
13 5 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.83%) Google Analytics
14 4 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (0.67%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (29.45%) Power BI
2 78 (12.98%) Tableau
3 58 (9.65%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (7.65%) Metadata
5 17 (2.83%) Power Query
6 14 (2.33%) BigQuery
7 13 (2.16%) Looker
8 11 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (1.83%) Big Data
9 9 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (1.50%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (1.16%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.16%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.00%) KNIME
12 6 (1.00%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.83%) PowerPivot
13 5 (0.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (2.66%) JIRA
2 6 (1.00%) Git
2 6 (1.00%) MSI
3 2 (0.33%) ERwin
3 2 (0.33%) GitLab
3 2 (0.33%) MLflow
3 2 (0.33%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.17%) GCC
4 1 (0.17%) Postman
4 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 189 (31.45%) Analytical Skills
2 165 (27.45%) Finance
3 145 (24.13%) Social Skills
4 60 (9.98%) Public Sector
5 46 (7.65%) Banking
6 27 (4.49%) Marketing
7 20 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.33%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.16%) Front Office
12 7 (1.16%) Legal
12 7 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.00%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.00%) Law
13 6 (1.00%) Local Government
13 6 (1.00%) Military
13 6 (1.00%) Retail
14 5 (0.83%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.16%) Pandas
2 6 (1.00%) PySpark
2 6 (1.00%) XML
3 5 (0.83%) JDO
4 4 (0.67%) JSON
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.50%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.50%) NumPy
5 3 (0.50%) YAML
6 2 (0.33%) Node.js
6 2 (0.33%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.33%) REST
6 2 (0.33%) SOAP
6 2 (0.33%) Web Services
7 1 (0.17%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.17%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.17%) JAX
7 1 (0.17%) MACH
7 1 (0.17%) Playwright
7 1 (0.17%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.65%) Data Structures
2 22 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (2.83%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (2.16%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.16%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.33%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.00%) CMDB
7 6 (1.00%) Reference Data
8 5 (0.83%) Credit Risk
8 5 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (0.83%) NHS
9 4 (0.67%) Derivative
9 4 (0.67%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.67%) Hedge funds
9 4 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.50%) Equities
10 3 (0.50%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.17%) Unix
2 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (32.78%) Business Intelligence
2 144 (23.96%) Data Analysis
3 142 (23.63%) Analytics
4 130 (21.63%) Data Modelling
5 119 (19.80%) Data Governance
6 117 (19.47%) Decision-Making
7 102 (16.97%) Migration
8 100 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
9 99 (16.47%) Visualisation
10 95 (15.81%) Validation
11 90 (14.98%) Actionable Insight
12 82 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 80 (13.31%) ETL
14 71 (11.81%) Dashboard Development
15 65 (10.82%) Data Migration
16 63 (10.48%) Data Visualisation
17 60 (9.98%) Agile
17 60 (9.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 57 (9.48%) Data Management
19 48 (7.99%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 248 (41.26%) SQL
2 127 (21.13%) Python
3 31 (5.16%) R
4 19 (3.16%) VBA
5 5 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.67%) Scala
7 3 (0.50%) Korn
8 2 (0.33%) Java
8 2 (0.33%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.33%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.33%) VB
9 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.17%) LookML
Qualifications
1 85 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 65 (10.82%) SC Cleared
3 19 (3.16%) Degree
4 12 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.33%) DBS Check
6 5 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.33%) PhD
8 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (29.12%) Data Quality
2 32 (5.32%) QA
3 28 (4.66%) GDPR
4 8 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.83%) PMO
6 5 (0.83%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.50%) SLA
8 2 (0.33%) IFRS
8 2 (0.33%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.17%) FATCA
9 1 (0.17%) GAAP
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.33%) Docker
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.50%) Terraform
2 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.33%) SCCM
3 1 (0.17%) Grafana
3 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 56 (9.32%) Microsoft
2 49 (8.15%) Databricks
3 48 (7.99%) SAP
4 35 (5.82%) Oracle
5 31 (5.16%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.83%) Workday
7 16 (2.66%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.00%) Google
9 10 (1.66%) Informatica
10 7 (1.16%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.00%) Teradata
12 5 (0.83%) Adobe
12 5 (0.83%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.83%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.83%) IBM
13 4 (0.67%) Cognos
13 4 (0.67%) Foundry
13 4 (0.67%) Palantir
13 4 (0.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 3 (0.50%) Dell