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 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 145 161
Rank change year-on-year -35 +16 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 748 532 502
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 1.90% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 2.09% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 326 367
10th Percentile £257 £263 £279
25th Percentile £356 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £460
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -7.61% -3.16%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £556
90th Percentile £600 £641 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.44% -
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% +18.25%
75th Percentile £48.00 £35.63 £32.00
90th Percentile £49.35 £62.53 £39.33
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.44 £21.66
% change year-on-year +9.34% +26.67% -1.55%

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 42,924 25,502 30,456
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.20% 91.27% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,454 16,440 18,762
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £734 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,577 1,399 1,408
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £14.85
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.46 £21.34
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.03 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.27%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -42 332 £450 -5.26% 464
South East -26 116 £500 +17.65% 133
North of England -45 106 £425 +13.33% 151
Midlands -1 86 £410 +5.13% 87
South West -7 72 £488 +14.71% 45
West Midlands -12 64 £410 +2.50% 52
Yorkshire -37 53 £419 +20.16% 55
North West -28 42 £450 +12.50% 72
East of England -8 33 £359 -29.95% 38
East Midlands -1 22 £413 +10.00% 35
North East -27 14 £425 -30.61% 25
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 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.

1 266 (35.56%) SQL
2 227 (30.35%) Data Quality
3 223 (29.81%) Business Intelligence
4 204 (27.27%) Power BI
4 204 (27.27%) Power Platform
5 185 (24.73%) Data Analysis
6 168 (22.46%) Analytics
7 144 (19.25%) Data Governance
7 144 (19.25%) Decision-Making
8 139 (18.58%) Validation
9 130 (17.38%) Data Modelling
10 124 (16.58%) Microsoft Excel
11 119 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 116 (15.51%) Python
13 110 (14.71%) Migration
14 109 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
15 101 (13.50%) Visualisation
16 95 (12.70%) Actionable Insight
17 90 (12.03%) Microsoft
18 84 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 84 (11.23%) Tableau
19 83 (11.10%) Azure
20 81 (10.83%) Data Migration
21 76 (10.16%) AI
21 76 (10.16%) Dashboard Development
22 73 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
23 66 (8.82%) Agile
24 63 (8.42%) Security Cleared
25 58 (7.75%) Data Mapping
26 57 (7.62%) 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 13 (1.74%) SAS
2 8 (1.07%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.80%) Confluence
4 5 (0.67%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.40%) Apache
6 3 (0.40%) CMS
6 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 124 (16.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.07%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.80%) SPSS
6 2 (0.27%) CATIA
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.60%) iTrent
2 10 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.94%) SystmOne
4 6 (0.80%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.67%) Raiser’s Edge
6 4 (0.53%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.40%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
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 Payables
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
1 204 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 83 (11.10%) Azure
3 40 (5.35%) AWS
3 40 (5.35%) Snowflake
4 21 (2.81%) SaaS
5 20 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (2.27%) Power Automate
7 15 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (2.01%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
9 10 (1.34%) Collibra
9 10 (1.34%) GCP
10 7 (0.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (0.67%) Alation
11 5 (0.67%) Amazon S3
11 5 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (0.67%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (0.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.53%) Internet
2 3 (0.40%) Firewall
3 2 (0.27%) Broadband
4 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (27.27%) Power BI
2 84 (11.23%) Tableau
3 48 (6.42%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (5.75%) Metadata
5 22 (2.94%) Power Query
6 21 (2.81%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.14%) Data Lake
8 13 (1.74%) Looker
9 11 (1.47%) Big Data
9 11 (1.47%) SQL Server
10 9 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (1.20%) Qlik Sense
11 5 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (0.67%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
11 5 (0.67%) GIS
11 5 (0.67%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (0.67%) PowerPivot
12 4 (0.53%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 15 (2.01%) JIRA
2 4 (0.53%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.27%) Git
3 2 (0.27%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 202 (27.01%) Analytical Skills
2 174 (23.26%) Social Skills
3 173 (23.13%) Finance
4 62 (8.29%) Banking
4 62 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 45 (6.02%) Marketing
6 31 (4.14%) Retail
7 26 (3.48%) Legal
8 22 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.01%) Local Government
10 14 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.60%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.34%) Military
13 9 (1.20%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.07%) Automotive
14 8 (1.07%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
16 6 (0.80%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.60%) PySpark
2 10 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.80%) Pandas
4 5 (0.67%) EDI
4 5 (0.67%) JSON
5 3 (0.40%) 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 (0.13%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.13%) Middleware
7 1 (0.13%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.13%) SAML
7 1 (0.13%) Seaborn
7 1 (0.13%) Spring
7 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 54 (7.22%) Data Structures
2 32 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 17 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.34%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.07%) FMCG
9 6 (0.80%) Credit Risk
9 6 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.80%) Taxonomies
10 5 (0.67%) NHS
10 5 (0.67%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.53%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.53%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.40%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.40%) Pricing Data
12 3 (0.40%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.67%) Windows
2 3 (0.40%) Linux
3 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (29.81%) Business Intelligence
2 185 (24.73%) Data Analysis
3 168 (22.46%) Analytics
4 144 (19.25%) Data Governance
4 144 (19.25%) Decision-Making
5 139 (18.58%) Validation
6 130 (17.38%) Data Modelling
7 119 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 110 (14.71%) Migration
9 109 (14.57%) Problem-Solving
10 101 (13.50%) Visualisation
11 95 (12.70%) Actionable Insight
12 84 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 81 (10.83%) Data Migration
14 76 (10.16%) AI
14 76 (10.16%) Dashboard Development
15 73 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 66 (8.82%) Agile
17 58 (7.75%) Data Mapping
18 55 (7.35%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 266 (35.56%) SQL
2 116 (15.51%) Python
3 35 (4.68%) R
4 23 (3.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (0.67%) Korn
6 4 (0.53%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.40%) Scala
7 3 (0.40%) VBA
8 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.27%) VB
9 1 (0.13%) Cypher
9 1 (0.13%) Java
9 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 63 (8.42%) Security Cleared
2 50 (6.68%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.21%) Degree
4 18 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (1.34%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.53%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.40%) PMP
8 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.13%) CBAP
9 1 (0.13%) CFA
9 1 (0.13%) CISM
9 1 (0.13%) CISSP
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%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (30.35%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.55%) QA
3 32 (4.28%) GDPR
4 10 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 9 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.80%) GRC
8 4 (0.53%) PMO
8 4 (0.53%) SLA
9 3 (0.40%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) EMIR
11 1 (0.13%) GMP
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.27%) SCCM
2 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (12.03%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.62%) Databricks
3 49 (6.55%) SAP
4 39 (5.21%) Oracle
5 16 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.01%) Workday
7 14 (1.87%) Alteryx
8 12 (1.60%) Google
9 8 (1.07%) Informatica
9 8 (1.07%) Teradata
10 5 (0.67%) Baan
10 5 (0.67%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.53%) Palantir
11 4 (0.53%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.40%) Foundry
13 2 (0.27%) Ariba
13 2 (0.27%) CODA
13 2 (0.27%) Facebook
13 2 (0.27%) NEC
13 2 (0.27%) Splunk