Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £437, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 150 165
Rank change year-on-year -23 +15 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 763 520 488
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.90% 1.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 2.08% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 323 358
10th Percentile £257 £263 £270
25th Percentile £353 £358 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.82% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £554
90th Percentile £588 £645 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -0.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 28 18
10th Percentile £16.91 £21.02 £16.17
25th Percentile £21.49 £24.61 £18.46
Median hourly rate £30.00 £29.72 £24.40
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +21.83% +10.89%
75th Percentile £48.00 £34.08 £34.00
90th Percentile £49.40 £38.45 £40.48
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £28.42 £21.66
% change year-on-year +5.58% +31.19% +1.07%

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 42,696 24,979 30,334
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 91.29% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,483 16,104 19,043
10th Percentile £325 £280 £301
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% -3.81% -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% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,419 1,343 1,501
10th Percentile £14.96 £13.66 £14.65
25th Percentile £21.07 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.20 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.15 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.59% -41.51% -1.96%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -37 335 £450 -5.26% 381
South East -20 118 £463 +3.53% 85
North of England -32 112 £420 +10.10% 132
Midlands +6 89 £425 +8.97% 51
South West -9 73 £463 +8.82% 41
West Midlands -16 65 £425 +6.25% 34
Yorkshire -15 61 £400 +10.34% 50
North West -30 40 £450 +12.50% 60
East of England -4 34 £359 -31.62% 27
East Midlands +6 24 £425 +13.33% 17
North East -26 14 £425 -30.61% 22
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 (35.52%) SQL
2 229 (30.01%) Data Quality
3 227 (29.75%) Business Intelligence
4 211 (27.65%) Power BI
4 211 (27.65%) Power Platform
5 187 (24.51%) Data Analysis
6 172 (22.54%) Analytics
7 152 (19.92%) Decision-Making
8 144 (18.87%) Data Governance
9 137 (17.96%) Data Modelling
10 135 (17.69%) Validation
11 128 (16.78%) Microsoft Excel
12 124 (16.25%) Python
13 114 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
14 111 (14.55%) Migration
15 108 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
16 100 (13.11%) Visualisation
17 99 (12.98%) Actionable Insight
18 92 (12.06%) Microsoft
19 91 (11.93%) Azure
20 87 (11.40%) Tableau
21 86 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 77 (10.09%) Dashboard Development
22 77 (10.09%) Data Migration
23 74 (9.70%) AI
24 72 (9.44%) Continuous Improvement
25 68 (8.91%) Agile
26 62 (8.13%) Databricks
27 61 (7.99%) Security Cleared
28 57 (7.47%) 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 (1.70%) SAS
2 8 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 5 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.66%) Confluence
3 5 (0.66%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.39%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) CMS
5 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 128 (16.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
3 10 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.79%) SPSS
7 2 (0.26%) CATIA
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.57%) iTrent
2 11 (1.44%) SystmOne
3 10 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.79%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.66%) 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
1 211 (27.65%) Power Platform
2 91 (11.93%) Azure
3 41 (5.37%) AWS
3 41 (5.37%) Snowflake
4 20 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (2.62%) SaaS
5 17 (2.23%) Power Automate
6 16 (2.10%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (1.57%) Collibra
8 12 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
9 9 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (1.18%) GCP
10 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (0.66%) Alation
11 5 (0.66%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 5 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (0.66%) PowerApps
12 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
1 211 (27.65%) Power BI
2 87 (11.40%) Tableau
3 54 (7.08%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (6.03%) Metadata
5 20 (2.62%) Power Query
6 18 (2.36%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.10%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.97%) Looker
9 11 (1.44%) Big Data
9 11 (1.44%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.31%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.79%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.66%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (0.66%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (0.66%) GIS
13 5 (0.66%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.66%) Spark SQL
14 4 (0.52%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 15 (1.97%) 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
1 207 (27.13%) Analytical Skills
2 174 (22.80%) Finance
3 170 (22.28%) Social Skills
4 62 (8.13%) Banking
4 62 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 46 (6.03%) Marketing
6 30 (3.93%) Retail
7 24 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 24 (3.15%) Legal
8 16 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (1.97%) Local Government
10 14 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.57%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.31%) Military
12 10 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.18%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.05%) Automotive
14 8 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.92%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.83%) PySpark
2 9 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.79%) JSON
4 5 (0.66%) EDI
4 5 (0.66%) Pandas
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%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.13%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.13%) Seaborn
7 1 (0.13%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.95%) Data Structures
2 29 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (2.88%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.62%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (2.10%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.31%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.05%) FMCG
9 6 (0.79%) Credit Risk
9 6 (0.79%) Fixed Income
9 6 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.79%) Taxonomies
10 5 (0.66%) NHS
10 5 (0.66%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.52%) CMDB
11 4 (0.52%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.52%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.39%) Pricing Data
12 3 (0.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (0.79%) Windows
2 3 (0.39%) Linux
3 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (29.75%) Business Intelligence
2 187 (24.51%) Data Analysis
3 172 (22.54%) Analytics
4 152 (19.92%) Decision-Making
5 144 (18.87%) Data Governance
6 137 (17.96%) Data Modelling
7 135 (17.69%) Validation
8 114 (14.94%) Stakeholder Management
9 111 (14.55%) Migration
10 108 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
11 100 (13.11%) Visualisation
12 99 (12.98%) Actionable Insight
13 86 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 77 (10.09%) Dashboard Development
14 77 (10.09%) Data Migration
15 74 (9.70%) AI
16 72 (9.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 68 (8.91%) Agile
18 57 (7.47%) Data Mapping
19 55 (7.21%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 271 (35.52%) SQL
2 124 (16.25%) Python
3 37 (4.85%) R
4 22 (2.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (0.52%) T-SQL
5 4 (0.52%) VBA
6 3 (0.39%) Scala
7 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.26%) Korn
7 2 (0.26%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.26%) VB
8 1 (0.13%) Cypher
8 1 (0.13%) Java
8 1 (0.13%) LookML
8 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 61 (7.99%) Security Cleared
2 48 (6.29%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.24%) Degree
4 16 (2.10%) 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%) 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%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (30.01%) Data Quality
2 39 (5.11%) QA
3 32 (4.19%) GDPR
4 10 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.05%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.66%) GRC
7 5 (0.66%) SLA
8 4 (0.52%) PMO
8 4 (0.52%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.26%) IFRS
9 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.13%) EMIR
10 1 (0.13%) GMP
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 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 92 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 62 (8.13%) Databricks
3 52 (6.82%) SAP
4 42 (5.50%) Oracle
5 17 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.97%) Workday
7 13 (1.70%) Alteryx
8 11 (1.44%) Google
9 8 (1.05%) Teradata
10 7 (0.92%) Informatica
11 5 (0.66%) Baan
11 5 (0.66%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.66%) Palantir
11 5 (0.66%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.52%) Foundry
13 2 (0.26%) Ariba
13 2 (0.26%) CODA
13 2 (0.26%) Facebook
13 2 (0.26%) NEC
13 2 (0.26%) Splunk