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 27 February 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 166 145
Rank change year-on-year -14 -21 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 528 431 628
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.49% 1.68% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.62% 1.80% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 314 432
10th Percentile £300 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £340 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £449 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -0.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 21 31
10th Percentile £21.60 £14.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.64 £18.20 £15.74
Median hourly rate £40.44 £27.13 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +49.07% +26.57% -3.29%
75th Percentile £64.38 £35.00 £39.48
90th Percentile £80.61 £44.50 £40.00
UK median hourly rate £36.47 £27.13 £21.54
% change year-on-year +34.44% +25.96% +1.22%

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 32,563 23,895 34,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.95% 92.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,678 15,176 23,386
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £411 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,085 729 2,154
10th Percentile £15.18 £16.25 £13.23
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.00 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £34.52
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +4.30% -13.71%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.30 £71.89
UK median hourly rate £33.50 £34.31 £35.00
% change year-on-year -2.35% -1.99% -12.50%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 -14 297 £475 +2.70% 110
South East +6 76 £401 -15.58% 102
North of England -47 60 £400 -2.44% 48
Midlands -45 43 £411 +2.81% 49
North West -19 32 £423 -4.79% 22
South West -19 28 £525 +29.79% 30
West Midlands -45 28 £406 - 32
Yorkshire -55 26 £367 +37.20% 21
East Midlands -20 15 £418 +4.38% 17
East of England -33 10 £500 -4.76% 25
North East -16 4 £475 -9.52% 6
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 February 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.

1 235 (44.51%) SQL
2 174 (32.95%) Business Intelligence
3 162 (30.68%) Data Quality
4 161 (30.49%) Data Analysis
4 161 (30.49%) Power Platform
5 160 (30.30%) Power BI
6 143 (27.08%) Analytics
7 120 (22.73%) Python
8 108 (20.45%) Data Modelling
9 105 (19.89%) Data Governance
9 105 (19.89%) Visualisation
10 101 (19.13%) Microsoft Excel
11 94 (17.80%) Decision-Making
12 91 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
13 89 (16.86%) Migration
14 87 (16.48%) Actionable Insight
15 85 (16.10%) Security Cleared
15 85 (16.10%) Stakeholder Management
16 80 (15.15%) ETL
16 80 (15.15%) Validation
17 71 (13.45%) Data Visualisation
18 65 (12.31%) Tableau
19 64 (12.12%) Data Management
19 64 (12.12%) SC Cleared
20 61 (11.55%) Dashboard Development
21 58 (10.98%) Data Migration
22 57 (10.80%) Microsoft
23 56 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 55 (10.42%) Azure
25 53 (10.04%) Agile

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 14 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.52%) SAS
3 7 (1.33%) Confluence
4 3 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.57%) CMS
4 3 (0.57%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.57%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 101 (19.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.14%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.52%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.14%) SAP HR
4 5 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.57%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.57%) Maximo
6 3 (0.57%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.38%) Actimize
7 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.38%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.38%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.19%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.19%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 161 (30.49%) Power Platform
2 55 (10.42%) Azure
3 48 (9.09%) AWS
4 33 (6.25%) Snowflake
5 16 (3.03%) GCP
6 14 (2.65%) Amazon S3
6 14 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (2.08%) Collibra
7 11 (2.08%) OCI
7 11 (2.08%) SaaS
8 9 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (1.52%) dbt
10 7 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.33%) Serverless
11 5 (0.95%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.76%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.76%) Google Tag Manager
13 3 (0.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 3 (0.57%) GitHub
13 3 (0.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (30.30%) Power BI
2 65 (12.31%) Tableau
3 52 (9.85%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (7.20%) Metadata
5 15 (2.84%) Power Query
6 14 (2.65%) BigQuery
6 14 (2.65%) Looker
7 11 (2.08%) Big Data
7 11 (2.08%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (1.89%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.52%) Hadoop
10 8 (1.52%) KNIME
10 8 (1.52%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (1.33%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (1.33%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.14%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.95%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 15 (2.84%) JIRA
2 6 (1.14%) MSI
3 4 (0.76%) Git
4 2 (0.38%) ERwin
4 2 (0.38%) GitLab
4 2 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 173 (32.77%) Analytical Skills
2 162 (30.68%) Finance
3 147 (27.84%) Social Skills
4 50 (9.47%) Public Sector
5 38 (7.20%) Banking
6 25 (4.73%) Marketing
7 16 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.33%) Electronics
12 7 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.14%) Front Office
13 6 (1.14%) Legal
14 5 (0.95%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.95%) Military
14 5 (0.95%) Retail
14 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.14%) XML
2 5 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (0.95%) Pandas
2 5 (0.95%) PySpark
3 4 (0.76%) JDO
4 3 (0.57%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.57%) JSON
4 3 (0.57%) NumPy
4 3 (0.57%) YAML
5 2 (0.38%) REST
5 2 (0.38%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.38%) SOAP
5 2 (0.38%) Web Services
6 1 (0.19%) ADO
6 1 (0.19%) Kafka
6 1 (0.19%) LDAP
6 1 (0.19%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.19%) OAuth
6 1 (0.19%) RESTful
6 1 (0.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 22 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (3.41%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (2.27%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.52%) CMDB
8 5 (0.95%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (0.76%) NHS
9 4 (0.76%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.57%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.57%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.57%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.38%) Clustering
11 2 (0.38%) Equities
11 2 (0.38%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.38%) Unix
1 2 (0.38%) Windows
2 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (32.95%) Business Intelligence
2 161 (30.49%) Data Analysis
3 143 (27.08%) Analytics
4 108 (20.45%) Data Modelling
5 105 (19.89%) Data Governance
5 105 (19.89%) Visualisation
6 94 (17.80%) Decision-Making
7 91 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
8 89 (16.86%) Migration
9 87 (16.48%) Actionable Insight
10 85 (16.10%) Stakeholder Management
11 80 (15.15%) ETL
11 80 (15.15%) Validation
12 71 (13.45%) Data Visualisation
13 64 (12.12%) Data Management
14 61 (11.55%) Dashboard Development
15 58 (10.98%) Data Migration
16 56 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 53 (10.04%) Agile
18 46 (8.71%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 235 (44.51%) SQL
2 120 (22.73%) Python
3 22 (4.17%) R
4 15 (2.84%) VBA
5 5 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.38%) Korn
6 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.38%) Scala
7 1 (0.19%) C#
7 1 (0.19%) Java
7 1 (0.19%) SAPscript
7 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 85 (16.10%) Security Cleared
2 64 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.55%) Degree
4 8 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.57%) ACCA
7 3 (0.57%) CIMA
8 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (30.68%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.73%) GDPR
3 22 (4.17%) QA
4 8 (1.52%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.57%) PMO
6 3 (0.57%) SLA
7 2 (0.38%) IFRS
7 2 (0.38%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.38%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.19%) GAAP
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (1.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (0.57%) SCCM
2 2 (0.38%) Terraform
3 1 (0.19%) Grafana
3 1 (0.19%) Kibana
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.19%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 57 (10.80%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.25%) Oracle
3 32 (6.06%) Databricks
4 31 (5.87%) Salesforce
5 28 (5.30%) SAP
6 20 (3.79%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.65%) Workday
8 11 (2.08%) Informatica
9 10 (1.89%) Google
10 9 (1.70%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.14%) Cognos
12 5 (0.95%) Adobe
13 4 (0.76%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.76%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.76%) Teradata
14 3 (0.57%) Bloomberg
14 3 (0.57%) Foundry
14 3 (0.57%) IBM
14 3 (0.57%) Palantir
14 3 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud