Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 140 170
Rank change year-on-year -18 +30 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 726 496 545
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.99% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 2.16% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 327 385
10th Percentile £263 £279 £268
25th Percentile £350 £366 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £544
90th Percentile £600 £655 £628
UK median daily rate £437 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.83% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 32 21
10th Percentile £22.20 £18.48 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.75 £15.23
Median hourly rate £30.27 £26.94 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +25.70% -3.29%
75th Percentile £48.88 £31.73 £40.00
90th Percentile £65.13 £34.95 -
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £26.50 £21.57
% change year-on-year +13.72% +22.86% +5.37%

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 39,906 22,978 35,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.28% 92.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,562 15,111 22,827
10th Percentile £325 £294 £290
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,811 1,028 2,703
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.56 £29.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.09% -26.58% -12.22%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £44.94 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +63.40% -26.67% -16.67%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -29 337 £463 -7.50% 77
South East -21 109 £378 -16.11% 87
North of England -35 97 £420 +0.60% 64
Midlands -14 89 £425 +6.25% 27
West Midlands -29 64 £416 +4.06% 13
South West +8 62 £525 +28.36% 23
Yorkshire -33 49 £388 -1.59% 19
North West -23 45 £450 +7.78% 35
East Midlands 0 25 £425 +11.11% 14
East of England -16 24 £360 +10.77% 12
North East -39 5 £413 -15.38% 11
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 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.

1 270 (37.19%) SQL
2 221 (30.44%) Business Intelligence
3 201 (27.69%) Power Platform
4 200 (27.55%) Power BI
5 199 (27.41%) Data Quality
6 168 (23.14%) Analytics
7 158 (21.76%) Data Analysis
8 141 (19.42%) Data Modelling
9 136 (18.73%) Decision-Making
10 128 (17.63%) Python
11 121 (16.67%) Data Governance
12 120 (16.53%) Migration
13 118 (16.25%) Microsoft Excel
14 117 (16.12%) Validation
15 112 (15.43%) Visualisation
16 103 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
17 92 (12.67%) Actionable Insight
18 90 (12.40%) Tableau
19 89 (12.26%) Azure
20 84 (11.57%) Dashboard Development
21 82 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
22 79 (10.88%) Data Migration
23 78 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 70 (9.64%) Data Visualisation
25 69 (9.50%) Agile
25 69 (9.50%) ETL
26 66 (9.09%) Security Cleared
27 64 (8.82%) Microsoft
28 63 (8.68%) Data Management
29 62 (8.54%) AI

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 9 (1.24%) SAS
2 8 (1.10%) Apache Spark
2 8 (1.10%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.83%) Confluence
4 5 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.55%) CMS
6 3 (0.41%) Apache
6 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 118 (16.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) CATIA
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.65%) iTrent
2 11 (1.52%) SystmOne
3 7 (0.96%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.55%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.41%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.28%) Maximo
7 2 (0.28%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 201 (27.69%) Power Platform
2 89 (12.26%) Azure
3 52 (7.16%) AWS
4 33 (4.55%) Snowflake
5 22 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (2.89%) SaaS
7 13 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
8 12 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (1.52%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (1.38%) GCP
11 8 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
11 8 (1.10%) Collibra
12 6 (0.83%) GitHub
12 6 (0.83%) Google Analytics
13 5 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.69%) Fivetran
13 5 (0.69%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.69%) Serverless
14 4 (0.55%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (27.55%) Power BI
2 90 (12.40%) Tableau
3 58 (7.99%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (6.20%) Metadata
5 19 (2.62%) Power Query
6 17 (2.34%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.07%) Big Data
7 15 (2.07%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.52%) Looker
9 10 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (1.38%) Qlik Sense
10 8 (1.10%) BigQuery
10 8 (1.10%) Hadoop
11 7 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.83%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.83%) SQL Server
13 4 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.55%) OLAP
13 4 (0.55%) PowerPivot
13 4 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (2.48%) JIRA
2 6 (0.83%) MSI
3 3 (0.41%) Git
4 2 (0.28%) MLflow
4 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.14%) GCC
5 1 (0.14%) GitLab
5 1 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 198 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 175 (24.10%) Finance
3 153 (21.07%) Social Skills
4 61 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.30%) Banking
6 36 (4.96%) Marketing
7 20 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.79%) Legal
10 12 (1.65%) Retail
11 11 (1.52%) Local Government
11 11 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.38%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.24%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.10%) Aerospace
15 7 (0.96%) Front Office
15 7 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
15 7 (0.96%) Law
16 6 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.52%) PySpark
2 10 (1.38%) Pandas
3 6 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.83%) XML
4 5 (0.69%) JDO
4 5 (0.69%) JSON
5 4 (0.55%) REST
5 4 (0.55%) SOAP
5 4 (0.55%) YAML
6 3 (0.41%) EDI
6 3 (0.41%) GeoJSON
6 3 (0.41%) NumPy
7 2 (0.28%) Kafka
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.28%) Node.js
7 2 (0.28%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.28%) Web Services
8 1 (0.14%) Next.js
8 1 (0.14%) Playwright
8 1 (0.14%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 53 (7.30%) Data Structures
2 28 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (2.34%) Management Information System
5 14 (1.93%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.24%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (0.83%) NHS
10 5 (0.69%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.69%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.55%) Derivative
11 4 (0.55%) Equities
11 4 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.55%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.55%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.55%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.41%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.41%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.41%) Windows
2 2 (0.28%) Linux
2 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 221 (30.44%) Business Intelligence
2 168 (23.14%) Analytics
3 158 (21.76%) Data Analysis
4 141 (19.42%) Data Modelling
5 136 (18.73%) Decision-Making
6 121 (16.67%) Data Governance
7 120 (16.53%) Migration
8 117 (16.12%) Validation
9 112 (15.43%) Visualisation
10 103 (14.19%) Problem-Solving
11 92 (12.67%) Actionable Insight
12 84 (11.57%) Dashboard Development
13 82 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 79 (10.88%) Data Migration
15 78 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 70 (9.64%) Data Visualisation
17 69 (9.50%) Agile
17 69 (9.50%) ETL
18 63 (8.68%) Data Management
19 62 (8.54%) AI
Programming Languages
1 270 (37.19%) SQL
2 128 (17.63%) Python
3 37 (5.10%) R
4 13 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (1.79%) VBA
5 3 (0.41%) Korn
5 3 (0.41%) Scala
5 3 (0.41%) VB
6 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.14%) Cypher
7 1 (0.14%) Java
7 1 (0.14%) LookML
Qualifications
1 66 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 49 (6.75%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.96%) Degree
4 19 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.65%) DBS Check
6 6 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.28%) PhD
7 2 (0.28%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.14%) CBAP
8 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.14%) ISEB
8 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 199 (27.41%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.41%) GDPR
3 31 (4.27%) QA
4 7 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.83%) PMO
6 5 (0.69%) Solvency II
7 4 (0.55%) SLA
8 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.28%) GRC
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.14%) FATCA
10 1 (0.14%) GAAP
10 1 (0.14%) GMP
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.28%) Docker
1 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.41%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.41%) Terraform
2 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.14%) Grafana
3 1 (0.14%) Kibana
3 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 62 (8.54%) Databricks
3 45 (6.20%) SAP
4 39 (5.37%) Oracle
5 23 (3.17%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.20%) Workday
7 10 (1.38%) Google
8 7 (0.96%) Alteryx
9 6 (0.83%) Adobe
9 6 (0.83%) Palantir
9 6 (0.83%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.69%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.69%) Foundry
10 5 (0.69%) IBM
10 5 (0.69%) Informatica
11 4 (0.55%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.55%) Teradata
12 3 (0.41%) Baan
12 3 (0.41%) Cognos