Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £429, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 December 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 180 164 162
Rank change year-on-year -16 -2 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 492 453 578
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.57% 1.58% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.72% 1.70% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 333 405
10th Percentile £269 £263 £263
25th Percentile £350 £333 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.78% -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £519 £556 £588
90th Percentile £597 £675 £673
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 27
10th Percentile £21.42 £16.25 £15.35
25th Percentile £23.84 £18.92 £20.29
Median hourly rate £31.31 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +15.41% +25.35% -15.14%
75th Percentile £45.79 £35.00 £34.86
90th Percentile £64.83 £45.35 £39.67
UK median hourly rate £31.31 £26.46 £22.07
% change year-on-year +18.32% +19.88% -4.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 28,653 26,631 34,445
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 92.94% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,270 16,563 23,658
10th Percentile £291 £300 £285
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,769 838 1,330
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.73 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% -22.58% +39.11%
75th Percentile £60.61 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.48% -26.67% +50.00%

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025. 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 -10 263 £475 +5.56% 184
North of England -11 77 £358 -12.80% 74
South East -8 67 £413 -19.12% 91
Yorkshire -10 46 £358 +43.00% 25
South West +4 31 £475 +18.75% 29
North West -27 29 £344 -16.67% 40
Midlands -49 25 £358 +0.49% 38
West Midlands -40 13 £400 +17.65% 24
East Midlands -16 12 £358 -10.50% 14
East of England -28 10 £500 -4.76% 27
North East -8 2 £465 -35.42% 10
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 December 2025, 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.

1 222 (45.12%) SQL
2 178 (36.18%) Data Analysis
3 166 (33.74%) Business Intelligence
4 156 (31.71%) Power Platform
5 155 (31.50%) Power BI
6 132 (26.83%) Data Quality
7 126 (25.61%) Python
8 121 (24.59%) Analytics
9 116 (23.58%) Microsoft Excel
10 106 (21.54%) Visualisation
11 101 (20.53%) Data Governance
12 94 (19.11%) Data Modelling
13 92 (18.70%) Decision-Making
14 88 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
15 87 (17.68%) Actionable Insight
16 77 (15.65%) Stakeholder Management
17 72 (14.63%) Microsoft
18 65 (13.21%) Security Cleared
19 64 (13.01%) Data Visualisation
20 63 (12.80%) Tableau
21 62 (12.60%) ETL
22 60 (12.20%) Data Management
23 58 (11.79%) Validation
24 57 (11.59%) Migration
25 51 (10.37%) Data Cleansing
26 49 (9.96%) SC Cleared
26 49 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
27 45 (9.15%) Data Transformation
28 44 (8.94%) Data Warehouse
29 43 (8.74%) Dashboard Development

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 22 (4.47%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.02%) Confluence
2 5 (1.02%) SAS
3 3 (0.61%) GeoServer
3 3 (0.61%) Smallworld
4 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 116 (23.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.42%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.22%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.41%) SPSS
7 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.83%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.22%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.61%) Maximo
4 3 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.41%) Actimize
5 2 (0.41%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.20%) ContrOCC
6 1 (0.20%) Integrated Workplace Management System
6 1 (0.20%) iTrent
6 1 (0.20%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.20%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 156 (31.71%) Power Platform
2 40 (8.13%) Azure
3 37 (7.52%) AWS
4 31 (6.30%) Snowflake
5 19 (3.86%) GCP
6 14 (2.85%) Collibra
7 10 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (1.42%) Amazon S3
8 7 (1.42%) dbt
8 7 (1.42%) OCI
8 7 (1.42%) SaaS
9 5 (1.02%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.02%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.81%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (0.81%) Google Data Studio
10 4 (0.81%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.61%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.61%) Matillion
11 3 (0.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 155 (31.50%) Power BI
2 63 (12.80%) Tableau
3 44 (8.94%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (6.50%) Metadata
5 26 (5.28%) Power Query
6 15 (3.05%) BigQuery
7 14 (2.85%) Looker
7 14 (2.85%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.83%) Relational Database
9 8 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.42%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (1.42%) Big Data
10 7 (1.42%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.42%) PowerPivot
10 7 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (1.22%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.81%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.81%) Impala
12 4 (0.81%) KNIME
12 4 (0.81%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 11 (2.24%) JIRA
2 5 (1.02%) Git
3 2 (0.41%) ERwin
3 2 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.41%) Selenium
4 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.20%) GitLab
General
1 176 (35.77%) Finance
2 159 (32.32%) Analytical Skills
3 150 (30.49%) Social Skills
4 48 (9.76%) Banking
5 41 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.07%) Marketing
7 13 (2.64%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.24%) Investment Banking
9 11 (2.24%) Legal
9 11 (2.24%) Retail
10 7 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.42%) Local Government
10 7 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.22%) Electronics
11 6 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.22%) Military
11 6 (1.22%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.02%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.42%) PySpark
2 5 (1.02%) DAO
3 3 (0.61%) JSON
3 3 (0.61%) Pandas
4 2 (0.41%) NumPy
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.41%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.20%) LDAP
5 1 (0.20%) MACH
5 1 (0.20%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.20%) OAuth
5 1 (0.20%) OpenID
5 1 (0.20%) Plotly
5 1 (0.20%) RESTful
5 1 (0.20%) SAML
5 1 (0.20%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.20%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.20%) Swagger
5 1 (0.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.89%) Data Structures
2 20 (4.07%) Onboarding
3 19 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (3.46%) Data Centre
4 17 (3.46%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.63%) CMDB
7 8 (1.63%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.63%) Reinsurance
8 6 (1.22%) Mainframe
9 5 (1.02%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.81%) Derivative
10 4 (0.81%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.61%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (0.61%) Cybercrime
11 3 (0.61%) NHS
12 2 (0.41%) BYOD
12 2 (0.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.61%) Unix
1 3 (0.61%) Windows
2 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (36.18%) Data Analysis
2 166 (33.74%) Business Intelligence
3 121 (24.59%) Analytics
4 106 (21.54%) Visualisation
5 101 (20.53%) Data Governance
6 94 (19.11%) Data Modelling
7 92 (18.70%) Decision-Making
8 88 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
9 87 (17.68%) Actionable Insight
10 77 (15.65%) Stakeholder Management
11 64 (13.01%) Data Visualisation
12 62 (12.60%) ETL
13 60 (12.20%) Data Management
14 58 (11.79%) Validation
15 57 (11.59%) Migration
16 51 (10.37%) Data Cleansing
17 49 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 45 (9.15%) Data Transformation
19 43 (8.74%) Dashboard Development
20 42 (8.54%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 222 (45.12%) SQL
2 126 (25.61%) Python
3 20 (4.07%) R
4 13 (2.64%) VBA
5 9 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.81%) Scala
8 3 (0.61%) Java
9 2 (0.41%) C#
9 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.20%) C++
10 1 (0.20%) Korn
10 1 (0.20%) Perl
10 1 (0.20%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.20%) SAPscript
10 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 65 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 49 (9.96%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.47%) Degree
4 4 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.61%) ACCA
5 3 (0.61%) CEH
5 3 (0.61%) CIMA
5 3 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (0.61%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.61%) GIAC
5 3 (0.61%) GREM
5 3 (0.61%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.61%) OSCP
6 2 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (26.83%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.89%) GDPR
3 16 (3.25%) QA
4 11 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.61%) SLA
7 2 (0.41%) IFRS
7 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.20%) FATCA
8 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.20%) MiFID
8 1 (0.20%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (1.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (0.61%) SCCM
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.20%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 72 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.32%) Oracle
3 29 (5.89%) SAP
4 26 (5.28%) Salesforce
5 21 (4.27%) ServiceNow
6 19 (3.86%) Databricks
7 16 (3.25%) Workday
8 12 (2.44%) Google
9 9 (1.83%) Informatica
10 6 (1.22%) Alteryx
11 5 (1.02%) Foundry
11 5 (1.02%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.02%) Palantir
12 3 (0.61%) Cognos
12 3 (0.61%) ESRI
12 3 (0.61%) Intergraph
13 2 (0.41%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.41%) Micro Focus
13 2 (0.41%) NEC
13 2 (0.41%) NetIQ