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 10 June 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 140 162
Rank change year-on-year -15 +22 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 691 479 538
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 1.96% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.77% 2.12% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 321 384
10th Percentile £263 £285 £268
25th Percentile £350 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -0.06% -5.21%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £663 £635
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 32 18
10th Percentile £22.50 £18.48 £13.50
25th Percentile £27.47 £22.75 £15.40
Median hourly rate £30.51 £26.94 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +25.70% -3.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 £31.73 £40.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £34.95 £42.63
UK median hourly rate £30.27 £26.50 £21.65
% change year-on-year +14.23% +22.40% +5.76%

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 39,011 22,600 34,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.37% 92.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,059 14,872 22,778
10th Percentile £325 £290 £288
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.68% -4.76% -2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,743 986 2,652
10th Percentile £15.79 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.43% -26.13% -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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -38 325 £460 -8.00% 83
South East -16 111 £375 -18.70% 67
Midlands -17 88 £425 +6.25% 34
North of England -45 83 £406 -2.99% 66
West Midlands -21 63 £416 +4.06% 15
South West +6 51 £513 +25.31% 29
Yorkshire -32 45 £388 - 20
North West -25 35 £423 +2.42% 36
East Midlands -10 25 £425 +7.59% 19
East of England -7 24 £360 -7.10% 22
North East -27 5 £413 -15.38% 10
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 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.

1 251 (36.32%) SQL
2 204 (29.52%) Business Intelligence
3 184 (26.63%) Data Quality
3 184 (26.63%) Power Platform
4 183 (26.48%) Power BI
5 155 (22.43%) Analytics
6 140 (20.26%) Data Analysis
7 132 (19.10%) Data Modelling
8 125 (18.09%) Decision-Making
8 125 (18.09%) Python
9 114 (16.50%) Data Governance
9 114 (16.50%) Migration
10 107 (15.48%) Microsoft Excel
11 104 (15.05%) Validation
12 102 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
13 100 (14.47%) Visualisation
14 85 (12.30%) Actionable Insight
14 85 (12.30%) Azure
15 82 (11.87%) Tableau
16 78 (11.29%) Dashboard Development
17 73 (10.56%) Security Cleared
18 72 (10.42%) Data Migration
19 71 (10.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 71 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
20 68 (9.84%) Agile
21 67 (9.70%) ETL
22 64 (9.26%) Data Visualisation
23 61 (8.83%) Databricks
24 58 (8.39%) Data Management
24 58 (8.39%) Microsoft

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 (1.30%) SAS
2 7 (1.01%) Apache Spark
2 7 (1.01%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.87%) Confluence
4 5 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.43%) Apache
5 3 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 107 (15.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.58%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.29%) CATIA
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.74%) iTrent
2 11 (1.59%) SystmOne
3 8 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (1.01%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.43%) SAP R/3
8 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.29%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.29%) Maximo
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.29%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.29%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.14%) NEC Housing
9 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 184 (26.63%) Power Platform
2 85 (12.30%) Azure
3 53 (7.67%) AWS
4 31 (4.49%) Snowflake
5 22 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (2.89%) SaaS
7 13 (1.88%) SuccessFactors
8 11 (1.59%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (1.30%) Collibra
11 8 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (1.16%) GCP
12 7 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (0.72%) Fivetran
13 5 (0.72%) Google Analytics
13 5 (0.72%) Serverless
14 4 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (0.58%) GitHub
14 4 (0.58%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (26.48%) Power BI
2 82 (11.87%) Tableau
3 57 (8.25%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (6.80%) Metadata
5 17 (2.46%) Power Query
6 15 (2.17%) Data Lake
6 15 (2.17%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.03%) Big Data
8 10 (1.45%) Looker
8 10 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (1.45%) Qlik Sense
9 8 (1.16%) Hadoop
10 6 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.87%) BigQuery
10 6 (0.87%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
11 5 (0.72%) KNIME
11 5 (0.72%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (0.58%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 15 (2.17%) JIRA
2 6 (0.87%) MSI
3 3 (0.43%) Git
4 2 (0.29%) GitLab
4 2 (0.29%) MLflow
4 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.14%) GCC
5 1 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 193 (27.93%) Analytical Skills
2 163 (23.59%) Finance
3 138 (19.97%) Social Skills
4 57 (8.25%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.24%) Banking
6 34 (4.92%) Marketing
7 19 (2.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.74%) Legal
10 11 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.30%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.30%) Retail
13 8 (1.16%) Local Government
13 8 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.01%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.01%) Front Office
14 7 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (1.01%) Law
15 5 (0.72%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.45%) Pandas
2 9 (1.30%) PySpark
3 6 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.87%) XML
4 5 (0.72%) JDO
5 4 (0.58%) JSON
5 4 (0.58%) REST
5 4 (0.58%) SOAP
5 4 (0.58%) YAML
6 3 (0.43%) EDI
6 3 (0.43%) GeoJSON
6 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (0.43%) NumPy
7 2 (0.29%) Kafka
7 2 (0.29%) Node.js
7 2 (0.29%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.29%) Web Services
8 1 (0.14%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.14%) Matplotlib
8 1 (0.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 47 (6.80%) Data Structures
2 26 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (2.32%) Data Centre
5 14 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 10 (1.45%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.30%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.16%) NHS
9 5 (0.72%) Credit Risk
9 5 (0.72%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.58%) Derivative
10 4 (0.58%) Equities
10 4 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.58%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.58%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (0.58%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.58%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.43%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.43%) Windows
2 2 (0.29%) Linux
2 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (29.52%) Business Intelligence
2 155 (22.43%) Analytics
3 140 (20.26%) Data Analysis
4 132 (19.10%) Data Modelling
5 125 (18.09%) Decision-Making
6 114 (16.50%) Data Governance
6 114 (16.50%) Migration
7 104 (15.05%) Validation
8 102 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
9 100 (14.47%) Visualisation
10 85 (12.30%) Actionable Insight
11 78 (11.29%) Dashboard Development
12 72 (10.42%) Data Migration
13 71 (10.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 71 (10.27%) Stakeholder Management
14 68 (9.84%) Agile
15 67 (9.70%) ETL
16 64 (9.26%) Data Visualisation
17 58 (8.39%) Data Management
18 54 (7.81%) AI
Programming Languages
1 251 (36.32%) SQL
2 125 (18.09%) Python
3 36 (5.21%) R
4 13 (1.88%) VBA
5 8 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.43%) Korn
6 3 (0.43%) Scala
6 3 (0.43%) VB
7 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.14%) Java
8 1 (0.14%) LookML
Qualifications
1 73 (10.56%) Security Cleared
2 56 (8.10%) SC Cleared
3 32 (4.63%) Degree
4 18 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.74%) DBS Check
6 6 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.29%) PhD
8 1 (0.14%) CBAP
8 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (26.63%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.78%) GDPR
3 31 (4.49%) QA
4 6 (0.87%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.87%) PMO
5 5 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (0.72%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.43%) SLA
7 2 (0.29%) IFRS
7 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.14%) FATCA
8 1 (0.14%) GAAP
8 1 (0.14%) GMP
8 1 (0.14%) GRC
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.29%) Docker
2 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.43%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.43%) Terraform
2 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.14%) Grafana
3 1 (0.14%) Kibana
3 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (8.83%) Databricks
2 58 (8.39%) Microsoft
3 46 (6.66%) SAP
4 39 (5.64%) Oracle
5 24 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.32%) Workday
7 9 (1.30%) Google
8 7 (1.01%) Alteryx
9 6 (0.87%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.72%) Adobe
10 5 (0.72%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.72%) IBM
10 5 (0.72%) Informatica
10 5 (0.72%) MuleSoft
11 4 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.58%) Teradata
12 3 (0.43%) Baan
12 3 (0.43%) Foundry
12 3 (0.43%) Palantir
12 3 (0.43%) Splunk