Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £435, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 148 175
Rank change year-on-year -14 +27 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 764 528 514
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 1.94% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 2.11% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 334 367
10th Percentile £263 £263 £270
25th Percentile £356 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £439 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -2.50% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £541
90th Percentile £600 £663 £625
UK median daily rate £440 £448 £450
% change year-on-year -1.68% -0.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 30 21
10th Percentile £18.40 £16.14 £15.23
25th Percentile £24.50 £21.45 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.94 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.37% +17.12% +1.10%
75th Percentile £48.75 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £53.70 £34.71 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.30 £21.66
% change year-on-year +18.58% +16.81% +2.90%

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 41,476 25,032 32,906
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 91.85% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,274 16,261 21,669
10th Percentile £325 £290 £300
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,987 1,247 2,188
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.15 £17.87 £18.13
Median hourly rate £45.56 £27.40 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.26% -35.53% -3.53%
75th Percentile £68.00 £56.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.52 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £44.10 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +75.33% -37.13% -6.98%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -34 342 £463 -3.90% 108
South East -23 117 £375 -11.76% 70
North of England -30 110 £423 +5.63% 74
Midlands +4 92 £423 +8.33% 38
West Midlands -18 68 £413 +3.13% 18
South West -6 67 £475 +16.14% 26
Yorkshire -30 56 £400 +6.67% 23
North West -23 51 £450 +10.15% 37
East of England +1 29 £360 -10.00% 18
East Midlands +5 24 £425 +11.11% 20
North East -43 6 £413 -8.33% 14
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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.

1 276 (36.13%) SQL
2 234 (30.63%) Business Intelligence
3 213 (27.88%) Data Quality
3 213 (27.88%) Power Platform
4 212 (27.75%) Power BI
5 182 (23.82%) Analytics
6 172 (22.51%) Data Analysis
7 147 (19.24%) Data Modelling
8 139 (18.19%) Decision-Making
9 133 (17.41%) Data Governance
10 130 (17.02%) Python
11 125 (16.36%) Validation
12 122 (15.97%) Microsoft Excel
13 120 (15.71%) Visualisation
14 117 (15.31%) Migration
15 104 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
16 100 (13.09%) Actionable Insight
17 97 (12.70%) Azure
18 93 (12.17%) Tableau
19 91 (11.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 89 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
21 85 (11.13%) Dashboard Development
22 78 (10.21%) Data Migration
22 78 (10.21%) Microsoft
23 73 (9.55%) Agile
24 68 (8.90%) Data Visualisation
25 67 (8.77%) Databricks
26 64 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
26 64 (8.38%) Security Cleared
27 61 (7.98%) 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 12 (1.57%) SAS
2 7 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.79%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.79%) CMS
4 4 (0.52%) Apache
4 4 (0.52%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 122 (15.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.65%) SPSS
7 2 (0.26%) CATIA
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.57%) iTrent
2 11 (1.44%) SystmOne
3 8 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (0.92%) NetSuite
5 6 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.52%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.52%) Raiser’s Edge
7 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.39%) SAP R/3
8 2 (0.26%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.26%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.13%) Advent Geneva
9 1 (0.13%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 213 (27.88%) Power Platform
2 97 (12.70%) Azure
3 49 (6.41%) AWS
4 37 (4.84%) Snowflake
5 21 (2.75%) SaaS
6 19 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (1.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (1.70%) SuccessFactors
10 11 (1.44%) Collibra
10 11 (1.44%) GCP
11 9 (1.18%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
12 8 (1.05%) Power Automate
13 6 (0.79%) Google Analytics
14 5 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.65%) GitHub
14 5 (0.65%) Google Tag Manager
14 5 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (0.13%) Firewall
1 1 (0.13%) Internet
1 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (27.75%) Power BI
2 93 (12.17%) Tableau
3 58 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (6.94%) Metadata
5 20 (2.62%) Power Query
6 17 (2.23%) Data Lake
7 16 (2.09%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.83%) Looker
9 10 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (1.31%) Qlik Sense
10 9 (1.18%) Big Data
11 8 (1.05%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.92%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.79%) SQL Server
14 5 (0.65%) NoSQL
15 4 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.52%) Data Mining
15 4 (0.52%) OLAP
15 4 (0.52%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 17 (2.23%) JIRA
2 3 (0.39%) Git
3 2 (0.26%) GitLab
3 2 (0.26%) MLflow
3 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.13%) GCC
4 1 (0.13%) MSI
4 1 (0.13%) Postman
General
1 208 (27.23%) Analytical Skills
2 180 (23.56%) Finance
3 161 (21.07%) Social Skills
4 66 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.72%) Banking
6 46 (6.02%) Marketing
7 22 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 17 (2.23%) Legal
8 17 (2.23%) Retail
9 14 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.44%) Local Government
12 10 (1.31%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.18%) Front Office
13 9 (1.18%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.18%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.92%) Law
14 7 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.31%) Pandas
2 9 (1.18%) PySpark
3 8 (1.05%) JSON
4 6 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (0.65%) JDO
5 5 (0.65%) XML
6 4 (0.52%) EDI
6 4 (0.52%) REST
6 4 (0.52%) SOAP
7 3 (0.39%) GeoJSON
7 3 (0.39%) NumPy
8 2 (0.26%) Kafka
8 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.26%) Node.js
8 2 (0.26%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.26%) Web Services
8 2 (0.26%) YAML
9 1 (0.13%) ADO
9 1 (0.13%) Middleware
9 1 (0.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.81%) Data Structures
2 26 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (2.09%) Onboarding
5 15 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 13 (1.70%) Data Centre
7 12 (1.57%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (0.92%) Fixed Income
10 6 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (0.79%) NHS
11 5 (0.65%) Credit Risk
11 5 (0.65%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.52%) CMDB
12 4 (0.52%) Derivative
12 4 (0.52%) Equities
12 4 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.52%) Hedge funds
12 4 (0.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.52%) Windows
2 2 (0.26%) Linux
2 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (30.63%) Business Intelligence
2 182 (23.82%) Analytics
3 172 (22.51%) Data Analysis
4 147 (19.24%) Data Modelling
5 139 (18.19%) Decision-Making
6 133 (17.41%) Data Governance
7 125 (16.36%) Validation
8 120 (15.71%) Visualisation
9 117 (15.31%) Migration
10 104 (13.61%) Problem-Solving
11 100 (13.09%) Actionable Insight
12 91 (11.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 89 (11.65%) Stakeholder Management
14 85 (11.13%) Dashboard Development
15 78 (10.21%) Data Migration
16 73 (9.55%) Agile
17 68 (8.90%) Data Visualisation
18 64 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
19 61 (7.98%) AI
19 61 (7.98%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 276 (36.13%) SQL
2 130 (17.02%) Python
3 32 (4.19%) R
4 18 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 10 (1.31%) VBA
6 4 (0.52%) Scala
7 3 (0.39%) VB
8 2 (0.26%) Korn
8 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.13%) Cypher
9 1 (0.13%) Java
9 1 (0.13%) LookML
9 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 64 (8.38%) Security Cleared
2 45 (5.89%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.10%) Degree
4 21 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (1.83%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.52%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.52%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (0.39%) PMP
8 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.26%) PhD
9 1 (0.13%) CBAP
9 1 (0.13%) CISM
9 1 (0.13%) CISSP
9 1 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) ISEB
9 1 (0.13%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (27.88%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.32%) GDPR
2 33 (4.32%) QA
3 9 (1.18%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (0.92%) PMO
5 6 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.65%) SLA
7 4 (0.52%) GRC
7 4 (0.52%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.13%) FATCA
9 1 (0.13%) GMP
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.39%) Docker
3 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.26%) Terraform
3 1 (0.13%) Grafana
3 1 (0.13%) Kibana
3 1 (0.13%) SCCM
3 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (10.21%) Microsoft
2 67 (8.77%) Databricks
3 47 (6.15%) SAP
4 40 (5.24%) Oracle
5 22 (2.88%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.23%) Workday
7 14 (1.83%) Google
8 9 (1.18%) Alteryx
9 8 (1.05%) Teradata
10 7 (0.92%) ServiceNow
11 6 (0.79%) Adobe
11 6 (0.79%) Informatica
11 6 (0.79%) Palantir
12 5 (0.65%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.65%) Foundry
12 5 (0.65%) IBM
13 4 (0.52%) Baan
13 4 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 3 (0.39%) Cognos
14 3 (0.39%) Splunk