Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £437, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026.

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

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 161 164
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 627 434 559
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.55% 1.79% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 1.93% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 309 379
10th Percentile £280 £276 £296
25th Percentile £355 £352 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £516 £550 £559
90th Percentile £600 £650 £632
UK median daily rate £438 £456 £465
% change year-on-year -4.11% -1.88% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 19 19
10th Percentile £20.90 £15.90 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.69 £20.12 £15.56
Median hourly rate £32.25 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +18.89% +25.35% -2.35%
75th Percentile £50.50 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £33.66 £40.95
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.81 £21.66
% change year-on-year +19.35% +23.79% +11.11%

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 37,387 22,434 34,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.58% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,316 14,918 22,678
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,544 909 2,434
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.11 £12.94
25th Percentile £20.98 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.40 £36.58
Median % change year-on-year +54.61% -16.88% -17.86%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.49
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.04% -21.23% -18.89%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -8 322 £463 -2.63% 124
South East -35 85 £382 -17.41% 102
Midlands -24 75 £423 +4.00% 49
North of England -35 75 £413 +0.30% 66
West Midlands -27 50 £420 +1.82% 24
Yorkshire -29 39 £365 -7.30% 24
South West -23 35 £525 +28.36% 25
North West -25 33 £425 +4.62% 36
East Midlands -11 25 £425 +6.25% 25
East of England -17 22 £358 -26.56% 37
North East -20 5 £450 -7.69% 6
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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.

1 242 (38.60%) SQL
2 199 (31.74%) Business Intelligence
3 180 (28.71%) Power Platform
4 179 (28.55%) Data Quality
4 179 (28.55%) Power BI
5 146 (23.29%) Analytics
6 139 (22.17%) Data Analysis
6 139 (22.17%) Data Modelling
7 128 (20.41%) Python
8 120 (19.14%) Data Governance
9 119 (18.98%) Decision-Making
10 110 (17.54%) Microsoft Excel
11 105 (16.75%) Migration
11 105 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
12 100 (15.95%) Validation
13 89 (14.19%) Visualisation
14 87 (13.88%) Actionable Insight
15 80 (12.76%) Tableau
16 78 (12.44%) Security Cleared
17 77 (12.28%) Azure
18 75 (11.96%) ETL
19 74 (11.80%) Stakeholder Management
20 73 (11.64%) Dashboard Development
21 68 (10.85%) Agile
21 68 (10.85%) Data Migration
22 60 (9.57%) Data Warehouse
23 58 (9.25%) Data Management
23 58 (9.25%) SC Cleared
24 57 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
24 57 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement

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 11 (1.75%) SAS
2 9 (1.44%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.28%) Confluence
4 4 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.48%) CMS
6 2 (0.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 110 (17.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.16%) CATIA
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.75%) SystmOne
3 10 (1.59%) iTrent
4 7 (1.12%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.64%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.48%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.48%) SAP R/3
8 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.32%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.32%) Maximo
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.32%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.16%) Advent Geneva
9 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.16%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 180 (28.71%) Power Platform
2 77 (12.28%) Azure
3 54 (8.61%) AWS
4 26 (4.15%) Snowflake
5 22 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (2.55%) GCP
7 15 (2.39%) SaaS
8 13 (2.07%) SuccessFactors
9 12 (1.91%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.59%) Collibra
11 9 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (0.96%) dbt
14 6 (0.96%) Google Analytics
15 5 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.80%) Serverless
16 4 (0.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (0.64%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (28.55%) Power BI
2 80 (12.76%) Tableau
3 60 (9.57%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (8.13%) Metadata
5 15 (2.39%) Power Query
6 14 (2.23%) Looker
7 13 (2.07%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.91%) Big Data
9 11 (1.75%) Data Lake
9 11 (1.75%) Relational Database
10 9 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.12%) Hadoop
12 6 (0.96%) KNIME
12 6 (0.96%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
13 5 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (2.55%) JIRA
2 6 (0.96%) MSI
3 5 (0.80%) Git
4 2 (0.32%) GitLab
4 2 (0.32%) MLflow
4 2 (0.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.16%) GCC
5 1 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 191 (30.46%) Analytical Skills
2 163 (26.00%) Finance
3 140 (22.33%) Social Skills
4 62 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 43 (6.86%) Banking
6 29 (4.63%) Marketing
7 19 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.75%) Legal
10 9 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.28%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.12%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.12%) Front Office
13 6 (0.96%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.96%) Law
13 6 (0.96%) Local Government
13 6 (0.96%) Retail
14 4 (0.64%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.28%) Pandas
1 8 (1.28%) PySpark
2 5 (0.80%) JDO
2 5 (0.80%) XML
3 4 (0.64%) JSON
3 4 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.48%) EDI
4 3 (0.48%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.48%) NumPy
4 3 (0.48%) REST
4 3 (0.48%) SOAP
4 3 (0.48%) YAML
5 2 (0.32%) Kafka
5 2 (0.32%) Node.js
5 2 (0.32%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.32%) Web Services
6 1 (0.16%) MACH
6 1 (0.16%) Next.js
6 1 (0.16%) Playwright
6 1 (0.16%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.61%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (2.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (2.07%) Management Information System
5 12 (1.91%) Data Centre
5 12 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.28%) NHS
7 8 (1.28%) Onboarding
8 5 (0.80%) CMDB
8 5 (0.80%) Credit Risk
8 5 (0.80%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.64%) Derivative
9 4 (0.64%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.64%) Hedge funds
9 4 (0.64%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.48%) Equities
10 3 (0.48%) Freedom of Information
10 3 (0.48%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.32%) Windows
2 1 (0.16%) Linux
2 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (31.74%) Business Intelligence
2 146 (23.29%) Analytics
3 139 (22.17%) Data Analysis
3 139 (22.17%) Data Modelling
4 120 (19.14%) Data Governance
5 119 (18.98%) Decision-Making
6 105 (16.75%) Migration
6 105 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (15.95%) Validation
8 89 (14.19%) Visualisation
9 87 (13.88%) Actionable Insight
10 75 (11.96%) ETL
11 74 (11.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 73 (11.64%) Dashboard Development
13 68 (10.85%) Agile
13 68 (10.85%) Data Migration
14 58 (9.25%) Data Management
15 57 (9.09%) Data Visualisation
15 57 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 49 (7.81%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 242 (38.60%) SQL
2 128 (20.41%) Python
3 35 (5.58%) R
4 16 (2.55%) VBA
5 8 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.64%) Scala
7 3 (0.48%) Korn
7 3 (0.48%) VB
8 2 (0.32%) Java
8 2 (0.32%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.16%) LookML
Qualifications
1 78 (12.44%) Security Cleared
2 58 (9.25%) SC Cleared
3 21 (3.35%) Degree
4 13 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.91%) DBS Check
6 6 (0.96%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.32%) PhD
8 1 (0.16%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.16%) CBAP
8 1 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (28.55%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.26%) QA
3 30 (4.78%) GDPR
4 8 (1.28%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (0.80%) PMO
5 5 (0.80%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.48%) SLA
7 2 (0.32%) IFRS
7 2 (0.32%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.16%) FATCA
8 1 (0.16%) GAAP
8 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (0.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.32%) Docker
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.48%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.48%) Terraform
2 2 (0.32%) SCCM
3 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.16%) Grafana
3 1 (0.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 54 (8.61%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.97%) Databricks
3 49 (7.81%) SAP
4 34 (5.42%) Oracle
5 25 (3.99%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.71%) Workday
7 13 (2.07%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.91%) Google
9 9 (1.44%) Informatica
10 7 (1.12%) MuleSoft
11 6 (0.96%) Teradata
12 5 (0.80%) Adobe
12 5 (0.80%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.80%) Atlassian
12 5 (0.80%) IBM
13 4 (0.64%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.64%) Cognos
13 4 (0.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 3 (0.48%) Baan
14 3 (0.48%) Foundry