Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £449, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 158 156
Rank change year-on-year -24 -2 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 472 433 571
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.52% 1.61% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.66% 1.73% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 322 392
10th Percentile £270 £263 £263
25th Percentile £358 £340 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.28% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £519 £556 £588
90th Percentile £603 £650 £667
UK median daily rate £437 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -2.89% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 27
10th Percentile £21.53 £16.75 £14.40
25th Percentile £23.84 £22.54 £20.07
Median hourly rate £31.31 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +15.41% +25.35% -8.05%
75th Percentile £45.79 £35.00 £34.71
90th Percentile £64.83 £47.05 £39.67
UK median hourly rate £31.31 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year +15.41% +25.35% -2.35%

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 28,488 25,027 33,935
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.52% 92.90% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,175 15,498 23,097
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
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 1,738 757 1,541
10th Percentile £14.41 £15.91 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.45 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -19.22% +23.80%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% -23.53% +28.79%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +3 266 £475 +3.54% 71
South East +2 66 £407 -19.36% 68
North of England -16 65 £365 -11.25% 28
Yorkshire -18 38 £365 +40.38% 9
South West -7 28 £500 +25.00% 12
North West -26 25 £325 -24.64% 15
Midlands -53 23 £358 -6.10% 33
East Midlands -20 12 £358 -10.50% 11
West Midlands -45 11 £400 +14.29% 22
East of England -21 10 £500 -4.76% 22
North East -11 2 £465 -28.19% 5
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 January 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.

1 218 (46.19%) SQL
2 166 (35.17%) Data Analysis
3 162 (34.32%) Business Intelligence
4 152 (32.20%) Power BI
4 152 (32.20%) Power Platform
5 131 (27.75%) Data Quality
6 124 (26.27%) Analytics
7 120 (25.42%) Python
8 105 (22.25%) Microsoft Excel
9 100 (21.19%) Data Governance
10 97 (20.55%) Visualisation
11 90 (19.07%) Data Modelling
12 83 (17.58%) Decision-Making
13 80 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
14 77 (16.31%) Actionable Insight
14 77 (16.31%) Stakeholder Management
15 69 (14.62%) ETL
16 68 (14.41%) Security Cleared
17 61 (12.92%) Microsoft
18 60 (12.71%) Data Visualisation
18 60 (12.71%) Tableau
19 58 (12.29%) Data Management
19 58 (12.29%) Validation
20 57 (12.08%) Migration
21 52 (11.02%) SC Cleared
22 47 (9.96%) Dashboard Development
23 44 (9.32%) Data Warehouse
24 43 (9.11%) AWS
24 43 (9.11%) Data Cleansing
24 43 (9.11%) Data Transformation

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 20 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.48%) Confluence
3 5 (1.06%) SAS
4 4 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.64%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.64%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 105 (22.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.06%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.42%) SPSS
7 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 10 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.91%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.27%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.42%) Actimize
4 2 (0.42%) Maximo
4 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.21%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) iTrent
5 1 (0.21%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 152 (32.20%) Power Platform
2 43 (9.11%) AWS
3 42 (8.90%) Azure
4 34 (7.20%) Snowflake
5 17 (3.60%) GCP
6 14 (2.97%) Collibra
7 10 (2.12%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (1.91%) Amazon S3
9 7 (1.48%) OCI
9 7 (1.48%) SaaS
10 6 (1.27%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (1.06%) dbt
12 4 (0.85%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.85%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.85%) PowerApps
13 3 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (0.64%) Matillion
13 3 (0.64%) Serverless
14 2 (0.42%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (32.20%) Power BI
2 60 (12.71%) Tableau
3 44 (9.32%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (6.78%) Metadata
5 20 (4.24%) Power Query
6 14 (2.97%) SQL Server
7 13 (2.75%) Big Data
7 13 (2.75%) Looker
8 12 (2.54%) BigQuery
9 9 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.69%) Hadoop
10 8 (1.69%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.48%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.48%) PowerPivot
12 6 (1.27%) KNIME
13 5 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (1.06%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.85%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 13 (2.75%) JIRA
2 5 (1.06%) Git
3 4 (0.85%) MSI
4 2 (0.42%) ERwin
4 2 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.21%) GitLab
5 1 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 160 (33.90%) Finance
2 147 (31.14%) Analytical Skills
3 137 (29.03%) Social Skills
4 40 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 39 (8.26%) Banking
6 19 (4.03%) Marketing
7 13 (2.75%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.33%) Legal
9 10 (2.12%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.12%) Retail
10 9 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 8 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.27%) Electronics
12 6 (1.27%) Military
12 6 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.06%) Billing
13 5 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.06%) Local Government
13 5 (1.06%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.27%) PySpark
2 5 (1.06%) DAO
3 3 (0.64%) Pandas
4 2 (0.42%) NumPy
4 2 (0.42%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.42%) XML
5 1 (0.21%) JSON
5 1 (0.21%) LDAP
5 1 (0.21%) MACH
5 1 (0.21%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.21%) OAuth
5 1 (0.21%) OpenID
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.21%) Plotly
5 1 (0.21%) RESTful
5 1 (0.21%) SAML
5 1 (0.21%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.57%) Data Structures
2 17 (3.60%) Data Centre
2 17 (3.60%) Onboarding
3 15 (3.18%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (3.18%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.12%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.69%) CMDB
6 8 (1.69%) Reinsurance
7 6 (1.27%) Mainframe
8 5 (1.06%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.85%) Derivative
9 4 (0.85%) Fixed Income
10 3 (0.64%) Algorithms
10 3 (0.64%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.64%) Cybercrime
10 3 (0.64%) NHS
11 2 (0.42%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.42%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.64%) Unix
2 2 (0.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (35.17%) Data Analysis
2 162 (34.32%) Business Intelligence
3 124 (26.27%) Analytics
4 100 (21.19%) Data Governance
5 97 (20.55%) Visualisation
6 90 (19.07%) Data Modelling
7 83 (17.58%) Decision-Making
8 80 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
9 77 (16.31%) Actionable Insight
9 77 (16.31%) Stakeholder Management
10 69 (14.62%) ETL
11 60 (12.71%) Data Visualisation
12 58 (12.29%) Data Management
12 58 (12.29%) Validation
13 57 (12.08%) Migration
14 47 (9.96%) Dashboard Development
15 43 (9.11%) Data Cleansing
15 43 (9.11%) Data Transformation
15 43 (9.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 41 (8.69%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 218 (46.19%) SQL
2 120 (25.42%) Python
3 22 (4.66%) R
4 14 (2.97%) VBA
5 8 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.06%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.64%) Scala
8 2 (0.42%) C#
8 2 (0.42%) Java
8 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.21%) C++
9 1 (0.21%) Korn
9 1 (0.21%) Perl
9 1 (0.21%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.21%) SAPscript
9 1 (0.21%) VB
Qualifications
1 68 (14.41%) Security Cleared
2 52 (11.02%) SC Cleared
3 23 (4.87%) Degree
4 6 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.06%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.64%) ACCA
6 3 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.64%) CEH
6 3 (0.64%) CIMA
6 3 (0.64%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (0.64%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.64%) GIAC
6 3 (0.64%) GREM
6 3 (0.64%) OSCP
7 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (27.75%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.93%) GDPR
3 16 (3.39%) QA
4 11 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.64%) SLA
7 2 (0.42%) IFRS
8 1 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) MiFID
8 1 (0.21%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (1.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (0.64%) SCCM
3 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.21%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 61 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.57%) Oracle
3 28 (5.93%) Salesforce
4 26 (5.51%) SAP
5 21 (4.45%) Databricks
6 20 (4.24%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.97%) Workday
8 11 (2.33%) Informatica
9 10 (2.12%) Google
10 7 (1.48%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.27%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.64%) Cognos
12 3 (0.64%) ESRI
12 3 (0.64%) Foundry
12 3 (0.64%) Intergraph
12 3 (0.64%) Palantir
13 2 (0.42%) Dell
13 2 (0.42%) Intel
13 2 (0.42%) Murex
13 2 (0.42%) Teradata