Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 191 149 154
Rank change year-on-year -42 +5 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 465 434 613
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.43% 1.65% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 1.78% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 322 424
10th Percentile £274 £271 £263
25th Percentile £358 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £461 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.89% -
75th Percentile £538 £556 £575
90th Percentile £636 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 29
10th Percentile £21.53 £15.90 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.84 £21.41 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.31 £27.13 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.41% +26.16% -1.51%
75th Percentile £45.79 £35.00 £34.71
90th Percentile £64.83 £45.35 £39.31
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £21.57
% change year-on-year +19.82% +25.75% +1.39%

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 29,830 24,448 35,088
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.63% 93.01% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,019 15,064 23,689
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,843 738 1,948
10th Percentile £14.82 £15.98 £13.31
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.26 £32.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -9.98% -13.33% +7.14%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -4 272 £475 - 66
South East -11 67 £401 -20.99% 81
North of England -41 53 £369 -10.27% 58
Yorkshire -27 28 £365 +151.72% 21
South West -14 25 £500 +25.00% 35
Midlands -68 25 £405 +1.25% 50
North West -31 22 £388 -13.89% 30
West Midlands -48 14 £456 +14.06% 26
East Midlands -25 11 £358 -6.10% 24
East of England -19 9 £513 -2.38% 23
North East -16 4 £475 -17.39% 8
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 207 (44.52%) SQL
2 153 (32.90%) Business Intelligence
2 153 (32.90%) Data Analysis
3 149 (32.04%) Power BI
3 149 (32.04%) Power Platform
4 130 (27.96%) Data Quality
5 120 (25.81%) Analytics
6 106 (22.80%) Python
7 103 (22.15%) Data Governance
8 100 (21.51%) Microsoft Excel
9 93 (20.00%) Visualisation
10 89 (19.14%) Data Modelling
11 87 (18.71%) Decision-Making
12 79 (16.99%) Actionable Insight
13 78 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
13 78 (16.77%) Stakeholder Management
14 71 (15.27%) ETL
15 70 (15.05%) Security Cleared
16 63 (13.55%) Tableau
17 62 (13.33%) Validation
18 61 (13.12%) Data Management
18 61 (13.12%) Migration
19 58 (12.47%) Data Visualisation
20 56 (12.04%) Microsoft
21 55 (11.83%) SC Cleared
22 49 (10.54%) Dashboard Development
23 45 (9.68%) Data Transformation
23 45 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
23 45 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 44 (9.46%) Agile

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 16 (3.44%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.72%) SAS
3 6 (1.29%) Confluence
4 3 (0.65%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.65%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.65%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 100 (21.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.43%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.29%) SAP HR
4 3 (0.65%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.65%) Maximo
5 2 (0.43%) Actimize
5 2 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.22%) iTrent
6 1 (0.22%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.22%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.22%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 149 (32.04%) Power Platform
2 40 (8.60%) AWS
2 40 (8.60%) Azure
3 35 (7.53%) Snowflake
4 17 (3.66%) GCP
5 11 (2.37%) Collibra
6 9 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (1.72%) Amazon S3
7 8 (1.72%) SaaS
8 7 (1.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (1.51%) OCI
9 5 (1.08%) dbt
10 4 (0.86%) Entra ID
10 4 (0.86%) Google Analytics
10 4 (0.86%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.65%) Google Data Studio
11 3 (0.65%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (0.65%) Matillion
11 3 (0.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Internet
2 1 (0.22%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (32.04%) Power BI
2 63 (13.55%) Tableau
3 45 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (6.88%) Metadata
5 17 (3.66%) Power Query
6 15 (3.23%) Looker
7 14 (3.01%) SQL Server
8 13 (2.80%) BigQuery
9 12 (2.58%) Big Data
10 9 (1.94%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.51%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.51%) KNIME
12 7 (1.51%) PowerPivot
13 6 (1.29%) Relational Database
14 5 (1.08%) Hadoop
14 5 (1.08%) Star Schema
15 4 (0.86%) NoSQL
15 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (3.01%) JIRA
2 6 (1.29%) MSI
3 5 (1.08%) Git
4 2 (0.43%) ERwin
4 2 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.22%) GitLab
General
1 144 (30.97%) Finance
2 136 (29.25%) Analytical Skills
3 131 (28.17%) Social Skills
4 37 (7.96%) Public Sector
5 32 (6.88%) Banking
6 20 (4.30%) Marketing
7 13 (2.80%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.37%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (2.15%) Retail
10 9 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.72%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.29%) Electronics
13 6 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.29%) Legal
13 6 (1.29%) Military
13 6 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.86%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.86%) Front Office
14 4 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.08%) PySpark
2 3 (0.65%) Pandas
2 3 (0.65%) XML
3 2 (0.43%) SailPoint
3 2 (0.43%) YAML
4 1 (0.22%) LDAP
4 1 (0.22%) MACH
4 1 (0.22%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.22%) NumPy
4 1 (0.22%) OAuth
4 1 (0.22%) OpenID
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.22%) Plotly
4 1 (0.22%) RESTful
4 1 (0.22%) SAML
4 1 (0.22%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.24%) Data Structures
2 17 (3.66%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (3.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 16 (3.44%) Data Centre
4 15 (3.23%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.15%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.72%) CMDB
8 6 (1.29%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.08%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.65%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.65%) Cybercrime
10 3 (0.65%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.65%) NHS
10 3 (0.65%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.43%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.43%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.43%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.65%) Unix
2 2 (0.43%) Windows
3 1 (0.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (32.90%) Business Intelligence
1 153 (32.90%) Data Analysis
2 120 (25.81%) Analytics
3 103 (22.15%) Data Governance
4 93 (20.00%) Visualisation
5 89 (19.14%) Data Modelling
6 87 (18.71%) Decision-Making
7 79 (16.99%) Actionable Insight
8 78 (16.77%) Problem-Solving
8 78 (16.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 71 (15.27%) ETL
10 62 (13.33%) Validation
11 61 (13.12%) Data Management
11 61 (13.12%) Migration
12 58 (12.47%) Data Visualisation
13 49 (10.54%) Dashboard Development
14 45 (9.68%) Data Transformation
14 45 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 44 (9.46%) Agile
16 43 (9.25%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 207 (44.52%) SQL
2 106 (22.80%) Python
3 20 (4.30%) R
4 13 (2.80%) VBA
5 7 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.08%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.43%) C#
7 2 (0.43%) Java
7 2 (0.43%) Korn
7 2 (0.43%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.43%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.22%) Perl
8 1 (0.22%) SAPscript
8 1 (0.22%) Scala
8 1 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 70 (15.05%) Security Cleared
2 55 (11.83%) SC Cleared
3 21 (4.52%) Degree
4 6 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.86%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.65%) ACCA
6 3 (0.65%) CEH
6 3 (0.65%) CIMA
6 3 (0.65%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (0.65%) GIAC
6 3 (0.65%) GREM
6 3 (0.65%) OSCP
7 2 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.43%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.22%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.22%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (27.96%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.38%) GDPR
3 16 (3.44%) QA
4 11 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.65%) IFRS
6 3 (0.65%) SLA
7 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.43%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.43%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.22%) FATCA
8 1 (0.22%) GAAP
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (1.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (0.65%) SCCM
2 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.22%) Terraform
2 1 (0.22%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 56 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.02%) Salesforce
3 27 (5.81%) Oracle
4 25 (5.38%) SAP
5 20 (4.30%) ServiceNow
6 16 (3.44%) Databricks
7 14 (3.01%) Workday
8 12 (2.58%) Google
9 9 (1.94%) Informatica
10 8 (1.72%) MuleSoft
11 5 (1.08%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.65%) Cognos
12 3 (0.65%) ESRI
12 3 (0.65%) Foundry
12 3 (0.65%) Intergraph
12 3 (0.65%) Palantir
12 3 (0.65%) Teradata
13 2 (0.43%) Bloomberg
13 2 (0.43%) Micro Focus
13 2 (0.43%) NetIQ