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 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 156 152
Rank change year-on-year -32 -4 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 490 446 617
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.47% 1.70% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 1.83% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 324 329 424
10th Percentile £288 £265 £263
25th Percentile £358 £349 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £601 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 32
10th Percentile £21.68 £15.90 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.45 £21.41 £15.82
Median hourly rate £33.75 £27.13 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +24.42% +26.57% -0.33%
75th Percentile £50.50 £35.00 £34.71
90th Percentile £64.78 £45.35 £38.95
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £21.43
% change year-on-year +19.82% +26.57% +0.73%

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 30,616 24,434 35,357
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 93.01% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,494 15,146 23,822
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
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 1,931 720 2,109
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.99 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.82 £21.41 £16.79
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £61.50
90th Percentile £71.99 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £29.65 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.17% -5.71% -

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 -9 280 £475 +2.70% 111
South East -14 66 £400 -20.40% 94
North of England -43 57 £400 -2.44% 72
Midlands -60 33 £400 - 59
South West -13 29 £500 +22.25% 34
North West -23 29 £420 -6.67% 41
Yorkshire -45 25 £365 +151.72% 23
West Midlands -49 22 £400 - 32
East Midlands -26 11 £384 +0.72% 27
East of England -28 10 £513 -2.38% 24
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 6 February 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.

1 221 (45.10%) SQL
2 155 (31.63%) Data Analysis
3 154 (31.43%) Business Intelligence
4 146 (29.80%) Power BI
4 146 (29.80%) Power Platform
5 140 (28.57%) Data Quality
6 131 (26.73%) Analytics
7 110 (22.45%) Python
8 103 (21.02%) Data Governance
9 98 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
10 94 (19.18%) Visualisation
11 91 (18.57%) Data Modelling
12 90 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
13 88 (17.96%) Decision-Making
14 83 (16.94%) Actionable Insight
15 81 (16.53%) Stakeholder Management
16 79 (16.12%) ETL
17 74 (15.10%) Security Cleared
18 70 (14.29%) Migration
19 69 (14.08%) Validation
20 65 (13.27%) Data Management
21 64 (13.06%) Tableau
22 62 (12.65%) Data Visualisation
23 60 (12.24%) Microsoft
24 56 (11.43%) Dashboard Development
24 56 (11.43%) SC Cleared
25 52 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 48 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
27 46 (9.39%) Data Migration
28 45 (9.18%) Azure

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 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.63%) SAS
3 7 (1.43%) Confluence
4 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.61%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.61%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.20%) Apache
5 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 98 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.41%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.63%) Salesforce CRM
1 8 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.22%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.82%) Maximo
4 3 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.41%) Actimize
5 2 (0.41%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.41%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.20%) iTrent
6 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 146 (29.80%) Power Platform
2 45 (9.18%) Azure
3 42 (8.57%) AWS
4 36 (7.35%) Snowflake
5 16 (3.27%) GCP
6 12 (2.45%) Amazon S3
7 11 (2.24%) Collibra
8 10 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (2.04%) SaaS
9 9 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.63%) dbt
11 7 (1.43%) OCI
12 4 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.82%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.82%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.82%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.82%) Serverless
13 3 (0.61%) Google Tag Manager
13 3 (0.61%) Matillion
13 3 (0.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) Internet
2 1 (0.20%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (29.80%) Power BI
2 64 (13.06%) Tableau
3 48 (9.80%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (7.14%) Metadata
5 16 (3.27%) Power Query
6 15 (3.06%) Looker
7 13 (2.65%) BigQuery
7 13 (2.65%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (2.24%) Big Data
9 9 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (1.84%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.84%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (1.63%) Hadoop
10 8 (1.63%) KNIME
11 6 (1.22%) PowerPivot
12 5 (1.02%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.02%) Star Schema
13 4 (0.82%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (3.06%) JIRA
2 6 (1.22%) MSI
3 4 (0.82%) Git
4 2 (0.41%) ERwin
4 2 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.20%) GitLab
General
1 152 (31.02%) Analytical Skills
1 152 (31.02%) Finance
2 139 (28.37%) Social Skills
3 39 (7.96%) Public Sector
4 33 (6.73%) Banking
5 20 (4.08%) Marketing
6 12 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.45%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.43%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.43%) Legal
9 7 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.22%) Electronics
10 6 (1.22%) Military
10 6 (1.22%) Retail
11 5 (1.02%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.02%) Law
12 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.02%) XML
2 4 (0.82%) PySpark
3 3 (0.61%) Pandas
3 3 (0.61%) YAML
4 2 (0.41%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.20%) ADO
5 1 (0.20%) JDO
5 1 (0.20%) JSON
5 1 (0.20%) Kafka
5 1 (0.20%) LDAP
5 1 (0.20%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.20%) NumPy
5 1 (0.20%) OAuth
5 1 (0.20%) OpenID
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.20%) REST
5 1 (0.20%) RESTful
5 1 (0.20%) SAML
5 1 (0.20%) SOAP
5 1 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 18 (3.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (3.27%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (2.65%) Onboarding
4 13 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (2.24%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.63%) CMDB
7 6 (1.22%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.02%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.61%) Cybercrime
9 3 (0.61%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.41%) Clustering
10 2 (0.41%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.41%) Derivative
10 2 (0.41%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.41%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.61%) Unix
2 2 (0.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (31.63%) Data Analysis
2 154 (31.43%) Business Intelligence
3 131 (26.73%) Analytics
4 103 (21.02%) Data Governance
5 94 (19.18%) Visualisation
6 91 (18.57%) Data Modelling
7 90 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
8 88 (17.96%) Decision-Making
9 83 (16.94%) Actionable Insight
10 81 (16.53%) Stakeholder Management
11 79 (16.12%) ETL
12 70 (14.29%) Migration
13 69 (14.08%) Validation
14 65 (13.27%) Data Management
15 62 (12.65%) Data Visualisation
16 56 (11.43%) Dashboard Development
17 52 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 46 (9.39%) Data Migration
19 43 (8.78%) Data Transformation
20 42 (8.57%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 221 (45.10%) SQL
2 110 (22.45%) Python
3 21 (4.29%) R
4 14 (2.86%) VBA
5 6 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.02%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.41%) C#
7 2 (0.41%) Java
7 2 (0.41%) Korn
7 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.41%) Scala
7 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.41%) VB
8 1 (0.20%) Perl
8 1 (0.20%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 74 (15.10%) Security Cleared
2 56 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 25 (5.10%) Degree
4 6 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.02%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.61%) ACCA
7 3 (0.61%) CEH
7 3 (0.61%) CIMA
7 3 (0.61%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.61%) GIAC
7 3 (0.61%) GREM
7 3 (0.61%) OSCP
8 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.20%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.90%) GDPR
3 18 (3.67%) QA
4 10 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.61%) IFRS
6 3 (0.61%) SLA
7 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.20%) FATCA
8 1 (0.20%) GAAP
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (1.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (0.61%) SCCM
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.20%) Terraform
2 1 (0.20%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 60 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.71%) Salesforce
3 27 (5.51%) Oracle
4 25 (5.10%) SAP
5 22 (4.49%) Databricks
6 20 (4.08%) ServiceNow
7 16 (3.27%) Workday
8 10 (2.04%) Google
8 10 (2.04%) Informatica
9 9 (1.84%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.22%) Cognos
11 5 (1.02%) Alteryx
12 3 (0.61%) ESRI
12 3 (0.61%) Foundry
12 3 (0.61%) Intergraph
12 3 (0.61%) Palantir
12 3 (0.61%) Teradata
13 2 (0.41%) Atlassian
13 2 (0.41%) Micro Focus
13 2 (0.41%) NetIQ