Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 147 171
Rank change year-on-year -15 +24 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 768 534 483
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.93% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 2.11% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 342 353
10th Percentile £259 £263 £263
25th Percentile £356 £358 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £430 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -4.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £600 £661 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 27 18
10th Percentile £17.83 £19.14 £16.17
25th Percentile £23.33 £22.74 £18.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.38 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -7.20% +23.56%
75th Percentile £48.75 £32.70 £40.00
90th Percentile £52.63 £34.99 £42.63
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.30 £21.66
% change year-on-year +18.58% +16.81% +0.74%

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 42,171 25,321 30,947
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 91.63% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,536 16,398 20,303
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £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 3,172 1,321 1,795
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.44 £21.25
Median hourly rate £43.10 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.38% -44.11% +8.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.25 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.99% -41.51% +2.87%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -42 342 £450 -7.69% 121
South East -14 129 £450 +3.63% 72
North of England -47 104 £420 +8.39% 61
Midlands -5 92 £425 +8.97% 46
South West -3 65 £450 +9.76% 19
West Midlands -22 64 £420 +5.00% 24
Yorkshire -28 55 £400 +14.29% 28
North West -25 43 £450 +12.50% 26
East of England +4 30 £360 -10.00% 28
East Midlands +10 28 £425 +13.33% 22
North East -40 8 £475 +5.56% 8
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 August 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.

1 268 (34.90%) SQL
2 236 (30.73%) Business Intelligence
3 222 (28.91%) Data Quality
4 215 (27.99%) Power Platform
5 214 (27.86%) Power BI
6 179 (23.31%) Data Analysis
7 176 (22.92%) Analytics
8 149 (19.40%) Data Modelling
9 145 (18.88%) Decision-Making
10 140 (18.23%) Data Governance
11 126 (16.41%) Microsoft Excel
12 123 (16.02%) Python
12 123 (16.02%) Validation
13 114 (14.84%) Migration
14 110 (14.32%) Visualisation
15 106 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
16 101 (13.15%) Stakeholder Management
17 95 (12.37%) Azure
18 94 (12.24%) Actionable Insight
19 91 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 90 (11.72%) Tableau
21 82 (10.68%) Microsoft
22 79 (10.29%) Dashboard Development
23 76 (9.90%) Data Migration
24 75 (9.77%) Agile
25 71 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
26 68 (8.85%) AI
27 65 (8.46%) Databricks
28 64 (8.33%) Security Cleared
29 60 (7.81%) Data Management

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 13 (1.69%) SAS
2 7 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.78%) CMS
3 6 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.39%) Apache
4 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.26%) Confluence
6 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 126 (16.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.78%) SPSS
5 2 (0.26%) CATIA
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.56%) iTrent
2 11 (1.43%) SystmOne
3 9 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.65%) Raiser’s Edge
6 4 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.52%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.39%) SAP R/3
8 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
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%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.13%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 215 (27.99%) Power Platform
2 95 (12.37%) Azure
3 48 (6.25%) AWS
4 36 (4.69%) Snowflake
5 21 (2.73%) SaaS
6 19 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (1.82%) Power Automate
9 13 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
10 11 (1.43%) Collibra
11 10 (1.30%) GCP
12 8 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.91%) OCI
14 6 (0.78%) Amazon S3
14 6 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
15 5 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
15 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
15 5 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.13%) Broadband
2 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.13%) Firewall
2 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (27.86%) Power BI
2 90 (11.72%) Tableau
3 59 (7.68%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (6.64%) Metadata
5 21 (2.73%) Power Query
6 18 (2.34%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.08%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.95%) Looker
9 10 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
10 9 (1.17%) Big Data
10 9 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.78%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.65%) SQL Server
13 4 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (0.52%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.52%) GIS
13 4 (0.52%) OLAP
13 4 (0.52%) Parquet
13 4 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (1.95%) JIRA
2 3 (0.39%) Git
2 3 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
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%) Postman
General
1 207 (26.95%) Analytical Skills
2 176 (22.92%) Finance
3 162 (21.09%) Social Skills
4 62 (8.07%) Banking
5 60 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 48 (6.25%) Marketing
7 27 (3.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (3.39%) Retail
9 17 (2.21%) Legal
10 15 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.56%) Local Government
13 11 (1.43%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.43%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.30%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.17%) Front Office
16 8 (1.04%) Military
16 8 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.91%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.56%) PySpark
2 10 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (1.17%) Pandas
4 7 (0.91%) JSON
5 5 (0.65%) EDI
6 3 (0.39%) JDO
6 3 (0.39%) NumPy
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Avro
7 2 (0.26%) Django
7 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.26%) Node.js
7 2 (0.26%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.26%) REST
7 2 (0.26%) SOAP
7 2 (0.26%) XML
8 1 (0.13%) GeoJSON
8 1 (0.13%) Next.js
8 1 (0.13%) Playwright
8 1 (0.13%) Seaborn
8 1 (0.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 45 (5.86%) Data Structures
2 21 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (2.21%) Onboarding
3 17 (2.21%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 9 (1.17%) Data Centre
5 9 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (0.91%) Fixed Income
7 6 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
7 6 (0.78%) NHS
7 6 (0.78%) Reference Data
7 6 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.52%) CMDB
8 4 (0.52%) Credit Risk
8 4 (0.52%) Equities
8 4 (0.52%) FMCG
8 4 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (0.52%) Hedge funds
8 4 (0.52%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.52%) Windows
2 2 (0.26%) Linux
2 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (30.73%) Business Intelligence
2 179 (23.31%) Data Analysis
3 176 (22.92%) Analytics
4 149 (19.40%) Data Modelling
5 145 (18.88%) Decision-Making
6 140 (18.23%) Data Governance
7 123 (16.02%) Validation
8 114 (14.84%) Migration
9 110 (14.32%) Visualisation
10 106 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
11 101 (13.15%) Stakeholder Management
12 94 (12.24%) Actionable Insight
13 91 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 79 (10.29%) Dashboard Development
15 76 (9.90%) Data Migration
16 75 (9.77%) Agile
17 71 (9.24%) Continuous Improvement
18 68 (8.85%) AI
19 60 (7.81%) Data Management
20 59 (7.68%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 268 (34.90%) SQL
2 123 (16.02%) Python
3 28 (3.65%) R
4 19 (2.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (1.17%) VBA
6 3 (0.39%) Scala
6 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.26%) Korn
7 2 (0.26%) VB
8 1 (0.13%) Cypher
8 1 (0.13%) Java
8 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.13%) LookML
8 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 64 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 48 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.08%) Degree
4 19 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (1.82%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.52%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
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%) CFA
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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (28.91%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.43%) QA
3 33 (4.30%) GDPR
4 9 (1.17%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.78%) PMO
7 5 (0.65%) SLA
8 4 (0.52%) GRC
8 4 (0.52%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.13%) 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/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 82 (10.68%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.46%) Databricks
3 49 (6.38%) SAP
4 44 (5.73%) Oracle
5 22 (2.86%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.95%) Workday
7 11 (1.43%) Google
8 10 (1.30%) Alteryx
9 7 (0.91%) Informatica
9 7 (0.91%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.91%) Teradata
10 6 (0.78%) Adobe
10 6 (0.78%) Palantir
11 5 (0.65%) Baan
11 5 (0.65%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.65%) Foundry
11 5 (0.65%) IBM
12 4 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.39%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.39%) OpenAI