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 23 February 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 157 148
Rank change year-on-year -25 -9 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 524 435 627
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.51% 1.70% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 1.82% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 314 428
10th Percentile £303 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £343 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £438 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 22 33
10th Percentile £21.68 £14.68 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.45 £18.61 £15.89
Median hourly rate £41.72 £27.13 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +53.80% +26.57% -3.29%
75th Percentile £64.81 £34.60 £38.95
90th Percentile £80.41 £43.55 £40.00
UK median hourly rate £40.44 £27.13 £21.54
% change year-on-year +49.07% +25.96% +0.16%

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 31,876 23,857 35,159
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.97% 92.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,202 15,057 23,560
10th Percentile £305 £300 £272
25th Percentile £410 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £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 2,049 719 2,153
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £33.17 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.68 £75.30 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.27% - -12.01%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -8 300 £475 +2.70% 110
South East +2 71 £400 -20.00% 115
North of England -37 58 £400 -2.44% 58
Midlands -49 41 £400 - 57
North West -24 30 £420 -5.35% 29
West Midlands -54 28 £400 -1.54% 40
South West -16 27 £525 +28.36% 27
Yorkshire -47 25 £365 +36.45% 22
East Midlands -24 13 £393 -1.88% 17
East of England -31 11 £513 -2.38% 29
North East -16 4 £475 -9.52% 8
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 235 (44.85%) SQL
2 173 (33.02%) Business Intelligence
3 160 (30.53%) Data Analysis
3 160 (30.53%) Data Quality
4 159 (30.34%) Power Platform
5 158 (30.15%) Power BI
6 138 (26.34%) Analytics
7 120 (22.90%) Python
8 108 (20.61%) Data Governance
9 107 (20.42%) Data Modelling
10 105 (20.04%) Visualisation
11 99 (18.89%) Microsoft Excel
12 97 (18.51%) Decision-Making
13 89 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
14 86 (16.41%) Actionable Insight
15 85 (16.22%) Migration
15 85 (16.22%) Security Cleared
16 84 (16.03%) Stakeholder Management
17 80 (15.27%) ETL
18 77 (14.69%) Validation
19 72 (13.74%) Data Visualisation
20 66 (12.60%) Tableau
21 65 (12.40%) Data Management
22 64 (12.21%) SC Cleared
23 60 (11.45%) Dashboard Development
24 58 (11.07%) Microsoft
25 55 (10.50%) Azure
25 55 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 54 (10.31%) Data Migration
27 52 (9.92%) 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 14 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.53%) SAS
3 7 (1.34%) Confluence
4 3 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.57%) CMS
4 3 (0.57%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.57%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.19%) Apache
5 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 99 (18.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.15%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.76%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.76%) Maximo
5 3 (0.57%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.57%) SAP R/3
6 2 (0.38%) Actimize
6 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.38%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.38%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.19%) Advent Geneva
7 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.19%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 159 (30.34%) Power Platform
2 55 (10.50%) Azure
3 48 (9.16%) AWS
4 33 (6.30%) Snowflake
5 17 (3.24%) GCP
6 14 (2.67%) Amazon S3
6 14 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (2.10%) Collibra
7 11 (2.10%) SaaS
8 9 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (1.53%) dbt
10 7 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.34%) OCI
10 7 (1.34%) Serverless
11 5 (0.95%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.76%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.76%) Google Tag Manager
13 3 (0.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (0.57%) Fivetran
13 3 (0.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (30.15%) Power BI
2 66 (12.60%) Tableau
3 51 (9.73%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (7.06%) Metadata
5 14 (2.67%) BigQuery
5 14 (2.67%) Looker
6 13 (2.48%) Power Query
7 11 (2.10%) Big Data
7 11 (2.10%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (1.91%) SQL Server
9 9 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (1.53%) Hadoop
10 8 (1.53%) KNIME
11 7 (1.34%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (1.34%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.95%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.95%) PowerPivot
12 5 (0.95%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (2.86%) JIRA
2 6 (1.15%) MSI
3 4 (0.76%) Git
4 2 (0.38%) ERwin
4 2 (0.38%) GitLab
4 2 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 165 (31.49%) Analytical Skills
2 162 (30.92%) Finance
3 147 (28.05%) Social Skills
4 49 (9.35%) Public Sector
5 37 (7.06%) Banking
6 25 (4.77%) Marketing
7 15 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 13 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.34%) Legal
11 7 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.15%) Electronics
12 6 (1.15%) Front Office
12 6 (1.15%) Investment Banking
13 5 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 5 (0.95%) Military
13 5 (0.95%) Retail
13 5 (0.95%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.15%) XML
2 5 (0.95%) Pandas
2 5 (0.95%) PySpark
3 3 (0.57%) GeoJSON
3 3 (0.57%) JDO
3 3 (0.57%) JSON
3 3 (0.57%) NumPy
3 3 (0.57%) YAML
4 2 (0.38%) REST
4 2 (0.38%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.38%) SOAP
4 2 (0.38%) Web Services
5 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.19%) Kafka
5 1 (0.19%) MACH
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.19%) Next.js
5 1 (0.19%) Playwright
5 1 (0.19%) Plotly
5 1 (0.19%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 44 (8.40%) Data Structures
2 22 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (3.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (3.44%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.29%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.53%) CMDB
8 5 (0.95%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (0.76%) NHS
9 4 (0.76%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.57%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.57%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.38%) Credit Risk
11 2 (0.38%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.38%) Hedge funds
11 2 (0.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.38%) Unix
1 2 (0.38%) Windows
2 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (33.02%) Business Intelligence
2 160 (30.53%) Data Analysis
3 138 (26.34%) Analytics
4 108 (20.61%) Data Governance
5 107 (20.42%) Data Modelling
6 105 (20.04%) Visualisation
7 97 (18.51%) Decision-Making
8 89 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
9 86 (16.41%) Actionable Insight
10 85 (16.22%) Migration
11 84 (16.03%) Stakeholder Management
12 80 (15.27%) ETL
13 77 (14.69%) Validation
14 72 (13.74%) Data Visualisation
15 65 (12.40%) Data Management
16 60 (11.45%) Dashboard Development
17 55 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 54 (10.31%) Data Migration
19 52 (9.92%) Agile
20 46 (8.78%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 235 (44.85%) SQL
2 120 (22.90%) Python
3 22 (4.20%) R
4 15 (2.86%) VBA
5 5 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.38%) Korn
6 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.38%) Scala
7 1 (0.19%) C#
7 1 (0.19%) Java
7 1 (0.19%) SAPscript
7 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 85 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 64 (12.21%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.58%) Degree
4 6 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.57%) ACCA
7 3 (0.57%) CIMA
8 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.19%) CEH
9 1 (0.19%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.19%) GIAC
9 1 (0.19%) GREM
9 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.19%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 160 (30.53%) Data Quality
2 24 (4.58%) GDPR
3 22 (4.20%) QA
4 8 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 8 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.57%) PMO
5 3 (0.57%) SLA
6 2 (0.38%) IFRS
6 2 (0.38%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.38%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.19%) GAAP
7 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (0.57%) SCCM
2 2 (0.38%) Terraform
3 1 (0.19%) Grafana
3 1 (0.19%) Kibana
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.19%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 58 (11.07%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.11%) Databricks
3 31 (5.92%) Salesforce
4 29 (5.53%) Oracle
5 28 (5.34%) SAP
6 20 (3.82%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.67%) Workday
8 11 (2.10%) Google
8 11 (2.10%) Informatica
9 9 (1.72%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.15%) Cognos
11 5 (0.95%) Adobe
12 4 (0.76%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.76%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.57%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.57%) ESRI
13 3 (0.57%) Foundry
13 3 (0.57%) Intergraph
13 3 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.57%) Teradata