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 1 September 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 145 169
Rank change year-on-year -19 +24 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 767 539 484
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.95% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.82% 2.13% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 343 352
10th Percentile £257 £265 £266
25th Percentile £356 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £435 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £555
90th Percentile £600 £660 £637
UK median daily rate £450 £448 £450
% change year-on-year +0.56% -0.56% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 27 17
10th Percentile £16.36 £21.02 £16.14
25th Percentile £22.20 £24.23 £18.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £29.33 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% +27.52% -9.64%
75th Percentile £48.00 £34.28 £31.00
90th Percentile £49.50 £38.76 £46.20
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.50 £21.66
% change year-on-year +13.21% +22.35% -0.41%

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 42,208 25,248 30,773
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 91.56% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,337 16,299 19,707
10th Percentile £325 £281 £303
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,268 1,358 1,625
10th Percentile £15.18 £13.69 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.34 £21.00
Median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.96% -44.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.74
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -45 341 £450 -5.26% 210
South East -21 117 £488 +8.33% 87
North of England -28 109 £420 +10.16% 80
Midlands -6 90 £425 +8.97% 45
South West +5 75 £450 +9.76% 46
West Midlands -17 64 £425 +6.25% 28
Yorkshire -19 57 £400 +14.29% 26
North West -37 43 £450 +12.50% 40
East of England +2 33 £359 -31.62% 26
East Midlands +4 26 £425 +13.33% 17
North East -37 12 £475 -10.59% 15
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 September 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.

1 271 (35.33%) SQL
2 231 (30.12%) Business Intelligence
3 230 (29.99%) Data Quality
4 216 (28.16%) Power BI
4 216 (28.16%) Power Platform
5 185 (24.12%) Data Analysis
6 167 (21.77%) Analytics
7 150 (19.56%) Data Governance
8 148 (19.30%) Decision-Making
9 141 (18.38%) Data Modelling
10 133 (17.34%) Validation
11 132 (17.21%) Microsoft Excel
12 124 (16.17%) Python
13 113 (14.73%) Migration
14 108 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
15 106 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
16 103 (13.43%) Visualisation
17 96 (12.52%) Azure
18 94 (12.26%) Actionable Insight
19 91 (11.86%) Microsoft
20 88 (11.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 86 (11.21%) Tableau
22 78 (10.17%) Data Migration
23 76 (9.91%) Dashboard Development
24 73 (9.52%) AI
25 72 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
26 66 (8.60%) Agile
26 66 (8.60%) Databricks
27 62 (8.08%) Security Cleared
28 61 (7.95%) Data Mapping

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 (1.83%) SAS
2 7 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.78%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.39%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) CMS
5 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.26%) Confluence
7 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 132 (17.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.78%) SPSS
6 5 (0.65%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.26%) CATIA
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.56%) iTrent
2 11 (1.43%) SystmOne
3 10 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.78%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.65%) Raiser’s Edge
6 4 (0.52%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.39%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.26%) Eikon
8 2 (0.26%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.26%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.26%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 216 (28.16%) Power Platform
2 96 (12.52%) Azure
3 44 (5.74%) AWS
4 39 (5.08%) Snowflake
5 21 (2.74%) SaaS
6 20 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (2.22%) Power Automate
8 15 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 15 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
9 12 (1.56%) Collibra
9 12 (1.56%) SuccessFactors
10 11 (1.43%) GCP
11 9 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (0.65%) Alation
13 5 (0.65%) Azure Databricks
13 5 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (0.65%) PowerApps
14 4 (0.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.52%) Internet
2 2 (0.26%) Broadband
2 2 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (28.16%) Power BI
2 86 (11.21%) Tableau
3 56 (7.30%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (6.65%) Metadata
5 21 (2.74%) Power Query
6 18 (2.35%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.22%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.96%) Looker
9 10 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
10 9 (1.17%) Big Data
10 9 (1.17%) SQL Server
11 6 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.78%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.65%) GIS
12 5 (0.65%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.65%) Spark SQL
13 4 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (1.69%) JIRA
2 4 (0.52%) Git
2 4 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.26%) MLflow
3 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.13%) GCC
4 1 (0.13%) GitLab
General
1 206 (26.86%) Analytical Skills
2 174 (22.69%) Finance
3 167 (21.77%) Social Skills
4 61 (7.95%) Banking
4 61 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 45 (5.87%) Marketing
6 29 (3.78%) Retail
7 25 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 20 (2.61%) Legal
9 16 (2.09%) Local Government
10 14 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (1.56%) Investment Banking
12 11 (1.43%) Military
12 11 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.17%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.04%) Front Office
14 8 (1.04%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.91%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.83%) PySpark
2 9 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.78%) JSON
3 6 (0.78%) Pandas
4 5 (0.65%) EDI
5 2 (0.26%) Apache Avro
5 2 (0.26%) Django
5 2 (0.26%) HTML
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.26%) Node.js
5 2 (0.26%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.26%) REST
5 2 (0.26%) SOAP
5 2 (0.26%) XML
6 1 (0.13%) Google JAX
6 1 (0.13%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.13%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.13%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.13%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 53 (6.91%) Data Structures
2 27 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (2.61%) Management Information System
4 19 (2.48%) Product Ownership
5 17 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 16 (2.09%) Onboarding
7 10 (1.30%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.04%) FMCG
9 7 (0.91%) Fixed Income
10 5 (0.65%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.65%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.52%) CMDB
11 4 (0.52%) Derivative
11 4 (0.52%) NHS
11 4 (0.52%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.52%) Taxonomies
12 3 (0.39%) Equities
12 3 (0.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.52%) Windows
2 2 (0.26%) Linux
2 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (30.12%) Business Intelligence
2 185 (24.12%) Data Analysis
3 167 (21.77%) Analytics
4 150 (19.56%) Data Governance
5 148 (19.30%) Decision-Making
6 141 (18.38%) Data Modelling
7 133 (17.34%) Validation
8 113 (14.73%) Migration
9 108 (14.08%) Stakeholder Management
10 106 (13.82%) Problem-Solving
11 103 (13.43%) Visualisation
12 94 (12.26%) Actionable Insight
13 88 (11.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 78 (10.17%) Data Migration
15 76 (9.91%) Dashboard Development
16 73 (9.52%) AI
17 72 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
18 66 (8.60%) Agile
19 61 (7.95%) Data Mapping
20 56 (7.30%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 271 (35.33%) SQL
2 124 (16.17%) Python
3 35 (4.56%) R
4 22 (2.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (0.78%) VBA
6 3 (0.39%) Scala
6 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.26%) Korn
7 2 (0.26%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.26%) VB
8 1 (0.13%) Cypher
8 1 (0.13%) Java
8 1 (0.13%) LookML
8 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 62 (8.08%) Security Cleared
2 48 (6.26%) SC Cleared
3 41 (5.35%) Degree
4 16 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (1.83%) 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
1 230 (29.99%) Data Quality
2 42 (5.48%) QA
3 34 (4.43%) GDPR
4 10 (1.30%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.65%) PMO
7 5 (0.65%) SLA
7 5 (0.65%) Solvency II
8 4 (0.52%) GRC
9 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.13%) EMIR
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%) MiFID
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%) SCCM
3 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 91 (11.86%) Microsoft
2 66 (8.60%) Databricks
3 53 (6.91%) SAP
4 42 (5.48%) Oracle
5 18 (2.35%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.96%) Workday
7 12 (1.56%) Alteryx
8 10 (1.30%) Google
9 8 (1.04%) Teradata
10 7 (0.91%) Informatica
11 6 (0.78%) Palantir
12 5 (0.65%) Baan
12 5 (0.65%) Bloomberg
12 5 (0.65%) Foundry
12 5 (0.65%) ServiceNow
13 2 (0.26%) Ariba
13 2 (0.26%) CODA
13 2 (0.26%) IBM
13 2 (0.26%) NEC
13 2 (0.26%) Siemens