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 17 August 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 147 173
Rank change year-on-year -17 +26 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 763 533 482
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.92% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 2.09% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 343 354
10th Percentile £258 £263 £273
25th Percentile £356 £358 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.61% -5.21%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £555
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 26 15
10th Percentile £16.63 £18.67 £16.09
25th Percentile £23.21 £22.39 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.94 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.37% +17.12% +1.66%
75th Percentile £48.75 £31.91 £30.50
90th Percentile £51.50 £34.99 £44.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.16 £21.66
% change year-on-year +19.26% +16.14% +1.07%

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 42,264 25,460 30,800
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 91.59% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,561 16,436 20,203
10th Percentile £325 £281 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -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% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,196 1,351 1,763
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.15
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.30 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.98% -43.78% +8.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -38 333 £450 -5.26% 184
South East -9 130 £450 +1.47% 78
North of England -44 104 £420 +8.39% 71
Midlands 0 90 £425 +8.97% 46
South West -3 71 £450 +9.76% 30
West Midlands -21 62 £420 +5.00% 24
Yorkshire -20 54 £400 +10.34% 27
North West -25 43 £450 +12.50% 34
East of England +3 29 £359 -10.25% 30
East Midlands +4 28 £425 +13.33% 22
North East -39 9 £525 +16.67% 10
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 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.

1 265 (34.73%) SQL
2 230 (30.14%) Business Intelligence
3 213 (27.92%) Data Quality
4 210 (27.52%) Power BI
4 210 (27.52%) Power Platform
5 180 (23.59%) Data Analysis
6 173 (22.67%) Analytics
7 147 (19.27%) Data Modelling
8 143 (18.74%) Data Governance
8 143 (18.74%) Decision-Making
9 123 (16.12%) Microsoft Excel
10 120 (15.73%) Python
10 120 (15.73%) Validation
11 112 (14.68%) Migration
12 106 (13.89%) Visualisation
13 104 (13.63%) Problem-Solving
14 101 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
15 93 (12.19%) Azure
16 91 (11.93%) Actionable Insight
16 91 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 85 (11.14%) Tableau
18 83 (10.88%) Microsoft
19 77 (10.09%) Dashboard Development
20 75 (9.83%) Data Migration
21 73 (9.57%) Agile
22 69 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
23 66 (8.65%) AI
24 64 (8.39%) Databricks
25 61 (7.99%) Security Cleared
26 59 (7.73%) 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 (1.70%) SAS
2 7 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.79%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.79%) CMS
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
1 123 (16.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.79%) SPSS
6 2 (0.26%) CATIA
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.57%) iTrent
2 11 (1.44%) SystmOne
3 9 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.79%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.66%) 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%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.13%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 210 (27.52%) Power Platform
2 93 (12.19%) Azure
3 43 (5.64%) AWS
4 36 (4.72%) Snowflake
5 20 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (2.49%) SaaS
7 16 (2.10%) Microsoft Purview
8 15 (1.97%) Power Automate
9 13 (1.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
11 11 (1.44%) Collibra
12 10 (1.31%) GCP
13 9 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.05%) OCI
15 6 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (0.66%) Microsoft 365
16 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Copilot
16 5 (0.66%) PowerApps
17 4 (0.52%) Alation
17 4 (0.52%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.39%) Internet
2 2 (0.26%) Broadband
3 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.13%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (27.52%) Power BI
2 85 (11.14%) Tableau
3 57 (7.47%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (6.55%) Metadata
5 21 (2.75%) Power Query
6 20 (2.62%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.10%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.97%) Looker
9 10 (1.31%) Qlik Sense
10 9 (1.18%) Big Data
10 9 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.79%) BigQuery
11 6 (0.79%) SQL Server
12 5 (0.66%) GIS
13 4 (0.52%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.52%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.52%) PowerPivot
13 4 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (1.70%) JIRA
2 3 (0.39%) Git
2 3 (0.39%) 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
1 203 (26.61%) Analytical Skills
2 168 (22.02%) Finance
3 161 (21.10%) Social Skills
4 61 (7.99%) Banking
5 57 (7.47%) Public Sector
6 48 (6.29%) Marketing
7 27 (3.54%) Retail
8 25 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 18 (2.36%) Legal
10 15 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.83%) Local Government
12 13 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
13 12 (1.57%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (1.31%) Aerospace
15 10 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 8 (1.05%) Front Office
16 8 (1.05%) Military
16 8 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.92%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.57%) PySpark
2 10 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (0.92%) Pandas
4 6 (0.79%) JSON
5 5 (0.66%) EDI
6 3 (0.39%) JDO
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Avro
7 2 (0.26%) Django
7 2 (0.26%) HTML
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%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.13%) Google JAX
8 1 (0.13%) Great Expectations
8 1 (0.13%) JAX
8 1 (0.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 43 (5.64%) Data Structures
2 22 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (2.49%) Management Information System
4 17 (2.23%) Onboarding
4 17 (2.23%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (1.31%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (0.92%) Fixed Income
9 6 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
10 5 (0.66%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.52%) CMDB
11 4 (0.52%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.52%) Derivative
11 4 (0.52%) Equities
11 4 (0.52%) FMCG
11 4 (0.52%) NHS
11 4 (0.52%) Reinsurance
11 4 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.52%) Windows
2 2 (0.26%) Linux
2 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (30.14%) Business Intelligence
2 180 (23.59%) Data Analysis
3 173 (22.67%) Analytics
4 147 (19.27%) Data Modelling
5 143 (18.74%) Data Governance
5 143 (18.74%) Decision-Making
6 120 (15.73%) Validation
7 112 (14.68%) Migration
8 106 (13.89%) Visualisation
9 104 (13.63%) Problem-Solving
10 101 (13.24%) Stakeholder Management
11 91 (11.93%) Actionable Insight
11 91 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 77 (10.09%) Dashboard Development
13 75 (9.83%) Data Migration
14 73 (9.57%) Agile
15 69 (9.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 66 (8.65%) AI
17 59 (7.73%) Data Management
18 58 (7.60%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 265 (34.73%) SQL
2 120 (15.73%) Python
3 29 (3.80%) R
4 20 (2.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (0.92%) VBA
6 3 (0.39%) Scala
7 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.26%) Korn
7 2 (0.26%) T-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%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 61 (7.99%) Security Cleared
2 48 (6.29%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.11%) Degree
4 18 (2.36%) 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
1 213 (27.92%) Data Quality
2 37 (4.85%) QA
3 33 (4.33%) GDPR
4 9 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.66%) SLA
8 4 (0.52%) GRC
8 4 (0.52%) PMO
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
3 1 (0.13%) SCCM
3 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 83 (10.88%) Microsoft
2 64 (8.39%) Databricks
3 48 (6.29%) SAP
4 45 (5.90%) Oracle
5 21 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.97%) Workday
7 11 (1.44%) Google
8 10 (1.31%) Alteryx
9 7 (0.92%) Informatica
9 7 (0.92%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.92%) Teradata
10 6 (0.79%) Adobe
10 6 (0.79%) Palantir
11 5 (0.66%) Baan
11 5 (0.66%) Foundry
11 5 (0.66%) IBM
12 4 (0.52%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 2 (0.26%) Facebook
13 2 (0.26%) IFS