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 27 September 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 151 168
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 746 537 501
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 1.92% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 2.11% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 330 367
10th Percentile £258 £263 £279
25th Percentile £357 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £458
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -7.10% -3.68%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £556
90th Percentile £600 £645 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -0.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 28 20
10th Percentile £17.19 £20.91 £16.22
25th Percentile £21.25 £23.10 £19.37
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.42 £26.46
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% +7.40% +18.25%
75th Percentile £48.00 £35.63 £32.00
90th Percentile £49.35 £62.53 £39.33
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £21.66
% change year-on-year +9.09% +26.96% -1.55%

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 42,739 25,487 30,416
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.18% 91.27% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,336 16,425 18,705
10th Percentile £325 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £730 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,574 1,402 1,402
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.75 £14.99
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.44 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -
75th Percentile £67.89 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -3.37%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -35 331 £450 -5.26% 424
South East -25 115 £500 +17.65% 102
North of England -41 106 £425 +13.33% 131
Midlands +7 86 £410 +5.13% 78
South West +2 72 £488 +14.71% 41
West Midlands -13 64 £410 +2.50% 49
Yorkshire -43 53 £419 +15.76% 43
North West -37 42 £450 +12.50% 67
East of England +6 33 £359 -29.95% 28
East Midlands -1 22 £413 +10.00% 29
North East -25 14 £425 -30.61% 21
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 265 (35.52%) SQL
2 227 (30.43%) Data Quality
3 224 (30.03%) Business Intelligence
4 204 (27.35%) Power BI
4 204 (27.35%) Power Platform
5 184 (24.66%) Data Analysis
6 169 (22.65%) Analytics
7 145 (19.44%) Decision-Making
8 143 (19.17%) Data Governance
9 139 (18.63%) Validation
10 129 (17.29%) Data Modelling
11 123 (16.49%) Microsoft Excel
12 117 (15.68%) Stakeholder Management
13 116 (15.55%) Python
14 110 (14.75%) Migration
15 108 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
16 101 (13.54%) Visualisation
17 96 (12.87%) Actionable Insight
18 90 (12.06%) Microsoft
19 84 (11.26%) Tableau
20 83 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 82 (10.99%) Azure
22 81 (10.86%) Data Migration
23 77 (10.32%) AI
24 76 (10.19%) Dashboard Development
25 73 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
26 66 (8.85%) Agile
27 63 (8.45%) Security Cleared
28 57 (7.64%) Data Mapping
28 57 (7.64%) Databricks

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 12 (1.61%) SAS
2 8 (1.07%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.80%) Confluence
4 5 (0.67%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.40%) Apache
6 3 (0.40%) CMS
6 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 123 (16.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.07%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.80%) SPSS
6 2 (0.27%) CATIA
7 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.61%) iTrent
2 10 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.94%) SystmOne
4 6 (0.80%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.67%) Raiser’s Edge
6 4 (0.54%) Teamcenter
7 3 (0.40%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.27%) Eikon
8 2 (0.27%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.27%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.27%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 204 (27.35%) Power Platform
2 82 (10.99%) Azure
3 40 (5.36%) AWS
3 40 (5.36%) Snowflake
4 21 (2.82%) SaaS
5 20 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (2.28%) Power Automate
7 15 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 15 (2.01%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (1.47%) GCP
8 11 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
9 9 (1.21%) Collibra
10 7 (0.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
11 5 (0.67%) Alation
11 5 (0.67%) Amazon S3
11 5 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (0.67%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (0.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.54%) Internet
2 3 (0.40%) Firewall
3 2 (0.27%) Broadband
4 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (27.35%) Power BI
2 84 (11.26%) Tableau
3 48 (6.43%) Data Warehouse
4 42 (5.63%) Metadata
5 22 (2.95%) Power Query
6 21 (2.82%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.14%) Data Lake
8 14 (1.88%) Looker
9 11 (1.47%) Big Data
9 11 (1.47%) SQL Server
10 9 (1.21%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (1.21%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (0.80%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
12 5 (0.67%) GIS
12 5 (0.67%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.67%) PowerPivot
13 4 (0.54%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 15 (2.01%) JIRA
2 4 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.27%) Git
3 2 (0.27%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 202 (27.08%) Analytical Skills
2 172 (23.06%) Social Skills
3 171 (22.92%) Finance
4 62 (8.31%) Public Sector
5 61 (8.18%) Banking
6 45 (6.03%) Marketing
7 31 (4.16%) Retail
8 26 (3.49%) Legal
9 22 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (2.01%) Local Government
11 14 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.61%) Investment Banking
13 10 (1.34%) Military
14 9 (1.21%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (1.07%) Automotive
15 8 (1.07%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
17 6 (0.80%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.61%) PySpark
2 10 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.80%) Pandas
4 5 (0.67%) EDI
4 5 (0.67%) JSON
5 3 (0.40%) REST
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.27%) Django
6 2 (0.27%) HTML
6 2 (0.27%) Kafka
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.27%) SOAP
6 2 (0.27%) XML
7 1 (0.13%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.13%) Middleware
7 1 (0.13%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.13%) SAML
7 1 (0.13%) Seaborn
7 1 (0.13%) Spring
7 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 54 (7.24%) Data Structures
2 32 (4.29%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (2.95%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.82%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.34%) Data Centre
7 8 (1.07%) FMCG
8 6 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
8 6 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (0.80%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (0.80%) Taxonomies
9 5 (0.67%) Credit Risk
9 5 (0.67%) NHS
10 4 (0.54%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.54%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.54%) Reference Data
11 3 (0.40%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.40%) Pricing Data
11 3 (0.40%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.67%) Windows
2 3 (0.40%) Linux
3 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (30.03%) Business Intelligence
2 184 (24.66%) Data Analysis
3 169 (22.65%) Analytics
4 145 (19.44%) Decision-Making
5 143 (19.17%) Data Governance
6 139 (18.63%) Validation
7 129 (17.29%) Data Modelling
8 117 (15.68%) Stakeholder Management
9 110 (14.75%) Migration
10 108 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
11 101 (13.54%) Visualisation
12 96 (12.87%) Actionable Insight
13 83 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 81 (10.86%) Data Migration
15 77 (10.32%) AI
16 76 (10.19%) Dashboard Development
17 73 (9.79%) Continuous Improvement
18 66 (8.85%) Agile
19 57 (7.64%) Data Mapping
20 53 (7.10%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 265 (35.52%) SQL
2 116 (15.55%) Python
3 35 (4.69%) R
4 23 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (0.67%) Korn
6 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
7 3 (0.40%) Scala
7 3 (0.40%) VBA
8 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.27%) VB
9 1 (0.13%) Cypher
9 1 (0.13%) Java
9 1 (0.13%) LookML
9 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 63 (8.45%) Security Cleared
2 50 (6.70%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.23%) Degree
4 18 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (1.34%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.54%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.40%) PMP
8 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.13%) CBAP
9 1 (0.13%) CFA
9 1 (0.13%) CISM
9 1 (0.13%) CISSP
9 1 (0.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) IIBA
9 1 (0.13%) ISEB
9 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (30.43%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.56%) QA
3 32 (4.29%) GDPR
4 10 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
5 9 (1.21%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.80%) GRC
8 4 (0.54%) PMO
8 4 (0.54%) SLA
9 3 (0.40%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) EMIR
11 1 (0.13%) GMP
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.27%) SCCM
2 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (12.06%) Microsoft
2 57 (7.64%) Databricks
3 49 (6.57%) SAP
4 39 (5.23%) Oracle
5 16 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.01%) Workday
7 13 (1.74%) Alteryx
8 12 (1.61%) Google
9 8 (1.07%) Informatica
9 8 (1.07%) Teradata
10 5 (0.67%) Baan
10 5 (0.67%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.54%) Palantir
11 4 (0.54%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.40%) Foundry
13 2 (0.27%) Ariba
13 2 (0.27%) CODA
13 2 (0.27%) Facebook
13 2 (0.27%) NEC
13 2 (0.27%) Splunk