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 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 153 151
Rank change year-on-year -48 -2 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 478 441 609
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.45% 1.66% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 1.78% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 327 418
10th Percentile £278 £285 £263
25th Percentile £358 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £556 £575
90th Percentile £628 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 19 31
10th Percentile £21.53 £15.90 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.84 £21.41 £15.74
Median hourly rate £31.31 £27.13 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +15.41% +26.57% -1.83%
75th Percentile £45.79 £35.00 £34.71
90th Percentile £64.83 £45.35 £38.95
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £21.47
% change year-on-year +19.82% +26.37% +0.89%

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 30,253 24,723 35,060
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.60% 93.04% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,276 15,264 23,666
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
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 1,876 738 1,991
10th Percentile £14.83 £15.98 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.11% +4.29%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.36 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.90 £32.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year -11.09% -10.96% +4.29%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 30 January 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 -11 278 £475 - 74
South East -6 66 £402 -20.79% 87
North of England -51 51 £369 -10.00% 62
Midlands -61 30 £400 - 56
South West -14 28 £500 +25.00% 37
Yorkshire -38 27 £365 +151.72% 25
North West -24 21 £375 -16.67% 32
West Midlands -47 19 £400 - 29
East Midlands -27 11 £384 +0.72% 27
East of England -22 10 £513 -2.38% 24
North East -14 4 £475 -17.39% 6
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 January 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.

1 217 (45.40%) SQL
2 157 (32.85%) Business Intelligence
3 154 (32.22%) Data Analysis
4 150 (31.38%) Power BI
4 150 (31.38%) Power Platform
5 139 (29.08%) Data Quality
6 123 (25.73%) Analytics
7 108 (22.59%) Python
8 104 (21.76%) Data Governance
9 102 (21.34%) Microsoft Excel
10 95 (19.87%) Visualisation
11 91 (19.04%) Data Modelling
12 89 (18.62%) Decision-Making
13 85 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
14 83 (17.36%) Actionable Insight
15 79 (16.53%) ETL
16 78 (16.32%) Stakeholder Management
17 73 (15.27%) Security Cleared
18 68 (14.23%) Migration
19 65 (13.60%) Data Management
19 65 (13.60%) Validation
20 64 (13.39%) Tableau
21 61 (12.76%) Data Visualisation
21 61 (12.76%) Microsoft
22 55 (11.51%) SC Cleared
23 54 (11.30%) Dashboard Development
24 50 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 48 (10.04%) Data Warehouse
26 47 (9.83%) Data Transformation
27 46 (9.62%) 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 16 (3.35%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.67%) SAS
3 7 (1.46%) Confluence
4 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.63%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.63%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 102 (21.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (1.05%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.42%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
1 8 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.26%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.84%) Maximo
4 2 (0.42%) Actimize
4 2 (0.42%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) iTrent
5 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 150 (31.38%) Power Platform
2 46 (9.62%) Azure
3 43 (9.00%) AWS
4 36 (7.53%) Snowflake
5 17 (3.56%) GCP
6 12 (2.51%) Amazon S3
7 11 (2.30%) Collibra
8 10 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (2.09%) SaaS
9 9 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.67%) dbt
11 7 (1.46%) OCI
12 4 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.84%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.84%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.84%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.84%) Serverless
13 3 (0.63%) Google Tag Manager
13 3 (0.63%) Matillion
13 3 (0.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (31.38%) Power BI
2 64 (13.39%) Tableau
3 48 (10.04%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (7.11%) Metadata
5 17 (3.56%) Power Query
6 15 (3.14%) Looker
7 13 (2.72%) BigQuery
7 13 (2.72%) SQL Server
8 12 (2.51%) Big Data
9 10 (2.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (1.88%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.67%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.67%) KNIME
12 7 (1.46%) PowerPivot
13 5 (1.05%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.05%) NoSQL
13 5 (1.05%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.84%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (3.35%) JIRA
2 6 (1.26%) MSI
3 5 (1.05%) Git
4 2 (0.42%) ERwin
4 2 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.21%) GitLab
General
1 148 (30.96%) Analytical Skills
1 148 (30.96%) Finance
2 137 (28.66%) Social Skills
3 40 (8.37%) Public Sector
4 33 (6.90%) Banking
5 21 (4.39%) Marketing
6 12 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (2.51%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (2.09%) Retail
8 8 (1.67%) Investment Banking
8 8 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.26%) Electronics
10 6 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.26%) Legal
10 6 (1.26%) Military
11 5 (1.05%) Law
12 4 (0.84%) Financial Institution
12 4 (0.84%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.05%) PySpark
1 5 (1.05%) XML
2 3 (0.63%) Pandas
2 3 (0.63%) YAML
3 2 (0.42%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.21%) JDO
4 1 (0.21%) JSON
4 1 (0.21%) LDAP
4 1 (0.21%) MACH
4 1 (0.21%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.21%) NumPy
4 1 (0.21%) OAuth
4 1 (0.21%) OpenID
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.21%) Plotly
4 1 (0.21%) REST
4 1 (0.21%) RESTful
4 1 (0.21%) SAML
4 1 (0.21%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.11%) Data Structures
2 19 (3.97%) Analytical Mindset
3 17 (3.56%) Legacy Systems
4 15 (3.14%) Data Centre
4 15 (3.14%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.30%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.67%) CMDB
9 5 (1.05%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.05%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.63%) Cybercrime
10 3 (0.63%) NHS
10 3 (0.63%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.42%) Clustering
11 2 (0.42%) Derivative
11 2 (0.42%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.42%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.63%) Unix
2 2 (0.42%) Windows
3 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (32.85%) Business Intelligence
2 154 (32.22%) Data Analysis
3 123 (25.73%) Analytics
4 104 (21.76%) Data Governance
5 95 (19.87%) Visualisation
6 91 (19.04%) Data Modelling
7 89 (18.62%) Decision-Making
8 85 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
9 83 (17.36%) Actionable Insight
10 79 (16.53%) ETL
11 78 (16.32%) Stakeholder Management
12 68 (14.23%) Migration
13 65 (13.60%) Data Management
13 65 (13.60%) Validation
14 61 (12.76%) Data Visualisation
15 54 (11.30%) Dashboard Development
16 50 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 47 (9.83%) Data Transformation
18 46 (9.62%) Agile
19 45 (9.41%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 217 (45.40%) SQL
2 108 (22.59%) Python
3 20 (4.18%) R
4 14 (2.93%) VBA
5 6 (1.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.05%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.42%) C#
7 2 (0.42%) Java
7 2 (0.42%) Korn
7 2 (0.42%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.42%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.42%) VB
8 1 (0.21%) Perl
8 1 (0.21%) SAPscript
8 1 (0.21%) Scala
Qualifications
1 73 (15.27%) Security Cleared
2 55 (11.51%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.60%) Degree
4 6 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (0.84%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.63%) ACCA
6 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.63%) CEH
6 3 (0.63%) CIMA
6 3 (0.63%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (0.63%) GIAC
6 3 (0.63%) GREM
6 3 (0.63%) OSCP
7 2 (0.42%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (29.08%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.23%) GDPR
3 16 (3.35%) QA
4 11 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.63%) IFRS
6 3 (0.63%) SLA
7 2 (0.42%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.42%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (1.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (0.63%) SCCM
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.21%) Terraform
2 1 (0.21%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 61 (12.76%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.86%) Salesforce
3 27 (5.65%) Oracle
4 24 (5.02%) SAP
5 20 (4.18%) Databricks
5 20 (4.18%) ServiceNow
6 14 (2.93%) Workday
7 11 (2.30%) Google
8 9 (1.88%) Informatica
8 9 (1.88%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.26%) Cognos
10 5 (1.05%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.63%) ESRI
11 3 (0.63%) Foundry
11 3 (0.63%) Intergraph
11 3 (0.63%) Palantir
11 3 (0.63%) Teradata
12 2 (0.42%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.42%) ForgeRock
12 2 (0.42%) Splunk