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 12 April 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 152 156
Rank change year-on-year -25 +4 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 589 437 564
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.50% 1.79% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.63% 1.93% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 314 387
10th Percentile £305 £256 £277
25th Percentile £360 £336 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £555
90th Percentile £631 £675 £627
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 21 20
10th Percentile £22.77 £14.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £26.57 £18.20 £15.17
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.60 £21.54
Median % change year-on-year +11.89% +32.81% -2.82%
75th Percentile £76.35 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £35.00 £40.48
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £28.60 £22.07
% change year-on-year +11.89% +29.59% +7.58%

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 36,210 22,591 34,649
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.71% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,766 15,118 23,103
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £410 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,405 849 2,354
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.63 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.12 £16.25
Median hourly rate £44.00 £32.50 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +35.38% -5.00% -21.70%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.20
UK median hourly rate £41.16 £31.51 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.61% -9.97% -22.22%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 12 April 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 -20 323 £475 - 108
South East -13 82 £400 -13.51% 70
North of England -53 63 £400 -2.44% 80
Midlands -37 61 £420 +5.00% 63
West Midlands -51 39 £420 +3.38% 33
South West -12 33 £525 +28.36% 28
North West -21 32 £423 -11.05% 36
Yorkshire -46 29 £350 +41.41% 32
East Midlands -20 22 £425 +6.25% 30
East of England -37 14 £538 +10.26% 43
North East -22 4 £475 +5.56% 14
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 April 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.

1 247 (41.94%) SQL
2 196 (33.28%) Business Intelligence
3 180 (30.56%) Data Quality
4 177 (30.05%) Power Platform
5 176 (29.88%) Power BI
6 155 (26.32%) Data Analysis
7 147 (24.96%) Analytics
8 133 (22.58%) Data Modelling
9 124 (21.05%) Python
10 122 (20.71%) Data Governance
11 112 (19.02%) Decision-Making
12 111 (18.85%) Microsoft Excel
13 104 (17.66%) Migration
14 100 (16.98%) Visualisation
15 99 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
16 90 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
17 89 (15.11%) Actionable Insight
17 89 (15.11%) Validation
18 88 (14.94%) Security Cleared
19 82 (13.92%) ETL
20 74 (12.56%) Tableau
21 70 (11.88%) Azure
22 68 (11.54%) SC Cleared
23 66 (11.21%) Dashboard Development
23 66 (11.21%) Data Visualisation
24 63 (10.70%) Data Management
24 63 (10.70%) Data Migration
24 63 (10.70%) Microsoft
24 63 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 62 (10.53%) Data Warehouse

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 15 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.87%) SAS
3 7 (1.19%) Confluence
4 3 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.51%) CMS
5 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 111 (18.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.53%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (1.19%) SystmOne
4 5 (0.85%) iTrent
4 5 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.68%) Adobe Campaign
5 4 (0.68%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.68%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.51%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.51%) Maximo
6 3 (0.51%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.34%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.34%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.17%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 177 (30.05%) Power Platform
2 70 (11.88%) Azure
3 59 (10.02%) AWS
4 31 (5.26%) Snowflake
5 17 (2.89%) GCP
6 15 (2.55%) Amazon S3
6 15 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 13 (2.21%) Collibra
7 13 (2.21%) SaaS
8 11 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.53%) dbt
10 8 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
10 8 (1.36%) OCI
10 8 (1.36%) Serverless
10 8 (1.36%) SuccessFactors
11 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.85%) Google Analytics
13 4 (0.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (0.68%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (29.88%) Power BI
2 74 (12.56%) Tableau
3 62 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (8.49%) Metadata
5 17 (2.89%) Power Query
6 13 (2.21%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.04%) Looker
7 12 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.70%) Big Data
10 9 (1.53%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.36%) SQL Server
12 7 (1.19%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.02%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.02%) KNIME
13 6 (1.02%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (2.72%) JIRA
2 6 (1.02%) Git
2 6 (1.02%) MSI
3 2 (0.34%) ERwin
3 2 (0.34%) GitLab
3 2 (0.34%) MLflow
3 2 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.17%) GCC
4 1 (0.17%) Postman
4 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 187 (31.75%) Analytical Skills
2 168 (28.52%) Finance
3 148 (25.13%) Social Skills
4 64 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 43 (7.30%) Banking
6 28 (4.75%) Marketing
7 20 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (1.87%) Manufacturing
9 11 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (1.19%) Front Office
11 7 (1.19%) Law
11 7 (1.19%) Legal
11 7 (1.19%) Retail
12 6 (1.02%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.02%) Local Government
12 6 (1.02%) Military
12 6 (1.02%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.36%) Pandas
2 6 (1.02%) PySpark
2 6 (1.02%) XML
3 5 (0.85%) JDO
4 4 (0.68%) JSON
4 4 (0.68%) NumPy
4 4 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.51%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.51%) YAML
6 2 (0.34%) Matplotlib
6 2 (0.34%) Node.js
6 2 (0.34%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.34%) REST
6 2 (0.34%) Seaborn
6 2 (0.34%) SOAP
6 2 (0.34%) Web Services
7 1 (0.17%) MACH
7 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.17%) Next.js
7 1 (0.17%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 50 (8.49%) Data Structures
2 20 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (3.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (2.38%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.21%) Data Centre
5 13 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.36%) CMDB
9 6 (1.02%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.85%) NHS
11 4 (0.68%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.68%) Derivative
11 4 (0.68%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.68%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.68%) Marketing Technology
12 3 (0.51%) Equities
12 3 (0.51%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.51%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.17%) Unix
2 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (33.28%) Business Intelligence
2 155 (26.32%) Data Analysis
3 147 (24.96%) Analytics
4 133 (22.58%) Data Modelling
5 122 (20.71%) Data Governance
6 112 (19.02%) Decision-Making
7 104 (17.66%) Migration
8 100 (16.98%) Visualisation
9 99 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
10 90 (15.28%) Stakeholder Management
11 89 (15.11%) Actionable Insight
11 89 (15.11%) Validation
12 82 (13.92%) ETL
13 66 (11.21%) Dashboard Development
13 66 (11.21%) Data Visualisation
14 63 (10.70%) Data Management
14 63 (10.70%) Data Migration
14 63 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 61 (10.36%) Agile
16 48 (8.15%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 247 (41.94%) SQL
2 124 (21.05%) Python
3 27 (4.58%) R
4 19 (3.23%) VBA
5 5 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.68%) Scala
7 2 (0.34%) Java
7 2 (0.34%) Korn
7 2 (0.34%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.34%) VB
8 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.17%) LookML
Qualifications
1 88 (14.94%) Security Cleared
2 68 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 22 (3.74%) Degree
4 9 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.19%) DBS Check
6 5 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.34%) PhD
8 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (30.56%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.60%) QA
3 27 (4.58%) GDPR
4 8 (1.36%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.85%) PMO
7 4 (0.68%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.51%) SLA
9 2 (0.34%) IFRS
9 2 (0.34%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.17%) FATCA
10 1 (0.17%) GAAP
10 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.34%) Docker
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.51%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.51%) Terraform
2 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.34%) SCCM
3 1 (0.17%) Grafana
3 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 63 (10.70%) Microsoft
2 49 (8.32%) Databricks
3 41 (6.96%) SAP
4 37 (6.28%) Oracle
5 34 (5.77%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.57%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.38%) Workday
8 11 (1.87%) Google
9 10 (1.70%) Informatica
10 7 (1.19%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.02%) Teradata
12 5 (0.85%) Adobe
12 5 (0.85%) Alteryx
12 5 (0.85%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.68%) Cognos
13 4 (0.68%) Foundry
13 4 (0.68%) IBM
13 4 (0.68%) Palantir
14 3 (0.51%) Bloomberg
14 3 (0.51%) OpenAI