Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 142 167
Rank change year-on-year -18 +25 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 725 505 540
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 2.02% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 2.19% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 334 382
10th Percentile £263 £278 £276
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £548
90th Percentile £600 £650 £630
UK median daily rate £438 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 32 21
10th Percentile £22.20 £18.48 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.53 £22.75 £15.23
Median hourly rate £30.27 £26.94 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +25.70% -3.29%
75th Percentile £48.88 £31.73 £40.00
90th Percentile £65.13 £34.95 -
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £26.50 £21.57
% change year-on-year +13.72% +22.86% +4.91%

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 40,119 23,104 34,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 92.25% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,696 15,170 22,649
10th Percentile £325 £293 £291
25th Percentile £417 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £638
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,847 1,049 2,652
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -9.35%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.69 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.44
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.38 £37.50
% change year-on-year +57.08% -27.00% -12.79%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -30 336 £463 -6.33% 73
South East -18 109 £378 -16.11% 86
North of England -36 100 £420 +0.60% 64
Midlands -11 88 £425 +6.25% 29
West Midlands -29 63 £416 +4.06% 15
South West +2 60 £525 +28.36% 21
Yorkshire -25 51 £388 -1.59% 16
North West -26 46 £450 +7.84% 38
East Midlands 0 25 £425 +11.11% 14
East of England -10 24 £360 +10.77% 18
North East -39 5 £413 -15.38% 10
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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.

1 266 (36.69%) SQL
2 218 (30.07%) Business Intelligence
3 200 (27.59%) Data Quality
3 200 (27.59%) Power Platform
4 199 (27.45%) Power BI
5 166 (22.90%) Analytics
6 156 (21.52%) Data Analysis
7 141 (19.45%) Data Modelling
8 137 (18.90%) Decision-Making
9 124 (17.10%) Python
10 122 (16.83%) Data Governance
11 120 (16.55%) Microsoft Excel
12 119 (16.41%) Migration
13 117 (16.14%) Validation
14 112 (15.45%) Visualisation
15 104 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
16 91 (12.55%) Actionable Insight
17 88 (12.14%) Azure
17 88 (12.14%) Tableau
18 83 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
19 82 (11.31%) Dashboard Development
20 81 (11.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 78 (10.76%) Data Migration
22 71 (9.79%) Data Visualisation
23 70 (9.66%) Agile
24 67 (9.24%) Security Cleared
25 66 (9.10%) Microsoft
26 64 (8.83%) Data Management
27 63 (8.69%) ETL
28 62 (8.55%) AI

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 9 (1.24%) SAS
2 7 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.83%) SharePoint
4 5 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.55%) CMS
5 4 (0.55%) Confluence
6 3 (0.41%) Apache
6 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 120 (16.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.93%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.28%) CATIA
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.66%) iTrent
2 11 (1.52%) SystmOne
3 7 (0.97%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.55%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.41%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.28%) Maximo
7 2 (0.28%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 200 (27.59%) Power Platform
2 88 (12.14%) Azure
3 50 (6.90%) AWS
4 30 (4.14%) Snowflake
5 21 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (2.90%) SaaS
6 13 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
6 13 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
7 11 (1.52%) Amazon S3
8 10 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (1.38%) GCP
9 9 (1.24%) Collibra
10 8 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (0.83%) GitHub
11 6 (0.83%) Google Analytics
12 5 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (0.69%) Fivetran
12 5 (0.69%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (0.69%) Power Automate
12 5 (0.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (27.45%) Power BI
2 88 (12.14%) Tableau
3 55 (7.59%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (6.48%) Metadata
5 19 (2.62%) Power Query
6 17 (2.34%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.07%) Relational Database
8 12 (1.66%) Big Data
9 11 (1.52%) Looker
10 10 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
10 10 (1.38%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (1.10%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.10%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.83%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.83%) SQL Server
14 4 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.55%) Geospatial Data
14 4 (0.55%) OLAP
14 4 (0.55%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 16 (2.21%) JIRA
2 6 (0.83%) MSI
3 3 (0.41%) Git
4 2 (0.28%) MLflow
4 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.14%) GCC
5 1 (0.14%) GitLab
5 1 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 197 (27.17%) Analytical Skills
2 173 (23.86%) Finance
3 153 (21.10%) Social Skills
4 62 (8.55%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.59%) Banking
6 36 (4.97%) Marketing
7 21 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.93%) Legal
9 12 (1.66%) Retail
10 11 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.38%) Investment Banking
11 10 (1.38%) Local Government
12 9 (1.24%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.10%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.97%) Front Office
14 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.97%) Law
15 6 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.52%) PySpark
2 10 (1.38%) Pandas
3 7 (0.97%) XML
4 6 (0.83%) JSON
4 6 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (0.69%) JDO
6 4 (0.55%) EDI
6 4 (0.55%) REST
6 4 (0.55%) SOAP
6 4 (0.55%) YAML
7 3 (0.41%) GeoJSON
7 3 (0.41%) NumPy
8 2 (0.28%) Kafka
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.28%) Node.js
8 2 (0.28%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.28%) Web Services
9 1 (0.14%) Next.js
9 1 (0.14%) Playwright
9 1 (0.14%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.17%) Data Structures
2 27 (3.72%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (2.62%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (2.34%) Management Information System
5 14 (1.93%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.52%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.24%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.83%) NHS
10 5 (0.69%) Credit Risk
10 5 (0.69%) Fixed Income
11 4 (0.55%) CMDB
11 4 (0.55%) Derivative
11 4 (0.55%) Equities
11 4 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.55%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.55%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.55%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.41%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.41%) Windows
2 2 (0.28%) Linux
2 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (30.07%) Business Intelligence
2 166 (22.90%) Analytics
3 156 (21.52%) Data Analysis
4 141 (19.45%) Data Modelling
5 137 (18.90%) Decision-Making
6 122 (16.83%) Data Governance
7 119 (16.41%) Migration
8 117 (16.14%) Validation
9 112 (15.45%) Visualisation
10 104 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
11 91 (12.55%) Actionable Insight
12 83 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
13 82 (11.31%) Dashboard Development
14 81 (11.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 78 (10.76%) Data Migration
16 71 (9.79%) Data Visualisation
17 70 (9.66%) Agile
18 64 (8.83%) Data Management
19 63 (8.69%) ETL
20 62 (8.55%) AI
Programming Languages
1 266 (36.69%) SQL
2 124 (17.10%) Python
3 35 (4.83%) R
4 13 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (1.79%) VBA
5 3 (0.41%) Korn
5 3 (0.41%) Scala
5 3 (0.41%) VB
6 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.14%) Cypher
7 1 (0.14%) Java
7 1 (0.14%) LookML
Qualifications
1 67 (9.24%) Security Cleared
2 49 (6.76%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.97%) Degree
4 19 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.66%) DBS Check
6 6 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.28%) PhD
8 2 (0.28%) PMP
9 1 (0.14%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.14%) CBAP
9 1 (0.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.14%) ISEB
9 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (27.59%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.41%) GDPR
2 32 (4.41%) QA
3 6 (0.83%) Accessibility
3 6 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
3 6 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (0.83%) PMO
4 5 (0.69%) SLA
4 5 (0.69%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.41%) GRC
6 2 (0.28%) IFRS
6 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.14%) FATCA
7 1 (0.14%) GAAP
7 1 (0.14%) GMP
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2 (0.28%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.28%) Docker
1 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.41%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.41%) Terraform
2 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.14%) Grafana
3 1 (0.14%) Kibana
3 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (9.10%) Microsoft
2 61 (8.41%) Databricks
3 46 (6.34%) SAP
4 40 (5.52%) Oracle
5 23 (3.17%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.21%) Workday
7 10 (1.38%) Google
8 7 (0.97%) Alteryx
8 7 (0.97%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.83%) Adobe
9 6 (0.83%) Palantir
10 5 (0.69%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.69%) Foundry
10 5 (0.69%) IBM
10 5 (0.69%) Informatica
11 4 (0.55%) Baan
11 4 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.55%) Teradata
12 3 (0.41%) Bloomberg
12 3 (0.41%) Cognos