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 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 155 146
Rank change year-on-year -38 -9 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 538 430 621
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.75% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.88% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 315 421
10th Percentile £304 £257 £275
25th Percentile £363 £341 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £563
90th Percentile £638 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 19 28
10th Percentile £21.45 £14.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.85 £15.82
Median hourly rate £43.00 £27.13 £21.54
Median % change year-on-year +58.53% +25.96% -2.82%
75th Percentile £65.00 £29.03 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.02 £37.75 £40.75
UK median hourly rate £40.44 £26.81 £21.64
% change year-on-year +50.81% +23.90% +4.24%

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 33,895 22,860 35,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 93.04% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,384 15,072 23,528
10th Percentile £310 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 779 2,277
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.38 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.44 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.97% +7.69% -23.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £59.44
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.50 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £33.00 £32.90
% change year-on-year +8.21% +0.32% -22.60%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -16 299 £475 - 116
South East -5 78 £401 -19.80% 84
North of England -53 59 £400 -7.25% 68
Midlands -43 47 £420 +5.00% 41
North West -17 36 £420 -15.34% 26
South West -15 31 £525 +28.36% 31
West Midlands -60 31 £420 +5.00% 18
Yorkshire -50 21 £365 +33.94% 35
East Midlands -23 16 £418 +4.38% 23
East of England -27 11 £500 -4.76% 22
North East -14 4 £475 +5.56% 8
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 March 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.

1 233 (43.31%) SQL
2 183 (34.01%) Business Intelligence
3 168 (31.23%) Power Platform
4 167 (31.04%) Power BI
5 166 (30.86%) Data Quality
6 154 (28.62%) Data Analysis
7 136 (25.28%) Analytics
8 115 (21.38%) Data Modelling
9 114 (21.19%) Python
10 108 (20.07%) Data Governance
11 107 (19.89%) Microsoft Excel
12 103 (19.14%) Visualisation
13 95 (17.66%) Decision-Making
13 95 (17.66%) Migration
14 88 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
15 87 (16.17%) Security Cleared
16 86 (15.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 85 (15.80%) Actionable Insight
18 82 (15.24%) ETL
19 81 (15.06%) Validation
20 68 (12.64%) Tableau
21 67 (12.45%) Data Visualisation
22 65 (12.08%) Data Management
22 65 (12.08%) SC Cleared
23 64 (11.90%) Dashboard Development
24 62 (11.52%) Data Migration
25 60 (11.15%) Azure
25 60 (11.15%) Microsoft
26 58 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
27 57 (10.59%) 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 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.67%) SAS
3 7 (1.30%) Confluence
4 3 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.56%) CMS
4 3 (0.56%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.56%) Smallworld
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 107 (19.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.12%) SAP HR
4 5 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.56%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.56%) Maximo
6 3 (0.56%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.37%) Actimize
7 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.37%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.37%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.19%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 168 (31.23%) Power Platform
2 60 (11.15%) Azure
3 50 (9.29%) AWS
4 32 (5.95%) Snowflake
5 17 (3.16%) GCP
6 15 (2.79%) Amazon S3
7 14 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (2.04%) Collibra
8 11 (2.04%) SaaS
9 10 (1.86%) OCI
10 9 (1.67%) dbt
11 8 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (1.30%) Serverless
13 5 (0.93%) Google Analytics
14 4 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (0.74%) Google Tag Manager
14 4 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
15 3 (0.56%) Fivetran
15 3 (0.56%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (31.04%) Power BI
2 68 (12.64%) Tableau
3 57 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (7.99%) Metadata
5 17 (3.16%) Power Query
6 13 (2.42%) BigQuery
6 13 (2.42%) Looker
7 12 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (1.86%) Big Data
9 9 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (1.67%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.49%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.49%) KNIME
10 8 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (1.49%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (1.30%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.12%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.93%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 16 (2.97%) JIRA
2 6 (1.12%) Git
2 6 (1.12%) MSI
3 2 (0.37%) ERwin
3 2 (0.37%) GitLab
3 2 (0.37%) MLflow
3 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.19%) GCC
4 1 (0.19%) Postman
4 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 167 (31.04%) Analytical Skills
2 163 (30.30%) Finance
3 143 (26.58%) Social Skills
4 51 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 42 (7.81%) Banking
6 22 (4.09%) Marketing
7 16 (2.97%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (1.30%) Electronics
11 7 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.30%) Retail
12 6 (1.12%) Front Office
12 6 (1.12%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.12%) Law
12 6 (1.12%) Legal
13 5 (0.93%) Military
13 5 (0.93%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.12%) Pandas
1 6 (1.12%) XML
2 5 (0.93%) JDO
2 5 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.74%) PySpark
4 3 (0.56%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.56%) JSON
4 3 (0.56%) NumPy
4 3 (0.56%) YAML
5 2 (0.37%) REST
5 2 (0.37%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.37%) SOAP
5 2 (0.37%) Web Services
6 1 (0.19%) ADO
6 1 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.19%) Kafka
6 1 (0.19%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.19%) RESTful
6 1 (0.19%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.55%) Data Structures
2 21 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (3.35%) Data Centre
4 17 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 11 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 7 (1.30%) CMDB
10 5 (0.93%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.74%) Hedge funds
11 4 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
11 4 (0.74%) NHS
12 3 (0.56%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.56%) Credit Risk
12 3 (0.56%) Reinsurance
12 3 (0.56%) Taxonomies
13 2 (0.37%) Algorithms
13 2 (0.37%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.37%) Windows
2 1 (0.19%) Unix
2 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (34.01%) Business Intelligence
2 154 (28.62%) Data Analysis
3 136 (25.28%) Analytics
4 115 (21.38%) Data Modelling
5 108 (20.07%) Data Governance
6 103 (19.14%) Visualisation
7 95 (17.66%) Decision-Making
7 95 (17.66%) Migration
8 88 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
9 86 (15.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 85 (15.80%) Actionable Insight
11 82 (15.24%) ETL
12 81 (15.06%) Validation
13 67 (12.45%) Data Visualisation
14 65 (12.08%) Data Management
15 64 (11.90%) Dashboard Development
16 62 (11.52%) Data Migration
17 58 (10.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 56 (10.41%) Agile
19 48 (8.92%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 233 (43.31%) SQL
2 114 (21.19%) Python
3 23 (4.28%) R
4 17 (3.16%) VBA
5 5 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.74%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.56%) Scala
8 2 (0.37%) Korn
9 1 (0.19%) C#
9 1 (0.19%) Java
9 1 (0.19%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.19%) SAPscript
9 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 87 (16.17%) Security Cleared
2 65 (12.08%) SC Cleared
3 26 (4.83%) Degree
4 8 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.56%) ACCA
7 3 (0.56%) CIMA
8 2 (0.37%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.37%) PhD
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 166 (30.86%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.02%) QA
3 24 (4.46%) GDPR
4 7 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 7 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.74%) PMO
5 4 (0.74%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.56%) SLA
7 2 (0.37%) IFRS
7 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.19%) FATCA
8 1 (0.19%) GAAP
8 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 5 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.37%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.37%) SCCM
2 2 (0.37%) Terraform
3 1 (0.19%) Grafana
3 1 (0.19%) Kibana
3 1 (0.19%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 60 (11.15%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.25%) Databricks
3 32 (5.95%) Salesforce
4 30 (5.58%) Oracle
5 28 (5.20%) SAP
6 22 (4.09%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.60%) Workday
8 11 (2.04%) Informatica
9 10 (1.86%) Google
10 9 (1.67%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.93%) Adobe
11 5 (0.93%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.93%) Cognos
12 4 (0.74%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.74%) Foundry
12 4 (0.74%) Palantir
12 4 (0.74%) Teradata
13 3 (0.56%) ESRI
13 3 (0.56%) Intergraph
13 3 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud