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 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 159 176
Rank change year-on-year 0 +17 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 538 501 569
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.85% 1.61% 1.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 1.73% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 366 397
10th Percentile £263 £296 £263
25th Percentile £346 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £513 £556 £600
90th Percentile £622 £658 £689
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 39
10th Percentile £21.02 £16.01 £15.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £18.46 £18.54
Median hourly rate £29.33 £27.13 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% +26.16% -17.31%
75th Percentile £37.50 £35.00 £34.71
90th Percentile £63.95 £48.33 £40.75
UK median hourly rate £29.33 £21.66 £21.57
% change year-on-year +35.41% +0.42% -10.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 26,557 29,007 37,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.15% 92.98% 93.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,058 17,724 26,241
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,546 1,114 1,425
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.10 £15.23
25th Percentile £17.69 £21.12 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -9.55% +55.53%
75th Percentile £50.75 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +62.28%

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 2025. 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 +6 274 £473 +2.16% 179
North of England -6 84 £375 -11.76% 111
South East +14 74 £425 -15.00% 223
Yorkshire +11 52 £350 -24.32% 34
Midlands -24 38 £390 +8.33% 82
South West +19 36 £438 +9.38% 35
West Midlands -17 29 £400 +14.29% 46
North West -24 29 £400 -5.77% 61
East Midlands -16 9 £367 +1.10% 36
East of England -27 9 £500 +25.00% 37
North East -11 3 £501 -30.38% 17
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, 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.

1 259 (48.14%) SQL
2 202 (37.55%) Data Analysis
3 181 (33.64%) Power Platform
4 176 (32.71%) Power BI
5 173 (32.16%) Business Intelligence
6 146 (27.14%) Python
7 143 (26.58%) Microsoft Excel
8 139 (25.84%) Analytics
9 138 (25.65%) Visualisation
10 134 (24.91%) Data Quality
11 98 (18.22%) Microsoft
12 96 (17.84%) Data Modelling
13 94 (17.47%) Decision-Making
14 89 (16.54%) Actionable Insight
14 89 (16.54%) Tableau
15 87 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
16 82 (15.24%) Data Governance
17 78 (14.50%) Data Visualisation
18 71 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
19 69 (12.83%) Data Management
20 64 (11.90%) Migration
21 60 (11.15%) Validation
22 56 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 53 (9.85%) Data Cleansing
24 51 (9.48%) ETL
25 50 (9.29%) Agile
25 50 (9.29%) Data Warehouse
26 48 (8.92%) Security Cleared
27 46 (8.55%) Azure
27 46 (8.55%) Data Transformation

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 37 (6.88%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.67%) Confluence
3 3 (0.56%) GeoServer
3 3 (0.56%) Smallworld
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.37%) Apache Superset
4 2 (0.37%) SAS
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 143 (26.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (4.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.86%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.19%) Revit
6 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.49%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (1.12%) SAP HR
3 5 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.56%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.37%) Actimize
6 2 (0.37%) Maximo
6 2 (0.37%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.19%) Academy Housing
7 1 (0.19%) iTrent
7 1 (0.19%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.19%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 181 (33.64%) Power Platform
2 46 (8.55%) Azure
3 33 (6.13%) AWS
4 28 (5.20%) Snowflake
5 17 (3.16%) GCP
6 13 (2.42%) dbt
7 12 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (2.04%) PowerApps
9 10 (1.86%) Collibra
10 9 (1.67%) SaaS
11 8 (1.49%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.49%) OCI
11 8 (1.49%) Power Automate
12 6 (1.12%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.93%) Google Data Studio
14 4 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
14 4 (0.74%) Entra ID
14 4 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.37%) Internet
2 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (32.71%) Power BI
2 89 (16.54%) Tableau
3 50 (9.29%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (5.20%) Power Query
5 23 (4.28%) Metadata
6 22 (4.09%) SQL Server
7 17 (3.16%) BigQuery
7 17 (3.16%) Data Lake
8 15 (2.79%) Looker
9 12 (2.23%) Relational Database
10 8 (1.49%) Big Data
11 7 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (1.30%) GIS
12 6 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (1.12%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.12%) PowerPivot
12 6 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.74%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (2.23%) JIRA
2 6 (1.12%) Git
3 2 (0.37%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.37%) Selenium
4 1 (0.19%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.19%) ERwin
4 1 (0.19%) LSMW
4 1 (0.19%) PowerDesigner
General
1 196 (36.43%) Finance
2 168 (31.23%) Analytical Skills
2 168 (31.23%) Social Skills
3 59 (10.97%) Banking
4 37 (6.88%) Public Sector
5 21 (3.90%) Marketing
6 20 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (3.53%) Retail
8 16 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.79%) Investment Banking
10 13 (2.42%) Local Government
11 11 (2.04%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (1.86%) Legal
12 10 (1.86%) Retail Banking
13 8 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
14 6 (1.12%) Billing
14 6 (1.12%) Electronics
14 6 (1.12%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.93%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.30%) PySpark
2 5 (0.93%) DAO
2 5 (0.93%) JSON
2 5 (0.93%) Pandas
3 4 (0.74%) NumPy
4 2 (0.37%) Kafka
4 2 (0.37%) Matplotlib
4 2 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.37%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.19%) Altair
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.19%) LDAP
5 1 (0.19%) OAuth
5 1 (0.19%) OpenID
5 1 (0.19%) SAML
5 1 (0.19%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.19%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.19%) Swagger
5 1 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (3.90%) Onboarding
2 20 (3.72%) Analytical Mindset
2 20 (3.72%) Data Structures
3 17 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
4 16 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.60%) Data Centre
6 9 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.67%) Reinsurance
7 6 (1.12%) Fixed Income
7 6 (1.12%) Mainframe
7 6 (1.12%) Reference Data
8 5 (0.93%) CMDB
8 5 (0.93%) Derivative
8 5 (0.93%) NHS
8 5 (0.93%) Pricing Data
8 5 (0.93%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.74%) Cloud Native
9 4 (0.74%) Low-Code
9 4 (0.74%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.56%) Unix
1 3 (0.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (37.55%) Data Analysis
2 173 (32.16%) Business Intelligence
3 139 (25.84%) Analytics
4 138 (25.65%) Visualisation
5 96 (17.84%) Data Modelling
6 94 (17.47%) Decision-Making
7 89 (16.54%) Actionable Insight
8 87 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
9 82 (15.24%) Data Governance
10 78 (14.50%) Data Visualisation
11 71 (13.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 69 (12.83%) Data Management
13 64 (11.90%) Migration
14 60 (11.15%) Validation
15 56 (10.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 53 (9.85%) Data Cleansing
17 51 (9.48%) ETL
18 50 (9.29%) Agile
19 46 (8.55%) Data Transformation
20 39 (7.25%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 259 (48.14%) SQL
2 146 (27.14%) Python
3 20 (3.72%) R
4 15 (2.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 15 (2.79%) VBA
5 8 (1.49%) PowerShell
6 4 (0.74%) Java
6 4 (0.74%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.56%) Scala
8 2 (0.37%) C#
8 2 (0.37%) C++
8 2 (0.37%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.37%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.19%) Korn
9 1 (0.19%) LookML
9 1 (0.19%) Perl
9 1 (0.19%) SAPscript
9 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 48 (8.92%) Security Cleared
2 37 (6.88%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.58%) Degree
4 6 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (1.12%) Master's Degree
5 4 (0.74%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.56%) ACCA
6 3 (0.56%) CEH
6 3 (0.56%) CIMA
6 3 (0.56%) CIPD
6 3 (0.56%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (0.56%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.56%) GIAC
6 3 (0.56%) GREM
6 3 (0.56%) OSCP
7 2 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.37%) CBAP
7 2 (0.37%) PMP
8 1 (0.19%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (24.91%) Data Quality
2 27 (5.02%) GDPR
3 11 (2.04%) QA
4 10 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.74%) IFRS
7 3 (0.56%) MiFID
8 2 (0.37%) Basel III
8 2 (0.37%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.37%) PMO
9 1 (0.19%) COSHH
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) FATCA
9 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.19%) SLA
9 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.19%) SCCM
2 1 (0.19%) Terraform
2 1 (0.19%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 98 (18.22%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.06%) Oracle
3 28 (5.20%) SAP
4 21 (3.90%) Workday
5 20 (3.72%) Databricks
6 19 (3.53%) ServiceNow
7 18 (3.35%) Salesforce
8 13 (2.42%) Google
9 7 (1.30%) Alteryx
10 5 (0.93%) Informatica
11 3 (0.56%) ESRI
11 3 (0.56%) Foundry
11 3 (0.56%) Intergraph
11 3 (0.56%) NEC
11 3 (0.56%) Palantir
12 2 (0.37%) ForgeRock
12 2 (0.37%) MuleSoft
12 2 (0.37%) NetIQ
12 2 (0.37%) OpenText
12 2 (0.37%) Veeam