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 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 142 170
Rank change year-on-year -20 +28 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 729 508 539
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.99% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.80% 2.16% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 331 383
10th Percentile £263 £278 £276
25th Percentile £350 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £544
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £438 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 32 23
10th Percentile £22.20 £18.48 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.53 £22.75 £15.56
Median hourly rate £30.27 £26.94 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +25.70% -4.03%
75th Percentile £48.88 £31.73 £40.00
90th Percentile £58.63 £34.95 -
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £26.50 £21.57
% change year-on-year +13.72% +22.86% +3.68%

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 40,429 23,502 34,503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 92.15% 92.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,779 15,373 22,543
10th Percentile £325 £293 £298
25th Percentile £419 £404 £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 £735 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,896 1,093 2,589
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.93 £17.87 £16.74
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -9.83%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.51
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £27.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +59.26% -28.00% -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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -38 330 £463 -7.50% 70
South East -19 112 £380 -14.94% 99
North of England -33 104 £420 +2.44% 66
Midlands -16 88 £425 +6.25% 34
West Midlands -27 63 £416 +4.06% 17
South West +5 62 £525 +28.36% 24
Yorkshire -26 53 £388 +1.64% 17
North West -22 48 £450 +7.84% 37
East Midlands +2 25 £425 +13.33% 17
East of England -8 25 £360 +10.77% 24
North East -38 5 £413 -15.38% 12
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 264 (36.21%) SQL
2 218 (29.90%) Business Intelligence
3 203 (27.85%) Data Quality
4 201 (27.57%) Power Platform
5 200 (27.43%) Power BI
6 164 (22.50%) Analytics
7 160 (21.95%) Data Analysis
8 141 (19.34%) Data Modelling
9 139 (19.07%) Decision-Making
10 125 (17.15%) Data Governance
11 121 (16.60%) Python
12 120 (16.46%) Microsoft Excel
13 119 (16.32%) Migration
13 119 (16.32%) Validation
14 113 (15.50%) Visualisation
15 104 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
16 90 (12.35%) Actionable Insight
17 88 (12.07%) Azure
18 87 (11.93%) Tableau
19 85 (11.66%) Stakeholder Management
20 82 (11.25%) Dashboard Development
20 82 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 78 (10.70%) Data Migration
22 71 (9.74%) Agile
22 71 (9.74%) Data Visualisation
23 69 (9.47%) Microsoft
24 66 (9.05%) Data Management
25 64 (8.78%) Security Cleared
26 63 (8.64%) ETL
27 62 (8.50%) 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 10 (1.37%) SAS
2 6 (0.82%) Apache Spark
2 6 (0.82%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.55%) CMS
4 4 (0.55%) Confluence
5 3 (0.41%) Apache
5 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.41%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 120 (16.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.27%) CATIA
5 2 (0.27%) SPSS
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.65%) iTrent
2 11 (1.51%) SystmOne
3 7 (0.96%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.82%) 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 (0.27%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.27%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.27%) Maximo
7 2 (0.27%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.27%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.14%) Eikon
8 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 201 (27.57%) Power Platform
2 88 (12.07%) Azure
3 47 (6.45%) AWS
4 28 (3.84%) Snowflake
5 21 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 21 (2.88%) SaaS
6 15 (2.06%) Microsoft Purview
7 13 (1.78%) SuccessFactors
8 10 (1.37%) Amazon S3
8 10 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 10 (1.37%) Collibra
8 10 (1.37%) GCP
9 8 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (0.82%) GitHub
10 6 (0.82%) Google Analytics
11 5 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (0.69%) Fivetran
11 5 (0.69%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (0.69%) Power Automate
11 5 (0.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.14%) Firewall
1 1 (0.14%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (27.43%) Power BI
2 87 (11.93%) Tableau
3 56 (7.68%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (6.72%) Metadata
5 19 (2.61%) Power Query
6 17 (2.33%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.06%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.51%) Looker
9 10 (1.37%) Big Data
9 10 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (1.37%) Qlik Sense
10 9 (1.23%) BigQuery
11 7 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (0.96%) Hadoop
12 6 (0.82%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.82%) SQL Server
13 4 (0.55%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.55%) OLAP
13 4 (0.55%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 18 (2.47%) JIRA
2 6 (0.82%) MSI
3 3 (0.41%) Git
4 2 (0.27%) MLflow
4 2 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.14%) GCC
5 1 (0.14%) GitLab
5 1 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 198 (27.16%) Analytical Skills
2 174 (23.87%) Finance
3 153 (20.99%) Social Skills
4 63 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.54%) Banking
6 37 (5.08%) Marketing
7 20 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (1.92%) Legal
9 12 (1.65%) Retail
10 11 (1.51%) Local Government
10 11 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (1.37%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.23%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.23%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.10%) Front Office
14 7 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.96%) Law
15 6 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.51%) PySpark
2 10 (1.37%) Pandas
3 7 (0.96%) XML
4 6 (0.82%) JSON
4 6 (0.82%) 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 (0.27%) Kafka
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.27%) Node.js
8 2 (0.27%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.27%) Web Services
9 1 (0.14%) Next.js
9 1 (0.14%) Playwright
9 1 (0.14%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.13%) Data Structures
2 27 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (2.19%) Management Information System
5 14 (1.92%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.23%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (0.82%) NHS
11 5 (0.69%) Credit Risk
11 5 (0.69%) Fixed Income
12 4 (0.55%) CMDB
12 4 (0.55%) Derivative
12 4 (0.55%) Equities
12 4 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 4 (0.55%) Hedge funds
12 4 (0.55%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.55%) Reinsurance
12 4 (0.55%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.55%) Windows
2 2 (0.27%) Linux
2 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (29.90%) Business Intelligence
2 164 (22.50%) Analytics
3 160 (21.95%) Data Analysis
4 141 (19.34%) Data Modelling
5 139 (19.07%) Decision-Making
6 125 (17.15%) Data Governance
7 119 (16.32%) Migration
7 119 (16.32%) Validation
8 113 (15.50%) Visualisation
9 104 (14.27%) Problem-Solving
10 90 (12.35%) Actionable Insight
11 85 (11.66%) Stakeholder Management
12 82 (11.25%) Dashboard Development
12 82 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 78 (10.70%) Data Migration
14 71 (9.74%) Agile
14 71 (9.74%) Data Visualisation
15 66 (9.05%) Data Management
16 63 (8.64%) ETL
17 62 (8.50%) AI
Programming Languages
1 264 (36.21%) SQL
2 121 (16.60%) Python
3 33 (4.53%) R
4 13 (1.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (1.78%) VBA
5 3 (0.41%) Korn
5 3 (0.41%) Scala
5 3 (0.41%) VB
6 2 (0.27%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.27%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.14%) Cypher
7 1 (0.14%) Java
7 1 (0.14%) LookML
Qualifications
1 64 (8.78%) Security Cleared
2 46 (6.31%) SC Cleared
3 36 (4.94%) Degree
4 19 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.65%) DBS Check
6 5 (0.69%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.27%) PhD
8 2 (0.27%) 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
1 203 (27.85%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.66%) GDPR
3 33 (4.53%) QA
4 6 (0.82%) Accessibility
4 6 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.82%) PMO
5 5 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (0.69%) SLA
5 5 (0.69%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.41%) GRC
7 2 (0.27%) IFRS
7 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.14%) FATCA
8 1 (0.14%) GAAP
8 1 (0.14%) GMP
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 2 (0.27%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.27%) Docker
1 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.41%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.41%) Terraform
2 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.14%) Grafana
3 1 (0.14%) Kibana
3 1 (0.14%) SCCM
3 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 60 (8.23%) Databricks
3 46 (6.31%) SAP
4 40 (5.49%) Oracle
5 22 (3.02%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.19%) Workday
7 11 (1.51%) Google
8 8 (1.10%) Alteryx
9 7 (0.96%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.82%) Adobe
10 6 (0.82%) Informatica
10 6 (0.82%) Palantir
11 5 (0.69%) Foundry
11 5 (0.69%) IBM
12 4 (0.55%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.55%) Baan
12 4 (0.55%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.55%) Teradata
13 3 (0.41%) Cognos