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 17 June 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 140 170
Rank change year-on-year -20 +30 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 719 490 540
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.98% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 2.15% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 326 386
10th Percentile £263 £279 £287
25th Percentile £350 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -0.06% -5.21%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £548
90th Percentile £600 £656 £628
UK median daily rate £429 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 32 18
10th Percentile £21.84 £18.48 £13.50
25th Percentile £26.54 £22.75 £15.40
Median hourly rate £30.51 £26.94 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +25.70% -3.29%
75th Percentile £49.13 £31.73 £40.00
90th Percentile £73.06 £34.95 £42.63
UK median hourly rate £30.27 £26.50 £21.65
% change year-on-year +14.23% +22.40% +5.76%

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 39,651 22,840 34,791
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.32% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,409 15,016 22,678
10th Percentile £325 £293 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £731 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,798 1,018 2,675
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £16.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -12.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £62.83
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £27.45 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.85% -26.80% -16.67%

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 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 17 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 17 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 -24 337 £460 -8.00% 65
South East -16 109 £378 -16.11% 90
North of England -32 95 £420 +0.60% 79
Midlands -13 88 £425 +6.25% 36
West Midlands -23 63 £416 +4.06% 14
South West +5 57 £525 +28.36% 26
Yorkshire -32 47 £388 -1.59% 30
North West -18 45 £450 +7.78% 40
East Midlands -3 25 £425 +7.59% 22
East of England -10 24 £360 +10.77% 33
North East -36 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 17 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.

1 270 (37.55%) SQL
2 219 (30.46%) Business Intelligence
3 198 (27.54%) Power Platform
4 197 (27.40%) Data Quality
4 197 (27.40%) Power BI
5 166 (23.09%) Analytics
6 154 (21.42%) Data Analysis
7 138 (19.19%) Data Modelling
8 134 (18.64%) Decision-Making
9 128 (17.80%) Python
10 120 (16.69%) Data Governance
10 120 (16.69%) Migration
11 118 (16.41%) Microsoft Excel
12 114 (15.86%) Validation
13 108 (15.02%) Visualisation
14 104 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
15 91 (12.66%) Actionable Insight
16 89 (12.38%) Azure
17 88 (12.24%) Tableau
18 84 (11.68%) Dashboard Development
19 79 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
20 78 (10.85%) Data Migration
20 78 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 68 (9.46%) Agile
21 68 (9.46%) ETL
22 67 (9.32%) Data Visualisation
22 67 (9.32%) Security Cleared
23 63 (8.76%) Databricks
23 63 (8.76%) Microsoft
24 61 (8.48%) Data Management

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 (1.25%) SAS
2 8 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 7 (0.97%) SharePoint
4 6 (0.83%) Confluence
5 5 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.56%) CMS
7 3 (0.42%) Apache
8 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 118 (16.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.67%) 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 (1.67%) iTrent
2 11 (1.53%) SystmOne
3 7 (0.97%) NetSuite
3 7 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.56%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.42%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.42%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.28%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.28%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.28%) Maximo
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%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 198 (27.54%) Power Platform
2 89 (12.38%) Azure
3 53 (7.37%) AWS
4 34 (4.73%) Snowflake
5 22 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 21 (2.92%) SaaS
7 13 (1.81%) SuccessFactors
8 11 (1.53%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.39%) GCP
9 10 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
10 9 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 8 (1.11%) Collibra
12 7 (0.97%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.83%) Google Analytics
14 5 (0.70%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.70%) Fivetran
14 5 (0.70%) Power Automate
14 5 (0.70%) Serverless
15 4 (0.56%) dbt
15 4 (0.56%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (27.40%) Power BI
2 88 (12.24%) Tableau
3 58 (8.07%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (6.40%) Metadata
5 20 (2.78%) Power Query
6 16 (2.23%) Data Lake
7 15 (2.09%) Big Data
7 15 (2.09%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.39%) Looker
8 10 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (1.39%) Qlik Sense
9 8 (1.11%) BigQuery
9 8 (1.11%) Hadoop
10 7 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.83%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.83%) SQL Server
12 4 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.56%) OLAP
12 4 (0.56%) PowerPivot
12 4 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (2.09%) JIRA
2 6 (0.83%) MSI
3 3 (0.42%) Git
4 2 (0.28%) GitLab
4 2 (0.28%) MLflow
4 2 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.14%) GCC
5 1 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 200 (27.82%) Analytical Skills
2 172 (23.92%) Finance
3 149 (20.72%) Social Skills
4 59 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.37%) Banking
6 35 (4.87%) Marketing
7 20 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.81%) Legal
10 12 (1.67%) Retail
11 11 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
12 10 (1.39%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (1.25%) Local Government
13 9 (1.25%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.97%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.97%) Front Office
14 7 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
14 7 (0.97%) Law
15 5 (0.70%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.53%) PySpark
2 10 (1.39%) Pandas
3 6 (0.83%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.83%) XML
4 5 (0.70%) JDO
5 4 (0.56%) JSON
5 4 (0.56%) REST
5 4 (0.56%) SOAP
5 4 (0.56%) YAML
6 3 (0.42%) EDI
6 3 (0.42%) GeoJSON
6 3 (0.42%) NumPy
7 2 (0.28%) Kafka
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Graph
7 2 (0.28%) Node.js
7 2 (0.28%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.28%) Web Services
8 1 (0.14%) Next.js
8 1 (0.14%) Playwright
8 1 (0.14%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.09%) Data Structures
2 28 (3.89%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (2.23%) Management Information System
5 14 (1.95%) Data Centre
6 11 (1.53%) Onboarding
7 9 (1.25%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.11%) NHS
9 5 (0.70%) Credit Risk
9 5 (0.70%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.56%) Derivative
10 4 (0.56%) Equities
10 4 (0.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.56%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.56%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (0.56%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.42%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.42%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.42%) Windows
2 2 (0.28%) Linux
2 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (30.46%) Business Intelligence
2 166 (23.09%) Analytics
3 154 (21.42%) Data Analysis
4 138 (19.19%) Data Modelling
5 134 (18.64%) Decision-Making
6 120 (16.69%) Data Governance
6 120 (16.69%) Migration
7 114 (15.86%) Validation
8 108 (15.02%) Visualisation
9 104 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
10 91 (12.66%) Actionable Insight
11 84 (11.68%) Dashboard Development
12 79 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
13 78 (10.85%) Data Migration
13 78 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 68 (9.46%) Agile
14 68 (9.46%) ETL
15 67 (9.32%) Data Visualisation
16 61 (8.48%) Data Management
17 60 (8.34%) AI
Programming Languages
1 270 (37.55%) SQL
2 128 (17.80%) Python
3 37 (5.15%) R
4 13 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (1.81%) VBA
5 3 (0.42%) Korn
5 3 (0.42%) Scala
5 3 (0.42%) VB
6 2 (0.28%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.28%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.14%) Java
7 1 (0.14%) LookML
Qualifications
1 67 (9.32%) Security Cleared
2 50 (6.95%) SC Cleared
3 35 (4.87%) Degree
4 19 (2.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.67%) DBS Check
6 6 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.28%) PhD
7 2 (0.28%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.14%) CBAP
8 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.14%) ISEB
8 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (27.40%) Data Quality
2 32 (4.45%) GDPR
3 31 (4.31%) QA
4 7 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.83%) PMO
6 5 (0.70%) Solvency II
7 4 (0.56%) SLA
8 3 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS
9 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.14%) FATCA
10 1 (0.14%) GAAP
10 1 (0.14%) GMP
10 1 (0.14%) GRC
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 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 (0.42%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.42%) 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 63 (8.76%) Databricks
1 63 (8.76%) Microsoft
2 45 (6.26%) SAP
3 39 (5.42%) Oracle
4 23 (3.20%) Salesforce
5 16 (2.23%) Workday
6 10 (1.39%) Google
7 7 (0.97%) Alteryx
8 6 (0.83%) Adobe
8 6 (0.83%) ServiceNow
9 5 (0.70%) Atlassian
9 5 (0.70%) IBM
9 5 (0.70%) Informatica
10 4 (0.56%) MuleSoft
10 4 (0.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (0.56%) Teradata
11 3 (0.42%) Baan
11 3 (0.42%) Foundry
11 3 (0.42%) Palantir
11 3 (0.42%) Splunk