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 4 February 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 155 149
Rank change year-on-year -35 -6 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 486 439 621
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.68% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.59% 1.81% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 322 428
10th Percentile £282 £271 £263
25th Percentile £358 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £556 £575
90th Percentile £601 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 32
10th Percentile £21.68 £15.90 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.45 £21.41 £15.82
Median hourly rate £33.75 £27.13 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +24.42% +26.57% -0.33%
75th Percentile £50.50 £35.00 £34.71
90th Percentile £64.78 £45.35 £38.95
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £21.43
% change year-on-year +19.82% +26.57% +0.73%

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 30,551 24,303 35,358
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 93.05% 93.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,452 15,042 23,806
10th Percentile £300 £300 £270
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £640
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,916 729 2,105
10th Percentile £14.96 £15.92 £13.23
25th Percentile £18.82 £21.25 £16.80
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -1.30%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £71.99 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -5.71% -

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -21 278 £475 +0.96% 87
South East -4 67 £401 -20.99% 93
North of England -47 55 £375 -9.09% 59
Midlands -59 32 £400 - 50
South West -11 29 £500 +25.00% 30
North West -26 26 £400 -11.11% 32
Yorkshire -37 26 £365 -6.41% 22
West Midlands -49 21 £400 - 25
East Midlands -27 11 £384 +0.72% 25
East of England -29 10 £513 -2.38% 20
North East -15 4 £475 -17.39% 5
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 February 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.

1 218 (44.86%) SQL
2 157 (32.30%) Business Intelligence
3 156 (32.10%) Data Analysis
4 149 (30.66%) Power BI
4 149 (30.66%) Power Platform
5 139 (28.60%) Data Quality
6 129 (26.54%) Analytics
7 109 (22.43%) Python
8 103 (21.19%) Data Governance
9 102 (20.99%) Microsoft Excel
10 96 (19.75%) Visualisation
11 91 (18.72%) Data Modelling
12 88 (18.11%) Decision-Making
12 88 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
13 83 (17.08%) Actionable Insight
14 80 (16.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 78 (16.05%) ETL
16 74 (15.23%) Security Cleared
17 69 (14.20%) Migration
18 68 (13.99%) Validation
19 66 (13.58%) Tableau
20 64 (13.17%) Data Management
21 62 (12.76%) Data Visualisation
22 59 (12.14%) Microsoft
23 57 (11.73%) Dashboard Development
24 56 (11.52%) SC Cleared
25 51 (10.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 47 (9.67%) Data Warehouse
27 46 (9.47%) Data Transformation
28 45 (9.26%) Azure

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 16 (3.29%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.65%) SAS
3 7 (1.44%) Confluence
4 3 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.62%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.62%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 102 (20.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.41%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (1.65%) Salesforce CRM
1 8 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.23%) SAP HR
3 4 (0.82%) Maximo
4 2 (0.41%) Actimize
4 2 (0.41%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.21%) iTrent
5 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.21%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 149 (30.66%) Power Platform
2 45 (9.26%) Azure
3 43 (8.85%) AWS
4 36 (7.41%) Snowflake
5 16 (3.29%) GCP
6 12 (2.47%) Amazon S3
7 11 (2.26%) Collibra
8 10 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (2.06%) SaaS
9 9 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (1.65%) dbt
11 7 (1.44%) OCI
12 4 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.82%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.82%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.82%) Power Automate
12 4 (0.82%) Serverless
13 3 (0.62%) Google Tag Manager
13 3 (0.62%) Matillion
13 3 (0.62%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.41%) Internet
2 1 (0.21%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 149 (30.66%) Power BI
2 66 (13.58%) Tableau
3 47 (9.67%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (7.00%) Metadata
5 17 (3.50%) Power Query
6 15 (3.09%) Looker
7 13 (2.67%) BigQuery
7 13 (2.67%) SQL Server
8 11 (2.26%) Big Data
9 10 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.85%) Amazon Athena
10 9 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.65%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.65%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.65%) KNIME
12 7 (1.44%) PowerPivot
13 5 (1.03%) NoSQL
13 5 (1.03%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.82%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 15 (3.09%) JIRA
2 6 (1.23%) MSI
3 4 (0.82%) Git
4 2 (0.41%) ERwin
4 2 (0.41%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.21%) GitLab
General
1 150 (30.86%) Analytical Skills
2 149 (30.66%) Finance
3 138 (28.40%) Social Skills
4 40 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 33 (6.79%) Banking
6 21 (4.32%) Marketing
7 12 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (2.47%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (1.44%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.23%) Electronics
11 6 (1.23%) Legal
11 6 (1.23%) Military
11 6 (1.23%) Retail
12 5 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.03%) Law
13 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.03%) XML
2 4 (0.82%) PySpark
3 3 (0.62%) Pandas
3 3 (0.62%) YAML
4 2 (0.41%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.21%) ADO
5 1 (0.21%) JDO
5 1 (0.21%) JSON
5 1 (0.21%) LDAP
5 1 (0.21%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.21%) NumPy
5 1 (0.21%) OAuth
5 1 (0.21%) OpenID
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.21%) REST
5 1 (0.21%) RESTful
5 1 (0.21%) SAML
5 1 (0.21%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.21%) SOAP
5 1 (0.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.20%) Data Structures
2 18 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 18 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (3.29%) Data Centre
4 14 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 13 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.65%) CMDB
8 5 (1.03%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.03%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.62%) Cybercrime
9 3 (0.62%) NHS
9 3 (0.62%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.41%) Clustering
10 2 (0.41%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.41%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.41%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.62%) Unix
2 2 (0.41%) Windows
3 1 (0.21%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (32.30%) Business Intelligence
2 156 (32.10%) Data Analysis
3 129 (26.54%) Analytics
4 103 (21.19%) Data Governance
5 96 (19.75%) Visualisation
6 91 (18.72%) Data Modelling
7 88 (18.11%) Decision-Making
7 88 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
8 83 (17.08%) Actionable Insight
9 80 (16.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 78 (16.05%) ETL
11 69 (14.20%) Migration
12 68 (13.99%) Validation
13 64 (13.17%) Data Management
14 62 (12.76%) Data Visualisation
15 57 (11.73%) Dashboard Development
16 51 (10.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 46 (9.47%) Data Transformation
18 45 (9.26%) Data Cleansing
18 45 (9.26%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 218 (44.86%) SQL
2 109 (22.43%) Python
3 21 (4.32%) R
4 14 (2.88%) VBA
5 6 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.03%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.41%) C#
7 2 (0.41%) Java
7 2 (0.41%) Korn
7 2 (0.41%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.41%) Scala
7 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.41%) VB
8 1 (0.21%) Perl
8 1 (0.21%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 74 (15.23%) Security Cleared
2 56 (11.52%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.94%) Degree
4 6 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.03%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.62%) ACCA
7 3 (0.62%) CEH
7 3 (0.62%) CIMA
7 3 (0.62%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.62%) GIAC
7 3 (0.62%) GREM
7 3 (0.62%) OSCP
8 2 (0.41%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.21%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.21%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (28.60%) Data Quality
2 25 (5.14%) GDPR
3 18 (3.70%) QA
4 10 (2.06%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.62%) IFRS
6 3 (0.62%) SLA
7 2 (0.41%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.41%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.21%) FATCA
8 1 (0.21%) GAAP
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (0.62%) SCCM
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.21%) Terraform
2 1 (0.21%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 59 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.76%) Salesforce
3 26 (5.35%) Oracle
4 24 (4.94%) SAP
5 20 (4.12%) Databricks
5 20 (4.12%) ServiceNow
6 16 (3.29%) Workday
7 10 (2.06%) Google
8 9 (1.85%) Informatica
8 9 (1.85%) MuleSoft
9 6 (1.23%) Cognos
10 5 (1.03%) Alteryx
11 3 (0.62%) ESRI
11 3 (0.62%) Foundry
11 3 (0.62%) Intergraph
11 3 (0.62%) Palantir
11 3 (0.62%) Teradata
12 2 (0.41%) Atlassian
12 2 (0.41%) Bloomberg
12 2 (0.41%) Micro Focus