Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £430, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026.

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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 153 160
Rank change year-on-year -18 +7 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 639 437 560
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.57% 1.80% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.71% 1.94% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 315 383
10th Percentile £280 £263 £301
25th Percentile £356 £351 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £519 £550 £555
90th Percentile £600 £650 £629
UK median daily rate £435 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 18 19
10th Percentile £20.97 £15.73 £13.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £19.16 £15.56
Median hourly rate £32.25 £27.55 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +17.06% +27.31% -2.35%
75th Percentile £49.13 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £33.78 £40.95
UK median hourly rate £31.75 £26.50 £21.66
% change year-on-year +19.81% +22.35% +11.11%

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 37,472 22,498 34,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.54% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,288 14,975 22,610
10th Percentile £313 £300 £281
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £507 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.07% -2.38% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 913 2,443
10th Percentile £15.77 £14.00 £12.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £47.00 £30.32 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.01% -19.15% -16.23%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £44.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.85% -23.73% -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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -9 325 £463 -2.63% 108
South East -25 88 £380 -16.71% 86
Midlands -9 79 £423 +5.63% 37
North of England -42 75 £416 +0.91% 54
West Midlands -33 53 £420 +3.38% 20
Yorkshire -34 41 £370 -7.50% 16
South West -15 36 £525 +28.36% 23
North West -24 32 £425 +4.62% 31
East Midlands -15 26 £425 +6.25% 17
East of England -14 23 £358 -26.56% 33
North East -23 4 £425 -12.82% 8
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 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.

1 244 (38.18%) SQL
2 206 (32.24%) Business Intelligence
3 185 (28.95%) Power Platform
4 184 (28.79%) Power BI
5 180 (28.17%) Data Quality
6 149 (23.32%) Analytics
7 140 (21.91%) Data Analysis
7 140 (21.91%) Data Modelling
8 127 (19.87%) Python
9 123 (19.25%) Decision-Making
10 119 (18.62%) Data Governance
11 112 (17.53%) Microsoft Excel
12 109 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
13 103 (16.12%) Migration
13 103 (16.12%) Validation
14 92 (14.40%) Visualisation
15 89 (13.93%) Actionable Insight
16 81 (12.68%) Tableau
17 78 (12.21%) Security Cleared
18 76 (11.89%) Azure
18 76 (11.89%) Dashboard Development
19 75 (11.74%) ETL
19 75 (11.74%) Stakeholder Management
20 68 (10.64%) Agile
21 66 (10.33%) Data Migration
22 61 (9.55%) Data Warehouse
23 58 (9.08%) Data Visualisation
23 58 (9.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 57 (8.92%) Data Management
24 57 (8.92%) SC Cleared

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 11 (1.72%) SAS
2 9 (1.41%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.25%) Confluence
4 4 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.47%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.47%) CMS
6 2 (0.31%) Apache
7 1 (0.16%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 112 (17.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.78%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.16%) CATIA
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.72%) SystmOne
3 10 (1.56%) iTrent
4 7 (1.10%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.63%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.47%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.47%) SAP R/3
8 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.31%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.31%) Maximo
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.31%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.16%) Advent Geneva
9 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.16%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.16%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 185 (28.95%) Power Platform
2 76 (11.89%) Azure
3 52 (8.14%) AWS
4 25 (3.91%) Snowflake
5 22 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 17 (2.66%) SaaS
7 15 (2.35%) GCP
8 13 (2.03%) SuccessFactors
9 11 (1.72%) Amazon S3
10 10 (1.56%) Collibra
11 9 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
12 8 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (1.10%) Google Analytics
13 7 (1.10%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (0.94%) dbt
15 5 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
15 5 (0.78%) Serverless
16 4 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (0.63%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (28.79%) Power BI
2 81 (12.68%) Tableau
3 61 (9.55%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (7.82%) Metadata
5 16 (2.50%) Power Query
6 14 (2.19%) Looker
7 13 (2.03%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.88%) Big Data
8 12 (1.88%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.72%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.41%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (1.10%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.10%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.10%) Qlik Sense
13 6 (0.94%) KNIME
13 6 (0.94%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.94%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (2.50%) JIRA
2 6 (0.94%) MSI
3 5 (0.78%) Git
4 2 (0.31%) GitLab
4 2 (0.31%) MLflow
4 2 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.16%) GCC
5 1 (0.16%) Postman
General
1 193 (30.20%) Analytical Skills
2 165 (25.82%) Finance
3 142 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 61 (9.55%) Public Sector
5 44 (6.89%) Banking
6 30 (4.69%) Marketing
7 20 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.56%) Legal
10 9 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.25%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.10%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.10%) Front Office
12 7 (1.10%) Investment Banking
13 6 (0.94%) Law
13 6 (0.94%) Local Government
13 6 (0.94%) Retail
14 5 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.25%) Pandas
1 8 (1.25%) PySpark
2 5 (0.78%) JDO
2 5 (0.78%) XML
3 4 (0.63%) JSON
3 4 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.47%) EDI
4 3 (0.47%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.47%) NumPy
4 3 (0.47%) REST
4 3 (0.47%) SOAP
4 3 (0.47%) YAML
5 2 (0.31%) Kafka
5 2 (0.31%) Node.js
5 2 (0.31%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.31%) Web Services
6 1 (0.16%) Google JAX
6 1 (0.16%) Next.js
6 1 (0.16%) Playwright
6 1 (0.16%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 53 (8.29%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (2.03%) Management Information System
5 11 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 11 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.25%) NHS
6 8 (1.25%) Onboarding
7 5 (0.78%) CMDB
7 5 (0.78%) Credit Risk
7 5 (0.78%) Reference Data
8 4 (0.63%) Derivative
8 4 (0.63%) Fixed Income
8 4 (0.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (0.63%) Hedge funds
8 4 (0.63%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (0.47%) Equities
9 3 (0.47%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (0.47%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.31%) Windows
2 1 (0.16%) Linux
2 1 (0.16%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.16%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (32.24%) Business Intelligence
2 149 (23.32%) Analytics
3 140 (21.91%) Data Analysis
3 140 (21.91%) Data Modelling
4 123 (19.25%) Decision-Making
5 119 (18.62%) Data Governance
6 109 (17.06%) Problem-Solving
7 103 (16.12%) Migration
7 103 (16.12%) Validation
8 92 (14.40%) Visualisation
9 89 (13.93%) Actionable Insight
10 76 (11.89%) Dashboard Development
11 75 (11.74%) ETL
11 75 (11.74%) Stakeholder Management
12 68 (10.64%) Agile
13 66 (10.33%) Data Migration
14 58 (9.08%) Data Visualisation
14 58 (9.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 57 (8.92%) Data Management
16 49 (7.67%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 244 (38.18%) SQL
2 127 (19.87%) Python
3 34 (5.32%) R
4 16 (2.50%) VBA
5 8 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.63%) Scala
7 3 (0.47%) Korn
7 3 (0.47%) VB
8 2 (0.31%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.31%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.16%) Java
9 1 (0.16%) LookML
Qualifications
1 78 (12.21%) Security Cleared
2 57 (8.92%) SC Cleared
3 23 (3.60%) Degree
4 14 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.88%) DBS Check
6 6 (0.94%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.31%) PhD
8 1 (0.16%) CBAP
8 1 (0.16%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (28.17%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.16%) QA
3 31 (4.85%) GDPR
4 8 (1.25%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.78%) PMO
6 5 (0.78%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.47%) SLA
8 2 (0.31%) IFRS
8 2 (0.31%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.16%) FATCA
9 1 (0.16%) GAAP
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (0.47%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.31%) Docker
3 1 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.47%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.47%) Terraform
2 2 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.31%) SCCM
3 1 (0.16%) Grafana
3 1 (0.16%) Kibana
Vendors
1 55 (8.61%) Microsoft
2 50 (7.82%) Databricks
3 48 (7.51%) SAP
4 34 (5.32%) Oracle
5 25 (3.91%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.66%) Workday
7 13 (2.03%) Google
7 13 (2.03%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.41%) Informatica
9 7 (1.10%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.94%) Teradata
11 5 (0.78%) Adobe
11 5 (0.78%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.78%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.78%) IBM
12 4 (0.63%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.63%) Cognos
12 4 (0.63%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.47%) Baan
13 3 (0.47%) Palantir