Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £435, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 167 185
Rank change year-on-year +17 +18 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 525 491 589
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.89% 1.49% 1.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.07% 1.60% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 362 408
10th Percentile £264 £273 £276
25th Percentile £358 £352 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £556 £600
90th Percentile £645 £638 £691
UK median daily rate £441 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -2.11% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 18 34
10th Percentile £21.02 £16.17 £15.06
25th Percentile £23.45 £18.46 £17.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £24.40 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% +12.16% -30.95%
75th Percentile £34.68 £34.00 £34.71
90th Percentile £39.39 £40.48 £45.48
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £21.66 £21.43
% change year-on-year +26.39% +1.07% -17.58%

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 25,377 30,623 39,527
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.32% 92.98% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,381 19,128 27,584
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,363 1,485 1,349
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.60 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.31 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%
75th Percentile £54.88 £67.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.49 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +19 285 £475 - 277
North of England -7 69 £388 -8.82% 132
South East +19 68 £447 -7.31% 225
Yorkshire +13 42 £375 -25.00% 33
Midlands -13 39 £390 +7.59% 95
South West +38 35 £425 +13.26% 50
West Midlands -2 31 £400 +14.29% 59
North West -33 25 £400 -5.77% 86
East Midlands -7 8 £375 +3.45% 36
East of England -12 6 £525 +23.53% 45
North East -4 2 £613 -14.93% 14
Data Analyst
UK

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 274 (52.19%) SQL
2 199 (37.90%) Finance
3 194 (36.95%) Data Analysis
4 174 (33.14%) Power Platform
5 169 (32.19%) Power BI
6 166 (31.62%) Business Intelligence
7 161 (30.67%) Social Skills
8 152 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
9 146 (27.81%) Python
10 134 (25.52%) Microsoft Excel
11 133 (25.33%) Visualisation
12 132 (25.14%) Analytics
13 116 (22.10%) Data Quality
14 95 (18.10%) Data Modelling
15 93 (17.71%) Microsoft
15 93 (17.71%) Tableau
16 91 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
17 84 (16.00%) Actionable Insight
17 84 (16.00%) Data Governance
18 83 (15.81%) Decision-Making
19 76 (14.48%) Data Visualisation
20 66 (12.57%) Validation
21 63 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
22 60 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
23 58 (11.05%) Agile
24 55 (10.48%) Data Management
25 54 (10.29%) Migration
26 52 (9.90%) Banking
27 49 (9.33%) ETL
28 44 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (5.90%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.86%) Confluence
3 5 (0.95%) SAS
4 3 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.38%) Apache
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 134 (25.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (4.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.90%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) Revit
7 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.57%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.38%) Bankmaster
4 2 (0.38%) Maximo
4 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.38%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.19%) Academy Housing
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) ContrOCC
5 1 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.19%) iTrent
5 1 (0.19%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.19%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.19%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 174 (33.14%) Power Platform
2 42 (8.00%) Azure
3 39 (7.43%) AWS
4 29 (5.52%) Snowflake
5 19 (3.62%) GCP
6 15 (2.86%) dbt
7 9 (1.71%) Amazon S3
7 9 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 9 (1.71%) PowerApps
8 8 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 7 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
9 7 (1.33%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (1.33%) Power Automate
10 6 (1.14%) Collibra
10 6 (1.14%) OCI
10 6 (1.14%) SaaS
11 5 (0.95%) Google Data Studio
12 4 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (0.76%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.38%) Internet
2 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (32.19%) Power BI
2 93 (17.71%) Tableau
3 60 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (4.76%) Power Query
5 22 (4.19%) SQL Server
6 21 (4.00%) Data Lake
7 18 (3.43%) BigQuery
8 17 (3.24%) Looker
9 16 (3.05%) Metadata
10 11 (2.10%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.71%) Big Data
11 9 (1.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 7 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.33%) Data Mining
13 6 (1.14%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.14%) Impala
14 5 (0.95%) GIS
14 5 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.95%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (3.43%) JIRA
2 8 (1.52%) Git
3 2 (0.38%) Ant
3 2 (0.38%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.38%) ERwin
3 2 (0.38%) Selenium
4 1 (0.19%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.19%) GitLab
4 1 (0.19%) LSMW
General
1 199 (37.90%) Finance
2 161 (30.67%) Social Skills
3 152 (28.95%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (9.90%) Banking
5 33 (6.29%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.62%) Marketing
6 19 (3.62%) Retail
7 17 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
8 15 (2.86%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.48%) Local Government
10 11 (2.10%) Front Office
10 11 (2.10%) Legal
11 8 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
11 8 (1.52%) Retail Banking
12 7 (1.33%) Billing
12 7 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.95%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.14%) PySpark
2 5 (0.95%) DAO
2 5 (0.95%) JSON
3 4 (0.76%) Pandas
4 3 (0.57%) NumPy
5 2 (0.38%) Kafka
5 2 (0.38%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.19%) Altair
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.19%) LDAP
6 1 (0.19%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.19%) OAuth
6 1 (0.19%) OpenID
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.19%) SAML
6 1 (0.19%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.19%) Swagger
6 1 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (3.62%) Data Structures
2 16 (3.05%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (2.10%) Reinsurance
7 8 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 7 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 7 (1.33%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.33%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.14%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.14%) Reference Data
10 5 (0.95%) Derivative
10 5 (0.95%) NHS
10 5 (0.95%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.76%) CMDB
11 4 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.76%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.76%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.38%) Unix
2 1 (0.19%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (36.95%) Data Analysis
2 166 (31.62%) Business Intelligence
3 133 (25.33%) Visualisation
4 132 (25.14%) Analytics
5 95 (18.10%) Data Modelling
6 91 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (16.00%) Actionable Insight
7 84 (16.00%) Data Governance
8 83 (15.81%) Decision-Making
9 76 (14.48%) Data Visualisation
10 66 (12.57%) Validation
11 63 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 58 (11.05%) Agile
13 55 (10.48%) Data Management
14 54 (10.29%) Migration
15 49 (9.33%) ETL
16 44 (8.38%) Data Cleansing
16 44 (8.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 36 (6.86%) Data Analytics
17 36 (6.86%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 274 (52.19%) SQL
2 146 (27.81%) Python
3 19 (3.62%) R
4 17 (3.24%) VBA
5 16 (3.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (1.52%) PowerShell
7 4 (0.76%) Java
7 4 (0.76%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.57%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.57%) Scala
9 2 (0.38%) C++
9 2 (0.38%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.38%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.19%) C#
10 1 (0.19%) LookML
10 1 (0.19%) Perl
10 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (5.90%) Security Cleared
2 29 (5.52%) Degree
3 23 (4.38%) SC Cleared
4 7 (1.33%) Master's Degree
5 5 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.76%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.57%) CEH
7 3 (0.57%) CIPD
7 3 (0.57%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.57%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.57%) GIAC
7 3 (0.57%) GREM
7 3 (0.57%) OSCP
8 2 (0.38%) CBAP
8 2 (0.38%) PMP
9 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.19%) ISEB
9 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (22.10%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.90%) GDPR
3 12 (2.29%) QA
4 10 (1.90%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.76%) IFRS
6 3 (0.57%) MiFID
7 2 (0.38%) Basel III
7 2 (0.38%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.38%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.19%) COSHH
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.19%) FATCA
8 1 (0.19%) GAAP
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.19%) PERC
8 1 (0.19%) Solvency II
System Software
1 5 (0.95%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.19%) Grafana
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.19%) SCCM
2 1 (0.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 93 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.29%) Oracle
3 21 (4.00%) Databricks
4 18 (3.43%) Google
4 18 (3.43%) SAP
5 13 (2.48%) Workday
6 12 (2.29%) Salesforce
6 12 (2.29%) ServiceNow
7 9 (1.71%) Alteryx
8 8 (1.52%) Informatica
9 4 (0.76%) Palantir
10 3 (0.57%) NEC
10 3 (0.57%) OneTrust
10 3 (0.57%) Sparx
10 3 (0.57%) Talend
11 2 (0.38%) Amplitude
11 2 (0.38%) Liquidlogic
11 2 (0.38%) NetIQ
11 2 (0.38%) Okta
11 2 (0.38%) OpenText