Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 153 168
Rank change year-on-year -20 +15 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 747 526 489
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 1.91% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 2.09% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 325 359
10th Percentile £258 £263 £281
25th Percentile £356 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £460
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -7.61% -3.16%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £556
90th Percentile £588 £638 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £435 £450
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 25 19
10th Percentile £16.91 £20.80 £16.20
25th Percentile £21.49 £22.04 £18.92
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.38 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% +6.15% +19.95%
75th Percentile £48.00 £33.88 £33.00
90th Percentile £49.40 £39.39 £39.90
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.50 £21.66
% change year-on-year +13.21% +22.35% +1.07%

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 42,935 25,205 29,932
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 91.31% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,501 16,241 18,594
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.98%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,554 1,371 1,420
10th Percentile £14.85 £13.75 £14.84
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.58 £25.15 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +69.28% -45.54% +2.62%
75th Percentile £68.00 £53.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £79.70 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% -3.37%

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 23 September 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 23 September 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 23 September 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 -39 331 £450 -5.26% 439
South East -20 115 £475 +11.76% 119
North of England -47 108 £425 +13.33% 156
Midlands -4 87 £410 +5.13% 90
South West -4 71 £475 +11.76% 47
West Midlands -7 65 £410 +2.50% 52
Yorkshire -38 56 £419 +24.35% 61
North West -32 41 £450 +12.50% 76
East of England -3 33 £359 -29.95% 40
East Midlands -5 22 £413 +10.00% 38
North East -26 14 £425 -30.61% 20
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 23 September 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 (35.34%) SQL
2 225 (30.12%) Data Quality
3 223 (29.85%) Business Intelligence
4 205 (27.44%) Power BI
4 205 (27.44%) Power Platform
5 187 (25.03%) Data Analysis
6 170 (22.76%) Analytics
7 145 (19.41%) Decision-Making
8 143 (19.14%) Data Governance
9 138 (18.47%) Validation
10 133 (17.80%) Data Modelling
11 125 (16.73%) Microsoft Excel
12 119 (15.93%) Python
13 117 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
14 110 (14.73%) Migration
15 109 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
16 101 (13.52%) Visualisation
17 98 (13.12%) Actionable Insight
18 92 (12.32%) Microsoft
19 88 (11.78%) Azure
20 84 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 84 (11.24%) Tableau
21 79 (10.58%) Data Migration
22 75 (10.04%) AI
23 72 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
23 72 (9.64%) Dashboard Development
24 64 (8.57%) Agile
25 61 (8.17%) Security Cleared
26 59 (7.90%) Databricks
27 56 (7.50%) Data Mapping

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 13 (1.74%) SAS
2 8 (1.07%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.80%) Confluence
4 5 (0.67%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.40%) Apache
6 3 (0.40%) CMS
6 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.40%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 125 (16.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
3 10 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.07%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.80%) SPSS
7 2 (0.27%) CATIA
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.61%) iTrent
2 10 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.94%) SystmOne
4 6 (0.80%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.67%) Raiser’s Edge
6 3 (0.40%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.40%) Teamcenter
7 2 (0.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.27%) Eikon
7 2 (0.27%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.27%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.27%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 205 (27.44%) Power Platform
2 88 (11.78%) Azure
3 40 (5.35%) AWS
3 40 (5.35%) Snowflake
4 20 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
4 20 (2.68%) SaaS
5 17 (2.28%) Power Automate
6 16 (2.14%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 12 (1.61%) SuccessFactors
9 10 (1.34%) Collibra
9 10 (1.34%) GCP
10 8 (1.07%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (0.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (0.67%) Alation
12 5 (0.67%) Amazon S3
12 5 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.67%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (0.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.54%) Internet
2 3 (0.40%) Firewall
3 2 (0.27%) Broadband
4 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (27.44%) Power BI
2 84 (11.24%) Tableau
3 50 (6.69%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (5.89%) Metadata
5 21 (2.81%) Power Query
6 20 (2.68%) Relational Database
7 16 (2.14%) Data Lake
8 14 (1.87%) Looker
9 11 (1.47%) Big Data
9 11 (1.47%) SQL Server
10 10 (1.34%) Qlik Sense
11 9 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
12 6 (0.80%) BigQuery
13 5 (0.67%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (0.67%) BusinessObjects
13 5 (0.67%) GIS
13 5 (0.67%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
14 4 (0.54%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 16 (2.14%) JIRA
2 4 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.27%) Git
3 2 (0.27%) GitLab
4 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 204 (27.31%) Analytical Skills
2 172 (23.03%) Social Skills
3 171 (22.89%) Finance
4 62 (8.30%) Banking
5 59 (7.90%) Public Sector
6 46 (6.16%) Marketing
7 30 (4.02%) Retail
8 26 (3.48%) Legal
9 23 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
10 15 (2.01%) Local Government
11 14 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.61%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.20%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.20%) Military
13 9 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.07%) Automotive
14 8 (1.07%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.94%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.74%) PySpark
2 9 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.80%) JSON
4 5 (0.67%) EDI
4 5 (0.67%) Pandas
5 3 (0.40%) REST
6 2 (0.27%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.27%) Django
6 2 (0.27%) HTML
6 2 (0.27%) Kafka
6 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.27%) SOAP
6 2 (0.27%) XML
7 1 (0.13%) Matplotlib
7 1 (0.13%) Middleware
7 1 (0.13%) Node.js
7 1 (0.13%) NumPy
7 1 (0.13%) SAML
7 1 (0.13%) Spring
7 1 (0.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.96%) Data Structures
2 32 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
3 22 (2.95%) Management Information System
4 21 (2.81%) Product Ownership
5 17 (2.28%) Onboarding
6 16 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.34%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.07%) FMCG
9 7 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (0.80%) Credit Risk
10 6 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.80%) Taxonomies
11 5 (0.67%) NHS
11 5 (0.67%) Reference Data
11 5 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.54%) Fixed Income
13 3 (0.40%) CMDB
13 3 (0.40%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.40%) Security Posture
13 3 (0.40%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (0.67%) Windows
2 3 (0.40%) Linux
3 2 (0.27%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (29.85%) Business Intelligence
2 187 (25.03%) Data Analysis
3 170 (22.76%) Analytics
4 145 (19.41%) Decision-Making
5 143 (19.14%) Data Governance
6 138 (18.47%) Validation
7 133 (17.80%) Data Modelling
8 117 (15.66%) Stakeholder Management
9 110 (14.73%) Migration
10 109 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
11 101 (13.52%) Visualisation
12 98 (13.12%) Actionable Insight
13 84 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 79 (10.58%) Data Migration
15 75 (10.04%) AI
16 72 (9.64%) Continuous Improvement
16 72 (9.64%) Dashboard Development
17 64 (8.57%) Agile
18 56 (7.50%) Data Mapping
19 55 (7.36%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 264 (35.34%) SQL
2 119 (15.93%) Python
3 37 (4.95%) R
4 22 (2.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (0.54%) Korn
5 4 (0.54%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.40%) Scala
6 3 (0.40%) VBA
7 2 (0.27%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.27%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.27%) VB
8 1 (0.13%) Cypher
8 1 (0.13%) Java
8 1 (0.13%) LookML
8 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 61 (8.17%) Security Cleared
2 49 (6.56%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.22%) Degree
4 17 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (1.34%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.54%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.40%) PMP
8 2 (0.27%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.13%) CBAP
9 1 (0.13%) CFA
9 1 (0.13%) CISM
9 1 (0.13%) CISSP
9 1 (0.13%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) IIBA
9 1 (0.13%) ISEB
9 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 225 (30.12%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.82%) QA
3 32 (4.28%) GDPR
4 10 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.80%) GRC
8 4 (0.54%) PMO
8 4 (0.54%) SLA
9 3 (0.40%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS
10 2 (0.27%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.13%) EMIR
11 1 (0.13%) GMP
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.13%) Docker
2 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.27%) SCCM
2 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (12.32%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.90%) Databricks
3 50 (6.69%) SAP
4 40 (5.35%) Oracle
5 16 (2.14%) Salesforce
6 15 (2.01%) Workday
7 14 (1.87%) Alteryx
8 13 (1.74%) Google
9 8 (1.07%) Informatica
9 8 (1.07%) Teradata
10 5 (0.67%) Baan
10 5 (0.67%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.54%) Palantir
11 4 (0.54%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.40%) Foundry
13 2 (0.27%) CODA
13 2 (0.27%) Facebook
13 2 (0.27%) NEC
13 2 (0.27%) Siemens
13 2 (0.27%) Splunk