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 10 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 147 170
Rank change year-on-year -11 +23 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 772 536 482
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 1.93% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 2.10% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 344 352
10th Percentile £259 £263 £263
25th Percentile £356 £358 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £435 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £545
90th Percentile £610 £659 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £441 £450
% change year-on-year +2.16% -2.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 28 18
10th Percentile £17.83 £17.64 £16.17
25th Percentile £23.33 £21.84 £18.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.94 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.37% -8.69% +29.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £32.35 £40.00
90th Percentile £52.63 £34.99 £42.63
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.16 £21.66
% change year-on-year +19.26% +16.14% +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 42,140 25,508 30,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 91.65% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,526 16,531 20,304
10th Percentile £325 £285 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,165 1,327 1,793
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.53 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.48 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.65 £25.30 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.58% -43.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -39 345 £455 -4.21% 110
South East -18 129 £450 +3.63% 71
North of England -35 103 £420 +8.39% 61
Midlands +1 93 £425 +8.97% 51
South West -7 66 £450 +9.76% 21
West Midlands -17 64 £420 +5.00% 27
Yorkshire -24 55 £400 +14.29% 31
North West -29 43 £450 +12.50% 25
East of England +7 30 £360 -10.00% 23
East Midlands +12 29 £425 +13.33% 24
North East -41 7 £425 -5.56% 6
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 August 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 (34.97%) SQL
2 237 (30.70%) Business Intelligence
3 224 (29.02%) Data Quality
4 217 (28.11%) Power Platform
5 216 (27.98%) Power BI
6 179 (23.19%) Data Analysis
7 176 (22.80%) Analytics
8 151 (19.56%) Data Modelling
9 144 (18.65%) Decision-Making
10 139 (18.01%) Data Governance
11 127 (16.45%) Microsoft Excel
12 125 (16.19%) Python
13 123 (15.93%) Validation
14 114 (14.77%) Migration
15 111 (14.38%) Visualisation
16 105 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
17 101 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
18 96 (12.44%) Azure
19 95 (12.31%) Actionable Insight
20 91 (11.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 90 (11.66%) Tableau
22 82 (10.62%) Microsoft
23 79 (10.23%) Dashboard Development
24 76 (9.84%) Agile
24 76 (9.84%) Data Migration
25 71 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
26 68 (8.81%) AI
27 67 (8.68%) Databricks
28 64 (8.29%) Security Cleared
29 60 (7.77%) 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 13 (1.68%) SAS
2 7 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.78%) CMS
3 6 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.39%) Apache
4 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
4 3 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.26%) Confluence
6 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 127 (16.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.78%) SPSS
5 2 (0.26%) CATIA
6 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.55%) iTrent
2 11 (1.42%) SystmOne
3 9 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 6 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.65%) Raiser’s Edge
6 4 (0.52%) Adobe Campaign
6 4 (0.52%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.39%) SAP R/3
8 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.26%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.26%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.13%) Eikon
9 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.13%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 217 (28.11%) Power Platform
2 96 (12.44%) Azure
3 48 (6.22%) AWS
4 36 (4.66%) Snowflake
5 21 (2.72%) SaaS
6 20 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 17 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (1.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 14 (1.81%) Power Automate
9 13 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
10 11 (1.42%) Collibra
11 10 (1.30%) GCP
12 8 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.78%) Amazon S3
13 6 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.78%) OCI
14 5 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Copilot
14 5 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.26%) Internet
2 1 (0.13%) Broadband
2 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.13%) Firewall
2 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (27.98%) Power BI
2 90 (11.66%) Tableau
3 60 (7.77%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (6.74%) Metadata
5 21 (2.72%) Power Query
6 18 (2.33%) Relational Database
7 17 (2.20%) Data Lake
8 15 (1.94%) Looker
9 10 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
10 9 (1.17%) Big Data
10 9 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.78%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (0.65%) SQL Server
13 4 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (0.52%) Data Mining
13 4 (0.52%) OLAP
13 4 (0.52%) Parquet
13 4 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 15 (1.94%) JIRA
2 3 (0.39%) Git
2 3 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.26%) GitLab
3 2 (0.26%) MLflow
3 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.13%) GCC
4 1 (0.13%) Postman
General
1 208 (26.94%) Analytical Skills
2 179 (23.19%) Finance
3 164 (21.24%) Social Skills
4 62 (8.03%) Banking
5 60 (7.77%) Public Sector
6 48 (6.22%) Marketing
7 27 (3.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 26 (3.37%) Retail
9 17 (2.20%) Legal
10 15 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.55%) Local Government
13 11 (1.42%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.42%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.30%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.17%) Front Office
16 8 (1.04%) Military
16 8 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.91%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.55%) PySpark
2 10 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
3 9 (1.17%) Pandas
4 7 (0.91%) JSON
5 5 (0.65%) EDI
6 4 (0.52%) JDO
7 3 (0.39%) NumPy
8 2 (0.26%) Apache Avro
8 2 (0.26%) Django
8 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.26%) Node.js
8 2 (0.26%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.26%) REST
8 2 (0.26%) SOAP
8 2 (0.26%) XML
9 1 (0.13%) Google JAX
9 1 (0.13%) Great Expectations
9 1 (0.13%) JAX
9 1 (0.13%) Next.js
9 1 (0.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 46 (5.96%) Data Structures
2 22 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (2.20%) Onboarding
3 17 (2.20%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (2.07%) Management Information System
5 9 (1.17%) Data Centre
5 9 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (0.91%) Fixed Income
7 6 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
7 6 (0.78%) NHS
7 6 (0.78%) Reference Data
7 6 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (0.52%) CMDB
8 4 (0.52%) Credit Risk
8 4 (0.52%) Derivative
8 4 (0.52%) FMCG
8 4 (0.52%) Hedge funds
8 4 (0.52%) Reinsurance
8 4 (0.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.52%) Windows
2 2 (0.26%) Linux
2 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (30.70%) Business Intelligence
2 179 (23.19%) Data Analysis
3 176 (22.80%) Analytics
4 151 (19.56%) Data Modelling
5 144 (18.65%) Decision-Making
6 139 (18.01%) Data Governance
7 123 (15.93%) Validation
8 114 (14.77%) Migration
9 111 (14.38%) Visualisation
10 105 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
11 101 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
12 95 (12.31%) Actionable Insight
13 91 (11.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 79 (10.23%) Dashboard Development
15 76 (9.84%) Agile
15 76 (9.84%) Data Migration
16 71 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 68 (8.81%) AI
18 60 (7.77%) Data Management
19 59 (7.64%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 270 (34.97%) SQL
2 125 (16.19%) Python
3 29 (3.76%) R
4 19 (2.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (1.17%) VBA
6 3 (0.39%) Scala
6 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.26%) Korn
7 2 (0.26%) VB
8 1 (0.13%) Cypher
8 1 (0.13%) Java
8 1 (0.13%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.13%) LookML
8 1 (0.13%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 64 (8.29%) Security Cleared
2 48 (6.22%) SC Cleared
3 39 (5.05%) Degree
4 19 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (1.81%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.52%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.39%) PMP
8 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.26%) PhD
9 1 (0.13%) CBAP
9 1 (0.13%) CFA
9 1 (0.13%) CISM
9 1 (0.13%) CISSP
9 1 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (29.02%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.40%) QA
3 33 (4.27%) GDPR
4 9 (1.17%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.78%) PMO
7 5 (0.65%) SLA
8 4 (0.52%) GRC
8 4 (0.52%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.13%) FATCA
9 1 (0.13%) GMP
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.39%) Docker
3 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.26%) Terraform
3 1 (0.13%) Grafana
3 1 (0.13%) Kibana
3 1 (0.13%) SCCM
3 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 82 (10.62%) Microsoft
2 67 (8.68%) Databricks
3 49 (6.35%) SAP
4 43 (5.57%) Oracle
5 22 (2.85%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.94%) Workday
7 11 (1.42%) Google
8 10 (1.30%) Alteryx
9 7 (0.91%) Informatica
9 7 (0.91%) ServiceNow
9 7 (0.91%) Teradata
10 6 (0.78%) Adobe
10 6 (0.78%) Palantir
11 5 (0.65%) Baan
11 5 (0.65%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.65%) Foundry
11 5 (0.65%) IBM
12 4 (0.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.39%) Atlassian
13 3 (0.39%) OpenAI