Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026.

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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 142 162
Rank change year-on-year -21 +20 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 683 449 553
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 1.89% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.78% 2.05% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 322 383
10th Percentile £263 £278 £294
25th Percentile £350 £366 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% - -2.63%
75th Percentile £522 £550 £555
90th Percentile £625 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £425 £461 £450
% change year-on-year -7.86% +2.50% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 21 18
10th Percentile £21.60 £16.32 £13.50
25th Percentile £28.31 £22.98 £15.40
Median hourly rate £31.50 £27.38 £21.54
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% +27.12% -2.82%
75th Percentile £48.00 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £34.68 £42.63
UK median hourly rate £30.75 £26.50 £21.66
% change year-on-year +16.04% +22.35% +8.30%

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 38,465 21,947 33,912
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.32% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,812 14,594 22,464
10th Percentile £322 £293 £283
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,684 883 2,505
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -22.00% -17.38%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.94 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.55
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.38% -24.58% -18.89%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -17 341 £463 -5.13% 99
South East -21 97 £375 -17.58% 77
Midlands -14 87 £425 +6.25% 32
North of England -41 79 £413 -5.71% 66
West Midlands -19 62 £420 +5.00% 15
South West -9 42 £513 +25.31% 23
Yorkshire -32 41 £400 - 28
North West -25 35 £423 +2.42% 30
East of England -10 25 £360 -7.10% 21
East Midlands -14 25 £425 +7.59% 17
North East -28 5 £413 -15.38% 9
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 261 (38.21%) SQL
2 215 (31.48%) Business Intelligence
3 194 (28.40%) Power Platform
4 193 (28.26%) Power BI
5 187 (27.38%) Data Quality
6 160 (23.43%) Analytics
7 142 (20.79%) Data Analysis
8 134 (19.62%) Data Modelling
9 132 (19.33%) Python
10 127 (18.59%) Decision-Making
11 122 (17.86%) Data Governance
12 117 (17.13%) Microsoft Excel
13 113 (16.54%) Migration
13 113 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
14 105 (15.37%) Validation
14 105 (15.37%) Visualisation
15 92 (13.47%) Actionable Insight
16 87 (12.74%) Tableau
17 84 (12.30%) Azure
18 78 (11.42%) Dashboard Development
19 73 (10.69%) ETL
19 73 (10.69%) Security Cleared
20 71 (10.40%) Data Migration
20 71 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
21 69 (10.10%) Agile
22 67 (9.81%) Data Visualisation
23 66 (9.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 63 (9.22%) Data Warehouse
25 62 (9.08%) Data Management
26 61 (8.93%) Databricks

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 (1.61%) SAS
2 9 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.17%) Confluence
4 7 (1.02%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.44%) Apache
6 3 (0.44%) CMS
7 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 117 (17.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
3 9 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.88%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.29%) CATIA
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.76%) iTrent
2 11 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.61%) SystmOne
3 7 (1.02%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.44%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.44%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.29%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.29%) Maximo
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.29%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.29%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.15%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 194 (28.40%) Power Platform
2 84 (12.30%) Azure
3 53 (7.76%) AWS
4 32 (4.69%) Snowflake
5 23 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (2.93%) SaaS
7 13 (1.90%) SuccessFactors
8 11 (1.61%) Amazon S3
9 10 (1.46%) Collibra
9 10 (1.46%) GCP
10 9 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (1.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (1.02%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.88%) Google Analytics
14 5 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.73%) dbt
14 5 (0.73%) Fivetran
14 5 (0.73%) Serverless
15 4 (0.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (0.59%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (28.26%) Power BI
2 87 (12.74%) Tableau
3 63 (9.22%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (7.32%) Metadata
5 17 (2.49%) Power Query
5 17 (2.49%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.34%) Big Data
7 15 (2.20%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.76%) Looker
9 10 (1.46%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (1.32%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (1.17%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.17%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.88%) KNIME
13 6 (0.88%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (0.73%) SQL Server
14 5 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.73%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (2.20%) JIRA
2 6 (0.88%) MSI
3 3 (0.44%) Git
4 2 (0.29%) GitLab
4 2 (0.29%) MLflow
4 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.15%) GCC
5 1 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 195 (28.55%) Analytical Skills
2 172 (25.18%) Finance
3 149 (21.82%) Social Skills
4 58 (8.49%) Public Sector
5 49 (7.17%) Banking
6 32 (4.69%) Marketing
7 19 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (1.90%) Legal
10 11 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.32%) Investment Banking
13 8 (1.17%) Front Office
14 7 (1.02%) Financial Institution
14 7 (1.02%) Law
14 7 (1.02%) Local Government
14 7 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.02%) Retail
15 4 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.32%) Pandas
1 9 (1.32%) PySpark
2 6 (0.88%) XML
3 5 (0.73%) JDO
4 4 (0.59%) JSON
4 4 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (0.59%) REST
4 4 (0.59%) SOAP
4 4 (0.59%) YAML
5 3 (0.44%) EDI
5 3 (0.44%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.44%) NumPy
6 2 (0.29%) Kafka
6 2 (0.29%) Node.js
6 2 (0.29%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.29%) Web Services
7 1 (0.15%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.15%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.15%) Next.js
7 1 (0.15%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.47%) Data Structures
2 28 (4.10%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (1.90%) Management Information System
5 11 (1.61%) Data Centre
5 11 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 9 (1.32%) Product Ownership
7 8 (1.17%) NHS
8 5 (0.73%) CMDB
8 5 (0.73%) Credit Risk
8 5 (0.73%) Fixed Income
8 5 (0.73%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.59%) Derivative
9 4 (0.59%) Equities
9 4 (0.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.59%) Hedge funds
9 4 (0.59%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (0.59%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.29%) Linux
1 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
1 2 (0.29%) Windows
2 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (31.48%) Business Intelligence
2 160 (23.43%) Analytics
3 142 (20.79%) Data Analysis
4 134 (19.62%) Data Modelling
5 127 (18.59%) Decision-Making
6 122 (17.86%) Data Governance
7 113 (16.54%) Migration
7 113 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
8 105 (15.37%) Validation
8 105 (15.37%) Visualisation
9 92 (13.47%) Actionable Insight
10 78 (11.42%) Dashboard Development
11 73 (10.69%) ETL
12 71 (10.40%) Data Migration
12 71 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 69 (10.10%) Agile
14 67 (9.81%) Data Visualisation
15 66 (9.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 62 (9.08%) Data Management
17 51 (7.47%) AI
Programming Languages
1 261 (38.21%) SQL
2 132 (19.33%) Python
3 38 (5.56%) R
4 15 (2.20%) VBA
5 10 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.59%) Scala
7 3 (0.44%) Korn
7 3 (0.44%) VB
8 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.15%) Java
9 1 (0.15%) LookML
Qualifications
1 73 (10.69%) Security Cleared
2 54 (7.91%) SC Cleared
3 26 (3.81%) Degree
4 16 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.76%) DBS Check
6 6 (0.88%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.29%) PhD
8 1 (0.15%) CBAP
8 1 (0.15%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.15%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (27.38%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.83%) GDPR
3 32 (4.69%) QA
4 7 (1.02%) Accessibility
5 5 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (0.73%) PMO
5 5 (0.73%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.29%) IFRS
7 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.29%) SLA
8 1 (0.15%) FATCA
8 1 (0.15%) GAAP
8 1 (0.15%) GMP
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.29%) Docker
2 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.44%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.44%) Terraform
2 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.29%) SCCM
3 1 (0.15%) Grafana
3 1 (0.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 61 (8.93%) Databricks
2 59 (8.64%) Microsoft
3 50 (7.32%) SAP
4 37 (5.42%) Oracle
5 25 (3.66%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.49%) Workday
7 11 (1.61%) Google
7 11 (1.61%) ServiceNow
8 9 (1.32%) Alteryx
8 9 (1.32%) Informatica
9 6 (0.88%) MuleSoft
9 6 (0.88%) Teradata
10 5 (0.73%) Adobe
10 5 (0.73%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.73%) IBM
11 4 (0.59%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.59%) Cognos
11 4 (0.59%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 3 (0.44%) Foundry
12 3 (0.44%) Palantir