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 1 June 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 143 164
Rank change year-on-year -20 +21 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 692 480 548
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 1.98% 1.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 2.14% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 329 385
10th Percentile £263 £277 £270
25th Percentile £341 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £451
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +2.66% -5.16%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £663 £628
UK median daily rate £425 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -8.11% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 32 18
10th Percentile £21.60 £18.48 £13.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £22.75 £15.40
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.94 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +18.79% +25.70% -4.03%
75th Percentile £48.75 £31.73 £40.00
90th Percentile £80.61 £34.95 £42.63
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £26.50 £21.65
% change year-on-year +17.45% +22.40% +5.76%

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 38,608 22,392 34,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.37% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,868 14,803 22,535
10th Percentile £322 £290 £285
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £518 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -1.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,710 937 2,560
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.20 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.80 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +51.01% -20.80% -16.39%
75th Percentile £67.50 £60.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £79.55 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -21 333 £460 -8.00% 101
South East -19 102 £375 -18.92% 77
Midlands -4 89 £420 +5.00% 46
North of England -43 83 £406 -2.99% 68
West Midlands -22 65 £411 +2.81% 21
South West -1 48 £513 +25.31% 28
Yorkshire -38 43 £400 +3.23% 28
North West -29 37 £420 +1.82% 29
East of England -13 25 £360 -7.10% 21
East Midlands -11 24 £425 +7.59% 25
North East -30 5 £413 -15.38% 12
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 258 (37.28%) SQL
2 216 (31.21%) Business Intelligence
3 194 (28.03%) Power Platform
4 193 (27.89%) Power BI
5 185 (26.73%) Data Quality
6 161 (23.27%) Analytics
7 142 (20.52%) Data Analysis
8 135 (19.51%) Data Modelling
9 131 (18.93%) Python
10 130 (18.79%) Decision-Making
11 115 (16.62%) Data Governance
11 115 (16.62%) Microsoft Excel
12 114 (16.47%) Migration
13 107 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
14 104 (15.03%) Validation
14 104 (15.03%) Visualisation
15 90 (13.01%) Actionable Insight
16 85 (12.28%) Azure
16 85 (12.28%) Tableau
17 81 (11.71%) Dashboard Development
18 74 (10.69%) Security Cleared
19 72 (10.40%) Data Migration
19 72 (10.40%) ETL
19 72 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
20 70 (10.12%) Agile
21 67 (9.68%) Data Visualisation
22 66 (9.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 62 (8.96%) Data Management
24 61 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
24 61 (8.82%) 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 9 (1.30%) SAS
1 9 (1.30%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.16%) Confluence
3 7 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 5 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.43%) Apache
5 3 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.14%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 115 (16.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.87%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.29%) CATIA
7 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.73%) iTrent
2 11 (1.59%) SystmOne
3 10 (1.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 7 (1.01%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.43%) SAP R/3
8 2 (0.29%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.29%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.29%) Maximo
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.29%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.29%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.29%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.14%) Advent Geneva
9 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 194 (28.03%) Power Platform
2 85 (12.28%) Azure
3 53 (7.66%) AWS
4 32 (4.62%) Snowflake
5 23 (3.32%) Azure Data Factory
6 20 (2.89%) SaaS
7 13 (1.88%) SuccessFactors
8 11 (1.59%) Amazon S3
8 11 (1.59%) Collibra
9 10 (1.45%) GCP
10 9 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.87%) Google Analytics
14 5 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.72%) dbt
14 5 (0.72%) Fivetran
14 5 (0.72%) Serverless
15 4 (0.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (0.58%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (27.89%) Power BI
2 85 (12.28%) Tableau
3 61 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.94%) Metadata
5 17 (2.46%) Power Query
5 17 (2.46%) Relational Database
6 16 (2.31%) Big Data
7 15 (2.17%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.73%) Looker
9 10 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
11 8 (1.16%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.16%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.87%) KNIME
13 6 (0.87%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.72%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (0.72%) SQL Server
14 5 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (2.46%) JIRA
2 6 (0.87%) MSI
3 3 (0.43%) Git
4 2 (0.29%) GitLab
4 2 (0.29%) MLflow
4 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.14%) GCC
5 1 (0.14%) Postman
General
1 197 (28.47%) Analytical Skills
2 168 (24.28%) Finance
3 148 (21.39%) Social Skills
4 58 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.23%) Banking
6 34 (4.91%) Marketing
7 20 (2.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.73%) Legal
10 11 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.16%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.16%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.01%) Front Office
13 7 (1.01%) Law
13 7 (1.01%) Local Government
13 7 (1.01%) Retail
14 6 (0.87%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.72%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.45%) Pandas
2 9 (1.30%) PySpark
3 6 (0.87%) XML
4 5 (0.72%) JDO
5 4 (0.58%) JSON
5 4 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (0.58%) REST
5 4 (0.58%) SOAP
5 4 (0.58%) YAML
6 3 (0.43%) EDI
6 3 (0.43%) GeoJSON
6 3 (0.43%) NumPy
7 2 (0.29%) Kafka
7 2 (0.29%) Node.js
7 2 (0.29%) PyTorch
7 2 (0.29%) Web Services
8 1 (0.14%) Great Expectations
8 1 (0.14%) JAX
8 1 (0.14%) Next.js
8 1 (0.14%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.23%) Data Structures
2 28 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (1.88%) Management Information System
5 12 (1.73%) Data Centre
6 10 (1.45%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.30%) Product Ownership
8 8 (1.16%) NHS
9 5 (0.72%) Credit Risk
9 5 (0.72%) Fixed Income
9 5 (0.72%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.58%) CMDB
10 4 (0.58%) Derivative
10 4 (0.58%) Equities
10 4 (0.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.58%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.58%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (0.58%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.29%) Linux
1 2 (0.29%) Ubuntu
1 2 (0.29%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (31.21%) Business Intelligence
2 161 (23.27%) Analytics
3 142 (20.52%) Data Analysis
4 135 (19.51%) Data Modelling
5 130 (18.79%) Decision-Making
6 115 (16.62%) Data Governance
7 114 (16.47%) Migration
8 107 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
9 104 (15.03%) Validation
9 104 (15.03%) Visualisation
10 90 (13.01%) Actionable Insight
11 81 (11.71%) Dashboard Development
12 72 (10.40%) Data Migration
12 72 (10.40%) ETL
12 72 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 70 (10.12%) Agile
14 67 (9.68%) Data Visualisation
15 66 (9.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 62 (8.96%) Data Management
17 51 (7.37%) AI
Programming Languages
1 258 (37.28%) SQL
2 131 (18.93%) Python
3 37 (5.35%) R
4 15 (2.17%) VBA
5 10 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.43%) Korn
6 3 (0.43%) Scala
6 3 (0.43%) VB
7 2 (0.29%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.14%) Java
8 1 (0.14%) LookML
Qualifications
1 74 (10.69%) Security Cleared
2 56 (8.09%) SC Cleared
3 29 (4.19%) Degree
4 16 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.73%) DBS Check
6 6 (0.87%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.29%) PhD
8 1 (0.14%) CBAP
8 1 (0.14%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.14%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (26.73%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.77%) GDPR
3 31 (4.48%) QA
4 7 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.87%) PMO
6 5 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.72%) Solvency II
7 4 (0.58%) SLA
8 3 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.29%) IFRS
9 2 (0.29%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.14%) FATCA
10 1 (0.14%) GAAP
10 1 (0.14%) GMP
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.29%) Docker
2 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.43%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.43%) Terraform
2 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.14%) Grafana
3 1 (0.14%) Kibana
3 1 (0.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 61 (8.82%) Databricks
2 57 (8.24%) Microsoft
3 49 (7.08%) SAP
4 37 (5.35%) Oracle
5 24 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.46%) Workday
7 11 (1.59%) Google
8 8 (1.16%) Alteryx
8 8 (1.16%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.87%) Informatica
9 6 (0.87%) MuleSoft
10 5 (0.72%) Adobe
10 5 (0.72%) Atlassian
10 5 (0.72%) IBM
11 4 (0.58%) Cognos
11 4 (0.58%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.58%) Teradata
12 3 (0.43%) Foundry
12 3 (0.43%) Palantir
12 3 (0.43%) Splunk