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 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 153 155
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 666 445 556
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 1.82% 1.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 1.97% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 319 381
10th Percentile £263 £276 £300
25th Percentile £350 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £463
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% - -2.63%
75th Percentile £513 £550 £555
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £425 £463 £451
% change year-on-year -8.11% +2.66% -5.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 18 18
10th Percentile £21.30 £15.73 £13.50
25th Percentile £26.57 £19.16 £15.40
Median hourly rate £31.50 £27.55 £21.54
Median % change year-on-year +14.34% +27.93% -2.82%
75th Percentile £48.00 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £33.78 £41.43
UK median hourly rate £30.75 £26.50 £21.66
% change year-on-year +16.04% +22.35% +9.70%

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 37,836 22,609 33,815
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.39% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,491 15,046 22,418
10th Percentile £319 £296 £284
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,612 915 2,440
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.59 £30.00 £36.92
Median % change year-on-year +51.95% -18.73% -17.54%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £28.15 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.75% -22.88% -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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -11 333 £463 -2.63% 113
South East -25 93 £375 -16.67% 83
Midlands -9 84 £420 +3.38% 32
North of England -44 78 £416 -7.50% 67
West Midlands -20 57 £413 - 15
Yorkshire -37 41 £375 -8.54% 27
South West -4 40 £525 +28.36% 31
North West -22 35 £425 +4.62% 34
East Midlands -8 27 £425 +6.25% 17
East of England -13 25 £359 -26.36% 30
North East -25 4 £425 -12.82% 7
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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.

1 246 (36.94%) SQL
2 206 (30.93%) Business Intelligence
3 186 (27.93%) Power Platform
4 185 (27.78%) Power BI
5 183 (27.48%) Data Quality
6 150 (22.52%) Analytics
7 140 (21.02%) Data Analysis
8 139 (20.87%) Data Modelling
9 128 (19.22%) Python
10 126 (18.92%) Decision-Making
11 120 (18.02%) Data Governance
12 114 (17.12%) Microsoft Excel
13 108 (16.22%) Migration
13 108 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
14 103 (15.47%) Validation
15 94 (14.11%) Visualisation
16 91 (13.66%) Actionable Insight
17 83 (12.46%) Tableau
18 78 (11.71%) Security Cleared
19 76 (11.41%) Azure
19 76 (11.41%) Dashboard Development
20 75 (11.26%) ETL
21 72 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
22 70 (10.51%) Data Migration
23 68 (10.21%) Agile
24 62 (9.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 60 (9.01%) Data Warehouse
26 58 (8.71%) Data Management
26 58 (8.71%) Data Visualisation
26 58 (8.71%) Microsoft

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 (1.65%) SAS
2 9 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.20%) Confluence
4 4 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.60%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.45%) CMS
6 2 (0.30%) Apache
7 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 114 (17.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.15%) CATIA
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 12 (1.80%) iTrent
1 12 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.65%) SystmOne
3 7 (1.05%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.60%) Adobe Campaign
5 4 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.45%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.45%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.45%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.30%) Maximo
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.30%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.15%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.15%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 186 (27.93%) Power Platform
2 76 (11.41%) Azure
3 51 (7.66%) AWS
4 28 (4.20%) Snowflake
5 22 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (2.85%) SaaS
7 14 (2.10%) GCP
8 13 (1.95%) SuccessFactors
9 11 (1.65%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.35%) Collibra
10 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (1.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (1.05%) Google Analytics
13 6 (0.90%) dbt
13 6 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
14 5 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
14 5 (0.75%) Serverless
15 4 (0.60%) Fivetran
15 4 (0.60%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (27.78%) Power BI
2 83 (12.46%) Tableau
3 60 (9.01%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (7.51%) Metadata
5 15 (2.25%) Power Query
6 14 (2.10%) Looker
7 13 (1.95%) Big Data
7 13 (1.95%) BigQuery
8 12 (1.80%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.80%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
10 8 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (1.05%) Hadoop
11 7 (1.05%) Qlik Sense
12 6 (0.90%) KNIME
12 6 (0.90%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (2.40%) JIRA
2 6 (0.90%) MSI
3 4 (0.60%) Git
4 2 (0.30%) GitLab
4 2 (0.30%) MLflow
4 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.15%) GCC
5 1 (0.15%) Postman
General
1 195 (29.28%) Analytical Skills
2 168 (25.23%) Finance
3 145 (21.77%) Social Skills
4 62 (9.31%) Public Sector
5 42 (6.31%) Banking
6 30 (4.50%) Marketing
7 20 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (1.80%) Legal
10 10 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (1.20%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.05%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.05%) Front Office
13 7 (1.05%) Law
14 6 (0.90%) Investment Banking
14 6 (0.90%) Local Government
14 6 (0.90%) Retail
15 4 (0.60%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.20%) Pandas
1 8 (1.20%) PySpark
2 5 (0.75%) JDO
2 5 (0.75%) XML
3 4 (0.60%) JSON
3 4 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.45%) EDI
4 3 (0.45%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.45%) NumPy
4 3 (0.45%) REST
4 3 (0.45%) SOAP
4 3 (0.45%) YAML
5 2 (0.30%) Kafka
5 2 (0.30%) Node.js
5 2 (0.30%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.30%) Web Services
6 1 (0.15%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.15%) pytest
6 1 (0.15%) React
6 1 (0.15%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.11%) Data Structures
2 27 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (1.80%) Management Information System
5 11 (1.65%) Data Centre
5 11 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.35%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.20%) NHS
9 5 (0.75%) CMDB
9 5 (0.75%) Credit Risk
9 5 (0.75%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.60%) Derivative
10 4 (0.60%) Fixed Income
10 4 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.60%) Hedge funds
10 4 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (0.60%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.45%) Equities
11 3 (0.45%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.30%) Windows
2 1 (0.15%) Linux
2 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
2 1 (0.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (30.93%) Business Intelligence
2 150 (22.52%) Analytics
3 140 (21.02%) Data Analysis
4 139 (20.87%) Data Modelling
5 126 (18.92%) Decision-Making
6 120 (18.02%) Data Governance
7 108 (16.22%) Migration
7 108 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
8 103 (15.47%) Validation
9 94 (14.11%) Visualisation
10 91 (13.66%) Actionable Insight
11 76 (11.41%) Dashboard Development
12 75 (11.26%) ETL
13 72 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 70 (10.51%) Data Migration
15 68 (10.21%) Agile
16 62 (9.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 58 (8.71%) Data Management
17 58 (8.71%) Data Visualisation
18 50 (7.51%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 246 (36.94%) SQL
2 128 (19.22%) Python
3 37 (5.56%) R
4 15 (2.25%) VBA
5 9 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.60%) Scala
7 3 (0.45%) Korn
7 3 (0.45%) VB
8 2 (0.30%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.30%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.15%) Java
9 1 (0.15%) LookML
Qualifications
1 78 (11.71%) Security Cleared
2 58 (8.71%) SC Cleared
3 26 (3.90%) Degree
4 15 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (1.80%) DBS Check
6 6 (0.90%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.30%) 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
1 183 (27.48%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.95%) QA
3 30 (4.50%) GDPR
4 7 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.75%) PMO
7 4 (0.60%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.45%) SLA
9 1 (0.15%) FATCA
9 1 (0.15%) GAAP
9 1 (0.15%) IFRS
9 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.15%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.30%) Docker
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.45%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.45%) Terraform
2 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.30%) SCCM
3 1 (0.15%) Grafana
3 1 (0.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 58 (8.71%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.96%) Databricks
3 50 (7.51%) SAP
4 36 (5.41%) Oracle
5 25 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.55%) Workday
7 13 (1.95%) Google
7 13 (1.95%) ServiceNow
8 8 (1.20%) Informatica
9 7 (1.05%) MuleSoft
10 6 (0.90%) Teradata
11 5 (0.75%) Adobe
11 5 (0.75%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.75%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.75%) IBM
12 4 (0.60%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.60%) Cognos
12 4 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.45%) OpenAI
13 3 (0.45%) Splunk