Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £436, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 144 175
Rank change year-on-year -17 +31 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 770 537 499
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 1.96% 1.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 2.13% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 343 353
10th Percentile £259 £263 £273
25th Percentile £356 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.34% -2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £441 £450
% change year-on-year +1.98% -1.94% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 27 22
10th Percentile £18.00 £17.45 £15.31
25th Percentile £23.35 £21.64 £17.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% +1.92% +14.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 £31.82 £40.00
90th Percentile £53.65 £34.80 -
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.01 £21.66
% change year-on-year +19.95% +15.47% +2.90%

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 41,736 25,175 31,921
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.58% 91.76% 92.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,423 16,354 21,069
10th Percentile £328 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £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 3,036 1,281 2,006
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.75 £13.86
25th Percentile £22.42 £17.79 £19.25
Median hourly rate £45.25 £26.30 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.05% -38.84% -1.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.60 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +72.96% -40.16% -2.97%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -31 348 £460 -3.16% 88
South East -16 122 £400 -5.88% 84
North of England -45 107 £420 +5.00% 62
Midlands -5 88 £423 +8.33% 43
South West +2 68 £463 +12.80% 19
West Midlands -21 62 £413 +3.13% 20
Yorkshire -26 55 £400 +6.67% 24
North West -27 50 £450 +12.50% 29
East of England +5 31 £360 -10.00% 15
East Midlands +6 26 £425 +11.11% 23
North East -44 4 £400 -11.11% 9
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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.

1 282 (36.62%) SQL
2 239 (31.04%) Business Intelligence
3 218 (28.31%) Data Quality
4 214 (27.79%) Power Platform
5 213 (27.66%) Power BI
6 184 (23.90%) Analytics
7 180 (23.38%) Data Analysis
8 151 (19.61%) Data Modelling
9 138 (17.92%) Decision-Making
10 135 (17.53%) Data Governance
11 131 (17.01%) Python
12 126 (16.36%) Microsoft Excel
13 125 (16.23%) Validation
14 119 (15.45%) Visualisation
15 118 (15.32%) Migration
16 108 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
17 96 (12.47%) Actionable Insight
17 96 (12.47%) Azure
18 93 (12.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 93 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
19 92 (11.95%) Tableau
20 80 (10.39%) Dashboard Development
20 80 (10.39%) Data Migration
21 79 (10.26%) Microsoft
22 72 (9.35%) Agile
23 69 (8.96%) Databricks
24 68 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
25 63 (8.18%) AI
25 63 (8.18%) Data Visualisation
26 61 (7.92%) Data Warehouse

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 12 (1.56%) SAS
2 7 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (0.78%) Apache Spark
3 6 (0.78%) CMS
3 6 (0.78%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.52%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) Confluence
5 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 126 (16.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.78%) 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 (1.56%) iTrent
2 11 (1.43%) 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%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.39%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.39%) SAP R/3
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%) Teamcenter
9 1 (0.13%) Sonata
9 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 214 (27.79%) Power Platform
2 96 (12.47%) Azure
3 48 (6.23%) AWS
4 39 (5.06%) Snowflake
5 22 (2.86%) SaaS
6 19 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 16 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 13 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
10 11 (1.43%) Collibra
10 11 (1.43%) GCP
11 9 (1.17%) Power Automate
12 8 (1.04%) Amazon S3
12 8 (1.04%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
13 6 (0.78%) Serverless
14 5 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
14 5 (0.65%) GitHub
14 5 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
15 4 (0.52%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (0.13%) Firewall
1 1 (0.13%) Internet
1 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (27.66%) Power BI
2 92 (11.95%) Tableau
3 61 (7.92%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (6.75%) Metadata
5 21 (2.73%) Power Query
6 18 (2.34%) Data Lake
7 17 (2.21%) Relational Database
8 16 (2.08%) Looker
9 10 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
10 9 (1.17%) Big Data
11 8 (1.04%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.91%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.78%) SQL Server
14 5 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
14 5 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
15 4 (0.52%) Geospatial Data
15 4 (0.52%) Parquet
15 4 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (2.21%) JIRA
2 3 (0.39%) Git
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
1 212 (27.53%) Analytical Skills
2 187 (24.29%) Finance
3 164 (21.30%) Social Skills
4 63 (8.18%) Banking
5 62 (8.05%) Public Sector
6 48 (6.23%) Marketing
7 24 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 22 (2.86%) Retail
9 18 (2.34%) Legal
10 14 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
11 11 (1.43%) Local Government
11 11 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.30%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.30%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.30%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.17%) Front Office
14 8 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.91%) Law
16 6 (0.78%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.30%) PySpark
2 9 (1.17%) Pandas
3 8 (1.04%) JSON
4 6 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (0.65%) EDI
6 4 (0.52%) JDO
6 4 (0.52%) XML
7 3 (0.39%) GeoJSON
7 3 (0.39%) NumPy
7 3 (0.39%) REST
7 3 (0.39%) SOAP
8 2 (0.26%) Apache Avro
8 2 (0.26%) Kafka
8 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Graph
8 2 (0.26%) Node.js
8 2 (0.26%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.26%) YAML
9 1 (0.13%) Google JAX
9 1 (0.13%) Great Expectations
9 1 (0.13%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 52 (6.75%) Data Structures
2 26 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 15 (1.95%) Management Information System
6 14 (1.82%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.43%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (0.91%) Fixed Income
9 7 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.78%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (0.78%) NHS
10 6 (0.78%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.52%) CMDB
11 4 (0.52%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.52%) Derivative
11 4 (0.52%) Equities
11 4 (0.52%) FMCG
11 4 (0.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.52%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.52%) Windows
2 2 (0.26%) Linux
2 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (31.04%) Business Intelligence
2 184 (23.90%) Analytics
3 180 (23.38%) Data Analysis
4 151 (19.61%) Data Modelling
5 138 (17.92%) Decision-Making
6 135 (17.53%) Data Governance
7 125 (16.23%) Validation
8 119 (15.45%) Visualisation
9 118 (15.32%) Migration
10 108 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
11 96 (12.47%) Actionable Insight
12 93 (12.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 93 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
13 80 (10.39%) Dashboard Development
13 80 (10.39%) Data Migration
14 72 (9.35%) Agile
15 68 (8.83%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (8.18%) AI
16 63 (8.18%) Data Visualisation
17 60 (7.79%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 282 (36.62%) SQL
2 131 (17.01%) Python
3 31 (4.03%) R
4 18 (2.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 9 (1.17%) VBA
6 4 (0.52%) Scala
7 3 (0.39%) VB
8 2 (0.26%) Korn
8 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.13%) Cypher
9 1 (0.13%) Java
9 1 (0.13%) LookML
9 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 61 (7.92%) Security Cleared
2 43 (5.58%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.19%) Degree
4 20 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (1.82%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.52%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.52%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
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%) 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
1 218 (28.31%) Data Quality
2 33 (4.29%) GDPR
2 33 (4.29%) QA
3 9 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 7 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
5 6 (0.78%) PMO
6 5 (0.65%) SLA
7 4 (0.52%) GRC
7 4 (0.52%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.26%) 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 79 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 69 (8.96%) Databricks
3 49 (6.36%) SAP
4 40 (5.19%) Oracle
5 23 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.21%) Workday
7 11 (1.43%) Google
8 9 (1.17%) 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