Data Analyst Contracts in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £466, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 158 153
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 421 569 894
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.73% 1.53% 1.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.87% 1.65% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 386 637
10th Percentile £263 £263 £270
25th Percentile £350 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% - -
75th Percentile £550 £560 £580
90th Percentile £650 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 28
10th Percentile £15.90 £13.50 £15.31
25th Percentile £20.12 £15.56 £19.53
Median hourly rate £27.13 £21.64 £22.33
Median % change year-on-year +25.35% -3.09% +13.35%
75th Percentile £31.64 £40.00 £31.51
90th Percentile £33.66 £40.95 £50.00
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £21.66 £20.47
% change year-on-year +25.23% +5.81% +4.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst 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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst 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 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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 +8 260 £475 -5.00% 259
South East +19 47 £463 +2.78% 153
North of England -32 44 £410 -13.68% 107
Midlands +22 29 £400 +6.67% 88
West Midlands +18 21 £413 -4.35% 53
South West +37 19 £409 -6.51% 41
Yorkshire +1 19 £350 -17.65% 40
North West -36 18 £413 -13.16% 54
East of England +15 9 £488 +8.33% 49
East Midlands +6 8 £400 +8.47% 31
North East +5 7 £450 -10.00% 13
Data Analyst
UK

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 199 (47.27%) SQL
2 168 (39.90%) Data Analysis
3 143 (33.97%) Power Platform
4 142 (33.73%) Power BI
5 140 (33.25%) Business Intelligence
6 138 (32.78%) Social Skills
7 123 (29.22%) Analytical Skills
8 115 (27.32%) Finance
9 102 (24.23%) Analytics
10 97 (23.04%) Visualisation
10 97 (23.04%) Python
11 93 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
12 92 (21.85%) Data Governance
13 90 (21.38%) Microsoft Excel
14 88 (20.90%) Data Quality
15 75 (17.81%) Migration
16 70 (16.63%) Data Modelling
17 69 (16.39%) Tableau
18 67 (15.91%) Data Visualisation
19 62 (14.73%) Decision-Making
20 57 (13.54%) Data Management
21 55 (13.06%) Data Warehouse
22 54 (12.83%) Banking
23 53 (12.59%) Actionable Insight
24 52 (12.35%) Validation
25 51 (12.11%) ETL
25 51 (12.11%) Agile
26 50 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
27 46 (10.93%) Data Migration
28 43 (10.21%) Security Cleared

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (3.56%) Confluence
2 12 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.14%) SAS
4 3 (0.71%) Apache
4 3 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.71%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 90 (21.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.38%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.48%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 6 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.48%) Bankmaster
4 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.48%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.24%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.24%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 143 (33.97%) Power Platform
2 36 (8.55%) AWS
3 35 (8.31%) Azure
4 21 (4.99%) GCP
5 19 (4.51%) Snowflake
6 10 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (1.66%) Amazon S3
7 7 (1.66%) dbt
7 7 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (1.43%) Adobe Analytics
8 6 (1.43%) Azure Machine Learning
8 6 (1.43%) Collibra
9 4 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (0.95%) OCI
9 4 (0.95%) Serverless
10 3 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (0.71%) Google Ads
10 3 (0.71%) Google Data Studio
10 3 (0.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.24%) Firewall
1 1 (0.24%) Internet
1 1 (0.24%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (33.73%) Power BI
2 69 (16.39%) Tableau
3 55 (13.06%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (5.94%) SQL Server
5 13 (3.09%) Looker
5 13 (3.09%) Metadata
6 12 (2.85%) Data Mining
7 11 (2.61%) BigQuery
8 10 (2.38%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.14%) Big Data
10 7 (1.66%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.66%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.43%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 5 (1.19%) Power Query
12 5 (1.19%) QlikView
13 4 (0.95%) Impala
13 4 (0.95%) MS Access
14 3 (0.71%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 21 (4.99%) JIRA
2 10 (2.38%) Git
3 4 (0.95%) ERwin
3 4 (0.95%) MagicDraw
4 3 (0.71%) GitLab
5 2 (0.48%) Ant
5 2 (0.48%) TestRail
5 2 (0.48%) XMLSpy
6 1 (0.24%) LSMW
6 1 (0.24%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio
General
1 138 (32.78%) Social Skills
2 123 (29.22%) Analytical Skills
3 115 (27.32%) Finance
4 54 (12.83%) Banking
5 20 (4.75%) Public Sector
6 16 (3.80%) Front Office
6 16 (3.80%) Investment Banking
6 16 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (3.33%) Retail
8 12 (2.85%) Local Government
9 11 (2.61%) Marketing
10 10 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 10 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.14%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.43%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.19%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (1.19%) Financial Institution
14 4 (0.95%) Billing
14 4 (0.95%) Games
15 3 (0.71%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.95%) JSON
1 4 (0.95%) Plotly
1 4 (0.95%) React
1 4 (0.95%) XML
2 2 (0.48%) FpML
2 2 (0.48%) Pandas
3 1 (0.24%) CSS
3 1 (0.24%) HTML
3 1 (0.24%) LDAP
3 1 (0.24%) OLE
3 1 (0.24%) PySpark
3 1 (0.24%) SailPoint
3 1 (0.24%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.24%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.65%) Data Structures
2 14 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (2.61%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.38%) Product Ownership
4 10 (2.38%) Reference Data
5 9 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
6 7 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.43%) Derivative
7 6 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.19%) CMDB
8 5 (1.19%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.19%) Hedge funds
8 5 (1.19%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.95%) Market Risk
10 3 (0.71%) Data Fabric
10 3 (0.71%) IoT
10 3 (0.71%) NHS
10 3 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.48%) Linux
2 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (39.90%) Data Analysis
2 140 (33.25%) Business Intelligence
3 102 (24.23%) Analytics
4 97 (23.04%) Visualisation
5 93 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
6 92 (21.85%) Data Governance
7 75 (17.81%) Migration
8 70 (16.63%) Data Modelling
9 67 (15.91%) Data Visualisation
10 62 (14.73%) Decision-Making
11 57 (13.54%) Data Management
12 53 (12.59%) Actionable Insight
13 52 (12.35%) Validation
14 51 (12.11%) Agile
14 51 (12.11%) ETL
15 50 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
16 46 (10.93%) Data Migration
17 42 (9.98%) Data Cleansing
18 38 (9.03%) Data Integration
19 30 (7.13%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 199 (47.27%) SQL
2 97 (23.04%) Python
3 20 (4.75%) R
4 14 (3.33%) VBA
5 8 (1.90%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (0.95%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.48%) PHP
10 1 (0.24%) ABAP
10 1 (0.24%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (10.21%) Security Cleared
2 34 (8.08%) SC Cleared
3 21 (4.99%) Degree
4 4 (0.95%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.71%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.48%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.24%) ACCA
7 1 (0.24%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.24%) CASP
7 1 (0.24%) CIMA
7 1 (0.24%) CISA
7 1 (0.24%) CISM
7 1 (0.24%) CISSP
7 1 (0.24%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.24%) HNC
7 1 (0.24%) IIBA
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (20.90%) Data Quality
2 28 (6.65%) QA
3 21 (4.99%) GDPR
4 9 (2.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 4 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (0.95%) SEPA
6 3 (0.71%) SLA
7 2 (0.48%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.48%) EMIR
7 2 (0.48%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.48%) MiFID
8 1 (0.24%) GAAP
8 1 (0.24%) LOINC
8 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.24%) PERC
8 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.24%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.24%) Docker
1 1 (0.24%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (0.24%) Grafana
1 1 (0.24%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (9.98%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.79%) Oracle
3 23 (5.46%) Google
3 23 (5.46%) SAP
4 20 (4.75%) Databricks
5 14 (3.33%) Informatica
6 9 (2.14%) Alteryx
7 7 (1.66%) Ariba
7 7 (1.66%) Talend
8 6 (1.43%) Adobe
8 6 (1.43%) Palantir
9 5 (1.19%) Foundry
9 5 (1.19%) IBM
9 5 (1.19%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.95%) Ab Initio
10 4 (0.95%) Bloomberg
10 4 (0.95%) Denodo
10 4 (0.95%) Workday
11 3 (0.71%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.71%) Sparx