Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 149 160
Rank change year-on-year -36 +11 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 720 517 499
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.56% 1.84% 1.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.69% 2.02% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 315 362
10th Percentile £259 £263 £283
25th Percentile £363 £350 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £540 £525 £550
90th Percentile £600 £631 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 29 21
10th Percentile £16.08 £20.95 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.99 £18.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +6.63% +18.19%
75th Percentile £48.00 £35.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £49.55 £62.35 £38.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £21.66
% change year-on-year +9.09% +26.96% +0.09%

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 42,592 25,553 30,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.06% 91.09% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,048 16,438 18,399
10th Percentile £327 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,718 1,434 1,293
10th Percentile £14.50 £13.80 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £42.15 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.59% -41.51% -6.52%
75th Percentile £67.96 £51.55 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +65.84% -40.16% -5.55%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -40 326 £450 -5.26% 500
South East -34 106 £500 +17.65% 128
North of England -53 101 £425 +11.48% 134
Midlands +6 85 £410 +5.13% 82
South West +1 66 £500 +17.65% 47
West Midlands -10 64 £411 +2.81% 54
Yorkshire -34 46 £425 +13.33% 48
North West -33 44 £450 +12.50% 74
East of England -11 31 £359 -29.95% 44
East Midlands +1 21 £363 -3.33% 28
North East -30 14 £425 -30.61% 12
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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.

1 272 (37.78%) SQL
2 230 (31.94%) Data Quality
3 218 (30.28%) Business Intelligence
4 198 (27.50%) Power BI
4 198 (27.50%) Power Platform
5 183 (25.42%) Data Analysis
6 170 (23.61%) Analytics
7 147 (20.42%) Validation
8 142 (19.72%) Data Governance
9 137 (19.03%) Decision-Making
10 128 (17.78%) Data Modelling
11 124 (17.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 121 (16.81%) Python
13 116 (16.11%) Microsoft Excel
14 109 (15.14%) Migration
15 103 (14.31%) Problem-Solving
16 100 (13.89%) Visualisation
17 94 (13.06%) Actionable Insight
18 87 (12.08%) Microsoft
19 84 (11.67%) Data Migration
20 83 (11.53%) Tableau
21 80 (11.11%) Azure
21 80 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 77 (10.69%) AI
23 71 (9.86%) Dashboard Development
24 67 (9.31%) Agile
24 67 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
25 66 (9.17%) Security Cleared
26 60 (8.33%) ETL
27 58 (8.06%) Data Mapping

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 (1.67%) SAS
2 9 (1.25%) Apache Spark
2 9 (1.25%) Confluence
3 5 (0.69%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.56%) Apache
4 4 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.56%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.42%) CMS
5 3 (0.42%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.42%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.14%) WordPress
Applications
1 116 (16.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.83%) SPSS
5 2 (0.28%) CATIA
6 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 8 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.97%) iTrent
3 6 (0.83%) Raiser’s Edge
4 5 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.69%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.56%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.56%) SystmOne
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
7 2 (0.28%) Bloomberg TOMS
7 2 (0.28%) Eikon
7 2 (0.28%) ENOVIA
7 2 (0.28%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.28%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 198 (27.50%) Power Platform
2 80 (11.11%) Azure
3 40 (5.56%) Snowflake
4 36 (5.00%) AWS
5 22 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 18 (2.50%) SaaS
7 17 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 17 (2.36%) Power Automate
8 16 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 11 (1.53%) GCP
10 9 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.25%) Collibra
11 8 (1.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 8 (1.11%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.69%) Alation
13 5 (0.69%) PowerApps
13 5 (0.69%) SuccessFactors
14 4 (0.56%) GitHub
14 4 (0.56%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.56%) Internet
2 3 (0.42%) Firewall
3 2 (0.28%) Broadband
4 1 (0.14%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.14%) Network Security
4 1 (0.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (27.50%) Power BI
2 83 (11.53%) Tableau
3 50 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (5.69%) Metadata
5 23 (3.19%) Relational Database
6 20 (2.78%) Power Query
7 17 (2.36%) Data Lake
8 16 (2.22%) Looker
9 14 (1.94%) SQL Server
10 11 (1.53%) Big Data
11 9 (1.25%) Qlik Sense
12 8 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (1.11%) BigQuery
13 6 (0.83%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
14 5 (0.69%) GIS
14 5 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (0.69%) PowerPivot
14 5 (0.69%) SAP BW
14 5 (0.69%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (2.78%) JIRA
2 4 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (0.42%) Git
4 2 (0.28%) GitLab
5 1 (0.14%) Claude Code
5 1 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 198 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
2 169 (23.47%) Social Skills
3 166 (23.06%) Finance
4 58 (8.06%) Banking
5 56 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 42 (5.83%) Marketing
7 32 (4.44%) Retail
8 28 (3.89%) Legal
9 18 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 15 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.81%) Local Government
12 12 (1.67%) Investment Banking
12 12 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (1.39%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.25%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.25%) Military
15 8 (1.11%) Automotive
15 8 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
16 7 (0.97%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.97%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.53%) PySpark
2 10 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.83%) JSON
4 5 (0.69%) EDI
4 5 (0.69%) Pandas
5 3 (0.42%) HTML
5 3 (0.42%) REST
5 3 (0.42%) XML
6 2 (0.28%) Apache Avro
6 2 (0.28%) Django
6 2 (0.28%) Kafka
6 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.28%) SOAP
7 1 (0.14%) ADO
7 1 (0.14%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.14%) SAML
7 1 (0.14%) Spring
7 1 (0.14%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 58 (8.06%) Data Structures
2 35 (4.86%) Legacy Systems
3 23 (3.19%) Product Ownership
4 21 (2.92%) Management Information System
5 18 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 15 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (1.39%) Data Centre
8 8 (1.11%) FMCG
9 7 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (0.97%) Taxonomies
10 6 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (0.69%) Credit Risk
11 5 (0.69%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.56%) Fixed Income
12 4 (0.56%) NHS
12 4 (0.56%) Social Media
13 3 (0.42%) Marketing Technology
13 3 (0.42%) Public Cloud
13 3 (0.42%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.56%) Windows
2 3 (0.42%) Linux
3 2 (0.28%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (30.28%) Business Intelligence
2 183 (25.42%) Data Analysis
3 170 (23.61%) Analytics
4 147 (20.42%) Validation
5 142 (19.72%) Data Governance
6 137 (19.03%) Decision-Making
7 128 (17.78%) Data Modelling
8 124 (17.22%) Stakeholder Management
9 109 (15.14%) Migration
10 103 (14.31%) Problem-Solving
11 100 (13.89%) Visualisation
12 94 (13.06%) Actionable Insight
13 84 (11.67%) Data Migration
14 80 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 77 (10.69%) AI
16 71 (9.86%) Dashboard Development
17 67 (9.31%) Agile
17 67 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
18 60 (8.33%) ETL
19 58 (8.06%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 272 (37.78%) SQL
2 121 (16.81%) Python
3 35 (4.86%) R
4 22 (3.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (0.83%) Korn
6 3 (0.42%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.28%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.28%) LookML
7 2 (0.28%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.28%) Scala
8 1 (0.14%) Cypher
8 1 (0.14%) Java
8 1 (0.14%) SOQL
8 1 (0.14%) VB
8 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 66 (9.17%) Security Cleared
2 52 (7.22%) SC Cleared
3 41 (5.69%) Degree
4 17 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 7 (0.97%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.56%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.42%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.42%) PMP
8 2 (0.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.28%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.14%) CBAP
9 1 (0.14%) CFA
9 1 (0.14%) CISSP
9 1 (0.14%) CIW
9 1 (0.14%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.14%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.14%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (31.94%) Data Quality
2 35 (4.86%) QA
3 32 (4.44%) GDPR
4 12 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 8 (1.11%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.97%) GRC
6 7 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.69%) SLA
8 4 (0.56%) PMO
9 3 (0.42%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.28%) IFRS
10 2 (0.28%) IFRS 17
11 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 1 (0.14%) EMIR
11 1 (0.14%) GMP
11 1 (0.14%) ISO 22301
11 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.14%) MiFID
11 1 (0.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.28%) SCCM
2 1 (0.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (12.08%) Microsoft
2 56 (7.78%) Databricks
3 37 (5.14%) SAP
4 33 (4.58%) Oracle
5 15 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 13 (1.81%) Alteryx
6 13 (1.81%) Google
7 10 (1.39%) Workday
8 8 (1.11%) Informatica
9 6 (0.83%) Teradata
10 5 (0.69%) Baan
10 5 (0.69%) Bloomberg
10 5 (0.69%) ServiceNow
11 4 (0.56%) Palantir
12 3 (0.42%) Foundry
12 3 (0.42%) Siemens
13 2 (0.28%) Citrix
13 2 (0.28%) CODA
13 2 (0.28%) IBM
13 2 (0.28%) NEC