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 21 November 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 169 172
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 0
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 513 473 578
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 1.52% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.84% 1.64% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 346 405
10th Percentile £263 £280 £263
25th Percentile £340 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £510 £563 £600
90th Percentile £588 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 33
10th Percentile £21.02 £16.03 £15.87
25th Percentile £23.45 £18.92 £20.50
Median hourly rate £30.11 £27.13 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +11.00% +25.35% -13.44%
75th Percentile £40.65 £35.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £64.35 £47.90 £40.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £23.17 £22.25
% change year-on-year +29.48% +4.13% +5.95%

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 27,858 28,874 36,736
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.22% 92.96% 93.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,854 17,655 25,362
10th Percentile £281 £300 £292
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,695 1,080 1,421
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £15.32
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.25 £19.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +43.38%
75th Percentile £56.60 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -30.14% -20.00% +50.00%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 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 21 November 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 -10 265 £475 +2.70% 288
North of England -22 80 £365 -14.02% 176
South East +12 67 £425 -15.00% 171
Yorkshire -5 51 £349 -12.69% 50
Midlands -19 39 £358 +2.29% 113
South West +9 34 £450 +12.50% 51
West Midlands -17 27 £390 +13.04% 68
North West -26 27 £375 -10.39% 109
East Midlands -9 12 £358 -6.10% 45
East of England -24 9 £500 +25.00% 57
North East -10 2 £465 -35.42% 19
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 November 2025, 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.

1 240 (46.78%) SQL
2 188 (36.65%) Data Analysis
3 177 (34.50%) Power Platform
4 172 (33.53%) Power BI
5 171 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 140 (27.29%) Microsoft Excel
7 136 (26.51%) Python
8 135 (26.32%) Analytics
9 132 (25.73%) Data Quality
10 129 (25.15%) Visualisation
11 98 (19.10%) Decision-Making
12 96 (18.71%) Data Modelling
13 92 (17.93%) Microsoft
14 91 (17.74%) Actionable Insight
15 90 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
16 86 (16.76%) Data Governance
17 78 (15.20%) Tableau
18 76 (14.81%) Data Visualisation
19 75 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
20 70 (13.65%) Data Management
21 64 (12.48%) Validation
22 60 (11.70%) ETL
23 59 (11.50%) Migration
24 53 (10.33%) Security Cleared
25 52 (10.14%) Data Cleansing
25 52 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 46 (8.97%) Data Transformation
27 45 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
28 43 (8.38%) Azure
29 40 (7.80%) SC Cleared

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 34 (6.63%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.56%) Confluence
3 3 (0.58%) GeoServer
3 3 (0.58%) SAS
3 3 (0.58%) Smallworld
4 2 (0.39%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.19%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 140 (27.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (1.95%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.39%) SPSS
7 1 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.19%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (1.75%) Salesforce CRM
2 6 (1.17%) SAP HR
2 6 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.58%) Maximo
3 3 (0.58%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.39%) Actimize
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.39%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.19%) Academy Housing
5 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.19%) ContrOCC
5 1 (0.19%) Integrated Workplace Management System
5 1 (0.19%) iTrent
5 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.19%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.19%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 177 (34.50%) Power Platform
2 43 (8.38%) Azure
3 36 (7.02%) AWS
4 29 (5.65%) Snowflake
5 17 (3.31%) GCP
6 14 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (2.14%) Collibra
7 11 (2.14%) PowerApps
8 9 (1.75%) SaaS
9 8 (1.56%) Amazon S3
9 8 (1.56%) dbt
9 8 (1.56%) Power Automate
10 7 (1.36%) OCI
11 6 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.97%) Google Data Studio
13 4 (0.78%) Entra ID
14 3 (0.58%) AWS Lambda
14 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
14 3 (0.58%) Serverless
15 2 (0.39%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.39%) Internet
2 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (33.53%) Power BI
2 78 (15.20%) Tableau
3 45 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (5.65%) Metadata
4 29 (5.65%) Power Query
5 22 (4.29%) SQL Server
6 15 (2.92%) BigQuery
7 13 (2.53%) Looker
8 10 (1.95%) Data Lake
8 10 (1.95%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.36%) PowerPivot
10 6 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (1.17%) Big Data
10 6 (1.17%) Hadoop
11 5 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
12 4 (0.78%) Crystal Reports
12 4 (0.78%) Data Mining
12 4 (0.78%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (2.14%) JIRA
2 6 (1.17%) Git
3 2 (0.39%) ERwin
3 2 (0.39%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.39%) Selenium
4 1 (0.19%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.19%) LSMW
General
1 179 (34.89%) Finance
2 171 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 170 (33.14%) Social Skills
4 55 (10.72%) Banking
5 41 (7.99%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.90%) Marketing
6 20 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (3.12%) Investment Banking
7 16 (3.12%) Retail
8 14 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.95%) Local Government
10 10 (1.95%) Retail Banking
11 9 (1.75%) Legal
12 8 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.17%) Electronics
13 6 (1.17%) Military
14 5 (0.97%) Automotive
15 4 (0.78%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.36%) PySpark
2 5 (0.97%) DAO
3 4 (0.78%) JSON
3 4 (0.78%) Pandas
4 3 (0.58%) NumPy
5 2 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.39%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.19%) Altair
6 1 (0.19%) LDAP
6 1 (0.19%) MACH
6 1 (0.19%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.19%) OAuth
6 1 (0.19%) OpenID
6 1 (0.19%) Plotly
6 1 (0.19%) RESTful
6 1 (0.19%) SAML
6 1 (0.19%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.19%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.19%) Swagger
6 1 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.87%) Data Structures
2 20 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 19 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 17 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (2.92%) Data Centre
6 14 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.14%) Management Information System
8 9 (1.75%) Reinsurance
9 6 (1.17%) CMDB
9 6 (1.17%) Mainframe
10 5 (0.97%) Derivative
10 5 (0.97%) Fixed Income
10 5 (0.97%) Reference Data
11 4 (0.78%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.78%) Pricing Data
12 3 (0.58%) Cloud Native
12 3 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
12 3 (0.58%) Cybercrime
12 3 (0.58%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.58%) Unix
1 3 (0.58%) Windows
2 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (36.65%) Data Analysis
2 171 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 135 (26.32%) Analytics
4 129 (25.15%) Visualisation
5 98 (19.10%) Decision-Making
6 96 (18.71%) Data Modelling
7 91 (17.74%) Actionable Insight
8 90 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
9 86 (16.76%) Data Governance
10 76 (14.81%) Data Visualisation
11 75 (14.62%) Stakeholder Management
12 70 (13.65%) Data Management
13 64 (12.48%) Validation
14 60 (11.70%) ETL
15 59 (11.50%) Migration
16 52 (10.14%) Data Cleansing
16 52 (10.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 46 (8.97%) Data Transformation
18 39 (7.60%) Data Mapping
19 38 (7.41%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 240 (46.78%) SQL
2 136 (26.51%) Python
3 20 (3.90%) R
4 16 (3.12%) VBA
5 14 (2.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (1.56%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.97%) Java
7 5 (0.97%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.58%) Scala
9 2 (0.39%) C#
9 2 (0.39%) C++
9 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.19%) Korn
10 1 (0.19%) Perl
10 1 (0.19%) SAPscript
10 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 53 (10.33%) Security Cleared
2 40 (7.80%) SC Cleared
3 26 (5.07%) Degree
4 4 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (0.78%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.58%) ACCA
5 3 (0.58%) CEH
5 3 (0.58%) CIMA
5 3 (0.58%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (0.58%) DV Cleared
5 3 (0.58%) GIAC
5 3 (0.58%) GREM
5 3 (0.58%) OSCP
5 3 (0.58%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.39%) PMP
7 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.19%) CBAP
7 1 (0.19%) CIPD
7 1 (0.19%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 132 (25.73%) Data Quality
2 28 (5.46%) GDPR
3 14 (2.73%) QA
4 9 (1.75%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.78%) IFRS
7 2 (0.39%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.39%) MiFID
7 2 (0.39%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.19%) Basel III
8 1 (0.19%) COSHH
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.19%) FATCA
8 1 (0.19%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.19%) PMO
8 1 (0.19%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (0.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (1.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.19%) SCCM
2 1 (0.19%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 92 (17.93%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.41%) Oracle
3 28 (5.46%) SAP
4 23 (4.48%) Salesforce
5 20 (3.90%) Databricks
6 19 (3.70%) ServiceNow
6 19 (3.70%) Workday
7 10 (1.95%) Google
8 7 (1.36%) Alteryx
8 7 (1.36%) Informatica
9 5 (0.97%) Foundry
9 5 (0.97%) Palantir
10 3 (0.58%) ESRI
10 3 (0.58%) Intergraph
10 3 (0.58%) NEC
11 2 (0.39%) Cognos
11 2 (0.39%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.39%) Micro Focus
11 2 (0.39%) NetIQ
11 2 (0.39%) OpenText