Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 March 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 163 148
Rank change year-on-year -21 -15 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 530 432 624
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.46% 1.69% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.58% 1.82% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 358 315 427
10th Percentile £302 £257 £277
25th Percentile £363 £339 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £627 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 20 30
10th Percentile £21.53 £14.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.84 £18.03 £15.67
Median hourly rate £41.72 £27.13 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +53.80% +26.57% -3.29%
75th Percentile £64.69 £33.80 £39.74
90th Percentile £80.82 £36.38 £40.08
UK median hourly rate £40.44 £27.13 £21.54
% change year-on-year +49.07% +25.96% +1.22%

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 33,481 23,742 35,057
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.01% 92.91% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,160 15,275 23,477
10th Percentile £306 £300 £270
25th Percentile £412 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £638 £638
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 2,170 743 2,218
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.01 £13.15
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.48 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.89 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year -2.48% +6.26% -19.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.10 £71.87
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £34.00 £34.08
% change year-on-year - -0.23% -15.93%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -18 297 £475 +2.70% 138
South East -6 76 £400 -15.79% 94
North of England -46 59 £400 -2.44% 63
Midlands -49 44 £410 +2.50% 42
North West -12 33 £420 -11.58% 25
South West -19 29 £525 +28.36% 29
West Midlands -49 28 £406 +1.56% 26
Yorkshire -51 24 £367 +34.68% 32
East Midlands -17 16 £410 +2.50% 16
East of England -28 10 £500 -4.76% 22
North East -14 4 £475 -2.56% 6
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 March 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.

1 230 (43.40%) SQL
2 173 (32.64%) Business Intelligence
3 162 (30.57%) Data Quality
4 159 (30.00%) Data Analysis
5 158 (29.81%) Power Platform
6 157 (29.62%) Power BI
7 140 (26.42%) Analytics
8 116 (21.89%) Python
9 110 (20.75%) Data Modelling
10 108 (20.38%) Data Governance
11 103 (19.43%) Visualisation
12 102 (19.25%) Microsoft Excel
13 93 (17.55%) Decision-Making
14 90 (16.98%) Migration
15 89 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
16 86 (16.23%) Security Cleared
17 85 (16.04%) Actionable Insight
18 84 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
19 79 (14.91%) ETL
20 78 (14.72%) Validation
21 69 (13.02%) Data Visualisation
22 65 (12.26%) Data Management
22 65 (12.26%) SC Cleared
23 64 (12.08%) Tableau
24 61 (11.51%) Dashboard Development
25 57 (10.75%) Microsoft
26 56 (10.57%) Data Migration
26 56 (10.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
27 54 (10.19%) Azure
28 53 (10.00%) 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 15 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.51%) SAS
3 7 (1.32%) Confluence
4 3 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.57%) CMS
4 3 (0.57%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.57%) Smallworld
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.19%) Apache
6 1 (0.19%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 102 (19.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.19%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.51%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.13%) SAP HR
4 5 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.75%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.57%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.57%) Maximo
6 3 (0.57%) SAP R/3
7 2 (0.38%) Actimize
7 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.38%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.38%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.38%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.19%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
8 1 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 158 (29.81%) Power Platform
2 54 (10.19%) Azure
3 48 (9.06%) AWS
4 32 (6.04%) Snowflake
5 16 (3.02%) GCP
6 14 (2.64%) Amazon S3
7 13 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (2.08%) Collibra
8 11 (2.08%) OCI
8 11 (2.08%) SaaS
9 9 (1.70%) dbt
9 9 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
10 7 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.32%) Serverless
11 5 (0.94%) Google Analytics
12 4 (0.75%) Entra ID
12 4 (0.75%) Google Tag Manager
12 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
13 3 (0.57%) Matillion
13 3 (0.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.19%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (29.62%) Power BI
2 64 (12.08%) Tableau
3 53 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 38 (7.17%) Metadata
5 15 (2.83%) Power Query
6 13 (2.45%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.26%) Looker
8 11 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (2.08%) Big Data
9 10 (1.89%) SQL Server
10 9 (1.70%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (1.51%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.51%) KNIME
11 8 (1.51%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (1.32%) Geospatial Data
12 7 (1.32%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.13%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.94%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (2.83%) JIRA
2 6 (1.13%) MSI
3 5 (0.94%) Git
4 2 (0.38%) ERwin
4 2 (0.38%) GitLab
4 2 (0.38%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.19%) Postman
General
1 170 (32.08%) Analytical Skills
2 163 (30.75%) Finance
3 144 (27.17%) Social Skills
4 51 (9.62%) Public Sector
5 40 (7.55%) Banking
6 24 (4.53%) Marketing
7 16 (3.02%) Manufacturing
8 15 (2.83%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.32%) Electronics
12 7 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.32%) Retail
13 6 (1.13%) Front Office
13 6 (1.13%) Legal
13 6 (1.13%) Military
14 5 (0.94%) Investment Banking
14 5 (0.94%) Telecoms
15 4 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.13%) XML
2 5 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (0.94%) Pandas
3 4 (0.75%) JDO
3 4 (0.75%) PySpark
4 3 (0.57%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.57%) JSON
4 3 (0.57%) NumPy
4 3 (0.57%) YAML
5 2 (0.38%) REST
5 2 (0.38%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.38%) SOAP
5 2 (0.38%) Web Services
6 1 (0.19%) ADO
6 1 (0.19%) Kafka
6 1 (0.19%) LDAP
6 1 (0.19%) OAuth
6 1 (0.19%) OpenID
6 1 (0.19%) RESTful
6 1 (0.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (8.11%) Data Structures
2 22 (4.15%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (3.40%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (3.40%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.83%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.26%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.51%) CMDB
8 5 (0.94%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.75%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (0.75%) NHS
10 3 (0.57%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.57%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.57%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.57%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.57%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.38%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.38%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.38%) Unix
1 2 (0.38%) Windows
2 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (32.64%) Business Intelligence
2 159 (30.00%) Data Analysis
3 140 (26.42%) Analytics
4 110 (20.75%) Data Modelling
5 108 (20.38%) Data Governance
6 103 (19.43%) Visualisation
7 93 (17.55%) Decision-Making
8 90 (16.98%) Migration
9 89 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
10 85 (16.04%) Actionable Insight
11 84 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
12 79 (14.91%) ETL
13 78 (14.72%) Validation
14 69 (13.02%) Data Visualisation
15 65 (12.26%) Data Management
16 61 (11.51%) Dashboard Development
17 56 (10.57%) Data Migration
17 56 (10.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 52 (9.81%) Agile
19 48 (9.06%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 230 (43.40%) SQL
2 116 (21.89%) Python
3 22 (4.15%) R
4 16 (3.02%) VBA
5 5 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (0.94%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.38%) Korn
6 2 (0.38%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.38%) Scala
7 1 (0.19%) C#
7 1 (0.19%) Java
7 1 (0.19%) SAPscript
7 1 (0.19%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 86 (16.23%) Security Cleared
2 65 (12.26%) SC Cleared
3 24 (4.53%) Degree
4 8 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (0.94%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (0.57%) ACCA
7 3 (0.57%) CIMA
8 2 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.19%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 162 (30.57%) Data Quality
2 25 (4.72%) GDPR
2 25 (4.72%) QA
3 7 (1.32%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (0.57%) PMO
4 3 (0.57%) SLA
5 2 (0.38%) IFRS
5 2 (0.38%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.38%) Solvency II
6 1 (0.19%) GAAP
6 1 (0.19%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (1.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (0.57%) SCCM
2 2 (0.38%) Terraform
3 1 (0.19%) Grafana
3 1 (0.19%) Kibana
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.19%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 57 (10.75%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.42%) Databricks
3 33 (6.23%) Oracle
4 31 (5.85%) Salesforce
5 27 (5.09%) SAP
6 20 (3.77%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.64%) Workday
8 11 (2.08%) Informatica
9 10 (1.89%) Google
10 9 (1.70%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.13%) Cognos
12 5 (0.94%) Adobe
13 4 (0.75%) Alteryx
13 4 (0.75%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.75%) Teradata
14 3 (0.57%) Bloomberg
14 3 (0.57%) ESRI
14 3 (0.57%) Foundry
14 3 (0.57%) Intergraph
14 3 (0.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud