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 19 April 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 158 156
Rank change year-on-year -24 -2 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 597 419 561
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.51% 1.71% 1.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 1.85% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 301 384
10th Percentile £304 £260 £263
25th Percentile £358 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £555
90th Percentile £625 £650 £629
UK median daily rate £447 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -0.67% -2.70% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 20 19
10th Percentile £22.26 £16.08 £13.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £21.08 £15.56
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.86 £21.64
Median % change year-on-year +16.64% +28.75% -2.35%
75th Percentile £72.50 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £34.71 £40.95
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.86 £22.08
% change year-on-year +16.64% +26.19% +7.87%

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 36,438 22,702 34,531
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.70% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,879 15,162 23,005
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 867 2,382
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.41 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.73 £19.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -19.08%
75th Percentile £67.36 £64.63 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £76.25 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.73% -13.00% -22.22%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -7 321 £475 - 129
South East -11 79 £400 -11.70% 86
North of England -50 67 £400 -2.44% 93
Midlands -35 62 £420 +5.00% 65
West Midlands -42 41 £420 +3.38% 31
South West -13 35 £525 +28.36% 23
Yorkshire -40 34 £350 +41.41% 40
North West -29 31 £425 -4.23% 43
East Midlands -18 21 £425 +6.25% 34
East of England -22 20 £358 -26.56% 42
North East -18 4 £475 +5.56% 11
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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.

1 250 (41.88%) SQL
2 196 (32.83%) Business Intelligence
3 177 (29.65%) Power Platform
4 176 (29.48%) Data Quality
4 176 (29.48%) Power BI
5 144 (24.12%) Data Analysis
6 141 (23.62%) Analytics
7 130 (21.78%) Data Modelling
8 126 (21.11%) Python
9 121 (20.27%) Data Governance
10 113 (18.93%) Decision-Making
11 111 (18.59%) Microsoft Excel
12 103 (17.25%) Migration
13 100 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
13 100 (16.75%) Visualisation
14 93 (15.58%) Validation
15 90 (15.08%) Actionable Insight
16 85 (14.24%) Security Cleared
17 84 (14.07%) Stakeholder Management
18 81 (13.57%) Tableau
19 80 (13.40%) ETL
20 71 (11.89%) Dashboard Development
21 69 (11.56%) Azure
22 65 (10.89%) SC Cleared
23 64 (10.72%) Data Migration
23 64 (10.72%) Data Visualisation
24 61 (10.22%) Agile
25 60 (10.05%) Data Warehouse
25 60 (10.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
26 59 (9.88%) AWS

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 (2.01%) SAS
1 12 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.17%) Confluence
3 3 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.50%) CMS
4 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 111 (18.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.17%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 13 (2.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.34%) iTrent
2 8 (1.34%) SystmOne
3 5 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.67%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.67%) SAP HR
5 3 (0.50%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.50%) Maximo
5 3 (0.50%) SAP R/3
6 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.34%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.34%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.17%) Misys Midas
7 1 (0.17%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 177 (29.65%) Power Platform
2 69 (11.56%) Azure
3 59 (9.88%) AWS
4 29 (4.86%) Snowflake
5 18 (3.02%) GCP
6 16 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 15 (2.51%) Amazon S3
8 13 (2.18%) SaaS
9 12 (2.01%) Collibra
10 11 (1.84%) SuccessFactors
11 9 (1.51%) dbt
12 8 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (1.34%) OCI
12 8 (1.34%) Serverless
13 7 (1.17%) Microsoft 365
13 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
14 5 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.84%) Google Analytics
15 4 (0.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (0.67%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (29.48%) Power BI
2 81 (13.57%) Tableau
3 60 (10.05%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (7.87%) Metadata
5 17 (2.85%) Power Query
6 14 (2.35%) BigQuery
7 13 (2.18%) Looker
8 11 (1.84%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (1.68%) Big Data
10 9 (1.51%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.51%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (1.17%) Relational Database
13 6 (1.01%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.01%) KNIME
13 6 (1.01%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.84%) PowerPivot
14 5 (0.84%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (2.68%) JIRA
2 6 (1.01%) Git
2 6 (1.01%) MSI
3 2 (0.34%) ERwin
3 2 (0.34%) GitLab
3 2 (0.34%) MLflow
3 2 (0.34%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.17%) GCC
4 1 (0.17%) Postman
4 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 187 (31.32%) Analytical Skills
2 164 (27.47%) Finance
3 146 (24.46%) Social Skills
4 60 (10.05%) Public Sector
5 45 (7.54%) Banking
6 27 (4.52%) Marketing
7 20 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.51%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.17%) Front Office
11 7 (1.17%) Law
11 7 (1.17%) Legal
11 7 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.01%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.01%) Local Government
12 6 (1.01%) Military
12 6 (1.01%) Retail
13 5 (0.84%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.17%) Pandas
2 6 (1.01%) PySpark
2 6 (1.01%) XML
3 5 (0.84%) JDO
4 4 (0.67%) JSON
4 4 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (0.50%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.50%) NumPy
5 3 (0.50%) YAML
6 2 (0.34%) Node.js
6 2 (0.34%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.34%) REST
6 2 (0.34%) SOAP
6 2 (0.34%) Web Services
7 1 (0.17%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.17%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.17%) JAX
7 1 (0.17%) MACH
7 1 (0.17%) Playwright
7 1 (0.17%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 52 (8.71%) Data Structures
2 22 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (2.18%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.18%) Management Information System
4 13 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (1.51%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.01%) CMDB
7 6 (1.01%) Reference Data
8 5 (0.84%) Credit Risk
8 5 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (0.84%) NHS
9 4 (0.67%) Derivative
9 4 (0.67%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.67%) Hedge funds
9 4 (0.67%) Marketing Technology
10 3 (0.50%) Equities
10 3 (0.50%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.50%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.17%) Unix
2 1 (0.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (32.83%) Business Intelligence
2 144 (24.12%) Data Analysis
3 141 (23.62%) Analytics
4 130 (21.78%) Data Modelling
5 121 (20.27%) Data Governance
6 113 (18.93%) Decision-Making
7 103 (17.25%) Migration
8 100 (16.75%) Problem-Solving
8 100 (16.75%) Visualisation
9 93 (15.58%) Validation
10 90 (15.08%) Actionable Insight
11 84 (14.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 80 (13.40%) ETL
13 71 (11.89%) Dashboard Development
14 64 (10.72%) Data Migration
14 64 (10.72%) Data Visualisation
15 61 (10.22%) Agile
16 60 (10.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 59 (9.88%) Data Management
18 47 (7.87%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 250 (41.88%) SQL
2 126 (21.11%) Python
3 30 (5.03%) R
4 19 (3.18%) VBA
5 5 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.67%) Scala
7 3 (0.50%) Korn
8 2 (0.34%) Java
8 2 (0.34%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.34%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.34%) VB
9 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.17%) LookML
Qualifications
1 85 (14.24%) Security Cleared
2 65 (10.89%) SC Cleared
3 19 (3.18%) Degree
4 12 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (1.34%) DBS Check
6 5 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.34%) PhD
8 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (29.48%) Data Quality
2 33 (5.53%) QA
3 28 (4.69%) GDPR
4 8 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (0.84%) PMO
6 5 (0.84%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.50%) SLA
8 2 (0.34%) IFRS
8 2 (0.34%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.17%) FATCA
9 1 (0.17%) GAAP
9 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.34%) Docker
3 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.50%) Terraform
2 2 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.34%) SCCM
3 1 (0.17%) Grafana
3 1 (0.17%) Kibana
Vendors
1 58 (9.72%) Microsoft
2 49 (8.21%) Databricks
3 46 (7.71%) SAP
4 34 (5.70%) Oracle
5 31 (5.19%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.68%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.68%) Workday
7 12 (2.01%) Google
8 10 (1.68%) Informatica
9 7 (1.17%) MuleSoft
10 6 (1.01%) Teradata
11 5 (0.84%) Adobe
11 5 (0.84%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.84%) IBM
12 4 (0.67%) Cognos
12 4 (0.67%) Foundry
12 4 (0.67%) Palantir
12 4 (0.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.50%) Dell