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 26 August 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 150 170
Rank change year-on-year -14 +20 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 764 531 484
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 1.93% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 2.10% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 340 355
10th Percentile £257 £263 £274
25th Percentile £356 £358 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £435 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.57% -3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £553
90th Percentile £600 £651 £628
UK median daily rate £450 £448 £450
% change year-on-year +0.56% -0.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 26 15
10th Percentile £16.08 £21.02 £16.09
25th Percentile £22.53 £23.84 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.35 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.81% +23.27% +1.10%
75th Percentile £48.00 £33.41 £30.50
90th Percentile £49.55 £36.25 £44.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £25.90 £21.66
% change year-on-year +15.83% +19.58% +1.07%

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 42,222 25,226 30,892
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 91.56% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,437 16,285 19,969
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,228 1,378 1,700
10th Percentile £15.10 £13.68 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.15 £17.44 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +2.60%
75th Percentile £68.00 £55.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% -1.44%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -40 339 £450 -5.26% 79
South East -22 119 £500 +11.92% 19
North of England -37 106 £420 +6.60% 36
Midlands -7 87 £425 +8.97% 19
South West 0 76 £450 +9.76% 27
West Midlands -30 61 £418 +4.38% 12
Yorkshire -23 55 £400 +10.34% 12
North West -32 43 £450 +12.50% 14
East of England 0 33 £359 -31.62% 16
East Midlands +3 26 £425 +13.33% 7
North East -36 10 £525 +16.67% 10
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 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.

1 267 (34.95%) SQL
2 227 (29.71%) Business Intelligence
3 224 (29.32%) Data Quality
4 214 (28.01%) Power BI
4 214 (28.01%) Power Platform
5 181 (23.69%) Data Analysis
6 167 (21.86%) Analytics
7 146 (19.11%) Data Governance
8 144 (18.85%) Decision-Making
9 139 (18.19%) Data Modelling
10 129 (16.88%) Microsoft Excel
11 127 (16.62%) Validation
12 119 (15.58%) Python
13 112 (14.66%) Migration
14 107 (14.01%) Stakeholder Management
15 103 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
16 101 (13.22%) Visualisation
17 96 (12.57%) Azure
18 91 (11.91%) Actionable Insight
19 89 (11.65%) Microsoft
20 88 (11.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 86 (11.26%) Tableau
22 78 (10.21%) Data Migration
23 76 (9.95%) Dashboard Development
24 71 (9.29%) AI
25 68 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
26 67 (8.77%) Agile
27 65 (8.51%) Databricks
28 60 (7.85%) Data Mapping
28 60 (7.85%) Security 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 13 (1.70%) SAS
2 7 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (0.92%) SharePoint
3 6 (0.79%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.52%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.39%) Apache
5 3 (0.39%) CMS
5 3 (0.39%) Jupyter
5 3 (0.39%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.26%) Confluence
7 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 129 (16.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.79%) SPSS
6 5 (0.65%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.26%) CATIA
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (1.57%) iTrent
2 11 (1.44%) SystmOne
3 9 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.79%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.65%) Raiser’s Edge
6 4 (0.52%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.39%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.26%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.26%) Eikon
8 2 (0.26%) NEC Housing
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.26%) SAP MDG
8 2 (0.26%) SAP MM
8 2 (0.26%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.13%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 214 (28.01%) Power Platform
2 96 (12.57%) Azure
3 42 (5.50%) AWS
4 38 (4.97%) Snowflake
5 20 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
6 19 (2.49%) SaaS
7 17 (2.23%) Power Automate
8 16 (2.09%) Microsoft Purview
9 15 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 12 (1.57%) SuccessFactors
11 11 (1.44%) Collibra
12 10 (1.31%) GCP
13 9 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
14 7 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (0.79%) OCI
16 5 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
16 5 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
16 5 (0.65%) PowerApps
17 4 (0.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 4 (0.52%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.52%) Internet
2 2 (0.26%) Broadband
2 2 (0.26%) Firewall
3 1 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (28.01%) Power BI
2 86 (11.26%) Tableau
3 55 (7.20%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (6.54%) Metadata
5 18 (2.36%) Power Query
5 18 (2.36%) Relational Database
6 17 (2.23%) Data Lake
7 15 (1.96%) Looker
8 10 (1.31%) Big Data
8 10 (1.31%) Qlik Sense
9 8 (1.05%) SQL Server
10 7 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (0.79%) BigQuery
12 5 (0.65%) GIS
13 4 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
13 4 (0.52%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
13 4 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 13 (1.70%) JIRA
2 4 (0.52%) Git
2 4 (0.52%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (0.26%) MLflow
3 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.13%) GCC
4 1 (0.13%) GitLab
General
1 204 (26.70%) Analytical Skills
2 168 (21.99%) Finance
3 163 (21.34%) Social Skills
4 60 (7.85%) Banking
5 58 (7.59%) Public Sector
6 44 (5.76%) Marketing
7 29 (3.80%) Retail
8 24 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 20 (2.62%) Legal
10 16 (2.09%) Local Government
11 14 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (1.57%) Investment Banking
13 11 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (1.31%) Military
15 9 (1.18%) Aerospace
15 9 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.05%) Front Office
16 8 (1.05%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.92%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (1.70%) PySpark
2 10 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
3 6 (0.79%) JSON
3 6 (0.79%) Pandas
4 5 (0.65%) EDI
5 2 (0.26%) Apache Avro
5 2 (0.26%) Django
5 2 (0.26%) HTML
5 2 (0.26%) JDO
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.26%) Node.js
5 2 (0.26%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.26%) REST
5 2 (0.26%) SOAP
5 2 (0.26%) XML
6 1 (0.13%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.13%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.13%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.13%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.13%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 49 (6.41%) Data Structures
2 25 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (2.49%) Management Information System
4 18 (2.36%) Product Ownership
5 16 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (2.09%) Onboarding
6 10 (1.31%) Data Centre
7 7 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (0.92%) Fixed Income
8 6 (0.79%) FMCG
9 5 (0.65%) Reference Data
10 4 (0.52%) CMDB
10 4 (0.52%) Credit Risk
10 4 (0.52%) Derivative
10 4 (0.52%) NHS
10 4 (0.52%) Reinsurance
10 4 (0.52%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (0.52%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.39%) Marketing Technology
11 3 (0.39%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.52%) Windows
2 2 (0.26%) Linux
2 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 227 (29.71%) Business Intelligence
2 181 (23.69%) Data Analysis
3 167 (21.86%) Analytics
4 146 (19.11%) Data Governance
5 144 (18.85%) Decision-Making
6 139 (18.19%) Data Modelling
7 127 (16.62%) Validation
8 112 (14.66%) Migration
9 107 (14.01%) Stakeholder Management
10 103 (13.48%) Problem-Solving
11 101 (13.22%) Visualisation
12 91 (11.91%) Actionable Insight
13 88 (11.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 78 (10.21%) Data Migration
15 76 (9.95%) Dashboard Development
16 71 (9.29%) AI
17 68 (8.90%) Continuous Improvement
18 67 (8.77%) Agile
19 60 (7.85%) Data Mapping
20 57 (7.46%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 267 (34.95%) SQL
2 119 (15.58%) Python
3 33 (4.32%) R
4 20 (2.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (0.79%) VBA
6 3 (0.39%) Scala
6 3 (0.39%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.26%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.26%) Korn
7 2 (0.26%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.26%) VB
8 1 (0.13%) Cypher
8 1 (0.13%) Java
8 1 (0.13%) LookML
8 1 (0.13%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 60 (7.85%) Security Cleared
2 46 (6.02%) SC Cleared
3 40 (5.24%) Degree
4 15 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (1.83%) DBS Check
6 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.52%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
7 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.39%) PMP
8 2 (0.26%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.26%) PhD
9 1 (0.13%) CBAP
9 1 (0.13%) CFA
9 1 (0.13%) CISM
9 1 (0.13%) CISSP
9 1 (0.13%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.13%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (29.32%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.37%) QA
3 34 (4.45%) GDPR
4 10 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 7 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (0.65%) PMO
7 5 (0.65%) SLA
8 4 (0.52%) GRC
8 4 (0.52%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.13%) EMIR
9 1 (0.13%) FATCA
9 1 (0.13%) GMP
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS
9 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.13%) MiFID
9 1 (0.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.39%) Docker
3 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (0.26%) SCCM
3 1 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 89 (11.65%) Microsoft
2 65 (8.51%) Databricks
3 51 (6.68%) SAP
4 43 (5.63%) Oracle
5 17 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 15 (1.96%) Workday
7 11 (1.44%) Alteryx
8 10 (1.31%) Google
9 7 (0.92%) Teradata
10 6 (0.79%) Informatica
10 6 (0.79%) Palantir
11 5 (0.65%) Baan
11 5 (0.65%) Bloomberg
11 5 (0.65%) Foundry
11 5 (0.65%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.26%) Ariba
12 2 (0.26%) Citrix
12 2 (0.26%) IBM
12 2 (0.26%) NEC
12 2 (0.26%) Siemens