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 28 March 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 152 159
Rank change year-on-year -43 +7 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 544 427 588
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.43% 1.76% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.56% 1.89% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 311 401
10th Percentile £305 £263 £279
25th Percentile £363 £336 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £562
90th Percentile £635 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 21 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £14.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £18.20 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £28.60 £21.43
Median % change year-on-year +50.35% +33.46% -3.29%
75th Percentile £72.50 £31.64 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.84 £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £28.60 £21.64
% change year-on-year +27.62% +32.16% +5.25%

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 34,979 22,542 34,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.13% 92.93% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,046 15,091 23,315
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £409 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,296 824 2,293
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £12.94
25th Percentile £19.85 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £41.06 £34.58 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.74% +6.38% -23.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.41 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +15.51% -1.52% -23.26%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -8 311 £475 +0.48% 106
South East -22 77 £400 -15.79% 71
North of England -53 56 £400 -2.44% 68
Midlands -59 50 £425 +6.25% 50
North West -24 32 £423 -11.05% 24
West Midlands -52 32 £420 +5.00% 19
South West -18 26 £525 +28.36% 30
Yorkshire -49 22 £365 +47.47% 32
East Midlands -22 18 £425 +6.25% 31
East of England -32 11 £538 +2.38% 29
North East -13 4 £475 +5.56% 14
Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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.

1 239 (43.93%) SQL
2 185 (34.01%) Business Intelligence
3 171 (31.43%) Data Quality
4 168 (30.88%) Power Platform
5 167 (30.70%) Power BI
6 149 (27.39%) Data Analysis
7 143 (26.29%) Analytics
8 124 (22.79%) Data Modelling
9 123 (22.61%) Python
10 117 (21.51%) Data Governance
11 107 (19.67%) Microsoft Excel
12 102 (18.75%) Decision-Making
13 98 (18.01%) Migration
14 96 (17.65%) Visualisation
15 93 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
16 87 (15.99%) Actionable Insight
16 87 (15.99%) Stakeholder Management
17 85 (15.63%) ETL
18 83 (15.26%) Security Cleared
18 83 (15.26%) Validation
19 71 (13.05%) Tableau
20 64 (11.76%) Azure
20 64 (11.76%) Data Management
21 63 (11.58%) Data Visualisation
21 63 (11.58%) SC Cleared
22 62 (11.40%) Dashboard Development
23 61 (11.21%) Data Migration
23 61 (11.21%) Data Warehouse
23 61 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
24 56 (10.29%) Agile

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 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.65%) SAS
3 7 (1.29%) Confluence
4 3 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.55%) CMS
5 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.18%) Apache
6 1 (0.18%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 107 (19.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.29%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.84%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.65%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.10%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.10%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.74%) SystmOne
5 3 (0.55%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.55%) Maximo
5 3 (0.55%) SAP R/3
6 2 (0.37%) Actimize
6 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.37%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.37%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.37%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.18%) iTrent
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.18%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 168 (30.88%) Power Platform
2 64 (11.76%) Azure
3 53 (9.74%) AWS
4 33 (6.07%) Snowflake
5 16 (2.94%) GCP
6 15 (2.76%) Amazon S3
6 15 (2.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 14 (2.57%) Collibra
8 10 (1.84%) OCI
9 9 (1.65%) dbt
9 9 (1.65%) SaaS
10 8 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
11 7 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (1.29%) Serverless
12 5 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
12 5 (0.92%) Google Analytics
13 4 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (0.74%) Google Tag Manager
14 3 (0.55%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (30.70%) Power BI
2 71 (13.05%) Tableau
3 61 (11.21%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (8.64%) Metadata
5 15 (2.76%) Power Query
6 13 (2.39%) BigQuery
7 12 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (2.21%) Looker
8 10 (1.84%) Big Data
9 9 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
9 9 (1.65%) Data Lake
9 9 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (1.65%) SQL Server
10 8 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (1.29%) KNIME
11 7 (1.29%) Relational Database
12 6 (1.10%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.10%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.92%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 16 (2.94%) JIRA
2 6 (1.10%) Git
2 6 (1.10%) MSI
3 2 (0.37%) ERwin
3 2 (0.37%) GitLab
3 2 (0.37%) MLflow
3 2 (0.37%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.18%) GCC
4 1 (0.18%) Postman
4 1 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 180 (33.09%) Analytical Skills
2 160 (29.41%) Finance
3 142 (26.10%) Social Skills
4 56 (10.29%) Public Sector
5 39 (7.17%) Banking
6 24 (4.41%) Marketing
7 16 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.21%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.29%) Retail
13 6 (1.10%) Front Office
13 6 (1.10%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.10%) Law
13 6 (1.10%) Legal
13 6 (1.10%) Military
13 6 (1.10%) Telecoms
14 5 (0.92%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.10%) Pandas
1 6 (1.10%) XML
2 5 (0.92%) JDO
2 5 (0.92%) PySpark
3 4 (0.74%) JSON
3 4 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (0.55%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.55%) NumPy
4 3 (0.55%) YAML
5 2 (0.37%) Node.js
5 2 (0.37%) REST
5 2 (0.37%) SOAP
5 2 (0.37%) Web Services
6 1 (0.18%) ADO
6 1 (0.18%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.18%) Kafka
6 1 (0.18%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.18%) RESTful
6 1 (0.18%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 50 (9.19%) Data Structures
2 20 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.21%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (2.21%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.65%) Onboarding
7 8 (1.47%) CMDB
8 6 (1.10%) Reference Data
9 4 (0.74%) Credit Risk
9 4 (0.74%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (0.74%) Hedge funds
9 4 (0.74%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (0.74%) NHS
10 3 (0.55%) Derivative
10 3 (0.55%) Reinsurance
10 3 (0.55%) Taxonomies
11 2 (0.37%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.55%) Windows
2 1 (0.18%) Unix
2 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (34.01%) Business Intelligence
2 149 (27.39%) Data Analysis
3 143 (26.29%) Analytics
4 124 (22.79%) Data Modelling
5 117 (21.51%) Data Governance
6 102 (18.75%) Decision-Making
7 98 (18.01%) Migration
8 96 (17.65%) Visualisation
9 93 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
10 87 (15.99%) Actionable Insight
10 87 (15.99%) Stakeholder Management
11 85 (15.63%) ETL
12 83 (15.26%) Validation
13 64 (11.76%) Data Management
14 63 (11.58%) Data Visualisation
15 62 (11.40%) Dashboard Development
16 61 (11.21%) Data Migration
16 61 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 56 (10.29%) Agile
18 51 (9.38%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 239 (43.93%) SQL
2 123 (22.61%) Python
3 27 (4.96%) R
4 18 (3.31%) VBA
5 5 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.55%) Scala
7 2 (0.37%) Java
8 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.18%) Korn
8 1 (0.18%) LookML
8 1 (0.18%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.18%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 83 (15.26%) Security Cleared
2 63 (11.58%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.04%) Degree
4 8 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (0.92%) Master's Degree
6 4 (0.74%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.37%) PhD
8 1 (0.18%) ACCA
8 1 (0.18%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.18%) CIMA
8 1 (0.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (31.43%) Data Quality
2 31 (5.70%) QA
3 24 (4.41%) GDPR
4 9 (1.65%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (0.74%) PMO
6 4 (0.74%) SLA
6 4 (0.74%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.37%) IFRS
8 2 (0.37%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.18%) FATCA
9 1 (0.18%) GAAP
9 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.37%) Docker
3 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (0.37%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.37%) SCCM
1 2 (0.37%) Terraform
2 1 (0.18%) Grafana
2 1 (0.18%) Kibana
2 1 (0.18%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 56 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 45 (8.27%) Databricks
3 33 (6.07%) Oracle
4 32 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 30 (5.51%) SAP
6 23 (4.23%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.57%) Workday
8 11 (2.02%) Google
9 10 (1.84%) Informatica
10 8 (1.47%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.92%) Adobe
11 5 (0.92%) Alteryx
11 5 (0.92%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.74%) Cognos
12 4 (0.74%) Foundry
12 4 (0.74%) Palantir
12 4 (0.74%) Teradata
13 3 (0.55%) Bloomberg
13 3 (0.55%) IBM
13 3 (0.55%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud