Data Analyst Contracts in England

Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Data Analyst daily rate in England is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 155 155
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 445 557 822
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.83% 1.53% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.98% 1.65% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 382 580
10th Percentile £276 £301 £270
25th Percentile £358 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -2.63% -
75th Percentile £550 £555 £588
90th Percentile £650 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.72% -5.21% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 33
10th Percentile £15.73 £13.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £19.16 £15.40 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.55 £21.54 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year +27.93% -2.82% -2.34%
75th Percentile £31.64 £40.00 £32.30
90th Percentile £33.78 £41.43 £48.15
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £21.66 £19.75
% change year-on-year +22.35% +9.70% -11.77%

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 22,468 33,792 45,579
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.32% 92.77% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,943 22,421 32,381
10th Percentile £300 £284 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -2.38% -3.40% +3.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 2,440 1,334
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.28
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% -17.54% +94.63%
75th Percentile £63.38 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% -18.89% +88.21%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst 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 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in England

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst 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 May 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 19 May 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 +16 270 £475 -5.00% 291
South East +18 57 £450 +12.50% 151
North of England -18 47 £450 +1.41% 95
Midlands +7 29 £406 +8.33% 90
South West +34 21 £409 -3.76% 47
West Midlands +4 21 £413 -4.35% 61
Yorkshire +12 19 £410 -8.89% 34
North West -26 19 £406 -5.80% 50
East of England +12 9 £488 +8.33% 42
North East +2 9 £488 -2.50% 12
East Midlands +2 8 £400 +10.34% 26
Data Analyst
UK

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 May 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 216 (48.54%) SQL
2 172 (38.65%) Data Analysis
3 151 (33.93%) Power Platform
4 150 (33.71%) Power BI
5 148 (33.26%) Business Intelligence
6 141 (31.69%) Social Skills
7 127 (28.54%) Analytical Skills
8 122 (27.42%) Finance
9 107 (24.04%) Python
9 107 (24.04%) Visualisation
10 97 (21.80%) Analytics
10 97 (21.80%) Microsoft Excel
11 93 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
12 89 (20.00%) Data Quality
13 88 (19.78%) Data Governance
14 83 (18.65%) Migration
15 79 (17.75%) Tableau
16 74 (16.63%) Data Modelling
17 72 (16.18%) Data Visualisation
18 58 (13.03%) Data Warehouse
19 57 (12.81%) Data Management
19 57 (12.81%) Decision-Making
20 56 (12.58%) Agile
20 56 (12.58%) Banking
21 52 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
22 51 (11.46%) Actionable Insight
23 50 (11.24%) Validation
23 50 (11.24%) Data Migration
24 47 (10.56%) Data Cleansing
24 47 (10.56%) Microsoft

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (3.60%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.15%) Confluence
3 9 (2.02%) SAS
4 3 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.45%) Apache
5 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.22%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 97 (21.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (2.25%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.57%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.45%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 6 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.45%) Bankmaster
4 2 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.45%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.22%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.22%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 151 (33.93%) Power Platform
2 38 (8.54%) AWS
3 36 (8.09%) Azure
4 23 (5.17%) GCP
5 19 (4.27%) Snowflake
6 11 (2.47%) dbt
7 9 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 8 (1.80%) Amazon S3
9 7 (1.57%) Collibra
10 6 (1.35%) Adobe Analytics
10 6 (1.35%) Azure Machine Learning
10 6 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.12%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.12%) OCI
11 5 (1.12%) Serverless
12 4 (0.90%) Cloud Functions
13 3 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (0.67%) Google Data Studio
13 3 (0.67%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.22%) Firewall
1 1 (0.22%) Internet
1 1 (0.22%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 150 (33.71%) Power BI
2 79 (17.75%) Tableau
3 58 (13.03%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (5.84%) SQL Server
5 13 (2.92%) Data Lake
6 12 (2.70%) BigQuery
6 12 (2.70%) Data Mining
6 12 (2.70%) Looker
6 12 (2.70%) Metadata
7 9 (2.02%) Big Data
8 8 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (1.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (1.57%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.35%) Power Query
10 6 (1.35%) Qlik Sense
10 6 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
10 6 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.12%) QlikView
11 5 (1.12%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.90%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 21 (4.72%) JIRA
2 11 (2.47%) Git
3 4 (0.90%) ERwin
3 4 (0.90%) MagicDraw
4 3 (0.67%) GitLab
5 2 (0.45%) Ant
5 2 (0.45%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.45%) TestRail
5 2 (0.45%) XMLSpy
6 1 (0.22%) LSMW
6 1 (0.22%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 141 (31.69%) Social Skills
2 127 (28.54%) Analytical Skills
3 122 (27.42%) Finance
4 56 (12.58%) Banking
5 22 (4.94%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (3.37%) Retail
8 14 (3.15%) Local Government
9 13 (2.92%) Front Office
9 13 (2.92%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.92%) Marketing
10 11 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.35%) Billing
12 6 (1.35%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.35%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.35%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (0.90%) Games
13 4 (0.90%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.12%) JSON
1 5 (1.12%) XML
2 4 (0.90%) Plotly
2 4 (0.90%) React
3 3 (0.67%) Pandas
4 2 (0.45%) FpML
4 2 (0.45%) Kafka
5 1 (0.22%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.22%) CSS
5 1 (0.22%) HTML
5 1 (0.22%) LDAP
5 1 (0.22%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.22%) NumPy
5 1 (0.22%) OLE
5 1 (0.22%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.29%) Data Structures
2 13 (2.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (2.47%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (2.47%) Reference Data
4 10 (2.25%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.02%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 7 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 6 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.35%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.12%) CMDB
9 5 (1.12%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.12%) NHS
10 4 (0.90%) Derivative
10 4 (0.90%) IoT
10 4 (0.90%) Reinsurance
11 3 (0.67%) Pricing Data
11 3 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.45%) Linux
2 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (38.65%) Data Analysis
2 148 (33.26%) Business Intelligence
3 107 (24.04%) Visualisation
4 97 (21.80%) Analytics
5 93 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
6 88 (19.78%) Data Governance
7 83 (18.65%) Migration
8 74 (16.63%) Data Modelling
9 72 (16.18%) Data Visualisation
10 57 (12.81%) Data Management
10 57 (12.81%) Decision-Making
11 56 (12.58%) Agile
12 52 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
13 51 (11.46%) Actionable Insight
14 50 (11.24%) Data Migration
14 50 (11.24%) Validation
15 47 (10.56%) Data Cleansing
16 45 (10.11%) ETL
17 35 (7.87%) Data Integration
18 32 (7.19%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 216 (48.54%) SQL
2 107 (24.04%) Python
3 20 (4.49%) R
4 15 (3.37%) VBA
5 8 (1.80%) PL/SQL
6 4 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 4 (0.90%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.67%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.67%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.45%) PHP
9 1 (0.22%) ABAP
9 1 (0.22%) LookML
9 1 (0.22%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 44 (9.89%) Security Cleared
2 35 (7.87%) SC Cleared
3 22 (4.94%) Degree
4 6 (1.35%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.45%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.22%) ACCA
7 1 (0.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.22%) CASP
7 1 (0.22%) CIMA
7 1 (0.22%) CISA
7 1 (0.22%) CISM
7 1 (0.22%) CISSP
7 1 (0.22%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.22%) HNC
7 1 (0.22%) IIBA
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 27 (6.07%) QA
3 21 (4.72%) GDPR
4 9 (2.02%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (0.90%) SEPA
6 3 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.67%) SLA
7 2 (0.45%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.22%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.22%) EMIR
8 1 (0.22%) GAAP
8 1 (0.22%) LOINC
8 1 (0.22%) MiFID
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.22%) PERC
8 1 (0.22%) PMO
8 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.22%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (0.22%) Grafana
2 1 (0.22%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.22%) Terraform
2 1 (0.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 47 (10.56%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.31%) Oracle
3 24 (5.39%) Google
3 24 (5.39%) SAP
4 20 (4.49%) Databricks
5 13 (2.92%) Informatica
6 8 (1.80%) Alteryx
7 7 (1.57%) Ariba
7 7 (1.57%) Talend
8 6 (1.35%) Adobe
8 6 (1.35%) Palantir
9 5 (1.12%) Foundry
9 5 (1.12%) IBM
9 5 (1.12%) Salesforce
10 4 (0.90%) Ab Initio
10 4 (0.90%) Denodo
10 4 (0.90%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.90%) Workday
11 3 (0.67%) Dynatrace
11 3 (0.67%) Sparx