Senior Data Analyst Contracts in England

Senior Data Analyst
UK > England

The median Senior Data Analyst daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 497 605
Rank change year-on-year +31 +108 +109
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Analyst 19 45 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.12% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.13% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 37 26
10th Percentile £474 £325 £397
25th Percentile £503 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% -11.63%
75th Percentile £644 £550 £521
90th Percentile £678 £588 £612
UK median daily rate £600 £513 £475
% change year-on-year +17.07% +7.89% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £28.60 - -

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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Senior Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Analyst in England

Senior Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Analyst in England

Senior Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Analyst in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Analyst in England

Senior Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Analyst in England

Senior 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 Senior Data Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +38 16 £600 +14.29% 41
South East +43 1 - - 14
Yorkshire +7 1 - - 4
North of England +1 1 - - 10
Senior Data Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Data Analyst in the job title.

1 12 (63.16%) Data Analysis
2 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 9 (47.37%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (47.37%) Data Quality
2 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
3 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (42.11%) Data Modelling
4 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
5 6 (31.58%) Power BI
5 6 (31.58%) Finance
6 5 (26.32%) Python
6 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
6 5 (26.32%) Visualisation
7 4 (21.05%) Data Governance
7 4 (21.05%) Banking
7 4 (21.05%) Data Cleansing
8 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
8 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
8 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
8 3 (15.79%) Data Management
8 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (15.79%) Business Analysis
8 3 (15.79%) Degree
8 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
8 3 (15.79%) ETL
8 3 (15.79%) Oracle
8 3 (15.79%) Migration
8 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
8 3 (15.79%) Analytics

Senior 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 2 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) Apache Spark
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.53%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Collibra
2 2 (10.53%) GCP
2 2 (10.53%) Snowflake
3 1 (5.26%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) Power BI
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Hive
2 2 (10.53%) Big Data
2 2 (10.53%) BigQuery
2 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.53%) Hadoop
2 2 (10.53%) Impala
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) Tableau
3 1 (5.26%) Metadata
3 1 (5.26%) Power Query
3 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.26%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (5.26%) Spark SQL
3 1 (5.26%) Sqoop
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (31.58%) Finance
4 4 (21.05%) Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
5 2 (10.53%) Local Government
6 1 (5.26%) Back Office
6 1 (5.26%) Front Office
6 1 (5.26%) Marketing
6 1 (5.26%) Military
6 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Data Analysis
2 9 (47.37%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (42.11%) Data Modelling
4 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (26.32%) Decision-Making
5 5 (26.32%) Visualisation
6 4 (21.05%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (21.05%) Data Governance
7 3 (15.79%) Actionable Insight
7 3 (15.79%) Analytics
7 3 (15.79%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (15.79%) Business Analysis
7 3 (15.79%) Data Architecture
7 3 (15.79%) Data Management
7 3 (15.79%) Data Visualisation
7 3 (15.79%) ETL
7 3 (15.79%) Migration
8 2 (10.53%) Benchmarking
8 2 (10.53%) Programme Management
8 2 (10.53%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) DBS Check
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (47.37%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.26%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
2 1 (5.26%) LOINC
2 1 (5.26%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) HDFS
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Foundry
2 2 (10.53%) Google
2 2 (10.53%) Informatica
2 2 (10.53%) Talend
3 1 (5.26%) Databricks
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Workday