Business Data Analyst Contracts in London

Business Data Analyst
England > London

The median Business Data Analyst daily rate in London is £625, 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 341 370 449
Rank change year-on-year +29 +79 +95
Contract jobs requiring a Business Data Analyst 12 21 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.096% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 37
10th Percentile £481 £250 £348
25th Percentile £513 £484 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% +17.07%
75th Percentile £731 £625 £650
90th Percentile £750 £696 £730
England median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +29.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Business Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Business Data Analyst in London

Business Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Business Data Analyst in London

Business Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Business Data Analyst in London

Business Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Business Data Analyst in London

Business Data Analyst
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Data Analyst within the London 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
Central London +3 4 £558 -15.85%
South London - 1 - -
Business Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Business 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 London region featuring Business Data Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 8 (66.67%) SQL
3 6 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 6 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
4 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Excel
5 4 (33.33%) Python
5 4 (33.33%) Banking
5 4 (33.33%) Data Analysis
5 4 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
6 3 (25.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (25.00%) Process Improvement
6 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (25.00%) Oracle
6 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (16.67%) ETL
7 2 (16.67%) Informatica
7 2 (16.67%) Project Management
7 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
7 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
7 2 (16.67%) Data Management
7 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
7 2 (16.67%) Big Data
7 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
7 2 (16.67%) AWS

Business Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (8.33%) Apache
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) Big Data
2 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (16.67%) Power BI
2 2 (16.67%) Tableau
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (8.33%) Impala
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) QlikView
3 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 9 (75.00%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (33.33%) Banking
5 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
5 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
6 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 6 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
3 4 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 4 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Data Management
5 2 (16.67%) Data Munging
5 2 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 2 (16.67%) ETL
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Informatica
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) Sparx
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) Talend