Business Data Analyst Contracts in London

Business Data Analyst
England > London

The median Business Data Analyst daily rate in London is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 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
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 382 441
Rank change year-on-year +35 +59 +124
Contract jobs requiring a Business Data Analyst 18 16 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.093% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.099% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 29
10th Percentile £502 £399 £267
25th Percentile £525 £440 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £714 £670 -
90th Percentile £750 £741 £668
England median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +14.29%

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 12,646 16,186 24,044
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 94.08% 94.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,558 11,551 17,581
10th Percentile £331 £331 £360
25th Percentile £425 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 275 272
10th Percentile £17.98 £16.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.86 £20.98 £23.27
Median hourly rate £31.25 £30.16 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% -19.40% +6.91%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £70.55 £82.50
England median hourly rate £27.64 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -30.90% -6.98% +70.01%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -5 4 £558 -12.55% 2
Business Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 July 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 13 (72.22%) SQL
2 12 (66.67%) Finance
3 9 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 9 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (44.44%) Power Platform
4 8 (44.44%) Power BI
4 8 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (38.89%) Data Governance
6 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
7 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (27.78%) Business Analysis
8 4 (22.22%) Banking
8 4 (22.22%) Python
8 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (22.22%) Data Quality
9 3 (16.67%) Process Improvement
9 3 (16.67%) Analytics
9 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
9 3 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
9 3 (16.67%) Oracle
9 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
9 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
9 3 (16.67%) AWS
9 3 (16.67%) Data Mapping
9 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
10 2 (11.11%) Data Management
10 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
10 2 (11.11%) Data Architecture

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 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Loan IQ
1 1 (5.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (11.11%) Azure
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.56%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Power BI
2 4 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (11.11%) Tableau
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.56%) Big Data
5 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
5 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (5.56%) Metadata
5 1 (5.56%) QlikView
5 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 12 (66.67%) Finance
2 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
5 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.56%) Marketing
6 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.56%) Equities
2 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.56%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.56%) Reinsurance
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 9 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (38.89%) Data Governance
4 5 (27.78%) Business Analysis
4 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (16.67%) Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Data Mapping
5 3 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 3 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Visualisation
6 2 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (11.11%) Data Architecture
6 2 (11.11%) Data Munging
6 2 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
6 2 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 2 (11.11%) ERP
6 2 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) IFRS
3 1 (5.56%) IFRS 17
3 1 (5.56%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) Informatica
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) Sparx
3 1 (5.56%) Talend
3 1 (5.56%) Workday