Data Analysis Contracts in London

Data Analysis
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 74 82
Rank change year-on-year +7 +8 +18
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 474 509 801
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.78% 2.85% 2.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% 3.22% 3.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 349 567
10th Percentile £309 £350 £363
25th Percentile £398 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £753 £755
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.35% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 12 20
10th Percentile £22.22 £27.25 -
25th Percentile £28.60 £40.02 £21.24
Median hourly rate £31.35 £43.75 £24.95
Median % change year-on-year -28.35% +75.35% -34.77%
75th Percentile £50.63 £50.00 £62.94
90th Percentile £54.75 £52.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.24% -17.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in London

Data Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analysis in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analysis in London

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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 Data Analysis 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 +17 91 £550 +4.76% 58
West London +21 14 £405 -19.10% 23
East London +11 5 £510 +27.50% 12
South London +8 4 - - 16
Data Analysis
England

Data Analysis
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 23 (4.85%) Apache Spark
2 22 (4.64%) Confluence
3 13 (2.74%) SAS
4 12 (2.53%) IIS
4 12 (2.53%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.69%) Apache
6 3 (0.63%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.42%) Drupal
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.21%) Camunda
8 1 (0.21%) CMS
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 100 (21.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (4.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (3.38%) MS Visio
4 14 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (1.27%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.42%) Notepad++
8 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 17 (3.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.05%) Workday HCM
3 4 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.63%) Endur
5 2 (0.42%) Actimize
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.42%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.42%) Sprinklr
6 1 (0.21%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.21%) HFM
6 1 (0.21%) Maximo
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 119 (25.11%) Power Platform
2 62 (13.08%) Azure
3 38 (8.02%) AWS
4 21 (4.43%) GCP
5 11 (2.32%) Azure Data Factory
5 11 (2.32%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (2.32%) Snowflake
6 10 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (1.69%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (1.69%) Google Analytics
8 6 (1.27%) Google Sheets
8 6 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (1.27%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.05%) Collibra
9 5 (1.05%) OCI
9 5 (1.05%) PowerApps
10 4 (0.84%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (0.84%) GitHub
10 4 (0.84%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.95%) Internet
2 4 (0.84%) SNMP
3 3 (0.63%) Firewall
3 3 (0.63%) Network Security
3 3 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (0.63%) SSH
3 3 (0.63%) Telnet
3 3 (0.63%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.21%) BGP
4 1 (0.21%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.21%) DSLAM
4 1 (0.21%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.21%) HSRP
4 1 (0.21%) IGMP
4 1 (0.21%) Intranet
4 1 (0.21%) IPsec
4 1 (0.21%) Multicast
4 1 (0.21%) OSPF
4 1 (0.21%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.21%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (24.68%) Power BI
2 71 (14.98%) Tableau
3 46 (9.70%) SQL Server
4 28 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (3.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 17 (3.59%) Big Data
6 17 (3.59%) Relational Database
7 15 (3.16%) Oracle Database
8 12 (2.53%) Data Mining
8 12 (2.53%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (2.32%) Hadoop
9 11 (2.32%) Looker
9 11 (2.32%) NoSQL
10 10 (2.11%) Power Query
11 9 (1.90%) BusinessObjects
11 9 (1.90%) Metadata
12 8 (1.69%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.69%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.69%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 39 (8.23%) JIRA
2 12 (2.53%) Git
3 6 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
4 5 (1.05%) ERwin
4 5 (1.05%) Visual Studio
5 4 (0.84%) GitLab
5 4 (0.84%) MagicDraw
6 2 (0.42%) Ant
6 2 (0.42%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.42%) XMLSpy
7 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.21%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.21%) Jaeger
7 1 (0.21%) JUnit
7 1 (0.21%) Selenium
7 1 (0.21%) SonarQube
General
1 179 (37.76%) Social Skills
2 164 (34.60%) Analytical Skills
3 159 (33.54%) Finance
4 80 (16.88%) Banking
5 40 (8.44%) Presentation Skills
6 36 (7.59%) Marketing
7 29 (6.12%) Public Sector
8 26 (5.49%) Front Office
8 26 (5.49%) Investment Banking
9 18 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.95%) Retail
11 11 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (2.11%) Local Government
12 10 (2.11%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.90%) Financial Institution
14 8 (1.69%) Legal
15 7 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
16 5 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (1.05%) Military
Job Titles
1 224 (47.26%) Analyst
2 103 (21.73%) Data Analyst
3 94 (19.83%) Business Analyst
4 51 (10.76%) Developer
5 25 (5.27%) Data Scientist
6 24 (5.06%) Data Business Analyst
6 24 (5.06%) Senior
7 21 (4.43%) Data Engineer
7 21 (4.43%) Lead
8 18 (3.80%) Consultant
9 17 (3.59%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (3.16%) C# Developer
11 14 (2.95%) Architect
12 12 (2.53%) C# WPF Developer
12 12 (2.53%) WPF Developer
13 11 (2.32%) C# WCF Developer
13 11 (2.32%) WCF Developer
14 10 (2.11%) Risk Analyst
14 10 (2.11%) SQL Analyst
15 9 (1.90%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (5.70%) .NET
2 16 (3.38%) .NET Framework
3 14 (2.95%) WPF
4 12 (2.53%) REST
4 12 (2.53%) SOAP
4 12 (2.53%) WinForms
5 11 (2.32%) WCF
6 10 (2.11%) Pandas
7 9 (1.90%) Kafka
7 9 (1.90%) XML
8 8 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (1.48%) JSON
9 7 (1.48%) Web Services
10 6 (1.27%) CSS
10 6 (1.27%) HTML
10 6 (1.27%) scikit-learn
11 4 (0.84%) Matplotlib
11 4 (0.84%) PySpark
12 3 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
12 3 (0.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.06%) Data Structures
2 22 (4.64%) Algorithms
3 20 (4.22%) Product Ownership
4 16 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (3.16%) Derivative
6 12 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (2.53%) Equities
6 12 (2.53%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.53%) Reference Data
7 11 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (2.11%) IoT
8 10 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.69%) Multi-touch
11 7 (1.48%) Credit Risk
11 7 (1.48%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
12 6 (1.27%) Social Media
13 5 (1.05%) Equity Derivative
13 5 (1.05%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.01%) Windows
2 9 (1.90%) Linux
3 2 (0.42%) Unix
4 1 (0.21%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (27.43%) Problem-Solving
2 118 (24.89%) Business Intelligence
3 99 (20.89%) Analytics
4 98 (20.68%) Visualisation
5 87 (18.35%) Decision-Making
6 74 (15.61%) Agile
7 72 (15.19%) Data Modelling
8 68 (14.35%) Stakeholder Management
9 62 (13.08%) Data Visualisation
10 61 (12.87%) Project Management
11 57 (12.03%) Actionable Insight
12 56 (11.81%) Machine Learning
13 50 (10.55%) Requirements Gathering
14 46 (9.70%) Data Science
15 45 (9.49%) Data Governance
16 44 (9.28%) Business Analysis
16 44 (9.28%) Risk Management
17 41 (8.65%) Data Management
18 39 (8.23%) Computer Science
18 39 (8.23%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 238 (50.21%) SQL
2 128 (27.00%) Python
3 35 (7.38%) C#
4 32 (6.75%) R
5 28 (5.91%) VBA
6 22 (4.64%) T-SQL
7 21 (4.43%) PL/SQL
8 17 (3.59%) JavaScript
9 14 (2.95%) Java
10 11 (2.32%) PowerShell
10 11 (2.32%) VB
11 9 (1.90%) C++
12 8 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (1.48%) Scala
14 3 (0.63%) Bash
14 3 (0.63%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.63%) PHP
14 3 (0.63%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.42%) C
15 2 (0.42%) Go
Qualifications
1 86 (18.14%) Degree
2 45 (9.49%) Security Cleared
3 41 (8.65%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.22%) Master's Degree
5 15 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.48%) Numerate Degree
7 6 (1.27%) CBAP
7 6 (1.27%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.05%) CFA
8 5 (1.05%) PhD
8 5 (1.05%) PMP
9 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.63%) HNC
10 3 (0.63%) IIBA
10 3 (0.63%) MBA
11 2 (0.42%) AAT
11 2 (0.42%) CCAB
11 2 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (14.14%) Data Quality
2 36 (7.59%) QA
3 24 (5.06%) GDPR
4 22 (4.64%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.90%) MiFID
6 8 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
6 8 (1.69%) EMIR
7 6 (1.27%) Dodd-Frank
8 5 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.05%) PMO
9 4 (0.84%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.84%) SLA
10 3 (0.63%) Basel III
11 2 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.42%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.21%) GRC
12 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.21%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.21%) UCITS
System Software
1 3 (0.63%) FreeRADIUS
1 3 (0.63%) iptables
2 2 (0.42%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.42%) Docker
3 1 (0.21%) HDFS
3 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (1.27%) Terraform
2 5 (1.05%) Ansible
3 4 (0.84%) Grafana
3 4 (0.84%) ZABBIX
4 3 (0.63%) Cacti
4 3 (0.63%) Nagios
4 3 (0.63%) Netcool
4 3 (0.63%) Proxmox
4 3 (0.63%) Puppet
5 2 (0.42%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.21%) Graylog
6 1 (0.21%) logstash
6 1 (0.21%) Rancher
6 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 67 (14.14%) Microsoft
2 45 (9.49%) Oracle
3 23 (4.85%) Google
4 21 (4.43%) SAP
5 13 (2.74%) Citrix
5 13 (2.74%) Databricks
6 9 (1.90%) ServiceNow
7 8 (1.69%) Informatica
7 8 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.48%) Alteryx
9 6 (1.27%) Workday
10 5 (1.05%) Adobe
10 5 (1.05%) Foundry
10 5 (1.05%) Splunk
10 5 (1.05%) Talend
11 4 (0.84%) Ab Initio
11 4 (0.84%) Bloomberg
11 4 (0.84%) IBM
11 4 (0.84%) UiPath
12 3 (0.63%) StreamSets