Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 145 149
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 263 269 319
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 1.79% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.99% 1.92% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 203 232
10th Percentile £300 £288 £300
25th Percentile £381 £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £519
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -13.25% -1.19%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £713 £700
England median daily rate £429 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -4.78% -7.69% +0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 6
10th Percentile £26.38 £31.16 £15.75
25th Percentile £27.69 £35.00 £24.88
Median hourly rate £33.75 £37.50 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.46% -21.11%
75th Percentile £45.00 £46.63 £40.75
90th Percentile £56.13 £53.55 £42.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year +19.82% +25.35% -15.14%

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 13,213 14,032 17,548
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 93.52% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,756 9,076 12,684
10th Percentile £344 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £757 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 154 209
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.65 £17.20
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.13 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% - -
75th Percentile £57.00 £54.69 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -24.86% -22.58% +39.11%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Data Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Analyst job vacancy trend in London

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in London

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Data Analyst job vacancies in London

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analyst in London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analyst in London

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 Data Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 21 December 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 -20 35 £393 -14.67% 8
East London +4 3 £495 +41.43% 5
South London -6 2 - - 4
West London -16 2 - - 7
North London - 1 £500 - 3
Data Analyst
England

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 21 December 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 142 (53.99%) SQL
2 111 (42.21%) Data Analysis
3 85 (32.32%) Python
4 82 (31.18%) Data Quality
5 80 (30.42%) Business Intelligence
6 75 (28.52%) Power BI
6 75 (28.52%) Power Platform
7 65 (24.71%) Analytics
8 62 (23.57%) Data Governance
9 60 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (22.81%) Visualisation
10 58 (22.05%) Data Modelling
11 50 (19.01%) Microsoft Excel
12 48 (18.25%) Decision-Making
12 48 (18.25%) Stakeholder Management
13 45 (17.11%) Actionable Insight
14 39 (14.83%) ETL
14 39 (14.83%) Tableau
15 37 (14.07%) Validation
16 32 (12.17%) Data Cleansing
17 31 (11.79%) Data Visualisation
17 31 (11.79%) Microsoft
17 31 (11.79%) Migration
18 30 (11.41%) Data Transformation
19 29 (11.03%) Data Warehouse
20 26 (9.89%) AWS
20 26 (9.89%) Data Management
21 25 (9.51%) Snowflake
21 25 (9.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 24 (9.13%) Metadata

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.52%) SAS
2 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 50 (19.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.28%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.38%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.90%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.76%) Actimize
3 2 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.38%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.38%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.38%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 75 (28.52%) Power Platform
2 26 (9.89%) AWS
3 25 (9.51%) Snowflake
4 16 (6.08%) Azure
5 9 (3.42%) GCP
6 8 (3.04%) Collibra
7 6 (2.28%) dbt
8 5 (1.90%) OCI
9 4 (1.52%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.14%) Google Data Studio
10 3 (1.14%) Serverless
11 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.38%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.38%) Google Sheets
11 1 (0.38%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.38%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (28.52%) Power BI
2 39 (14.83%) Tableau
3 29 (11.03%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (9.13%) Metadata
5 9 (3.42%) Power Query
6 8 (3.04%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.04%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.28%) Looker
7 6 (2.28%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.28%) SQL Server
8 4 (1.52%) Big Data
8 4 (1.52%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.52%) KNIME
8 4 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
9 3 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.14%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.76%) BusinessObjects XI
10 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
10 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.90%) JIRA
2 2 (0.76%) ERwin
2 2 (0.76%) Git
2 2 (0.76%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (0.76%) Selenium
3 1 (0.38%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.38%) GitLab
General
1 106 (40.30%) Finance
2 86 (32.70%) Social Skills
3 79 (30.04%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.17%) Banking
5 17 (6.46%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.70%) Marketing
7 10 (3.80%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.66%) Legal
8 7 (2.66%) Retail
9 5 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.52%) Front Office
10 4 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
11 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.14%) Local Government
11 3 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.14%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.76%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.14%) DAO
1 3 (1.14%) JSON
2 2 (0.76%) Pandas
2 2 (0.76%) PySpark
3 1 (0.38%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.38%) NumPy
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.38%) Plotly
3 1 (0.38%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.38%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.22%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.80%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (3.80%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.04%) Reinsurance
4 6 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.90%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.52%) Derivative
6 4 (1.52%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.14%) CMDB
8 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.76%) Cybercrime
8 2 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.76%) NHS
8 2 (0.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (0.76%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.14%) Unix
2 2 (0.76%) Windows
3 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (42.21%) Data Analysis
2 80 (30.42%) Business Intelligence
3 65 (24.71%) Analytics
4 62 (23.57%) Data Governance
5 60 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (22.81%) Visualisation
6 58 (22.05%) Data Modelling
7 48 (18.25%) Decision-Making
7 48 (18.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 45 (17.11%) Actionable Insight
9 39 (14.83%) ETL
10 37 (14.07%) Validation
11 32 (12.17%) Data Cleansing
12 31 (11.79%) Data Visualisation
12 31 (11.79%) Migration
13 30 (11.41%) Data Transformation
14 26 (9.89%) Data Management
15 25 (9.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 21 (7.98%) Dashboard Development
16 21 (7.98%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 142 (53.99%) SQL
2 85 (32.32%) Python
3 14 (5.32%) R
4 6 (2.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.14%) VBA
6 2 (0.76%) Java
6 2 (0.76%) Scala
6 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.38%) C#
7 1 (0.38%) C++
7 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.38%) Korn
7 1 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (6.46%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.32%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.94%) Degree
4 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.76%) CEH
4 2 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
4 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.76%) GIAC
4 2 (0.76%) GREM
4 2 (0.76%) OSCP
5 1 (0.38%) ACCA
5 1 (0.38%) CIMA
5 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (31.18%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.46%) GDPR
3 7 (2.66%) QA
4 6 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.76%) IFRS
6 2 (0.76%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) FATCA
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.38%) MiFID
7 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) SCCM
1 1 (0.38%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 31 (11.79%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.70%) Oracle
2 15 (5.70%) SAP
3 13 (4.94%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.80%) Databricks
4 10 (3.80%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.42%) Workday
6 7 (2.66%) Informatica
7 6 (2.28%) Google
8 5 (1.90%) Alteryx
8 5 (1.90%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.76%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.76%) Cognos
9 2 (0.76%) Foundry
9 2 (0.76%) Murex
9 2 (0.76%) Palantir
9 2 (0.76%) Sparx
9 2 (0.76%) Teradata
10 1 (0.38%) Calypso
10 1 (0.38%) NEC