Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026.

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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 133 146
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 338 269 303
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 2.20% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 2.36% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 196 224
10th Percentile £280 £305 £338
25th Percentile £375 £400 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £543 £620 £588
90th Percentile £658 £722 £650
England median daily rate £425 £463 £463
% change year-on-year -8.11% - -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 2
10th Percentile £23.76 £25.00 £24.43
25th Percentile £26.52 £27.41 £28.06
Median hourly rate £30.28 £28.84 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% -18.20% +30.56%
75th Percentile £32.56 £33.72 £42.56
90th Percentile £40.13 £34.77 £46.28
England median hourly rate £31.50 £27.38 £21.54
% change year-on-year +15.07% +27.12% -2.82%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 16,849 11,395 16,294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 93.36% 93.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,160 7,768 11,796
10th Percentile £355 £346 £325
25th Percentile £431 £428 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 144 319
10th Percentile £19.10 £20.24 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.14 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.50 £30.90 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.82% +12.37% -23.61%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.81 £45.62
90th Percentile £76.58 £62.48 £65.23
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.18
% change year-on-year +54.80% -21.81% -17.38%

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 25 May 2026.

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 25 May 2026.

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 25 May 2026. 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 64 £390 -20.00% 25
West London -19 13 £425 -8.11% 6
South London -14 12 £463 -2.63% 3
East London -7 2 £338 -20.59% 6
North London - 1 £178 - 3
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 May 2026, 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.

1 152 (44.97%) SQL
2 110 (32.54%) Data Quality
3 105 (31.07%) Business Intelligence
4 103 (30.47%) Power Platform
5 102 (30.18%) Power BI
6 88 (26.04%) Data Analysis
7 81 (23.96%) Python
8 80 (23.67%) Data Governance
9 75 (22.19%) Analytics
10 74 (21.89%) Data Modelling
11 67 (19.82%) Decision-Making
12 59 (17.46%) Migration
13 56 (16.57%) Microsoft Excel
13 56 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
13 56 (16.57%) Validation
13 56 (16.57%) Visualisation
14 50 (14.79%) Stakeholder Management
15 46 (13.61%) Tableau
16 44 (13.02%) ETL
17 42 (12.43%) AWS
17 42 (12.43%) Azure
18 41 (12.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 40 (11.83%) Dashboard Development
19 40 (11.83%) Databricks
19 40 (11.83%) Security Cleared
20 39 (11.54%) Data Migration
21 36 (10.65%) Agile
21 36 (10.65%) Data Management
21 36 (10.65%) Data Visualisation
22 34 (10.06%) AI

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 5 (1.48%) SAS
1 5 (1.48%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.18%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.18%) Confluence
3 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 56 (16.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.07%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.78%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.89%) iTrent
4 2 (0.59%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.59%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.59%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.30%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 103 (30.47%) Power Platform
2 42 (12.43%) AWS
2 42 (12.43%) Azure
3 24 (7.10%) Snowflake
4 10 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (2.07%) Amazon S3
6 6 (1.78%) Collibra
6 6 (1.78%) GCP
7 5 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (1.48%) SaaS
7 5 (1.48%) Serverless
8 4 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.18%) Fivetran
9 3 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.59%) GitHub
10 2 (0.59%) IBM Blueworks
10 2 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (30.18%) Power BI
2 46 (13.61%) Tableau
3 32 (9.47%) Metadata
4 26 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.25%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.96%) Power Query
7 9 (2.66%) Looker
8 8 (2.37%) Big Data
9 7 (2.07%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.78%) KNIME
11 5 (1.48%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.48%) Hadoop
12 4 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.18%) Qlik Sense
13 3 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.89%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.89%) SQL Server
14 2 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (2.07%) JIRA
2 6 (1.78%) MSI
3 2 (0.59%) GitLab
4 1 (0.30%) GCC
4 1 (0.30%) Git
4 1 (0.30%) Postman
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 125 (36.98%) Finance
2 92 (27.22%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (22.19%) Social Skills
4 37 (10.95%) Banking
5 31 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.33%) Marketing
7 10 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.66%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.37%) Front Office
10 6 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.78%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.48%) Legal
12 4 (1.18%) Back Office
12 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.89%) Law
13 3 (0.89%) Local Government
13 3 (0.89%) Military
14 2 (0.59%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.66%) Pandas
2 6 (1.78%) PySpark
3 5 (1.48%) XML
4 4 (1.18%) JSON
5 3 (0.89%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.89%) NumPy
5 3 (0.89%) YAML
6 2 (0.59%) Kafka
6 2 (0.59%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.59%) REST
6 2 (0.59%) SOAP
6 2 (0.59%) Web Services
7 1 (0.30%) ADO
7 1 (0.30%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.30%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.30%) JAX
7 1 (0.30%) Middleware
7 1 (0.30%) Next.js
7 1 (0.30%) Node.js
7 1 (0.30%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.03%) Data Structures
2 13 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (2.96%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.37%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.07%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.78%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.48%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.18%) Derivative
8 4 (1.18%) Equities
8 4 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.18%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.18%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.89%) CMDB
9 3 (0.89%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.89%) Freedom of Information
10 2 (0.59%) NHS
10 2 (0.59%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.59%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (31.07%) Business Intelligence
2 88 (26.04%) Data Analysis
3 80 (23.67%) Data Governance
4 75 (22.19%) Analytics
5 74 (21.89%) Data Modelling
6 67 (19.82%) Decision-Making
7 59 (17.46%) Migration
8 56 (16.57%) Problem-Solving
8 56 (16.57%) Validation
8 56 (16.57%) Visualisation
9 50 (14.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 44 (13.02%) ETL
11 41 (12.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 40 (11.83%) Dashboard Development
13 39 (11.54%) Data Migration
14 36 (10.65%) Agile
14 36 (10.65%) Data Management
14 36 (10.65%) Data Visualisation
15 34 (10.06%) AI
16 33 (9.76%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 152 (44.97%) SQL
2 81 (23.96%) Python
3 17 (5.03%) R
4 7 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (1.78%) VBA
6 3 (0.89%) Korn
7 2 (0.59%) Scala
8 1 (0.30%) Java
8 1 (0.30%) LookML
8 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (11.83%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.47%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.03%) Degree
4 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.30%) CBAP
6 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (32.54%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.03%) GDPR
2 17 (5.03%) QA
3 6 (1.78%) Accessibility
4 3 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (0.89%) PMO
4 3 (0.89%) Solvency II
5 2 (0.59%) IFRS
5 2 (0.59%) IFRS 17
5 2 (0.59%) SLA
6 1 (0.30%) FATCA
6 1 (0.30%) GAAP
6 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (0.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.89%) Terraform
2 1 (0.30%) Grafana
2 1 (0.30%) Kibana
2 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (11.83%) Databricks
2 20 (5.92%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.33%) SAP
4 10 (2.96%) Oracle
5 9 (2.66%) Alteryx
6 8 (2.37%) Informatica
6 8 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.78%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.48%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.48%) Workday
9 4 (1.18%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.89%) Google
10 3 (0.89%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.59%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.59%) IBM
11 2 (0.59%) Murex
11 2 (0.59%) Refinitiv
11 2 (0.59%) Teradata
12 1 (0.30%) Adobe
12 1 (0.30%) Dell