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 1 December 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 154 151
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 249 271 325
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 1.73% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.92% 1.85% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 201 237
10th Percentile £295 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £333 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £553 £588 £623
90th Percentile £638 £713 £700
England median daily rate £429 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -4.78% -10.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 6
10th Percentile £26.35 £31.16 £15.75
25th Percentile £26.50 £35.00 £24.88
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -4.46% -23.79%
75th Percentile £37.50 £46.63 £40.75
90th Percentile £53.85 £53.55 £42.75
England median hourly rate £33.75 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year +24.42% +25.35% -13.44%

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 12,950 14,681 18,401
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 93.66% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,600 9,530 13,307
10th Percentile £335 £338 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £790
England median daily rate £503 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.12% -1.78% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 159 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.80 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% +1.83% +3.26%
75th Percentile £52.88 £57.38 £59.69
90th Percentile £75.79 £81.24 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +38.46%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -27 27 £375 -20.30% 21
East London +5 2 £481 - 23
South London - 2 - - 19
West London -13 1 - - 25
North London - 1 £500 - 9
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 137 (55.02%) SQL
2 104 (41.77%) Data Analysis
3 83 (33.33%) Python
4 80 (32.13%) Business Intelligence
5 76 (30.52%) Data Quality
6 74 (29.72%) Power BI
6 74 (29.72%) Power Platform
7 67 (26.91%) Analytics
8 65 (26.10%) Visualisation
9 56 (22.49%) Data Modelling
10 52 (20.88%) Data Governance
10 52 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
11 48 (19.28%) Microsoft Excel
12 45 (18.07%) Actionable Insight
13 44 (17.67%) Decision-Making
13 44 (17.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 44 (17.67%) Tableau
14 38 (15.26%) ETL
15 37 (14.86%) Data Visualisation
15 37 (14.86%) Validation
16 35 (14.06%) Microsoft
17 33 (13.25%) Data Cleansing
18 31 (12.45%) Migration
19 28 (11.24%) Data Transformation
20 27 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
21 26 (10.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 25 (10.04%) AWS
23 24 (9.64%) Data Management
24 23 (9.24%) Metadata
24 23 (9.24%) Snowflake

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 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.80%) Confluence
2 2 (0.80%) SAS
3 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 48 (19.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.41%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.01%) SAP HR
2 3 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.80%) Actimize
3 2 (0.80%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.40%) Academy Housing
4 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.40%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.40%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.40%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 74 (29.72%) Power Platform
2 25 (10.04%) AWS
3 23 (9.24%) Snowflake
4 17 (6.83%) Azure
5 10 (4.02%) GCP
6 8 (3.21%) Collibra
7 6 (2.41%) dbt
8 5 (2.01%) OCI
9 4 (1.61%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.20%) Google Data Studio
10 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.20%) Serverless
11 2 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.40%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.80%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (29.72%) Power BI
2 44 (17.67%) Tableau
3 27 (10.84%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (9.24%) Metadata
5 11 (4.42%) BigQuery
6 9 (3.61%) Looker
7 8 (3.21%) Power Query
7 8 (3.21%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.81%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (2.81%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.41%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.61%) Big Data
10 4 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.20%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.80%) KNIME
12 2 (0.80%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (0.80%) PowerPivot
12 2 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 7 (2.81%) JIRA
2 2 (0.80%) ERwin
2 2 (0.80%) Git
2 2 (0.80%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (0.80%) Selenium
3 1 (0.40%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.40%) LSMW
General
1 105 (42.17%) Finance
2 84 (33.73%) Social Skills
3 75 (30.12%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (14.06%) Banking
5 16 (6.43%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.02%) Marketing
7 12 (4.82%) Investment Banking
8 9 (3.61%) Retail
9 8 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.41%) Legal
11 5 (2.01%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (2.01%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.61%) Front Office
12 4 (1.61%) Local Government
13 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.20%) Law
13 3 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.80%) Advertising
14 2 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.61%) JSON
2 3 (1.20%) DAO
2 3 (1.20%) Pandas
3 2 (0.80%) NumPy
3 2 (0.80%) PySpark
4 1 (0.40%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.40%) Plotly
4 1 (0.40%) Seaborn
4 1 (0.40%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.40%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.83%) Data Structures
2 11 (4.42%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.21%) Reinsurance
5 6 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.61%) Derivative
7 4 (1.61%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.61%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.20%) CMDB
8 3 (1.20%) NHS
8 3 (1.20%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.80%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.80%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.80%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.80%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.20%) Unix
2 2 (0.80%) Windows
3 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (41.77%) Data Analysis
2 80 (32.13%) Business Intelligence
3 67 (26.91%) Analytics
4 65 (26.10%) Visualisation
5 56 (22.49%) Data Modelling
6 52 (20.88%) Data Governance
6 52 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (18.07%) Actionable Insight
8 44 (17.67%) Decision-Making
8 44 (17.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 38 (15.26%) ETL
10 37 (14.86%) Data Visualisation
10 37 (14.86%) Validation
11 33 (13.25%) Data Cleansing
12 31 (12.45%) Migration
13 28 (11.24%) Data Transformation
14 26 (10.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 24 (9.64%) Data Management
16 22 (8.84%) Data Migration
17 19 (7.63%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 137 (55.02%) SQL
2 83 (33.33%) Python
3 14 (5.62%) R
4 6 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.80%) Java
5 2 (0.80%) Scala
5 2 (0.80%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.80%) VBA
6 1 (0.40%) C#
6 1 (0.40%) C++
6 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.40%) Korn
6 1 (0.40%) Perl
6 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (6.02%) Security Cleared
2 14 (5.62%) Degree
3 13 (5.22%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.80%) CEH
4 2 (0.80%) CompTIA CySA+
4 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.80%) GIAC
4 2 (0.80%) GREM
4 2 (0.80%) OSCP
5 1 (0.40%) ACCA
5 1 (0.40%) CIMA
5 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.40%) ISEB
5 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (30.52%) Data Quality
2 18 (7.23%) GDPR
3 6 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.41%) QA
4 3 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.80%) IFRS
5 2 (0.80%) SLA
6 1 (0.40%) FATCA
6 1 (0.40%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.40%) MiFID
6 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.40%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 35 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.02%) Oracle
3 14 (5.62%) SAP
4 12 (4.82%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.02%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.61%) Databricks
7 8 (3.21%) Workday
8 7 (2.81%) Google
9 3 (1.20%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.20%) Informatica
9 3 (1.20%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.80%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.80%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.80%) Foundry
10 2 (0.80%) NEC
10 2 (0.80%) Palantir
10 2 (0.80%) Sparx
11 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.40%) IBM
11 1 (0.40%) Murex