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 8 February 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 139 138
Rank change year-on-year -12 -1 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 277 262 333
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.92% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 2.05% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 194 243
10th Percentile £298 £300 £313
25th Percentile £384 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £467 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.53% +2.00%
75th Percentile £557 £575 £624
90th Percentile £650 £675 £679
England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 4
10th Percentile £23.63 £27.64 £38.68
25th Percentile £26.31 £28.60 £39.69
Median hourly rate £30.25 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -13.58% +72.34%
75th Percentile £44.06 £45.56 £41.75
90th Percentile £56.13 £52.35 £43.55
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £21.43
% change year-on-year +19.82% +26.57% -0.33%

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 13,814 12,776 17,388
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 93.62% 93.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,208 8,172 12,584
10th Percentile £350 £332 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £780
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 141 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £19.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £37.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +31.58% -12.31%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.75 £65.45
England median hourly rate £30.11 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.99% - -3.19%

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -21 33 £464 +0.82% 23
South London -14 3 - - 3
West London -15 3 £523 +33.97% 5
East London 0 2 £473 +35.00% 7
North London - 1 £500 - 2
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 February 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.

1 139 (50.18%) SQL
2 89 (32.13%) Data Analysis
3 87 (31.41%) Data Quality
4 79 (28.52%) Power BI
4 79 (28.52%) Power Platform
5 77 (27.80%) Business Intelligence
6 72 (25.99%) Python
7 67 (24.19%) Analytics
8 61 (22.02%) Data Governance
8 61 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (20.94%) Data Modelling
10 54 (19.49%) Stakeholder Management
11 51 (18.41%) Visualisation
12 47 (16.97%) Decision-Making
12 47 (16.97%) Microsoft Excel
13 43 (15.52%) ETL
14 42 (15.16%) Actionable Insight
14 42 (15.16%) Validation
15 37 (13.36%) Tableau
16 36 (13.00%) Migration
17 34 (12.27%) AWS
17 34 (12.27%) Data Management
18 32 (11.55%) Data Visualisation
19 30 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 29 (10.47%) Data Cleansing
20 29 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
21 28 (10.11%) Snowflake
22 26 (9.39%) Dashboard Development
23 25 (9.03%) Data Migration
23 25 (9.03%) Data Transformation

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 (1.81%) SAS
2 3 (1.08%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.72%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) Apache
Applications
1 47 (16.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.44%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.36%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.81%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.72%) Actimize
3 2 (0.72%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.36%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.36%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.36%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.36%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (28.52%) Power Platform
2 34 (12.27%) AWS
3 28 (10.11%) Snowflake
4 22 (7.94%) Azure
5 7 (2.53%) Amazon S3
5 7 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (2.17%) Collibra
6 6 (2.17%) GCP
7 5 (1.81%) OCI
8 4 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.44%) dbt
8 4 (1.44%) Serverless
9 3 (1.08%) Fivetran
9 3 (1.08%) SaaS
10 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.36%) Alation
11 1 (0.36%) Amazon MSK
11 1 (0.36%) AppsFlyer
11 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (28.52%) Power BI
2 37 (13.36%) Tableau
3 29 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (7.94%) Metadata
5 9 (3.25%) Power Query
6 8 (2.89%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (2.89%) KNIME
6 8 (2.89%) Looker
7 7 (2.53%) Big Data
7 7 (2.53%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (1.81%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.81%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.44%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.44%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.72%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.72%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (0.72%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (0.72%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 6 (2.17%) MSI
2 4 (1.44%) JIRA
3 2 (0.72%) ERwin
3 2 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.36%) Git
4 1 (0.36%) GitLab
General
1 98 (35.38%) Finance
2 84 (30.32%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (27.80%) Social Skills
4 21 (7.58%) Banking
5 15 (5.42%) Marketing
6 14 (5.05%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.53%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.44%) Front Office
10 4 (1.44%) Legal
10 4 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Law
11 3 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.08%) Retail
12 2 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.36%) Arabic Language
13 1 (0.36%) German Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.44%) XML
2 3 (1.08%) YAML
3 2 (0.72%) Pandas
3 2 (0.72%) PySpark
4 1 (0.36%) ADO
4 1 (0.36%) JSON
4 1 (0.36%) Kafka
4 1 (0.36%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.36%) NumPy
4 1 (0.36%) Plotly
4 1 (0.36%) REST
4 1 (0.36%) Seaborn
4 1 (0.36%) SOAP
4 1 (0.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.50%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (3.61%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.17%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.81%) Reference Data
5 5 (1.81%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.08%) CMDB
6 3 (1.08%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.72%) Cybercrime
7 2 (0.72%) Derivative
7 2 (0.72%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.36%) Pricing Data
8 1 (0.36%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.08%) Unix
2 2 (0.72%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (32.13%) Data Analysis
2 77 (27.80%) Business Intelligence
3 67 (24.19%) Analytics
4 61 (22.02%) Data Governance
4 61 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
5 58 (20.94%) Data Modelling
6 54 (19.49%) Stakeholder Management
7 51 (18.41%) Visualisation
8 47 (16.97%) Decision-Making
9 43 (15.52%) ETL
10 42 (15.16%) Actionable Insight
10 42 (15.16%) Validation
11 36 (13.00%) Migration
12 34 (12.27%) Data Management
13 32 (11.55%) Data Visualisation
14 30 (10.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 29 (10.47%) Data Cleansing
16 26 (9.39%) Dashboard Development
17 25 (9.03%) Data Migration
17 25 (9.03%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 139 (50.18%) SQL
2 72 (25.99%) Python
3 16 (5.78%) R
4 5 (1.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.08%) VBA
6 2 (0.72%) Korn
6 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.36%) C#
7 1 (0.36%) Java
7 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (9.03%) Security Cleared
2 21 (7.58%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.42%) Degree
4 4 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.72%) CEH
5 2 (0.72%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (0.72%) GIAC
5 2 (0.72%) GREM
5 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.72%) OSCP
6 1 (0.36%) ACCA
6 1 (0.36%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (31.41%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.42%) GDPR
3 10 (3.61%) QA
4 5 (1.81%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.08%) IFRS
7 2 (0.72%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.72%) SLA
7 2 (0.72%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) FATCA
8 1 (0.36%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (1.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.36%) SCCM
1 1 (0.36%) Terraform
1 1 (0.36%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 23 (8.30%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.42%) Databricks
3 14 (5.05%) Salesforce
3 14 (5.05%) SAP
4 13 (4.69%) Oracle
5 10 (3.61%) Informatica
5 10 (3.61%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.25%) MuleSoft
6 9 (3.25%) Workday
7 4 (1.44%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.72%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.72%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.72%) Cognos
8 2 (0.72%) Google
8 2 (0.72%) Sparx
8 2 (0.72%) Teradata
9 1 (0.36%) Ariba
9 1 (0.36%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.36%) Murex
9 1 (0.36%) Refinitiv