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 12 February 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 142 134
Rank change year-on-year -7 -8 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 285 259 327
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 1.91% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 2.03% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 191 241
10th Percentile £291 £300 £314
25th Percentile £377 £351 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -9.76% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £675 £680
England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £23.63 £27.64 -
25th Percentile £26.31 £28.60 £40.25
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 £42.75
90th Percentile £56.13 £52.35 £43.95
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year +19.82% +29.17% -2.33%

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 14,054 12,729 17,018
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 93.63% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,347 8,186 12,292
10th Percentile £350 £334 £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 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 141 331
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.21 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.88 £24.66 £19.03
Median hourly rate £32.50 £38.11 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.72% +33.72% -15.95%
75th Percentile £60.13 £55.25 £48.92
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.75 £65.75
England median hourly rate £31.36 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.41% - -6.67%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -16 37 £464 +0.27% 15
West London -14 4 £523 +33.97% 6
South London -14 3 - - 6
East London +2 2 £473 +35.00% 4
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 12 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.

1 145 (50.88%) SQL
2 90 (31.58%) Data Quality
3 88 (30.88%) Data Analysis
4 85 (29.82%) Power BI
4 85 (29.82%) Power Platform
5 84 (29.47%) Business Intelligence
6 72 (25.26%) Python
7 69 (24.21%) Analytics
8 63 (22.11%) Data Governance
8 63 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (21.75%) Data Modelling
10 54 (18.95%) Visualisation
11 53 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 50 (17.54%) Microsoft Excel
13 48 (16.84%) Decision-Making
14 44 (15.44%) Actionable Insight
14 44 (15.44%) ETL
14 44 (15.44%) Validation
15 36 (12.63%) Migration
15 36 (12.63%) Tableau
16 34 (11.93%) AWS
17 33 (11.58%) Data Visualisation
18 32 (11.23%) Data Management
18 32 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 31 (10.88%) Data Warehouse
20 29 (10.18%) Dashboard Development
20 29 (10.18%) Data Cleansing
21 28 (9.82%) Snowflake
22 27 (9.47%) Data Transformation
23 26 (9.12%) Security Cleared

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 (1.75%) SAS
2 3 (1.05%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.35%) Apache
Applications
1 50 (17.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.40%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.35%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.75%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.70%) Actimize
3 2 (0.70%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.35%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.35%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.35%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 85 (29.82%) Power Platform
2 34 (11.93%) AWS
3 28 (9.82%) Snowflake
4 23 (8.07%) Azure
5 7 (2.46%) Amazon S3
5 7 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (2.46%) GCP
6 6 (2.11%) Collibra
7 5 (1.75%) OCI
8 4 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.40%) dbt
8 4 (1.40%) SaaS
8 4 (1.40%) Serverless
9 3 (1.05%) Fivetran
10 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.35%) Alation
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon MSK
11 1 (0.35%) AppsFlyer
11 1 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.35%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (29.82%) Power BI
2 36 (12.63%) Tableau
3 31 (10.88%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (8.07%) Metadata
5 9 (3.16%) Power Query
6 8 (2.81%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (2.81%) KNIME
6 8 (2.81%) Looker
7 7 (2.46%) Big Data
7 7 (2.46%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.11%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.11%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (1.75%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.75%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.40%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.70%) Geospatial Data
12 2 (0.70%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.70%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (0.70%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 6 (2.11%) MSI
2 4 (1.40%) JIRA
3 2 (0.70%) ERwin
3 2 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.35%) Git
4 1 (0.35%) GitLab
General
1 99 (34.74%) Finance
2 93 (32.63%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (27.37%) Social Skills
4 22 (7.72%) Banking
5 15 (5.26%) Marketing
5 15 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 9 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.46%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.40%) Front Office
9 4 (1.40%) Legal
9 4 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.05%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.05%) Law
10 3 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.05%) Retail
11 2 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.35%) Back Office
12 1 (0.35%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.75%) XML
2 3 (1.05%) YAML
3 2 (0.70%) GeoJSON
3 2 (0.70%) JSON
3 2 (0.70%) Pandas
3 2 (0.70%) PySpark
3 2 (0.70%) REST
3 2 (0.70%) SOAP
3 2 (0.70%) Web Services
4 1 (0.35%) ADO
4 1 (0.35%) Kafka
4 1 (0.35%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.35%) NumPy
4 1 (0.35%) Plotly
4 1 (0.35%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.37%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.11%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.75%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.40%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.05%) CMDB
8 3 (1.05%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.70%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.70%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.35%) Equities
10 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.35%) NHS
10 1 (0.35%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.05%) Unix
2 2 (0.70%) Windows
3 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (30.88%) Data Analysis
2 84 (29.47%) Business Intelligence
3 69 (24.21%) Analytics
4 63 (22.11%) Data Governance
4 63 (22.11%) Problem-Solving
5 62 (21.75%) Data Modelling
6 54 (18.95%) Visualisation
7 53 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
8 48 (16.84%) Decision-Making
9 44 (15.44%) Actionable Insight
9 44 (15.44%) ETL
9 44 (15.44%) Validation
10 36 (12.63%) Migration
11 33 (11.58%) Data Visualisation
12 32 (11.23%) Data Management
12 32 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 29 (10.18%) Dashboard Development
13 29 (10.18%) Data Cleansing
14 27 (9.47%) Data Transformation
15 25 (8.77%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 145 (50.88%) SQL
2 72 (25.26%) Python
3 17 (5.96%) R
4 6 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.05%) VBA
6 2 (0.70%) Korn
6 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.35%) C#
7 1 (0.35%) Java
7 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (9.12%) Security Cleared
2 21 (7.37%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.26%) Degree
4 4 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.70%) CEH
5 2 (0.70%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (0.70%) GIAC
5 2 (0.70%) GREM
5 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.70%) OSCP
6 1 (0.35%) ACCA
6 1 (0.35%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (31.58%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.26%) GDPR
3 10 (3.51%) QA
4 5 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.05%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.70%) IFRS
6 2 (0.70%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.70%) SLA
6 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.35%) FATCA
7 1 (0.35%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (1.05%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.35%) SCCM
1 1 (0.35%) Terraform
1 1 (0.35%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 23 (8.07%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.96%) Databricks
3 15 (5.26%) Oracle
4 14 (4.91%) Salesforce
4 14 (4.91%) SAP
5 10 (3.51%) Informatica
5 10 (3.51%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.16%) MuleSoft
6 9 (3.16%) Workday
7 4 (1.40%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.70%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.70%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.70%) Cognos
8 2 (0.70%) Google
8 2 (0.70%) Sparx
8 2 (0.70%) Teradata
9 1 (0.35%) Ariba
9 1 (0.35%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.35%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.35%) Murex