Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 151 148
Rank change year-on-year -30 -3 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 335 264 292
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.63% 1.97% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.76% 2.13% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 171 222
10th Percentile £259 £300 £300
25th Percentile £374 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -6.86%
75th Percentile £543 £569 £588
90th Percentile £625 £688 £675
England median daily rate £438 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 6
10th Percentile £18.73 £25.00 £30.20
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.01 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.75 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +9.24% -17.93% -4.61%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.63 £43.06
90th Percentile £58.25 £59.55 £46.63
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.42 £26.46
% change year-on-year +5.58% +7.40% +22.26%

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 19,058 12,391 15,104
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 92.55% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,335 8,277 9,836
10th Percentile £363 £335 £341
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 210 171
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £23.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.20 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -25.48% -9.88%
75th Percentile £64.25 £49.13 £59.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.75 £80.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.84% -41.51% -6.89%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +2 62 £450 +1.41% 3
West London -18 8 £325 -23.53%
North London -1 3 £314 -37.25%
East London +3 2 £425 -16.05% 1
South London -10 2 £566 +11.43% 1
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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.

1 184 (54.93%) SQL
2 148 (44.18%) Data Quality
3 122 (36.42%) Business Intelligence
4 110 (32.84%) Power BI
4 110 (32.84%) Power Platform
5 109 (32.54%) Data Analysis
6 107 (31.94%) Analytics
7 97 (28.96%) Validation
8 95 (28.36%) Data Governance
9 86 (25.67%) Python
10 84 (25.07%) Stakeholder Management
11 82 (24.48%) Data Modelling
12 73 (21.79%) Decision-Making
13 64 (19.10%) Migration
14 63 (18.81%) Visualisation
15 59 (17.61%) Actionable Insight
16 56 (16.72%) AI
17 55 (16.42%) Microsoft Excel
17 55 (16.42%) Tableau
18 53 (15.82%) Data Migration
18 53 (15.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 52 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
20 51 (15.22%) Azure
21 49 (14.63%) Agile
22 48 (14.33%) Microsoft
23 41 (12.24%) ETL
24 40 (11.94%) Data Lineage
24 40 (11.94%) Data Mapping
24 40 (11.94%) Databricks
25 38 (11.34%) Dashboard Development

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 6 (1.79%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.49%) Confluence
2 5 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.90%) CMS
3 3 (0.90%) SAS
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Appian
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (16.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.79%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) SPSS
4 1 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (1.19%) Aladdin
1 4 (1.19%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.90%) iTrent
3 2 (0.60%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.60%) Eikon
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.60%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.30%) Advent Moxy
4 1 (0.30%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 110 (32.84%) Power Platform
2 51 (15.22%) Azure
3 33 (9.85%) AWS
4 32 (9.55%) Snowflake
5 13 (3.88%) SaaS
6 12 (3.58%) Microsoft Purview
7 11 (3.28%) GCP
8 10 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 8 (2.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 8 (2.39%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.09%) Collibra
10 7 (2.09%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.49%) dbt
12 4 (1.19%) Alation
12 4 (1.19%) Amazon S3
12 4 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (0.90%) Google Sheets
13 3 (0.90%) Lucidchart
13 3 (0.90%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.19%) Firewall
2 2 (0.60%) Internet
3 1 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (32.84%) Power BI
2 55 (16.42%) Tableau
3 33 (9.85%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (7.76%) Metadata
5 19 (5.67%) Relational Database
6 17 (5.07%) Looker
7 13 (3.88%) Power Query
8 11 (3.28%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.69%) BigQuery
10 8 (2.39%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (2.39%) Big Data
11 7 (2.09%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (1.49%) PowerPivot
12 5 (1.49%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.19%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.19%) Parquet
13 4 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (0.90%) DynamoDB
14 3 (0.90%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.90%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (3.28%) JIRA
2 2 (0.60%) Git
2 2 (0.60%) GitLab
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 114 (34.03%) Finance
2 109 (32.54%) Analytical Skills
3 97 (28.96%) Social Skills
4 40 (11.94%) Banking
5 29 (8.66%) Public Sector
6 26 (7.76%) Retail
7 24 (7.16%) Marketing
8 12 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.28%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.69%) Legal
12 7 (2.09%) Local Government
12 7 (2.09%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.79%) Front Office
13 6 (1.79%) Military
14 4 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.19%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.90%) Advertising
15 3 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.79%) JSON
2 5 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (1.19%) Pandas
3 4 (1.19%) PySpark
4 3 (0.90%) XML
5 2 (0.60%) Apache Avro
5 2 (0.60%) Kafka
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.30%) Django
6 1 (0.30%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.30%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.30%) HTML
6 1 (0.30%) REST
6 1 (0.30%) Shiny
6 1 (0.30%) Spring
6 1 (0.30%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.30%) Streamlit
6 1 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.54%) Data Structures
2 22 (6.57%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (5.67%) Product Ownership
4 15 (4.48%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.58%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.79%) FMCG
9 5 (1.49%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.19%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.19%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.90%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.90%) Pricing Data
11 3 (0.90%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.90%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.60%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.60%) Marketing Technology
12 2 (0.60%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.30%) Linux
1 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (36.42%) Business Intelligence
2 109 (32.54%) Data Analysis
3 107 (31.94%) Analytics
4 97 (28.96%) Validation
5 95 (28.36%) Data Governance
6 84 (25.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 82 (24.48%) Data Modelling
8 73 (21.79%) Decision-Making
9 64 (19.10%) Migration
10 63 (18.81%) Visualisation
11 59 (17.61%) Actionable Insight
12 56 (16.72%) AI
13 53 (15.82%) Data Migration
13 53 (15.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 52 (15.52%) Problem-Solving
15 49 (14.63%) Agile
16 41 (12.24%) ETL
17 40 (11.94%) Data Lineage
17 40 (11.94%) Data Mapping
18 38 (11.34%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 184 (54.93%) SQL
2 86 (25.67%) Python
3 28 (8.36%) R
4 13 (3.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.49%) Korn
6 3 (0.90%) LookML
7 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.30%) Cypher
8 1 (0.30%) Java
8 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.30%) Scala
8 1 (0.30%) SOQL
8 1 (0.30%) VB
8 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (10.75%) Security Cleared
2 30 (8.96%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.27%) Degree
4 5 (1.49%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.19%) PMP
6 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.30%) CBAP
8 1 (0.30%) CFA
8 1 (0.30%) CISM
8 1 (0.30%) CISSP
8 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) ISEB
8 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (44.18%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.67%) QA
3 16 (4.78%) GDPR
4 10 (2.99%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (2.09%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.90%) GRC
6 3 (0.90%) PMO
7 2 (0.60%) IFRS
7 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.60%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.30%) EMIR
8 1 (0.30%) GMP
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.30%) MiFID
8 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.30%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.60%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 40 (11.94%) Databricks
3 14 (4.18%) Oracle
4 13 (3.88%) Alteryx
4 13 (3.88%) SAP
5 8 (2.39%) Google
6 7 (2.09%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.79%) Informatica
8 5 (1.49%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.90%) Teradata
9 3 (0.90%) Workday
10 2 (0.60%) Citrix
10 2 (0.60%) CODA
10 2 (0.60%) FXall
10 2 (0.60%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.60%) IBM
10 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.60%) Talend
10 2 (0.60%) Zuora
11 1 (0.30%) Ariba