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 11 May 2026.

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 137 145
Rank change year-on-year -8 +8 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 325 263 305
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.82% 2.09% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.97% 2.24% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 196 223
10th Percentile £300 £293 £338
25th Percentile £375 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £545 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
England median daily rate £436 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -3.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £23.76 £28.36 £24.03
25th Percentile £26.52 £28.60 £27.06
Median hourly rate £30.28 £29.07 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% -12.57% +19.82%
75th Percentile £32.56 £33.40 £39.56
90th Percentile £40.13 £34.17 £42.68
England median hourly rate £32.00 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year +17.97% +25.35% -2.35%

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 16,526 11,742 16,474
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 93.37% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,960 8,045 11,903
10th Percentile £350 £345 £325
25th Percentile £425 £428 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £686
90th Percentile £755 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 148 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £23.95 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +23.64% -23.61%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.48
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.02
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.26 £37.50
% change year-on-year +55.32% -19.31% -16.67%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 0 60 £396 -16.18% 25
South London -10 12 £463 -2.63% 7
West London -13 12 £425 -15.00% 12
East London -6 2 £338 -3.57% 10
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 11 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.

1 144 (44.31%) SQL
2 107 (32.92%) Data Quality
3 100 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
4 98 (30.15%) Power Platform
5 97 (29.85%) Power BI
6 85 (26.15%) Data Analysis
7 80 (24.62%) Python
8 78 (24.00%) Data Modelling
9 75 (23.08%) Data Governance
10 65 (20.00%) Analytics
10 65 (20.00%) Decision-Making
11 58 (17.85%) Microsoft Excel
12 54 (16.62%) Migration
12 54 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (16.62%) Validation
13 48 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
13 48 (14.77%) Visualisation
14 43 (13.23%) ETL
15 42 (12.92%) Security Cleared
16 40 (12.31%) AWS
16 40 (12.31%) Tableau
17 38 (11.69%) Azure
17 38 (11.69%) Dashboard Development
18 36 (11.08%) Data Migration
19 35 (10.77%) Agile
20 34 (10.46%) Databricks
20 34 (10.46%) Metadata
20 34 (10.46%) SC Cleared
20 34 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 33 (10.15%) Data Management

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 (1.54%) SAS
1 5 (1.54%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.23%) Confluence
3 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.31%) Apache
Applications
1 58 (17.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.15%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.31%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.85%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.62%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.31%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.31%) iTrent
4 1 (0.31%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 98 (30.15%) Power Platform
2 40 (12.31%) AWS
3 38 (11.69%) Azure
4 21 (6.46%) Snowflake
5 10 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (2.46%) GCP
7 7 (2.15%) Amazon S3
8 6 (1.85%) Collibra
9 5 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.54%) Serverless
10 4 (1.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.23%) Fivetran
10 4 (1.23%) SaaS
11 3 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.62%) GitHub
12 2 (0.62%) IBM Blueworks
12 2 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (29.85%) Power BI
2 40 (12.31%) Tableau
3 34 (10.46%) Metadata
4 25 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.77%) Looker
5 9 (2.77%) Power Query
6 7 (2.15%) BigQuery
6 7 (2.15%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.85%) Big Data
7 6 (1.85%) KNIME
8 5 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.54%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.23%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.23%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.23%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.92%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.92%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.62%) Flink
Development Applications
1 7 (2.15%) JIRA
2 6 (1.85%) MSI
3 2 (0.62%) Git
3 2 (0.62%) GitLab
4 1 (0.31%) GCC
4 1 (0.31%) Postman
4 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 116 (35.69%) Finance
2 87 (26.77%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (22.77%) Social Skills
4 32 (9.85%) Banking
5 31 (9.54%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.23%) Marketing
7 10 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.15%) Front Office
9 7 (2.15%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.85%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.54%) Legal
12 4 (1.23%) Back Office
12 4 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.92%) Law
13 3 (0.92%) Local Government
13 3 (0.92%) Military
14 2 (0.62%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.46%) Pandas
2 6 (1.85%) PySpark
3 5 (1.54%) XML
4 4 (1.23%) JSON
5 3 (0.92%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.92%) NumPy
5 3 (0.92%) YAML
6 2 (0.62%) Kafka
6 2 (0.62%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.62%) REST
6 2 (0.62%) SOAP
6 2 (0.62%) Web Services
7 1 (0.31%) ADO
7 1 (0.31%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.31%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.31%) JAX
7 1 (0.31%) Middleware
7 1 (0.31%) Node.js
7 1 (0.31%) Playwright
7 1 (0.31%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.46%) Data Structures
2 9 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (2.77%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.23%) Derivative
6 4 (1.23%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.23%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.23%) Reference Data
7 3 (0.92%) CMDB
7 3 (0.92%) Credit Risk
7 3 (0.92%) Equities
7 3 (0.92%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (0.92%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.62%) NHS
8 2 (0.62%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.31%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
2 85 (26.15%) Data Analysis
3 78 (24.00%) Data Modelling
4 75 (23.08%) Data Governance
5 65 (20.00%) Analytics
5 65 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 54 (16.62%) Migration
6 54 (16.62%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (16.62%) Validation
7 48 (14.77%) Stakeholder Management
7 48 (14.77%) Visualisation
8 43 (13.23%) ETL
9 38 (11.69%) Dashboard Development
10 36 (11.08%) Data Migration
11 35 (10.77%) Agile
12 34 (10.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 33 (10.15%) Data Management
14 32 (9.85%) Actionable Insight
14 32 (9.85%) Data Mapping
15 30 (9.23%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 144 (44.31%) SQL
2 80 (24.62%) Python
3 17 (5.23%) R
4 6 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (1.85%) VBA
5 3 (0.92%) Korn
6 2 (0.62%) Scala
7 1 (0.31%) Java
7 1 (0.31%) LookML
7 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 42 (12.92%) Security Cleared
2 34 (10.46%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.62%) Degree
4 3 (0.92%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.31%) CBAP
6 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.31%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (32.92%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.54%) GDPR
3 17 (5.23%) QA
4 6 (1.85%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.23%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.92%) PMO
7 2 (0.62%) IFRS
7 2 (0.62%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) FATCA
8 1 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.92%) Terraform
2 1 (0.31%) Grafana
2 1 (0.31%) Kibana
2 1 (0.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (10.46%) Databricks
2 16 (4.92%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.62%) SAP
4 9 (2.77%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.46%) Informatica
5 8 (2.46%) Oracle
6 7 (2.15%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.15%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.54%) Alteryx
7 5 (1.54%) Workday
8 4 (1.23%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.92%) Google
9 3 (0.92%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.62%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.62%) IBM
10 2 (0.62%) Murex
10 2 (0.62%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.62%) Teradata
11 1 (0.31%) Adobe
11 1 (0.31%) Dell