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 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 132 134
Rank change year-on-year -16 +2 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 299 264 328
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.82% 2.05% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.97% 2.19% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 196 238
10th Percentile £302 £285 £322
25th Percentile £394 £347 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £719 £675
England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 3
10th Percentile £22.10 £28.40 -
25th Percentile £23.75 £28.60 £40.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £29.94 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% -26.08% +50.00%
75th Percentile £38.50 £44.91 £42.75
90th Percentile £43.90 £54.75 £43.95
England median hourly rate £43.00 £27.13 £21.54
% change year-on-year +58.53% +25.96% -2.82%

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 15,163 12,064 16,981
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 93.69% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,171 8,131 12,273
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 144 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.06 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.21 £24.66 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +24.37% -18.57%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.13 £64.81
England median hourly rate £37.44 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +6.97% +7.69% -23.53%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -15 40 £418 -8.74% 27
South London -12 11 £463 -2.63% 1
West London -14 7 £486 +9.27% 8
East London 0 2 £473 +35.00% 4
North London - 1 £500 - 1
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 March 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 (48.16%) SQL
2 99 (33.11%) Data Quality
3 94 (31.44%) Power Platform
4 93 (31.10%) Business Intelligence
4 93 (31.10%) Power BI
5 81 (27.09%) Data Analysis
6 69 (23.08%) Python
7 65 (21.74%) Data Governance
8 63 (21.07%) Data Modelling
9 61 (20.40%) Analytics
10 56 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (18.73%) Visualisation
11 55 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
12 54 (18.06%) Decision-Making
13 53 (17.73%) Microsoft Excel
14 47 (15.72%) Migration
15 45 (15.05%) ETL
16 44 (14.72%) Validation
17 40 (13.38%) Actionable Insight
17 40 (13.38%) Tableau
18 39 (13.04%) Security Cleared
19 38 (12.71%) AWS
20 36 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 35 (11.71%) Data Visualisation
22 32 (10.70%) Data Transformation
22 32 (10.70%) SC Cleared
23 31 (10.37%) Dashboard Development
23 31 (10.37%) Data Management
24 30 (10.03%) Azure
24 30 (10.03%) Data Cleansing

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 (1.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.34%) SAS
3 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.00%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) Apache
4 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 53 (17.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.34%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.67%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.67%) Actimize
3 2 (0.67%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.33%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.33%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 94 (31.44%) Power Platform
2 38 (12.71%) AWS
3 30 (10.03%) Azure
4 26 (8.70%) Snowflake
5 9 (3.01%) Amazon S3
6 7 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (2.34%) Serverless
7 6 (2.01%) Collibra
7 6 (2.01%) GCP
8 5 (1.67%) OCI
9 4 (1.34%) dbt
9 4 (1.34%) SaaS
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.00%) Fivetran
10 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (31.10%) Power BI
2 40 (13.38%) Tableau
3 30 (10.03%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (8.70%) Metadata
5 8 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (2.68%) KNIME
6 7 (2.34%) Power Query
7 6 (2.01%) Big Data
7 6 (2.01%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.01%) Looker
8 5 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.34%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.34%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.34%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.00%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.67%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 6 (2.01%) MSI
2 5 (1.67%) JIRA
3 2 (0.67%) ERwin
3 2 (0.67%) Git
3 2 (0.67%) GitLab
3 2 (0.67%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.33%) GCC
4 1 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 108 (36.12%) Finance
2 88 (29.43%) Analytical Skills
3 82 (27.42%) Social Skills
4 28 (9.36%) Banking
5 23 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.68%) Marketing
7 9 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.01%) Front Office
9 6 (2.01%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.34%) Retail
12 3 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.00%) Legal
13 2 (0.67%) Back Office
13 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.67%) Law
13 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.67%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.01%) Pandas
2 5 (1.67%) XML
3 3 (1.00%) GeoJSON
3 3 (1.00%) JSON
3 3 (1.00%) NumPy
3 3 (1.00%) YAML
4 2 (0.67%) PySpark
4 2 (0.67%) REST
4 2 (0.67%) SOAP
4 2 (0.67%) Web Services
5 1 (0.33%) ADO
5 1 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.33%) Kafka
5 1 (0.33%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.33%) Next.js
5 1 (0.33%) Playwright
5 1 (0.33%) Plotly
5 1 (0.33%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.35%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.01%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.67%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.34%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.00%) CMDB
9 3 (1.00%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.67%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.67%) Derivative
10 2 (0.67%) Equities
10 2 (0.67%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.67%) NHS
10 2 (0.67%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.33%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.33%) Unix
2 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (31.10%) Business Intelligence
2 81 (27.09%) Data Analysis
3 65 (21.74%) Data Governance
4 63 (21.07%) Data Modelling
5 61 (20.40%) Analytics
6 56 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (18.73%) Visualisation
7 55 (18.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 54 (18.06%) Decision-Making
9 47 (15.72%) Migration
10 45 (15.05%) ETL
11 44 (14.72%) Validation
12 40 (13.38%) Actionable Insight
13 36 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 35 (11.71%) Data Visualisation
15 32 (10.70%) Data Transformation
16 31 (10.37%) Dashboard Development
16 31 (10.37%) Data Management
17 30 (10.03%) Data Cleansing
17 30 (10.03%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 144 (48.16%) SQL
2 69 (23.08%) Python
3 17 (5.69%) R
4 4 (1.34%) VBA
5 3 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.67%) Korn
7 1 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 39 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 32 (10.70%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.01%) Degree
4 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.33%) ACCA
6 1 (0.33%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (33.11%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.02%) QA
3 13 (4.35%) GDPR
4 6 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.34%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.00%) PMO
6 3 (1.00%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.67%) IFRS
7 2 (0.67%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.67%) SLA
8 1 (0.33%) FATCA
8 1 (0.33%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.67%) Terraform
2 1 (0.33%) Grafana
2 1 (0.33%) Kibana
2 1 (0.33%) SCCM
2 1 (0.33%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 26 (8.70%) Databricks
2 23 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.68%) Oracle
3 14 (4.68%) SAP
4 11 (3.68%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.34%) Informatica
6 9 (3.01%) MuleSoft
6 9 (3.01%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.01%) Workday
7 3 (1.00%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.00%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.67%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.67%) Google
8 2 (0.67%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.67%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.67%) Sparx
8 2 (0.67%) Teradata
9 1 (0.33%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.33%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.33%) LexisNexis