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 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 150 159
Rank change year-on-year +19 +9 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 285 277 343
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.12% 1.70% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.29% 1.81% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 212 254
10th Percentile £304 £300 £300
25th Percentile £381 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £686 £700
England median daily rate £435 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 8
10th Percentile £25.00 £24.04 £11.88
25th Percentile £25.01 £30.20 £18.44
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £35.00 £41.63 £47.75
90th Percentile £57.10 £46.20 £104.38
England median hourly rate £27.50 £24.40 £21.75
% change year-on-year +12.73% +12.16% -30.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,462 15,317 20,545
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.03% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,353 10,248 14,977
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £694
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 206 181 229
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.29
Median hourly rate £30.25 £35.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -6.27% +14.89%
75th Percentile £51.13 £56.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £66.54 £71.88 £76.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 -5 49 £475 -5.00% 72
West London -2 4 £425 -5.56% 19
East London - 3 £506 - 13
South London - 2 £508 - 20
Data Analyst
England

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 175 (61.40%) SQL
2 128 (44.91%) Data Analysis
3 116 (40.70%) Finance
4 105 (36.84%) Python
5 90 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
6 85 (29.82%) Analytics
7 84 (29.47%) Power BI
7 84 (29.47%) Power Platform
8 83 (29.12%) Social Skills
9 74 (25.96%) Visualisation
10 68 (23.86%) Analytical Skills
11 64 (22.46%) Data Quality
12 62 (21.75%) Microsoft Excel
13 60 (21.05%) Data Modelling
14 59 (20.70%) Tableau
15 52 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
16 51 (17.89%) Data Governance
17 48 (16.84%) Actionable Insight
18 47 (16.49%) Data Visualisation
19 43 (15.09%) Microsoft
19 43 (15.09%) Decision-Making
20 42 (14.74%) Data Warehouse
21 39 (13.68%) Validation
21 39 (13.68%) Banking
22 38 (13.33%) ETL
23 33 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
24 31 (10.88%) Agile
25 29 (10.18%) Migration
26 28 (9.82%) AWS
27 24 (8.42%) Data Cleansing

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.11%) Confluence
2 5 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.40%) SAS
4 3 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.70%) Apache
5 2 (0.70%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 62 (21.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.46%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.35%) Revit
6 1 (0.35%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.70%) Bankmaster
2 2 (0.70%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.70%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.35%) Academy Housing
3 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.35%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.35%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.35%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.35%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.35%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 84 (29.47%) Power Platform
2 28 (9.82%) AWS
3 23 (8.07%) Snowflake
4 21 (7.37%) Azure
5 19 (6.67%) GCP
6 12 (4.21%) dbt
7 7 (2.46%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (1.40%) Collibra
8 4 (1.40%) Google Data Studio
8 4 (1.40%) Serverless
9 2 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.70%) Cloud Functions
9 2 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.35%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.70%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (29.47%) Power BI
2 59 (20.70%) Tableau
3 42 (14.74%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (5.96%) BigQuery
5 14 (4.91%) Looker
5 14 (4.91%) SQL Server
6 11 (3.86%) Data Lake
7 10 (3.51%) Metadata
7 10 (3.51%) Power Query
8 9 (3.16%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.81%) Big Data
10 7 (2.46%) Amazon Athena
11 6 (2.11%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
12 5 (1.75%) GIS
12 5 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.75%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.05%) NoSQL
13 3 (1.05%) Qlik Sense
13 3 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (3.86%) JIRA
2 8 (2.81%) Git
3 2 (0.70%) Ant
3 2 (0.70%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.70%) Selenium
4 1 (0.35%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.35%) GitLab
4 1 (0.35%) LSMW
General
1 116 (40.70%) Finance
2 83 (29.12%) Social Skills
3 68 (23.86%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (13.68%) Banking
5 15 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.26%) Retail
6 14 (4.91%) Investment Banking
6 14 (4.91%) Marketing
7 11 (3.86%) Front Office
8 9 (3.16%) Legal
9 8 (2.81%) Local Government
9 8 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.46%) Corporate Banking
11 6 (2.11%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.75%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.40%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.05%) Advertising
14 3 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.75%) JSON
2 3 (1.05%) DAO
2 3 (1.05%) Pandas
3 2 (0.70%) Kafka
3 2 (0.70%) NumPy
3 2 (0.70%) PySpark
4 1 (0.35%) Altair
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.35%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.35%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.35%) Swagger
4 1 (0.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.56%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.86%) Reinsurance
3 10 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.11%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.75%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.40%) Derivative
8 4 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.40%) NHS
8 4 (1.40%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.05%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.05%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.05%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.70%) Equities
10 2 (0.70%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (44.91%) Data Analysis
2 90 (31.58%) Business Intelligence
3 85 (29.82%) Analytics
4 74 (25.96%) Visualisation
5 60 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 52 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (17.89%) Data Governance
8 48 (16.84%) Actionable Insight
9 47 (16.49%) Data Visualisation
10 43 (15.09%) Decision-Making
11 39 (13.68%) Validation
12 38 (13.33%) ETL
13 33 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
14 31 (10.88%) Agile
15 29 (10.18%) Migration
16 24 (8.42%) Data Analytics
16 24 (8.42%) Data Cleansing
17 22 (7.72%) Business Analysis
17 22 (7.72%) Data Management
18 18 (6.32%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 175 (61.40%) SQL
2 105 (36.84%) Python
3 12 (4.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 11 (3.86%) VBA
5 10 (3.51%) R
6 4 (1.40%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.70%) Java
7 2 (0.70%) Scala
7 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.35%) C#
8 1 (0.35%) C++
8 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.35%) LookML
8 1 (0.35%) Perl
8 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (7.37%) Degree
2 7 (2.46%) Security Cleared
3 5 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.75%) Master's Degree
3 5 (1.75%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.05%) CIPD
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%) OSCP
6 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.35%) ISEB
6 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (22.46%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.32%) GDPR
3 4 (1.40%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.05%) QA
5 2 (0.70%) IFRS
6 1 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.35%) FATCA
6 1 (0.35%) GAAP
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) PERC
6 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.35%) Grafana
1 1 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (15.09%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.96%) Google
3 12 (4.21%) Oracle
4 9 (3.16%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.81%) Databricks
5 8 (2.81%) SAP
5 8 (2.81%) Workday
6 7 (2.46%) Alteryx
6 7 (2.46%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.40%) Informatica
8 3 (1.05%) Talend
9 2 (0.70%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.70%) Cognos
9 2 (0.70%) Foundry
9 2 (0.70%) Murex
9 2 (0.70%) NEC
9 2 (0.70%) Palantir
10 1 (0.35%) Liquidlogic
10 1 (0.35%) OneTrust
10 1 (0.35%) Sparx