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 22 January 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 129 142
Rank change year-on-year -24 +13 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 270 268 319
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 1.92% 1.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 2.05% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 204 230
10th Percentile £275 £300 £313
25th Percentile £376 £350 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £467 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -7.62% -2.88%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £624
90th Percentile £650 £675 £682
England median daily rate £450 £454 £475
% change year-on-year -0.83% -4.47% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 4
10th Percentile £24.15 £27.64 £38.68
25th Percentile £26.38 £28.60 £39.69
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £42.50 £45.56 £41.75
90th Percentile £54.40 £52.35 £43.55
England median hourly rate £31.31 £27.13 £21.50
% change year-on-year +15.41% +26.16% -1.51%

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 13,515 13,078 16,836
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 93.55% 93.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,985 8,419 12,143
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 143 275
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.34 £18.97
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.05% -9.05%
75th Percentile £63.10 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.35 £67.20
England median hourly rate £28.84 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.61% -12.50% +14.29%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -12 33 £428 -6.56% 12
East London -1 3 £495 +41.43% 4
South London -10 3 - - 2
West London -20 1 - - 7
North London - 1 £500 - 2
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 January 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.

1 138 (51.11%) SQL
2 94 (34.81%) Data Analysis
3 82 (30.37%) Data Quality
4 79 (29.26%) Power BI
4 79 (29.26%) Power Platform
5 78 (28.89%) Business Intelligence
6 77 (28.52%) Python
7 67 (24.81%) Analytics
8 62 (22.96%) Data Governance
9 57 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (21.11%) Visualisation
10 55 (20.37%) Data Modelling
11 52 (19.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 48 (17.78%) Decision-Making
12 48 (17.78%) Microsoft Excel
13 44 (16.30%) ETL
14 42 (15.56%) Validation
15 40 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
16 38 (14.07%) Tableau
17 33 (12.22%) Migration
18 32 (11.85%) AWS
18 32 (11.85%) Data Visualisation
19 31 (11.48%) Data Management
20 28 (10.37%) Data Cleansing
20 28 (10.37%) Data Warehouse
20 28 (10.37%) Snowflake
21 27 (10.00%) Data Transformation
22 25 (9.26%) Dashboard Development
23 24 (8.89%) Data Migration
23 24 (8.89%) Microsoft

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 (1.85%) SAS
2 3 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 48 (17.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.48%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.37%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.85%) SAP HR
3 3 (1.11%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.74%) Actimize
4 2 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.37%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.37%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (29.26%) Power Platform
2 32 (11.85%) AWS
3 28 (10.37%) Snowflake
4 19 (7.04%) Azure
5 7 (2.59%) GCP
6 6 (2.22%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.22%) Collibra
7 5 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (1.85%) OCI
8 4 (1.48%) dbt
9 3 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.11%) Serverless
10 2 (0.74%) Fivetran
10 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.37%) Alation
11 1 (0.37%) AppsFlyer
11 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.37%) Google Sheets
11 1 (0.37%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (29.26%) Power BI
2 38 (14.07%) Tableau
3 28 (10.37%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (7.78%) Metadata
5 8 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (2.96%) Big Data
5 8 (2.96%) Power Query
6 7 (2.59%) KNIME
6 7 (2.59%) Looker
7 6 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (2.22%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.85%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.85%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.85%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.48%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.11%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.74%) BusinessObjects XI
11 2 (0.74%) PowerPivot
11 2 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.22%) JIRA
2 5 (1.85%) MSI
3 2 (0.74%) ERwin
3 2 (0.74%) Git
3 2 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.37%) GitLab
General
1 91 (33.70%) Finance
2 80 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (29.26%) Social Skills
4 22 (8.15%) Banking
5 15 (5.56%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.19%) Marketing
7 8 (2.96%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.22%) Retail
10 4 (1.48%) Front Office
10 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.48%) Legal
11 3 (1.11%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.74%) Law
12 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Arabic Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.11%) PySpark
2 2 (0.74%) Pandas
2 2 (0.74%) XML
2 2 (0.74%) YAML
3 1 (0.37%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.37%) NumPy
3 1 (0.37%) Plotly
3 1 (0.37%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.93%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.22%) Reinsurance
5 5 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.85%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.11%) CMDB
6 3 (1.11%) Derivative
6 3 (1.11%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.74%) Cybercrime
7 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.74%) NHS
7 2 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (0.74%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.37%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.11%) Unix
2 2 (0.74%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (34.81%) Data Analysis
2 78 (28.89%) Business Intelligence
3 67 (24.81%) Analytics
4 62 (22.96%) Data Governance
5 57 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (21.11%) Visualisation
6 55 (20.37%) Data Modelling
7 52 (19.26%) Stakeholder Management
8 48 (17.78%) Decision-Making
9 44 (16.30%) ETL
10 42 (15.56%) Validation
11 40 (14.81%) Actionable Insight
12 33 (12.22%) Migration
13 32 (11.85%) Data Visualisation
14 31 (11.48%) Data Management
15 28 (10.37%) Data Cleansing
16 27 (10.00%) Data Transformation
17 25 (9.26%) Dashboard Development
18 24 (8.89%) Data Migration
18 24 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 138 (51.11%) SQL
2 77 (28.52%) Python
3 17 (6.30%) R
4 5 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.11%) VBA
6 2 (0.74%) Korn
6 2 (0.74%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.37%) C#
7 1 (0.37%) C++
7 1 (0.37%) Java
7 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (8.52%) Security Cleared
2 21 (7.78%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.19%) Degree
4 4 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.74%) CEH
5 2 (0.74%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (0.74%) GIAC
5 2 (0.74%) GREM
5 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.74%) OSCP
6 1 (0.37%) ACCA
6 1 (0.37%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (30.37%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.56%) GDPR
3 7 (2.59%) QA
4 6 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.11%) IFRS
7 2 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.74%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.74%) SLA
7 2 (0.74%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.37%) FATCA
8 1 (0.37%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.37%) SCCM
1 1 (0.37%) Terraform
1 1 (0.37%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 24 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.19%) Oracle
2 14 (5.19%) Salesforce
2 14 (5.19%) SAP
3 10 (3.70%) Databricks
3 10 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.33%) Informatica
5 8 (2.96%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.59%) Workday
7 4 (1.48%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.11%) Google
9 2 (0.74%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.74%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.74%) Cognos
9 2 (0.74%) Sparx
9 2 (0.74%) Teradata
10 1 (0.37%) Ariba
10 1 (0.37%) Dataiku
10 1 (0.37%) Murex
10 1 (0.37%) Refinitiv