Data Analyst Contracts 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 143 134
Rank change year-on-year +8 -9 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 260 302 523
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.07% 1.69% 1.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.22% 1.82% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 221 392
10th Percentile £287 £313 £276
25th Percentile £352 £413 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.15% +3.25%
75th Percentile £614 £600 £600
90th Percentile £723 £650 £675
England median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.84% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 6
10th Percentile £28.36 £24.03 £14.78
25th Percentile £28.60 £27.06 £21.13
Median hourly rate £29.07 £33.25 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +19.82% +8.82%
75th Percentile £33.40 £39.56 £57.31
90th Percentile £34.17 £42.68 £126.75
England median hourly rate £27.13 £21.64 £22.33
% change year-on-year +25.35% -3.09% +13.35%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 1 May 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 -6 53 £475 -2.56% 8
South London - 8 £475 - 4
East London - 2 £350 - 1
West London +7 1 £500 -2.44% 7
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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.

1 137 (52.69%) SQL
2 103 (39.62%) Data Analysis
3 82 (31.54%) Finance
3 82 (31.54%) Social Skills
4 81 (31.15%) Analytical Skills
5 79 (30.38%) Python
6 77 (29.62%) Power Platform
7 76 (29.23%) Power BI
8 73 (28.08%) Business Intelligence
9 63 (24.23%) Analytics
10 61 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
10 61 (23.46%) Microsoft Excel
11 60 (23.08%) Visualisation
12 58 (22.31%) Data Governance
13 57 (21.92%) Data Quality
14 52 (20.00%) Data Modelling
15 50 (19.23%) Banking
16 42 (16.15%) Tableau
17 41 (15.77%) Data Visualisation
18 37 (14.23%) Migration
18 37 (14.23%) Data Management
19 34 (13.08%) Decision-Making
20 32 (12.31%) Data Cleansing
21 30 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
22 29 (11.15%) Oracle
22 29 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
22 29 (11.15%) Validation
23 28 (10.77%) Agile
23 28 (10.77%) Actionable Insight
24 26 (10.00%) Microsoft

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 10 (3.85%) Confluence
2 6 (2.31%) SAS
2 6 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.15%) Apache
3 3 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 61 (23.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (3.46%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.77%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 5 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.77%) Bankmaster
3 2 (0.77%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 77 (29.62%) Power Platform
2 24 (9.23%) AWS
3 19 (7.31%) Azure
4 14 (5.38%) Snowflake
5 11 (4.23%) GCP
6 7 (2.69%) dbt
7 6 (2.31%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.31%) Collibra
7 6 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.54%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (1.54%) Serverless
10 3 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.15%) Google Sheets
10 3 (1.15%) SaaS
11 2 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.77%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (0.77%) Google Analytics
11 2 (0.77%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.38%) Firewall
1 1 (0.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (29.23%) Power BI
2 42 (16.15%) Tableau
3 30 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (8.46%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.46%) Big Data
5 9 (3.46%) Metadata
6 8 (3.08%) Data Lake
6 8 (3.08%) Data Mining
7 7 (2.69%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.31%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.92%) Looker
9 5 (1.92%) QlikView
9 5 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (1.54%) Power Query
11 3 (1.15%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.15%) Impala
11 3 (1.15%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.77%) Neo4j
12 2 (0.77%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 14 (5.38%) JIRA
2 8 (3.08%) Git
3 4 (1.54%) MagicDraw
4 2 (0.77%) Ant
4 2 (0.77%) ERwin
4 2 (0.77%) XMLSpy
5 1 (0.38%) GitLab
5 1 (0.38%) LSMW
5 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 82 (31.54%) Finance
1 82 (31.54%) Social Skills
2 81 (31.15%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (19.23%) Banking
4 16 (6.15%) Front Office
4 16 (6.15%) Investment Banking
5 9 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (3.46%) Retail
6 6 (2.31%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.92%) Corporate Banking
7 5 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.54%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.54%) Local Government
8 4 (1.54%) Marketing
9 3 (1.15%) Legal
10 2 (0.77%) Back Office
10 2 (0.77%) Games
10 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.77%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.54%) XML
2 2 (0.77%) FpML
2 2 (0.77%) JSON
2 2 (0.77%) Plotly
2 2 (0.77%) React
3 1 (0.38%) LDAP
3 1 (0.38%) OLE
3 1 (0.38%) PySpark
3 1 (0.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.92%) Data Structures
2 14 (5.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (3.85%) Reference Data
4 9 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.31%) Derivative
6 6 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.92%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.92%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.92%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.54%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.15%) IoT
9 3 (1.15%) Pricing Data
9 3 (1.15%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.15%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.77%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.77%) Linux
2 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (39.62%) Data Analysis
2 73 (28.08%) Business Intelligence
3 63 (24.23%) Analytics
4 61 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (23.08%) Visualisation
6 58 (22.31%) Data Governance
7 52 (20.00%) Data Modelling
8 41 (15.77%) Data Visualisation
9 37 (14.23%) Data Management
9 37 (14.23%) Migration
10 34 (13.08%) Decision-Making
11 32 (12.31%) Data Cleansing
12 29 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (11.15%) Validation
13 28 (10.77%) Actionable Insight
13 28 (10.77%) Agile
14 25 (9.62%) ETL
15 23 (8.85%) Data Integration
16 20 (7.69%) Data Analytics
17 18 (6.92%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 137 (52.69%) SQL
2 79 (30.38%) Python
3 15 (5.77%) R
4 13 (5.00%) VBA
5 7 (2.69%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (6.54%) Security Cleared
2 16 (6.15%) Degree
2 16 (6.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.38%) ACCA
5 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.38%) CASP
5 1 (0.38%) CIMA
5 1 (0.38%) CISA
5 1 (0.38%) CISM
5 1 (0.38%) CISSP
5 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.38%) HNC
5 1 (0.38%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (21.92%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.00%) GDPR
3 9 (3.46%) QA
4 7 (2.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.54%) SEPA
6 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.77%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.77%) EMIR
7 2 (0.77%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.77%) MiFID
8 1 (0.38%) GAAP
8 1 (0.38%) LOINC
8 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.38%) PERC
8 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.38%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.38%) Docker
1 1 (0.38%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) Grafana
1 1 (0.38%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (11.15%) Oracle
2 26 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.38%) Google
4 13 (5.00%) SAP
5 12 (4.62%) Databricks
6 11 (4.23%) Informatica
7 6 (2.31%) Alteryx
8 5 (1.92%) IBM
9 4 (1.54%) Ab Initio
9 4 (1.54%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.54%) Foundry
9 4 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.54%) Talend
10 3 (1.15%) Cognos
10 3 (1.15%) Palantir
11 2 (0.77%) Ariba
11 2 (0.77%) DocuSign
11 2 (0.77%) ServiceNow
12 1 (0.38%) OneTrust
12 1 (0.38%) Workday