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 29 December 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 142 142
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 266 265 315
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.80% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 1.93% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 200 228
10th Percentile £300 £285 £303
25th Percentile £378 £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +0.96%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £713 £700
England median daily rate £436 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 6
10th Percentile £24.15 £30.20 £15.75
25th Percentile £26.38 £35.00 £24.88
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.00 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -0.64% +45.37%
75th Percentile £42.50 £47.69 £40.75
90th Percentile £54.40 £54.75 £42.75
England median hourly rate £30.11 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year +11.00% +25.35% -13.44%

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 13,234 13,745 17,177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 93.47% 93.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,771 8,872 12,415
10th Percentile £350 £333 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £795 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -3.81% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 150 219
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.76 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £54.69 £58.38
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.10
England median hourly rate £27.00 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.86% -22.22% +37.32%

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 29 December 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 29 December 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 29 December 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 -19 33 £418 -7.99% 54
East London +2 3 £495 +41.43% 6
South London -7 3 - - 14
West London -19 1 - - 12
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 29 December 2025, 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.

1 143 (53.76%) SQL
2 110 (41.35%) Data Analysis
3 87 (32.71%) Python
4 82 (30.83%) Data Quality
5 81 (30.45%) Business Intelligence
6 76 (28.57%) Power BI
6 76 (28.57%) Power Platform
7 66 (24.81%) Analytics
8 61 (22.93%) Data Governance
9 60 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (22.56%) Visualisation
10 58 (21.80%) Data Modelling
11 48 (18.05%) Microsoft Excel
12 47 (17.67%) Decision-Making
12 47 (17.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 46 (17.29%) Actionable Insight
14 42 (15.79%) ETL
15 39 (14.66%) Tableau
15 39 (14.66%) Validation
16 31 (11.65%) AWS
16 31 (11.65%) Data Visualisation
16 31 (11.65%) Migration
17 30 (11.28%) Data Transformation
18 29 (10.90%) Data Cleansing
18 29 (10.90%) Data Warehouse
19 28 (10.53%) Microsoft
20 27 (10.15%) Snowflake
21 26 (9.77%) Data Management
22 24 (9.02%) Metadata
23 23 (8.65%) Dashboard Development

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 4 (1.50%) SAS
2 2 (0.75%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 48 (18.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.26%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.38%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.88%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.75%) Actimize
3 2 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.38%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.38%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.38%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 76 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 31 (11.65%) AWS
3 27 (10.15%) Snowflake
4 17 (6.39%) Azure
5 9 (3.38%) GCP
6 8 (3.01%) Collibra
7 6 (2.26%) dbt
8 5 (1.88%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.88%) OCI
9 4 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.13%) Google Data Studio
10 3 (1.13%) Serverless
11 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.38%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.38%) Google Sheets
11 1 (0.38%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.38%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (28.57%) Power BI
2 39 (14.66%) Tableau
3 29 (10.90%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (9.02%) Metadata
5 9 (3.38%) Power Query
6 8 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.01%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.26%) Big Data
7 6 (2.26%) Looker
7 6 (2.26%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.26%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.88%) KNIME
8 5 (1.88%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.50%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.50%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.75%) BusinessObjects XI
11 2 (0.75%) PowerPivot
11 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (1.88%) JIRA
2 2 (0.75%) ERwin
2 2 (0.75%) Git
2 2 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (0.75%) Selenium
3 1 (0.38%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.38%) GitLab
General
1 101 (37.97%) Finance
2 84 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 82 (30.83%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.65%) Banking
5 17 (6.39%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.26%) Marketing
7 10 (3.76%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.63%) Legal
8 7 (2.63%) Retail
9 4 (1.50%) Front Office
9 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.13%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.13%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.75%) Advertising
11 2 (0.75%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.13%) DAO
2 2 (0.75%) JSON
2 2 (0.75%) Pandas
3 1 (0.38%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.38%) NumPy
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.38%) Plotly
3 1 (0.38%) PySpark
3 1 (0.38%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (3.76%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.01%) Reinsurance
4 7 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.88%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.50%) Derivative
7 4 (1.50%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.13%) CMDB
9 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.75%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.75%) NHS
9 2 (0.75%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.75%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.38%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.13%) Unix
2 2 (0.75%) Windows
3 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (41.35%) Data Analysis
2 81 (30.45%) Business Intelligence
3 66 (24.81%) Analytics
4 61 (22.93%) Data Governance
5 60 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
5 60 (22.56%) Visualisation
6 58 (21.80%) Data Modelling
7 47 (17.67%) Decision-Making
7 47 (17.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 46 (17.29%) Actionable Insight
9 42 (15.79%) ETL
10 39 (14.66%) Validation
11 31 (11.65%) Data Visualisation
11 31 (11.65%) Migration
12 30 (11.28%) Data Transformation
13 29 (10.90%) Data Cleansing
14 26 (9.77%) Data Management
15 23 (8.65%) Dashboard Development
15 23 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 22 (8.27%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 143 (53.76%) SQL
2 87 (32.71%) Python
3 16 (6.02%) R
4 6 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.13%) VBA
6 2 (0.75%) Scala
6 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.38%) C#
7 1 (0.38%) C++
7 1 (0.38%) Java
7 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.38%) Korn
7 1 (0.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (7.89%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.77%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.64%) Degree
4 3 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.75%) CEH
5 2 (0.75%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (0.75%) GIAC
5 2 (0.75%) GREM
5 2 (0.75%) OSCP
6 1 (0.38%) ACCA
6 1 (0.38%) CIMA
6 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (30.83%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.77%) GDPR
3 7 (2.63%) QA
4 6 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.75%) IFRS
6 2 (0.75%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) FATCA
7 1 (0.38%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.38%) MiFID
7 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (1.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) SCCM
1 1 (0.38%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 28 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.64%) Oracle
3 14 (5.26%) SAP
4 13 (4.89%) Salesforce
5 11 (4.14%) Databricks
6 10 (3.76%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.01%) Informatica
7 8 (3.01%) Workday
8 6 (2.26%) Google
8 6 (2.26%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.88%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.75%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.75%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.75%) Cognos
10 2 (0.75%) Foundry
10 2 (0.75%) Murex
10 2 (0.75%) Palantir
10 2 (0.75%) Sparx
10 2 (0.75%) Teradata
11 1 (0.38%) Calypso