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 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 135 151
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 321 262 299
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 2.06% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.99% 2.21% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 193 219
10th Percentile £312 £264 £313
25th Percentile £395 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £552 £613 £600
90th Percentile £653 £720 £650
England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile £23.75 £28.40 £24.03
25th Percentile £26.50 £28.60 £27.06
Median hourly rate £30.28 £29.94 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% -9.96% +19.82%
75th Percentile £32.56 £34.36 £39.56
90th Percentile £40.13 £47.71 £42.68
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.86 £21.54
% change year-on-year +16.64% +29.38% -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 16,102 11,872 16,662
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 93.49% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,734 8,142 12,058
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £440
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 £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 142 344
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.21 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.11 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £44.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.88 £64.86
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -18.60%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -14 50 £418 -12.11% 32
South London -13 11 £463 -2.63% 10
West London -17 10 £425 -15.00% 12
East London -3 3 £450 +28.57% 16
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 April 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.

1 151 (47.04%) SQL
2 103 (32.09%) Data Quality
3 98 (30.53%) Business Intelligence
4 96 (29.91%) Power Platform
5 95 (29.60%) Power BI
6 82 (25.55%) Data Analysis
7 78 (24.30%) Python
8 74 (23.05%) Data Governance
9 69 (21.50%) Data Modelling
10 63 (19.63%) Analytics
11 60 (18.69%) Decision-Making
12 55 (17.13%) Microsoft Excel
12 55 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
12 55 (17.13%) Stakeholder Management
12 55 (17.13%) Visualisation
13 53 (16.51%) Migration
14 47 (14.64%) Validation
15 44 (13.71%) AWS
15 44 (13.71%) ETL
15 44 (13.71%) Security Cleared
15 44 (13.71%) Tableau
16 38 (11.84%) Azure
17 37 (11.53%) SC Cleared
18 36 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 35 (10.90%) Actionable Insight
20 34 (10.59%) Dashboard Development
20 34 (10.59%) Data Visualisation
20 34 (10.59%) Databricks
21 32 (9.97%) Data Management
21 32 (9.97%) Data Migration

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 (1.56%) SAS
1 5 (1.56%) SharePoint
2 3 (0.93%) Confluence
3 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.31%) Apache
Applications
1 55 (17.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.93%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.93%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.62%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.31%) Actimize
4 1 (0.31%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.31%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 96 (29.91%) Power Platform
2 44 (13.71%) AWS
3 38 (11.84%) Azure
4 23 (7.17%) Snowflake
5 10 (3.12%) Amazon S3
6 8 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (2.49%) Collibra
6 8 (2.49%) GCP
6 8 (2.49%) Serverless
7 4 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (1.25%) dbt
7 4 (1.25%) Fivetran
7 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (1.25%) SaaS
8 3 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.93%) OCI
8 3 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (0.62%) Google Sheets
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (29.60%) Power BI
2 44 (13.71%) Tableau
3 31 (9.66%) Metadata
4 28 (8.72%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.80%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (2.49%) Looker
7 7 (2.18%) BigQuery
7 7 (2.18%) Power Query
8 6 (1.87%) Big Data
8 6 (1.87%) KNIME
9 5 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.25%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.25%) NoSQL
11 3 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.93%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.93%) SQL Server
12 2 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.62%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 6 (1.87%) JIRA
1 6 (1.87%) MSI
2 2 (0.62%) ERwin
2 2 (0.62%) Git
2 2 (0.62%) GitLab
2 2 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.31%) GCC
3 1 (0.31%) Postman
General
1 114 (35.51%) Finance
2 88 (27.41%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (24.61%) Social Skills
4 32 (9.97%) Banking
5 30 (9.35%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.98%) Marketing
7 10 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.18%) Front Office
10 6 (1.87%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.25%) Back Office
12 4 (1.25%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.25%) Legal
12 4 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.93%) Law
13 3 (0.93%) Local Government
14 2 (0.62%) Billing
14 2 (0.62%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.18%) Pandas
2 5 (1.56%) PySpark
2 5 (1.56%) XML
3 4 (1.25%) JSON
4 3 (0.93%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.93%) NumPy
4 3 (0.93%) YAML
5 2 (0.62%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.62%) REST
5 2 (0.62%) SOAP
5 2 (0.62%) Web Services
6 1 (0.31%) ADO
6 1 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.31%) Kafka
6 1 (0.31%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.31%) Middleware
6 1 (0.31%) Next.js
6 1 (0.31%) Node.js
6 1 (0.31%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.85%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.49%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.49%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (1.56%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.25%) CMDB
6 4 (1.25%) Derivative
6 4 (1.25%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.25%) Hedge funds
7 3 (0.93%) Credit Risk
7 3 (0.93%) Equities
7 3 (0.93%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.62%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.62%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (0.62%) NHS
8 2 (0.62%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.25%) Windows
2 1 (0.31%) Unix
2 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (30.53%) Business Intelligence
2 82 (25.55%) Data Analysis
3 74 (23.05%) Data Governance
4 69 (21.50%) Data Modelling
5 63 (19.63%) Analytics
6 60 (18.69%) Decision-Making
7 55 (17.13%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (17.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 55 (17.13%) Visualisation
8 53 (16.51%) Migration
9 47 (14.64%) Validation
10 44 (13.71%) ETL
11 36 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 35 (10.90%) Actionable Insight
13 34 (10.59%) Dashboard Development
13 34 (10.59%) Data Visualisation
14 32 (9.97%) Data Management
14 32 (9.97%) Data Migration
15 31 (9.66%) Agile
15 31 (9.66%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 151 (47.04%) SQL
2 78 (24.30%) Python
3 16 (4.98%) R
4 6 (1.87%) VBA
5 4 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.93%) Korn
7 2 (0.62%) Scala
8 1 (0.31%) Java
8 1 (0.31%) LookML
8 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (13.71%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.53%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.43%) Degree
4 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (32.09%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.98%) GDPR
2 16 (4.98%) QA
3 5 (1.56%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (1.25%) Solvency II
5 3 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.93%) PMO
6 2 (0.62%) IFRS
6 2 (0.62%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.62%) SLA
7 1 (0.31%) FATCA
7 1 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.93%) Terraform
2 1 (0.31%) Grafana
2 1 (0.31%) Kibana
2 1 (0.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (10.59%) Databricks
2 22 (6.85%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.30%) SAP
4 12 (3.74%) Oracle
5 11 (3.43%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.80%) Informatica
6 9 (2.80%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.18%) MuleSoft
8 6 (1.87%) Workday
9 4 (1.25%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.25%) Google
10 3 (0.93%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.93%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.62%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.62%) IBM
11 2 (0.62%) Murex
11 2 (0.62%) Refinitiv
11 2 (0.62%) Sparx
11 2 (0.62%) Teradata
12 1 (0.31%) Liquidlogic