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 4 April 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 127 140
Rank change year-on-year -12 +13 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 323 274 303
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.89% 2.16% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% 2.31% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 202 222
10th Percentile £304 £271 £325
25th Percentile £388 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £616 £600
90th Percentile £665 £724 £650
England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 1
10th Percentile £22.10 £28.44 -
25th Percentile £23.75 £28.60 £42.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.81 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.11% -29.18% +56.76%
75th Percentile £38.50 £41.71 £44.75
90th Percentile £43.90 £53.55 -
England median hourly rate £37.25 £28.60 £21.64
% change year-on-year +30.24% +32.16% -2.35%

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 15,851 11,873 16,820
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 93.61% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,608 8,134 12,136
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £753 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 148 336
10th Percentile £18.07 £21.15 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -21.66%
75th Percentile £60.12 £51.39 £46.59
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £64.14
England median hourly rate £42.50 £33.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +28.79% - -24.36%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -22 46 £411 -13.01% 26
South London -11 12 £463 -2.63% 2
West London -12 9 £438 -12.50% 11
East London -1 3 £450 +28.57% 9
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 153 (47.37%) SQL
2 107 (33.13%) Data Quality
3 98 (30.34%) Business Intelligence
3 98 (30.34%) Power Platform
4 97 (30.03%) Power BI
5 88 (27.24%) Data Analysis
6 81 (25.08%) Python
7 75 (23.22%) Data Governance
8 70 (21.67%) Data Modelling
9 67 (20.74%) Analytics
10 59 (18.27%) Decision-Making
10 59 (18.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 58 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
12 57 (17.65%) Migration
12 57 (17.65%) Visualisation
13 56 (17.34%) Microsoft Excel
14 47 (14.55%) ETL
14 47 (14.55%) Validation
15 44 (13.62%) AWS
15 44 (13.62%) Security Cleared
16 43 (13.31%) Tableau
17 40 (12.38%) Actionable Insight
17 40 (12.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 38 (11.76%) Azure
19 37 (11.46%) SC Cleared
20 36 (11.15%) Data Visualisation
21 35 (10.84%) Data Management
21 35 (10.84%) Data Migration
22 33 (10.22%) Metadata
23 32 (9.91%) Agile

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 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.24%) SAS
3 3 (0.93%) Confluence
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
Applications
1 56 (17.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.55%) SAP HR
1 5 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.62%) Actimize
2 2 (0.62%) Markit EDM
2 2 (0.62%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.31%) Advent Geneva
3 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.31%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 98 (30.34%) Power Platform
2 44 (13.62%) AWS
3 38 (11.76%) Azure
4 25 (7.74%) Snowflake
5 10 (3.10%) Amazon S3
5 10 (3.10%) Collibra
6 8 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (2.48%) Serverless
7 7 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (2.17%) GCP
8 5 (1.55%) OCI
9 4 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.24%) dbt
9 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.24%) SaaS
10 3 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.93%) Fivetran
10 3 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (30.03%) Power BI
2 43 (13.31%) Tableau
3 33 (10.22%) Metadata
4 30 (9.29%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.79%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (2.17%) Looker
6 7 (2.17%) Power Query
7 6 (1.86%) Big Data
7 6 (1.86%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.86%) KNIME
8 5 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.24%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.24%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.93%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.93%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.62%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 6 (1.86%) JIRA
1 6 (1.86%) 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
1 115 (35.60%) Finance
2 93 (28.79%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (26.63%) Social Skills
4 33 (10.22%) Banking
5 29 (8.98%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.33%) Marketing
7 10 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.17%) Front Office
9 7 (2.17%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.24%) Back Office
12 4 (1.24%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.24%) Legal
12 4 (1.24%) Retail
13 3 (0.93%) Law
14 2 (0.62%) Billing
14 2 (0.62%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.48%) Pandas
2 5 (1.55%) PySpark
2 5 (1.55%) XML
3 4 (1.24%) JSON
3 4 (1.24%) NumPy
4 3 (0.93%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.93%) YAML
5 2 (0.62%) Matplotlib
5 2 (0.62%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.62%) REST
5 2 (0.62%) Seaborn
5 2 (0.62%) SOAP
5 2 (0.62%) Web Services
6 1 (0.31%) ADO
6 1 (0.31%) Google JAX
6 1 (0.31%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.31%) JAX
6 1 (0.31%) Middleware
6 1 (0.31%) Playwright
6 1 (0.31%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.50%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.48%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.48%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.55%) CMDB
6 5 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (1.55%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.24%) Derivative
7 4 (1.24%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.24%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.93%) Equities
8 3 (0.93%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.62%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.62%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.62%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.62%) NHS
9 2 (0.62%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.24%) Windows
2 1 (0.31%) Unix
2 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (30.34%) Business Intelligence
2 88 (27.24%) Data Analysis
3 75 (23.22%) Data Governance
4 70 (21.67%) Data Modelling
5 67 (20.74%) Analytics
6 59 (18.27%) Decision-Making
6 59 (18.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 58 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
8 57 (17.65%) Migration
8 57 (17.65%) Visualisation
9 47 (14.55%) ETL
9 47 (14.55%) Validation
10 40 (12.38%) Actionable Insight
10 40 (12.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 36 (11.15%) Data Visualisation
12 35 (10.84%) Data Management
12 35 (10.84%) Data Migration
13 32 (9.91%) Agile
13 32 (9.91%) Data Transformation
14 31 (9.60%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 153 (47.37%) SQL
2 81 (25.08%) Python
3 17 (5.26%) R
4 6 (1.86%) VBA
5 4 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.62%) Korn
6 2 (0.62%) Scala
7 1 (0.31%) Java
7 1 (0.31%) LookML
7 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (13.62%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.46%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.72%) Degree
4 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (33.13%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.26%) QA
3 14 (4.33%) GDPR
4 6 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.93%) PMO
6 3 (0.93%) SLA
6 3 (0.93%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.62%) IFRS
7 2 (0.62%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.31%) FATCA
8 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 31 (9.60%) Databricks
2 24 (7.43%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.57%) SAP
4 15 (4.64%) Oracle
5 11 (3.41%) Salesforce
5 11 (3.41%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.79%) Informatica
7 8 (2.48%) Workday
8 7 (2.17%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.24%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.93%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.93%) Google
10 3 (0.93%) OpenAI
11 2 (0.62%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.62%) Murex
11 2 (0.62%) Refinitiv
11 2 (0.62%) Sparx
11 2 (0.62%) Teradata
12 1 (0.31%) Automation Anywhere
12 1 (0.31%) Dataiku