Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 131 162
Rank change year-on-year -27 +31 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 344 295 271
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.73% 2.17% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.86% 2.33% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 200 203
10th Percentile £259 £306 £300
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% +2.63% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £608 £588
90th Percentile £638 £725 £649
England median daily rate £435 £435 £450
% change year-on-year - -3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 3
10th Percentile £20.02 £25.00 £24.85
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.01 £29.13
Median hourly rate £30.28 £29.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% -22.48% +31.58%
75th Percentile £32.56 £34.04 £43.75
90th Percentile £43.25 £35.00 £46.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £26.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year +13.21% -10.17% +29.67%

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 18,473 12,646 15,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 93.01% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,088 8,560 11,001
10th Percentile £363 £328 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.34% -1.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 198 220
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £29.54 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -8.12% -14.28%
75th Percentile £59.72 £50.38 £52.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £71.31
England median hourly rate £45.56 £26.02 £43.00
% change year-on-year +75.08% -39.49% -1.58%

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 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -1 71 £430 -9.53% 6
West London -7 14 £425 -8.11% 2
South London -7 12 £463 -8.87% 2
North London - 3 £314 - 1
East London +2 2 £265 -47.65% 5
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 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.

1 167 (48.55%) SQL
2 128 (37.21%) Data Quality
3 125 (36.34%) Business Intelligence
4 115 (33.43%) Power Platform
5 114 (33.14%) Power BI
6 100 (29.07%) Data Analysis
7 91 (26.45%) Analytics
7 91 (26.45%) Data Governance
8 88 (25.58%) Data Modelling
9 80 (23.26%) Python
10 72 (20.93%) Validation
11 69 (20.06%) Decision-Making
12 64 (18.60%) Visualisation
13 61 (17.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 60 (17.44%) Migration
15 57 (16.57%) Microsoft Excel
15 57 (16.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 51 (14.83%) Azure
16 51 (14.83%) Databricks
17 47 (13.66%) Tableau
18 46 (13.37%) AI
19 45 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
20 43 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
21 41 (11.92%) Agile
21 41 (11.92%) Data Migration
22 39 (11.34%) Dashboard Development
23 38 (11.05%) Data Mapping
23 38 (11.05%) ETL
24 37 (10.76%) Data Lineage
24 37 (10.76%) Data Transformation

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 6 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.16%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.87%) CMS
3 3 (0.87%) Confluence
4 2 (0.58%) Apache
4 2 (0.58%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 57 (16.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.45%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.29%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.74%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.16%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.87%) iTrent
3 3 (0.87%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.58%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.29%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.29%) Eikon
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 115 (33.43%) Power Platform
2 51 (14.83%) Azure
3 35 (10.17%) AWS
4 31 (9.01%) Snowflake
5 9 (2.62%) Collibra
5 9 (2.62%) GCP
5 9 (2.62%) Microsoft Purview
6 7 (2.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (2.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 7 (2.03%) Power Automate
6 7 (2.03%) SaaS
7 5 (1.45%) Amazon S3
7 5 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.45%) Serverless
8 4 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.87%) Google Tag Manager
9 3 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (0.29%) Firewall
1 1 (0.29%) Internet
1 1 (0.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (33.14%) Power BI
2 47 (13.66%) Tableau
3 33 (9.59%) Metadata
4 31 (9.01%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.36%) Looker
6 13 (3.78%) Power Query
7 12 (3.49%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.62%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.33%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.74%) Big Data
11 4 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.16%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.16%) Parquet
11 4 (1.16%) PowerPivot
11 4 (1.16%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (1.16%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.87%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.03%) JIRA
2 2 (0.58%) GitLab
3 1 (0.29%) GCC
3 1 (0.29%) Git
3 1 (0.29%) Postman
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 126 (36.63%) Finance
2 104 (30.23%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (25.29%) Social Skills
4 46 (13.37%) Banking
5 33 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 26 (7.56%) Marketing
7 18 (5.23%) Retail
8 13 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.62%) Front Office
9 9 (2.62%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.03%) Local Government
11 6 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.45%) Legal
12 5 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.16%) Back Office
13 4 (1.16%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.16%) Military
13 4 (1.16%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.87%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.62%) Pandas
2 8 (2.33%) JSON
3 4 (1.16%) PySpark
4 3 (0.87%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.87%) NumPy
4 3 (0.87%) XML
5 2 (0.58%) Apache Avro
5 2 (0.58%) Kafka
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.58%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.29%) Django
6 1 (0.29%) Google JAX
6 1 (0.29%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.29%) JAX
6 1 (0.29%) Next.js
6 1 (0.29%) Playwright
6 1 (0.29%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.29%) Spring
6 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.10%) Data Structures
2 12 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
2 12 (3.49%) Onboarding
2 12 (3.49%) Product Ownership
3 9 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.03%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.45%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.16%) Derivative
7 4 (1.16%) Equities
7 4 (1.16%) FMCG
7 4 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.16%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.87%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.58%) CMDB
9 2 (0.58%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.58%) Marketing Technology
9 2 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (36.34%) Business Intelligence
2 100 (29.07%) Data Analysis
3 91 (26.45%) Analytics
3 91 (26.45%) Data Governance
4 88 (25.58%) Data Modelling
5 72 (20.93%) Validation
6 69 (20.06%) Decision-Making
7 64 (18.60%) Visualisation
8 61 (17.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 60 (17.44%) Migration
10 57 (16.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 46 (13.37%) AI
12 45 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
14 41 (11.92%) Agile
14 41 (11.92%) Data Migration
15 39 (11.34%) Dashboard Development
16 38 (11.05%) Data Mapping
16 38 (11.05%) ETL
17 37 (10.76%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 167 (48.55%) SQL
2 80 (23.26%) Python
3 15 (4.36%) R
4 14 (4.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.45%) VBA
6 2 (0.58%) Korn
6 2 (0.58%) Scala
7 1 (0.29%) Cypher
7 1 (0.29%) Java
7 1 (0.29%) LookML
7 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 26 (7.56%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.65%) Degree
4 4 (1.16%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.87%) PMP
6 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.29%) CBAP
6 1 (0.29%) CISM
6 1 (0.29%) CISSP
6 1 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.29%) ISEB
6 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (37.21%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.23%) GDPR
3 17 (4.94%) QA
4 9 (2.62%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.45%) PMO
6 3 (0.87%) SLA
7 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.58%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.29%) FATCA
8 1 (0.29%) GMP
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.16%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.58%) Terraform
2 1 (0.29%) Grafana
2 1 (0.29%) Kibana
2 1 (0.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 51 (14.83%) Databricks
2 35 (10.17%) Microsoft
3 17 (4.94%) SAP
4 11 (3.20%) Oracle
5 9 (2.62%) Alteryx
6 7 (2.03%) Google
7 5 (1.45%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.45%) Workday
8 4 (1.16%) Informatica
9 3 (0.87%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.87%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.87%) Teradata
10 2 (0.58%) IBM
10 2 (0.58%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.58%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.29%) FactSet
11 1 (0.29%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.29%) LexisNexis
11 1 (0.29%) Palantir
11 1 (0.29%) Varonis