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 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 142 139
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 266 254 318
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.89% 1.82% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.05% 1.95% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 192 226
10th Percentile £284 £300 £313
25th Percentile £378 £330 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £459 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% -12.62% +1.94%
75th Percentile £550 £576 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -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% +67.02%
75th Percentile £42.50 £47.69 £40.75
90th Percentile £54.40 £54.75 £42.75
England median hourly rate £31.31 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year +15.41% +25.35% -5.29%

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 12,993 13,016 16,941
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 93.50% 93.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,606 8,379 12,218
10th Percentile £350 £337 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.24% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 140 238
10th Percentile £17.88 £19.99 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.44 £23.80 £20.14
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +7.69% -4.41%
75th Percentile £60.63 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -21.43% -19.38% +24.04%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -18 33 £428 -5.00% 7
East London -1 3 £495 +41.43% 7
South London -9 3 - - 1
West London -19 1 - - 6
North London - 1 £500 -
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 January 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.

1 138 (51.88%) SQL
2 101 (37.97%) Data Analysis
3 81 (30.45%) Data Quality
4 80 (30.08%) Python
5 78 (29.32%) Business Intelligence
6 77 (28.95%) Power BI
6 77 (28.95%) Power Platform
7 69 (25.94%) Analytics
8 60 (22.56%) Data Governance
9 57 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
9 57 (21.43%) Visualisation
10 54 (20.30%) Data Modelling
11 50 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 48 (18.05%) Microsoft Excel
13 46 (17.29%) Decision-Making
14 42 (15.79%) ETL
15 41 (15.41%) Actionable Insight
16 38 (14.29%) Tableau
17 37 (13.91%) Validation
18 31 (11.65%) AWS
19 30 (11.28%) Data Visualisation
19 30 (11.28%) Migration
20 28 (10.53%) Data Management
20 28 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
21 27 (10.15%) Snowflake
22 26 (9.77%) Data Cleansing
22 26 (9.77%) Data Transformation
22 26 (9.77%) Microsoft
23 25 (9.40%) Dashboard Development
24 24 (9.02%) Metadata

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 3 (1.13%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 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%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.38%) Misys Midas
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 77 (28.95%) Power Platform
2 31 (11.65%) AWS
3 27 (10.15%) Snowflake
4 18 (6.77%) Azure
5 8 (3.01%) Collibra
6 7 (2.63%) GCP
7 6 (2.26%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.88%) OCI
9 4 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.50%) dbt
10 3 (1.13%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.13%) Serverless
11 1 (0.38%) Alation
11 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.38%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.38%) Fivetran
11 1 (0.38%) Google Data Studio
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 77 (28.95%) Power BI
2 38 (14.29%) Tableau
3 28 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (9.02%) Metadata
5 8 (3.01%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (3.01%) Big Data
5 8 (3.01%) Power Query
6 6 (2.26%) KNIME
6 6 (2.26%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (2.26%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.88%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.88%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.88%) Looker
7 5 (1.88%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.50%) Data Lake
9 3 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.75%) OLAP
10 2 (0.75%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 5 (1.88%) JIRA
2 4 (1.50%) MSI
3 2 (0.75%) ERwin
3 2 (0.75%) Git
3 2 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 93 (34.96%) Finance
2 80 (30.08%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (29.70%) Social Skills
4 26 (9.77%) Banking
5 17 (6.39%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.26%) Marketing
7 8 (3.01%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.63%) Legal
9 6 (2.26%) Retail
10 4 (1.50%) Front Office
11 3 (1.13%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Advertising
12 2 (0.75%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.75%) Law
12 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.13%) DAO
2 2 (0.75%) Pandas
3 1 (0.38%) JSON
3 1 (0.38%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.38%) NumPy
3 1 (0.38%) Plotly
3 1 (0.38%) PySpark
3 1 (0.38%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.38%) XML
3 1 (0.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.77%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.76%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.63%) Reinsurance
5 6 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.88%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.50%) Derivative
7 4 (1.50%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
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
1 101 (37.97%) Data Analysis
2 78 (29.32%) Business Intelligence
3 69 (25.94%) Analytics
4 60 (22.56%) Data Governance
5 57 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (21.43%) Visualisation
6 54 (20.30%) Data Modelling
7 50 (18.80%) Stakeholder Management
8 46 (17.29%) Decision-Making
9 42 (15.79%) ETL
10 41 (15.41%) Actionable Insight
11 37 (13.91%) Validation
12 30 (11.28%) Data Visualisation
12 30 (11.28%) Migration
13 28 (10.53%) Data Management
14 26 (9.77%) Data Cleansing
14 26 (9.77%) Data Transformation
15 25 (9.40%) Dashboard Development
16 23 (8.65%) Data Migration
16 23 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 138 (51.88%) SQL
2 80 (30.08%) Python
3 17 (6.39%) R
4 6 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.13%) VBA
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
7 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (8.27%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.64%) Degree
4 4 (1.50%) 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%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.75%) OSCP
6 1 (0.38%) ACCA
6 1 (0.38%) CIMA
6 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (30.45%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.77%) GDPR
3 7 (2.63%) QA
4 6 (2.26%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.88%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.75%) IFRS
6 2 (0.75%) SLA
7 1 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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 3 (1.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) SCCM
1 1 (0.38%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 26 (9.77%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.64%) Salesforce
3 14 (5.26%) Oracle
3 14 (5.26%) SAP
4 11 (4.14%) Databricks
5 10 (3.76%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.38%) Informatica
7 7 (2.63%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.63%) Workday
8 5 (1.88%) Alteryx
9 4 (1.50%) Google
10 2 (0.75%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.75%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.75%) Cognos
10 2 (0.75%) Murex
10 2 (0.75%) Sparx
10 2 (0.75%) Teradata
11 1 (0.38%) Ariba
11 1 (0.38%) Calypso
11 1 (0.38%) Refinitiv