Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 140 149
Rank change year-on-year -45 +9 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 330 262 285
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.61% 1.96% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.73% 2.12% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 171 216
10th Percentile £258 £300 £300
25th Percentile £369 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -6.86%
75th Percentile £543 £561 £588
90th Percentile £616 £688 £675
England median daily rate £438 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 6
10th Percentile £17.43 £25.00 £30.20
25th Percentile £23.27 £25.01 £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.53 £29.75 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -17.93% -4.61%
75th Percentile £38.00 £35.63 £43.06
90th Percentile £47.45 £59.55 £46.63
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.42 £26.46
% change year-on-year +5.58% +7.40% +22.26%

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 19,079 12,384 15,047
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 92.45% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,336 8,275 9,801
10th Percentile £363 £334 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 209 173
10th Percentile £16.96 £17.00 £17.30
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £24.15
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.85% -22.86% -13.58%
75th Percentile £65.30 £49.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £79.75
England median hourly rate £42.31 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.23% -41.51% -6.89%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +2 62 £450 +1.41% 31
West London -19 8 £325 -23.53% 4
North London 0 3 £314 -37.25%
East London +3 2 £425 -16.05%
South London -14 2 £566 +11.43% 1
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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.

1 181 (54.85%) SQL
2 144 (43.64%) Data Quality
3 119 (36.06%) Business Intelligence
4 109 (33.03%) Data Analysis
5 107 (32.42%) Power BI
5 107 (32.42%) Power Platform
6 103 (31.21%) Analytics
7 96 (29.09%) Validation
8 93 (28.18%) Data Governance
9 84 (25.45%) Python
10 82 (24.85%) Data Modelling
11 81 (24.55%) Stakeholder Management
12 69 (20.91%) Decision-Making
13 63 (19.09%) Migration
14 59 (17.88%) Visualisation
15 56 (16.97%) Actionable Insight
16 55 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
16 55 (16.67%) Tableau
17 54 (16.36%) AI
18 53 (16.06%) Data Migration
19 52 (15.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 51 (15.45%) Azure
20 51 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
21 48 (14.55%) Agile
22 46 (13.94%) Microsoft
23 42 (12.73%) ETL
24 41 (12.42%) Data Lineage
25 40 (12.12%) Data Mapping
25 40 (12.12%) Databricks
26 38 (11.52%) 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 6 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.52%) Confluence
2 5 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.91%) CMS
3 3 (0.91%) SAS
4 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.82%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.91%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) SPSS
4 1 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Aladdin
1 4 (1.21%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.91%) iTrent
3 2 (0.61%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.61%) Eikon
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.61%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.61%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.30%) Advent Moxy
4 1 (0.30%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 107 (32.42%) Power Platform
2 51 (15.45%) Azure
3 32 (9.70%) Snowflake
4 31 (9.39%) AWS
5 12 (3.64%) SaaS
6 11 (3.33%) GCP
6 11 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
7 10 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 9 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (2.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (2.12%) Power Automate
11 6 (1.82%) Collibra
12 5 (1.52%) dbt
13 4 (1.21%) Amazon S3
13 4 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
14 3 (0.91%) Google Sheets
14 3 (0.91%) Lucidchart
14 3 (0.91%) Miro
14 3 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.91%) Firewall
2 2 (0.61%) Internet
3 1 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (32.42%) Power BI
2 55 (16.67%) Tableau
3 33 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (7.58%) Metadata
5 18 (5.45%) Relational Database
6 17 (5.15%) Looker
7 13 (3.94%) Power Query
8 11 (3.33%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.73%) BigQuery
10 8 (2.42%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (2.42%) Big Data
11 6 (1.82%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (1.52%) PowerPivot
12 5 (1.52%) SQL Server
13 4 (1.21%) MongoDB
13 4 (1.21%) Parquet
13 4 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
14 3 (0.91%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.91%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.91%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 11 (3.33%) JIRA
2 2 (0.61%) Git
2 2 (0.61%) GitLab
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 113 (34.24%) Finance
2 103 (31.21%) Analytical Skills
3 95 (28.79%) Social Skills
4 41 (12.42%) Banking
5 28 (8.48%) Public Sector
6 26 (7.88%) Retail
7 25 (7.58%) Marketing
8 12 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.33%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.73%) Legal
11 7 (2.12%) Local Government
11 7 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.82%) Front Office
12 6 (1.82%) Military
13 4 (1.21%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.91%) Advertising
14 3 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.91%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.82%) JSON
2 5 (1.52%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (1.21%) Pandas
3 4 (1.21%) PySpark
4 3 (0.91%) XML
5 2 (0.61%) Apache Avro
5 2 (0.61%) Kafka
5 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.30%) Django
6 1 (0.30%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.30%) HTML
6 1 (0.30%) REST
6 1 (0.30%) Spring
6 1 (0.30%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.73%) Data Structures
2 22 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (5.76%) Product Ownership
4 14 (4.24%) Onboarding
5 12 (3.64%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.82%) FMCG
9 5 (1.52%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.21%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.21%) Taxonomies
11 3 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.91%) Pricing Data
11 3 (0.91%) Public Cloud
12 2 (0.61%) Data Centre
12 2 (0.61%) Marketing Technology
12 2 (0.61%) Reinsurance
12 2 (0.61%) Security Posture
12 2 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.30%) Linux
1 1 (0.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (36.06%) Business Intelligence
2 109 (33.03%) Data Analysis
3 103 (31.21%) Analytics
4 96 (29.09%) Validation
5 93 (28.18%) Data Governance
6 82 (24.85%) Data Modelling
7 81 (24.55%) Stakeholder Management
8 69 (20.91%) Decision-Making
9 63 (19.09%) Migration
10 59 (17.88%) Visualisation
11 56 (16.97%) Actionable Insight
12 54 (16.36%) AI
13 53 (16.06%) Data Migration
14 52 (15.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 51 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
16 48 (14.55%) Agile
17 42 (12.73%) ETL
18 41 (12.42%) Data Lineage
19 40 (12.12%) Data Mapping
20 38 (11.52%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 181 (54.85%) SQL
2 84 (25.45%) Python
3 25 (7.58%) R
4 13 (3.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (1.82%) Korn
6 3 (0.91%) LookML
7 2 (0.61%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.30%) Cypher
8 1 (0.30%) Java
8 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.30%) Scala
8 1 (0.30%) SOQL
8 1 (0.30%) VB
8 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (10.30%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.48%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.76%) Degree
4 5 (1.52%) PMI Certification
5 4 (1.21%) PMP
6 3 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.30%) CBAP
8 1 (0.30%) CFA
8 1 (0.30%) CISM
8 1 (0.30%) CISSP
8 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.30%) ISEB
8 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (43.64%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.76%) QA
3 17 (5.15%) GDPR
4 8 (2.42%) Actionable Recommendations
5 7 (2.12%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.91%) GRC
6 3 (0.91%) PMO
7 2 (0.61%) IFRS
7 2 (0.61%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.61%) SLA
7 2 (0.61%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.30%) EMIR
8 1 (0.30%) GMP
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.30%) MiFID
8 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.21%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 46 (13.94%) Microsoft
2 40 (12.12%) Databricks
3 14 (4.24%) Oracle
4 13 (3.94%) SAP
5 12 (3.64%) Alteryx
6 8 (2.42%) Google
7 7 (2.12%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.52%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.52%) Informatica
9 3 (0.91%) Teradata
9 3 (0.91%) Workday
10 2 (0.61%) Citrix
10 2 (0.61%) CODA
10 2 (0.61%) FXall
10 2 (0.61%) HubSpot
10 2 (0.61%) IBM
10 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.61%) Zuora
11 1 (0.30%) Ariba
11 1 (0.30%) SGI