Data Analyst Contracts in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 133 143
Rank change year-on-year -3 +10 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 254 332 587
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.87% 1.79% 1.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 1.92% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 245 439
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £350 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.31% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £623 £594
90th Percentile £678 £678 £650
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 5
10th Percentile £28.48 - £13.74
25th Percentile £28.60 £40.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +50.00% +12.78%
75th Percentile £45.56 £42.75 £31.25
90th Percentile £52.35 £43.95 £52.10
England median hourly rate £27.13 £21.43 £21.83
% change year-on-year +26.57% -1.83% +13.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,727 17,263 28,870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 93.17% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,199 12,473 20,570
10th Percentile £332 £325 £369
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year - -5.20% +5.49%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 333 289
10th Percentile £20.98 £16.00 £16.23
25th Percentile £24.66 £19.05 £21.18
Median hourly rate £36.75 £28.50 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.95% -17.39% -1.43%
75th Percentile £53.75 £48.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.95 £65.60 £74.62
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +74.42%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in London.

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst 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 February 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst 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 February 2025.

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 February 2025. 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 -11 47 £467 -15.18% 4
South London +15 8 £475 +11.76%
East London - 3 £350 - 2
West London +8 1 £390 -22.00% 4
Data Analyst
England

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 14 February 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 127 (50.00%) SQL
2 93 (36.61%) Finance
2 93 (36.61%) Data Analysis
3 85 (33.46%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (31.50%) Python
5 76 (29.92%) Power Platform
6 75 (29.53%) Power BI
7 73 (28.74%) Analytics
7 73 (28.74%) Visualisation
8 70 (27.56%) Business Intelligence
8 70 (27.56%) Social Skills
9 65 (25.59%) Data Quality
10 58 (22.83%) Banking
11 55 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
12 54 (21.26%) Microsoft Excel
13 50 (19.69%) Data Governance
14 49 (19.29%) Data Management
15 46 (18.11%) Data Visualisation
16 45 (17.72%) Tableau
17 44 (17.32%) Migration
18 41 (16.14%) Data Modelling
19 34 (13.39%) Data Analytics
19 34 (13.39%) Decision-Making
20 33 (12.99%) Actionable Insight
21 27 (10.63%) Agile
22 26 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
22 26 (10.24%) Data Migration
23 25 (9.84%) Data Cleansing
24 24 (9.45%) Microsoft
25 23 (9.06%) Azure

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.33%) Confluence
2 9 (3.54%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.57%) Jupyter
3 4 (1.57%) SAS
4 3 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.79%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 54 (21.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (3.15%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.18%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.79%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 5 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.79%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 76 (29.92%) Power Platform
2 23 (9.06%) Azure
3 17 (6.69%) AWS
4 11 (4.33%) Collibra
5 9 (3.54%) GCP
6 8 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (3.15%) Snowflake
7 6 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (1.97%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.57%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (1.57%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.18%) dbt
10 3 (1.18%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.18%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.18%) WhatsApp
11 2 (0.79%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (0.79%) Cloud Functions
11 2 (0.79%) Google Ads
12 1 (0.39%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.79%) Firewall
2 1 (0.39%) Internet
2 1 (0.39%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (29.53%) Power BI
2 45 (17.72%) Tableau
3 18 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (5.12%) Big Data
5 12 (4.72%) Metadata
5 12 (4.72%) SQL Server
6 11 (4.33%) BigQuery
7 9 (3.54%) QlikView
8 6 (2.36%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.36%) Power Query
8 6 (2.36%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.97%) Looker
10 4 (1.57%) Data Mining
11 3 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (1.18%) Mixpanel
12 2 (0.79%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (0.79%) Cognos Query Studio
12 2 (0.79%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.79%) Impala
12 2 (0.79%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 16 (6.30%) JIRA
2 6 (2.36%) Git
3 2 (0.79%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.79%) ERwin
3 2 (0.79%) MagicDraw
3 2 (0.79%) XMLSpy
4 1 (0.39%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.39%) GitLab
4 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.39%) LSMW
General
1 93 (36.61%) Finance
2 85 (33.46%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (27.56%) Social Skills
4 58 (22.83%) Banking
5 15 (5.91%) Investment Banking
6 13 (5.12%) Public Sector
7 11 (4.33%) Marketing
8 9 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.15%) Front Office
9 8 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.76%) Retail
11 5 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.97%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.97%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.57%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.57%) Games
12 4 (1.57%) General Ledger
12 4 (1.57%) Local Government
12 4 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.18%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.18%) scikit-learn
1 3 (1.18%) XML
2 2 (0.79%) FpML
2 2 (0.79%) LDAP
2 2 (0.79%) Plotly
2 2 (0.79%) PySpark
2 2 (0.79%) React
3 1 (0.39%) JSON
3 1 (0.39%) NumPy
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.39%) Pandas
3 1 (0.39%) PyTorch
3 1 (0.39%) Swagger
3 1 (0.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.51%) Reference Data
2 13 (5.12%) Data Structures
3 9 (3.54%) Management Information System
3 9 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.76%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.36%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (1.97%) Derivative
6 5 (1.97%) Hedge funds
6 5 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.97%) Market Risk
6 5 (1.97%) Taxonomies
7 4 (1.57%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.57%) Equities
7 4 (1.57%) Pricing Data
7 4 (1.57%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 3 (1.18%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.18%) Linux
2 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.39%) Windows
2 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (36.61%) Data Analysis
2 73 (28.74%) Analytics
2 73 (28.74%) Visualisation
3 70 (27.56%) Business Intelligence
4 55 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
5 50 (19.69%) Data Governance
6 49 (19.29%) Data Management
7 46 (18.11%) Data Visualisation
8 44 (17.32%) Migration
9 41 (16.14%) Data Modelling
10 34 (13.39%) Data Analytics
10 34 (13.39%) Decision-Making
11 33 (12.99%) Actionable Insight
12 27 (10.63%) Agile
13 26 (10.24%) Data Migration
13 26 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (9.84%) Data Cleansing
15 22 (8.66%) Project Management
15 22 (8.66%) Validation
16 18 (7.09%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 127 (50.00%) SQL
2 80 (31.50%) Python
3 21 (8.27%) R
4 6 (2.36%) VBA
5 5 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.79%) MATLAB
7 2 (0.79%) Scala
8 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.39%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (7.09%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.69%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.91%) Degree
4 3 (1.18%) Tableau Certification
5 2 (0.79%) CBAP
5 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
5 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.79%) PMP
6 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.39%) CASP
6 1 (0.39%) CISA
6 1 (0.39%) CISM
6 1 (0.39%) CISSP
6 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (25.59%) Data Quality
2 10 (3.94%) QA
3 8 (3.15%) GDPR
4 6 (2.36%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.18%) SEPA
7 2 (0.79%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.79%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.79%) EMIR
7 2 (0.79%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.79%) MiFID
8 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (1.18%) Docker
2 1 (0.39%) HDFS
2 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.79%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.79%) Matomo
1 2 (0.79%) ZABBIX
2 1 (0.39%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle EDQ
2 1 (0.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (9.45%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.91%) Oracle
2 15 (5.91%) SAP
3 14 (5.51%) Databricks
4 10 (3.94%) Google
5 8 (3.15%) Alteryx
5 8 (3.15%) Informatica
6 5 (1.97%) Bloomberg
6 5 (1.97%) IBM
7 4 (1.57%) Foundry
7 4 (1.57%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.57%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.18%) Ab Initio
8 3 (1.18%) Workday
9 2 (0.79%) Adobe
9 2 (0.79%) Ariba
9 2 (0.79%) Cognos
9 2 (0.79%) DocuSign
9 2 (0.79%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.79%) Palantir