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 30 September 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 137 154
Rank change year-on-year -40 +17 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 332 276 273
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.63% 2.06% 1.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 2.22% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 180 207
10th Percentile £257 £300 £300
25th Percentile £365 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £613 £696 £675
England median daily rate £438 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.61% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 7
10th Percentile £20.02 £25.00 £24.04
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.01 £30.20
Median hourly rate £30.28 £29.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% -15.00% -7.89%
75th Percentile £32.56 £35.63 £41.63
90th Percentile £43.25 £59.55 £46.20
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.42 £26.46
% change year-on-year +5.58% +7.40% +16.30%

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 18,957 12,407 15,055
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 92.78% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,263 8,292 9,885
10th Percentile £360 £330 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 406 199 175
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.35
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £23.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.10% -19.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £49.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.11 £77.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -1.92%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -4 66 £435 -6.05% 50
West London -17 10 £425 - 7
North London +2 3 £314 -37.25% 1
East London +2 2 £265 -47.65% 2
South London -7 2 £566 +11.43% 2
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 September 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.

1 171 (51.51%) SQL
2 138 (41.57%) Data Quality
3 118 (35.54%) Business Intelligence
4 108 (32.53%) Power BI
4 108 (32.53%) Power Platform
5 102 (30.72%) Data Analysis
6 95 (28.61%) Analytics
6 95 (28.61%) Data Governance
7 92 (27.71%) Validation
8 81 (24.40%) Data Modelling
9 79 (23.80%) Python
10 75 (22.59%) Stakeholder Management
11 71 (21.39%) Decision-Making
12 66 (19.88%) Migration
13 56 (16.87%) Visualisation
14 55 (16.57%) Microsoft Excel
15 54 (16.27%) Data Migration
16 52 (15.66%) Actionable Insight
16 52 (15.66%) AI
16 52 (15.66%) Azure
16 52 (15.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 52 (15.66%) Tableau
17 49 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
18 45 (13.55%) Microsoft
19 43 (12.95%) Agile
20 42 (12.65%) Data Lineage
21 40 (12.05%) Data Mapping
21 40 (12.05%) Databricks
21 40 (12.05%) ETL
22 37 (11.14%) 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 (1.81%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.51%) Confluence
2 5 (1.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.90%) CMS
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.60%) SAS
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 55 (16.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (1.81%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) SPSS
4 1 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.81%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.90%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.90%) iTrent
3 2 (0.60%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.60%) Eikon
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.60%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.60%) 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%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 108 (32.53%) Power Platform
2 52 (15.66%) Azure
3 33 (9.94%) AWS
4 30 (9.04%) Snowflake
5 11 (3.31%) GCP
5 11 (3.31%) Microsoft Purview
5 11 (3.31%) SaaS
6 9 (2.71%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (2.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 7 (2.11%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (1.81%) Collibra
9 5 (1.51%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.90%) Alation
11 3 (0.90%) dbt
11 3 (0.90%) Lucidchart
11 3 (0.90%) Miro
11 3 (0.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.90%) Firewall
2 2 (0.60%) Internet
3 1 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (32.53%) Power BI
2 52 (15.66%) Tableau
3 32 (9.64%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (8.73%) Metadata
5 16 (4.82%) Relational Database
6 14 (4.22%) Looker
6 14 (4.22%) Power Query
7 11 (3.31%) Data Lake
8 8 (2.41%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (2.41%) Big Data
9 6 (1.81%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.51%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (1.51%) PowerPivot
11 4 (1.20%) Parquet
12 3 (0.90%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.90%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.90%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.90%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.90%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (2.71%) JIRA
2 2 (0.60%) GitLab
3 1 (0.30%) Git
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 115 (34.64%) Finance
2 101 (30.42%) Analytical Skills
3 91 (27.41%) Social Skills
4 42 (12.65%) Banking
5 30 (9.04%) Public Sector
6 26 (7.83%) Retail
7 25 (7.53%) Marketing
8 12 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.31%) Investment Banking
10 10 (3.01%) Local Government
11 9 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
11 9 (2.71%) Legal
12 7 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.81%) Front Office
13 6 (1.81%) Military
14 4 (1.20%) Back Office
14 4 (1.20%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.90%) Billing
15 3 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.90%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.81%) Pandas
2 5 (1.51%) JSON
2 5 (1.51%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (1.51%) PySpark
3 2 (0.60%) Apache Avro
3 2 (0.60%) Kafka
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (0.60%) XML
4 1 (0.30%) Django
4 1 (0.30%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.30%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.30%) Middleware
4 1 (0.30%) NumPy
4 1 (0.30%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.30%) REST
4 1 (0.30%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.30%) Seaborn
4 1 (0.30%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.30%) Terraform
4 1 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.84%) Data Structures
2 18 (5.42%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (5.12%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.92%) Onboarding
5 11 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.81%) FMCG
7 4 (1.20%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.20%) Reference Data
8 3 (0.90%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.90%) Pricing Data
8 3 (0.90%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.90%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.60%) Credit Risk
9 2 (0.60%) Derivative
9 2 (0.60%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.60%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (35.54%) Business Intelligence
2 102 (30.72%) Data Analysis
3 95 (28.61%) Analytics
3 95 (28.61%) Data Governance
4 92 (27.71%) Validation
5 81 (24.40%) Data Modelling
6 75 (22.59%) Stakeholder Management
7 71 (21.39%) Decision-Making
8 66 (19.88%) Migration
9 56 (16.87%) Visualisation
10 54 (16.27%) Data Migration
11 52 (15.66%) Actionable Insight
11 52 (15.66%) AI
11 52 (15.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 49 (14.76%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (12.95%) Agile
14 42 (12.65%) Data Lineage
15 40 (12.05%) Data Mapping
15 40 (12.05%) ETL
16 37 (11.14%) Dashboard Development
Programming Languages
1 171 (51.51%) SQL
2 79 (23.80%) Python
3 24 (7.23%) R
4 14 (4.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (1.81%) Korn
6 3 (0.90%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.60%) Scala
7 2 (0.60%) VBA
8 1 (0.30%) Cypher
8 1 (0.30%) Java
8 1 (0.30%) LookML
8 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.30%) SOQL
8 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (8.43%) Security Cleared
2 23 (6.93%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.42%) Degree
4 4 (1.20%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.90%) PMP
6 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.30%) CBAP
6 1 (0.30%) CFA
6 1 (0.30%) CISM
6 1 (0.30%) CISSP
6 1 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.30%) ISEB
6 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (41.57%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.72%) GDPR
3 18 (5.42%) QA
4 7 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.81%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.90%) GRC
6 3 (0.90%) PMO
7 2 (0.60%) IFRS
7 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.60%) SLA
7 2 (0.60%) 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 (1.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.60%) SCCM
2 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (13.55%) Microsoft
2 40 (12.05%) Databricks
3 15 (4.52%) SAP
4 12 (3.61%) Alteryx
4 12 (3.61%) Oracle
5 7 (2.11%) Google
6 6 (1.81%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.51%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.51%) Informatica
8 3 (0.90%) IBM
8 3 (0.90%) Teradata
8 3 (0.90%) Workday
9 2 (0.60%) Citrix
9 2 (0.60%) CODA
9 2 (0.60%) FXall
9 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.30%) Ariba
10 1 (0.30%) Cognos
10 1 (0.30%) Dell
10 1 (0.30%) SGI