Data Analyst Contract Job Trends 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 24 May 2026.

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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 131 151
Rank change year-on-year -7 +20 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 339 270 300
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 2.21% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 2.37% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 197 220
10th Percentile £280 £302 £338
25th Percentile £375 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £543 £619 £588
90th Percentile £658 £721 £650
England median daily rate £425 £463 £463
% change year-on-year -8.11% - -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 2
10th Percentile £23.76 £25.00 £24.43
25th Percentile £26.52 £27.41 £28.06
Median hourly rate £30.28 £28.84 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% -18.20% +30.56%
75th Percentile £32.56 £33.72 £42.56
90th Percentile £40.13 £34.77 £46.28
England median hourly rate £31.50 £27.38 £21.54
% change year-on-year +15.07% +27.12% -2.82%

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 16,936 11,403 16,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 93.34% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,216 7,773 11,764
10th Percentile £355 £343 £325
25th Percentile £431 £427 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £682
90th Percentile £758 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 145 319
10th Percentile £19.19 £20.24 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.18 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.50 £31.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.42% +12.73% -23.61%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.75 £44.25
90th Percentile £76.58 £62.30 £65.23
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.18
% change year-on-year +54.80% -21.81% -17.38%

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 24 May 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 24 May 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 24 May 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 -3 64 £390 -17.89% 23
West London -19 13 £425 -8.11% 7
South London -13 12 £463 -2.63% 3
East London -7 2 £338 -20.59% 5
North London - 1 £178 - 3
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 May 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.

1 153 (45.13%) SQL
2 111 (32.74%) Data Quality
3 105 (30.97%) Business Intelligence
4 103 (30.38%) Power Platform
5 102 (30.09%) Power BI
6 88 (25.96%) Data Analysis
7 82 (24.19%) Python
8 81 (23.89%) Data Governance
9 76 (22.42%) Data Modelling
10 74 (21.83%) Analytics
11 67 (19.76%) Decision-Making
12 60 (17.70%) Migration
13 57 (16.81%) Microsoft Excel
13 57 (16.81%) Validation
14 56 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
15 55 (16.22%) Visualisation
16 50 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
17 46 (13.57%) ETL
17 46 (13.57%) Tableau
18 41 (12.09%) AWS
18 41 (12.09%) Azure
19 40 (11.80%) Dashboard Development
19 40 (11.80%) Data Migration
19 40 (11.80%) Databricks
19 40 (11.80%) Security Cleared
19 40 (11.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 36 (10.62%) Data Management
21 35 (10.32%) Agile
21 35 (10.32%) Data Visualisation
22 34 (10.03%) Actionable Insight

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 5 (1.47%) SAS
1 5 (1.47%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.18%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.18%) Confluence
3 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.29%) Apache
4 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 57 (16.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (2.06%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.29%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.77%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.88%) iTrent
4 2 (0.59%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.59%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.59%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.29%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 103 (30.38%) Power Platform
2 41 (12.09%) AWS
2 41 (12.09%) Azure
3 24 (7.08%) Snowflake
4 10 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (2.06%) Amazon S3
6 6 (1.77%) Collibra
6 6 (1.77%) GCP
7 5 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (1.47%) SaaS
7 5 (1.47%) Serverless
8 4 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.18%) Fivetran
9 3 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.59%) GitHub
10 2 (0.59%) IBM Blueworks
10 2 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (30.09%) Power BI
2 46 (13.57%) Tableau
3 33 (9.73%) Metadata
4 27 (7.96%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (3.24%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.65%) Looker
6 9 (2.65%) Power Query
7 8 (2.36%) Big Data
8 7 (2.06%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.77%) KNIME
10 5 (1.47%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.47%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.18%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.88%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.88%) SQL Server
13 2 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (2.06%) JIRA
2 6 (1.77%) MSI
3 2 (0.59%) GitLab
4 1 (0.29%) GCC
4 1 (0.29%) Git
4 1 (0.29%) Postman
4 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 124 (36.58%) Finance
2 93 (27.43%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (22.12%) Social Skills
4 36 (10.62%) Banking
5 31 (9.14%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.31%) Marketing
7 10 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.65%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.36%) Front Office
10 7 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.77%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.47%) Legal
13 4 (1.18%) Back Office
13 4 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.88%) Law
14 3 (0.88%) Local Government
14 3 (0.88%) Military
15 2 (0.59%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.65%) Pandas
2 6 (1.77%) PySpark
3 5 (1.47%) XML
4 4 (1.18%) JSON
5 3 (0.88%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.88%) NumPy
5 3 (0.88%) YAML
6 2 (0.59%) Kafka
6 2 (0.59%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.59%) REST
6 2 (0.59%) SOAP
6 2 (0.59%) Web Services
7 1 (0.29%) ADO
7 1 (0.29%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.29%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.29%) JAX
7 1 (0.29%) Middleware
7 1 (0.29%) Next.js
7 1 (0.29%) Node.js
7 1 (0.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 19 (5.60%) Data Structures
2 12 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (2.95%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.36%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.06%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.47%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.47%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.18%) Derivative
7 4 (1.18%) Equities
7 4 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.18%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.18%) Reference Data
8 3 (0.88%) CMDB
8 3 (0.88%) Credit Risk
8 3 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.59%) NHS
9 2 (0.59%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.59%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (30.97%) Business Intelligence
2 88 (25.96%) Data Analysis
3 81 (23.89%) Data Governance
4 76 (22.42%) Data Modelling
5 74 (21.83%) Analytics
6 67 (19.76%) Decision-Making
7 60 (17.70%) Migration
8 57 (16.81%) Validation
9 56 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (16.22%) Visualisation
11 50 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
12 46 (13.57%) ETL
13 40 (11.80%) Dashboard Development
13 40 (11.80%) Data Migration
13 40 (11.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 36 (10.62%) Data Management
15 35 (10.32%) Agile
15 35 (10.32%) Data Visualisation
16 34 (10.03%) Actionable Insight
16 34 (10.03%) AI
Programming Languages
1 153 (45.13%) SQL
2 82 (24.19%) Python
3 17 (5.01%) R
4 7 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 6 (1.77%) VBA
6 3 (0.88%) Korn
7 2 (0.59%) Scala
8 1 (0.29%) Java
8 1 (0.29%) LookML
8 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (11.80%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.44%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.01%) Degree
4 3 (0.88%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.29%) CBAP
6 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (32.74%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.31%) GDPR
3 17 (5.01%) QA
4 6 (1.77%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.88%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.88%) PMO
5 3 (0.88%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.59%) IFRS
6 2 (0.59%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.59%) SLA
7 1 (0.29%) FATCA
7 1 (0.29%) GAAP
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.88%) Terraform
2 1 (0.29%) Grafana
2 1 (0.29%) Kibana
2 1 (0.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (11.80%) Databricks
2 20 (5.90%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.31%) SAP
4 10 (2.95%) Oracle
5 8 (2.36%) Alteryx
5 8 (2.36%) Informatica
5 8 (2.36%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.06%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.47%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.47%) Workday
8 4 (1.18%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.88%) Google
9 3 (0.88%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.59%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.59%) IBM
10 2 (0.59%) Murex
10 2 (0.59%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.59%) Teradata
11 1 (0.29%) Adobe
11 1 (0.29%) Dell