Data Analyst Contracts in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 161 149
Rank change year-on-year +32 -12 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 298 289 456
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.27% 1.64% 1.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% 1.75% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 221 343
10th Percentile £307 £310 £270
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £605 £588 £625
90th Percentile £712 £675 £700
England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 8
10th Percentile £25.00 £24.85 £11.44
25th Percentile £25.01 £29.13 £18.81
Median hourly rate £28.60 £37.50 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.73% +8.70% +48.39%
75th Percentile £33.40 £43.75 £66.69
90th Percentile £34.94 £46.75 £104.38
England median hourly rate £26.94 £21.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year +25.70% -4.76% -14.29%

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 12,238 16,553 23,993
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 93.92% 94.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,262 11,866 17,518
10th Percentile £332 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 312 271
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.60 £20.24 £22.95
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% -25.84% +7.14%
75th Percentile £50.63 £46.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £64.25 £67.90 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.93
% change year-on-year -29.55% -8.95% +75.72%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +10 60 £481 -8.33% 99
West London +10 5 £463 -2.63% 23
South London - 4 £475 - 11
East London - 3 £500 - 13
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 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.

1 167 (56.04%) SQL
2 118 (39.60%) Data Analysis
3 108 (36.24%) Finance
4 95 (31.88%) Python
4 95 (31.88%) Business Intelligence
5 93 (31.21%) Power BI
5 93 (31.21%) Power Platform
5 93 (31.21%) Social Skills
6 74 (24.83%) Analytical Skills
7 73 (24.50%) Analytics
8 71 (23.83%) Microsoft Excel
9 67 (22.48%) Data Modelling
9 67 (22.48%) Visualisation
10 64 (21.48%) Tableau
11 62 (20.81%) Data Quality
12 60 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
13 53 (17.79%) Banking
14 51 (17.11%) Data Governance
15 50 (16.78%) Data Visualisation
16 46 (15.44%) Migration
17 43 (14.43%) Microsoft
18 42 (14.09%) Data Warehouse
18 42 (14.09%) Actionable Insight
19 41 (13.76%) Decision-Making
20 36 (12.08%) ETL
20 36 (12.08%) Validation
20 36 (12.08%) Agile
21 33 (11.07%) Stakeholder Management
22 32 (10.74%) Data Cleansing
23 26 (8.72%) Oracle

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 8 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.01%) Confluence
3 3 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.01%) SAS
4 2 (0.67%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 71 (23.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.68%) MS Visio
4 5 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.34%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.67%) Bankmaster
3 2 (0.67%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.67%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.34%) Academy Housing
4 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.34%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.34%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.34%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 93 (31.21%) Power Platform
2 24 (8.05%) AWS
3 21 (7.05%) Azure
4 20 (6.71%) GCP
5 17 (5.70%) Snowflake
6 13 (4.36%) dbt
7 7 (2.35%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.68%) Collibra
9 5 (1.68%) Serverless
10 4 (1.34%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 4 (1.34%) Google Data Studio
10 4 (1.34%) Google Sheets
11 3 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.01%) Cloud Functions
11 3 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.01%) SaaS
12 2 (0.67%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.34%) Firewall
1 1 (0.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (31.21%) Power BI
2 64 (21.48%) Tableau
3 42 (14.09%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (7.72%) SQL Server
5 17 (5.70%) BigQuery
6 12 (4.03%) Looker
7 10 (3.36%) Data Lake
8 9 (3.02%) Big Data
8 9 (3.02%) Power Query
9 7 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (2.35%) Metadata
10 5 (1.68%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.68%) Geospatial Data
10 5 (1.68%) GIS
10 5 (1.68%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.68%) Star Schema
11 4 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.67%) QlikView
12 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (4.03%) JIRA
2 9 (3.02%) Git
3 2 (0.67%) Ant
3 2 (0.67%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.67%) ERwin
3 2 (0.67%) LSMW
3 2 (0.67%) MagicDraw
4 1 (0.34%) GitLab
4 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 108 (36.24%) Finance
2 93 (31.21%) Social Skills
3 74 (24.83%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (17.79%) Banking
5 18 (6.04%) Investment Banking
6 15 (5.03%) Retail
7 12 (4.03%) Front Office
8 11 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.36%) Local Government
10 8 (2.68%) Corporate Banking
10 8 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.68%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.35%) Marketing
12 6 (2.01%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.68%) Legal
13 5 (1.68%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.68%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.01%) JSON
2 3 (1.01%) XML
3 2 (0.67%) Kafka
3 2 (0.67%) NumPy
3 2 (0.67%) Pandas
3 2 (0.67%) Swagger
4 1 (0.34%) Altair
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.34%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.34%) OLE
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.34%) Plotly
4 1 (0.34%) PySpark
4 1 (0.34%) React
4 1 (0.34%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.03%) Data Structures
2 13 (4.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (3.69%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.35%) Reference Data
7 6 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.01%) Hedge funds
7 6 (2.01%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.68%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 4 (1.34%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.34%) IoT
9 4 (1.34%) NHS
10 3 (1.01%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.67%) Derivative
11 2 (0.67%) Equities
11 2 (0.67%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.34%) Linux
1 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (39.60%) Data Analysis
2 95 (31.88%) Business Intelligence
3 73 (24.50%) Analytics
4 67 (22.48%) Data Modelling
4 67 (22.48%) Visualisation
5 60 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
6 51 (17.11%) Data Governance
7 50 (16.78%) Data Visualisation
8 46 (15.44%) Migration
9 42 (14.09%) Actionable Insight
10 41 (13.76%) Decision-Making
11 36 (12.08%) Agile
11 36 (12.08%) ETL
11 36 (12.08%) Validation
12 33 (11.07%) Stakeholder Management
13 32 (10.74%) Data Cleansing
14 26 (8.72%) Data Management
15 24 (8.05%) Data Integration
16 23 (7.72%) Business Analysis
16 23 (7.72%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 167 (56.04%) SQL
2 95 (31.88%) Python
3 17 (5.70%) R
4 16 (5.37%) VBA
5 8 (2.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 5 (1.68%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.01%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.34%) Java
8 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.34%) LookML
8 1 (0.34%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (6.71%) Degree
2 11 (3.69%) Security Cleared
3 10 (3.36%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.68%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.01%) CIPD
5 3 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.67%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.34%) ACCA
7 1 (0.34%) CASP
7 1 (0.34%) CIMA
7 1 (0.34%) CISA
7 1 (0.34%) CISM
7 1 (0.34%) CISSP
7 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.34%) HNC
7 1 (0.34%) IIBA
7 1 (0.34%) ISEB
7 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (20.81%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.36%) GDPR
3 6 (2.01%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (1.68%) QA
5 4 (1.34%) SEPA
6 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.67%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.34%) EMIR
7 1 (0.34%) GAAP
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS
7 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.34%) LOINC
7 1 (0.34%) MiFID
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.34%) PERC
7 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.34%) SNOMED CT
7 1 (0.34%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.34%) Grafana
1 1 (0.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.72%) Oracle
3 22 (7.38%) Google
4 13 (4.36%) SAP
5 10 (3.36%) Databricks
6 9 (3.02%) Workday
7 8 (2.68%) Informatica
8 6 (2.01%) Alteryx
8 6 (2.01%) Foundry
8 6 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.68%) Palantir
10 4 (1.34%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.34%) Talend
11 3 (1.01%) Cognos
11 3 (1.01%) IBM
12 2 (0.67%) Amplitude
12 2 (0.67%) Ariba
12 2 (0.67%) DocuSign
13 1 (0.34%) OneTrust
13 1 (0.34%) Sparx