Data Analyst Contracts in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 May 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 143 142
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 270 305 489
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.18% 1.75% 1.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.34% 1.87% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 223 367
10th Percentile £300 £338 £281
25th Percentile £363 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £603 £589 £604
90th Percentile £713 £650 £687
England median daily rate £463 £463 £475
% change year-on-year - -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £28.36 £24.03 £11.44
25th Percentile £28.60 £27.06 £18.06
Median hourly rate £29.07 £33.25 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% +19.82% +8.82%
75th Percentile £33.40 £39.56 £47.06
90th Percentile £34.17 £42.68 £102.45
England median hourly rate £27.55 £21.54 £22.16
% change year-on-year +27.93% -2.82% -2.34%

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 11,563 16,328 24,768
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 93.45% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,900 11,807 18,005
10th Percentile £349 £325 £363
25th Percentile £428 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £679 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 319 281
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.54 £20.02 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -21.43% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £45.62 £60.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.23 £82.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £45.00
% change year-on-year -18.73% -17.97% +95.42%

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 20 May 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
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 20 May 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 -4 55 £475 - 13
South London - 9 £475 - 4
East London - 3 £425 - 3
West London +7 1 £500 -2.44% 11
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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.

1 145 (53.70%) SQL
2 103 (38.15%) Data Analysis
3 86 (31.85%) Python
4 83 (30.74%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (30.00%) Finance
6 79 (29.26%) Social Skills
7 78 (28.89%) Power Platform
8 77 (28.52%) Power BI
9 76 (28.15%) Business Intelligence
10 64 (23.70%) Visualisation
11 63 (23.33%) Microsoft Excel
12 61 (22.59%) Analytics
12 61 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
13 57 (21.11%) Data Modelling
14 56 (20.74%) Data Governance
15 55 (20.37%) Data Quality
16 51 (18.89%) Tableau
16 51 (18.89%) Banking
17 46 (17.04%) Data Visualisation
18 42 (15.56%) Migration
19 34 (12.59%) Data Cleansing
20 33 (12.22%) Data Management
20 33 (12.22%) Agile
20 33 (12.22%) Data Warehouse
20 33 (12.22%) Decision-Making
21 30 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
22 29 (10.74%) Validation
22 29 (10.74%) Oracle
22 29 (10.74%) Microsoft
23 26 (9.63%) Actionable Insight

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 9 (3.33%) Confluence
2 6 (2.22%) SAS
2 6 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.74%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 63 (23.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (3.33%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.74%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 5 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.74%) Bankmaster
3 2 (0.74%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 78 (28.89%) Power Platform
2 25 (9.26%) AWS
3 19 (7.04%) Azure
4 16 (5.93%) GCP
5 14 (5.19%) Snowflake
6 11 (4.07%) dbt
7 7 (2.59%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.59%) Collibra
8 5 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.85%) Serverless
9 4 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.48%) Azure Machine Learning
9 4 (1.48%) Cloud Functions
10 3 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.11%) Google Sheets
10 3 (1.11%) SaaS
11 2 (0.74%) Google Analytics
11 2 (0.74%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) Firewall
1 1 (0.37%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (28.52%) Power BI
2 51 (18.89%) Tableau
3 33 (12.22%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (8.52%) SQL Server
5 11 (4.07%) BigQuery
6 9 (3.33%) Big Data
6 9 (3.33%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.96%) Data Mining
7 8 (2.96%) Metadata
8 7 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (2.59%) Looker
9 5 (1.85%) QlikView
9 5 (1.85%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (1.85%) Star Schema
10 4 (1.48%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.48%) GIS
10 4 (1.48%) Power Query
10 4 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.74%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 14 (5.19%) JIRA
2 10 (3.70%) Git
3 4 (1.48%) MagicDraw
4 2 (0.74%) Ant
4 2 (0.74%) ER Studio
4 2 (0.74%) ERwin
4 2 (0.74%) XMLSpy
5 1 (0.37%) GitLab
5 1 (0.37%) LSMW
5 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 83 (30.74%) Analytical Skills
2 81 (30.00%) Finance
3 79 (29.26%) Social Skills
4 51 (18.89%) Banking
5 13 (4.81%) Front Office
5 13 (4.81%) Investment Banking
6 11 (4.07%) Retail
7 10 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.22%) Public Sector
10 5 (1.85%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.85%) Marketing
11 4 (1.48%) Corporate Banking
11 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.48%) Legal
11 4 (1.48%) Local Government
11 4 (1.48%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.11%) Billing
13 2 (0.74%) Games
13 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.85%) XML
2 3 (1.11%) JSON
3 2 (0.74%) FpML
3 2 (0.74%) Kafka
3 2 (0.74%) Plotly
3 2 (0.74%) React
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Avro
4 1 (0.37%) LDAP
4 1 (0.37%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.37%) NumPy
4 1 (0.37%) OLE
4 1 (0.37%) Pandas
4 1 (0.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.30%) Data Structures
2 13 (4.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (3.70%) Reference Data
4 8 (2.96%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 6 (2.22%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 5 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.85%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.48%) Derivative
8 4 (1.48%) IoT
8 4 (1.48%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.11%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.11%) Pricing Data
9 3 (1.11%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.74%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.74%) Linux
2 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (38.15%) Data Analysis
2 76 (28.15%) Business Intelligence
3 64 (23.70%) Visualisation
4 61 (22.59%) Analytics
4 61 (22.59%) Problem-Solving
5 57 (21.11%) Data Modelling
6 56 (20.74%) Data Governance
7 46 (17.04%) Data Visualisation
8 42 (15.56%) Migration
9 34 (12.59%) Data Cleansing
10 33 (12.22%) Agile
10 33 (12.22%) Data Management
10 33 (12.22%) Decision-Making
11 30 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
12 29 (10.74%) Validation
13 26 (9.63%) Actionable Insight
14 24 (8.89%) Business Analysis
15 23 (8.52%) ETL
16 22 (8.15%) Data Integration
17 21 (7.78%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 145 (53.70%) SQL
2 86 (31.85%) Python
3 14 (5.19%) R
3 14 (5.19%) VBA
4 7 (2.59%) PL/SQL
5 3 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.11%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.11%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.74%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.37%) LookML
7 1 (0.37%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 16 (5.93%) Degree
1 16 (5.93%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (1.85%) Master's Degree
4 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.37%) ACCA
5 1 (0.37%) CASP
5 1 (0.37%) CIMA
5 1 (0.37%) CISA
5 1 (0.37%) CISM
5 1 (0.37%) CISSP
5 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.37%) HNC
5 1 (0.37%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (20.37%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.44%) GDPR
3 8 (2.96%) QA
4 7 (2.59%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.48%) SEPA
6 2 (0.74%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.74%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.37%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.37%) EMIR
7 1 (0.37%) GAAP
7 1 (0.37%) LOINC
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
7 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.37%) PERC
7 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (0.37%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.37%) Grafana
1 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.37%) Terraform
1 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 29 (10.74%) Microsoft
1 29 (10.74%) Oracle
2 18 (6.67%) Google
3 13 (4.81%) SAP
4 11 (4.07%) Databricks
4 11 (4.07%) Informatica
5 5 (1.85%) Alteryx
5 5 (1.85%) IBM
6 4 (1.48%) Ab Initio
6 4 (1.48%) Foundry
6 4 (1.48%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.48%) Talend
7 3 (1.11%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.11%) Cognos
7 3 (1.11%) Palantir
8 2 (0.74%) Ariba
8 2 (0.74%) DocuSign
8 2 (0.74%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.37%) Workday