Data Analyst Contract Job Trends 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 October 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 143 163
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 261 297 335
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.96% 1.87% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.12% 1.99% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 226 244
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £378 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year - -5.94% -1.46%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £629
90th Percentile £683 £688 £700
England median daily rate £425 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -5.56% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 9
10th Percentile £25.00 £31.16 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.01 £35.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.75 £37.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% -1.32% +38.18%
75th Percentile £35.63 £46.63 £40.75
90th Percentile £59.55 £48.75 £46.35
England median hourly rate £29.33 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year +8.13% +25.35% -16.77%

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 12,290 14,901 19,642
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 94.07% 94.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,177 9,672 14,311
10th Percentile £335 £348 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £664 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £511 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.73% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 168 214
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.38
25th Percentile £22.38 £23.80 £22.29
Median hourly rate £26.54 £37.15 £40.17
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -7.51% +19.90%
75th Percentile £48.38 £58.75 £61.15
90th Percentile £67.31 £79.35 £75.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.28% +58.75%

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 20 October 2025.

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 -22 36 £438 -12.50% 67
West London -3 4 £425 +1.19% 18
East London +4 3 £506 - 19
South London - 3 £508 - 19
North London - 1 £500 - 5
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 October 2025, 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.

1 149 (57.09%) SQL
2 116 (44.44%) Data Analysis
3 90 (34.48%) Python
4 80 (30.65%) Business Intelligence
5 79 (30.27%) Analytics
6 76 (29.12%) Power BI
6 76 (29.12%) Power Platform
7 66 (25.29%) Data Quality
7 66 (25.29%) Visualisation
8 55 (21.07%) Microsoft Excel
9 52 (19.92%) Tableau
10 51 (19.54%) Data Modelling
11 47 (18.01%) Actionable Insight
12 46 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (16.48%) Data Governance
13 43 (16.48%) Data Visualisation
14 40 (15.33%) Decision-Making
14 40 (15.33%) Microsoft
15 34 (13.03%) ETL
16 33 (12.64%) Validation
17 32 (12.26%) Data Warehouse
18 31 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
19 30 (11.49%) Migration
20 28 (10.73%) Data Cleansing
21 25 (9.58%) Agile
21 25 (9.58%) Data Management
22 23 (8.81%) Data Transformation
23 22 (8.43%) Snowflake
24 21 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 20 (7.66%) AWS

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 4 (1.53%) Confluence
1 4 (1.53%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.77%) Apache Superset
2 2 (0.77%) SAS
3 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 55 (21.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.30%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.38%) Revit
6 1 (0.38%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.77%) NEC Housing
1 2 (0.77%) SAP HR
1 2 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.77%) Workday HCM
2 1 (0.38%) Academy Housing
2 1 (0.38%) Actimize
2 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.38%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.38%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.38%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
2 1 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 76 (29.12%) Power Platform
2 22 (8.43%) Snowflake
3 20 (7.66%) AWS
4 18 (6.90%) Azure
5 14 (5.36%) GCP
6 10 (3.83%) dbt
7 6 (2.30%) Collibra
8 5 (1.92%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.53%) Google Data Studio
9 4 (1.53%) Serverless
10 2 (0.77%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.77%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.77%) OCI
11 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.38%) Cloud Composer
11 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.77%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (29.12%) Power BI
2 52 (19.92%) Tableau
3 32 (12.26%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (5.75%) BigQuery
5 13 (4.98%) Metadata
6 12 (4.60%) Looker
7 9 (3.45%) Power Query
7 9 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.45%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.07%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.30%) Big Data
10 5 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
11 4 (1.53%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (1.53%) GIS
12 3 (1.15%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.15%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.15%) Star Schema
13 2 (0.77%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 8 (3.07%) JIRA
2 7 (2.68%) Git
3 2 (0.77%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.77%) Selenium
4 1 (0.38%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.38%) LSMW
General
1 106 (40.61%) Finance
2 75 (28.74%) Social Skills
3 72 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (14.56%) Banking
5 17 (6.51%) Retail
6 14 (5.36%) Investment Banking
7 13 (4.98%) Marketing
7 13 (4.98%) Public Sector
8 8 (3.07%) Local Government
8 8 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.68%) Corporate Banking
9 7 (2.68%) Legal
9 7 (2.68%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.92%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.92%) Front Office
12 3 (1.15%) Advertising
12 3 (1.15%) Law
12 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.92%) JSON
2 4 (1.53%) Pandas
3 3 (1.15%) DAO
3 3 (1.15%) NumPy
4 2 (0.77%) Kafka
4 2 (0.77%) Matplotlib
4 2 (0.77%) PySpark
5 1 (0.38%) Altair
5 1 (0.38%) Apache Avro
5 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.38%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.38%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.38%) Swagger
5 1 (0.38%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.21%) Analytical Mindset
1 11 (4.21%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.83%) Reinsurance
3 8 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.68%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.92%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.53%) Derivative
7 4 (1.53%) NHS
8 3 (1.15%) Pricing Data
8 3 (1.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.77%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.77%) Equities
9 2 (0.77%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.77%) Social Media
9 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (44.44%) Data Analysis
2 80 (30.65%) Business Intelligence
3 79 (30.27%) Analytics
4 66 (25.29%) Visualisation
5 51 (19.54%) Data Modelling
6 47 (18.01%) Actionable Insight
7 46 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (16.48%) Data Governance
8 43 (16.48%) Data Visualisation
9 40 (15.33%) Decision-Making
10 34 (13.03%) ETL
11 33 (12.64%) Validation
12 31 (11.88%) Stakeholder Management
13 30 (11.49%) Migration
14 28 (10.73%) Data Cleansing
15 25 (9.58%) Agile
15 25 (9.58%) Data Management
16 23 (8.81%) Data Transformation
17 21 (8.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 20 (7.66%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 149 (57.09%) SQL
2 90 (34.48%) Python
3 11 (4.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (3.45%) R
5 6 (2.30%) VBA
6 2 (0.77%) Java
6 2 (0.77%) Scala
6 2 (0.77%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.38%) C#
7 1 (0.38%) C++
7 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.38%) Korn
7 1 (0.38%) LookML
7 1 (0.38%) Perl
7 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (6.51%) Degree
2 6 (2.30%) Security Cleared
3 4 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.53%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.15%) CIPD
4 3 (1.15%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.77%) CEH
5 2 (0.77%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (0.77%) GIAC
5 2 (0.77%) GREM
5 2 (0.77%) OSCP
6 1 (0.38%) ACCA
6 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.38%) CIMA
6 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.38%) ISEB
6 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (25.29%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.13%) GDPR
3 5 (1.92%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.53%) QA
5 2 (0.77%) IFRS
6 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.38%) FATCA
6 1 (0.38%) GAAP
6 1 (0.38%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.38%) MiFID
6 1 (0.38%) PERC
6 1 (0.38%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) Terraform
1 1 (0.38%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 40 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.60%) Google
3 11 (4.21%) SAP
3 11 (4.21%) Workday
4 9 (3.45%) Oracle
5 8 (3.07%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.68%) Databricks
6 7 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.30%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.77%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.77%) Foundry
8 2 (0.77%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.77%) NEC
8 2 (0.77%) Palantir
9 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.38%) Cognos
9 1 (0.38%) Liquidlogic
9 1 (0.38%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.38%) Refinitiv