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 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 131 156
Rank change year-on-year -31 +25 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 342 296 279
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.70% 2.19% 1.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 2.35% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 204 210
10th Percentile £259 £306 £300
25th Percentile £365 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +1.32% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £595 £588
90th Percentile £625 £717 £661
England median daily rate £438 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 4
10th Percentile £20.02 £25.00 £23.02
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.01 £24.55
Median hourly rate £30.28 £29.07 £31.65
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% -8.14% +5.48%
75th Percentile £32.56 £34.84 £41.25
90th Percentile £43.25 £37.50 £45.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £26.94 £25.79
% change year-on-year +11.37% +4.45% +13.36%

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 18,708 12,579 15,251
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 92.98% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,168 8,479 10,729
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
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 £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 204 203
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.30
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.98 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.25 £29.54 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +26.12% -13.77% -9.87%
75th Percentile £58.44 £50.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.73 £65.00 £71.75
England median hourly rate £43.10 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +70.23% -43.73% +7.40%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -10 69 £442 -1.72% 10
West London -9 13 £425 -8.11% 3
South London -1 9 £463 -8.87% 2
North London - 3 £314 - 2
East London -1 2 £265 -47.65% 8
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 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.

1 166 (48.54%) SQL
2 125 (36.55%) Data Quality
3 116 (33.92%) Business Intelligence
4 107 (31.29%) Power Platform
5 106 (30.99%) Power BI
6 102 (29.82%) Data Analysis
7 94 (27.49%) Data Governance
8 89 (26.02%) Analytics
9 83 (24.27%) Data Modelling
10 79 (23.10%) Python
11 71 (20.76%) Validation
12 68 (19.88%) Decision-Making
13 65 (19.01%) Stakeholder Management
14 59 (17.25%) Migration
15 56 (16.37%) Microsoft Excel
15 56 (16.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 56 (16.37%) Visualisation
16 53 (15.50%) Azure
17 48 (14.04%) Databricks
18 46 (13.45%) AI
18 46 (13.45%) Tableau
19 43 (12.57%) Data Migration
20 42 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
21 41 (11.99%) Agile
22 40 (11.70%) Data Lineage
22 40 (11.70%) Data Mapping
23 39 (11.40%) Actionable Insight
24 38 (11.11%) Microsoft
25 37 (10.82%) ETL
26 35 (10.23%) Data Transformation

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 7 (2.05%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.17%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.88%) CMS
3 3 (0.88%) SAS
4 2 (0.58%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 56 (16.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.46%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.29%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.75%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.17%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.88%) iTrent
3 3 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.58%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.58%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.29%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.29%) Eikon
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 107 (31.29%) Power Platform
2 53 (15.50%) Azure
3 34 (9.94%) AWS
4 29 (8.48%) Snowflake
5 9 (2.63%) Collibra
5 9 (2.63%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (2.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (2.34%) GCP
7 7 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (2.05%) Power Automate
7 7 (2.05%) SaaS
8 5 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.88%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.88%) Google Tag Manager
9 3 (0.88%) PowerApps
9 3 (0.88%) Serverless
10 2 (0.58%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.58%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (0.29%) Firewall
1 1 (0.29%) Internet
1 1 (0.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (30.99%) Power BI
2 46 (13.45%) Tableau
3 32 (9.36%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (9.36%) Metadata
4 15 (4.39%) Looker
5 14 (4.09%) Relational Database
6 12 (3.51%) Power Query
7 8 (2.34%) Data Lake
8 6 (1.75%) Big Data
8 6 (1.75%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.17%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.17%) Parquet
9 4 (1.17%) PowerPivot
9 4 (1.17%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.88%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.88%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.88%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.58%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 7 (2.05%) JIRA
2 2 (0.58%) GitLab
3 1 (0.29%) GCC
3 1 (0.29%) Git
3 1 (0.29%) Postman
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 118 (34.50%) Finance
2 96 (28.07%) Analytical Skills
3 84 (24.56%) Social Skills
4 47 (13.74%) Banking
5 31 (9.06%) Public Sector
6 28 (8.19%) Marketing
7 23 (6.73%) Retail
8 15 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.22%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.63%) Front Office
11 8 (2.34%) Local Government
12 7 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.46%) Legal
14 5 (1.46%) Military
14 5 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.46%) Retail Banking
15 4 (1.17%) Back Office
15 4 (1.17%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (1.17%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.63%) Pandas
2 7 (2.05%) JSON
3 6 (1.75%) PySpark
4 3 (0.88%) NumPy
5 2 (0.58%) Apache Avro
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.58%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.58%) XML
6 1 (0.29%) Django
6 1 (0.29%) Google JAX
6 1 (0.29%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.29%) JAX
6 1 (0.29%) Kafka
6 1 (0.29%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.29%) Middleware
6 1 (0.29%) Next.js
6 1 (0.29%) Node.js
6 1 (0.29%) Playwright
6 1 (0.29%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.14%) Data Structures
2 14 (4.09%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (2.92%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.05%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.46%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.17%) Derivative
8 4 (1.17%) Equities
8 4 (1.17%) FMCG
8 4 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.17%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
10 2 (0.58%) CMDB
10 2 (0.58%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.58%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.58%) EPoS
10 2 (0.58%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (33.92%) Business Intelligence
2 102 (29.82%) Data Analysis
3 94 (27.49%) Data Governance
4 89 (26.02%) Analytics
5 83 (24.27%) Data Modelling
6 71 (20.76%) Validation
7 68 (19.88%) Decision-Making
8 65 (19.01%) Stakeholder Management
9 59 (17.25%) Migration
10 56 (16.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 56 (16.37%) Visualisation
11 46 (13.45%) AI
12 43 (12.57%) Data Migration
13 42 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
14 41 (11.99%) Agile
15 40 (11.70%) Data Lineage
15 40 (11.70%) Data Mapping
16 39 (11.40%) Actionable Insight
17 37 (10.82%) ETL
18 35 (10.23%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 166 (48.54%) SQL
2 79 (23.10%) Python
3 14 (4.09%) R
4 12 (3.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.46%) VBA
6 2 (0.58%) Korn
6 2 (0.58%) Scala
7 1 (0.29%) Cypher
7 1 (0.29%) Java
7 1 (0.29%) LookML
7 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.29%) SOQL
7 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (9.06%) Security Cleared
2 26 (7.60%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.68%) Degree
4 4 (1.17%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.88%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.88%) PMP
6 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.29%) CBAP
6 1 (0.29%) CFA
6 1 (0.29%) CISM
6 1 (0.29%) CISSP
6 1 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.29%) ISEB
6 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (36.55%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.26%) GDPR
3 17 (4.97%) QA
4 10 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.88%) PMO
5 3 (0.88%) SLA
6 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.58%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.29%) FATCA
7 1 (0.29%) GMP
7 1 (0.29%) GRC
7 1 (0.29%) IFRS
7 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.58%) Terraform
2 1 (0.29%) Grafana
2 1 (0.29%) Kibana
2 1 (0.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (14.04%) Databricks
2 38 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 17 (4.97%) SAP
4 9 (2.63%) Alteryx
4 9 (2.63%) Oracle
5 7 (2.05%) Google
6 5 (1.46%) Bloomberg
6 5 (1.46%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.88%) Informatica
7 3 (0.88%) OpenAI
7 3 (0.88%) Teradata
7 3 (0.88%) Workday
8 2 (0.58%) IBM
8 2 (0.58%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.58%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.29%) Adobe
9 1 (0.29%) Cognos
9 1 (0.29%) Murex
9 1 (0.29%) Reuters
9 1 (0.29%) Sage