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 2 July 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 123 155
Rank change year-on-year -38 +32 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 332 296 288
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.72% 2.28% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% 2.44% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 200 219
10th Percentile £259 £306 £310
25th Percentile £359 £398 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.33% +3.95% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £588
90th Percentile £638 £713 £675
England median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 3
10th Percentile £20.02 £25.00 £24.85
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.01 £29.13
Median hourly rate £30.28 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.86% -23.73% +8.70%
75th Percentile £32.56 £33.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £43.25 £34.94 £46.75
England median hourly rate £30.27 £26.94 £21.43
% change year-on-year +12.37% +25.70% -4.76%

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 17,928 12,127 16,543
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.39% 93.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,792 8,194 11,863
10th Percentile £358 £336 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 185 316
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.23 £23.45 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.25 £32.89 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% +18.93% -26.25%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.49
90th Percentile £80.38 £64.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +57.89% -28.75% -8.95%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -15 61 £390 -18.96% 24
West London -10 15 £425 -8.11% 2
South London +2 11 £463 -2.63%
East London -3 2 £265 -47.00% 4
North London - 2 £178 - 1
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 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.

1 156 (46.99%) SQL
2 119 (35.84%) Data Quality
3 104 (31.33%) Business Intelligence
3 104 (31.33%) Power Platform
4 103 (31.02%) Power BI
5 86 (25.90%) Data Analysis
5 86 (25.90%) Data Governance
6 79 (23.80%) Data Modelling
7 75 (22.59%) Analytics
8 73 (21.99%) Python
9 67 (20.18%) Decision-Making
10 66 (19.88%) Validation
11 61 (18.37%) Migration
12 59 (17.77%) Visualisation
13 57 (17.17%) Microsoft Excel
14 53 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
15 52 (15.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 46 (13.86%) Azure
17 45 (13.55%) Tableau
18 44 (13.25%) Databricks
19 43 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
20 41 (12.35%) AI
20 41 (12.35%) Data Migration
21 39 (11.75%) Dashboard Development
22 38 (11.45%) Data Management
22 38 (11.45%) ETL
23 37 (11.14%) Agile
24 35 (10.54%) Data Mapping
24 35 (10.54%) Security Cleared
25 34 (10.24%) 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 6 (1.81%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.20%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.20%) Confluence
3 3 (0.90%) SAS
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.60%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 57 (17.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.41%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.51%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.81%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.90%) iTrent
3 2 (0.60%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.60%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.30%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.30%) Eikon
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 104 (31.33%) Power Platform
2 46 (13.86%) Azure
3 31 (9.34%) AWS
4 25 (7.53%) Snowflake
5 10 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
6 9 (2.71%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (2.41%) GCP
8 7 (2.11%) Collibra
8 7 (2.11%) SaaS
9 5 (1.51%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.51%) Fivetran
9 5 (1.51%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.51%) Serverless
10 4 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.60%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.60%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.30%) Firewall
1 1 (0.30%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (31.02%) Power BI
2 45 (13.55%) Tableau
3 32 (9.64%) Metadata
4 26 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (3.61%) Looker
5 12 (3.61%) Power Query
5 12 (3.61%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.71%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.41%) BigQuery
8 6 (1.81%) Big Data
9 4 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.20%) PowerPivot
9 4 (1.20%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (1.20%) SQL Server
10 3 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.90%) Hadoop
10 3 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.60%) Flink
Development Applications
1 8 (2.41%) JIRA
2 5 (1.51%) MSI
3 2 (0.60%) GitLab
4 1 (0.30%) GCC
4 1 (0.30%) Git
4 1 (0.30%) Postman
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 128 (38.55%) Finance
2 95 (28.61%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (23.49%) Social Skills
4 40 (12.05%) Banking
5 31 (9.34%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.93%) Marketing
7 11 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.71%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.71%) Retail
9 8 (2.41%) Front Office
10 7 (2.11%) Local Government
11 6 (1.81%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.20%) Back Office
12 4 (1.20%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.90%) Law
13 3 (0.90%) Legal
13 3 (0.90%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.01%) Pandas
2 7 (2.11%) XML
3 6 (1.81%) JSON
3 6 (1.81%) PySpark
4 4 (1.20%) YAML
5 3 (0.90%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.90%) NumPy
6 2 (0.60%) Kafka
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.60%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.60%) REST
6 2 (0.60%) SOAP
6 2 (0.60%) Web Services
7 1 (0.30%) ADO
7 1 (0.30%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.30%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.30%) JAX
7 1 (0.30%) Next.js
7 1 (0.30%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.42%) Data Structures
2 16 (4.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.41%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.11%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.11%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.51%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.20%) Derivative
7 4 (1.20%) Equities
7 4 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.20%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.90%) Credit Risk
8 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.90%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.60%) CMDB
9 2 (0.60%) FMCG
9 2 (0.60%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.60%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.60%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (31.33%) Business Intelligence
2 86 (25.90%) Data Analysis
2 86 (25.90%) Data Governance
3 79 (23.80%) Data Modelling
4 75 (22.59%) Analytics
5 67 (20.18%) Decision-Making
6 66 (19.88%) Validation
7 61 (18.37%) Migration
8 59 (17.77%) Visualisation
9 53 (15.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 52 (15.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 43 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
12 41 (12.35%) AI
12 41 (12.35%) Data Migration
13 39 (11.75%) Dashboard Development
14 38 (11.45%) Data Management
14 38 (11.45%) ETL
15 37 (11.14%) Agile
16 35 (10.54%) Data Mapping
17 34 (10.24%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 156 (46.99%) SQL
2 73 (21.99%) Python
3 13 (3.92%) R
4 11 (3.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.51%) VBA
6 3 (0.90%) Korn
7 2 (0.60%) Scala
8 1 (0.30%) Cypher
8 1 (0.30%) Java
8 1 (0.30%) LookML
8 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (10.54%) Security Cleared
2 27 (8.13%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.52%) Degree
4 4 (1.20%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.90%) PMP
6 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.60%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.30%) CBAP
7 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.30%) ISEB
7 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (35.84%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.42%) GDPR
2 18 (5.42%) QA
3 6 (1.81%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.20%) PMO
5 3 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.90%) SLA
5 3 (0.90%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.60%) IFRS
6 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.30%) FATCA
7 1 (0.30%) GAAP
7 1 (0.30%) GMP
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.90%) Terraform
2 1 (0.30%) Grafana
2 1 (0.30%) Kibana
2 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 44 (13.25%) Databricks
2 27 (8.13%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.52%) SAP
4 12 (3.61%) Oracle
5 8 (2.41%) Alteryx
6 7 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.51%) Google
8 4 (1.20%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.20%) Workday
9 3 (0.90%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.60%) IBM
10 2 (0.60%) Informatica
10 2 (0.60%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.60%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.30%) Adobe
11 1 (0.30%) Citrix
11 1 (0.30%) Dell
11 1 (0.30%) Murex
11 1 (0.30%) Sage