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 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 133 149
Rank change year-on-year -13 +16 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 322 261 298
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 2.05% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.98% 2.19% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 191 218
10th Percentile £300 £285 £323
25th Percentile £377 £351 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £606 £600
90th Percentile £650 £725 £650
England median daily rate £438 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile £23.21 £28.40 £24.03
25th Percentile £26.52 £28.60 £27.06
Median hourly rate £32.00 £29.94 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year +6.89% -9.96% +19.82%
75th Percentile £32.75 £34.36 £39.56
90th Percentile £41.60 £47.71 £42.68
England median hourly rate £32.25 £27.86 £21.64
% change year-on-year +15.75% +28.75% -2.35%

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 16,261 11,918 16,636
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 93.51% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,837 8,182 12,042
10th Percentile £350 £341 £325
25th Percentile £425 £434 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.24% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 146 342
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.73 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.63 £24.30 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +26.56% -21.55%
75th Percentile £63.26 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.38 £64.45
England median hourly rate £45.46 £31.64 £35.50
% change year-on-year +43.68% -10.87% -21.11%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -12 55 £403 -15.26% 17
South London -6 12 £463 -2.63% 6
West London -14 11 £425 -15.00% 10
East London -3 3 £450 +28.57% 13
North London - 1 £178 - 3
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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.

1 147 (45.65%) SQL
2 100 (31.06%) Business Intelligence
2 100 (31.06%) Data Quality
3 98 (30.43%) Power Platform
4 97 (30.12%) Power BI
5 81 (25.16%) Data Analysis
6 79 (24.53%) Python
7 74 (22.98%) Data Governance
7 74 (22.98%) Data Modelling
8 66 (20.50%) Analytics
9 64 (19.88%) Decision-Making
10 58 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
11 56 (17.39%) Microsoft Excel
12 52 (16.15%) Visualisation
13 50 (15.53%) Stakeholder Management
13 50 (15.53%) Validation
14 48 (14.91%) Migration
15 44 (13.66%) ETL
16 42 (13.04%) Security Cleared
17 41 (12.73%) Tableau
18 39 (12.11%) AWS
19 38 (11.80%) Azure
20 36 (11.18%) Dashboard Development
21 35 (10.87%) Actionable Insight
21 35 (10.87%) SC Cleared
22 34 (10.56%) Databricks
22 34 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 32 (9.94%) Agile
23 32 (9.94%) Data Management
23 32 (9.94%) Data Visualisation

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 5 (1.55%) SAS
2 4 (1.24%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.93%) Confluence
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
Applications
1 56 (17.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.31%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.24%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.62%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.31%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.31%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 98 (30.43%) Power Platform
2 39 (12.11%) AWS
3 38 (11.80%) Azure
4 21 (6.52%) Snowflake
5 9 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (2.48%) GCP
7 7 (2.17%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.17%) Collibra
8 5 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.55%) Serverless
9 4 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.24%) Fivetran
9 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.24%) SaaS
10 3 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.62%) GitHub
11 2 (0.62%) IBM Blueworks
11 2 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (30.12%) Power BI
2 41 (12.73%) Tableau
3 31 (9.63%) Metadata
4 27 (8.39%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.80%) Looker
5 9 (2.80%) Power Query
6 7 (2.17%) Big Data
6 7 (2.17%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.86%) KNIME
8 5 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (1.55%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.24%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.24%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.24%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.93%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (1.86%) JIRA
1 6 (1.86%) MSI
2 2 (0.62%) ERwin
2 2 (0.62%) Git
2 2 (0.62%) GitLab
2 2 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.31%) GCC
3 1 (0.31%) Postman
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 114 (35.40%) Finance
2 86 (26.71%) Analytical Skills
3 74 (22.98%) Social Skills
4 30 (9.32%) Banking
4 30 (9.32%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.28%) Marketing
6 10 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.17%) Front Office
9 6 (1.86%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.86%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.24%) Back Office
11 4 (1.24%) Legal
11 4 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.93%) Law
12 3 (0.93%) Local Government
13 2 (0.62%) Billing
13 2 (0.62%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.17%) Pandas
2 5 (1.55%) PySpark
2 5 (1.55%) XML
3 4 (1.24%) JSON
4 3 (0.93%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.93%) NumPy
4 3 (0.93%) YAML
5 2 (0.62%) Kafka
5 2 (0.62%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.62%) REST
5 2 (0.62%) SOAP
5 2 (0.62%) Web Services
6 1 (0.31%) ADO
6 1 (0.31%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.31%) Middleware
6 1 (0.31%) Node.js
6 1 (0.31%) Playwright
6 1 (0.31%) pytest
6 1 (0.31%) React
6 1 (0.31%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.83%) Data Structures
2 9 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (2.48%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.86%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.55%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.24%) CMDB
7 4 (1.24%) Derivative
7 4 (1.24%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.24%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.93%) Credit Risk
8 3 (0.93%) Equities
8 3 (0.93%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.62%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.62%) NHS
9 2 (0.62%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.62%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.93%) Windows
2 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (31.06%) Business Intelligence
2 81 (25.16%) Data Analysis
3 74 (22.98%) Data Governance
3 74 (22.98%) Data Modelling
4 66 (20.50%) Analytics
5 64 (19.88%) Decision-Making
6 58 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (16.15%) Visualisation
8 50 (15.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 50 (15.53%) Validation
9 48 (14.91%) Migration
10 44 (13.66%) ETL
11 36 (11.18%) Dashboard Development
12 35 (10.87%) Actionable Insight
13 34 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 32 (9.94%) Agile
14 32 (9.94%) Data Management
14 32 (9.94%) Data Visualisation
15 31 (9.63%) Data Migration
16 28 (8.70%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 147 (45.65%) SQL
2 79 (24.53%) Python
3 18 (5.59%) R
4 6 (1.86%) VBA
5 5 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.93%) Korn
7 2 (0.62%) Scala
8 1 (0.31%) Java
8 1 (0.31%) LookML
8 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 42 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 35 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.42%) Degree
4 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (31.06%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.97%) GDPR
3 15 (4.66%) QA
4 5 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.24%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.93%) PMO
7 2 (0.62%) IFRS
7 2 (0.62%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) FATCA
8 1 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.93%) Terraform
2 1 (0.31%) Grafana
2 1 (0.31%) Kibana
2 1 (0.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (10.56%) Databricks
2 18 (5.59%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.66%) SAP
4 12 (3.73%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.80%) Informatica
6 8 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.17%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.17%) Oracle
8 4 (1.24%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.24%) Google
9 3 (0.93%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.93%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.93%) Workday
10 2 (0.62%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.62%) IBM
10 2 (0.62%) Murex
10 2 (0.62%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.62%) Sparx
10 2 (0.62%) Teradata
11 1 (0.31%) Dell