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 2 September 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 132 155
Rank change year-on-year -36 +23 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 343 293 273
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.71% 2.21% 1.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 2.38% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 202 205
10th Percentile £257 £306 £300
25th Percentile £363 £387 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £603 £588
90th Percentile £611 £718 £675
England median daily rate £438 £438 £450
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 5
10th Percentile £20.02 £25.00 £23.36
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.01 £25.40
Median hourly rate £30.28 £32.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% -14.67% +25.00%
75th Percentile £32.56 £36.25 £44.50
90th Percentile £43.25 £62.00 £47.05
England median hourly rate £30.00 £29.33 £23.00
% change year-on-year +2.28% +27.52% -9.64%

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 18,700 12,336 15,292
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.34% 92.91% 94.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,091 8,299 10,482
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 367 207 194
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.05 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.28
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £62.13 £51.00 £55.75
90th Percentile £80.50 £65.00 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -44.11% +2.86%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 0 67 £435 -8.53% 17
West London -6 13 £425 - 7
South London -12 4 £533 +4.98% 1
North London - 3 £314 - 1
East London +2 2 £265 -47.65% 4
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 September 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.

1 171 (49.85%) SQL
2 133 (38.78%) Data Quality
3 118 (34.40%) Business Intelligence
4 111 (32.36%) Power BI
4 111 (32.36%) Power Platform
5 102 (29.74%) Data Analysis
6 97 (28.28%) Data Governance
7 89 (25.95%) Analytics
8 85 (24.78%) Data Modelling
9 83 (24.20%) Python
10 80 (23.32%) Validation
11 69 (20.12%) Stakeholder Management
12 67 (19.53%) Decision-Making
13 63 (18.37%) Microsoft Excel
13 63 (18.37%) Migration
14 55 (16.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 54 (15.74%) Azure
15 54 (15.74%) Visualisation
16 50 (14.58%) Tableau
17 48 (13.99%) AI
17 48 (13.99%) Data Migration
18 47 (13.70%) Databricks
18 47 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
19 45 (13.12%) Agile
20 44 (12.83%) Actionable Insight
21 43 (12.54%) Data Mapping
22 41 (11.95%) Microsoft
23 40 (11.66%) Data Lineage
23 40 (11.66%) ETL
24 38 (11.08%) Data Cleansing

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 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.17%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.87%) CMS
3 3 (0.87%) SAS
4 2 (0.58%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 63 (18.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.29%) SPSS
5 1 (0.29%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.75%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.17%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.87%) iTrent
3 3 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.58%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.58%) Eikon
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.58%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.58%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.29%) Advent Moxy
5 1 (0.29%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
5 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.29%) ENOVIA
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 111 (32.36%) Power Platform
2 54 (15.74%) Azure
3 33 (9.62%) AWS
4 32 (9.33%) Snowflake
5 10 (2.92%) Collibra
6 9 (2.62%) GCP
6 9 (2.62%) SaaS
7 8 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 8 (2.33%) Microsoft Purview
8 7 (2.04%) Power Automate
9 5 (1.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.87%) Alation
10 3 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.87%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.58%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.58%) dbt
11 2 (0.58%) Google Sheets
11 2 (0.58%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.58%) Firewall
1 2 (0.58%) Internet
2 1 (0.29%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (32.36%) Power BI
2 50 (14.58%) Tableau
3 32 (9.33%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (9.33%) Metadata
4 15 (4.37%) Looker
4 15 (4.37%) Relational Database
5 12 (3.50%) Power Query
6 9 (2.62%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.75%) Big Data
7 6 (1.75%) BigQuery
8 4 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (1.17%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (1.17%) Parquet
8 4 (1.17%) PowerPivot
8 4 (1.17%) Qlik Sense
9 3 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.87%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.87%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.87%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.58%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (2.04%) JIRA
2 2 (0.58%) Git
2 2 (0.58%) GitLab
3 1 (0.29%) GCC
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 119 (34.69%) Finance
2 101 (29.45%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (25.95%) Social Skills
4 47 (13.70%) Banking
5 28 (8.16%) Marketing
5 28 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 24 (7.00%) Retail
7 15 (4.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (3.50%) Investment Banking
9 9 (2.62%) Front Office
9 9 (2.62%) Local Government
10 7 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
11 6 (1.75%) Legal
11 6 (1.75%) Military
12 4 (1.17%) Back Office
12 4 (1.17%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.17%) Retail Banking
13 3 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.04%) PySpark
2 6 (1.75%) JSON
2 6 (1.75%) Pandas
3 4 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.58%) Apache Avro
4 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.58%) PyTorch
4 2 (0.58%) XML
5 1 (0.29%) Google JAX
5 1 (0.29%) Great Expectations
5 1 (0.29%) JAX
5 1 (0.29%) Kafka
5 1 (0.29%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.29%) Node.js
5 1 (0.29%) NumPy
5 1 (0.29%) pytest
5 1 (0.29%) React
5 1 (0.29%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.29%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.62%) Data Structures
2 16 (4.66%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
3 12 (3.50%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.21%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.04%) Fixed Income
6 6 (1.75%) FMCG
7 4 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.17%) Derivative
7 4 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.17%) Reference Data
8 3 (0.87%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.87%) Equities
8 3 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.87%) Pricing Data
9 2 (0.58%) CMDB
9 2 (0.58%) EPoS
9 2 (0.58%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.58%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.58%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (34.40%) Business Intelligence
2 102 (29.74%) Data Analysis
3 97 (28.28%) Data Governance
4 89 (25.95%) Analytics
5 85 (24.78%) Data Modelling
6 80 (23.32%) Validation
7 69 (20.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 67 (19.53%) Decision-Making
9 63 (18.37%) Migration
10 55 (16.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 54 (15.74%) Visualisation
12 48 (13.99%) AI
12 48 (13.99%) Data Migration
13 47 (13.70%) Problem-Solving
14 45 (13.12%) Agile
15 44 (12.83%) Actionable Insight
16 43 (12.54%) Data Mapping
17 40 (11.66%) Data Lineage
17 40 (11.66%) ETL
18 38 (11.08%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 171 (49.85%) SQL
2 83 (24.20%) Python
3 20 (5.83%) R
4 13 (3.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.17%) VBA
6 3 (0.87%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.58%) Korn
7 2 (0.58%) Scala
8 1 (0.29%) Cypher
8 1 (0.29%) Java
8 1 (0.29%) LookML
8 1 (0.29%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.29%) SOQL
8 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (7.87%) Security Cleared
2 23 (6.71%) SC Cleared
3 19 (5.54%) Degree
4 4 (1.17%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.87%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.87%) 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%) Computer Science Degree
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
1 133 (38.78%) Data Quality
2 20 (5.83%) GDPR
2 20 (5.83%) QA
3 9 (2.62%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.17%) PMO
5 3 (0.87%) SLA
5 3 (0.87%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.29%) EMIR
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%) MiFID
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%) SCCM
2 1 (0.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 47 (13.70%) Databricks
2 41 (11.95%) Microsoft
3 20 (5.83%) SAP
4 12 (3.50%) Oracle
5 11 (3.21%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.75%) Google
6 6 (1.75%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.46%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.17%) Informatica
9 3 (0.87%) Teradata
9 3 (0.87%) Workday
10 2 (0.58%) Citrix
10 2 (0.58%) CODA
10 2 (0.58%) FXall
10 2 (0.58%) IBM
10 2 (0.58%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.29%) Ariba
11 1 (0.29%) Dell
11 1 (0.29%) Murex
11 1 (0.29%) Sage