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 18 May 2026.

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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 130 145
Rank change year-on-year -11 +15 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 333 270 305
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 2.16% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% 2.31% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 200 223
10th Percentile £280 £300 £338
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -1.23%
75th Percentile £538 £603 £589
90th Percentile £650 £713 £650
England median daily rate £425 £463 £463
% change year-on-year -8.11% - -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £23.76 £28.36 £24.03
25th Percentile £26.52 £28.60 £27.06
Median hourly rate £30.28 £29.07 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% -12.57% +19.82%
75th Percentile £32.56 £33.40 £39.56
90th Percentile £40.13 £34.17 £42.68
England median hourly rate £31.50 £27.55 £21.54
% change year-on-year +14.34% +27.93% -2.82%

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 16,664 11,670 16,335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.84% 93.28% 93.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,050 7,988 11,809
10th Percentile £352 £344 £325
25th Percentile £430 £427 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £756 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -2.01% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 143 318
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.42 £20.07
Median hourly rate £38.29 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.62% +23.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.05
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.32
England median hourly rate £45.59 £30.00 £36.92
% change year-on-year +51.95% -18.73% -17.54%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -3 64 £391 -17.63% 23
South London -6 12 £463 -2.63% 5
West London -13 12 £425 -15.00% 10
East London -8 2 £338 -20.59% 7
North London - 1 £178 - 4
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 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.

1 146 (43.84%) SQL
2 109 (32.73%) Data Quality
3 101 (30.33%) Business Intelligence
4 99 (29.73%) Power Platform
5 98 (29.43%) Power BI
6 84 (25.23%) Data Analysis
7 81 (24.32%) Python
8 77 (23.12%) Data Governance
8 77 (23.12%) Data Modelling
9 67 (20.12%) Analytics
9 67 (20.12%) Decision-Making
10 59 (17.72%) Microsoft Excel
11 57 (17.12%) Migration
12 54 (16.22%) Validation
13 53 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
14 50 (15.02%) Visualisation
15 47 (14.11%) Stakeholder Management
16 44 (13.21%) ETL
16 44 (13.21%) Security Cleared
17 43 (12.91%) Tableau
18 39 (11.71%) AWS
18 39 (11.71%) Dashboard Development
18 39 (11.71%) Data Migration
19 38 (11.41%) Azure
20 37 (11.11%) Databricks
20 37 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 36 (10.81%) SC Cleared
22 34 (10.21%) Agile
22 34 (10.21%) Data Management
23 33 (9.91%) 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 5 (1.50%) SAS
1 5 (1.50%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.20%) Confluence
3 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
Applications
1 59 (17.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.10%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.80%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.90%) iTrent
4 2 (0.60%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.30%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.30%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 99 (29.73%) Power Platform
2 39 (11.71%) AWS
3 38 (11.41%) Azure
4 23 (6.91%) Snowflake
5 10 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (2.10%) Amazon S3
6 7 (2.10%) GCP
7 5 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (1.50%) Collibra
7 5 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 5 (1.50%) SaaS
7 5 (1.50%) Serverless
8 4 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.20%) Fivetran
9 3 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) GitHub
10 2 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.60%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (29.43%) Power BI
2 43 (12.91%) Tableau
3 33 (9.91%) Metadata
4 25 (7.51%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.70%) Looker
5 9 (2.70%) Power Query
6 7 (2.10%) Big Data
6 7 (2.10%) BigQuery
6 7 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 6 (1.80%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.80%) KNIME
8 5 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.20%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.20%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.20%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.10%) JIRA
2 6 (1.80%) MSI
3 2 (0.60%) Git
3 2 (0.60%) GitLab
4 1 (0.30%) GCC
4 1 (0.30%) Postman
4 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 119 (35.74%) Finance
2 91 (27.33%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (21.92%) Social Skills
4 33 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 31 (9.31%) Banking
6 17 (5.11%) Marketing
7 10 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.10%) Front Office
10 6 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.80%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.50%) Legal
12 4 (1.20%) Back Office
12 4 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.90%) Law
13 3 (0.90%) Local Government
13 3 (0.90%) Military
14 2 (0.60%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.40%) Pandas
2 6 (1.80%) PySpark
3 5 (1.50%) XML
4 4 (1.20%) JSON
5 3 (0.90%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.90%) NumPy
5 3 (0.90%) YAML
6 2 (0.60%) Kafka
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%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.30%) Middleware
7 1 (0.30%) Playwright
7 1 (0.30%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.31%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.30%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.80%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.20%) Derivative
8 4 (1.20%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.20%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.20%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.90%) CMDB
9 3 (0.90%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.90%) Equities
9 3 (0.90%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (0.90%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.60%) NHS
10 2 (0.60%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.30%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (30.33%) Business Intelligence
2 84 (25.23%) Data Analysis
3 77 (23.12%) Data Governance
3 77 (23.12%) Data Modelling
4 67 (20.12%) Analytics
4 67 (20.12%) Decision-Making
5 57 (17.12%) Migration
6 54 (16.22%) Validation
7 53 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (15.02%) Visualisation
9 47 (14.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 44 (13.21%) ETL
11 39 (11.71%) Dashboard Development
11 39 (11.71%) Data Migration
12 37 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 34 (10.21%) Agile
13 34 (10.21%) Data Management
14 33 (9.91%) Actionable Insight
14 33 (9.91%) Data Mapping
15 30 (9.01%) Data Lineage
Programming Languages
1 146 (43.84%) SQL
2 81 (24.32%) Python
3 19 (5.71%) R
4 6 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 6 (1.80%) VBA
5 3 (0.90%) Korn
6 2 (0.60%) Scala
7 1 (0.30%) Java
7 1 (0.30%) LookML
7 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 36 (10.81%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.11%) Degree
4 3 (0.90%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.30%) CBAP
6 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (32.73%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.41%) GDPR
2 18 (5.41%) QA
3 5 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (0.90%) PMO
5 3 (0.90%) Solvency II
6 2 (0.60%) SLA
7 1 (0.30%) FATCA
7 1 (0.30%) GAAP
7 1 (0.30%) IFRS
7 1 (0.30%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (0.90%) 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 37 (11.11%) Databricks
2 18 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 17 (5.11%) SAP
4 10 (3.00%) Oracle
5 9 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.10%) Informatica
6 7 (2.10%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.50%) Alteryx
7 5 (1.50%) Workday
8 4 (1.20%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.90%) Google
9 3 (0.90%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.60%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.60%) IBM
10 2 (0.60%) Murex
10 2 (0.60%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.60%) Teradata
11 1 (0.30%) Cognos
11 1 (0.30%) Dell