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 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 150 140
Rank change year-on-year +6 -10 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 270 254 315
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.89% 1.78% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.04% 1.90% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 192 226
10th Percentile £286 £287 £309
25th Percentile £378 £329 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £459 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% -12.62% +1.94%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £638
90th Percentile £655 £710 £700
England median daily rate £438 £450 £481
% change year-on-year -2.78% -6.49% +1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 6
10th Percentile £24.15 £30.20 £15.75
25th Percentile £26.38 £35.00 £24.88
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.00 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -0.64% +45.37%
75th Percentile £42.50 £47.69 £40.75
90th Percentile £54.40 £54.75 £42.75
England median hourly rate £30.11 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year +11.00% +25.35% -8.05%

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 13,226 13,363 16,977
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 93.40% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,788 8,620 12,244
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £559
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.61% -3.62%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £799 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 149 224
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.58 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.44
Median hourly rate £31.57 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £59.69 £53.75 £54.34
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £44.78
% change year-on-year -21.43% -21.83% +33.66%

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -21 33 £428 -5.00% 28
East London +4 3 £495 +41.43% 9
South London -9 3 - - 7
West London -17 1 - - 12
North London - 1 £500 - 5
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 January 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.

1 141 (52.22%) SQL
2 105 (38.89%) Data Analysis
3 84 (31.11%) Python
4 83 (30.74%) Business Intelligence
5 82 (30.37%) Data Quality
6 78 (28.89%) Power BI
6 78 (28.89%) Power Platform
7 72 (26.67%) Analytics
8 61 (22.59%) Data Governance
9 59 (21.85%) Visualisation
10 57 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (20.37%) Data Modelling
12 48 (17.78%) Microsoft Excel
12 48 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
13 47 (17.41%) Decision-Making
14 45 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
15 42 (15.56%) ETL
16 39 (14.44%) Tableau
17 38 (14.07%) Validation
18 32 (11.85%) AWS
19 31 (11.48%) Data Visualisation
20 30 (11.11%) Migration
21 28 (10.37%) Data Transformation
21 28 (10.37%) Data Warehouse
22 27 (10.00%) Microsoft
22 27 (10.00%) Snowflake
23 26 (9.63%) Dashboard Development
23 26 (9.63%) Data Cleansing
23 26 (9.63%) Data Management
24 24 (8.89%) Metadata

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 4 (1.48%) SAS
2 3 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.37%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 48 (17.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.22%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.37%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.85%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.74%) Actimize
3 2 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.37%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.37%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.37%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.37%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 78 (28.89%) Power Platform
2 32 (11.85%) AWS
3 27 (10.00%) Snowflake
4 17 (6.30%) Azure
5 8 (2.96%) Collibra
6 7 (2.59%) GCP
7 6 (2.22%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.85%) OCI
9 4 (1.48%) dbt
10 3 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.11%) Serverless
11 1 (0.37%) Alation
11 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.37%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.37%) Google Data Studio
11 1 (0.37%) Google Sheets
11 1 (0.37%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.37%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (28.89%) Power BI
2 39 (14.44%) Tableau
3 28 (10.37%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (8.89%) Metadata
5 8 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (2.96%) Big Data
5 8 (2.96%) Power Query
6 6 (2.22%) KNIME
6 6 (2.22%) Relational Database
6 6 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
6 6 (2.22%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.85%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.85%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.85%) Looker
8 3 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.11%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.74%) OLAP
9 2 (0.74%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 5 (1.85%) JIRA
2 3 (1.11%) MSI
3 2 (0.74%) ERwin
3 2 (0.74%) Git
3 2 (0.74%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.74%) Selenium
4 1 (0.37%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.37%) GitLab
General
1 99 (36.67%) Finance
2 82 (30.37%) Social Skills
3 81 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (11.11%) Banking
5 18 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.56%) Marketing
7 10 (3.70%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.59%) Legal
8 7 (2.59%) Retail
9 4 (1.48%) Front Office
10 3 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.11%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.11%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.74%) Advertising
11 2 (0.74%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.11%) DAO
2 2 (0.74%) Pandas
3 1 (0.37%) JSON
3 1 (0.37%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.37%) NumPy
3 1 (0.37%) Plotly
3 1 (0.37%) PySpark
3 1 (0.37%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.96%) Reinsurance
3 8 (2.96%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.59%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.85%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.48%) Derivative
7 4 (1.48%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.11%) CMDB
9 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.74%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.74%) NHS
9 2 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 2 (0.74%) Taxonomies
10 1 (0.37%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.11%) Unix
2 2 (0.74%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (38.89%) Data Analysis
2 83 (30.74%) Business Intelligence
3 72 (26.67%) Analytics
4 61 (22.59%) Data Governance
5 59 (21.85%) Visualisation
6 57 (21.11%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (20.37%) Data Modelling
8 48 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 47 (17.41%) Decision-Making
10 45 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
11 42 (15.56%) ETL
12 38 (14.07%) Validation
13 31 (11.48%) Data Visualisation
14 30 (11.11%) Migration
15 28 (10.37%) Data Transformation
16 26 (9.63%) Dashboard Development
16 26 (9.63%) Data Cleansing
16 26 (9.63%) Data Management
17 23 (8.52%) Data Migration
17 23 (8.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 141 (52.22%) SQL
2 84 (31.11%) Python
3 18 (6.67%) R
4 6 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.11%) VBA
6 2 (0.74%) Scala
6 2 (0.74%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.37%) C#
7 1 (0.37%) C++
7 1 (0.37%) Java
7 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.37%) Korn
7 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (8.15%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.04%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.56%) Degree
4 4 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.74%) CEH
5 2 (0.74%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (0.74%) GIAC
5 2 (0.74%) GREM
5 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.74%) OSCP
6 1 (0.37%) ACCA
6 1 (0.37%) CIMA
6 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (30.37%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.67%) GDPR
3 7 (2.59%) QA
4 6 (2.22%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.74%) IFRS
6 2 (0.74%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) FATCA
7 1 (0.37%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
7 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.37%) SCCM
1 1 (0.37%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 27 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.19%) Oracle
2 14 (5.19%) Salesforce
2 14 (5.19%) SAP
3 11 (4.07%) Databricks
4 10 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.33%) Informatica
6 7 (2.59%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.59%) Workday
7 5 (1.85%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.48%) Google
9 2 (0.74%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.74%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.74%) Cognos
9 2 (0.74%) Murex
9 2 (0.74%) Sparx
9 2 (0.74%) Teradata
10 1 (0.37%) Calypso
10 1 (0.37%) NEC
10 1 (0.37%) Refinitiv