Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 June 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 129 159
Rank change year-on-year -16 +30 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 336 279 291
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 2.25% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.91% 2.40% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 192 222
10th Percentile £263 £318 £313
25th Percentile £356 £405 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £539 £620 £589
90th Percentile £638 £718 £659
England median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 2
10th Percentile £18.01 £25.00 £24.43
25th Percentile £23.76 £25.01 £28.06
Median hourly rate £28.55 £28.60 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% -18.87% +23.68%
75th Percentile £32.38 £33.40 £42.56
90th Percentile £41.15 £34.94 £46.28
England median hourly rate £30.27 £26.94 £21.43
% change year-on-year +12.37% +25.70% -3.29%

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 17,583 11,612 16,630
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 93.47% 93.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,593 7,879 11,938
10th Percentile £358 £340 £325
25th Percentile £435 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 169 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £19.89 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.25 £32.89 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% +18.27% -24.37%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.05
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.00 £66.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.53
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.26% -12.17%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 £383 -23.50% 4
West London -13 15 £425 -8.11% 5
South London -1 12 £463 -2.63%
East London -3 2 £265 -47.00% 2
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 18 June 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.

1 159 (47.32%) SQL
2 116 (34.52%) Data Quality
3 107 (31.85%) Business Intelligence
4 106 (31.55%) Power Platform
5 105 (31.25%) Power BI
6 85 (25.30%) Data Analysis
7 83 (24.70%) Data Governance
8 79 (23.51%) Analytics
8 79 (23.51%) Python
9 75 (22.32%) Data Modelling
10 66 (19.64%) Decision-Making
11 64 (19.05%) Validation
12 63 (18.75%) Migration
13 57 (16.96%) Microsoft Excel
14 56 (16.67%) Visualisation
15 49 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 49 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
16 47 (13.99%) Azure
16 47 (13.99%) Tableau
17 46 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
18 45 (13.39%) Databricks
19 43 (12.80%) Dashboard Development
19 43 (12.80%) Data Migration
20 42 (12.50%) AI
20 42 (12.50%) ETL
21 40 (11.90%) Security Cleared
22 39 (11.61%) AWS
23 38 (11.31%) Data Management
24 35 (10.42%) Actionable Insight
24 35 (10.42%) Agile

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 (1.79%) Apache Spark
1 6 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.19%) Confluence
3 3 (0.89%) SAS
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 57 (16.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.49%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.79%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.89%) 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%) Dynamics CRM
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
1 106 (31.55%) Power Platform
2 47 (13.99%) Azure
3 39 (11.61%) AWS
4 29 (8.63%) Snowflake
5 10 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (2.38%) GCP
7 7 (2.08%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.08%) Collibra
7 7 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (2.08%) SaaS
8 5 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.49%) Fivetran
8 5 (1.49%) Serverless
9 4 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.19%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.89%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.60%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.60%) IBM Blueworks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (31.25%) Power BI
2 47 (13.99%) Tableau
3 29 (8.63%) Metadata
4 26 (7.74%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (3.57%) Power Query
6 11 (3.27%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.98%) Big Data
7 10 (2.98%) Looker
8 8 (2.38%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.08%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.49%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.19%) KNIME
11 4 (1.19%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.19%) PowerPivot
11 4 (1.19%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (1.19%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.89%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (1.79%) JIRA
1 6 (1.79%) MSI
2 2 (0.60%) GitLab
3 1 (0.30%) GCC
3 1 (0.30%) Git
3 1 (0.30%) Postman
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 125 (37.20%) Finance
2 99 (29.46%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (22.62%) Social Skills
4 38 (11.31%) Banking
5 31 (9.23%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.95%) Marketing
7 12 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.68%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.68%) Retail
9 7 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.08%) Front Office
10 6 (1.79%) Local Government
10 6 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.19%) Back Office
11 4 (1.19%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.89%) Law
12 3 (0.89%) Legal
12 3 (0.89%) Military
12 3 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.98%) Pandas
2 6 (1.79%) PySpark
2 6 (1.79%) XML
3 4 (1.19%) JSON
3 4 (1.19%) YAML
4 3 (0.89%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.89%) NumPy
5 2 (0.60%) Kafka
5 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.60%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.60%) REST
5 2 (0.60%) SOAP
5 2 (0.60%) Web Services
6 1 (0.30%) ADO
6 1 (0.30%) Google JAX
6 1 (0.30%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.30%) JAX
6 1 (0.30%) Next.js
6 1 (0.30%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 15 (4.46%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (3.27%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.49%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.19%) Derivative
7 4 (1.19%) Equities
7 4 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.19%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.89%) Credit Risk
8 3 (0.89%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.60%) CMDB
9 2 (0.60%) FMCG
9 2 (0.60%) NHS
9 2 (0.60%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.60%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (31.85%) Business Intelligence
2 85 (25.30%) Data Analysis
3 83 (24.70%) Data Governance
4 79 (23.51%) Analytics
5 75 (22.32%) Data Modelling
6 66 (19.64%) Decision-Making
7 64 (19.05%) Validation
8 63 (18.75%) Migration
9 56 (16.67%) Visualisation
10 49 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 49 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
11 46 (13.69%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (12.80%) Dashboard Development
12 43 (12.80%) Data Migration
13 42 (12.50%) AI
13 42 (12.50%) ETL
14 38 (11.31%) Data Management
15 35 (10.42%) Actionable Insight
15 35 (10.42%) Agile
15 35 (10.42%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 159 (47.32%) SQL
2 79 (23.51%) Python
3 19 (5.65%) R
4 10 (2.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.49%) VBA
6 3 (0.89%) Korn
7 2 (0.60%) Scala
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 40 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.36%) Degree
4 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.60%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.30%) CBAP
6 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.30%) ISEB
6 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (34.52%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.65%) GDPR
3 18 (5.36%) QA
4 6 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.19%) PMO
6 3 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.89%) SLA
6 3 (0.89%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.60%) IFRS
7 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.30%) FATCA
8 1 (0.30%) GAAP
8 1 (0.30%) GMP
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.89%) Terraform
2 1 (0.30%) Grafana
2 1 (0.30%) Kibana
2 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (13.39%) Databricks
2 25 (7.44%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.46%) SAP
4 12 (3.57%) Oracle
5 8 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.08%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.19%) Google
7 4 (1.19%) Informatica
7 4 (1.19%) MuleSoft
7 4 (1.19%) Workday
8 3 (0.89%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.89%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.60%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.60%) IBM
9 2 (0.60%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.30%) FactSet
10 1 (0.30%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.30%) LexisNexis
10 1 (0.30%) Varonis