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 27 February 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 134 133
Rank change year-on-year -14 -1 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 297 263 331
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 1.96% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.02% 2.09% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 192 243
10th Percentile £293 £300 £316
25th Percentile £388 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -9.31% +2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £603
90th Percentile £665 £675 £675
England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 3
10th Percentile £23.10 £28.52 -
25th Percentile £26.25 £28.60 £40.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -13.58% +50.00%
75th Percentile £33.75 £44.50 £42.75
90th Percentile £42.00 £51.15 £43.95
England median hourly rate £40.44 £27.13 £21.43
% change year-on-year +49.07% +26.57% -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 14,699 12,578 16,979
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 93.64% 93.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,859 8,208 12,273
10th Percentile £350 £335 £325
25th Percentile £425 £437 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.01%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 144 334
10th Percentile £18.14 £21.22 £15.96
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.66 £19.01
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year - +22.81% -18.57%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.65 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £36.00 £34.52
% change year-on-year -2.78% +4.30% -13.71%

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 27 February 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 27 February 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 27 February 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 40 £418 -8.74% 10
South London -13 11 £463 -2.63% 5
West London -15 4 £523 +17.42% 9
East London +1 2 £473 +35.00% 4
North London - 1 £500 - 1
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 February 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.

1 149 (50.17%) SQL
2 97 (32.66%) Data Quality
3 90 (30.30%) Power Platform
4 89 (29.97%) Business Intelligence
4 89 (29.97%) Power BI
5 88 (29.63%) Data Analysis
6 76 (25.59%) Python
7 67 (22.56%) Analytics
8 64 (21.55%) Data Governance
9 60 (20.20%) Data Modelling
10 58 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
10 58 (19.53%) Visualisation
11 57 (19.19%) Stakeholder Management
12 52 (17.51%) Decision-Making
13 51 (17.17%) Microsoft Excel
14 46 (15.49%) ETL
14 46 (15.49%) Validation
15 44 (14.81%) Migration
16 42 (14.14%) Actionable Insight
17 39 (13.13%) AWS
17 39 (13.13%) Tableau
18 37 (12.46%) Data Visualisation
18 37 (12.46%) Security Cleared
19 33 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 30 (10.10%) Data Management
20 30 (10.10%) SC Cleared
21 29 (9.76%) Dashboard Development
21 29 (9.76%) Data Migration
21 29 (9.76%) Data Transformation
22 28 (9.43%) Data Warehouse

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 (1.35%) SAS
2 3 (1.01%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.01%) Confluence
2 3 (1.01%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.34%) Apache
Applications
1 51 (17.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.68%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.68%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.67%) Actimize
3 2 (0.67%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.34%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.34%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 90 (30.30%) Power Platform
2 39 (13.13%) AWS
3 27 (9.09%) Azure
3 27 (9.09%) Snowflake
4 9 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 8 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (2.36%) Serverless
7 6 (2.02%) Collibra
7 6 (2.02%) GCP
8 5 (1.68%) OCI
9 4 (1.35%) dbt
9 4 (1.35%) SaaS
10 3 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.01%) Fivetran
10 3 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.67%) GitHub
11 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.34%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (29.97%) Power BI
2 39 (13.13%) Tableau
3 28 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (8.08%) Metadata
5 8 (2.69%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (2.69%) KNIME
6 7 (2.36%) Big Data
6 7 (2.36%) Looker
6 7 (2.36%) Power Query
7 6 (2.02%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.02%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.02%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (1.68%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.35%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.01%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.01%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.67%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.67%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 6 (2.02%) MSI
2 5 (1.68%) JIRA
3 2 (0.67%) ERwin
3 2 (0.67%) GitLab
3 2 (0.67%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.34%) Git
4 1 (0.34%) Postman
General
1 109 (36.70%) Finance
2 94 (31.65%) Analytical Skills
3 84 (28.28%) Social Skills
4 25 (8.42%) Banking
5 22 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.71%) Marketing
7 9 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.02%) Front Office
8 6 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.68%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.01%) Legal
11 3 (1.01%) Retail
12 2 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.67%) Police
12 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.68%) Pandas
1 5 (1.68%) XML
2 3 (1.01%) GeoJSON
2 3 (1.01%) JSON
2 3 (1.01%) NumPy
2 3 (1.01%) YAML
3 2 (0.67%) PySpark
3 2 (0.67%) REST
3 2 (0.67%) SOAP
3 2 (0.67%) Web Services
4 1 (0.34%) ADO
4 1 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.34%) Kafka
4 1 (0.34%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.34%) Next.js
4 1 (0.34%) Playwright
4 1 (0.34%) Plotly
4 1 (0.34%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.73%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (3.37%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.68%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.35%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.01%) CMDB
9 3 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.01%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.67%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.67%) Equities
10 2 (0.67%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.67%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.67%) NHS
10 2 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.34%) Cloud Native
11 1 (0.34%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.67%) Unix
1 2 (0.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (29.97%) Business Intelligence
2 88 (29.63%) Data Analysis
3 67 (22.56%) Analytics
4 64 (21.55%) Data Governance
5 60 (20.20%) Data Modelling
6 58 (19.53%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (19.53%) Visualisation
7 57 (19.19%) Stakeholder Management
8 52 (17.51%) Decision-Making
9 46 (15.49%) ETL
9 46 (15.49%) Validation
10 44 (14.81%) Migration
11 42 (14.14%) Actionable Insight
12 37 (12.46%) Data Visualisation
13 33 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 30 (10.10%) Data Management
15 29 (9.76%) Dashboard Development
15 29 (9.76%) Data Migration
15 29 (9.76%) Data Transformation
16 27 (9.09%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 149 (50.17%) SQL
2 76 (25.59%) Python
3 17 (5.72%) R
4 3 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.01%) VBA
5 2 (0.67%) Korn
6 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (12.46%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.10%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.38%) Degree
4 3 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.34%) ACCA
6 1 (0.34%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (32.66%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.71%) GDPR
3 12 (4.04%) QA
4 6 (2.02%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.35%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.01%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.67%) IFRS
7 2 (0.67%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.67%) PMO
7 2 (0.67%) SLA
7 2 (0.67%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.34%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (1.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.67%) Terraform
2 1 (0.34%) Grafana
2 1 (0.34%) Kibana
2 1 (0.34%) SCCM
2 1 (0.34%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 21 (7.07%) Databricks
1 21 (7.07%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.71%) Oracle
2 14 (4.71%) SAP
3 12 (4.04%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.37%) Informatica
5 9 (3.03%) MuleSoft
5 9 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.03%) Workday
6 3 (1.01%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.01%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.67%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.67%) Cognos
7 2 (0.67%) Google
7 2 (0.67%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.67%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.67%) Sparx
7 2 (0.67%) Teradata
8 1 (0.34%) Automation Anywhere
8 1 (0.34%) Dataiku