Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £474, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 144 158
Rank change year-on-year -3 +14 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 262 282 319
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.89% 1.81% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.05% 1.92% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 210 235
10th Percentile £284 £300 £293
25th Percentile £366 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £463 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.43% -9.31% -0.97%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £632
90th Percentile £650 £713 £700
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 8
10th Percentile £25.00 £32.12 £17.65
25th Percentile £25.01 £35.00 £20.88
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.25 £39.25
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +2.55% +78.41%
75th Percentile £35.00 £48.75 £40.75
90th Percentile £57.10 £52.35 £49.15
England median hourly rate £29.33 £27.13 £21.82
% change year-on-year +8.13% +24.31% -16.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 12,810 14,656 18,959
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 93.89% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,496 9,478 13,749
10th Percentile £335 £338 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £793
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 155 228
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.11
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% - +17.19%
75th Percentile £49.13 £57.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.15 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +50.70%

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025.

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 17 November 2025. 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 -35 30 £375 -24.05% 89
West London -11 4 £425 +1.19% 30
East London +8 3 £481 - 30
South London - 2 - - 17
North London - 1 £500 - 8
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 November 2025, 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.

1 151 (57.63%) SQL
2 113 (43.13%) Data Analysis
3 90 (34.35%) Python
4 84 (32.06%) Business Intelligence
5 79 (30.15%) Power BI
5 79 (30.15%) Power Platform
6 77 (29.39%) Analytics
7 73 (27.86%) Data Quality
8 66 (25.19%) Visualisation
9 53 (20.23%) Microsoft Excel
10 52 (19.85%) Data Modelling
11 51 (19.47%) Actionable Insight
12 50 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
13 49 (18.70%) Tableau
14 48 (18.32%) Data Governance
15 43 (16.41%) Decision-Making
15 43 (16.41%) Microsoft
16 40 (15.27%) Data Visualisation
16 40 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
17 38 (14.50%) ETL
18 37 (14.12%) Validation
19 32 (12.21%) Migration
20 31 (11.83%) Data Cleansing
21 29 (11.07%) Data Transformation
21 29 (11.07%) Data Warehouse
22 27 (10.31%) Data Management
23 24 (9.16%) Snowflake
24 23 (8.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 22 (8.40%) AWS
25 22 (8.40%) Data Migration

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 (1.91%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.53%) Confluence
3 2 (0.76%) SAS
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 53 (20.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.67%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.38%) Revit
7 1 (0.38%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.91%) SAP HR
2 3 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.76%) Actimize
3 2 (0.76%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.76%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.38%) Academy Housing
4 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.38%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 79 (30.15%) Power Platform
2 24 (9.16%) Snowflake
3 22 (8.40%) AWS
4 19 (7.25%) Azure
5 10 (3.82%) GCP
6 7 (2.67%) Collibra
7 6 (2.29%) dbt
8 5 (1.91%) OCI
9 4 (1.53%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.53%) Google Data Studio
10 3 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.15%) Serverless
11 2 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.76%) Google Sheets
11 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.38%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (30.15%) Power BI
2 49 (18.70%) Tableau
3 29 (11.07%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (6.11%) Metadata
5 11 (4.20%) BigQuery
6 10 (3.82%) Looker
7 9 (3.44%) Power Query
8 8 (3.05%) SQL Server
9 7 (2.67%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.67%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.29%) Big Data
11 5 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.15%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.76%) BusinessObjects XI
13 2 (0.76%) GIS
13 2 (0.76%) OLAP
13 2 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
13 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.67%) JIRA
2 3 (1.15%) Git
3 2 (0.76%) ERwin
3 2 (0.76%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.76%) Selenium
4 1 (0.38%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.38%) LSMW
General
1 109 (41.60%) Finance
2 86 (32.82%) Social Skills
3 74 (28.24%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (14.12%) Banking
5 16 (6.11%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.73%) Investment Banking
6 15 (5.73%) Marketing
7 13 (4.96%) Retail
8 8 (3.05%) Local Government
8 8 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.67%) Corporate Banking
9 7 (2.67%) Legal
9 7 (2.67%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.53%) Front Office
13 3 (1.15%) Advertising
13 3 (1.15%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.15%) Law
14 2 (0.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.53%) JSON
2 3 (1.15%) DAO
2 3 (1.15%) Pandas
3 2 (0.76%) NumPy
3 2 (0.76%) PySpark
4 1 (0.38%) Altair
4 1 (0.38%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.38%) Seaborn
4 1 (0.38%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.58%) Analytical Mindset
1 12 (4.58%) Data Structures
2 9 (3.44%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.05%) Reinsurance
4 6 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.29%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.53%) Derivative
5 4 (1.53%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.15%) NHS
6 3 (1.15%) Reference Data
7 2 (0.76%) CMDB
7 2 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.76%) Market Risk
7 2 (0.76%) Pricing Data
7 2 (0.76%) Social Media
7 2 (0.76%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.15%) Unix
2 2 (0.76%) Windows
3 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (43.13%) Data Analysis
2 84 (32.06%) Business Intelligence
3 77 (29.39%) Analytics
4 66 (25.19%) Visualisation
5 52 (19.85%) Data Modelling
6 51 (19.47%) Actionable Insight
7 50 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (18.32%) Data Governance
9 43 (16.41%) Decision-Making
10 40 (15.27%) Data Visualisation
10 40 (15.27%) Stakeholder Management
11 38 (14.50%) ETL
12 37 (14.12%) Validation
13 32 (12.21%) Migration
14 31 (11.83%) Data Cleansing
15 29 (11.07%) Data Transformation
16 27 (10.31%) Data Management
17 23 (8.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 22 (8.40%) Data Migration
19 21 (8.02%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 151 (57.63%) SQL
2 90 (34.35%) Python
3 13 (4.96%) R
4 10 (3.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.53%) VBA
6 2 (0.76%) Java
6 2 (0.76%) Scala
6 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.38%) C#
7 1 (0.38%) C++
7 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.38%) Korn
7 1 (0.38%) Perl
7 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (6.11%) Degree
2 10 (3.82%) Security Cleared
3 8 (3.05%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.15%) CIPD
4 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.76%) CEH
5 2 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (0.76%) GIAC
5 2 (0.76%) GREM
5 2 (0.76%) OSCP
6 1 (0.38%) ACCA
6 1 (0.38%) CIMA
6 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.38%) ISEB
6 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (27.86%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.49%) GDPR
3 5 (1.91%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.91%) QA
4 2 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.76%) IFRS
5 1 (0.38%) FATCA
5 1 (0.38%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.38%) MiFID
5 1 (0.38%) SLA
5 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 43 (16.41%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.34%) Oracle
2 14 (5.34%) SAP
2 14 (5.34%) Workday
3 10 (3.82%) Salesforce
4 9 (3.44%) Databricks
4 9 (3.44%) Google
4 9 (3.44%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.91%) Alteryx
6 2 (0.76%) Amplitude
6 2 (0.76%) Foundry
6 2 (0.76%) Informatica
6 2 (0.76%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.76%) NEC
6 2 (0.76%) Palantir
6 2 (0.76%) Sparx
7 1 (0.38%) Ariba
7 1 (0.38%) Calypso
7 1 (0.38%) IBM
7 1 (0.38%) Murex