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 28 July 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 128 159
Rank change year-on-year -31 +31 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 348 296 269
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.75% 2.18% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 2.34% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 202 201
10th Percentile £259 £306 £300
25th Percentile £363 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £598 £588
90th Percentile £638 £718 £650
England median daily rate £436 £438 £450
% change year-on-year -0.34% -2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 3
10th Percentile £20.02 £25.00 £24.85
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.01 £29.13
Median hourly rate £30.28 £29.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.15% -22.48% +31.58%
75th Percentile £32.56 £34.04 £43.75
90th Percentile £43.25 £35.00 £46.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £26.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year +13.21% +1.92% +14.29%

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 18,540 12,626 15,560
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.04% 93.07% 94.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,139 8,542 11,072
10th Percentile £363 £331 £343
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 335 200 228
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.00 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -7.39% -13.61%
75th Percentile £59.36 £50.13 £52.44
90th Percentile £77.83 £63.88 £71.44
England median hourly rate £45.25 £26.30 £43.00
% change year-on-year +72.05% -38.84% -1.71%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 28 July 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 +5 71 £430 -9.53% 7
West London -8 14 £425 -8.11% 2
South London -5 12 £463 -8.87% 2
North London - 3 £314 - 1
East London +2 2 £265 -47.65% 5
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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.

1 173 (49.71%) SQL
2 130 (37.36%) Data Quality
3 127 (36.49%) Business Intelligence
4 118 (33.91%) Power Platform
5 117 (33.62%) Power BI
6 101 (29.02%) Data Analysis
7 92 (26.44%) Data Governance
8 91 (26.15%) Analytics
9 89 (25.57%) Data Modelling
10 80 (22.99%) Python
11 72 (20.69%) Validation
12 70 (20.11%) Decision-Making
13 65 (18.68%) Visualisation
14 62 (17.82%) Migration
15 61 (17.53%) Stakeholder Management
16 59 (16.95%) Microsoft Excel
16 59 (16.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 53 (15.23%) Azure
18 52 (14.94%) Databricks
19 48 (13.79%) Tableau
20 47 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
21 45 (12.93%) AI
22 43 (12.36%) Actionable Insight
22 43 (12.36%) Data Migration
23 41 (11.78%) Agile
23 41 (11.78%) ETL
24 40 (11.49%) Dashboard Development
25 39 (11.21%) Data Mapping
26 37 (10.63%) Data Lineage
26 37 (10.63%) Data Transformation

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 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.15%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.86%) CMS
3 3 (0.86%) Confluence
4 2 (0.57%) Apache
4 2 (0.57%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 59 (16.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.44%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.29%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.72%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.15%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.86%) iTrent
3 3 (0.86%) SAP MDG
3 3 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.57%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.29%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.29%) Eikon
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 118 (33.91%) Power Platform
2 53 (15.23%) Azure
3 36 (10.34%) AWS
4 32 (9.20%) Snowflake
5 9 (2.59%) Collibra
5 9 (2.59%) GCP
5 9 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (2.30%) SaaS
7 7 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 7 (2.01%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.72%) Amazon S3
8 6 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (1.72%) Serverless
9 4 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.86%) Google Tag Manager
10 3 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (0.29%) Firewall
1 1 (0.29%) Internet
1 1 (0.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (33.62%) Power BI
2 48 (13.79%) Tableau
3 34 (9.77%) Metadata
4 33 (9.48%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (4.60%) Looker
6 13 (3.74%) Power Query
7 12 (3.45%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.87%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.30%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.72%) Big Data
11 4 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.15%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.15%) Parquet
11 4 (1.15%) PowerPivot
11 4 (1.15%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (1.15%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.86%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (2.30%) JIRA
2 2 (0.57%) GitLab
3 1 (0.29%) GCC
3 1 (0.29%) Git
3 1 (0.29%) Postman
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 129 (37.07%) Finance
2 107 (30.75%) Analytical Skills
3 88 (25.29%) Social Skills
4 46 (13.22%) Banking
5 34 (9.77%) Public Sector
6 27 (7.76%) Marketing
7 18 (5.17%) Retail
8 14 (4.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.59%) Front Office
9 9 (2.59%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.01%) Local Government
11 6 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.44%) Legal
12 5 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.15%) Back Office
13 4 (1.15%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.15%) Military
13 4 (1.15%) Retail Banking
14 3 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.59%) Pandas
2 8 (2.30%) JSON
3 4 (1.15%) PySpark
3 4 (1.15%) XML
4 3 (0.86%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.86%) NumPy
5 2 (0.57%) Apache Avro
5 2 (0.57%) Kafka
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.57%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.57%) YAML
6 1 (0.29%) Google JAX
6 1 (0.29%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.29%) Next.js
6 1 (0.29%) Playwright
6 1 (0.29%) pytest
6 1 (0.29%) React
6 1 (0.29%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.32%) Data Structures
2 13 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 12 (3.45%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.30%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.01%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.44%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.15%) Derivative
8 4 (1.15%) Equities
8 4 (1.15%) FMCG
8 4 (1.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.15%) Hedge funds
9 3 (0.86%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.57%) CMDB
10 2 (0.57%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.57%) Marketing Technology
10 2 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (36.49%) Business Intelligence
2 101 (29.02%) Data Analysis
3 92 (26.44%) Data Governance
4 91 (26.15%) Analytics
5 89 (25.57%) Data Modelling
6 72 (20.69%) Validation
7 70 (20.11%) Decision-Making
8 65 (18.68%) Visualisation
9 62 (17.82%) Migration
10 61 (17.53%) Stakeholder Management
11 59 (16.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 47 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
13 45 (12.93%) AI
14 43 (12.36%) Actionable Insight
14 43 (12.36%) Data Migration
15 41 (11.78%) Agile
15 41 (11.78%) ETL
16 40 (11.49%) Dashboard Development
17 39 (11.21%) Data Mapping
18 37 (10.63%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 173 (49.71%) SQL
2 80 (22.99%) Python
3 15 (4.31%) R
4 14 (4.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.44%) VBA
6 2 (0.57%) Korn
6 2 (0.57%) Scala
7 1 (0.29%) Cypher
7 1 (0.29%) Java
7 1 (0.29%) LookML
7 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (9.48%) Security Cleared
2 26 (7.47%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.60%) Degree
4 4 (1.15%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.86%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.86%) PMP
6 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.29%) CBAP
6 1 (0.29%) CISM
6 1 (0.29%) CISSP
6 1 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.29%) ISEB
6 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (37.36%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.46%) GDPR
3 17 (4.89%) QA
4 9 (2.59%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.44%) PMO
6 3 (0.86%) SLA
7 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.57%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.29%) FATCA
8 1 (0.29%) GMP
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.15%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.57%) Terraform
2 1 (0.29%) Grafana
2 1 (0.29%) Kibana
2 1 (0.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 52 (14.94%) Databricks
2 37 (10.63%) Microsoft
3 17 (4.89%) SAP
4 11 (3.16%) Oracle
5 9 (2.59%) Alteryx
6 7 (2.01%) Google
7 5 (1.44%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.44%) Workday
8 4 (1.15%) Informatica
9 3 (0.86%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.86%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.86%) Teradata
10 2 (0.57%) IBM
10 2 (0.57%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.57%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.29%) FactSet
11 1 (0.29%) HubSpot
11 1 (0.29%) LexisNexis
11 1 (0.29%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.29%) Varonis