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 24 April 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 135 150
Rank change year-on-year -17 +15 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 323 261 296
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 2.05% 1.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.99% 2.19% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 191 216
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £375 £350 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £725 £650
England median daily rate £438 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 2
10th Percentile £23.75 £28.40 £24.03
25th Percentile £26.50 £28.60 £27.06
Median hourly rate £30.28 £29.94 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.13% -9.96% +19.82%
75th Percentile £32.56 £34.36 £39.56
90th Percentile £40.13 £47.71 £42.68
England median hourly rate £32.25 £27.86 £21.64
% change year-on-year +15.75% +28.75% -2.35%

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 16,249 11,912 16,648
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 93.50% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,831 8,175 12,033
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 145 342
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.08 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.88 £24.66 £20.01
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +26.56% -20.99%
75th Percentile £63.16 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.50 £64.45
England median hourly rate £45.46 £31.76 £35.00
% change year-on-year +43.14% -9.26% -22.22%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 -8 55 £403 -15.26% 18
South London -7 12 £463 -2.63% 6
West London -13 11 £425 -15.00% 9
East London -1 3 £450 +28.57% 12
North London - 1 £178 - 3
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 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 (46.13%) SQL
2 102 (31.58%) Data Quality
3 101 (31.27%) Business Intelligence
4 99 (30.65%) Power Platform
5 98 (30.34%) Power BI
6 82 (25.39%) Data Analysis
7 81 (25.08%) Python
8 74 (22.91%) Data Governance
9 72 (22.29%) Data Modelling
10 67 (20.74%) Analytics
11 65 (20.12%) Decision-Making
12 59 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
13 56 (17.34%) Microsoft Excel
14 52 (16.10%) Visualisation
15 51 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
16 50 (15.48%) Validation
17 49 (15.17%) Migration
18 45 (13.93%) ETL
19 43 (13.31%) Security Cleared
20 41 (12.69%) Tableau
21 40 (12.38%) AWS
22 39 (12.07%) Azure
23 36 (11.15%) Actionable Insight
23 36 (11.15%) Dashboard Development
23 36 (11.15%) SC Cleared
24 35 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 34 (10.53%) Databricks
26 32 (9.91%) Agile
26 32 (9.91%) Data Management
26 32 (9.91%) 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 (1.55%) SAS
2 4 (1.24%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.93%) Confluence
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
Applications
1 56 (17.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.93%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.31%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.24%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.62%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.31%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.31%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.31%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.31%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 99 (30.65%) Power Platform
2 40 (12.38%) AWS
3 39 (12.07%) Azure
4 22 (6.81%) Snowflake
5 9 (2.79%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (2.48%) GCP
7 7 (2.17%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.17%) Collibra
8 5 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.55%) Serverless
9 4 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.24%) Fivetran
9 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.24%) SaaS
10 3 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.62%) Google Sheets
11 2 (0.62%) IBM Blueworks
11 2 (0.62%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (30.34%) Power BI
2 41 (12.69%) Tableau
3 31 (9.60%) Metadata
4 27 (8.36%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (2.79%) Looker
5 9 (2.79%) Power Query
6 7 (2.17%) Big Data
6 7 (2.17%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.86%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (1.86%) KNIME
8 5 (1.55%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.24%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.24%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.24%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.93%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (1.86%) JIRA
1 6 (1.86%) MSI
2 2 (0.62%) ERwin
2 2 (0.62%) Git
2 2 (0.62%) GitLab
2 2 (0.62%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.31%) GCC
3 1 (0.31%) Postman
3 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 114 (35.29%) Finance
2 88 (27.24%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (23.22%) Social Skills
4 30 (9.29%) Banking
4 30 (9.29%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.26%) Marketing
6 10 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.17%) Front Office
9 6 (1.86%) Financial Institution
9 6 (1.86%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.24%) Back Office
11 4 (1.24%) Legal
11 4 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.93%) Law
12 3 (0.93%) Local Government
13 2 (0.62%) Military
13 2 (0.62%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.17%) Pandas
2 5 (1.55%) PySpark
2 5 (1.55%) XML
3 4 (1.24%) JSON
4 3 (0.93%) GeoJSON
4 3 (0.93%) NumPy
4 3 (0.93%) YAML
5 2 (0.62%) PyTorch
5 2 (0.62%) REST
5 2 (0.62%) SOAP
5 2 (0.62%) Web Services
6 1 (0.31%) ADO
6 1 (0.31%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.31%) Middleware
6 1 (0.31%) Node.js
6 1 (0.31%) Playwright
6 1 (0.31%) Plotly
6 1 (0.31%) pytest
6 1 (0.31%) React
6 1 (0.31%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.81%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (2.48%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.86%) Onboarding
6 5 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.55%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.24%) CMDB
7 4 (1.24%) Derivative
7 4 (1.24%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.24%) Hedge funds
8 3 (0.93%) Credit Risk
8 3 (0.93%) Equities
8 3 (0.93%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.62%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.62%) NHS
9 2 (0.62%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.62%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.93%) Windows
2 1 (0.31%) Unix
2 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (31.27%) Business Intelligence
2 82 (25.39%) Data Analysis
3 74 (22.91%) Data Governance
4 72 (22.29%) Data Modelling
5 67 (20.74%) Analytics
6 65 (20.12%) Decision-Making
7 59 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
8 52 (16.10%) Visualisation
9 51 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
10 50 (15.48%) Validation
11 49 (15.17%) Migration
12 45 (13.93%) ETL
13 36 (11.15%) Actionable Insight
13 36 (11.15%) Dashboard Development
14 35 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 32 (9.91%) Agile
15 32 (9.91%) Data Management
15 32 (9.91%) Data Migration
15 32 (9.91%) Data Visualisation
16 30 (9.29%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 149 (46.13%) SQL
2 81 (25.08%) Python
3 18 (5.57%) R
4 6 (1.86%) VBA
5 5 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (0.93%) Korn
7 2 (0.62%) Scala
8 1 (0.31%) Java
8 1 (0.31%) LookML
8 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.31%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.31%) VB
Qualifications
1 43 (13.31%) Security Cleared
2 36 (11.15%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.72%) Degree
4 2 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (0.62%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (31.58%) Data Quality
2 16 (4.95%) GDPR
3 15 (4.64%) QA
4 5 (1.55%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.24%) Solvency II
6 3 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.93%) PMO
7 2 (0.62%) IFRS
7 2 (0.62%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.62%) SLA
8 1 (0.31%) FATCA
8 1 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (0.93%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.93%) Terraform
2 1 (0.31%) Grafana
2 1 (0.31%) Kibana
2 1 (0.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (10.53%) Databricks
2 18 (5.57%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.64%) SAP
4 12 (3.72%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.79%) Informatica
5 9 (2.79%) Oracle
6 8 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.17%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.24%) Alteryx
8 4 (1.24%) Google
8 4 (1.24%) Workday
9 3 (0.93%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.93%) OpenAI
10 2 (0.62%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.62%) IBM
10 2 (0.62%) Murex
10 2 (0.62%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.62%) Sparx
10 2 (0.62%) Teradata
11 1 (0.31%) Dell