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 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 146 157
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 279 284 318
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.01% 1.81% 1.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.17% 1.92% 1.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 212 231
10th Percentile £299 £300 £300
25th Percentile £377 £359 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £469 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% -8.54% -0.49%
75th Percentile £566 £591 £626
90th Percentile £676 £688 £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 9
10th Percentile £25.00 £32.12 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.01 £35.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.25 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +5.92% +24.59%
75th Percentile £35.00 £48.75 £40.75
90th Percentile £57.10 £52.35 £46.35
England median hourly rate £29.33 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year +8.13% +25.35% -16.77%

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 12,865 14,764 18,970
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.01% 93.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,551 9,538 13,795
10th Percentile £333 £338 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £664 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £798
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 155 213
10th Percentile £17.42 £17.25 £18.20
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.15 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.78 £37.50 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% -4.87% +20.37%
75th Percentile £47.50 £59.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £80.75 £74.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.21
% change year-on-year -37.63% -10.81% +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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -20 35 £438 -11.39% 141
West London -11 4 £425 +1.19% 24
East London +5 3 £506 - 26
South London - 3 £508 - 16
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 7 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.

1 161 (57.71%) SQL
2 119 (42.65%) Data Analysis
3 99 (35.48%) Python
4 86 (30.82%) Business Intelligence
5 81 (29.03%) Analytics
5 81 (29.03%) Power BI
5 81 (29.03%) Power Platform
6 76 (27.24%) Data Quality
7 73 (26.16%) Visualisation
8 58 (20.79%) Tableau
9 55 (19.71%) Data Modelling
9 55 (19.71%) Microsoft Excel
10 53 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
11 51 (18.28%) Actionable Insight
12 48 (17.20%) Data Governance
13 46 (16.49%) Data Visualisation
14 45 (16.13%) Microsoft
15 44 (15.77%) Decision-Making
16 40 (14.34%) Stakeholder Management
17 39 (13.98%) ETL
18 37 (13.26%) Validation
19 35 (12.54%) Migration
20 34 (12.19%) Data Warehouse
21 33 (11.83%) Data Cleansing
22 29 (10.39%) Data Transformation
23 27 (9.68%) Data Management
24 24 (8.60%) Snowflake
24 24 (8.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
25 23 (8.24%) Agile
25 23 (8.24%) AWS

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 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.43%) Confluence
3 2 (0.72%) Apache Superset
3 2 (0.72%) SAS
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 55 (19.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.51%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.36%) Revit
7 1 (0.36%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.79%) SAP HR
2 3 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.72%) Actimize
3 2 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.72%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.72%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.72%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.36%) Academy Housing
4 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.36%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.36%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.36%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.36%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 81 (29.03%) Power Platform
2 24 (8.60%) Snowflake
3 23 (8.24%) AWS
4 19 (6.81%) Azure
5 13 (4.66%) GCP
6 9 (3.23%) dbt
7 8 (2.87%) Collibra
8 5 (1.79%) Amazon S3
8 5 (1.79%) OCI
9 4 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.43%) Google Data Studio
9 4 (1.43%) Serverless
10 2 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.72%) Google Sheets
10 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.36%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.36%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.36%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (29.03%) Power BI
2 58 (20.79%) Tableau
3 34 (12.19%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (5.38%) Metadata
5 14 (5.02%) BigQuery
6 11 (3.94%) Looker
7 9 (3.23%) Power Query
7 9 (3.23%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.23%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.51%) Big Data
8 7 (2.51%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.15%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.43%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.43%) GIS
10 4 (1.43%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.08%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.08%) Star Schema
12 2 (0.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.51%) JIRA
2 5 (1.79%) Git
3 2 (0.72%) ER Studio
3 2 (0.72%) ERwin
3 2 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
3 2 (0.72%) Selenium
4 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.36%) LSMW
General
1 113 (40.50%) Finance
2 86 (30.82%) Social Skills
3 79 (28.32%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (14.70%) Banking
5 16 (5.73%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.38%) Retail
7 14 (5.02%) Investment Banking
7 14 (5.02%) Marketing
8 8 (2.87%) Legal
8 8 (2.87%) Local Government
8 8 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.51%) Corporate Banking
9 7 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.51%) Retail Banking
10 5 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.43%) Front Office
12 3 (1.08%) Advertising
12 3 (1.08%) Law
12 3 (1.08%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.79%) JSON
2 4 (1.43%) Pandas
3 3 (1.08%) DAO
3 3 (1.08%) NumPy
4 2 (0.72%) Kafka
4 2 (0.72%) Matplotlib
4 2 (0.72%) PySpark
5 1 (0.36%) Altair
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.36%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.36%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.36%) Swagger
5 1 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.66%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (3.94%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.58%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.23%) Reinsurance
5 7 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.79%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.79%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.43%) Derivative
8 4 (1.43%) NHS
8 4 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.08%) Pricing Data
9 3 (1.08%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.72%) CMDB
10 2 (0.72%) Cybercrime
10 2 (0.72%) Equities
10 2 (0.72%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.72%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.08%) Unix
2 2 (0.72%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (42.65%) Data Analysis
2 86 (30.82%) Business Intelligence
3 81 (29.03%) Analytics
4 73 (26.16%) Visualisation
5 55 (19.71%) Data Modelling
6 53 (19.00%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (18.28%) Actionable Insight
8 48 (17.20%) Data Governance
9 46 (16.49%) Data Visualisation
10 44 (15.77%) Decision-Making
11 40 (14.34%) Stakeholder Management
12 39 (13.98%) ETL
13 37 (13.26%) Validation
14 35 (12.54%) Migration
15 33 (11.83%) Data Cleansing
16 29 (10.39%) Data Transformation
17 27 (9.68%) Data Management
18 24 (8.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 23 (8.24%) Agile
20 21 (7.53%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 161 (57.71%) SQL
2 99 (35.48%) Python
3 12 (4.30%) R
4 10 (3.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.79%) VBA
6 2 (0.72%) Java
6 2 (0.72%) Scala
6 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.72%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.36%) C#
7 1 (0.36%) C++
7 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.36%) Korn
7 1 (0.36%) LookML
7 1 (0.36%) Perl
7 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (5.73%) Degree
2 10 (3.58%) Security Cleared
3 8 (2.87%) SC Cleared
4 3 (1.08%) CIPD
4 3 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.72%) CEH
5 2 (0.72%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (0.72%) GIAC
5 2 (0.72%) GREM
5 2 (0.72%) OSCP
6 1 (0.36%) ACCA
6 1 (0.36%) CIMA
6 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.36%) ISEB
6 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.36%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (27.24%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.09%) GDPR
3 6 (2.15%) QA
4 5 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.72%) IFRS
6 1 (0.36%) FATCA
6 1 (0.36%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.36%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) SLA
6 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.36%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 45 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.02%) Oracle
2 14 (5.02%) SAP
2 14 (5.02%) Workday
3 12 (4.30%) Google
4 10 (3.58%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.51%) Databricks
7 5 (1.79%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.72%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.72%) Foundry
8 2 (0.72%) Informatica
8 2 (0.72%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.72%) NEC
8 2 (0.72%) Palantir
8 2 (0.72%) Sparx
9 1 (0.36%) Ariba
9 1 (0.36%) IBM
9 1 (0.36%) Liquidlogic
9 1 (0.36%) Refinitiv