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 23 February 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 135 127
Rank change year-on-year -8 -8 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 300 262 334
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.93% 1.95% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% 2.09% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 191 245
10th Percentile £300 £300 £318
25th Percentile £392 £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 £606
90th Percentile £668 £675 £675
England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 3
10th Percentile £23.63 £28.52 -
25th Percentile £26.31 £28.60 £40.25
Median hourly rate £30.25 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.57% -13.58% +50.00%
75th Percentile £44.06 £44.50 £42.75
90th Percentile £56.13 £51.15 £43.95
England median hourly rate £41.72 £27.13 £21.43
% change year-on-year +53.80% +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 14,394 12,552 17,116
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 93.60% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,620 8,146 12,352
10th Percentile £350 £336 £325
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 143 337
10th Percentile £18.02 £21.22 £15.98
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £34.50 £37.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% +29.82% -18.57%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.68 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.17 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.86% +2.86% -12.50%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -17 40 £459 -0.27% 14
South London -11 11 £463 -2.63% 3
West London -15 4 £523 +33.97% 8
East London +4 2 £473 +35.00% 5
North London - 1 £500 - 2
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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.

1 153 (51.00%) SQL
2 98 (32.67%) Data Quality
3 90 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 89 (29.67%) Business Intelligence
4 89 (29.67%) Data Analysis
4 89 (29.67%) Power BI
5 77 (25.67%) Python
6 68 (22.67%) Analytics
7 65 (21.67%) Data Governance
8 61 (20.33%) Data Modelling
9 60 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 59 (19.67%) Visualisation
11 57 (19.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 54 (18.00%) Decision-Making
13 52 (17.33%) Microsoft Excel
14 46 (15.33%) ETL
15 45 (15.00%) Validation
16 44 (14.67%) Migration
17 43 (14.33%) Actionable Insight
18 40 (13.33%) Tableau
19 39 (13.00%) AWS
20 38 (12.67%) Data Visualisation
21 37 (12.33%) Security Cleared
22 33 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
23 30 (10.00%) Data Management
23 30 (10.00%) SC Cleared
24 29 (9.67%) Dashboard Development
24 29 (9.67%) Data Migration
25 28 (9.33%) Data Transformation
25 28 (9.33%) 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 5 (1.67%) SAS
2 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.00%) Confluence
2 3 (1.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.33%) Apache
Applications
1 52 (17.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.67%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.67%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.67%) Actimize
3 2 (0.67%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.33%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.33%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.33%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 90 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 39 (13.00%) AWS
3 27 (9.00%) Azure
3 27 (9.00%) Snowflake
4 9 (3.00%) Amazon S3
5 8 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (2.33%) GCP
6 7 (2.33%) Serverless
7 6 (2.00%) Collibra
8 5 (1.67%) OCI
9 4 (1.33%) dbt
9 4 (1.33%) SaaS
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.00%) Fivetran
10 3 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.67%) GitHub
11 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.33%) AppsFlyer
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (29.67%) Power BI
2 40 (13.33%) Tableau
3 28 (9.33%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (8.00%) Metadata
5 8 (2.67%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (2.67%) KNIME
6 7 (2.33%) Big Data
6 7 (2.33%) Looker
6 7 (2.33%) Power Query
7 6 (2.00%) BigQuery
7 6 (2.00%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (1.67%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.33%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
10 3 (1.00%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.67%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 6 (2.00%) MSI
2 5 (1.67%) JIRA
3 2 (0.67%) ERwin
3 2 (0.67%) GitLab
3 2 (0.67%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.33%) Git
4 1 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 109 (36.33%) Finance
2 94 (31.33%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (28.67%) Social Skills
4 25 (8.33%) Banking
5 22 (7.33%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.00%) Marketing
7 9 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.00%) Front Office
8 6 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.00%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.33%) Legal
9 4 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.00%) Retail
11 2 (0.67%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.67%) Police
11 2 (0.67%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.67%) Pandas
1 5 (1.67%) XML
2 3 (1.00%) GeoJSON
2 3 (1.00%) JSON
2 3 (1.00%) NumPy
2 3 (1.00%) YAML
3 2 (0.67%) PySpark
3 2 (0.67%) REST
3 2 (0.67%) SOAP
3 2 (0.67%) Web Services
4 1 (0.33%) ADO
4 1 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.33%) Kafka
4 1 (0.33%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.33%) Next.js
4 1 (0.33%) Playwright
4 1 (0.33%) Plotly
4 1 (0.33%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.67%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.33%) Reinsurance
9 3 (1.00%) CMDB
9 3 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (1.00%) 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 (0.33%) Credit Risk
11 1 (0.33%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.67%) Unix
1 2 (0.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (29.67%) Business Intelligence
1 89 (29.67%) Data Analysis
2 68 (22.67%) Analytics
3 65 (21.67%) Data Governance
4 61 (20.33%) Data Modelling
5 60 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (19.67%) Visualisation
7 57 (19.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 54 (18.00%) Decision-Making
9 46 (15.33%) ETL
10 45 (15.00%) Validation
11 44 (14.67%) Migration
12 43 (14.33%) Actionable Insight
13 38 (12.67%) Data Visualisation
14 33 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 30 (10.00%) Data Management
16 29 (9.67%) Dashboard Development
16 29 (9.67%) Data Migration
17 28 (9.33%) Data Transformation
18 27 (9.00%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 153 (51.00%) SQL
2 77 (25.67%) Python
3 17 (5.67%) R
4 3 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.00%) VBA
5 2 (0.67%) Korn
6 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (12.33%) Security Cleared
2 30 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.33%) Degree
4 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.33%) ACCA
6 1 (0.33%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (32.67%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.67%) GDPR
3 12 (4.00%) QA
4 6 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.00%) 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 (0.33%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (1.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.67%) Terraform
2 1 (0.33%) Grafana
2 1 (0.33%) Kibana
2 1 (0.33%) SCCM
2 1 (0.33%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 21 (7.00%) Databricks
1 21 (7.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.67%) Oracle
2 14 (4.67%) SAP
3 12 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 10 (3.33%) Informatica
5 9 (3.00%) MuleSoft
5 9 (3.00%) ServiceNow
5 9 (3.00%) Workday
6 3 (1.00%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.00%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.00%) Google
7 2 (0.67%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.67%) Cognos
7 2 (0.67%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.67%) Refinitiv
7 2 (0.67%) Sparx
7 2 (0.67%) Teradata
8 1 (0.33%) Advent
8 1 (0.33%) LexisNexis