Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 124 160
Rank change year-on-year -30 +36 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 336 287 289
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.76% 2.28% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.89% 2.44% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 198 220
10th Percentile £263 £306 £310
25th Percentile £358 £395 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.33% +3.95% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £611 £588
90th Percentile £638 £714 £657
England median daily rate £425 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -5.56% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 2
10th Percentile £18.01 £25.00 £24.43
25th Percentile £23.76 £25.01 £28.06
Median hourly rate £28.55 £28.60 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.17% -18.87% +23.68%
75th Percentile £32.38 £33.40 £42.56
90th Percentile £41.15 £34.94 £46.28
England median hourly rate £30.27 £26.94 £21.43
% change year-on-year +12.37% +25.70% -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 17,770 11,759 16,478
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.44% 93.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,743 7,962 11,829
10th Percentile £358 £338 £325
25th Percentile £438 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £762 £798 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 174 321
10th Percentile £18.55 £19.28 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £24.00 £20.02
Median hourly rate £41.00 £33.45 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.59% +21.62% -25.21%
75th Percentile £63.32 £50.50 £46.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.63 £67.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.55
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.31% -9.35%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -16 60 £390 -18.96% 6
West London -16 15 £425 -8.11% 6
South London -4 12 £463 -2.63%
East London -2 2 £265 -47.00% 1
North London - 2 £178 - 1
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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.

1 158 (47.02%) SQL
2 118 (35.12%) Data Quality
3 105 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
3 105 (31.25%) Power Platform
4 104 (30.95%) Power BI
5 85 (25.30%) Data Governance
6 84 (25.00%) Data Analysis
7 77 (22.92%) Data Modelling
7 77 (22.92%) Python
8 76 (22.62%) Analytics
9 66 (19.64%) Validation
10 65 (19.35%) Decision-Making
11 63 (18.75%) Migration
12 58 (17.26%) Microsoft Excel
13 57 (16.96%) Visualisation
14 50 (14.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 50 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
15 46 (13.69%) Azure
15 46 (13.69%) Tableau
16 44 (13.10%) Databricks
16 44 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
17 43 (12.80%) Data Migration
18 41 (12.20%) AI
19 40 (11.90%) Dashboard Development
19 40 (11.90%) ETL
19 40 (11.90%) Security Cleared
20 38 (11.31%) Data Management
21 36 (10.71%) Agile
21 36 (10.71%) AWS
21 36 (10.71%) Data Visualisation

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 (1.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.19%) Confluence
4 3 (0.89%) SAS
5 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.30%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) CMS
6 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 58 (17.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.38%) Spreadsheet
3 5 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.49%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.79%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.89%) iTrent
3 2 (0.60%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.60%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.30%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 105 (31.25%) Power Platform
2 46 (13.69%) Azure
3 36 (10.71%) AWS
4 26 (7.74%) Snowflake
5 10 (2.98%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (2.38%) GCP
6 8 (2.38%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (2.08%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.08%) Collibra
7 7 (2.08%) SaaS
8 5 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (1.49%) Fivetran
8 5 (1.49%) Serverless
9 4 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.19%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.60%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.60%) IBM Blueworks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (30.95%) Power BI
2 46 (13.69%) Tableau
3 30 (8.93%) Metadata
4 26 (7.74%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (3.57%) Power Query
6 11 (3.27%) Looker
6 11 (3.27%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.68%) Big Data
7 9 (2.68%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.08%) BigQuery
9 5 (1.49%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.19%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.19%) PowerPivot
10 4 (1.19%) Qlik Sense
10 4 (1.19%) SQL Server
11 3 (0.89%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.89%) KNIME
11 3 (0.89%) MariaDB
11 3 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (2.08%) JIRA
2 6 (1.79%) MSI
3 1 (0.30%) GCC
3 1 (0.30%) Git
3 1 (0.30%) GitLab
3 1 (0.30%) Postman
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 126 (37.50%) Finance
2 96 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (22.92%) Social Skills
4 38 (11.31%) Banking
5 31 (9.23%) Public Sector
6 20 (5.95%) Marketing
7 12 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (2.68%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.68%) Retail
9 7 (2.08%) Front Office
10 6 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.79%) Local Government
10 6 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.19%) Back Office
11 4 (1.19%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.89%) Law
12 3 (0.89%) Legal
12 3 (0.89%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.98%) Pandas
2 7 (2.08%) XML
3 6 (1.79%) JSON
3 6 (1.79%) PySpark
4 4 (1.19%) YAML
5 3 (0.89%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.89%) NumPy
6 2 (0.60%) Kafka
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.60%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.60%) REST
6 2 (0.60%) SOAP
6 2 (0.60%) Web Services
7 1 (0.30%) ADO
7 1 (0.30%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.30%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.30%) JAX
7 1 (0.30%) Next.js
7 1 (0.30%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.36%) Data Structures
2 15 (4.46%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (2.98%) Management Information System
4 9 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (2.08%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.08%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.49%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.19%) Derivative
7 4 (1.19%) Equities
7 4 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.19%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (0.89%) Credit Risk
8 3 (0.89%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.60%) CMDB
9 2 (0.60%) FMCG
9 2 (0.60%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.60%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.60%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (31.25%) Business Intelligence
2 85 (25.30%) Data Governance
3 84 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 77 (22.92%) Data Modelling
5 76 (22.62%) Analytics
6 66 (19.64%) Validation
7 65 (19.35%) Decision-Making
8 63 (18.75%) Migration
9 57 (16.96%) Visualisation
10 50 (14.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 50 (14.88%) Stakeholder Management
11 44 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
12 43 (12.80%) Data Migration
13 41 (12.20%) AI
14 40 (11.90%) Dashboard Development
14 40 (11.90%) ETL
15 38 (11.31%) Data Management
16 36 (10.71%) Agile
16 36 (10.71%) Data Visualisation
17 34 (10.12%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 158 (47.02%) SQL
2 77 (22.92%) Python
3 17 (5.06%) R
4 10 (2.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.49%) VBA
6 3 (0.89%) Korn
7 2 (0.60%) Scala
8 1 (0.30%) Cypher
8 1 (0.30%) Java
8 1 (0.30%) LookML
8 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 32 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 17 (5.06%) Degree
4 3 (0.89%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.89%) PMI Certification
5 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.60%) PMP
6 1 (0.30%) CBAP
6 1 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.30%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.30%) ISEB
6 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (35.12%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.36%) GDPR
3 17 (5.06%) QA
4 6 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.19%) PMO
6 3 (0.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (0.89%) SLA
6 3 (0.89%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.60%) IFRS
7 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.30%) FATCA
8 1 (0.30%) GAAP
8 1 (0.30%) GMP
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (0.60%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.89%) Terraform
2 1 (0.30%) Grafana
2 1 (0.30%) Kibana
2 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (13.10%) Databricks
2 26 (7.74%) Microsoft
3 15 (4.46%) SAP
4 12 (3.57%) Oracle
5 8 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.08%) Alteryx
7 4 (1.19%) Google
7 4 (1.19%) Workday
8 3 (0.89%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.89%) Informatica
8 3 (0.89%) MuleSoft
8 3 (0.89%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.60%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.60%) IBM
9 2 (0.60%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.30%) Adobe
10 1 (0.30%) Advent
10 1 (0.30%) Dell
10 1 (0.30%) Sitecore