Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 133 158
Rank change year-on-year -37 +25 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 335 290 269
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.67% 2.17% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.79% 2.33% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 203 203
10th Percentile £257 £306 £300
25th Percentile £365 £383 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £592 £588
90th Percentile £625 £718 £675
England median daily rate £438 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +1.74% -4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 4
10th Percentile £20.02 £24.85 £23.02
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.00 £24.55
Median hourly rate £30.28 £29.25 £31.65
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -7.57% +5.48%
75th Percentile £32.56 £34.92 £41.25
90th Percentile £43.25 £39.95 £45.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.35 £23.00
% change year-on-year +5.81% +23.27% +2.79%

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 18,714 12,428 15,301
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 92.93% 94.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,137 8,360 10,597
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 206 193
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.53 £17.88
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £29.54 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +29.51% -10.69% -11.81%
75th Percentile £61.31 £49.69 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £65.00 £71.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.23 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.48% -43.94% +2.60%

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 25 August 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 25 August 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 25 August 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 -7 67 £435 -8.53% 20
West London -10 13 £425 - 6
South London -10 4 £533 +4.98% 1
North London - 3 £314 - 1
East London +3 2 £265 -47.65% 7
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 August 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.

1 166 (49.55%) SQL
2 127 (37.91%) Data Quality
3 114 (34.03%) Business Intelligence
4 108 (32.24%) Power BI
4 108 (32.24%) Power Platform
5 101 (30.15%) Data Analysis
6 95 (28.36%) Data Governance
7 88 (26.27%) Analytics
8 85 (25.37%) Data Modelling
9 76 (22.69%) Python
9 76 (22.69%) Validation
10 67 (20.00%) Decision-Making
10 67 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 59 (17.61%) Migration
12 58 (17.31%) Microsoft Excel
13 55 (16.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 52 (15.52%) Azure
14 52 (15.52%) Visualisation
15 46 (13.73%) Databricks
15 46 (13.73%) Tableau
16 45 (13.43%) AI
17 44 (13.13%) Data Migration
17 44 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
18 43 (12.84%) Agile
19 42 (12.54%) Data Mapping
20 41 (12.24%) Actionable Insight
21 40 (11.94%) Microsoft
22 39 (11.64%) Data Lineage
23 38 (11.34%) ETL
24 37 (11.04%) Data Cleansing

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 7 (2.09%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.90%) CMS
3 3 (0.90%) SAS
4 2 (0.60%) Confluence
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 58 (17.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.79%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.19%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.90%) iTrent
3 3 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.60%) Bloomberg TOMS
4 2 (0.60%) Eikon
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.60%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.60%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.30%) Advent Moxy
5 1 (0.30%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 108 (32.24%) Power Platform
2 52 (15.52%) Azure
3 31 (9.25%) AWS
4 30 (8.96%) Snowflake
5 9 (2.69%) Collibra
5 9 (2.69%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (2.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (2.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (2.39%) GCP
7 7 (2.09%) Power Automate
7 7 (2.09%) SaaS
8 5 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.90%) PowerApps
10 2 (0.60%) Alation
10 2 (0.60%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.60%) dbt
10 2 (0.60%) Fivetran
10 2 (0.60%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.60%) Firewall
1 2 (0.60%) Internet
2 1 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (32.24%) Power BI
2 46 (13.73%) Tableau
3 32 (9.55%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (9.55%) Metadata
4 15 (4.48%) Looker
4 15 (4.48%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.28%) Power Query
6 9 (2.69%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.09%) Big Data
8 6 (1.79%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.19%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (1.19%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.19%) Parquet
9 4 (1.19%) Qlik Sense
10 3 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (0.90%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.90%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.90%) PowerPivot
10 3 (0.90%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.09%) JIRA
2 1 (0.30%) GCC
2 1 (0.30%) Git
2 1 (0.30%) GitLab
2 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 113 (33.73%) Finance
2 96 (28.66%) Analytical Skills
3 84 (25.07%) Social Skills
4 43 (12.84%) Banking
5 28 (8.36%) Marketing
6 27 (8.06%) Public Sector
7 24 (7.16%) Retail
8 14 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.28%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.69%) Local Government
11 8 (2.39%) Front Office
12 7 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
13 6 (1.79%) Legal
13 6 (1.79%) Military
13 6 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
14 4 (1.19%) Back Office
14 4 (1.19%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.19%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.09%) PySpark
2 6 (1.79%) JSON
2 6 (1.79%) Pandas
3 3 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Avro
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.60%) PyTorch
4 2 (0.60%) XML
5 1 (0.30%) Google JAX
5 1 (0.30%) Great Expectations
5 1 (0.30%) JAX
5 1 (0.30%) Kafka
5 1 (0.30%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.30%) Node.js
5 1 (0.30%) NumPy
5 1 (0.30%) pytest
5 1 (0.30%) React
5 1 (0.30%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.30%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.16%) Data Structures
2 15 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.58%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.69%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.09%) Fixed Income
7 5 (1.49%) FMCG
8 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.19%) Derivative
8 4 (1.19%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.90%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.90%) Equities
9 3 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.90%) Pricing Data
10 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.60%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.60%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.60%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (34.03%) Business Intelligence
2 101 (30.15%) Data Analysis
3 95 (28.36%) Data Governance
4 88 (26.27%) Analytics
5 85 (25.37%) Data Modelling
6 76 (22.69%) Validation
7 67 (20.00%) Decision-Making
7 67 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 59 (17.61%) Migration
9 55 (16.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 52 (15.52%) Visualisation
11 45 (13.43%) AI
12 44 (13.13%) Data Migration
12 44 (13.13%) Problem-Solving
13 43 (12.84%) Agile
14 42 (12.54%) Data Mapping
15 41 (12.24%) Actionable Insight
16 39 (11.64%) Data Lineage
17 38 (11.34%) ETL
18 37 (11.04%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 166 (49.55%) SQL
2 76 (22.69%) Python
3 16 (4.78%) R
4 12 (3.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.19%) VBA
6 2 (0.60%) Korn
6 2 (0.60%) Scala
6 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.30%) Cypher
7 1 (0.30%) Java
7 1 (0.30%) LookML
7 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.30%) SOQL
7 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (8.06%) Security Cleared
2 23 (6.87%) SC Cleared
3 16 (4.78%) Degree
4 4 (1.19%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.90%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.90%) PMP
6 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.30%) CBAP
6 1 (0.30%) CFA
6 1 (0.30%) CISM
6 1 (0.30%) CISSP
6 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.30%) ISEB
6 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 127 (37.91%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.67%) GDPR
3 18 (5.37%) QA
4 9 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.19%) PMO
6 3 (0.90%) SLA
7 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.60%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.30%) EMIR
8 1 (0.30%) FATCA
8 1 (0.30%) GMP
8 1 (0.30%) GRC
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS
8 1 (0.30%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.30%) MiFID
8 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) Docker
2 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.60%) SCCM
2 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 46 (13.73%) Databricks
2 40 (11.94%) Microsoft
3 19 (5.67%) SAP
4 11 (3.28%) Oracle
5 10 (2.99%) Alteryx
6 6 (1.79%) Google
6 6 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.49%) Bloomberg
8 3 (0.90%) Informatica
8 3 (0.90%) Teradata
8 3 (0.90%) Workday
9 2 (0.60%) Citrix
9 2 (0.60%) FXall
9 2 (0.60%) IBM
9 2 (0.60%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.30%) CODA
10 1 (0.30%) Cognos
10 1 (0.30%) Dell
10 1 (0.30%) Murex
10 1 (0.30%) Sage