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 19 February 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 140 135
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 303 257 331
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.94% 1.90% 1.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.10% 2.03% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 189 242
10th Percentile £300 £300 £315
25th Percentile £384 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £505
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -8.42% +1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £606
90th Percentile £650 £678 £675
England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £23.63 £28.48 -
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 £45.56 £42.75
90th Percentile £56.13 £52.35 £43.95
England median hourly rate £40.44 £27.13 £21.43
% change year-on-year +49.07% +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 14,448 12,681 16,978
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 93.64% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,636 8,215 12,242
10th Percentile £350 £331 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £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 £778
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 142 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.02 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.94 £24.66 £19.05
Median hourly rate £34.75 £37.25 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.72% +28.45% -17.14%
75th Percentile £59.79 £53.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.72 £66.60
England median hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.71% - -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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -25 38 £411 -11.08% 15
South London -11 10 £463 -2.63% 3
West London -19 4 £523 +33.97% 10
East London -2 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 19 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 (50.50%) SQL
2 99 (32.67%) Data Quality
3 91 (30.03%) Business Intelligence
3 91 (30.03%) Power Platform
4 90 (29.70%) Power BI
5 89 (29.37%) Data Analysis
6 75 (24.75%) Python
7 69 (22.77%) Analytics
8 63 (20.79%) Data Governance
8 63 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
9 61 (20.13%) Data Modelling
10 60 (19.80%) Visualisation
11 55 (18.15%) Stakeholder Management
12 53 (17.49%) Microsoft Excel
13 52 (17.16%) Decision-Making
14 45 (14.85%) Actionable Insight
14 45 (14.85%) ETL
14 45 (14.85%) Validation
15 42 (13.86%) Migration
16 40 (13.20%) Tableau
17 39 (12.87%) AWS
18 36 (11.88%) Data Visualisation
18 36 (11.88%) Security Cleared
19 34 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 32 (10.56%) Data Management
21 31 (10.23%) Data Warehouse
22 30 (9.90%) Dashboard Development
23 29 (9.57%) Data Cleansing
23 29 (9.57%) Data Migration
23 29 (9.57%) SC Cleared

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 (1.65%) SAS
2 3 (0.99%) Apache Spark
2 3 (0.99%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.66%) Confluence
4 1 (0.33%) Apache
Applications
1 53 (17.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.65%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.66%) Actimize
3 2 (0.66%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.33%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
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 91 (30.03%) Power Platform
2 39 (12.87%) AWS
3 27 (8.91%) Snowflake
4 26 (8.58%) Azure
5 9 (2.97%) Amazon S3
6 7 (2.31%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (2.31%) GCP
7 6 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (1.98%) Collibra
7 6 (1.98%) Serverless
8 5 (1.65%) OCI
9 4 (1.32%) dbt
9 4 (1.32%) SaaS
10 3 (0.99%) Fivetran
11 2 (0.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (0.66%) GitHub
11 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.66%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (29.70%) Power BI
2 40 (13.20%) Tableau
3 31 (10.23%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (7.59%) Metadata
5 8 (2.64%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (2.64%) KNIME
5 8 (2.64%) Power Query
6 7 (2.31%) Big Data
6 7 (2.31%) Data Lake
6 7 (2.31%) Looker
7 6 (1.98%) BigQuery
7 6 (1.98%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (1.65%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.65%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.32%) NoSQL
10 3 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.99%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.66%) Data Vault
11 2 (0.66%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 6 (1.98%) MSI
2 4 (1.32%) JIRA
3 2 (0.66%) ERwin
3 2 (0.66%) GitLab
3 2 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.33%) Git
4 1 (0.33%) Postman
General
1 107 (35.31%) Finance
2 97 (32.01%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (27.39%) Social Skills
4 25 (8.25%) Banking
5 21 (6.93%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.95%) Marketing
7 9 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.31%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.65%) Front Office
9 5 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.32%) Legal
10 4 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.99%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.99%) Law
11 3 (0.99%) Retail
12 2 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.66%) Police
13 1 (0.33%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.65%) XML
2 4 (1.32%) Pandas
3 3 (0.99%) GeoJSON
3 3 (0.99%) JSON
3 3 (0.99%) NumPy
3 3 (0.99%) YAML
4 2 (0.66%) PySpark
4 2 (0.66%) REST
4 2 (0.66%) SOAP
4 2 (0.66%) Web Services
5 1 (0.33%) ADO
5 1 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.33%) Kafka
5 1 (0.33%) Matplotlib
5 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.33%) Next.js
5 1 (0.33%) Playwright
5 1 (0.33%) Plotly
5 1 (0.33%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.93%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (3.30%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.64%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.98%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.98%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.32%) Reinsurance
9 3 (0.99%) CMDB
9 3 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.99%) Taxonomies
10 2 (0.66%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
10 2 (0.66%) Cybercrime
10 2 (0.66%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.66%) NHS
10 2 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.33%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.99%) Unix
2 2 (0.66%) Windows
3 1 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (30.03%) Business Intelligence
2 89 (29.37%) Data Analysis
3 69 (22.77%) Analytics
4 63 (20.79%) Data Governance
4 63 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
5 61 (20.13%) Data Modelling
6 60 (19.80%) Visualisation
7 55 (18.15%) Stakeholder Management
8 52 (17.16%) Decision-Making
9 45 (14.85%) Actionable Insight
9 45 (14.85%) ETL
9 45 (14.85%) Validation
10 42 (13.86%) Migration
11 36 (11.88%) Data Visualisation
12 34 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 32 (10.56%) Data Management
14 30 (9.90%) Dashboard Development
15 29 (9.57%) Data Cleansing
15 29 (9.57%) Data Migration
16 28 (9.24%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 153 (50.50%) SQL
2 75 (24.75%) Python
3 17 (5.61%) R
4 5 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (0.99%) VBA
6 2 (0.66%) Korn
6 2 (0.66%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.33%) C#
7 1 (0.33%) Java
7 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 36 (11.88%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.57%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.28%) Degree
4 4 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.66%) CEH
6 2 (0.66%) CompTIA CySA+
6 2 (0.66%) GIAC
6 2 (0.66%) GREM
6 2 (0.66%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.66%) OSCP
7 1 (0.33%) ACCA
7 1 (0.33%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (32.67%) Data Quality
2 15 (4.95%) GDPR
3 12 (3.96%) QA
4 6 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.99%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.66%) IFRS
7 2 (0.66%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.66%) PMO
7 2 (0.66%) SLA
7 2 (0.66%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.33%) FATCA
8 1 (0.33%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.66%) 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 24 (7.92%) Microsoft
2 20 (6.60%) Databricks
3 15 (4.95%) Oracle
4 14 (4.62%) Salesforce
4 14 (4.62%) SAP
5 10 (3.30%) Informatica
6 9 (2.97%) MuleSoft
6 9 (2.97%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.97%) Workday
7 4 (1.32%) Alteryx
8 3 (0.99%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.66%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.66%) Cognos
9 2 (0.66%) Google
9 2 (0.66%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.66%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.66%) Sparx
9 2 (0.66%) Teradata
10 1 (0.33%) Automation Anywhere
10 1 (0.33%) Dataiku