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 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 151 157
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 264 276 318
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.73% 1.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 1.85% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 206 235
10th Percentile £287 £300 £300
25th Percentile £366 £333 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £555 £597 £632
90th Percentile £639 £713 £700
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 7
10th Percentile £24.85 £31.16 £16.70
25th Percentile £25.88 £35.00 £29.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -7.41% -21.36%
75th Percentile £36.56 £46.63 £42.75
90th Percentile £62.28 £53.55 £54.35
England median hourly rate £30.11 £27.13 £21.64
% change year-on-year +11.00% +25.35% -13.44%

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 13,126 14,911 18,269
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 93.69% 93.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,694 9,671 13,219
10th Percentile £333 £340 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.68%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £765 £794 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 162 215
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.07
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.98 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.89 £37.50 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -28.29% +3.36% +3.66%
75th Percentile £50.13 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £81.14 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -36.33% -11.11% +38.38%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -32 31 £381 -19.74% 19
East London +7 3 £481 - 25
South London - 2 - - 20
West London -13 1 - - 25
North London - 1 £500 - 6
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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.

1 148 (56.06%) SQL
2 112 (42.42%) Data Analysis
3 88 (33.33%) Python
4 84 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
5 80 (30.30%) Data Quality
6 78 (29.55%) Power BI
6 78 (29.55%) Power Platform
7 73 (27.65%) Analytics
8 66 (25.00%) Visualisation
9 59 (22.35%) Data Modelling
10 55 (20.83%) Microsoft Excel
11 53 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
12 51 (19.32%) Actionable Insight
12 51 (19.32%) Data Governance
13 45 (17.05%) Decision-Making
13 45 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 45 (17.05%) Tableau
14 40 (15.15%) ETL
15 39 (14.77%) Data Visualisation
15 39 (14.77%) Microsoft
15 39 (14.77%) Validation
16 32 (12.12%) Data Cleansing
16 32 (12.12%) Migration
17 30 (11.36%) Data Transformation
17 30 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
18 26 (9.85%) Data Management
18 26 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 24 (9.09%) AWS
19 24 (9.09%) Snowflake
20 23 (8.71%) Data Migration

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 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.52%) Confluence
3 2 (0.76%) SAS
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Superset
Applications
1 55 (20.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.65%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.38%) Revit
7 1 (0.38%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.89%) SAP HR
2 3 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.76%) Actimize
3 2 (0.76%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.76%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.38%) Academy Housing
4 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.38%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (0.38%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.38%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 78 (29.55%) Power Platform
2 24 (9.09%) AWS
2 24 (9.09%) Snowflake
3 17 (6.44%) Azure
4 12 (4.55%) GCP
5 8 (3.03%) Collibra
6 7 (2.65%) dbt
7 5 (1.89%) OCI
8 4 (1.52%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.52%) Google Data Studio
9 3 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.14%) Serverless
10 2 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.76%) Google Sheets
10 2 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.38%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (29.55%) Power BI
2 45 (17.05%) Tableau
3 30 (11.36%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (8.71%) Metadata
5 13 (4.92%) BigQuery
6 10 (3.79%) Looker
6 10 (3.79%) Power Query
7 9 (3.41%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
8 7 (2.65%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.27%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.52%) Big Data
10 4 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.14%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.76%) KNIME
12 2 (0.76%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.76%) OLAP Cube
12 2 (0.76%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 9 (3.41%) JIRA
2 2 (0.76%) ERwin
2 2 (0.76%) Git
2 2 (0.76%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (0.76%) Selenium
3 1 (0.38%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.38%) LSMW
General
1 112 (42.42%) Finance
2 90 (34.09%) Social Skills
3 79 (29.92%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (15.15%) Banking
5 17 (6.44%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.68%) Investment Banking
6 15 (5.68%) Marketing
7 11 (4.17%) Retail
8 8 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.65%) Corporate Banking
9 7 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.65%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.27%) Local Government
11 5 (1.89%) Legal
12 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.14%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.14%) Front Office
13 3 (1.14%) Law
14 2 (0.76%) Advertising
14 2 (0.76%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.52%) JSON
2 3 (1.14%) DAO
2 3 (1.14%) Pandas
3 2 (0.76%) NumPy
3 2 (0.76%) PySpark
4 1 (0.38%) Altair
4 1 (0.38%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.38%) Plotly
4 1 (0.38%) Seaborn
4 1 (0.38%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.06%) Data Structures
2 11 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (3.79%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.41%) Reinsurance
5 7 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.52%) Derivative
7 4 (1.52%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.14%) NHS
8 3 (1.14%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.76%) CMDB
9 2 (0.76%) Cybercrime
9 2 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.76%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.76%) Pricing Data
9 2 (0.76%) Social Media
9 2 (0.76%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.14%) Unix
2 2 (0.76%) Windows
3 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (42.42%) Data Analysis
2 84 (31.82%) Business Intelligence
3 73 (27.65%) Analytics
4 66 (25.00%) Visualisation
5 59 (22.35%) Data Modelling
6 53 (20.08%) Problem-Solving
7 51 (19.32%) Actionable Insight
7 51 (19.32%) Data Governance
8 45 (17.05%) Decision-Making
8 45 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 40 (15.15%) ETL
10 39 (14.77%) Data Visualisation
10 39 (14.77%) Validation
11 32 (12.12%) Data Cleansing
11 32 (12.12%) Migration
12 30 (11.36%) Data Transformation
13 26 (9.85%) Data Management
13 26 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (8.71%) Data Migration
15 20 (7.58%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 148 (56.06%) SQL
2 88 (33.33%) Python
3 14 (5.30%) R
4 8 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.89%) VBA
6 2 (0.76%) Java
6 2 (0.76%) Scala
6 2 (0.76%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.38%) C#
7 1 (0.38%) C++
7 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.38%) Korn
7 1 (0.38%) Perl
7 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (5.68%) Degree
1 15 (5.68%) Security Cleared
2 13 (4.92%) SC Cleared
3 2 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (0.76%) CEH
3 2 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
3 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (0.76%) GIAC
3 2 (0.76%) GREM
3 2 (0.76%) OSCP
4 1 (0.38%) ACCA
4 1 (0.38%) CIMA
4 1 (0.38%) CIPD
4 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.38%) ISEB
4 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (30.30%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.82%) GDPR
3 6 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.27%) QA
4 3 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.76%) IFRS
5 2 (0.76%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) FATCA
6 1 (0.38%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.38%) MiFID
6 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.38%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 39 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.68%) Oracle
3 14 (5.30%) SAP
4 11 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.79%) Workday
6 9 (3.41%) Databricks
6 9 (3.41%) Google
6 9 (3.41%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.14%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.14%) Informatica
7 3 (1.14%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.76%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.76%) Foundry
8 2 (0.76%) NEC
8 2 (0.76%) Palantir
8 2 (0.76%) Sparx
9 1 (0.38%) Ariba
9 1 (0.38%) Calypso
9 1 (0.38%) IBM
9 1 (0.38%) Murex