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 24 January 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 135 136
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 273 269 323
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 1.93% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 2.06% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 204 233
10th Percentile £275 £300 £313
25th Percentile £375 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -5.45% -3.85%
75th Percentile £552 £588 £625
90th Percentile £658 £675 £681
England median daily rate £450 £461 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.89% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 4
10th Percentile £24.15 £27.64 £38.68
25th Percentile £26.38 £28.60 £39.69
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £42.50 £45.56 £41.75
90th Percentile £54.40 £52.35 £43.55
England median hourly rate £31.31 £27.13 £21.50
% change year-on-year +15.41% +26.16% -1.51%

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 13,565 13,038 17,170
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.61% 93.58% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,017 8,376 12,394
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 140 289
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.65 £24.42 £19.05
Median hourly rate £33.46 £35.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +18.64% -11.04%
75th Percentile £63.10 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £66.40
England median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £38.45
% change year-on-year -15.43% -8.98% +9.86%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 -19 33 £428 -7.07% 12
East London -1 3 £495 +41.43% 4
South London -7 3 - - 2
West London -17 1 - - 6
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 24 January 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.

1 138 (50.55%) SQL
2 93 (34.07%) Data Analysis
3 83 (30.40%) Data Quality
4 80 (29.30%) Power BI
4 80 (29.30%) Power Platform
5 79 (28.94%) Business Intelligence
6 76 (27.84%) Python
7 69 (25.27%) Analytics
8 64 (23.44%) Data Governance
9 57 (20.88%) Visualisation
10 56 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
11 55 (20.15%) Data Modelling
12 53 (19.41%) Stakeholder Management
13 49 (17.95%) Microsoft Excel
14 48 (17.58%) Decision-Making
15 44 (16.12%) ETL
16 41 (15.02%) Actionable Insight
16 41 (15.02%) Validation
17 39 (14.29%) Tableau
18 33 (12.09%) AWS
18 33 (12.09%) Data Management
18 33 (12.09%) Data Visualisation
18 33 (12.09%) Migration
19 28 (10.26%) Data Cleansing
19 28 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
19 28 (10.26%) Snowflake
20 27 (9.89%) Data Transformation
21 25 (9.16%) Dashboard Development
21 25 (9.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 24 (8.79%) 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 5 (1.83%) SAS
2 3 (1.10%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.73%) SharePoint
Applications
1 49 (17.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.47%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.37%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.83%) SAP HR
3 3 (1.10%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.73%) Actimize
4 2 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.37%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.37%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 80 (29.30%) Power Platform
2 33 (12.09%) AWS
3 28 (10.26%) Snowflake
4 19 (6.96%) Azure
5 7 (2.56%) GCP
6 6 (2.20%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.20%) Collibra
7 5 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (1.83%) OCI
8 4 (1.47%) dbt
9 3 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.10%) Serverless
10 2 (0.73%) Fivetran
10 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.37%) Alation
11 1 (0.37%) AppsFlyer
11 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.37%) Google Sheets
11 1 (0.37%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.73%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (29.30%) Power BI
2 39 (14.29%) Tableau
3 28 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (7.69%) Metadata
5 8 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (2.93%) Big Data
5 8 (2.93%) Power Query
6 7 (2.56%) KNIME
6 7 (2.56%) Looker
7 6 (2.20%) Snowflake Schema
7 6 (2.20%) SQL Server
8 5 (1.83%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.83%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.83%) Hadoop
9 4 (1.47%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.10%) NoSQL
11 2 (0.73%) BusinessObjects XI
11 2 (0.73%) PowerPivot
11 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (2.20%) MSI
2 5 (1.83%) JIRA
3 2 (0.73%) ERwin
3 2 (0.73%) Git
3 2 (0.73%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.37%) GitLab
General
1 92 (33.70%) Finance
2 79 (28.94%) Analytical Skills
2 79 (28.94%) Social Skills
3 21 (7.69%) Banking
4 14 (5.13%) Marketing
4 14 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.93%) Investment Banking
6 7 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.20%) Retail
8 4 (1.47%) Front Office
8 4 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.47%) Legal
9 3 (1.10%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.73%) Law
10 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.10%) PySpark
2 2 (0.73%) Pandas
2 2 (0.73%) XML
2 2 (0.73%) YAML
3 1 (0.37%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.37%) NumPy
3 1 (0.37%) Plotly
3 1 (0.37%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.86%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.66%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (3.66%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.20%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.20%) Reinsurance
5 5 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.83%) Reference Data
6 3 (1.10%) CMDB
6 3 (1.10%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.73%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.73%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.73%) Cybercrime
7 2 (0.73%) Derivative
7 2 (0.73%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.73%) NHS
7 2 (0.73%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.37%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.10%) Unix
2 2 (0.73%) Windows
3 1 (0.37%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (34.07%) Data Analysis
2 79 (28.94%) Business Intelligence
3 69 (25.27%) Analytics
4 64 (23.44%) Data Governance
5 57 (20.88%) Visualisation
6 56 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (20.15%) Data Modelling
8 53 (19.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 48 (17.58%) Decision-Making
10 44 (16.12%) ETL
11 41 (15.02%) Actionable Insight
11 41 (15.02%) Validation
12 33 (12.09%) Data Management
12 33 (12.09%) Data Visualisation
12 33 (12.09%) Migration
13 28 (10.26%) Data Cleansing
14 27 (9.89%) Data Transformation
15 25 (9.16%) Dashboard Development
15 25 (9.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 24 (8.79%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 138 (50.55%) SQL
2 76 (27.84%) Python
3 17 (6.23%) R
4 5 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.10%) VBA
6 2 (0.73%) Korn
6 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.37%) C#
7 1 (0.37%) Java
7 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.37%) Perl
Qualifications
1 23 (8.42%) Security Cleared
2 21 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 14 (5.13%) Degree
4 4 (1.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.73%) CEH
5 2 (0.73%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (0.73%) GIAC
5 2 (0.73%) GREM
5 2 (0.73%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.73%) OSCP
6 1 (0.37%) ACCA
6 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.37%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (30.40%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.49%) GDPR
3 7 (2.56%) QA
4 6 (2.20%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.83%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.10%) IFRS
7 2 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.73%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.73%) SLA
7 2 (0.73%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.37%) FATCA
8 1 (0.37%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.37%) SCCM
1 1 (0.37%) Terraform
1 1 (0.37%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 24 (8.79%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.49%) Salesforce
3 14 (5.13%) SAP
4 13 (4.76%) Oracle
5 10 (3.66%) Databricks
5 10 (3.66%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.30%) Informatica
7 8 (2.93%) MuleSoft
8 7 (2.56%) Workday
9 4 (1.47%) Alteryx
10 3 (1.10%) Google
11 2 (0.73%) Atlassian
11 2 (0.73%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.73%) Cognos
11 2 (0.73%) Sparx
11 2 (0.73%) Teradata
12 1 (0.37%) Ariba
12 1 (0.37%) Dataiku
12 1 (0.37%) Murex
12 1 (0.37%) Refinitiv