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 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 133 139
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 281 265 330
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.90% 1.92% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.05% 2.05% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 199 242
10th Percentile £283 £300 £313
25th Percentile £375 £351 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -6.86% -0.49%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £625
90th Percentile £650 £678 £680
England median daily rate £450 £459 £475
% change year-on-year -1.91% -3.42% -
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 £21.43
% change year-on-year +15.41% +26.57% -1.83%

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 13,721 12,957 17,285
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 93.63% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,099 8,286 12,493
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% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £780
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 141 321
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.60 £24.50 £19.05
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £63.08 £53.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.11% +4.29%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -20 32 £446 -3.51% 13
South London -9 3 - -
West London -20 3 £523 +33.97% 5
East London -1 2 £473 +35.00% 5
North London - 1 £500 - 1
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 143 (50.89%) SQL
2 90 (32.03%) Data Analysis
3 89 (31.67%) Data Quality
4 83 (29.54%) Power BI
4 83 (29.54%) Power Platform
5 80 (28.47%) Business Intelligence
6 73 (25.98%) Python
7 67 (23.84%) Analytics
8 64 (22.78%) Data Governance
9 59 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
10 55 (19.57%) Data Modelling
10 55 (19.57%) Visualisation
11 54 (19.22%) Stakeholder Management
12 50 (17.79%) Decision-Making
12 50 (17.79%) Microsoft Excel
13 48 (17.08%) ETL
14 41 (14.59%) Actionable Insight
14 41 (14.59%) Tableau
14 41 (14.59%) Validation
15 36 (12.81%) Migration
16 35 (12.46%) Data Management
17 34 (12.10%) AWS
18 32 (11.39%) Data Visualisation
19 31 (11.03%) Data Warehouse
20 30 (10.68%) Data Cleansing
20 30 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 29 (10.32%) Snowflake
22 28 (9.96%) Dashboard Development
23 27 (9.61%) Data Transformation
24 26 (9.25%) 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 (1.78%) SAS
2 3 (1.07%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.07%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 50 (17.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.42%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.42%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.36%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.78%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.71%) Actimize
3 2 (0.71%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.71%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.71%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.36%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.36%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 83 (29.54%) Power Platform
2 34 (12.10%) AWS
3 29 (10.32%) Snowflake
4 24 (8.54%) Azure
5 7 (2.49%) Amazon S3
5 7 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (2.49%) GCP
6 6 (2.14%) Collibra
7 5 (1.78%) OCI
8 4 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (1.42%) dbt
8 4 (1.42%) Serverless
9 3 (1.07%) Fivetran
9 3 (1.07%) SaaS
10 2 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.36%) Alation
11 1 (0.36%) AppsFlyer
11 1 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.36%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.71%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (29.54%) Power BI
2 41 (14.59%) Tableau
3 31 (11.03%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (8.19%) Metadata
5 9 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (2.85%) Big Data
6 8 (2.85%) KNIME
6 8 (2.85%) Looker
6 8 (2.85%) Power Query
7 6 (2.14%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.14%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (1.78%) BigQuery
8 5 (1.78%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.78%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.42%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.71%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.71%) OLAP Cube
11 2 (0.71%) PowerPivot
11 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.14%) JIRA
1 6 (2.14%) MSI
2 2 (0.71%) ERwin
2 2 (0.71%) Git
2 2 (0.71%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.36%) GitLab
General
1 98 (34.88%) Finance
2 83 (29.54%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (27.76%) Social Skills
4 22 (7.83%) Banking
5 16 (5.69%) Marketing
5 16 (5.69%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.85%) Investment Banking
7 6 (2.14%) Retail
8 5 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.42%) Front Office
9 4 (1.42%) Legal
9 4 (1.42%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.07%) Law
10 3 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.71%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.42%) XML
2 3 (1.07%) Pandas
2 3 (1.07%) PySpark
2 3 (1.07%) YAML
3 1 (0.36%) ADO
3 1 (0.36%) JSON
3 1 (0.36%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.36%) NumPy
3 1 (0.36%) Plotly
3 1 (0.36%) REST
3 1 (0.36%) Seaborn
3 1 (0.36%) SOAP
3 1 (0.36%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.05%) Data Structures
2 11 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (3.91%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.14%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.78%) Reference Data
5 5 (1.78%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.07%) CMDB
6 3 (1.07%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.71%) Cybercrime
7 2 (0.71%) Derivative
7 2 (0.71%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.71%) NHS
7 2 (0.71%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (0.36%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.07%) Unix
2 2 (0.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (32.03%) Data Analysis
2 80 (28.47%) Business Intelligence
3 67 (23.84%) Analytics
4 64 (22.78%) Data Governance
5 59 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (19.57%) Data Modelling
6 55 (19.57%) Visualisation
7 54 (19.22%) Stakeholder Management
8 50 (17.79%) Decision-Making
9 48 (17.08%) ETL
10 41 (14.59%) Actionable Insight
10 41 (14.59%) Validation
11 36 (12.81%) Migration
12 35 (12.46%) Data Management
13 32 (11.39%) Data Visualisation
14 30 (10.68%) Data Cleansing
14 30 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 28 (9.96%) Dashboard Development
16 27 (9.61%) Data Transformation
17 26 (9.25%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 143 (50.89%) SQL
2 73 (25.98%) Python
3 17 (6.05%) R
4 4 (1.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.07%) VBA
6 2 (0.71%) Korn
6 2 (0.71%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.36%) C#
7 1 (0.36%) Java
7 1 (0.36%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 26 (9.25%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.83%) SC Cleared
3 14 (4.98%) Degree
4 4 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.71%) CEH
5 2 (0.71%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (0.71%) GIAC
5 2 (0.71%) GREM
5 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
5 2 (0.71%) OSCP
6 1 (0.36%) ACCA
6 1 (0.36%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (31.67%) Data Quality
2 15 (5.34%) GDPR
3 9 (3.20%) QA
4 6 (2.14%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.78%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.07%) IFRS
7 2 (0.71%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.71%) SLA
7 2 (0.71%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) FATCA
8 1 (0.36%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (1.07%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.36%) SCCM
1 1 (0.36%) Terraform
1 1 (0.36%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 26 (9.25%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.69%) Salesforce
3 14 (4.98%) SAP
4 13 (4.63%) Databricks
4 13 (4.63%) Oracle
5 10 (3.56%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.20%) Informatica
6 9 (3.20%) MuleSoft
7 7 (2.49%) Workday
8 4 (1.42%) Alteryx
9 3 (1.07%) Google
10 2 (0.71%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.71%) Bloomberg
10 2 (0.71%) Cognos
10 2 (0.71%) Sparx
10 2 (0.71%) Teradata
11 1 (0.36%) Ariba
11 1 (0.36%) Dataiku
11 1 (0.36%) Murex
11 1 (0.36%) Refinitiv