Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 130 160
Rank change year-on-year -31 +30 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 340 302 279
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.72% 2.23% 1.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.85% 2.39% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 203 214
10th Percentile £263 £306 £305
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £609 £588
90th Percentile £638 £718 £675
England median daily rate £435 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -3.44% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 3
10th Percentile £20.02 £25.00 £24.85
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.01 £29.13
Median hourly rate £30.28 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.86% -23.73% +8.70%
75th Percentile £32.56 £33.40 £43.75
90th Percentile £43.25 £34.94 £46.75
England median hourly rate £30.14 £26.94 £21.43
% change year-on-year +11.87% +25.70% -5.28%

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 18,343 12,617 16,363
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 93.26% 94.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,048 8,531 11,676
10th Percentile £359 £331 £330
25th Percentile £445 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £762 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 196 296
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.47 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.73 £22.98 £20.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.00 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +13.27% -24.51%
75th Percentile £60.25 £50.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £63.75 £69.13
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.78% -29.55% -6.98%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -4 66 £425 -10.53% 7
West London -3 16 £425 -8.11% 4
South London -3 12 £463 -2.63% 2
North London - 3 £314 - 1
East London +2 2 £265 -47.00% 3
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 162 (47.65%) SQL
2 122 (35.88%) Data Quality
3 116 (34.12%) Business Intelligence
4 115 (33.82%) Power Platform
5 114 (33.53%) Power BI
6 94 (27.65%) Data Analysis
7 91 (26.76%) Data Governance
8 85 (25.00%) Analytics
9 84 (24.71%) Data Modelling
10 75 (22.06%) Python
11 70 (20.59%) Decision-Making
12 69 (20.29%) Validation
13 63 (18.53%) Migration
13 63 (18.53%) Visualisation
14 59 (17.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 57 (16.76%) Microsoft Excel
16 56 (16.47%) Stakeholder Management
17 54 (15.88%) Azure
18 49 (14.41%) Databricks
19 48 (14.12%) Tableau
20 43 (12.65%) Data Migration
20 43 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
21 42 (12.35%) AI
21 42 (12.35%) Dashboard Development
22 40 (11.76%) Agile
23 39 (11.47%) Data Management
23 39 (11.47%) ETL
24 38 (11.18%) Actionable Insight
25 37 (10.88%) Data Mapping
26 36 (10.59%) Security 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 7 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.18%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.18%) Confluence
3 3 (0.88%) CMS
4 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.59%) SAS
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 57 (16.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.06%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.29%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (1.76%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.18%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.88%) iTrent
4 2 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.59%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.59%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.29%) Advent Geneva
5 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.29%) Eikon
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.29%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 115 (33.82%) Power Platform
2 54 (15.88%) Azure
3 31 (9.12%) AWS
4 27 (7.94%) Snowflake
5 10 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
6 9 (2.65%) Collibra
7 8 (2.35%) GCP
8 7 (2.06%) Power Automate
8 7 (2.06%) SaaS
9 6 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.47%) Amazon S3
10 5 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.47%) Serverless
11 4 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (1.18%) Fivetran
12 3 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (0.88%) Google Tag Manager
12 3 (0.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.29%) Firewall
1 1 (0.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (33.53%) Power BI
2 48 (14.12%) Tableau
3 33 (9.71%) Metadata
4 27 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (4.41%) Looker
6 13 (3.82%) Power Query
7 12 (3.53%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.94%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.35%) BigQuery
10 6 (1.76%) Big Data
11 4 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.18%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.18%) PowerPivot
11 4 (1.18%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (1.18%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.88%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 9 (2.65%) JIRA
2 2 (0.59%) GitLab
3 1 (0.29%) GCC
3 1 (0.29%) Git
3 1 (0.29%) MSI
3 1 (0.29%) Postman
3 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 127 (37.35%) Finance
2 98 (28.82%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (23.82%) Social Skills
4 40 (11.76%) Banking
5 34 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 26 (7.65%) Marketing
7 13 (3.82%) Retail
8 11 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.35%) Front Office
9 8 (2.35%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.06%) Local Government
11 6 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (1.18%) Back Office
13 4 (1.18%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.18%) Military
13 4 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.88%) Law
14 3 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.94%) Pandas
2 7 (2.06%) JSON
3 6 (1.76%) XML
4 4 (1.18%) PySpark
5 3 (0.88%) GeoJSON
5 3 (0.88%) NumPy
5 3 (0.88%) YAML
6 2 (0.59%) Kafka
6 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Graph
6 2 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (0.59%) PyTorch
6 2 (0.59%) REST
6 2 (0.59%) SOAP
6 2 (0.59%) Web Services
7 1 (0.29%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.29%) Great Expectations
7 1 (0.29%) JAX
7 1 (0.29%) Middleware
7 1 (0.29%) Next.js
7 1 (0.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 14 (4.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (3.53%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (2.65%) Product Ownership
6 7 (2.06%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.76%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.18%) Derivative
8 4 (1.18%) Equities
8 4 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.18%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.18%) Reference Data
9 3 (0.88%) FMCG
9 3 (0.88%) Freedom of Information
9 3 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.59%) CMDB
10 2 (0.59%) Credit Risk
10 2 (0.59%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.59%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (34.12%) Business Intelligence
2 94 (27.65%) Data Analysis
3 91 (26.76%) Data Governance
4 85 (25.00%) Analytics
5 84 (24.71%) Data Modelling
6 70 (20.59%) Decision-Making
7 69 (20.29%) Validation
8 63 (18.53%) Migration
8 63 (18.53%) Visualisation
9 59 (17.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 56 (16.47%) Stakeholder Management
11 43 (12.65%) Data Migration
11 43 (12.65%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (12.35%) AI
12 42 (12.35%) Dashboard Development
13 40 (11.76%) Agile
14 39 (11.47%) Data Management
14 39 (11.47%) ETL
15 38 (11.18%) Actionable Insight
16 37 (10.88%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 162 (47.65%) SQL
2 75 (22.06%) Python
3 14 (4.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 13 (3.82%) R
5 5 (1.47%) VBA
6 2 (0.59%) Korn
6 2 (0.59%) Scala
7 1 (0.29%) Cypher
7 1 (0.29%) Java
7 1 (0.29%) LookML
7 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.29%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (10.59%) Security Cleared
2 27 (7.94%) SC Cleared
3 15 (4.41%) Degree
4 4 (1.18%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.88%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.88%) PMP
6 2 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.29%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.29%) CBAP
7 1 (0.29%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.29%) ISEB
7 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (35.88%) Data Quality
2 19 (5.59%) GDPR
3 18 (5.29%) QA
4 8 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.47%) PMO
6 3 (0.88%) SLA
7 2 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.59%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.29%) FATCA
8 1 (0.29%) GMP
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (1.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.29%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (0.88%) Terraform
2 1 (0.29%) Grafana
2 1 (0.29%) Kibana
2 1 (0.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (14.41%) Databricks
2 35 (10.29%) Microsoft
3 16 (4.71%) SAP
4 12 (3.53%) Oracle
5 8 (2.35%) Alteryx
6 7 (2.06%) Google
7 5 (1.47%) Bloomberg
7 5 (1.47%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.47%) Workday
8 3 (0.88%) Informatica
8 3 (0.88%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.59%) IBM
9 2 (0.59%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.59%) Refinitiv
9 2 (0.59%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.59%) Teradata
10 1 (0.29%) FactSet
10 1 (0.29%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.29%) LexisNexis
10 1 (0.29%) Varonis