Data Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 181 137 143
Rank change year-on-year -44 +6 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 329 281 279
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.63% 2.09% 1.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 2.25% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 186 214
10th Percentile £257 £300 £300
25th Percentile £363 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £588
90th Percentile £600 £688 £684
England median daily rate £435 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +1.05% -4.50% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 7
10th Percentile £20.02 £25.00 £24.04
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.01 £30.20
Median hourly rate £30.28 £29.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.76% -15.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £32.56 £35.63 £41.63
90th Percentile £43.25 £59.55 £46.20
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.38 £25.79
% change year-on-year +9.59% +6.15% +18.57%

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 18,843 12,491 15,335
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 92.75% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,159 8,370 10,243
10th Percentile £363 £331 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.35% -3.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 206 181
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.23% -13.57% -5.25%
75th Percentile £63.43 £51.81 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.54 £75.00
England median hourly rate £44.46 £25.15 £46.71
% change year-on-year +76.76% -46.16% +3.81%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 0 67 £435 -8.53% 34
West London -15 10 £425 - 7
South London -7 3 £533 +4.98% 3
North London - 3 £314 - 2
East London +1 2 £265 -47.65% 1
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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.

1 168 (51.06%) SQL
2 134 (40.73%) Data Quality
3 116 (35.26%) Business Intelligence
4 107 (32.52%) Power BI
4 107 (32.52%) Power Platform
5 103 (31.31%) Data Analysis
6 94 (28.57%) Data Governance
7 91 (27.66%) Analytics
8 86 (26.14%) Validation
9 83 (25.23%) Data Modelling
10 81 (24.62%) Python
11 75 (22.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 68 (20.67%) Decision-Making
13 62 (18.84%) Migration
14 58 (17.63%) Microsoft Excel
15 55 (16.72%) Visualisation
16 53 (16.11%) Azure
16 53 (16.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 51 (15.50%) Tableau
18 49 (14.89%) Actionable Insight
18 49 (14.89%) AI
19 48 (14.59%) Data Migration
19 48 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
20 44 (13.37%) Databricks
21 42 (12.77%) Agile
22 41 (12.46%) Microsoft
23 40 (12.16%) Data Lineage
23 40 (12.16%) Data Mapping
24 39 (11.85%) ETL
25 34 (10.33%) AWS

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 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.91%) CMS
3 3 (0.91%) Confluence
3 3 (0.91%) SAS
4 1 (0.30%) Apache
4 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 58 (17.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.82%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.52%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.30%) SPSS
5 1 (0.30%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.82%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.91%) Aladdin
2 3 (0.91%) iTrent
3 2 (0.61%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 2 (0.61%) Eikon
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.61%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.61%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.30%) Advent Moxy
4 1 (0.30%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
4 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.30%) ENOVIA
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.30%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 107 (32.52%) Power Platform
2 53 (16.11%) Azure
3 34 (10.33%) AWS
4 32 (9.73%) Snowflake
5 9 (2.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (2.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 9 (2.74%) GCP
5 9 (2.74%) SaaS
6 8 (2.43%) Collibra
6 8 (2.43%) Microsoft Purview
7 7 (2.13%) Power Automate
8 6 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 5 (1.52%) Amazon S3
9 5 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (0.91%) Alation
10 3 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.91%) PowerApps
11 2 (0.61%) Azure Stack
11 2 (0.61%) Google Sheets
11 2 (0.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.61%) Firewall
1 2 (0.61%) Internet
2 1 (0.30%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (0.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (32.52%) Power BI
2 51 (15.50%) Tableau
3 30 (9.12%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (8.21%) Metadata
5 15 (4.56%) Relational Database
6 14 (4.26%) Looker
7 13 (3.95%) Power Query
8 9 (2.74%) Data Lake
9 8 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.43%) Big Data
10 5 (1.52%) Amazon QuickSight
10 5 (1.52%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.22%) Parquet
11 4 (1.22%) PowerPivot
11 4 (1.22%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.91%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.91%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.91%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.91%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (2.43%) JIRA
2 2 (0.61%) GitLab
3 1 (0.30%) Git
3 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 117 (35.56%) Finance
2 100 (30.40%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (27.05%) Social Skills
4 44 (13.37%) Banking
5 28 (8.51%) Marketing
6 26 (7.90%) Public Sector
7 24 (7.29%) Retail
8 14 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.34%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.74%) Legal
10 9 (2.74%) Local Government
11 7 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.82%) Front Office
13 5 (1.52%) Military
14 4 (1.22%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.22%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.91%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.13%) PySpark
2 6 (1.82%) JSON
3 5 (1.52%) Pandas
4 4 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (0.61%) Apache Avro
5 2 (0.61%) Kafka
5 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.61%) XML
6 1 (0.30%) Great Expectations
6 1 (0.30%) Matplotlib
6 1 (0.30%) Node.js
6 1 (0.30%) NumPy
6 1 (0.30%) pytest
6 1 (0.30%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.30%) React
6 1 (0.30%) REST
6 1 (0.30%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.30%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.30%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.30%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.33%) Data Structures
2 17 (5.17%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.56%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.34%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (3.34%) Management Information System
4 11 (3.34%) Onboarding
5 6 (1.82%) FMCG
6 5 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.22%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.22%) Reference Data
8 3 (0.91%) Credit Risk
8 3 (0.91%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.91%) Pricing Data
8 3 (0.91%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.61%) Derivative
9 2 (0.61%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.61%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.61%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.91%) Windows
2 1 (0.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (35.26%) Business Intelligence
2 103 (31.31%) Data Analysis
3 94 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 91 (27.66%) Analytics
5 86 (26.14%) Validation
6 83 (25.23%) Data Modelling
7 75 (22.80%) Stakeholder Management
8 68 (20.67%) Decision-Making
9 62 (18.84%) Migration
10 55 (16.72%) Visualisation
11 53 (16.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 49 (14.89%) Actionable Insight
12 49 (14.89%) AI
13 48 (14.59%) Data Migration
13 48 (14.59%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (12.77%) Agile
15 40 (12.16%) Data Lineage
15 40 (12.16%) Data Mapping
16 39 (11.85%) ETL
17 34 (10.33%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 168 (51.06%) SQL
2 81 (24.62%) Python
3 22 (6.69%) R
4 13 (3.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (0.91%) Korn
5 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.91%) VBA
6 2 (0.61%) Scala
7 1 (0.30%) Cypher
7 1 (0.30%) Java
7 1 (0.30%) LookML
7 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.30%) SOQL
7 1 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (7.29%) Security Cleared
2 20 (6.08%) SC Cleared
3 18 (5.47%) Degree
4 4 (1.22%) PMI Certification
5 3 (0.91%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.91%) PMP
6 1 (0.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.30%) CBAP
6 1 (0.30%) CFA
6 1 (0.30%) CISM
6 1 (0.30%) CISSP
6 1 (0.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.30%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.30%) ISEB
6 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (40.73%) Data Quality
2 20 (6.08%) GDPR
3 18 (5.47%) QA
4 9 (2.74%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (0.91%) PMO
5 3 (0.91%) SLA
6 2 (0.61%) IFRS
6 2 (0.61%) IFRS 17
6 2 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.61%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.30%) EMIR
7 1 (0.30%) GMP
7 1 (0.30%) GRC
7 1 (0.30%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.30%) MiFID
7 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (1.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (0.61%) SCCM
2 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (13.37%) Databricks
2 41 (12.46%) Microsoft
3 18 (5.47%) SAP
4 13 (3.95%) Alteryx
5 11 (3.34%) Oracle
6 7 (2.13%) Google
7 6 (1.82%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.52%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.52%) Informatica
9 3 (0.91%) Teradata
9 3 (0.91%) Workday
10 2 (0.61%) Citrix
10 2 (0.61%) CODA
10 2 (0.61%) FXall
10 2 (0.61%) IBM
10 2 (0.61%) ServiceNow
11 1 (0.30%) Ariba
11 1 (0.30%) Dell
11 1 (0.30%) Sage
11 1 (0.30%) SGI