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 11 March 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 129 135
Rank change year-on-year -16 +6 +11
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 295 266 326
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.83% 2.06% 1.78%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.97% 2.19% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 197 237
10th Percentile £302 £285 £327
25th Percentile £394 £349 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £725 £675
England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 3
10th Percentile £22.10 £28.40 -
25th Percentile £23.75 £28.60 £40.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £29.94 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.47% -26.08% +50.00%
75th Percentile £38.50 £44.91 £42.75
90th Percentile £43.90 £54.75 £43.95
England median hourly rate £43.00 £27.13 £21.43
% change year-on-year +58.53% +26.57% -3.29%

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 14,956 12,129 17,048
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.62% 93.70% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,041 8,120 12,298
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 141 345
10th Percentile £18.21 £21.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.66 £19.38
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% -17.86%
75th Percentile £60.25 £53.75 £48.56
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £65.00
England median hourly rate £36.32 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +3.77% +7.69% -23.29%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -26 41 £459 -1.13% 14
South London -12 10 £463 -2.63% 3
West London -13 6 £486 +9.27% 9
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 11 March 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.

1 141 (47.80%) SQL
2 95 (32.20%) Data Quality
3 91 (30.85%) Power Platform
4 90 (30.51%) Business Intelligence
4 90 (30.51%) Power BI
5 82 (27.80%) Data Analysis
6 71 (24.07%) Python
7 65 (22.03%) Data Governance
8 61 (20.68%) Analytics
8 61 (20.68%) Data Modelling
9 56 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (18.98%) Stakeholder Management
9 56 (18.98%) Visualisation
10 53 (17.97%) Microsoft Excel
11 52 (17.63%) Decision-Making
12 45 (15.25%) Migration
13 44 (14.92%) ETL
14 43 (14.58%) Validation
15 39 (13.22%) Actionable Insight
16 38 (12.88%) Security Cleared
17 37 (12.54%) AWS
17 37 (12.54%) Tableau
18 36 (12.20%) Data Visualisation
19 33 (11.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 31 (10.51%) Data Management
20 31 (10.51%) SC Cleared
21 29 (9.83%) Data Cleansing
21 29 (9.83%) Data Transformation
22 28 (9.49%) Azure
22 28 (9.49%) Dashboard Development

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 (1.69%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.36%) SAS
3 3 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.02%) Confluence
4 1 (0.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 53 (17.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.69%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.36%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.69%) SAP HR
3 2 (0.68%) Actimize
3 2 (0.68%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.34%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.34%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 91 (30.85%) Power Platform
2 37 (12.54%) AWS
3 28 (9.49%) Azure
4 26 (8.81%) Snowflake
5 9 (3.05%) Amazon S3
6 7 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (2.37%) Serverless
7 6 (2.03%) Collibra
7 6 (2.03%) GCP
8 5 (1.69%) OCI
9 4 (1.36%) dbt
9 4 (1.36%) SaaS
10 3 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (1.02%) Fivetran
10 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.68%) GitHub
12 1 (0.34%) FinancialForce
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (30.51%) Power BI
2 37 (12.54%) Tableau
3 27 (9.15%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (8.47%) Metadata
5 8 (2.71%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (2.71%) KNIME
6 7 (2.37%) Big Data
6 7 (2.37%) Power Query
7 5 (1.69%) BigQuery
7 5 (1.69%) Hadoop
7 5 (1.69%) Looker
7 5 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.36%) Data Lake
8 4 (1.36%) NoSQL
9 3 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (1.02%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (1.02%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.68%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.68%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 6 (2.03%) MSI
2 5 (1.69%) JIRA
3 2 (0.68%) ERwin
3 2 (0.68%) Git
3 2 (0.68%) GitLab
3 2 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.34%) GCC
4 1 (0.34%) Postman
General
1 108 (36.61%) Finance
2 88 (29.83%) Analytical Skills
3 80 (27.12%) Social Skills
4 28 (9.49%) Banking
5 23 (7.80%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.73%) Marketing
7 9 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.37%) Front Office
8 7 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.03%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.36%) Retail
11 3 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.02%) Legal
12 2 (0.68%) Back Office
12 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.68%) Law
12 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.69%) Pandas
1 5 (1.69%) XML
2 3 (1.02%) GeoJSON
2 3 (1.02%) JSON
2 3 (1.02%) NumPy
2 3 (1.02%) YAML
3 2 (0.68%) PySpark
3 2 (0.68%) REST
3 2 (0.68%) SOAP
3 2 (0.68%) Web Services
4 1 (0.34%) ADO
4 1 (0.34%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.34%) Kafka
4 1 (0.34%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.34%) Next.js
4 1 (0.34%) Playwright
4 1 (0.34%) Plotly
4 1 (0.34%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 19 (6.44%) Data Structures
2 10 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (3.05%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.69%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.02%) CMDB
8 3 (1.02%) Equities
8 3 (1.02%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.02%) Taxonomies
9 2 (0.68%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.68%) Derivative
9 2 (0.68%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.68%) NHS
9 2 (0.68%) Reinsurance
9 2 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 1 (0.34%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.68%) Windows
2 1 (0.34%) Unix
2 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (30.51%) Business Intelligence
2 82 (27.80%) Data Analysis
3 65 (22.03%) Data Governance
4 61 (20.68%) Analytics
4 61 (20.68%) Data Modelling
5 56 (18.98%) Problem-Solving
5 56 (18.98%) Stakeholder Management
5 56 (18.98%) Visualisation
6 52 (17.63%) Decision-Making
7 45 (15.25%) Migration
8 44 (14.92%) ETL
9 43 (14.58%) Validation
10 39 (13.22%) Actionable Insight
11 36 (12.20%) Data Visualisation
12 33 (11.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 31 (10.51%) Data Management
14 29 (9.83%) Data Cleansing
14 29 (9.83%) Data Transformation
15 28 (9.49%) Dashboard Development
15 28 (9.49%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 141 (47.80%) SQL
2 71 (24.07%) Python
3 17 (5.76%) R
4 4 (1.36%) VBA
5 3 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.68%) Korn
7 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (12.88%) Security Cleared
2 31 (10.51%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.07%) Degree
4 3 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.34%) ACCA
6 1 (0.34%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (32.20%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.75%) QA
3 12 (4.07%) GDPR
4 6 (2.03%) Actionable Recommendations
5 4 (1.36%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.68%) IFRS
7 2 (0.68%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.68%) PMO
7 2 (0.68%) SLA
7 2 (0.68%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.34%) FATCA
8 1 (0.34%) GAAP
System Software
1 3 (1.02%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.68%) Terraform
2 1 (0.34%) Grafana
2 1 (0.34%) Kibana
2 1 (0.34%) SCCM
2 1 (0.34%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 24 (8.14%) Databricks
2 22 (7.46%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.75%) Oracle
3 14 (4.75%) SAP
4 12 (4.07%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.39%) Informatica
6 9 (3.05%) MuleSoft
6 9 (3.05%) ServiceNow
6 9 (3.05%) Workday
7 3 (1.02%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.02%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.68%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.68%) Google
8 2 (0.68%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.68%) Refinitiv
8 2 (0.68%) Sparx
8 2 (0.68%) Teradata
9 1 (0.34%) Automation Anywhere
9 1 (0.34%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.34%) LexisNexis