Data Analytics Contract Job Trends in London

Data Analytics
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 226 185 196
Rank change year-on-year -41 +11 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 156 207 227
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.08% 1.36% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.51% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 127 168
10th Percentile £328 £365 £405
25th Percentile £445 £447 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £586 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +6.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £666 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £810 £717
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £28.05 £33.78 -
25th Percentile £29.92 £34.56 £31.25
Median hourly rate £39.98 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.23% +7.69% -13.91%
75th Percentile £50.19 £42.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £54.58 £53.25 -
England median hourly rate £46.50 £34.50 £58.03
% change year-on-year +34.78% -40.55% +86.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,166 13,695 16,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.50% 90.05% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,682 8,808 12,056
10th Percentile £343 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £792
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 165 236
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.70 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.50 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £30.25 £36.50 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.12% +5.80% -11.25%
75th Percentile £48.44 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £80.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in London

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in London

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analytics in London over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analytics in London

Data Analytics
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 Analytics within the London region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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 +2 32 £581 -8.82% 21
West London -12 8 £603 +6.07% 16
Data Analytics
England

Data Analytics
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 10 (6.41%) Apache Spark
2 8 (5.13%) Apache
3 7 (4.49%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.56%) Confluence
4 4 (2.56%) Jupyter
4 4 (2.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Pig
5 1 (0.64%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.64%) Drupal
5 1 (0.64%) SAS
5 1 (0.64%) WordPress
Applications
1 22 (14.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (3.21%) MS Visio
5 4 (2.56%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.64%) Camtasia
Cloud Services
1 43 (27.56%) Power Platform
2 37 (23.72%) Azure
3 34 (21.79%) AWS
4 21 (13.46%) GCP
5 8 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 8 (5.13%) Collibra
5 8 (5.13%) SaaS
6 6 (3.85%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (3.21%) Azure AI
7 5 (3.21%) Copilot Studio
7 5 (3.21%) GitHub
7 5 (3.21%) Microsoft Copilot
7 5 (3.21%) Snowflake
8 4 (2.56%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.92%) Azure Pipelines
9 3 (1.92%) Google Analytics
9 3 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.92%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.21%) DNS
2 3 (1.92%) HTTP
3 2 (1.28%) SNMP
3 2 (1.28%) SSH
3 2 (1.28%) SSL
4 1 (0.64%) Firewall
4 1 (0.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (26.28%) Power BI
2 25 (16.03%) Tableau
3 15 (9.62%) BigQuery
4 12 (7.69%) Big Data
5 11 (7.05%) Data Lake
5 11 (7.05%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (5.77%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (5.77%) Metadata
7 8 (5.13%) Hadoop
8 7 (4.49%) Looker
8 7 (4.49%) Mixpanel
8 7 (4.49%) Relational Database
9 6 (3.85%) SQL Server
10 5 (3.21%) Apache Hive
10 5 (3.21%) Power Query
11 4 (2.56%) MySQL
11 4 (2.56%) OLAP
11 4 (2.56%) OLTP
11 4 (2.56%) Oracle Database
11 4 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (8.33%) Git
2 10 (6.41%) JIRA
3 4 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.92%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (1.92%) Vite
4 3 (1.92%) webpack
5 1 (0.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.64%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.64%) Selenium
General
1 60 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 50 (32.05%) Finance
3 47 (30.13%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (15.38%) Banking
5 13 (8.33%) Legal
6 10 (6.41%) Marketing
7 9 (5.77%) Front Office
8 8 (5.13%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.85%) Financial Institution
9 6 (3.85%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.92%) Retail
12 2 (1.28%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.64%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.64%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.64%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 44 (28.21%) Analyst
2 23 (14.74%) Developer
3 17 (10.90%) Business Analyst
3 17 (10.90%) Senior
4 14 (8.97%) Data Engineer
5 11 (7.05%) Data Analyst
6 10 (6.41%) Data Analytics Engineer
7 9 (5.77%) Architect
8 6 (3.85%) Data Business Analyst
8 6 (3.85%) Data Scientist
8 6 (3.85%) Front Office Developer
8 6 (3.85%) Lead
8 6 (3.85%) Technical Analyst
8 6 (3.85%) Test Analyst
9 5 (3.21%) Data Architect
9 5 (3.21%) Designer
9 5 (3.21%) Pricing Developer
9 5 (3.21%) Principal Data Engineer
9 5 (3.21%) Programme Manager
9 5 (3.21%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.41%) Pandas
2 9 (5.77%) NumPy
3 8 (5.13%) scikit-learn
4 5 (3.21%) Kafka
4 5 (3.21%) Plotly
4 5 (3.21%) React
5 4 (2.56%) AngularJS
5 4 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
5 4 (2.56%) Great Expectations
5 4 (2.56%) LangChain
5 4 (2.56%) LangGraph
5 4 (2.56%) REST
5 4 (2.56%) Semantic Kernel
5 4 (2.56%) Vue
5 4 (2.56%) Web Services
6 3 (1.92%) CSS
6 3 (1.92%) HTML
6 3 (1.92%) React Native
6 3 (1.92%) Sass
6 3 (1.92%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.13%) Cloud Native
1 8 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (4.49%) Algorithms
2 7 (4.49%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (4.49%) Equities
2 7 (4.49%) Onboarding
3 6 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.21%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.56%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.56%) Marketing Technology
5 4 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.92%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.92%) Reinsurance
7 2 (1.28%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.28%) IoT
7 2 (1.28%) Social Media
7 2 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.64%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (100.00%) Analytics
2 52 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 51 (32.69%) Problem-Solving
4 42 (26.92%) Agile
5 37 (23.72%) Data Modelling
6 36 (23.08%) Visualisation
7 30 (19.23%) ETL
8 29 (18.59%) Decision-Making
9 26 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (16.03%) AI
11 24 (15.38%) Data Science
12 21 (13.46%) Data Analysis
12 21 (13.46%) Data Engineering
12 21 (13.46%) Data Governance
13 20 (12.82%) Data Visualisation
13 20 (12.82%) DevOps
13 20 (12.82%) Machine Learning
14 18 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (10.26%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (41.03%) SQL
2 54 (34.62%) Python
3 7 (4.49%) Java
3 7 (4.49%) JavaScript
3 7 (4.49%) R
4 6 (3.85%) C++
5 5 (3.21%) C#
6 3 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (1.92%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.92%) VBA
7 2 (1.28%) Korn
7 2 (1.28%) RPG
8 1 (0.64%) Bicep
8 1 (0.64%) IronPython
8 1 (0.64%) LookML
8 1 (0.64%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.64%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (10.90%) Degree
2 15 (9.62%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.13%) AWS Certification
5 5 (3.21%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.56%) CISSP
7 3 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.92%) GIAC
7 3 (1.92%) ISACA
7 3 (1.92%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.28%) CEH
8 2 (1.28%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.64%) ACCA
9 1 (0.64%) CFA
9 1 (0.64%) IIBA
9 1 (0.64%) MCP
9 1 (0.64%) PhD
9 1 (0.64%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.64%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.74%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.41%) GDPR
3 8 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.13%) QA
4 4 (2.56%) PMO
4 4 (2.56%) WCAG
5 2 (1.28%) FIPS 140-2
5 2 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.64%) Basel III
6 1 (0.64%) GMP
6 1 (0.64%) GxP
6 1 (0.64%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.64%) HL7
6 1 (0.64%) MiFID
6 1 (0.64%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (1.92%) Docker
1 3 (1.92%) HDFS
2 1 (0.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (5.77%) Terraform
2 3 (1.92%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.28%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.64%) Grafana
4 1 (0.64%) Hadoop YARN
4 1 (0.64%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 30 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.18%) Databricks
3 17 (10.90%) Google
4 9 (5.77%) Alteryx
5 8 (5.13%) Oracle
6 5 (3.21%) Amplitude
6 5 (3.21%) Dataiku
6 5 (3.21%) Foundry
6 5 (3.21%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.56%) Informatica
7 4 (2.56%) Talend
7 4 (2.56%) Workday
8 2 (1.28%) Facebook
8 2 (1.28%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.28%) Splunk
8 2 (1.28%) Thales
9 1 (0.64%) Adobe
9 1 (0.64%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.64%) HP
9 1 (0.64%) SAP