Senior Data Analyst Contracts in London

Senior Data Analyst
England > London

The median Senior Data Analyst daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 375 462
Rank change year-on-year +38 +87 +84
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Analyst 16 16 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.13% 0.090% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.096% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 13
10th Percentile £474 £425 £388
25th Percentile £503 £433 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +13.51% -15.91%
75th Percentile £644 £584 £510
90th Percentile £678 £588 £565
England median daily rate £600 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £28.60 - -
England median hourly rate £28.60 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Senior Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Senior Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Data Analyst in London

Senior Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Analyst in London.

Daily rate trend for Senior Data Analyst in London

Senior Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Data Analyst in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Data Analyst in London

Senior Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Data Analyst in London.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Data Analyst in London

Senior 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 Senior Data Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +8 5 £600 +29.73% 3
East London - 1 - - 1
West London - 1 £500 - 1
Senior Data Analyst
England

Senior Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Senior Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Senior Data Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (56.25%) Data Quality
1 9 (56.25%) Data Analysis
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
4 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (37.50%) Finance
5 5 (31.25%) Python
6 4 (25.00%) Banking
6 4 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (25.00%) Data Governance
7 3 (18.75%) Power BI
7 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
7 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
7 3 (18.75%) Business Analysis
7 3 (18.75%) Data Management
7 3 (18.75%) Migration
7 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (18.75%) ETL
7 3 (18.75%) Oracle
8 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
8 2 (12.50%) Apache
8 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (12.50%) Informatica
8 2 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (12.50%) Benchmarking
8 2 (12.50%) Project Management

Senior Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Collibra
2 2 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Power BI
2 2 (12.50%) Apache Hive
2 2 (12.50%) Big Data
2 2 (12.50%) BigQuery
2 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (12.50%) Hadoop
2 2 (12.50%) Impala
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
3 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Sqoop
3 1 (6.25%) Tableau
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (37.50%) Finance
4 4 (25.00%) Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
5 2 (12.50%) Local Government
6 1 (6.25%) Back Office
6 1 (6.25%) Front Office
6 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Data Analysis
2 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (37.50%) Data Modelling
2 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
3 4 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (18.75%) Business Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) Data Management
4 3 (18.75%) ETL
4 3 (18.75%) Migration
4 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
5 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Benchmarking
5 2 (12.50%) Change Management
5 2 (12.50%) Data Architecture
5 2 (12.50%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (12.50%) Programme Management
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (31.25%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) DBS Check
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) LOINC
2 1 (6.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) HDFS
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Foundry
2 2 (12.50%) Google
2 2 (12.50%) Informatica
2 2 (12.50%) Talend
3 1 (6.25%) Databricks