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 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 382 459
Rank change year-on-year +49 +77 +91
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Data Analyst 17 15 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.086% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.092% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 11
10th Percentile £475 £425 £381
25th Percentile £506 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +13.51% -15.91%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £518
90th Percentile £663 £618 £575
England median daily rate £600 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +14.29% +10.53% -12.64%
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 11,566 16,350 24,896
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 93.41% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,921 11,813 18,088
10th Percentile £344 £325 £363
25th Percentile £427 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £678 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.10% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 323 281
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.42 £20.02 £22.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -23.94% +1.43%
75th Percentile £50.75 £44.25 £62.68
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £30.20 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -18.77% -17.38% +95.65%

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 15 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 15 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 +7 5 £600 +29.73% 4
East London - 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 15 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 (52.94%) SQL
1 9 (52.94%) Data Analysis
2 8 (47.06%) Data Quality
2 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
4 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
4 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (35.29%) Finance
5 5 (29.41%) Python
6 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (23.53%) Banking
6 4 (23.53%) Data Cleansing
6 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
6 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
7 3 (17.65%) Power BI
7 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
7 3 (17.65%) Visualisation
7 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
7 3 (17.65%) Data Management
7 3 (17.65%) Migration
7 3 (17.65%) Oracle
8 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
8 2 (11.76%) ETL
8 2 (11.76%) Informatica
8 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (11.76%) Benchmarking
8 2 (11.76%) Project Management
8 2 (11.76%) Programme Management
8 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery

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 1 (5.88%) Apache
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.76%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Collibra
2 2 (11.76%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) dbt
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) BigQuery
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) Tableau
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.88%) Impala
3 1 (5.88%) Looker
3 1 (5.88%) Metadata
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Finance
4 4 (23.53%) Banking
5 2 (11.76%) Local Government
6 1 (5.88%) Back Office
6 1 (5.88%) Front Office
6 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Data Analysis
2 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (35.29%) Data Modelling
2 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (23.53%) Data Cleansing
3 4 (23.53%) Data Governance
3 4 (23.53%) Decision-Making
4 3 (17.65%) Business Analysis
4 3 (17.65%) Data Management
4 3 (17.65%) Migration
4 3 (17.65%) Visualisation
5 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (11.76%) Benchmarking
5 2 (11.76%) Change Management
5 2 (11.76%) Data Architecture
5 2 (11.76%) ETL
5 2 (11.76%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Programme Management
5 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) DBS Check
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.88%) GDPR
2 1 (5.88%) LOINC
2 1 (5.88%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Foundry
2 2 (11.76%) Google
2 2 (11.76%) Informatica
2 2 (11.76%) Talend
3 1 (5.88%) Databricks