Data Analyst Contracts in the South East

Data Analyst
England > South East

The median Data Analyst daily rate in the South East is £455, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 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
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 118 142
Rank change year-on-year +25 +24 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 59 74 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.98% 1.35% 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.17% 1.47% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 39 47
10th Percentile £273 £243 £263
25th Percentile £363 £314 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% -11.11% +3.23%
75th Percentile £541 £491 £523
90th Percentile £553 £555 £550
England median daily rate £450 £462 £475
% change year-on-year -2.65% -2.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 17
10th Percentile £17.47 - £15.83
25th Percentile £19.18 £70.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.07 £80.00 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year -72.41% +261.01% +13.52%
75th Percentile £23.78 £90.00 £30.24
90th Percentile £24.78 - £32.30
England median hourly rate £26.94 £21.54 £22.16
% change year-on-year +25.09% -2.82% -2.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 2,720 5,046 5,333
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 92.35% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,812 3,031 3,721
10th Percentile £225 £213 £220
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £601
90th Percentile £661 £688 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 486 234
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.80 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.20 £21.95
Median hourly rate £32.05 £47.50 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year -32.53% -2.46% +143.49%
75th Percentile £62.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £37.18 £44.77
% change year-on-year -21.60% -16.94% +94.63%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in the South East

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in the South East

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in the South East

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analyst in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in the South East

Data Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Thames Valley +22 41 £475 +30.14% 38
Berkshire +17 27 £510 +45.71% 22
Surrey +20 10 £365 +41.75% 15
Hampshire +27 8 £463 +15.63% 16
Buckinghamshire +15 8 £413 +3.13% 8
Oxfordshire +1 6 £179 -23.01% 15
East Sussex - 2 - - 5
Data Analyst
England

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, 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 South East region featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 27 (45.76%) SQL
2 23 (38.98%) Data Analysis
3 18 (30.51%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (28.81%) Power BI
4 17 (28.81%) Power Platform
5 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
6 15 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (23.73%) Analytics
8 13 (22.03%) Validation
8 13 (22.03%) Agile
9 12 (20.34%) Actionable Insight
9 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (18.64%) Finance
10 11 (18.64%) QA
11 10 (16.95%) Security Cleared
11 10 (16.95%) Tableau
11 10 (16.95%) Migration
12 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Excel
12 9 (15.25%) Data Governance
12 9 (15.25%) Data Migration
13 8 (13.56%) Azure
13 8 (13.56%) Data Quality
13 8 (13.56%) Data Modelling
13 8 (13.56%) Data Warehouse
13 8 (13.56%) Data Management
14 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 7 (11.86%) Oracle
14 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
14 7 (11.86%) Visualisation
15 6 (10.17%) Data Lake

Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (5.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) SAS
2 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.39%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (3.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (28.81%) Power Platform
2 8 (13.56%) Azure
3 5 (8.47%) Adobe Analytics
3 5 (8.47%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (6.78%) AWS
4 4 (6.78%) OCI
4 4 (6.78%) Snowflake
5 3 (5.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (3.39%) GCP
6 2 (3.39%) Google Ads
6 2 (3.39%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.69%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (28.81%) Power BI
2 10 (16.95%) Tableau
3 8 (13.56%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (10.17%) Data Lake
5 5 (8.47%) Qlik Sense
6 3 (5.08%) Metadata
7 2 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.39%) Looker
8 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.69%) Impala
8 1 (1.69%) MS Access
8 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.69%) SAS Enterprise Guide
8 1 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.08%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) ERwin
3 1 (1.69%) Git
General
1 16 (27.12%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (18.64%) Finance
4 5 (8.47%) Marketing
4 5 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.08%) Billing
5 3 (5.08%) Retail
5 3 (5.08%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Games
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Local Government
6 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.39%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) CMDB
2 3 (5.08%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.08%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.08%) Smart Meter
3 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.69%) Data Fabric
3 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.98%) Data Analysis
2 18 (30.51%) Business Intelligence
3 14 (23.73%) Analytics
4 13 (22.03%) Agile
4 13 (22.03%) Validation
5 12 (20.34%) Actionable Insight
5 12 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (16.95%) Migration
7 9 (15.25%) Data Governance
7 9 (15.25%) Data Migration
8 8 (13.56%) Data Management
8 8 (13.56%) Data Modelling
9 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (11.86%) Visualisation
10 6 (10.17%) Data Collection
10 6 (10.17%) Process Improvement
10 6 (10.17%) Project Management
11 5 (8.47%) Change Management
11 5 (8.47%) Requirements Gathering
11 5 (8.47%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.76%) SQL
2 6 (10.17%) Python
3 4 (6.78%) R
4 1 (1.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (16.95%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.64%) QA
2 8 (13.56%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.78%) GDPR
4 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 3 (5.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 7 (11.86%) Oracle
2 5 (8.47%) Adobe
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.08%) BMC
4 2 (3.39%) Databricks
4 2 (3.39%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.39%) Google
4 2 (3.39%) Palantir
4 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.39%) Sparx
4 2 (3.39%) Splunk
4 2 (3.39%) TikTok
4 2 (3.39%) Workday
5 1 (1.69%) Talend