Lead Data Analyst Contracts

Lead Data Analyst
UK

The median Lead Data Analyst daily rate in the UK is £395, 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 514 563 688
Rank change year-on-year +49 +125 +144
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Data Analyst 6 19 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.044% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.047% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 22
10th Percentile £362 £565 £414
25th Percentile £377 £588 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £650 £563
Median % change year-on-year -39.23% +15.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £425 £688 £600
90th Percentile £470 £695 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 - £540
% change year-on-year - - -1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £24.50
Median hourly rate - £21.66 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - -19.78% +45.95%
75th Percentile - - £29.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Lead Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Data Analyst in the UK

Lead Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Data Analyst in the UK

Lead Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Lead Data Analyst in the UK

Lead Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead Data Analyst in the UK

Lead Data Analyst
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Data Analyst within the UK 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
England +53 6 £395 -34.17% 18
UK excluding London +54 3 £400 - 11
Work from Home +42 2 £377 -46.18% 11
London +36 2 £364 -39.42% 12
Midlands - 2 £395 - 2
West Midlands - 2 £395 - 2
North of England - 1 £500 - 2
North West - 1 £500 -

Lead Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead 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 featuring Lead Data Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
1 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (33.33%) Case Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Business Case
4 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (16.67%) Line Management
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (16.67%) GDPR

Lead Data Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 3 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (16.67%) BigQuery
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Local Government
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (50.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Case Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (16.67%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Data Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Line Management
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) SAP