Data Analytics Contract Job Trends in West London

Data Analytics
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West London requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 25 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 9 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in West London 2.94% 1.87% 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 2.25% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £583 £472 £478
25th Percentile £591 £505 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £603 £568 £563
Median % change year-on-year +6.07% +0.98% -
75th Percentile £628 £582 £600
90th Percentile £698 £584 -
London median daily rate £600 £589 £550
% change year-on-year +1.87% +7.09% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 270 178 374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 88.24% 83.18% 90.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 126 284
10th Percentile £204 £220 £202
25th Percentile £357 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £418 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -20.43% +2.69%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £600
90th Percentile £638 £588 £666
London median daily rate £530 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 23
10th Percentile £19.54 £20.20 £17.10
25th Percentile £21.46 £21.13 £31.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.93 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.68% -58.31% -11.29%
75th Percentile £30.56 £28.63 £69.50
90th Percentile £37.88 £37.53 £83.00
London median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in West London

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

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

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in West London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in West London

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

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

Data Analytics
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Richmond upon Thames - 6 £603 - 1
Data Analytics
London

Data Analytics
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 5 (55.56%) Apache
1 5 (55.56%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Power Platform
2 6 (66.67%) AWS
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (55.56%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 5 (55.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 5 (55.56%) Collibra
3 5 (55.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Power BI
2 6 (66.67%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (66.67%) BigQuery
2 6 (66.67%) Data Lake
2 6 (66.67%) Mixpanel
3 5 (55.56%) OLAP
3 5 (55.56%) OLTP
4 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (11.11%) Looker
4 1 (11.11%) Metadata
4 1 (11.11%) Tableau
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Local Government
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 7 (77.78%) Data Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Principal Data Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Principal Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Principal Software Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Great Expectations
1 5 (55.56%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Analytics
1 9 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (66.67%) AI
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 6 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) Data Governance
2 6 (66.67%) ETL
2 6 (66.67%) LLM
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Batch Processing
3 5 (55.56%) Data Architecture
3 5 (55.56%) Data Privacy
3 5 (55.56%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) Dimensional Modelling
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (55.56%) Machine Learning
3 5 (55.56%) MapReduce
3 5 (55.56%) Monte Carlo Method
3 5 (55.56%) Observability
3 5 (55.56%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
1 8 (88.89%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) GDPR
2 5 (55.56%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Databricks
2 5 (55.56%) Google
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft