Data Analyst Contracts in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £483 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 148 147 156
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 297 476 733
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.70% 1.87% 1.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.81% 1.97% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 361 564
10th Percentile £313 £279 £311
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £589 £619 £600
90th Percentile £650 £695 £675
England median daily rate £451 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.16% - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 18
10th Percentile £24.43 £11.98 £12.38
25th Percentile £28.06 £20.25 £12.47
Median hourly rate £35.25 £27.75 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.03% +46.05% -29.63%
75th Percentile £42.56 £59.69 £31.75
90th Percentile £46.28 £80.63 £37.35
England median hourly rate £21.43 £22.33 £23.50
% change year-on-year -4.03% -4.98% +31.28%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

Data Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analyst in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analyst in London

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analyst in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analyst in London

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 Data Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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 +25 64 £488 -15.22% 12
West London +17 5 £525 +13.51% 5
North London - 2 £275 -
Data Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 Data Analyst in the job title.

1 126 (42.42%) SQL
2 116 (39.06%) Finance
3 88 (29.63%) Data Analysis
4 82 (27.61%) Python
5 81 (27.27%) Social Skills
6 80 (26.94%) Power Platform
6 80 (26.94%) Business Intelligence
6 80 (26.94%) Power BI
7 73 (24.58%) Analytical Skills
8 72 (24.24%) Data Quality
9 66 (22.22%) Visualisation
10 65 (21.89%) Data Modelling
11 62 (20.88%) Analytics
12 51 (17.17%) Banking
13 49 (16.50%) Data Governance
14 47 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
15 45 (15.15%) Data Management
16 44 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
17 43 (14.48%) Tableau
18 41 (13.80%) Data Visualisation
19 40 (13.47%) Azure
20 39 (13.13%) Migration
20 39 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
21 30 (10.10%) ETL
21 30 (10.10%) Agile
22 29 (9.76%) Degree
23 28 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
23 28 (9.43%) Change Management
23 28 (9.43%) Decision-Making
24 26 (8.75%) Data Migration

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 8 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.36%) SAS
3 5 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.01%) Apache
4 3 (1.01%) Confluence
5 1 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
Applications
1 44 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (3.03%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (1.01%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.34%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.34%) Endur
2 1 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.34%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.34%) OPENHousing
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.34%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 80 (26.94%) Power Platform
2 40 (13.47%) Azure
3 19 (6.40%) AWS
4 15 (5.05%) Collibra
5 11 (3.70%) Power Automate
5 11 (3.70%) Snowflake
6 10 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (3.37%) PowerApps
7 6 (2.02%) dbt
7 6 (2.02%) GCP
8 5 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.35%) Adobe Analytics
10 3 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.01%) GitHub
10 3 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.67%) Azure Pipelines
11 2 (0.67%) MailChimp
11 2 (0.67%) OCI
11 2 (0.67%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.68%) DNS
1 5 (1.68%) Firewall
2 4 (1.35%) DHCP
3 3 (1.01%) IPv4
4 1 (0.34%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (0.34%) NAS
4 1 (0.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (26.94%) Power BI
2 43 (14.48%) Tableau
3 28 (9.43%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (6.73%) Metadata
5 13 (4.38%) Big Data
5 13 (4.38%) SQL Server
6 10 (3.37%) Data Mining
7 8 (2.69%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.36%) BigQuery
9 6 (2.02%) Looker
9 6 (2.02%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.68%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
11 4 (1.35%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.35%) NoSQL
12 3 (1.01%) DynamoDB
12 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.01%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 7 (2.36%) JIRA
2 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.67%) Git
2 2 (0.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.34%) RStudio
3 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 116 (39.06%) Finance
2 81 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 73 (24.58%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (17.17%) Banking
5 14 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (4.71%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.38%) Retail
7 12 (4.04%) Investment Banking
8 11 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.37%) Legal
10 9 (3.03%) Front Office
11 6 (2.02%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.02%) Marketing
12 5 (1.68%) Retail Banking
13 4 (1.35%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.01%) Billing
14 3 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.69%) PySpark
2 3 (1.01%) LDAP
2 3 (1.01%) Pandas
3 2 (0.67%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.34%) .NET
4 1 (0.34%) ADO
4 1 (0.34%) Flask
4 1 (0.34%) HTML
4 1 (0.34%) HTML5
4 1 (0.34%) JSON
4 1 (0.34%) Node.js
4 1 (0.34%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.39%) Management Information System
2 7 (2.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (1.68%) Data Centre
3 5 (1.68%) Product Ownership
3 5 (1.68%) Reference Data
4 4 (1.35%) Derivative
4 4 (1.35%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.01%) Credit Risk
5 3 (1.01%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.01%) Reinsurance
5 3 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.67%) CMDB
6 2 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.67%) Market Risk
6 2 (0.67%) NHS
6 2 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.67%) Solar Power
6 2 (0.67%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.36%) Windows
2 5 (1.68%) Linux
3 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (29.63%) Data Analysis
2 80 (26.94%) Business Intelligence
3 66 (22.22%) Visualisation
4 65 (21.89%) Data Modelling
5 62 (20.88%) Analytics
6 49 (16.50%) Data Governance
7 47 (15.82%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (15.15%) Data Management
9 41 (13.80%) Data Visualisation
10 39 (13.13%) Migration
10 39 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 30 (10.10%) Agile
11 30 (10.10%) ETL
12 28 (9.43%) Change Management
12 28 (9.43%) Decision-Making
13 26 (8.75%) Data Cleansing
13 26 (8.75%) Data Migration
14 24 (8.08%) Data Science
15 22 (7.41%) Actionable Insight
15 22 (7.41%) Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 126 (42.42%) SQL
2 82 (27.61%) Python
3 12 (4.04%) R
4 6 (2.02%) PowerShell
4 6 (2.02%) T-SQL
5 4 (1.35%) PL/SQL
5 4 (1.35%) VBA
6 3 (1.01%) C#
6 3 (1.01%) Java
6 3 (1.01%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.01%) VB
6 3 (1.01%) VBScript
7 2 (0.67%) C++
7 2 (0.67%) Scala
8 1 (0.34%) C
8 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.34%) Go
Qualifications
1 29 (9.76%) Degree
2 8 (2.69%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.36%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.68%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.01%) CISA
7 3 (1.01%) CRISC
8 2 (0.67%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CISM
9 1 (0.34%) CISSP
9 1 (0.34%) MOS
9 1 (0.34%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (24.24%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.04%) QA
3 9 (3.03%) GDPR
4 5 (1.68%) SLA
5 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.67%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) MiFID
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.67%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.67%) Terraform
2 1 (0.34%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (8.42%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.72%) Oracle
3 15 (5.05%) Databricks
4 12 (4.04%) Alteryx
5 10 (3.37%) Bloomberg
5 10 (3.37%) Refinitiv
5 10 (3.37%) SAP
6 7 (2.36%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.02%) Adobe
7 6 (2.02%) Informatica
7 6 (2.02%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.68%) Google
9 3 (1.01%) Citrix
9 3 (1.01%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.67%) Anaplan
10 2 (0.67%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.67%) Datix
10 2 (0.67%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.67%) Optimizely
10 2 (0.67%) Splunk