Data Analyst Contracts in London

Data Analyst
England > London

The median Data Analyst daily rate in London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 142 156
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 307 489 749
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.76% 1.88% 1.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.88% 1.97% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 367 570
10th Percentile £332 £281 £309
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £590 £604 £588
90th Percentile £650 £687 £671
England median daily rate £462 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.68% - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 19
10th Percentile £24.03 £11.44 £12.38
25th Percentile £27.06 £18.06 £16.00
Median hourly rate £33.25 £27.75 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.82% +8.82% +23.43%
75th Percentile £39.56 £47.06 £34.88
90th Percentile £42.68 £102.45 £40.20
England median hourly rate £21.54 £22.16 £22.69
% change year-on-year -2.82% -2.34% +26.76%

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 16,330 24,760 37,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.44% 95.17% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,815 17,998 27,187
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 441
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.50 £23.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +13.45%
75th Percentile £46.05 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.32 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +32 65 £475 -15.93% 13
West London +17 6 £513 +10.81% 2
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 20 May 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.

1 120 (39.09%) Finance
2 119 (38.76%) SQL
3 88 (28.66%) Data Analysis
4 87 (28.34%) Social Skills
5 82 (26.71%) Power BI
5 82 (26.71%) Power Platform
6 80 (26.06%) Python
7 79 (25.73%) Business Intelligence
8 72 (23.45%) Analytical Skills
9 69 (22.48%) Visualisation
10 67 (21.82%) Data Quality
11 61 (19.87%) Data Modelling
12 59 (19.22%) Analytics
13 55 (17.92%) Banking
14 48 (15.64%) Data Management
15 46 (14.98%) Microsoft Excel
16 45 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
17 44 (14.33%) Data Governance
17 44 (14.33%) Tableau
18 40 (13.03%) Data Visualisation
18 40 (13.03%) Azure
18 40 (13.03%) Migration
19 37 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
20 34 (11.07%) Change Management
21 31 (10.10%) Agile
22 29 (9.45%) ETL
23 27 (8.79%) Data Migration
24 26 (8.47%) Microsoft
24 26 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
24 26 (8.47%) Decision-Making

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 9 (2.93%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.95%) SAS
3 5 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.98%) Apache
4 3 (0.98%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.33%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 46 (14.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (5.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (3.58%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.33%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.33%) Endur
2 1 (0.33%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.33%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.33%) OPENHousing
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 82 (26.71%) Power Platform
2 40 (13.03%) Azure
3 20 (6.51%) AWS
4 15 (4.89%) Collibra
5 11 (3.58%) Power Automate
6 10 (3.26%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (3.26%) PowerApps
7 9 (2.93%) Snowflake
8 7 (2.28%) GCP
9 6 (1.95%) dbt
9 6 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.30%) Adobe Analytics
11 3 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (0.98%) GitHub
11 3 (0.98%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.65%) Azure Pipelines
12 2 (0.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (0.65%) MailChimp
12 2 (0.65%) SaaS
12 2 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.95%) DNS
1 6 (1.95%) Firewall
2 5 (1.63%) DHCP
3 4 (1.30%) IPv4
4 1 (0.33%) NAS
4 1 (0.33%) VPN
4 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (26.71%) Power BI
2 44 (14.33%) Tableau
3 26 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (6.51%) Metadata
5 13 (4.23%) Big Data
5 13 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.93%) Data Mining
7 8 (2.61%) BigQuery
7 8 (2.61%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.28%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.95%) Looker
9 6 (1.95%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.30%) BusinessObjects
11 4 (1.30%) NoSQL
11 4 (1.30%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.98%) DynamoDB
12 3 (0.98%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.98%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 7 (2.28%) JIRA
2 2 (0.65%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.65%) Eclipse
2 2 (0.65%) Git
2 2 (0.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.65%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.33%) RStudio
3 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 120 (39.09%) Finance
2 87 (28.34%) Social Skills
3 72 (23.45%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (17.92%) Banking
5 15 (4.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 15 (4.89%) Retail
6 13 (4.23%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.58%) Investment Banking
7 11 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.93%) Legal
9 8 (2.61%) Front Office
10 7 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.28%) Marketing
11 5 (1.63%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.63%) Retail Banking
12 4 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.30%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.98%) General Ledger
13 3 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.65%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.61%) PySpark
2 3 (0.98%) LDAP
3 2 (0.65%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.65%) ggplot2
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.65%) Pandas
3 2 (0.65%) Plotly
3 2 (0.65%) Shiny
4 1 (0.33%) .NET
4 1 (0.33%) ADO
4 1 (0.33%) HTML
4 1 (0.33%) HTML5
4 1 (0.33%) JSON
4 1 (0.33%) Node.js
4 1 (0.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.56%) Management Information System
2 7 (2.28%) Data Centre
2 7 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (1.63%) Onboarding
3 5 (1.63%) Reference Data
4 4 (1.30%) Derivative
4 4 (1.30%) Product Ownership
5 3 (0.98%) Credit Risk
5 3 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (0.98%) Data Structures
5 3 (0.98%) NHS
5 3 (0.98%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.65%) CMDB
6 2 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.65%) Market Risk
6 2 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.65%) Solar Power
6 2 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (2.93%) Windows
2 5 (1.63%) Linux
3 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (28.66%) Data Analysis
2 79 (25.73%) Business Intelligence
3 69 (22.48%) Visualisation
4 61 (19.87%) Data Modelling
5 59 (19.22%) Analytics
6 48 (15.64%) Data Management
7 45 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (14.33%) Data Governance
9 40 (13.03%) Data Visualisation
9 40 (13.03%) Migration
10 37 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 34 (11.07%) Change Management
12 31 (10.10%) Agile
13 29 (9.45%) ETL
14 27 (8.79%) Data Migration
15 26 (8.47%) Data Science
15 26 (8.47%) Decision-Making
16 25 (8.14%) Data Cleansing
17 21 (6.84%) Data Analytics
18 20 (6.51%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 119 (38.76%) SQL
2 80 (26.06%) Python
3 13 (4.23%) R
4 8 (2.61%) PowerShell
5 6 (1.95%) T-SQL
6 5 (1.63%) VBScript
7 4 (1.30%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.30%) VBA
8 3 (0.98%) C#
8 3 (0.98%) Java
8 3 (0.98%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.98%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.98%) VB
9 2 (0.65%) C++
9 2 (0.65%) Scala
10 1 (0.33%) C
10 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 25 (8.14%) Degree
2 8 (2.61%) Security Cleared
3 7 (2.28%) SC Cleared
4 6 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.63%) Master's Degree
6 3 (0.98%) CISA
6 3 (0.98%) CRISC
7 2 (0.65%) Tableau Certification
8 1 (0.33%) CISM
8 1 (0.33%) CISSP
8 1 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (21.82%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.56%) QA
3 8 (2.61%) GDPR
4 5 (1.63%) SLA
5 3 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.65%) PMO
7 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 2 (0.65%) Active Directory
1 2 (0.65%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.65%) Kubernetes
1 2 (0.65%) Terraform
2 1 (0.33%) CSIRT
2 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 26 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.86%) Oracle
3 16 (5.21%) Databricks
4 13 (4.23%) Alteryx
5 11 (3.58%) Bloomberg
5 11 (3.58%) Refinitiv
6 10 (3.26%) SAP
7 6 (1.95%) Adobe
7 6 (1.95%) Google
7 6 (1.95%) Informatica
7 6 (1.95%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.63%) Citrix
8 5 (1.63%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.63%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.98%) Datix
9 3 (0.98%) Splunk
10 2 (0.65%) Anaplan
10 2 (0.65%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.65%) Dataiku
10 2 (0.65%) Optimizely