Analyst Contract Job Trends in Central London

Analyst
London > Central London

The median Analyst daily rate in Central London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 324 326 423
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 16.01% 14.02% 15.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 17.15% 15.12% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 218 285
10th Percentile £306 £313 £311
25th Percentile £367 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.21% -2.73% +3.77%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £663
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
London median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 3
10th Percentile - £28.32 £25.10
25th Percentile £25.47 £32.19 £29.00
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -2.78% +44.00%
75th Percentile £28.04 £40.44 £37.25
90th Percentile £36.00 £60.50 £37.70
London median hourly rate £25.79 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year -28.86% +45.00% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,889 2,156 2,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.33% 92.69% 94.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,311 1,358 1,836
10th Percentile £325 £363 £337
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £566
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +1.59% -1.57%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
London median daily rate £535 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -2.73% -1.79% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 25 19
10th Percentile £19.24 £19.66 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £31.25 £20.72
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +40.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £36.00 £61.25 £47.75
90th Percentile £51.25 £112.00 £66.75
London median hourly rate £28.06 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.82% - -

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Analyst job vacancy trend in Central London

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Central London

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Central London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Central London

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Central London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in Central London

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in Central London over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in Central London

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Central London region over the 6 months to 23 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
City of London +3 294 £463 -11.90% 169
City of Westminster -4 6 £481 -6.10% 1
West End of London +3 4 £575 +39.39% 6
Camden +7 3 - -
Kensington and Chelsea - 1 £450 -
Analyst
London

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 23 December 2025, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 81 (25.00%) Agile
2 63 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (18.21%) Microsoft
4 54 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 54 (16.67%) SQL
5 48 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 44 (13.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 43 (13.27%) Data Analysis
8 41 (12.65%) Microsoft Excel
9 40 (12.35%) User Acceptance Testing
10 36 (11.11%) Migration
11 35 (10.80%) User Stories
12 32 (9.88%) Security Cleared
13 31 (9.57%) Workshop Facilitation
14 29 (8.95%) Business Intelligence
14 29 (8.95%) Requirements Gathering
15 28 (8.64%) Degree
15 28 (8.64%) JIRA
15 28 (8.64%) Power Platform
15 28 (8.64%) Python
15 28 (8.64%) SC Cleared
16 27 (8.33%) Power BI
16 27 (8.33%) Project Delivery
17 25 (7.72%) Data Modelling
17 25 (7.72%) Decision-Making
17 25 (7.72%) Process Improvement
18 24 (7.41%) Data Governance
18 24 (7.41%) MS Visio
18 24 (7.41%) QA
19 23 (7.10%) Acceptance Criteria

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central 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 17 (5.25%) Confluence
2 14 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.62%) CMS
4 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.31%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.31%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.31%) SAS
4 1 (0.31%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 41 (12.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (7.41%) MS Visio
3 23 (7.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.62%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.31%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (2.78%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.62%) Endur
3 2 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.31%) Algo Collateral
4 1 (0.31%) HFM
4 1 (0.31%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.31%) iTrent
4 1 (0.31%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.31%) ProductWriter
4 1 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (8.64%) Power Platform
2 18 (5.56%) Azure
3 10 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (2.16%) AWS
5 7 (2.16%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.93%) GCP
7 3 (0.93%) IBM Blueworks
7 3 (0.93%) SaaS
7 3 (0.93%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.62%) Collibra
8 2 (0.62%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.62%) Miro
8 2 (0.62%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.62%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.31%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.78%) Network Security
2 6 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.93%) Broadband
3 3 (0.93%) Firewall
3 3 (0.93%) Softphone
3 3 (0.93%) VPN
4 1 (0.31%) ATM
4 1 (0.31%) DMZ
4 1 (0.31%) Internet
4 1 (0.31%) SSH
4 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.33%) Power BI
2 17 (5.25%) Tableau
3 8 (2.47%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.54%) Metadata
4 5 (1.54%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.23%) Star Schema
6 3 (0.93%) Looker
7 2 (0.62%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.62%) MySQL
8 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.31%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.31%) Power Query
8 1 (0.31%) PowerCenter
8 1 (0.31%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (8.64%) JIRA
2 2 (0.62%) Git
2 2 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.31%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.31%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.31%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.31%) Postman
3 1 (0.31%) Selenium
3 1 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 132 (40.74%) Finance
2 91 (28.09%) Social Skills
3 84 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (15.43%) Banking
5 22 (6.79%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.86%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (4.32%) Investment Banking
10 12 (3.70%) Front Office
11 11 (3.40%) Legal
11 11 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.47%) Law
13 7 (2.16%) Back Office
13 7 (2.16%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.85%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.54%) Retail
16 4 (1.23%) Local Government
16 4 (1.23%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.54%) XML
2 3 (0.93%) .NET
3 2 (0.62%) ADO
3 2 (0.62%) JSON
3 2 (0.62%) Murex MxML
3 2 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.31%) CSS
4 1 (0.31%) Flask
4 1 (0.31%) HTML
4 1 (0.31%) Middleware
4 1 (0.31%) OAuth
4 1 (0.31%) OpenID
4 1 (0.31%) Pandas
4 1 (0.31%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.31%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.31%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.25%) Onboarding
2 15 (4.63%) Product Ownership
3 12 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
5 8 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.16%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.85%) Derivative
7 6 (1.85%) iPad
7 6 (1.85%) iPhone
8 5 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.23%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.23%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.23%) PMI
9 4 (1.23%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.93%) CMDB
10 3 (0.93%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 3 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.32%) Windows
2 6 (1.85%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.23%) Unix
4 2 (0.62%) Android
4 2 (0.62%) Linux
5 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.31%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.31%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.31%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (25.00%) Agile
2 63 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 48 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 44 (13.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 43 (13.27%) Data Analysis
7 40 (12.35%) User Acceptance Testing
8 36 (11.11%) Migration
9 35 (10.80%) User Stories
10 31 (9.57%) Workshop Facilitation
11 29 (8.95%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (8.95%) Requirements Gathering
12 27 (8.33%) Project Delivery
13 25 (7.72%) Data Modelling
13 25 (7.72%) Decision-Making
13 25 (7.72%) Process Improvement
14 24 (7.41%) Data Governance
15 23 (7.10%) Acceptance Criteria
15 23 (7.10%) Analytics
16 22 (6.79%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 54 (16.67%) SQL
2 28 (8.64%) Python
3 5 (1.54%) C#
3 5 (1.54%) VBA
4 3 (0.93%) C++
4 3 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (0.93%) Java
5 2 (0.62%) Korn
5 2 (0.62%) R
5 2 (0.62%) RPG
6 1 (0.31%) C
6 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.31%) VC++
Qualifications
1 32 (9.88%) Security Cleared
2 28 (8.64%) Degree
2 28 (8.64%) SC Cleared
3 9 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (2.16%) CBAP
5 6 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.54%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (0.93%) CFA
7 3 (0.93%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.93%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.93%) IIBA
7 3 (0.93%) MCP
7 3 (0.93%) MCSE
8 2 (0.62%) CEH
8 2 (0.62%) CISMP
8 2 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.62%) GIAC
8 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.62%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.41%) QA
2 23 (7.10%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.09%) PMO
4 7 (2.16%) GDPR
5 6 (1.85%) SLA
6 5 (1.54%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.54%) PSD2
7 4 (1.23%) Basel III
7 4 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.23%) MiFID
8 3 (0.93%) EMIR
8 3 (0.93%) ISO 8583
8 3 (0.93%) NIST
8 3 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.62%) GRC
9 2 (0.62%) NCSC
9 2 (0.62%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (2.47%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.31%) Firmware
2 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.31%) Ansible
3 1 (0.31%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.31%) Nessus
3 1 (0.31%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 59 (18.21%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.70%) Salesforce
3 8 (2.47%) Oracle
4 6 (1.85%) SAP
5 5 (1.54%) Intapp
5 5 (1.54%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.23%) Adobe
6 4 (1.23%) Murex
7 3 (0.93%) Apple
7 3 (0.93%) Databricks
7 3 (0.93%) Google
8 2 (0.62%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.62%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.62%) HP
8 2 (0.62%) Hyperion
8 2 (0.62%) IBM
8 2 (0.62%) Informatica
8 2 (0.62%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.62%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.31%) MuleSoft