Analytical Skills Contracts in Central London

Analytical Skills
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 19 25
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 230 203 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 11.52% 8.30% 6.98%
As % of the General category 16.36% 12.61% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 137 173
10th Percentile £319 £348 £311
25th Percentile £461 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £731
90th Percentile £775 £775 £848
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £32.25 -
25th Percentile £22.00 £40.78 £21.00
Median hourly rate £25.08 £60.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -58.21% +65.52% -40.33%
75th Percentile £37.62 £65.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £53.30 - £53.45
London median hourly rate £39.31 £23.50 £32.69
% change year-on-year +67.26% -28.11% -27.36%

All General Skills
Central London

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,406 1,610 2,396
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 70.41% 65.82% 62.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 905 1,149 1,691
10th Percentile £330 £338 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% -6.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile £678 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 15
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.07 £15.20
25th Percentile £25.11 £21.93 £18.42
Median hourly rate £30.04 £24.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.59% -30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £49.22 £35.69 £53.25
90th Percentile £74.63 £57.63 £58.75
London median hourly rate £34.00 £28.50 £32.00
% change year-on-year +19.30% -10.94% -12.33%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in Central London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in Central London

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Central London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in Central London

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Central London

Analytical Skills
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 Analytical Skills within the Central London region 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
City of London +4 211 £550 - 140
City of Westminster +7 8 £600 +14.29% 3
West End of London +1 4 £475 - 26
Southwark - 4 £375 -
Camden - 2 £474 - 4
Lambeth +1 1 £240 -
Analytical Skills
London

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 16 (6.96%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.91%) Apache
3 6 (2.61%) Confluence
4 5 (2.17%) Jupyter
4 5 (2.17%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.74%) Drupal
6 3 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.30%) CMS
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.43%) SAS
7 1 (0.43%) WordPress
Applications
1 29 (12.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (2.17%) Trello
6 1 (0.43%) EViews
6 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.30%) SAP CO
2 3 (1.30%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.30%) SAP FI
2 3 (1.30%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.87%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.87%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.43%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.43%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.43%) Maximo
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.43%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.43%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 32 (13.91%) Azure
2 31 (13.48%) AWS
3 22 (9.57%) Power Platform
4 8 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.04%) GCP
6 4 (1.74%) SaaS
7 3 (1.30%) Asana
7 3 (1.30%) Attraqt
7 3 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.30%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.30%) Storyblok
7 3 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.87%) Collibra
8 2 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.87%) Fivetran
8 2 (0.87%) OCI
8 2 (0.87%) Serverless
8 2 (0.87%) Social Studio
8 2 (0.87%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.17%) Firewall
2 4 (1.74%) SSH
3 2 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.87%) Network Security
3 2 (0.87%) VoIP
4 1 (0.43%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (0.43%) DHCP
4 1 (0.43%) DNS
4 1 (0.43%) HTTP
4 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.43%) LAN
4 1 (0.43%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.43%) VPN
4 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.43%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.26%) Power BI
2 11 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (4.78%) Hadoop
2 11 (4.78%) Tableau
3 10 (4.35%) Apache Hive
4 8 (3.48%) Big Data
4 8 (3.48%) SQL Server
5 5 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (1.74%) Delta Lake
6 4 (1.74%) Metadata
6 4 (1.74%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.74%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.87%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.87%) DB2
8 2 (0.87%) MySQL
8 2 (0.87%) Parquet
9 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.43%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (9.13%) JIRA
2 16 (6.96%) Git
3 10 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.04%) Bitbucket Server
4 7 (3.04%) JUnit
5 4 (1.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.74%) Gradle
5 4 (1.74%) IntelliJ
5 4 (1.74%) Maven
5 4 (1.74%) RStudio
5 4 (1.74%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.87%) ChangeMan
6 2 (0.87%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.87%) GitLab
6 2 (0.87%) Selenium
7 1 (0.43%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.43%) Terragrunt
7 1 (0.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 131 (56.96%) Social Skills
2 104 (45.22%) Finance
3 44 (19.13%) Banking
4 22 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.96%) Front Office
6 15 (6.52%) Investment Banking
6 15 (6.52%) Retail
7 13 (5.65%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.48%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (3.04%) Legal
9 7 (3.04%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.04%) Marketing
9 7 (3.04%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.61%) Law
11 5 (2.17%) Corporate Banking
11 5 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.74%) Back Office
12 4 (1.74%) Police
Job Titles
1 64 (27.83%) Analyst
2 35 (15.22%) Business Analyst
3 34 (14.78%) Developer
4 25 (10.87%) Senior
5 18 (7.83%) Data Analyst
6 14 (6.09%) Data Engineer
6 14 (6.09%) Java Developer
7 12 (5.22%) Project Manager
7 12 (5.22%) Senior Analyst
8 11 (4.78%) Lead
9 9 (3.91%) Consultant
10 8 (3.48%) Senior Business Analyst
11 6 (2.61%) Architect
11 6 (2.61%) Data Scientist
11 6 (2.61%) Product Owner
12 5 (2.17%) Apache Spark Developer
12 5 (2.17%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (2.17%) Data Business Analyst
12 5 (2.17%) Python Engineer
12 5 (2.17%) SAP Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.52%) PySpark
2 7 (3.04%) TensorFlow
3 6 (2.61%) REST
4 5 (2.17%) .NET
4 5 (2.17%) Spark Streaming
5 4 (1.74%) CSS
5 4 (1.74%) FIX Protocol
5 4 (1.74%) HTML
5 4 (1.74%) JMS
5 4 (1.74%) JPA
5 4 (1.74%) JSON
5 4 (1.74%) Kafka
5 4 (1.74%) pydantic
5 4 (1.74%) RESTful
5 4 (1.74%) Spring
5 4 (1.74%) YAML
6 3 (1.30%) FpML
6 3 (1.30%) Smart Contracts
6 3 (1.30%) SOAP
6 3 (1.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.43%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (6.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (6.09%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.91%) Algorithms
4 9 (3.91%) Equities
4 9 (3.91%) Fixed Income
4 9 (3.91%) Market Risk
4 9 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.48%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.48%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.61%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.17%) Credit Risk
7 5 (2.17%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.74%) Derivative
8 4 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.74%) Mainframe
9 3 (1.30%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.30%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.87%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.35%) Linux
2 9 (3.91%) Windows
3 7 (3.04%) Unix
4 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.43%) Android
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (55.65%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (19.57%) Agile
3 42 (18.26%) Decision-Making
4 40 (17.39%) Project Management
5 35 (15.22%) Analytics
6 32 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 26 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (11.30%) DevOps
7 26 (11.30%) Risk Management
8 25 (10.87%) CI/CD
9 23 (10.00%) Data Management
10 22 (9.57%) Collaborative Working
11 21 (9.13%) Artificial Intelligence
11 21 (9.13%) Data Analysis
12 20 (8.70%) Data Modelling
12 20 (8.70%) Data Science
13 19 (8.26%) Actionable Insight
13 19 (8.26%) Migration
14 18 (7.83%) Data Pipeline
15 17 (7.39%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 54 (23.48%) Python
2 50 (21.74%) SQL
3 18 (7.83%) Java
4 9 (3.91%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.61%) Bash
5 6 (2.61%) C#
5 6 (2.61%) C++
5 6 (2.61%) R
5 6 (2.61%) Scala
6 3 (1.30%) C
6 3 (1.30%) DAML
6 3 (1.30%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.87%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.87%) REXX
7 2 (0.87%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.43%) ABAP
8 1 (0.43%) Ada
8 1 (0.43%) PHP
8 1 (0.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (18.26%) Degree
2 26 (11.30%) Security Cleared
3 17 (7.39%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.09%) Master's Degree
5 11 (4.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (3.91%) PMI Certification
7 8 (3.48%) PMP
8 5 (2.17%) PhD
9 4 (1.74%) CFA
10 3 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.87%) ACCA
11 2 (0.87%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.87%) CCNP
11 2 (0.87%) MBA
12 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.43%) CISM
12 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.43%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.09%) Data Quality
1 14 (6.09%) GDPR
2 12 (5.22%) QA
3 7 (3.04%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.61%) MiFID
5 4 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.74%) PMO
6 3 (1.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.30%) EMIR
6 3 (1.30%) NIST
7 2 (0.87%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.87%) SEPA
8 1 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.43%) GRC
8 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.43%) UCITS
System Software
1 6 (2.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.43%) Firmware
2 1 (0.43%) OpenAM
2 1 (0.43%) OpenDJ
2 1 (0.43%) OpenIDM
2 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.91%) Kubernetes
1 9 (3.91%) Terraform
2 4 (1.74%) Ansible
3 2 (0.87%) CASB
4 1 (0.43%) Cisco LMS
4 1 (0.43%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (0.43%) QRadar
Vendors
1 27 (11.74%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.65%) SAP
3 12 (5.22%) Oracle
4 10 (4.35%) Cisco
5 7 (3.04%) Google
6 6 (2.61%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.61%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.61%) Splunk
7 4 (1.74%) Databricks
8 3 (1.30%) Logitech
8 3 (1.30%) TOWER Software
9 2 (0.87%) Adobe
9 2 (0.87%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.87%) Apple
9 2 (0.87%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.87%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.87%) IBM
9 2 (0.87%) Informatica
9 2 (0.87%) Micro Focus
9 2 (0.87%) Remedy