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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 15 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 266 225 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 12.97% 9.43% 8.12%
As % of the General category 17.62% 14.11% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 165 202
10th Percentile £350 £363 £319
25th Percentile £430 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £672 £695 £730
90th Percentile £763 £790 £849
London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £21.95 £27.98 £23.65
25th Percentile £29.16 £30.11 £40.75
Median hourly rate £34.48 £34.03 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -34.56% +70.49%
75th Percentile £56.43 £38.33 £57.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £40.68 £64.25
London median hourly rate £37.00 £26.56 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.31% -44.08% +5.56%

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 1,510 1,595 2,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 73.62% 66.85% 63.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 1,092 1,666
10th Percentile £329 £340 £313
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
London median daily rate £550 £573 £600
% change year-on-year -3.93% -4.58% +2.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 16 15
10th Percentile £21.51 £20.07 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.93 £22.91 £14.88
Median hourly rate £34.24 £30.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +14.13% +44.89% -49.50%
75th Percentile £51.81 £53.00 £38.66
90th Percentile £67.89 £85.63 £53.35
London median hourly rate £32.70 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.17% -8.57% -1.41%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +2 250 £550 -4.35% 306
City of Westminster -2 4 £550 +22.22% 6
Kensington and Chelsea 0 3 £450 +12.50% 3
Southwark - 2 £375 - 2
West End of London +3 1 - - 3
Lambeth - 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 17 (6.39%) Apache Spark
2 10 (3.76%) Confluence
3 7 (2.63%) Apache
4 5 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.88%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.75%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.38%) CICS
6 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (12.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (6.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.75%) Trello
6 1 (0.38%) EViews
Business Applications
1 6 (2.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.13%) ION Anvil
2 3 (1.13%) SAP ERP
2 3 (1.13%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.75%) SAP PLM
3 2 (0.75%) SAP VC
4 1 (0.38%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.38%) HFM
4 1 (0.38%) Maximo
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.38%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.38%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 44 (16.54%) Azure
2 35 (13.16%) AWS
3 28 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.38%) GCP
5 8 (3.01%) Snowflake
6 7 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.88%) SaaS
9 3 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.13%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.13%) Collibra
9 3 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.13%) GitHub
9 3 (1.13%) Serverless
9 3 (1.13%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.75%) dbt
10 2 (0.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.01%) Firewall
2 3 (1.13%) SSH
3 2 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.75%) DNS
3 2 (0.75%) NAS
3 2 (0.75%) SAN
3 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.75%) VoIP
3 2 (0.75%) VPN
4 1 (0.38%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.38%) DHCP
4 1 (0.38%) HTTP
4 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) LAN
4 1 (0.38%) Multicast
4 1 (0.38%) Network Security
4 1 (0.38%) WAN
4 1 (0.38%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.38%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.77%) Power BI
2 15 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (5.64%) Hadoop
3 14 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.51%) Tableau
5 11 (4.14%) Apache Hive
6 8 (3.01%) Big Data
6 8 (3.01%) Metadata
7 7 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.63%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.26%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.88%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.50%) Data Mining
10 4 (1.50%) Star Schema
11 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.75%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.75%) KDB
12 2 (0.75%) MongoDB
12 2 (0.75%) MySQL
12 2 (0.75%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 21 (7.89%) JIRA
2 15 (5.64%) Git
3 11 (4.14%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.26%) Bitbucket Server
4 6 (2.26%) JUnit
5 5 (1.88%) IntelliJ
6 4 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.50%) Gradle
7 3 (1.13%) Maven
7 3 (1.13%) Selenium
7 3 (1.13%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.75%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.75%) RStudio
9 1 (0.38%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.38%) Gatling
9 1 (0.38%) GitLab
9 1 (0.38%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.38%) Postman
9 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 149 (56.02%) Social Skills
2 143 (53.76%) Finance
3 47 (17.67%) Banking
4 22 (8.27%) Financial Institution
5 21 (7.89%) Front Office
6 18 (6.77%) Public Sector
7 14 (5.26%) Investment Banking
7 14 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (4.89%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.01%) Marketing
10 8 (3.01%) Police
10 8 (3.01%) Retail
11 7 (2.63%) Legal
12 6 (2.26%) Back Office
13 5 (1.88%) Law
13 5 (1.88%) Local Government
14 4 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 82 (30.83%) Analyst
2 46 (17.29%) Business Analyst
3 33 (12.41%) Developer
4 25 (9.40%) Senior
5 18 (6.77%) Data Analyst
5 18 (6.77%) Lead
6 15 (5.64%) Java Developer
7 14 (5.26%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.14%) Senior Analyst
9 10 (3.76%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.38%) Consultant
11 7 (2.63%) Architect
11 7 (2.63%) IT Analyst
12 6 (2.26%) Data Scientist
12 6 (2.26%) Senior Developer
13 5 (1.88%) Delivery Manager
13 5 (1.88%) Operations Analyst
13 5 (1.88%) Senior Business Analyst
13 5 (1.88%) Senior Data Analyst
13 5 (1.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.64%) PySpark
2 10 (3.76%) TensorFlow
3 7 (2.63%) Kafka
3 7 (2.63%) REST
4 6 (2.26%) Spring
5 5 (1.88%) .NET
5 5 (1.88%) scikit-learn
5 5 (1.88%) Spark Streaming
6 4 (1.50%) CSS
6 4 (1.50%) JSON
6 4 (1.50%) Pandas
7 3 (1.13%) .NET Core
7 3 (1.13%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.13%) HTML
7 3 (1.13%) JMS
7 3 (1.13%) JPA
7 3 (1.13%) Smart Contracts
7 3 (1.13%) XML
8 2 (0.75%) pydantic
8 2 (0.75%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.27%) Analytical Mindset
2 17 (6.39%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.89%) Algorithms
4 11 (4.14%) Distributed Computing
4 11 (4.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 11 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (3.38%) Market Risk
6 8 (3.01%) Fixed Income
6 8 (3.01%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.63%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.26%) Credit Risk
8 6 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.26%) Reference Data
9 5 (1.88%) Equities
10 4 (1.50%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.13%) Blockchain
11 3 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.14%) Linux
2 16 (6.02%) Windows
3 8 (3.01%) Unix
4 4 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) AIX
5 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Solaris
5 1 (0.38%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 145 (54.51%) Problem-Solving
2 55 (20.68%) Agile
3 45 (16.92%) Decision-Making
4 42 (15.79%) Analytics
5 38 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 34 (12.78%) DevOps
7 32 (12.03%) Collaborative Working
7 32 (12.03%) Project Management
7 32 (12.03%) Risk Management
8 30 (11.28%) CI/CD
9 29 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 28 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
10 28 (10.53%) Data Analysis
10 28 (10.53%) Data Modelling
11 26 (9.77%) Data Science
12 25 (9.40%) User Acceptance Testing
13 24 (9.02%) Actionable Insight
13 24 (9.02%) Data Management
14 23 (8.65%) Computer Science
14 23 (8.65%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 65 (24.44%) Python
2 60 (22.56%) SQL
3 23 (8.65%) Java
4 11 (4.14%) Bash
5 10 (3.76%) JavaScript
6 9 (3.38%) C#
6 9 (3.38%) C++
6 9 (3.38%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.01%) R
8 4 (1.50%) Scala
9 3 (1.13%) ABAP
9 3 (1.13%) DAML
9 3 (1.13%) VBA
10 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.75%) Go
10 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.38%) Ada
11 1 (0.38%) C
11 1 (0.38%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 53 (19.92%) Degree
2 27 (10.15%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.76%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.26%) PhD
6 6 (2.26%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.26%) PMP
7 4 (1.50%) CISA
8 3 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.75%) CBAP
9 2 (0.75%) CCNP
9 2 (0.75%) CEH
9 2 (0.75%) CISM
9 2 (0.75%) CISSP
9 2 (0.75%) CRISC
9 2 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.38%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.02%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.38%) GDPR
2 9 (3.38%) QA
3 8 (3.01%) NIST
4 7 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.63%) PMO
5 4 (1.50%) COBIT
5 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.50%) MiFID
6 3 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.75%) SLA
8 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.38%) EMIR
8 1 (0.38%) GAAP
8 1 (0.38%) GxP
8 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.38%) SEPA
8 1 (0.38%) UCITS
System Software
1 4 (1.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.13%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.38%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.38%) OpenDJ
4 1 (0.38%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 11 (4.14%) Kubernetes
1 11 (4.14%) Terraform
2 5 (1.88%) Ansible
3 2 (0.75%) CASB
3 2 (0.75%) Grafana
3 2 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.75%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.38%) Cisco LMS
4 1 (0.38%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.38%) Nessus
4 1 (0.38%) Packer
4 1 (0.38%) QRadar
4 1 (0.38%) SCCM
4 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.38%) yum
4 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (12.78%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.64%) Oracle
3 11 (4.14%) SAP
4 9 (3.38%) Splunk
5 7 (2.63%) Google
5 7 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.26%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.88%) Cisco
7 5 (1.88%) UiPath
8 4 (1.50%) Databricks
8 4 (1.50%) VMware
8 4 (1.50%) Workday
9 3 (1.13%) Adobe
9 3 (1.13%) Informatica
9 3 (1.13%) ION Trading
9 3 (1.13%) Sun
10 2 (0.75%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.75%) Citrix
10 2 (0.75%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.75%) Foundry