Analytical Thinking Contract Job Trends in Central London

Analytical Thinking
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 117 143
Rank change year-on-year +3 +26 +42
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 14 18 13
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.73% 0.76% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.83% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 10
10th Percentile £447 £530 £609
25th Percentile £475 £693 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £708 £725
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% -2.41% +16.00%
75th Percentile £538 £710 £800
90th Percentile £627 £710 -
London median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% -6.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Analytical Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,791 2,172 2,757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.92% 92.15% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,228 1,382 1,916
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £780 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 17
10th Percentile £17.61 £19.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.54 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.05%
75th Percentile £35.63 £70.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £61.65 £122.20 £59.30
London median hourly rate £30.50 £37.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year -17.90% -7.13% +4.25%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Thinking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Analytical Thinking job vacancy trend in Central London

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Analytical Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in Central London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in Central London

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Analytical Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
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 Thinking within the Central London region over the 6 months to 15 October 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 14 £500 -29.33% 25
Analytical Thinking
London

Analytical Thinking
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 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) GitHub
3 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Alation
4 1 (7.14%) dbt
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) KDB
1 2 (14.29%) Mixpanel
2 1 (7.14%) Data Vault
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Eclipse
1 2 (14.29%) Git
1 2 (14.29%) IntelliJ
1 2 (14.29%) Visual Website Optimizer
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Terragrunt
General
1 14 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Marketing
5 1 (7.14%) Law
5 1 (7.14%) Legal
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Conversion Specialist
2 2 (14.29%) KDB Developer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Application Security Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) C# Developer
3 1 (7.14%) Change Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Programme Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Security Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Transformation Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Programme Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Transformation Programme Manager
3 1 (7.14%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) CSS
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
1 2 (14.29%) Middleware
1 2 (14.29%) Spring
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
2 4 (28.57%) Analytics
2 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (21.43%) Decision-Making
3 3 (21.43%) Journey Map
3 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Storytelling
3 3 (21.43%) User Experience
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 2 (14.29%) Customer Journey Map
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (14.29%) Observability
4 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) C++
3 2 (14.29%) Go
3 2 (14.29%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) PromQL
4 1 (7.14%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) APMG
1 1 (7.14%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) PMO
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 2 (14.29%) Grafana
2 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Amplitude
1 2 (14.29%) Google
1 2 (14.29%) Hotjar
1 2 (14.29%) Optimizely
1 2 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (7.14%) Qualtrics