Analytics Contract Job Trends in Central London

Analytics
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 23 25
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +12
Contract jobs citing Analytics 196 168 189
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 9.78% 7.18% 6.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.79% 7.80% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 102 129
10th Percentile £324 £426 £375
25th Percentile £409 £504 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £575
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% +7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £703 £700
90th Percentile £801 £773 £800
London median daily rate £525 £600 £581
% change year-on-year -12.50% +3.23% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - +84.21% -32.14%
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £46.25 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +23.33% +7.14% -28.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Analytics 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 1,816 2,154 2,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.57% 92.09% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,269 1,350 1,739
10th Percentile £343 £363 £359
25th Percentile £425 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £670 £679 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 27 16
10th Percentile £19.90 £18.34 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.31 £28.32 £18.93
Median hourly rate £26.31 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.84% +37.25% -37.04%
75th Percentile £37.44 £52.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £51.88 £112.00 £69.38
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £32.69
% change year-on-year -17.81% +11.65% -15.91%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Analytics job vacancy trend in Central London

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Analytics

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in Central London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in Central London

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Analytics

Analytics
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 Analytics within the Central London region over the 6 months to 21 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 +7 187 £525 -15.66% 61
City of Westminster -2 1 - - 3
Analytics
London

Analytics
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 8 (4.08%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.57%) Apache
2 7 (3.57%) CMS
3 4 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.53%) Confluence
4 3 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.51%) SAS
5 1 (0.51%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.02%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.02%) Trello
4 1 (0.51%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (0.51%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.51%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.51%) Endur
2 1 (0.51%) OpenLink RightAngle
2 1 (0.51%) Orchestrade
2 1 (0.51%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 57 (29.08%) Azure
2 47 (23.98%) AWS
2 47 (23.98%) Power Platform
3 21 (10.71%) GCP
4 13 (6.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 13 (6.63%) Serverless
4 13 (6.63%) Snowflake
5 12 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
6 11 (5.61%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (5.10%) Amazon S3
7 10 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.59%) SaaS
9 8 (4.08%) GitHub
10 7 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.55%) dbt
11 5 (2.55%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (2.55%) Google Analytics
12 4 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (2.04%) Apigee
12 4 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.04%) DNS
2 2 (1.02%) Firewall
2 2 (1.02%) SMS
3 1 (0.51%) 2G
3 1 (0.51%) 4G
3 1 (0.51%) 5G
3 1 (0.51%) BGP
3 1 (0.51%) Cisco Wireless
3 1 (0.51%) Hyperconnected
3 1 (0.51%) Internet
3 1 (0.51%) MPLS
3 1 (0.51%) NetScaler
3 1 (0.51%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.51%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.51%) VPN
3 1 (0.51%) WAN
3 1 (0.51%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (23.47%) Power BI
2 23 (11.73%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (10.20%) Tableau
4 14 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 12 (6.12%) Metadata
6 9 (4.59%) Snowflake Schema
7 8 (4.08%) Big Data
8 7 (3.57%) Delta Lake
9 6 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (3.06%) Relational Database
10 5 (2.55%) BigQuery
10 5 (2.55%) MySQL
10 5 (2.55%) SQL Server
11 4 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (2.04%) Data Vault
11 4 (2.04%) DynamoDB
11 4 (2.04%) NoSQL
11 4 (2.04%) Power Query
12 3 (1.53%) Looker
12 3 (1.53%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 15 (7.65%) Git
2 8 (4.08%) JIRA
3 5 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.53%) Visual Website Optimizer
5 2 (1.02%) CocoaPods
5 2 (1.02%) Crashlytics
5 2 (1.02%) fastlane
5 2 (1.02%) Xcode
6 1 (0.51%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.51%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.51%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.51%) ERwin
6 1 (0.51%) GitLab
6 1 (0.51%) JUnit
6 1 (0.51%) Postman
6 1 (0.51%) Selenium
General
1 84 (42.86%) Finance
2 62 (31.63%) Social Skills
3 48 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (15.31%) Banking
5 15 (7.65%) Marketing
6 12 (6.12%) Front Office
7 8 (4.08%) Legal
8 7 (3.57%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (3.06%) Investment Banking
9 6 (3.06%) Retail
10 5 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.53%) Aviation
11 3 (1.53%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.53%) Retail Banking
12 2 (1.02%) Back Office
12 2 (1.02%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (14.29%) Senior
2 26 (13.27%) Developer
3 23 (11.73%) Analyst
4 18 (9.18%) Data Engineer
5 14 (7.14%) Data Scientist
6 13 (6.63%) Architect
7 12 (6.12%) Data Analyst
8 10 (5.10%) Consultant
9 7 (3.57%) Data Architect
9 7 (3.57%) Lead
10 6 (3.06%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.55%) AWS Engineer
11 5 (2.55%) Data Manager
11 5 (2.55%) Data Modeller
11 5 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (2.55%) Senior Data Scientist
12 4 (2.04%) iOS Developer
12 4 (2.04%) Security Engineer
12 4 (2.04%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 4 (2.04%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.12%) scikit-learn
2 10 (5.10%) Pandas
3 9 (4.59%) NumPy
4 8 (4.08%) PySpark
5 5 (2.55%) .NET
5 5 (2.55%) HTML
5 5 (2.55%) JWT
5 5 (2.55%) Node.js
5 5 (2.55%) OAuth
5 5 (2.55%) PyTorch
5 5 (2.55%) TensorFlow
6 4 (2.04%) CSS
6 4 (2.04%) RESTful
7 3 (1.53%) Google JAX
7 3 (1.53%) JAX
7 3 (1.53%) JSON
7 3 (1.53%) LightGBM
7 3 (1.53%) Matplotlib
7 3 (1.53%) SciPy
7 3 (1.53%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 12 (6.12%) Onboarding
2 12 (6.12%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.08%) Cloud Native
3 8 (4.08%) Derivative
4 7 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.57%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.04%) Equities
6 4 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.04%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.53%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.53%) IoT
7 3 (1.53%) Social Media
8 2 (1.02%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.55%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.04%) Windows
3 2 (1.02%) Android
3 2 (1.02%) Linux
3 2 (1.02%) Unix
4 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (27.55%) Business Intelligence
2 41 (20.92%) Agile
2 41 (20.92%) Data Modelling
2 41 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (18.88%) Data Governance
4 35 (17.86%) Visualisation
5 34 (17.35%) CI/CD
6 32 (16.33%) ETL
7 31 (15.82%) Data Analytics
8 29 (14.80%) AI
9 28 (14.29%) Machine Learning
10 27 (13.78%) DevOps
10 27 (13.78%) Migration
11 26 (13.27%) Actionable Insight
11 26 (13.27%) Data Pipeline
11 26 (13.27%) Data Science
11 26 (13.27%) Decision-Making
12 25 (12.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 23 (11.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (11.22%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 66 (33.67%) Python
2 65 (33.16%) SQL
3 10 (5.10%) Java
4 8 (4.08%) C#
4 8 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 7 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.06%) PowerShell
7 5 (2.55%) C++
8 4 (2.04%) Kotlin
8 4 (2.04%) Swift
9 3 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.53%) Objective-C
9 3 (1.53%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.53%) T-SQL
9 3 (1.53%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.02%) IronPython
10 2 (1.02%) Korn
10 2 (1.02%) R
10 2 (1.02%) RPG
10 2 (1.02%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (11.73%) Degree
2 16 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.63%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.06%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.55%) CISSP
6 4 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.53%) GIAC
7 3 (1.53%) ISACA
7 3 (1.53%) PhD
8 2 (1.02%) CISA
8 2 (1.02%) CISM
8 2 (1.02%) CRISC
8 2 (1.02%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.02%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.02%) PMP
9 1 (0.51%) ACCA
9 1 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.51%) Postgraduate
9 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 12 (6.12%) GDPR
3 7 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.06%) QA
5 4 (2.04%) NIST
6 3 (1.53%) GRC
6 3 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.53%) Solvency II
7 2 (1.02%) COBIT
7 2 (1.02%) ITGC
7 2 (1.02%) PMO
8 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.51%) EU AI Act
8 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 11 (5.61%) Docker
2 2 (1.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (4.08%) Terraform
2 7 (3.57%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.53%) Ansible
5 2 (1.02%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.51%) CASB
6 1 (0.51%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.51%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.51%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 30 (15.31%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.24%) Databricks
2 24 (12.24%) Google
3 9 (4.59%) Oracle
4 7 (3.57%) SAP
5 6 (3.06%) Adobe
5 6 (3.06%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.04%) Hotjar
6 4 (2.04%) Informatica
6 4 (2.04%) Optimizely
7 3 (1.53%) Ahrefs
7 3 (1.53%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.53%) Amplitude
7 3 (1.53%) Apple
7 3 (1.53%) Workday
8 2 (1.02%) Foundry
8 2 (1.02%) IBM
8 2 (1.02%) Sage
8 2 (1.02%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.02%) Talend