Data Analysis Contracts in Central London

Data Analysis
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 61 90
Rank change year-on-year +20 +29 +3
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 101 81 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 5.35% 3.38% 2.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.74% 3.71% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 43 57
10th Percentile £404 £341 £348
25th Percentile £469 £376 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £725 £588 £700
90th Percentile - £680 £750
London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £24.83 - -
25th Percentile £29.07 - -
Median hourly rate £34.65 - -
75th Percentile £50.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £34.65 £46.25 £22.49
% change year-on-year -25.08% +105.69% -36.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Analysis 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 1,761 2,182 3,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.32% 90.99% 91.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,138 1,545 2,281
10th Percentile £355 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
75th Percentile £678 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £815
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 27
10th Percentile £19.36 £20.22 £14.85
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.63 £17.56
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.75 £28.98 £53.25
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £30.81 £28.00 £39.63
% change year-on-year +10.02% -29.34% +12.29%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in Central London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in Central London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analysis in Central London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analysis in Central London

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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 Data Analysis within the Central London region over the 6 months to 29 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 +22 93 £575 +15.00% 29
City of Westminster +5 3 £588 +4.44%
West End of London 0 2 - -
Kensington and Chelsea +1 1 - -
Data Analysis
London

Data Analysis
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 6 (5.94%) Confluence
2 2 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 22 (21.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.95%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.98%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Aladdin
1 3 (2.97%) Workday HCM
2 2 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.98%) OpenText MBPM
2 2 (1.98%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (0.99%) Actimize
3 1 (0.99%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.99%) Maximo
3 1 (0.99%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.99%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.99%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.84%) Power Platform
2 10 (9.90%) Azure
3 6 (5.94%) AWS
4 4 (3.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.98%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.98%) GCP
6 2 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.98%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (0.99%) Apigee
7 1 (0.99%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.99%) Boomi
7 1 (0.99%) Collibra
7 1 (0.99%) GitHub
7 1 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.99%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.99%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.84%) Power BI
2 15 (14.85%) SQL Server
3 10 (9.90%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (8.91%) Tableau
5 6 (5.94%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.97%) Big Data
6 3 (2.97%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.97%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.97%) Power Query
6 3 (2.97%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.98%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.98%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.99%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.99%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.99%) KDB
8 1 (0.99%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 11 (10.89%) JIRA
2 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.99%) Git
2 1 (0.99%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (47.52%) Finance
2 39 (38.61%) Social Skills
3 23 (22.77%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (15.84%) Banking
5 12 (11.88%) Front Office
6 8 (7.92%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (4.95%) Financial Institution
7 5 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (3.96%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.97%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.97%) Legal
10 2 (1.98%) Back Office
10 2 (1.98%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.98%) Marketing
10 2 (1.98%) Retail
11 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 60 (59.41%) Analyst
2 34 (33.66%) Business Analyst
3 25 (24.75%) Data Analyst
4 17 (16.83%) Developer
5 11 (10.89%) Data Business Analyst
6 10 (9.90%) Senior
7 9 (8.91%) Lead
7 9 (8.91%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (6.93%) Consultant
9 6 (5.94%) Lead Consultant
10 5 (4.95%) Applications Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Lead Business Analyst
10 5 (4.95%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (3.96%) Architect
11 4 (3.96%) Automation Developer
11 4 (3.96%) Business Consultant
11 4 (3.96%) Pricing Analyst
11 4 (3.96%) SQL Analyst
11 4 (3.96%) SQL Data Analyst
11 4 (3.96%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.88%) .NET
2 2 (1.98%) WPF
3 1 (0.99%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.99%) Bootstrap
3 1 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.99%) FpML
3 1 (0.99%) Node.js
3 1 (0.99%) NumPy
3 1 (0.99%) Pandas
3 1 (0.99%) Polars
3 1 (0.99%) pytest
3 1 (0.99%) React
3 1 (0.99%) REST
3 1 (0.99%) RESTful
3 1 (0.99%) SOAP
3 1 (0.99%) Swagger
3 1 (0.99%) Web Services
3 1 (0.99%) WinForms
3 1 (0.99%) XML
3 1 (0.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.93%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (3.96%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.96%) Reference Data
3 3 (2.97%) Fixed Income
3 3 (2.97%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.97%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.98%) Derivative
4 2 (1.98%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.98%) Pricing Data
4 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.99%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.99%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.99%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (0.99%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.96%) Windows
2 3 (2.97%) Linux
3 1 (0.99%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (26.73%) Agile
2 26 (25.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (23.76%) Business Intelligence
4 22 (21.78%) Business Analysis
5 18 (17.82%) Data Modelling
6 17 (16.83%) Decision-Making
7 16 (15.84%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (15.84%) Project Management
7 16 (15.84%) Requirements Gathering
8 13 (12.87%) Visualisation
9 12 (11.88%) Analytics
9 12 (11.88%) Process Improvement
9 12 (11.88%) Risk Management
9 12 (11.88%) Scrum
10 11 (10.89%) Change Management
11 10 (9.90%) Project Delivery
11 10 (9.90%) User Stories
12 9 (8.91%) Asset Management
12 9 (8.91%) Data Management
12 9 (8.91%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 59 (58.42%) SQL
2 21 (20.79%) Python
3 11 (10.89%) C#
4 5 (4.95%) VBA
5 4 (3.96%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.97%) R
7 2 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.98%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.98%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.99%) C++
Qualifications
1 11 (10.89%) Degree
2 7 (6.93%) SC Cleared
2 7 (6.93%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.96%) CBAP
4 2 (1.98%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.98%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.99%) ACCA
5 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.99%) CFA
5 1 (0.99%) CIMA
5 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.99%) HNC
5 1 (0.99%) IIBA
5 1 (0.99%) PMP
5 1 (0.99%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.91%) Data Quality
1 9 (8.91%) MiFID
2 8 (7.92%) EMIR
3 7 (6.93%) QA
4 5 (4.95%) GDPR
5 3 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.97%) PMO
6 1 (0.99%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.99%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.99%) Ansible
1 1 (0.99%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.99%) Rancher
1 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.86%) Oracle
3 4 (3.96%) SAP
4 3 (2.97%) Bloomberg
4 3 (2.97%) Charles River
4 3 (2.97%) Google
4 3 (2.97%) Workday
5 2 (1.98%) Databricks
5 2 (1.98%) OpenText
5 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.98%) SimCorp
5 2 (1.98%) Trayport
5 2 (1.98%) UiPath
6 1 (0.99%) Aderant
6 1 (0.99%) Advent
6 1 (0.99%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.99%) dotdigital
6 1 (0.99%) FIS
6 1 (0.99%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.99%) Progress