Data Analytics Contracts in Central London

Data Analytics
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analytics 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 104 107 133
Rank change year-on-year +3 +26 -8
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 25 26 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.25% 1.06% 1.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 1.17% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 20
10th Percentile £411 £413 £270
25th Percentile £472 £500 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £560 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% -0.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £682 £675 £691
90th Percentile £769 £689 £740
London median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Data 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 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in Central London

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in Central London

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in Central London

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in Central London

Data 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 Data Analytics 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 +7 25 £545 -2.68% 10
Data Analytics
London

Data Analytics
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 5 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (16.00%) AWS
4 3 (12.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) dbt
5 2 (8.00%) Serverless
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.00%) Google Analytics
6 1 (4.00%) SaaS
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Tableau
2 6 (24.00%) Power BI
3 5 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (16.00%) BigQuery
4 4 (16.00%) Hadoop
4 4 (16.00%) Looker
5 2 (8.00%) Apache Hive
5 2 (8.00%) Big Data
5 2 (8.00%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
6 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
6 1 (4.00%) Metadata
6 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 1 (4.00%) MySQL
6 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Appium
2 1 (4.00%) Selenium
General
1 17 (68.00%) Finance
2 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (32.00%) Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Financial Institution
4 3 (12.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Advertising
6 1 (4.00%) Back Office
6 1 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.00%) Electronics
6 1 (4.00%) Front Office
6 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
6 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
6 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Business Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Data Analyst
3 5 (20.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Project Manager
4 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Data Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) SQL Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) SQL Data Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Gen AI Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Head of Programme Management
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Data Scientist
6 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) PySpark
1 2 (8.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (4.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (8.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.00%) Credit Risk
2 2 (8.00%) Derivative
2 2 (8.00%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (8.00%) Equities
2 2 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.00%) Market Risk
3 1 (4.00%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Analytics
2 14 (56.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (44.00%) Agile
3 11 (44.00%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (44.00%) Decision-Making
4 9 (36.00%) Visualisation
5 8 (32.00%) Data Analysis
6 7 (28.00%) Data Management
6 7 (28.00%) Data Science
6 7 (28.00%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (24.00%) Data Engineering
7 6 (24.00%) ETL
8 5 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
8 5 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 5 (20.00%) Data Integration
8 5 (20.00%) Risk Management
8 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (16.00%) DevOps
9 4 (16.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) SQL
2 8 (32.00%) Python
3 2 (8.00%) Java
4 1 (4.00%) R
4 1 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (12.00%) PMI Certification
3 3 (12.00%) PMP
4 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.00%) PhD
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.00%) CAPM
5 1 (4.00%) CBAP
5 1 (4.00%) MBA
5 1 (4.00%) PgMP
5 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (12.00%) MiFID
2 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.00%) Dodd-Frank
2 2 (8.00%) EMIR
2 2 (8.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) Databricks
2 2 (8.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) Aderant
3 1 (4.00%) GoldenSource
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce