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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 103 126
Rank change year-on-year +13 +23 +10
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 32 28 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.68% 1.17% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 1.28% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 25
10th Percentile £405 £396 £329
25th Percentile £475 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £763 £688 £738
London median daily rate £550 £566 £575
% change year-on-year -2.87% -1.52% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.50 - -
Median hourly rate £17.00 - -
75th Percentile £17.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £34.50 £32.50 £58.50
% change year-on-year +6.15% -44.44% +56.00%

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 1,777 2,179 3,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.48% 90.94% 91.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,539 2,277
10th Percentile £356 £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 £679 £675 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 21 26
10th Percentile £19.04 £20.22 £14.75
25th Percentile £22.75 £23.00 £17.08
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -20.54% -13.58%
75th Percentile £43.97 £29.38 £52.69
90th Percentile £50.75 £40.00 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
% change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%

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 30 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 30 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 +9 32 £550 -1.79% 22
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 (15.63%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) Apache
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (3.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.00%) Azure
1 8 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 5 (15.63%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) GCP
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
3 2 (6.25%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (6.25%) dbt
3 2 (6.25%) Google Compute Engine
3 2 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.13%) Google Analytics
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.00%) Power BI
2 7 (21.88%) Tableau
3 6 (18.75%) BigQuery
4 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (15.63%) Hadoop
5 4 (12.50%) Big Data
5 4 (12.50%) Looker
6 3 (9.38%) Data Lake
7 2 (6.25%) Apache Hive
7 2 (6.25%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (3.13%) DynamoDB
8 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
8 1 (3.13%) MySQL
8 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.13%) Pentaho
8 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Appium
2 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 18 (56.25%) Finance
2 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 10 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (21.88%) Banking
5 4 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
6 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Advertising
7 1 (3.13%) Back Office
7 1 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Electronics
7 1 (3.13%) Front Office
7 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.13%) Legal
7 1 (3.13%) Marketing
7 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.13%) Retail
7 1 (3.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Business Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Data Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Data Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Data Business Analyst
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Architect
4 3 (9.38%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) Project Manager
4 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Data Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Data Analytics Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Data Manager
5 2 (6.25%) GCP Data Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) PySpark
1 2 (6.25%) TensorFlow
2 1 (3.13%) HTML
2 1 (3.13%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
1 2 (6.25%) Credit Risk
1 2 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
1 2 (6.25%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.13%) Derivative
2 1 (3.13%) Equities
2 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.13%) Market Risk
2 1 (3.13%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Analytics
2 15 (46.88%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (43.75%) Agile
4 13 (40.63%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (37.50%) Decision-Making
6 9 (28.13%) Data Engineering
7 8 (25.00%) Data Analysis
8 7 (21.88%) Data Pipeline
8 7 (21.88%) Data Science
8 7 (21.88%) Visualisation
9 6 (18.75%) Actionable Insight
9 6 (18.75%) Data Integration
9 6 (18.75%) ETL
9 6 (18.75%) Risk Management
10 5 (15.63%) Artificial Intelligence
10 5 (15.63%) Computer Science
10 5 (15.63%) Data Management
10 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
10 5 (15.63%) Data Visualisation
10 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) SQL
2 11 (34.38%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) Java
4 1 (3.13%) R
4 1 (3.13%) Scala
4 1 (3.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Degree
2 4 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 3 (9.38%) PMI Certification
3 3 (9.38%) PMP
3 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.25%) PhD
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.13%) CAPM
5 1 (3.13%) CBAP
5 1 (3.13%) MBA
5 1 (3.13%) PgMP
5 1 (3.13%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.38%) PMO
3 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.25%) MiFID
4 1 (3.13%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (3.13%) EMIR
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
1 3 (9.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Google
2 2 (6.25%) Databricks
2 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 2 (6.25%) SAP
3 1 (3.13%) Aderant
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) Workday