Analyst Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Analyst
Central London > City of London

The median Analyst daily rate in the City of London is £505, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 269 297 318
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.10% 17.22% 14.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.79% 18.39% 15.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 186 211
10th Percentile £215 £270 £313
25th Percentile £356 £377 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £595 £663 £638
90th Percentile £722 £725 £688
Central London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £15.67 £18.95 £21.25
25th Percentile £15.93 £22.62 £21.44
Median hourly rate £16.62 £29.66 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.97% -5.86% -10.00%
75th Percentile £17.05 £48.19 £40.00
90th Percentile £17.16 £72.53 £94.38
Central London median hourly rate £16.62 £29.07 £31.50
% change year-on-year -42.84% -7.71% -10.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,282 1,615 2,066
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.18% 93.62% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,520 1,020 1,425
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 18 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £20.35 £16.33
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £23.16 £32.83 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -29.44% +44.29% -35.00%
75th Percentile £42.83 £63.75 £32.03
90th Percentile £59.72 £92.13 £45.13
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -9.27% +11.24% -22.86%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Analyst job vacancy trend in the City of London

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the City of London

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the City of London over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the City of London

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the City of London

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the City of London region over the 6 months to 21 June 2026. 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
London Bridge +2 2 £600 - 1
Analyst
Central London

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 21 June 2026, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 49 (18.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 47 (17.47%) Agile
3 42 (15.61%) Microsoft
3 42 (15.61%) SQL
4 41 (15.24%) Business Analysis
4 41 (15.24%) User Stories
5 36 (13.38%) Analytics
6 33 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (11.90%) Data Analysis
8 30 (11.15%) Workshop Facilitation
9 29 (10.78%) Business Intelligence
9 29 (10.78%) Requirements Gathering
9 29 (10.78%) Validation
10 28 (10.41%) Data Modelling
10 28 (10.41%) Microsoft Excel
10 28 (10.41%) Power Platform
11 27 (10.04%) Data Quality
11 27 (10.04%) Migration
11 27 (10.04%) User Acceptance Testing
12 26 (9.67%) Power BI
12 26 (9.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 22 (8.18%) Acceptance Criteria
13 22 (8.18%) JIRA
14 21 (7.81%) Decision-Making
14 21 (7.81%) Python
14 21 (7.81%) Security Cleared
15 20 (7.43%) Azure
16 19 (7.06%) Data Migration
16 19 (7.06%) QA
17 18 (6.69%) Asset Management

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 12 (4.46%) Confluence
2 7 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.37%) CMS
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.37%) SAS
3 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (10.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.72%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.23%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.49%) Workday HCM
3 3 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.74%) Actimize
4 2 (0.74%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.74%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.37%) Findur
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.37%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 28 (10.41%) Power Platform
2 20 (7.43%) Azure
3 9 (3.35%) Snowflake
4 8 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.23%) GCP
6 5 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 5 (1.86%) Entra ID
6 5 (1.86%) SaaS
7 4 (1.49%) AWS
7 4 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (1.12%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.74%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.74%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.74%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.74%) Slack
10 1 (0.37%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.12%) VPN
2 2 (0.74%) DHCP
2 2 (0.74%) DNS
3 1 (0.37%) DMZ
3 1 (0.37%) Internet
3 1 (0.37%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.37%) Network Security
3 1 (0.37%) PSTN
3 1 (0.37%) SNMP
3 1 (0.37%) VLAN
3 1 (0.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.67%) Power BI
2 14 (5.20%) Tableau
3 8 (2.97%) Metadata
4 5 (1.86%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.12%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.74%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.74%) Looker
7 2 (0.74%) Power Query
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.37%) Big Data
8 1 (0.37%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.37%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.37%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.37%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 22 (8.18%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.37%) GitLab
2 1 (0.37%) Selenium
2 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
2 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (0.37%) WinAutomation
General
1 118 (43.87%) Finance
2 77 (28.62%) Social Skills
3 67 (24.91%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (13.01%) Banking
5 12 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.09%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (4.09%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.97%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.60%) Front Office
9 6 (2.23%) Law
9 6 (2.23%) Marketing
10 5 (1.86%) Back Office
10 5 (1.86%) Legal
10 5 (1.86%) Retail
10 5 (1.86%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.49%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.49%) Publishing
12 3 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.12%) JSON
1 3 (1.12%) Middleware
1 3 (1.12%) SailPoint
2 2 (0.74%) Playwright
2 2 (0.74%) PySpark
3 1 (0.37%) .NET
3 1 (0.37%) ADO
3 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.37%) GeoJSON
3 1 (0.37%) Great Expectations
3 1 (0.37%) LDAP
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.37%) Next.js
3 1 (0.37%) Node.js
3 1 (0.37%) NumPy
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.37%) Pandas
3 1 (0.37%) pytest
3 1 (0.37%) React
3 1 (0.37%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.83%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.09%) Onboarding
3 10 (3.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (3.35%) Derivative
5 8 (2.97%) Fixed Income
6 6 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.23%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.86%) CMDB
7 5 (1.86%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.49%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.49%) Equities
8 4 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 3 (1.12%) Digital Wallet
9 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.12%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.12%) PMI
9 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.72%) Windows
2 4 (1.49%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.74%) Unix
4 1 (0.37%) Android
4 1 (0.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (18.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 47 (17.47%) Agile
3 41 (15.24%) Business Analysis
3 41 (15.24%) User Stories
4 36 (13.38%) Analytics
5 33 (12.27%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (11.90%) Data Analysis
7 30 (11.15%) Workshop Facilitation
8 29 (10.78%) Business Intelligence
8 29 (10.78%) Requirements Gathering
8 29 (10.78%) Validation
9 28 (10.41%) Data Modelling
10 27 (10.04%) Migration
10 27 (10.04%) User Acceptance Testing
11 26 (9.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 22 (8.18%) Acceptance Criteria
13 21 (7.81%) Decision-Making
14 19 (7.06%) Data Migration
15 18 (6.69%) Asset Management
15 18 (6.69%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.61%) SQL
2 21 (7.81%) Python
3 5 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (1.12%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.12%) R
5 2 (0.74%) Java
5 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.37%) C#
6 1 (0.37%) Korn
6 1 (0.37%) Scala
6 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (7.81%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.69%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.95%) Degree
4 6 (2.23%) CISSP
5 4 (1.49%) CBAP
5 4 (1.49%) CISA
5 4 (1.49%) CRISC
6 3 (1.12%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.37%) CCNA
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.37%) IIBA
8 1 (0.37%) ISEB
8 1 (0.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.37%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.04%) Data Quality
2 19 (7.06%) QA
3 7 (2.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.23%) NIST
5 5 (1.86%) COBIT
5 5 (1.86%) PMO
6 4 (1.49%) GDPR
6 4 (1.49%) IFRS
6 4 (1.49%) ISO 20022
6 4 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.49%) ITGC
7 3 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.12%) PSD2
8 2 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.74%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.37%) Basel III
9 1 (0.37%) COREP
9 1 (0.37%) FINREP
9 1 (0.37%) GAAP
9 1 (0.37%) GMP
System Software
1 8 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.12%) SCCM
2 2 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.09%) Databricks
3 10 (3.72%) Salesforce
3 10 (3.72%) SAP
4 8 (2.97%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.23%) Oracle
5 6 (2.23%) Workday
6 5 (1.86%) Bloomberg
6 5 (1.86%) Google
7 4 (1.49%) Murex
8 3 (1.12%) Adobe
8 3 (1.12%) Citrix
8 3 (1.12%) OneTrust
8 3 (1.12%) Splunk
9 2 (0.74%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.74%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.74%) Nexthink
9 2 (0.74%) Reuters
9 2 (0.74%) Tenable
10 1 (0.37%) SimCorp