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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 280 333 331
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.58% 17.72% 15.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.35% 18.97% 16.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 214 222
10th Percentile £225 £270 £312
25th Percentile £356 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -3.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £638
90th Percentile £704 £725 £713
Central London median daily rate £500 £518 £520
% change year-on-year -3.38% -0.48% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £19.76 £29.20
25th Percentile £15.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £34.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.94% -15.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £16.50 £36.00 £78.75
90th Percentile - £67.65 £120.75
Central London median hourly rate £16.00 £29.07 £40.75
% change year-on-year -44.96% -28.66% +16.43%

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 2,268 1,755 2,026
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.76% 93.40% 95.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,514 1,129 1,377
10th Percentile £356 £348 £350
25th Percentile £455 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £553
% change year-on-year - -0.45% -6.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 22 18
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £17.77
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.29
Median hourly rate £19.50 £32.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +20.37% -32.21%
75th Percentile £40.88 £62.00 £58.50
90th Percentile £59.72 £86.43 £106.00
Central London median hourly rate £23.08 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -23.16% +8.00% -20.54%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -
Moorgate 0 2 £475 +58.33%
Analyst
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 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 59 (21.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 51 (18.21%) Agile
3 48 (17.14%) SQL
4 42 (15.00%) Analytics
4 42 (15.00%) Business Analysis
4 42 (15.00%) Microsoft
5 41 (14.64%) User Stories
6 37 (13.21%) Data Analysis
6 37 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
7 34 (12.14%) Business Intelligence
8 33 (11.79%) Data Modelling
8 33 (11.79%) Power Platform
8 33 (11.79%) Validation
9 31 (11.07%) Power BI
10 30 (10.71%) Data Quality
10 30 (10.71%) Migration
10 30 (10.71%) Requirements Gathering
10 30 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
11 29 (10.36%) Decision-Making
12 27 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (9.29%) Microsoft Excel
14 25 (8.93%) User Acceptance Testing
15 22 (7.86%) Azure
15 22 (7.86%) Data Governance
15 22 (7.86%) Data Mapping
15 22 (7.86%) Security Cleared
16 21 (7.50%) Acceptance Criteria
17 20 (7.14%) Python
18 19 (6.79%) AI
18 19 (6.79%) Continuous Improvement

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 9 (3.21%) Confluence
2 7 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.36%) CMS
4 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.36%) SAS
4 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (9.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.86%) MS Visio
3 7 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.14%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.43%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.71%) Actimize
3 2 (0.71%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.36%) Findur
4 1 (0.36%) iTrent
4 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.36%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.36%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 33 (11.79%) Power Platform
2 22 (7.86%) Azure
3 12 (4.29%) Snowflake
4 9 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (2.86%) AWS
6 7 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.14%) GCP
8 5 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.07%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.07%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.71%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (0.71%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.43%) TCP/IP
1 4 (1.43%) VPN
2 3 (1.07%) DHCP
2 3 (1.07%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) Internet
3 1 (0.36%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.36%) PSTN
3 1 (0.36%) SNMP
3 1 (0.36%) VLAN
3 1 (0.36%) VoIP
3 1 (0.36%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.07%) Power BI
2 12 (4.29%) Tableau
3 10 (3.57%) Metadata
4 7 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.43%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.07%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.07%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.71%) Looker
7 2 (0.71%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.71%) Power Query
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.36%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.36%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.36%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (6.43%) JIRA
2 2 (0.71%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 122 (43.57%) Finance
2 80 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 72 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (12.86%) Banking
5 13 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.29%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.57%) Front Office
7 10 (3.57%) Investment Banking
8 9 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.86%) Back Office
10 7 (2.50%) Marketing
10 7 (2.50%) Retail
11 5 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.79%) Law
11 5 (1.79%) Legal
12 4 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.43%) Publishing
12 4 (1.43%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.07%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.14%) JSON
2 3 (1.07%) Middleware
2 3 (1.07%) XML
3 2 (0.71%) PySpark
3 2 (0.71%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.36%) .NET
4 1 (0.36%) GeoJSON
4 1 (0.36%) Great Expectations
4 1 (0.36%) Kafka
4 1 (0.36%) LDAP
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.36%) Next.js
4 1 (0.36%) Node.js
4 1 (0.36%) NumPy
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.36%) Pandas
4 1 (0.36%) Playwright
4 1 (0.36%) pytest
4 1 (0.36%) React
4 1 (0.36%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.07%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.50%) Derivative
4 7 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.50%) Reinsurance
5 5 (1.79%) CMDB
5 5 (1.79%) Credit Risk
5 5 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.79%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.07%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.07%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.71%) Equities
7 2 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (0.71%) Life Science
7 2 (0.71%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.93%) Windows
2 4 (1.43%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Linux
4 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (21.07%) Stakeholder Management
2 51 (18.21%) Agile
3 42 (15.00%) Analytics
3 42 (15.00%) Business Analysis
4 41 (14.64%) User Stories
5 37 (13.21%) Data Analysis
5 37 (13.21%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (12.14%) Business Intelligence
7 33 (11.79%) Data Modelling
7 33 (11.79%) Validation
8 30 (10.71%) Migration
8 30 (10.71%) Requirements Gathering
8 30 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
9 29 (10.36%) Decision-Making
10 27 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 25 (8.93%) User Acceptance Testing
12 22 (7.86%) Data Governance
12 22 (7.86%) Data Mapping
13 21 (7.50%) Acceptance Criteria
14 19 (6.79%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 48 (17.14%) SQL
2 20 (7.14%) Python
3 6 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.43%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.07%) R
6 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.36%) C#
7 1 (0.36%) Java
7 1 (0.36%) Korn
7 1 (0.36%) Scala
7 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (7.86%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.79%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.29%) Degree
4 6 (2.14%) CISSP
5 4 (1.43%) CISA
5 4 (1.43%) CRISC
6 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.36%) CBAP
7 1 (0.36%) CCNA
7 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.36%) CISM
7 1 (0.36%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.36%) GIAC
7 1 (0.36%) IIBA
7 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.43%) QA
3 7 (2.50%) NIST
3 7 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.79%) COBIT
4 5 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.43%) GDPR
5 4 (1.43%) ITGC
5 4 (1.43%) PMO
6 3 (1.07%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.71%) SLA
7 2 (0.71%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) Basel III
8 1 (0.36%) COREP
8 1 (0.36%) EMIR
8 1 (0.36%) FINREP
8 1 (0.36%) GMP
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.36%) MiFID
8 1 (0.36%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (3.21%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.07%) SCCM
2 2 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 42 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.64%) Databricks
2 13 (4.64%) SAP
3 8 (2.86%) Salesforce
3 8 (2.86%) ServiceNow
3 8 (2.86%) Workday
4 6 (2.14%) Murex
4 6 (2.14%) Oracle
5 5 (1.79%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.43%) Google
7 3 (1.07%) Adobe
7 3 (1.07%) Citrix
7 3 (1.07%) OneTrust
7 3 (1.07%) Splunk
8 2 (0.71%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.71%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.71%) Nexthink
8 2 (0.71%) Remedy
8 2 (0.71%) Reuters
8 2 (0.71%) Tenable