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 £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -12 +3 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 264 336 313
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.71% 18.97% 15.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.44% 20.22% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 214 207
10th Percentile £220 £275 £308
25th Percentile £344 £355 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -8.61% -5.45%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £651 £725 £718
Central London median daily rate £463 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £20.53 £32.85
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.57 £49.13
Median hourly rate £16.00 £34.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.94% -56.13% +115.28%
75th Percentile £16.50 £36.00 £113.75
90th Percentile - £67.65 £134.75
Central London median hourly rate £16.00 £30.29 £35.00
% change year-on-year -47.17% -13.47% -2.78%

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 2,122 1,662 1,968
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.10% 93.85% 94.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,431 1,112 1,254
10th Percentile £363 £325 £364
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £783
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 15
10th Percentile - £17.35 £16.49
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +4.91% -25.00%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £85.63
90th Percentile £50.59 £65.39 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.19% -19.57% -1.41%

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 14 September 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 14 September 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
Moorgate 0 2 £475 +58.33%
London Bridge +2 1 £550 - 1
Analyst
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 14 September 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 73 (27.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 59 (22.35%) Agile
2 59 (22.35%) SQL
3 48 (18.18%) User Stories
4 43 (16.29%) Analytics
5 41 (15.53%) Data Analysis
5 41 (15.53%) Microsoft
5 41 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (14.39%) Business Analysis
7 37 (14.02%) Requirements Gathering
8 36 (13.64%) Data Modelling
9 35 (13.26%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (12.88%) Validation
11 32 (12.12%) Decision-Making
11 32 (12.12%) Power BI
11 32 (12.12%) Power Platform
12 30 (11.36%) Data Quality
13 29 (10.98%) Migration
14 27 (10.23%) User Acceptance Testing
15 26 (9.85%) Data Mapping
15 26 (9.85%) Microsoft Excel
15 26 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 25 (9.47%) Data Governance
17 23 (8.71%) Workshop Facilitation
18 22 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
18 22 (8.33%) Azure
19 20 (7.58%) Translating Business Requirements
20 19 (7.20%) AI
20 19 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
21 18 (6.82%) Data Lineage

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 7 (2.65%) Confluence
2 5 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.38%) Apache
4 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.38%) CMS
4 1 (0.38%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.38%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (9.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.89%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.89%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.76%) iTrent
3 2 (0.76%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.38%) Advent Moxy
4 1 (0.38%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
4 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.38%) Findur
4 1 (0.38%) Monis
4 1 (0.38%) OneSumX
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.12%) Power Platform
2 22 (8.33%) Azure
3 13 (4.92%) Snowflake
4 12 (4.55%) AWS
5 11 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.65%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (1.52%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.14%) dbt
9 3 (1.14%) GCP
9 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
9 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.14%) SaaS
10 2 (0.76%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (0.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (0.76%) Collibra
10 2 (0.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.27%) VPN
2 5 (1.89%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.52%) DHCP
3 4 (1.52%) DNS
4 1 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.38%) Firewall
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.38%) PSTN
4 1 (0.38%) SNMP
4 1 (0.38%) SSH
4 1 (0.38%) SSL
4 1 (0.38%) VLAN
4 1 (0.38%) VoIP
4 1 (0.38%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.12%) Power BI
2 11 (4.17%) Metadata
2 11 (4.17%) Tableau
3 9 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.89%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.52%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.52%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.76%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (0.76%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.76%) Power Query
6 2 (0.76%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.38%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.38%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.38%) GIS
7 1 (0.38%) KDB
7 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (6.44%) JIRA
2 2 (0.76%) GitLab
3 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 119 (45.08%) Finance
2 77 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 62 (23.48%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (15.53%) Banking
5 14 (5.30%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (5.30%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.92%) Investment Banking
7 11 (4.17%) Front Office
8 9 (3.41%) Marketing
8 9 (3.41%) Retail
9 8 (3.03%) Legal
10 7 (2.65%) Back Office
10 7 (2.65%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.65%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.89%) Military
12 4 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.14%) Law
13 3 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.27%) JSON
2 3 (1.14%) ADO
2 3 (1.14%) Middleware
2 3 (1.14%) PySpark
2 3 (1.14%) XML
3 2 (0.76%) Kafka
3 2 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.38%) .NET
4 1 (0.38%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.38%) Great Expectations
4 1 (0.38%) LDAP
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.38%) Node.js
4 1 (0.38%) pytest
4 1 (0.38%) React
4 1 (0.38%) REST
4 1 (0.38%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.20%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.68%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 6 (2.27%) Data Structures
4 6 (2.27%) Derivative
5 5 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.52%) CMDB
6 4 (1.52%) Credit Risk
6 4 (1.52%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.14%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.14%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.76%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.76%) FMCG
8 2 (0.76%) Learning Management System
8 2 (0.76%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.76%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.30%) Windows
2 4 (1.52%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.76%) Linux
3 2 (0.76%) Unix
3 2 (0.76%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.38%) Android
4 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (27.65%) Stakeholder Management
2 59 (22.35%) Agile
3 48 (18.18%) User Stories
4 43 (16.29%) Analytics
5 41 (15.53%) Data Analysis
5 41 (15.53%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (14.39%) Business Analysis
7 37 (14.02%) Requirements Gathering
8 36 (13.64%) Data Modelling
9 35 (13.26%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (12.88%) Validation
11 32 (12.12%) Decision-Making
12 29 (10.98%) Migration
13 27 (10.23%) User Acceptance Testing
14 26 (9.85%) Data Mapping
14 26 (9.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (9.47%) Data Governance
16 23 (8.71%) Workshop Facilitation
17 22 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
18 20 (7.58%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 59 (22.35%) SQL
2 18 (6.82%) Python
3 5 (1.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.52%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.52%) R
5 3 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.76%) Java
6 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.38%) C#
7 1 (0.38%) Korn
7 1 (0.38%) RPG
7 1 (0.38%) Scala
7 1 (0.38%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (6.44%) Security Cleared
2 15 (5.68%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.55%) Degree
4 4 (1.52%) CISSP
5 3 (1.14%) CISA
5 3 (1.14%) CRISC
6 2 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.38%) CBAP
7 1 (0.38%) CCNA
7 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.38%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.38%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.38%) GIAC
7 1 (0.38%) IIBA
7 1 (0.38%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (11.36%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.06%) QA
3 7 (2.65%) GDPR
3 7 (2.65%) PMO
4 6 (2.27%) NIST
5 5 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.52%) COBIT
6 4 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.52%) SLA
7 3 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.14%) ITGC
8 2 (0.76%) Basel III
9 1 (0.38%) COREP
9 1 (0.38%) EMIR
9 1 (0.38%) FINREP
9 1 (0.38%) MiFID
9 1 (0.38%) PSD2
9 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (3.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.52%) SCCM
2 3 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 41 (15.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.92%) SAP
3 12 (4.55%) Databricks
4 9 (3.41%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.65%) Bloomberg
5 7 (2.65%) Oracle
6 6 (2.27%) Murex
7 4 (1.52%) Workday
8 3 (1.14%) Adobe
8 3 (1.14%) Citrix
8 3 (1.14%) Google
8 3 (1.14%) OneTrust
8 3 (1.14%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.14%) Splunk
9 2 (0.76%) Cisco
9 2 (0.76%) Informatica
9 2 (0.76%) Nexthink
9 2 (0.76%) Reuters
10 1 (0.38%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (0.38%) Refinitiv