Analyst Contracts in the City of London

Analyst
Central London > City of London

The median Analyst daily rate in the City of London is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 259 322 520
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 14.74% 14.66% 14.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.85% 15.41% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 217 344
10th Percentile £263 £348 £240
25th Percentile £388 £418 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.72% +2.38% -
75th Percentile £647 £650 £644
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
Central London median daily rate £520 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.95% - +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £25.66 - £21.45
25th Percentile £27.15 £21.25 £30.38
Median hourly rate £29.66 £23.00 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.93% -52.08% +95.92%
75th Percentile £32.17 £40.00 £67.88
90th Percentile £33.67 - £78.15
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year +26.39% -52.08% +95.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 1,634 2,090 3,462
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 95.13% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,486 2,357
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the City of London

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Analyst 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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the City of London

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst 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 2 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
Moorgate - 1 £300 -
Analyst
Central London

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 110 (42.47%) Finance
2 94 (36.29%) Social Skills
3 63 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (23.17%) SQL
5 52 (20.08%) Banking
6 49 (18.92%) Data Analysis
7 48 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (16.60%) Business Analysis
8 43 (16.60%) Agile
8 43 (16.60%) Microsoft
9 34 (13.13%) Microsoft Excel
10 32 (12.36%) Python
10 32 (12.36%) Azure
11 30 (11.58%) User Acceptance Testing
12 28 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
12 28 (10.81%) Degree
12 28 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
13 27 (10.42%) Analytics
14 26 (10.04%) Project Management
15 25 (9.65%) Decision-Making
15 25 (9.65%) Requirements Gathering
16 24 (9.27%) Power Platform
17 22 (8.49%) Visualisation
18 21 (8.11%) Power BI
18 21 (8.11%) Windows
18 21 (8.11%) Migration
19 20 (7.72%) Front Office
19 20 (7.72%) User Stories
19 20 (7.72%) Process Improvement
20 19 (7.34%) Microsoft Office

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 16 (6.18%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.86%) Confluence
3 4 (1.54%) CMS
4 3 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.16%) SAS
5 2 (0.77%) Apache
5 2 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.77%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 34 (13.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (7.34%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (4.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.70%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.70%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.39%) EViews
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.16%) CA PPM
3 3 (1.16%) Endur
3 3 (1.16%) ION Anvil
3 3 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (1.16%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.77%) Actimize
4 2 (0.77%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.77%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.77%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.77%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.39%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.39%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.39%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 1 (0.39%) PeopleSoft Financials
5 1 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.36%) Azure
2 24 (9.27%) Power Platform
3 15 (5.79%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (2.70%) Snowflake
5 6 (2.32%) Entra ID
5 6 (2.32%) SaaS
6 5 (1.93%) AWS
7 4 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (1.54%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.16%) GCP
9 2 (0.77%) dbt
9 2 (0.77%) GitHub
9 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.77%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.39%) Apigee
10 1 (0.39%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.77%) Firewall
1 2 (0.77%) HTTP
1 2 (0.77%) Intranet
1 2 (0.77%) LAN
1 2 (0.77%) NAS
1 2 (0.77%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.77%) WebEx
2 1 (0.39%) DHCP
2 1 (0.39%) DNS
2 1 (0.39%) Multicast
2 1 (0.39%) Network Security
2 1 (0.39%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (0.39%) VPN
2 1 (0.39%) WAN
2 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.11%) Power BI
2 14 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.41%) Tableau
3 8 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.93%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.54%) Crystal Reports
6 3 (1.16%) Big Data
6 3 (1.16%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (1.16%) Power Query
7 2 (0.77%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (0.77%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.77%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.77%) Flink
7 2 (0.77%) Metadata
7 2 (0.77%) MySQL
7 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.39%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (6.56%) JIRA
2 3 (1.16%) Git
3 2 (0.77%) JMeter
3 2 (0.77%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.77%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.39%) Appium
4 1 (0.39%) eggPlant
4 1 (0.39%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.39%) Postman
4 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 110 (42.47%) Finance
2 94 (36.29%) Social Skills
3 63 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (20.08%) Banking
5 20 (7.72%) Front Office
6 18 (6.95%) Presentation Skills
7 12 (4.63%) Back Office
7 12 (4.63%) Investment Banking
8 10 (3.86%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.86%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.70%) Retail
12 6 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.93%) Corporate Banking
13 5 (1.93%) Legal
13 5 (1.93%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.54%) International Banking
14 4 (1.54%) Law
15 3 (1.16%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.32%) Kafka
2 5 (1.93%) XML
3 4 (1.54%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (1.54%) FpML
4 3 (1.16%) ADO
5 2 (0.77%) JSON
5 2 (0.77%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.77%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.39%) .NET
6 1 (0.39%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.39%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.39%) REST
6 1 (0.39%) Swagger
6 1 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (5.79%) Fixed Income
3 13 (5.02%) Equities
3 13 (5.02%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.32%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.32%) Derivative
5 6 (2.32%) Reference Data
6 5 (1.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 4 (1.54%) Market Risk
7 4 (1.54%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.54%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.16%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.16%) iPad
8 3 (1.16%) iPhone
8 3 (1.16%) Reinsurance
8 3 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (0.77%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.11%) Windows
2 9 (3.47%) Windows Server
3 6 (2.32%) Windows 10
4 5 (1.93%) Apple iOS
5 4 (1.54%) Linux
5 4 (1.54%) Unix
6 3 (1.16%) Android
7 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (18.92%) Data Analysis
2 48 (18.53%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (16.60%) Agile
3 43 (16.60%) Business Analysis
4 30 (11.58%) User Acceptance Testing
5 28 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
5 28 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (10.42%) Analytics
7 26 (10.04%) Project Management
8 25 (9.65%) Decision-Making
8 25 (9.65%) Requirements Gathering
9 22 (8.49%) Visualisation
10 21 (8.11%) Migration
11 20 (7.72%) Process Improvement
11 20 (7.72%) User Stories
12 17 (6.56%) Asset Management
12 17 (6.56%) Data Modelling
12 17 (6.56%) Workshop Facilitation
13 16 (6.18%) Risk Management
14 15 (5.79%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (23.17%) SQL
2 32 (12.36%) Python
3 9 (3.47%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.93%) Java
5 4 (1.54%) R
5 4 (1.54%) VBA
6 3 (1.16%) C
6 3 (1.16%) PL/SQL
7 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.39%) C#
8 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (10.81%) Degree
2 16 (6.18%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 6 (2.32%) CFA
5 5 (1.93%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.54%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.16%) CBAP
7 3 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (1.16%) MBA
8 2 (0.77%) ACCA
8 2 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.77%) PMP
9 1 (0.39%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.39%) CAPM
9 1 (0.39%) CISM
9 1 (0.39%) CISSP
9 1 (0.39%) CRISC
9 1 (0.39%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.25%) QA
2 9 (3.47%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.32%) GDPR
4 5 (1.93%) EMIR
4 5 (1.93%) MiFID
4 5 (1.93%) PMO
5 4 (1.54%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.54%) SEPA
5 4 (1.54%) SLA
6 3 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.77%) Dodd-Frank
7 2 (0.77%) NIST
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.39%) GAAP
8 1 (0.39%) GRC
8 1 (0.39%) IFRS
8 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.39%) PERC
8 1 (0.39%) UCITS
System Software
1 17 (6.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.16%) SCCM
3 2 (0.77%) AirWatch
3 2 (0.77%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 2 (0.77%) Terraform
4 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 43 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.18%) Oracle
2 16 (6.18%) ServiceNow
3 15 (5.79%) SAP
4 8 (3.09%) Bloomberg
4 8 (3.09%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.32%) Citrix
6 4 (1.54%) Google
6 4 (1.54%) ION Trading
6 4 (1.54%) Reuters
6 4 (1.54%) Workday
7 3 (1.16%) Broadcom
7 3 (1.16%) IBM
7 3 (1.16%) Refinitiv
7 3 (1.16%) TOWER Software
8 2 (0.77%) Apple
8 2 (0.77%) Commvault
8 2 (0.77%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.77%) Symantec
8 2 (0.77%) VMware