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 £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 301 317 425
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 17.09% 15.18% 15.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.25% 16.26% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 205 282
10th Percentile £281 £268 £325
25th Percentile £355 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £591 £644 £672
90th Percentile £668 £725 £736
Central London median daily rate £463 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -11.90% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £20.50 £40.25 £36.00
25th Percentile £26.50 £53.75 £36.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £77.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.87% +103.95% +15.15%
75th Percentile £36.00 £113.75 £53.38
90th Percentile £67.65 £134.75 £62.60
Central London median hourly rate £25.79 £35.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -26.31% -7.89% +24.59%

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 1,649 1,949 2,586
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 93.34% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,196 1,820
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £686 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 14 14
10th Percentile £16.90 £15.95 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £28.06 £19.51
Median hourly rate £27.75 £67.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.89% +82.43% -11.90%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £51.56
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.09% -2.78% -11.11%

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 18 November 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 18 November 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
London Bridge - 1 - -
Analyst
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 18 November 2025, 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 88 (29.24%) Agile
2 63 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
3 56 (18.60%) SQL
4 54 (17.94%) Business Analysis
5 52 (17.28%) Microsoft
6 49 (16.28%) Data Analysis
7 46 (15.28%) User Acceptance Testing
8 45 (14.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 44 (14.62%) User Stories
10 40 (13.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 39 (12.96%) Migration
12 34 (11.30%) Microsoft Excel
13 32 (10.63%) Requirements Gathering
14 31 (10.30%) Security Cleared
14 31 (10.30%) Workshop Facilitation
15 30 (9.97%) Project Delivery
16 29 (9.63%) Degree
16 29 (9.63%) JIRA
17 28 (9.30%) Validation
18 27 (8.97%) SC Cleared
19 26 (8.64%) Analytics
19 26 (8.64%) Python
20 25 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
20 25 (8.31%) QA
21 24 (7.97%) Acceptance Criteria
21 24 (7.97%) Data Modelling
22 23 (7.64%) Decision-Making
23 22 (7.31%) Continuous Improvement
23 22 (7.31%) Power Platform
23 22 (7.31%) Scrum

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 19 (6.31%) Confluence
2 13 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.66%) CMS
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.33%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 34 (11.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (5.32%) MS Visio
3 15 (4.98%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (3.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.33%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (2.99%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.66%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.66%) Endur
3 2 (0.66%) HFM
3 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.33%) Algo Collateral
4 1 (0.33%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.33%) ION MarketView
4 1 (0.33%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 22 (7.31%) Power Platform
2 19 (6.31%) Azure
3 10 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.66%) AWS
5 5 (1.66%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.33%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.00%) GCP
7 3 (1.00%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.00%) SaaS
7 3 (1.00%) Snowflake
8 2 (0.66%) Collibra
8 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.66%) Miro
8 2 (0.66%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.66%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.33%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.33%) prismic.io
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.99%) Network Security
2 4 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.00%) Firewall
4 1 (0.33%) ATM
4 1 (0.33%) Internet
4 1 (0.33%) LAN
4 1 (0.33%) SSH
4 1 (0.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.98%) Power BI
2 17 (5.65%) Tableau
3 9 (2.99%) Relational Database
4 6 (1.99%) Star Schema
5 5 (1.66%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.66%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.66%) Looker
7 2 (0.66%) Metadata
7 2 (0.66%) MySQL
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.66%) Power Query
8 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.33%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (9.63%) JIRA
2 2 (0.66%) Git
2 2 (0.66%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.33%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.33%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.33%) Postman
3 1 (0.33%) Selenium
3 1 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 135 (44.85%) Finance
2 103 (34.22%) Social Skills
3 86 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (16.61%) Banking
5 18 (5.98%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.65%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (5.32%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (4.65%) Front Office
9 13 (4.32%) Investment Banking
10 10 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.99%) Law
12 8 (2.66%) Back Office
13 7 (2.33%) Legal
14 6 (1.99%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (1.33%) Marketing
15 4 (1.33%) Retail
16 2 (0.66%) Manufacturing
16 2 (0.66%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.33%) XML
2 3 (1.00%) .NET
2 3 (1.00%) JSON
3 2 (0.66%) ADO
3 2 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.33%) CSS
4 1 (0.33%) DCOM
4 1 (0.33%) Flask
4 1 (0.33%) FpML
4 1 (0.33%) HTML
4 1 (0.33%) Middleware
4 1 (0.33%) OAuth
4 1 (0.33%) OpenID
4 1 (0.33%) Pandas
4 1 (0.33%) RESTful
4 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.33%) Swagger
4 1 (0.33%) XSD
4 1 (0.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.64%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.98%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (3.32%) Reinsurance
5 9 (2.99%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (2.66%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.99%) Derivative
7 6 (1.99%) iPad
7 6 (1.99%) iPhone
8 5 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.66%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.33%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.33%) PMI
9 4 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.00%) CMDB
10 3 (1.00%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.32%) Windows
2 6 (1.99%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.33%) Linux
3 4 (1.33%) Unix
4 1 (0.33%) Android
4 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.33%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.33%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (29.24%) Agile
2 63 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (17.94%) Business Analysis
4 49 (16.28%) Data Analysis
5 46 (15.28%) User Acceptance Testing
6 45 (14.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 44 (14.62%) User Stories
8 40 (13.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 39 (12.96%) Migration
10 32 (10.63%) Requirements Gathering
11 31 (10.30%) Workshop Facilitation
12 30 (9.97%) Project Delivery
13 28 (9.30%) Validation
14 26 (8.64%) Analytics
15 25 (8.31%) Business Intelligence
16 24 (7.97%) Acceptance Criteria
16 24 (7.97%) Data Modelling
17 23 (7.64%) Decision-Making
18 22 (7.31%) Continuous Improvement
18 22 (7.31%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 56 (18.60%) SQL
2 26 (8.64%) Python
3 6 (1.99%) VBA
4 4 (1.33%) C#
4 4 (1.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.00%) C++
5 3 (1.00%) Java
6 2 (0.66%) Bash
6 2 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.66%) Korn
6 2 (0.66%) RPG
7 1 (0.33%) C
7 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.33%) R
7 1 (0.33%) VC++
Qualifications
1 31 (10.30%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.63%) Degree
3 27 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.32%) CBAP
5 6 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.33%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.00%) ACCA
7 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.00%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (1.00%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.66%) CFA
8 2 (0.66%) CIMA
8 2 (0.66%) CISMP
8 2 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.66%) IIBA
8 2 (0.66%) ISEB
8 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.33%) CEH
9 1 (0.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.31%) QA
2 19 (6.31%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.33%) EMIR
4 6 (1.99%) GDPR
4 6 (1.99%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.99%) MiFID
4 6 (1.99%) PMO
5 5 (1.66%) PSD2
6 4 (1.33%) SEPA
7 3 (1.00%) ISO 8583
7 3 (1.00%) NIST
7 3 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.66%) Basel III
8 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.66%) GRC
8 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.66%) NCSC
8 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.66%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Firmware
2 1 (0.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (0.66%) SCCM
2 1 (0.33%) Ansible
2 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 52 (17.28%) Microsoft
2 12 (3.99%) Salesforce
3 10 (3.32%) Oracle
4 5 (1.66%) SAP
5 4 (1.33%) Google
5 4 (1.33%) Intapp
5 4 (1.33%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.00%) Guidewire
6 3 (1.00%) Hyperion
6 3 (1.00%) IBM
6 3 (1.00%) ION Trading
6 3 (1.00%) Workday
7 2 (0.66%) Adobe
7 2 (0.66%) Apple
7 2 (0.66%) Charles River
7 2 (0.66%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.66%) Databricks
7 2 (0.66%) LogRhythm
7 2 (0.66%) Splunk
7 2 (0.66%) VMware