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 5 October 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 268 311 327
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 12.39% 18.00% 15.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.18% 19.10% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 201 214
10th Percentile £228 £281 £261
25th Percentile £355 £355 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -8.65% -5.45%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £725 £725
Central London median daily rate £470 £494 £525
% change year-on-year -4.81% -5.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - £19.52 £24.78
25th Percentile £15.50 £24.05 £28.94
Median hourly rate £16.00 £30.29 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.17% -44.94% +52.78%
75th Percentile £16.50 £49.19 £96.25
90th Percentile - £72.93 £127.75
Central London median hourly rate £16.00 £26.57 £35.00
% change year-on-year -39.78% -24.09% -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 2,033 1,628 1,984
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 94.21% 93.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,378 1,100 1,231
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 17
10th Percentile - £16.96 £17.90
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £23.13
Median hourly rate £21.75 £27.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.91% -28.57% +4.05%
75th Percentile £36.81 £39.88 £112.00
90th Percentile £64.65 £64.11 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £28.07 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.05% -21.43% -2.78%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 - 2 £475 -
Analyst
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 5 October 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 88 (32.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 64 (23.88%) SQL
3 58 (21.64%) Agile
4 50 (18.66%) Requirements Gathering
5 48 (17.91%) User Stories
6 46 (17.16%) Business Analysis
6 46 (17.16%) Microsoft
7 45 (16.79%) Analytics
8 43 (16.04%) Data Analysis
9 40 (14.93%) Validation
10 39 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
11 38 (14.18%) Data Modelling
12 37 (13.81%) Business Intelligence
13 35 (13.06%) Data Quality
13 35 (13.06%) Migration
14 33 (12.31%) Power BI
14 33 (12.31%) Power Platform
15 32 (11.94%) Decision-Making
15 32 (11.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 30 (11.19%) User Acceptance Testing
17 28 (10.45%) Data Governance
17 28 (10.45%) Microsoft Excel
18 27 (10.07%) Data Mapping
19 26 (9.70%) Workshop Facilitation
20 23 (8.58%) AI
20 23 (8.58%) Translating Business Requirements
21 22 (8.21%) Acceptance Criteria
21 22 (8.21%) Data Migration
22 21 (7.84%) Azure
22 21 (7.84%) JIRA

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 8 (2.99%) Confluence
2 5 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.12%) CMS
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.37%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (10.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.85%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.87%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.49%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.75%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.75%) iTrent
3 2 (0.75%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.37%) Advent Moxy
4 1 (0.37%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
4 1 (0.37%) Monis
4 1 (0.37%) OneSumX
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.37%) SAP FI-FM
Cloud Services
1 33 (12.31%) Power Platform
2 21 (7.84%) Azure
3 14 (5.22%) Snowflake
4 11 (4.10%) AWS
5 10 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.61%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.24%) SuccessFactors
8 5 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.49%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (1.12%) dbt
10 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (1.12%) SaaS
11 2 (0.75%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.75%) GCP
11 2 (0.75%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.24%) VPN
2 5 (1.87%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.49%) DHCP
3 4 (1.49%) DNS
4 1 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.37%) Firewall
4 1 (0.37%) Internet
4 1 (0.37%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.37%) PSTN
4 1 (0.37%) SNMP
4 1 (0.37%) SSH
4 1 (0.37%) SSL
4 1 (0.37%) VLAN
4 1 (0.37%) VoIP
4 1 (0.37%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.31%) Power BI
2 12 (4.48%) Metadata
2 12 (4.48%) Tableau
3 10 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.87%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.49%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.12%) Power Query
6 3 (1.12%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.75%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.75%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.75%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.37%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.37%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.37%) Looker
8 1 (0.37%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 21 (7.84%) JIRA
2 2 (0.75%) GitLab
3 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 121 (45.15%) Finance
2 83 (30.97%) Social Skills
3 56 (20.90%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (17.54%) Banking
5 15 (5.60%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (5.60%) Investment Banking
5 15 (5.60%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.10%) Front Office
6 11 (4.10%) Retail
7 9 (3.36%) Marketing
8 8 (2.99%) Legal
9 7 (2.61%) Back Office
9 7 (2.61%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.61%) Retail Banking
10 4 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.49%) Military
11 3 (1.12%) Advertising
11 3 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.12%) Law
11 3 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.49%) JSON
2 3 (1.12%) ADO
2 3 (1.12%) Middleware
2 3 (1.12%) XML
3 2 (0.75%) Kafka
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.75%) PySpark
3 2 (0.75%) REST
4 1 (0.37%) .NET
4 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.34%) Onboarding
1 17 (6.34%) Product Ownership
2 7 (2.61%) Data Structures
2 7 (2.61%) Derivative
3 5 (1.87%) Credit Risk
3 5 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.49%) Fixed Income
4 4 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.49%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.49%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.12%) CMDB
5 3 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.12%) Market Risk
5 3 (1.12%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.75%) FMCG
6 2 (0.75%) Learning Management System
6 2 (0.75%) Life Science
6 2 (0.75%) Taxonomies
6 2 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.22%) Windows
2 3 (1.12%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.75%) Linux
3 2 (0.75%) Unix
3 2 (0.75%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.37%) Android
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (32.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 58 (21.64%) Agile
3 50 (18.66%) Requirements Gathering
4 48 (17.91%) User Stories
5 46 (17.16%) Business Analysis
6 45 (16.79%) Analytics
7 43 (16.04%) Data Analysis
8 40 (14.93%) Validation
9 39 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (14.18%) Data Modelling
11 37 (13.81%) Business Intelligence
12 35 (13.06%) Migration
13 32 (11.94%) Decision-Making
13 32 (11.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 30 (11.19%) User Acceptance Testing
15 28 (10.45%) Data Governance
16 27 (10.07%) Data Mapping
17 26 (9.70%) Workshop Facilitation
18 23 (8.58%) AI
18 23 (8.58%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 64 (23.88%) SQL
2 19 (7.09%) Python
3 6 (2.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (1.87%) Korn
5 4 (1.49%) PowerShell
5 4 (1.49%) R
6 3 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.37%) C#
8 1 (0.37%) Java
8 1 (0.37%) RPG
8 1 (0.37%) Scala
8 1 (0.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 14 (5.22%) Security Cleared
2 12 (4.48%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.73%) Degree
4 2 (0.75%) CISSP
4 2 (0.75%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.37%) CBAP
5 1 (0.37%) CCNA
5 1 (0.37%) CISA
5 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.37%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.37%) CRISC
5 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
5 1 (0.37%) GIAC
5 1 (0.37%) IIBA
5 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.06%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.34%) QA
3 8 (2.99%) GDPR
3 8 (2.99%) PMO
4 4 (1.49%) NIST
4 4 (1.49%) SLA
5 3 (1.12%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.75%) Basel III
6 2 (0.75%) COBIT
6 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) APQC
7 1 (0.37%) COREP
7 1 (0.37%) EMIR
7 1 (0.37%) FINREP
7 1 (0.37%) ITGC
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
7 1 (0.37%) PSD2
7 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 9 (3.36%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.49%) SCCM
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.37%) EnCase
3 1 (0.37%) FTK
3 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 46 (17.16%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.34%) SAP
3 12 (4.48%) Databricks
4 8 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.61%) Bloomberg
5 7 (2.61%) Oracle
6 6 (2.24%) Murex
7 4 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.49%) Splunk
8 3 (1.12%) Adobe
8 3 (1.12%) Citrix
8 3 (1.12%) Google
8 3 (1.12%) OneTrust
8 3 (1.12%) Workday
9 2 (0.75%) Cisco
9 2 (0.75%) FactSet
9 2 (0.75%) Informatica
9 2 (0.75%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.75%) Nexthink
9 2 (0.75%) Reuters