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 £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025.

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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 300 321 432
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 17.24% 15.16% 15.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.40% 16.24% 16.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 209 288
10th Percentile £304 £263 £325
25th Percentile £363 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £656
90th Percentile £678 £725 £738
Central London median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £20.50 £40.25 £19.23
25th Percentile £26.50 £53.75 £29.69
Median hourly rate £28.00 £77.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.87% +109.46% +4.23%
75th Percentile £36.00 £113.75 £45.69
90th Percentile £67.65 £134.75 £59.53
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -27.23% -5.41% +12.12%

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 1,630 1,976 2,636
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.68% 93.34% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 1,210 1,849
10th Percentile £326 £363 £356
25th Percentile £418 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £775 £776 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 15
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.06 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.50 £57.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.17% +51.32% -9.52%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £50.63
90th Percentile £64.11 £137.50 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.09% -5.41% -10.30%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 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 89 (29.67%) Agile
2 59 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (19.00%) SQL
4 54 (18.00%) Data Analysis
5 50 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 49 (16.33%) Business Analysis
7 47 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 44 (14.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 44 (14.67%) User Stories
9 41 (13.67%) Migration
10 37 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 33 (11.00%) Microsoft Excel
12 32 (10.67%) Degree
13 31 (10.33%) Requirements Gathering
14 30 (10.00%) Python
14 30 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
15 29 (9.67%) JIRA
16 28 (9.33%) Security Cleared
17 27 (9.00%) Data Modelling
18 26 (8.67%) Analytics
19 25 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
19 25 (8.33%) Decision-Making
19 25 (8.33%) Project Delivery
19 25 (8.33%) Validation
20 24 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
20 24 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
20 24 (8.00%) SC Cleared
21 23 (7.67%) Scrum
22 22 (7.33%) Change Management
22 22 (7.33%) 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 18 (6.00%) Confluence
2 12 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.67%) CMS
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (11.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (5.00%) MS Visio
3 10 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.33%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (3.00%) Unit4 Business World
2 6 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.33%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.67%) Endur
4 2 (0.67%) HFM
4 2 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.33%) Algo Collateral
5 1 (0.33%) ION Anvil
5 1 (0.33%) ION MarketView
5 1 (0.33%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (7.00%) Power Platform
2 19 (6.33%) Azure
3 10 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.67%) AWS
5 5 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.33%) Collibra
6 4 (1.33%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.33%) GCP
6 4 (1.33%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.00%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.00%) SaaS
8 2 (0.67%) Miro
8 2 (0.67%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.67%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.33%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.33%) Contentful
9 1 (0.33%) Contentstack
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.67%) Network Security
2 4 (1.33%) Firewall
3 3 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.67%) LAN
4 2 (0.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.33%) ATM
5 1 (0.33%) DNS
5 1 (0.33%) Internet
5 1 (0.33%) SSH
5 1 (0.33%) VPN
5 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.67%) Power BI
2 19 (6.33%) Tableau
3 9 (3.00%) Relational Database
3 9 (3.00%) Star Schema
4 6 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.67%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.00%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.00%) Metadata
7 2 (0.67%) Looker
7 2 (0.67%) MySQL
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.67%) Power Query
7 2 (0.67%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 29 (9.67%) JIRA
2 2 (0.67%) Git
2 2 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.33%) ER Studio
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
1 141 (47.00%) Finance
2 104 (34.67%) Social Skills
3 82 (27.33%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (16.67%) Banking
5 19 (6.33%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (5.67%) Influencing Skills
7 16 (5.33%) Front Office
7 16 (5.33%) Public Sector
8 12 (4.00%) Investment Banking
9 11 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.67%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (3.33%) Back Office
11 9 (3.00%) Financial Institution
11 9 (3.00%) Legal
12 7 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.33%) Law
13 5 (1.67%) Retail
14 4 (1.33%) Marketing
15 2 (0.67%) Private Banking
15 2 (0.67%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.33%) XML
2 3 (1.00%) .NET
2 3 (1.00%) JSON
3 2 (0.67%) ADO
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%) Kafka
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 21 (7.00%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.33%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.67%) Reinsurance
4 10 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
6 7 (2.33%) Derivative
6 7 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.33%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.00%) iPad
7 6 (2.00%) iPhone
7 6 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.67%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.33%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.00%) CMDB
10 3 (1.00%) Credit Risk
10 3 (1.00%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.00%) Pricing Data
11 2 (0.67%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.67%) Windows
2 7 (2.33%) 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 89 (29.67%) Agile
2 59 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (18.00%) Data Analysis
4 49 (16.33%) Business Analysis
5 47 (15.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 44 (14.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 44 (14.67%) User Stories
7 41 (13.67%) Migration
8 37 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 31 (10.33%) Requirements Gathering
10 30 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
11 27 (9.00%) Data Modelling
12 26 (8.67%) Analytics
13 25 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
13 25 (8.33%) Decision-Making
13 25 (8.33%) Project Delivery
13 25 (8.33%) Validation
14 24 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
14 24 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
15 23 (7.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 57 (19.00%) SQL
2 30 (10.00%) Python
3 7 (2.33%) VBA
4 4 (1.33%) C#
4 4 (1.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.00%) C++
5 3 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.00%) Java
6 2 (0.67%) Bash
6 2 (0.67%) Korn
6 2 (0.67%) RPG
7 1 (0.33%) C
7 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.33%) R
7 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.33%) VC++
Qualifications
1 32 (10.67%) Degree
2 28 (9.33%) Security Cleared
3 24 (8.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (2.67%) CBAP
5 6 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (1.00%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (1.00%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.67%) ACCA
7 2 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.67%) CFA
7 2 (0.67%) CIMA
7 2 (0.67%) CISMP
7 2 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.67%) IIBA
7 2 (0.67%) ISEB
7 2 (0.67%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.67%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.33%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.00%) Data Quality
1 21 (7.00%) QA
2 7 (2.33%) EMIR
3 6 (2.00%) GDPR
3 6 (2.00%) ISO 20022
3 6 (2.00%) MiFID
3 6 (2.00%) PMO
4 5 (1.67%) SEPA
5 3 (1.00%) NIST
5 3 (1.00%) PSD2
5 3 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.67%) Basel III
6 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.67%) GRC
6 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.67%) NCSC
6 2 (0.67%) SLA
7 1 (0.33%) CRD IV
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 5 (1.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Firmware
2 1 (0.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (1.00%) SCCM
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.33%) Ansible
3 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 50 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 8 (2.67%) Oracle
4 5 (1.67%) Google
4 5 (1.67%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.33%) Guidewire
5 4 (1.33%) SAP
5 4 (1.33%) Workday
6 3 (1.00%) Hyperion
6 3 (1.00%) IBM
6 3 (1.00%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.67%) Adobe
7 2 (0.67%) Apple
7 2 (0.67%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.67%) Charles River
7 2 (0.67%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.67%) HubSpot
7 2 (0.67%) LogRhythm
7 2 (0.67%) PeopleSoft
7 2 (0.67%) VMware