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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 5 7
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 279 347 318
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.73% 18.45% 15.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.46% 19.68% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 230 215
10th Percentile £229 £270 £304
25th Percentile £356 £358 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £638
90th Percentile £701 £725 £725
Central London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £19.76 £32.85
25th Percentile £15.50 £24.66 £49.13
Median hourly rate £16.00 £34.00 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.94% -56.13% +58.97%
75th Percentile £16.50 £36.00 £113.75
90th Percentile - £67.65 £134.75
Central London median hourly rate £16.00 £29.07 £59.50
% change year-on-year -44.96% -51.14% +22.05%

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 2,239 1,763 1,960
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 93.73% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,502 1,160 1,313
10th Percentile £363 £332 £363
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 £680 £688
90th Percentile £767 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 22 14
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £15.87
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.66 £20.88
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £34.51 £62.00 £89.06
90th Percentile £61.31 £86.43 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.83 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -21.47% +7.67% -22.86%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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
London Bridge +3 2 £600 -
Moorgate 0 2 £475 +58.33%
Analyst
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 10 August 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 69 (24.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 59 (21.15%) SQL
3 56 (20.07%) Agile
4 48 (17.20%) Analytics
5 46 (16.49%) User Stories
6 42 (15.05%) Business Analysis
7 41 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (14.34%) Data Analysis
8 40 (14.34%) Microsoft
9 38 (13.62%) Data Modelling
10 35 (12.54%) Business Intelligence
11 34 (12.19%) Power Platform
11 34 (12.19%) Validation
12 33 (11.83%) Power BI
13 32 (11.47%) Decision-Making
14 31 (11.11%) Data Quality
14 31 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
14 31 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
15 30 (10.75%) Migration
16 29 (10.39%) User Acceptance Testing
17 28 (10.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 25 (8.96%) Data Governance
18 25 (8.96%) Microsoft Excel
19 24 (8.60%) Data Mapping
20 23 (8.24%) Acceptance Criteria
20 23 (8.24%) Azure
21 21 (7.53%) AI
22 20 (7.17%) Data Migration
22 20 (7.17%) Python
23 19 (6.81%) 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 10 (3.58%) Confluence
2 7 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.36%) CMS
4 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.36%) SAS
4 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (8.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.51%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.79%) NetSuite
1 5 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.43%) Workday HCM
3 2 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.72%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.36%) Actimize
4 1 (0.36%) Findur
4 1 (0.36%) iTrent
4 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.36%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 34 (12.19%) Power Platform
2 23 (8.24%) Azure
3 12 (4.30%) AWS
3 12 (4.30%) Snowflake
4 9 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (2.51%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.15%) GCP
7 5 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (1.43%) Google Analytics
8 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (1.08%) Adobe Analytics
9 3 (1.08%) dbt
9 3 (1.08%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.72%) GitHub
10 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.72%) Miro
10 2 (0.72%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.43%) TCP/IP
1 4 (1.43%) VPN
2 3 (1.08%) DHCP
2 3 (1.08%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) Internet
3 1 (0.36%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.36%) PSTN
3 1 (0.36%) SNMP
3 1 (0.36%) SSH
3 1 (0.36%) SSL
3 1 (0.36%) VLAN
3 1 (0.36%) VoIP
3 1 (0.36%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.83%) Power BI
2 15 (5.38%) Tableau
3 13 (4.66%) Metadata
4 10 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.43%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.43%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.08%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.08%) Looker
8 2 (0.72%) Power Query
8 2 (0.72%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.36%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.36%) GIS
9 1 (0.36%) KDB
9 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.36%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (6.81%) JIRA
2 2 (0.72%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 120 (43.01%) Finance
2 81 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 70 (25.09%) Analytical Skills
4 40 (14.34%) Banking
5 14 (5.02%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (4.30%) Investment Banking
6 12 (4.30%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.58%) Retail
8 9 (3.23%) Front Office
8 9 (3.23%) Marketing
8 9 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.87%) Back Office
10 7 (2.51%) Retail Banking
11 5 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.79%) Legal
12 4 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
12 4 (1.43%) Law
12 4 (1.43%) Publishing
13 3 (1.08%) International Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.15%) JSON
2 3 (1.08%) Middleware
2 3 (1.08%) XML
3 2 (0.72%) PySpark
3 2 (0.72%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.36%) .NET
4 1 (0.36%) ADO
4 1 (0.36%) Great Expectations
4 1 (0.36%) Kafka
4 1 (0.36%) LDAP
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.36%) Next.js
4 1 (0.36%) Node.js
4 1 (0.36%) NumPy
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.36%) Pandas
4 1 (0.36%) Playwright
4 1 (0.36%) pytest
4 1 (0.36%) React
4 1 (0.36%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.38%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.51%) Derivative
4 7 (2.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (2.51%) Reinsurance
5 6 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.79%) CMDB
6 5 (1.79%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.43%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.08%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.08%) Reference Data
9 2 (0.72%) Equities
9 2 (0.72%) FMCG
9 2 (0.72%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.72%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.72%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.94%) Windows
2 5 (1.79%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.72%) Linux
3 2 (0.72%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (24.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 56 (20.07%) Agile
3 48 (17.20%) Analytics
4 46 (16.49%) User Stories
5 42 (15.05%) Business Analysis
6 41 (14.70%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (14.34%) Data Analysis
8 38 (13.62%) Data Modelling
9 35 (12.54%) Business Intelligence
10 34 (12.19%) Validation
11 32 (11.47%) Decision-Making
12 31 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
12 31 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
13 30 (10.75%) Migration
14 29 (10.39%) User Acceptance Testing
15 28 (10.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 25 (8.96%) Data Governance
17 24 (8.60%) Data Mapping
18 23 (8.24%) Acceptance Criteria
19 21 (7.53%) AI
Programming Languages
1 59 (21.15%) SQL
2 20 (7.17%) Python
3 5 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.43%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.08%) R
6 2 (0.72%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.36%) C#
7 1 (0.36%) Java
7 1 (0.36%) Korn
7 1 (0.36%) Scala
7 1 (0.36%) SOQL
7 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (6.45%) Security Cleared
2 17 (6.09%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.58%) Degree
4 6 (2.15%) CISSP
5 4 (1.43%) CISA
5 4 (1.43%) CRISC
6 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.36%) CBAP
7 1 (0.36%) CCNA
7 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.36%) CISM
7 1 (0.36%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.36%) GIAC
7 1 (0.36%) IIBA
7 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 18 (6.45%) QA
3 7 (2.51%) NIST
3 7 (2.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.79%) COBIT
4 5 (1.79%) GDPR
4 5 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.79%) PMO
5 4 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.43%) ITGC
6 3 (1.08%) SLA
7 2 (0.72%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) Basel III
8 1 (0.36%) COREP
8 1 (0.36%) EMIR
8 1 (0.36%) FINREP
8 1 (0.36%) MiFID
8 1 (0.36%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.08%) SCCM
2 2 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 40 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.02%) SAP
3 13 (4.66%) Databricks
4 10 (3.58%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.87%) Workday
6 7 (2.51%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.15%) Oracle
8 5 (1.79%) Google
8 5 (1.79%) Murex
9 4 (1.43%) Adobe
9 4 (1.43%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.08%) Amplitude
10 3 (1.08%) Citrix
10 3 (1.08%) OneTrust
10 3 (1.08%) Splunk
11 2 (0.72%) Informatica
11 2 (0.72%) Nexthink
11 2 (0.72%) Remedy
12 1 (0.36%) Apple
12 1 (0.36%) Reuters