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 £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2026.

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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 279 286 314
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.94% 16.84% 14.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.65% 18.00% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 185 212
10th Percentile £238 £266 £312
25th Percentile £356 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.45%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £638
90th Percentile £737 £725 £688
Central London median daily rate £515 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -1.90% +0.96% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £15.85 £18.13 -
25th Percentile £16.37 £20.58 £21.25
Median hourly rate £17.23 £24.66 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.13% +7.22% -34.29%
75th Percentile £41.12 £29.67 £40.00
90th Percentile £55.45 £32.67 -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £23.00
% change year-on-year -10.18% +26.39% -34.29%

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 2,206 1,589 2,048
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 93.58% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,492 1,005 1,430
10th Percentile £350 £352 £343
25th Percentile £450 £453 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -0.05% -8.29%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 15 13
10th Percentile £17.45 £18.70 £14.18
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.21 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +26.67% -35.71%
75th Percentile £53.12 £46.25 £29.38
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.50 £40.00
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year -7.25% +4.26% -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 31 May 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
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 31 May 2026.

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 31 May 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 - 2 £600 - 1
Analyst
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 52 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (16.13%) Agile
2 45 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 43 (15.41%) Business Analysis
4 41 (14.70%) SQL
5 40 (14.34%) User Stories
6 39 (13.98%) Analytics
6 39 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
7 36 (12.90%) Data Analysis
8 34 (12.19%) Business Intelligence
9 33 (11.83%) Workshop Facilitation
10 32 (11.47%) Power Platform
11 31 (11.11%) Data Modelling
11 31 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
12 30 (10.75%) Power BI
13 29 (10.39%) Data Quality
13 29 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 28 (10.04%) Microsoft Excel
15 27 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
16 25 (8.96%) Security Cleared
17 24 (8.60%) Validation
18 23 (8.24%) Migration
18 23 (8.24%) Python
19 22 (7.89%) Data Governance
19 22 (7.89%) JIRA
20 21 (7.53%) Acceptance Criteria
20 21 (7.53%) Decision-Making
20 21 (7.53%) SC Cleared
21 19 (6.81%) Azure
21 19 (6.81%) Degree

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 13 (4.66%) Confluence
2 6 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.72%) SAS
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 28 (10.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (5.02%) MS Visio
3 11 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (3.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.15%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.43%) Workday HCM
3 3 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.72%) Actimize
4 2 (0.72%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.72%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.36%) Findur
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.36%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 32 (11.47%) Power Platform
2 19 (6.81%) Azure
3 9 (3.23%) Snowflake
4 7 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
5 5 (1.79%) SaaS
6 4 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (1.43%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.43%) GCP
6 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.08%) AWS
7 3 (1.08%) Google Analytics
7 3 (1.08%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.72%) Collibra
8 2 (0.72%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.72%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.72%) Slack
9 1 (0.36%) Fivetran
9 1 (0.36%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.72%) DHCP
1 2 (0.72%) DMZ
1 2 (0.72%) DNS
1 2 (0.72%) Network Security
1 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.72%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.75%) Power BI
2 17 (6.09%) Tableau
3 12 (4.30%) Metadata
4 5 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.08%) Looker
6 2 (0.72%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.72%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (0.72%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.36%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.36%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.36%) GIS
7 1 (0.36%) KDB
7 1 (0.36%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.36%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.36%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 22 (7.89%) JIRA
2 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.36%) GitLab
2 1 (0.36%) Selenium
2 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
2 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (0.36%) WinAutomation
General
1 124 (44.44%) Finance
2 79 (28.32%) Social Skills
3 71 (25.45%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (13.98%) Banking
5 12 (4.30%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (4.30%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.94%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.51%) Front Office
8 7 (2.51%) Law
8 7 (2.51%) Legal
9 6 (2.15%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.15%) Marketing
10 4 (1.43%) Back Office
10 4 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.43%) Publishing
10 4 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.08%) Retail
12 2 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.08%) SailPoint
2 2 (0.72%) JSON
2 2 (0.72%) Middleware
2 2 (0.72%) Murex MxML
2 2 (0.72%) Playwright
2 2 (0.72%) PySpark
3 1 (0.36%) .NET
3 1 (0.36%) ADO
3 1 (0.36%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.36%) GeoJSON
3 1 (0.36%) Great Expectations
3 1 (0.36%) LDAP
3 1 (0.36%) Next.js
3 1 (0.36%) Node.js
3 1 (0.36%) NumPy
3 1 (0.36%) Pandas
3 1 (0.36%) pytest
3 1 (0.36%) React
3 1 (0.36%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.36%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.66%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.58%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (2.87%) Fixed Income
4 8 (2.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (2.51%) Derivative
6 6 (2.15%) Equities
6 6 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.79%) Credit Risk
7 5 (1.79%) Data Structures
7 5 (1.79%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 4 (1.43%) CMDB
8 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.43%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.08%) Digital Wallet
9 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.08%) PMI
9 3 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.23%) Windows
2 4 (1.43%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.72%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (18.64%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (16.13%) Agile
3 43 (15.41%) Business Analysis
4 40 (14.34%) User Stories
5 39 (13.98%) Analytics
5 39 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (12.90%) Data Analysis
7 34 (12.19%) Business Intelligence
8 33 (11.83%) Workshop Facilitation
9 31 (11.11%) Data Modelling
9 31 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
10 29 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 27 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
12 24 (8.60%) Validation
13 23 (8.24%) Migration
14 22 (7.89%) Data Governance
15 21 (7.53%) Acceptance Criteria
15 21 (7.53%) Decision-Making
16 19 (6.81%) Visualisation
17 18 (6.45%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 41 (14.70%) SQL
2 23 (8.24%) Python
3 4 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.08%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (1.08%) R
5 2 (0.72%) Java
5 2 (0.72%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.36%) C#
6 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.36%) Scala
6 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (8.96%) Security Cleared
2 21 (7.53%) SC Cleared
3 19 (6.81%) Degree
4 6 (2.15%) CISSP
5 4 (1.43%) CBAP
5 4 (1.43%) CISA
5 4 (1.43%) CRISC
5 4 (1.43%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.36%) CISM
7 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.36%) GIAC
7 1 (0.36%) IIBA
7 1 (0.36%) ISACA
7 1 (0.36%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (0.36%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (10.39%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.81%) QA
3 8 (2.87%) PMO
4 7 (2.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (2.15%) NIST
6 5 (1.79%) COBIT
6 5 (1.79%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.43%) GDPR
7 4 (1.43%) IFRS
7 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.43%) ITGC
8 3 (1.08%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.08%) Basel III
8 3 (1.08%) PSD2
9 2 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.72%) MiFID
9 2 (0.72%) Solvency II
10 1 (0.36%) COREP
10 1 (0.36%) GAAP
10 1 (0.36%) GMP
System Software
1 6 (2.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (0.72%) SCCM
2 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 45 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.58%) Databricks
3 9 (3.23%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.23%) SAP
4 7 (2.51%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.15%) Murex
6 5 (1.79%) Google
6 5 (1.79%) Workday
7 4 (1.43%) Oracle
8 3 (1.08%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.08%) OneTrust
8 3 (1.08%) Splunk
9 2 (0.72%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.72%) Citrix
9 2 (0.72%) Nexthink
9 2 (0.72%) Tenable
10 1 (0.36%) Adobe
10 1 (0.36%) Apple
10 1 (0.36%) Hitachi
10 1 (0.36%) Informatica