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 3 August 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 284 342 314
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.85% 18.10% 15.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.61% 19.34% 16.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 225 211
10th Percentile £225 £272 £300
25th Percentile £356 £359 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -6.25% -5.45%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £634
90th Percentile £703 £725 £713
Central London median daily rate £494 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -1.25% -3.85% -5.45%
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 2,252 1,768 1,947
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.95% 93.59% 94.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 1,154 1,317
10th Percentile £363 £334 £363
25th Percentile £455 £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 £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 23 13
10th Percentile £17.60 £18.06 £20.28
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +14.81% -27.84%
75th Percentile £37.34 £60.25 £92.50
90th Percentile £60.25 £84.11 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.08 £29.07 £30.00
% change year-on-year -20.61% -3.10% -14.29%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 66 (23.24%) Stakeholder Management
2 59 (20.77%) SQL
3 53 (18.66%) Agile
4 48 (16.90%) Analytics
5 45 (15.85%) User Stories
6 43 (15.14%) Business Analysis
7 42 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (14.44%) Microsoft
9 39 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
9 39 (13.73%) Data Modelling
10 38 (13.38%) Data Analysis
11 36 (12.68%) Power Platform
12 35 (12.32%) Power BI
12 35 (12.32%) Validation
13 33 (11.62%) Data Quality
13 33 (11.62%) Requirements Gathering
14 31 (10.92%) Workshop Facilitation
15 30 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 29 (10.21%) Decision-Making
16 29 (10.21%) Migration
16 29 (10.21%) User Acceptance Testing
17 25 (8.80%) Data Governance
17 25 (8.80%) Microsoft Excel
18 24 (8.45%) Data Mapping
19 23 (8.10%) Acceptance Criteria
19 23 (8.10%) Azure
20 21 (7.39%) AI
20 21 (7.39%) Python
20 21 (7.39%) Security Cleared
21 19 (6.69%) Data Migration

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 9 (3.17%) Confluence
2 6 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.35%) Apache
4 1 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.35%) CMS
4 1 (0.35%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (0.35%) SAS
4 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 25 (8.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.46%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.11%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.41%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.70%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.70%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.35%) Actimize
5 1 (0.35%) Findur
5 1 (0.35%) iTrent
5 1 (0.35%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.35%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 36 (12.68%) Power Platform
2 23 (8.10%) Azure
3 14 (4.93%) Snowflake
4 11 (3.87%) AWS
5 9 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.46%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.11%) GCP
8 5 (1.76%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.41%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.06%) dbt
10 3 (1.06%) Google Analytics
10 3 (1.06%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.70%) Adobe Analytics
11 2 (0.70%) Collibra
11 2 (0.70%) GitHub
11 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.70%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.41%) TCP/IP
1 4 (1.41%) VPN
2 3 (1.06%) DHCP
2 3 (1.06%) DNS
3 1 (0.35%) Internet
3 1 (0.35%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.35%) PSTN
3 1 (0.35%) SNMP
3 1 (0.35%) SSH
3 1 (0.35%) SSL
3 1 (0.35%) VLAN
3 1 (0.35%) VoIP
3 1 (0.35%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.32%) Power BI
2 14 (4.93%) Tableau
3 12 (4.23%) Metadata
4 10 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.41%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.06%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.06%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.70%) Looker
7 2 (0.70%) Power Query
7 2 (0.70%) SAP BW
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.35%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.35%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.35%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.35%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (5.99%) JIRA
2 2 (0.70%) GitLab
3 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 124 (43.66%) Finance
2 82 (28.87%) Social Skills
3 75 (26.41%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (14.44%) Banking
5 14 (4.93%) Documentation Skills
5 14 (4.93%) Public Sector
6 12 (4.23%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.52%) Front Office
8 9 (3.17%) Marketing
8 9 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (3.17%) Retail
9 8 (2.82%) Back Office
10 7 (2.46%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.11%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.76%) Legal
13 4 (1.41%) Law
13 4 (1.41%) Publishing
14 3 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
14 3 (1.06%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.11%) JSON
2 3 (1.06%) Middleware
2 3 (1.06%) XML
3 2 (0.70%) PySpark
3 2 (0.70%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.35%) .NET
4 1 (0.35%) GeoJSON
4 1 (0.35%) Great Expectations
4 1 (0.35%) Kafka
4 1 (0.35%) LDAP
4 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.35%) Next.js
4 1 (0.35%) Node.js
4 1 (0.35%) NumPy
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.35%) Pandas
4 1 (0.35%) Playwright
4 1 (0.35%) pytest
4 1 (0.35%) React
4 1 (0.35%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.04%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.28%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.46%) Derivative
4 7 (2.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (2.46%) Reinsurance
5 6 (2.11%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.76%) CMDB
6 5 (1.76%) Credit Risk
6 5 (1.76%) Fixed Income
6 5 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.06%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.70%) FMCG
8 2 (0.70%) Learning Management System
8 2 (0.70%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.70%) Reference Data
8 2 (0.70%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.52%) Windows
2 4 (1.41%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.70%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (23.24%) Stakeholder Management
2 53 (18.66%) Agile
3 48 (16.90%) Analytics
4 45 (15.85%) User Stories
5 43 (15.14%) Business Analysis
6 42 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
7 39 (13.73%) Data Modelling
8 38 (13.38%) Data Analysis
9 35 (12.32%) Validation
10 33 (11.62%) Requirements Gathering
11 31 (10.92%) Workshop Facilitation
12 30 (10.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 29 (10.21%) Decision-Making
13 29 (10.21%) Migration
13 29 (10.21%) User Acceptance Testing
14 25 (8.80%) Data Governance
15 24 (8.45%) Data Mapping
16 23 (8.10%) Acceptance Criteria
17 21 (7.39%) AI
Programming Languages
1 59 (20.77%) SQL
2 21 (7.39%) Python
3 6 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.41%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.06%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.06%) R
6 2 (0.70%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.35%) C#
7 1 (0.35%) Java
7 1 (0.35%) Korn
7 1 (0.35%) Scala
7 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (7.39%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.69%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.23%) Degree
4 6 (2.11%) CISSP
5 4 (1.41%) CISA
5 4 (1.41%) CRISC
6 2 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.35%) CBAP
7 1 (0.35%) CCNA
7 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.35%) CISM
7 1 (0.35%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.35%) GIAC
7 1 (0.35%) IIBA
7 1 (0.35%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (11.62%) Data Quality
2 19 (6.69%) QA
3 7 (2.46%) NIST
3 7 (2.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (1.76%) COBIT
4 5 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.41%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.41%) GDPR
5 4 (1.41%) ITGC
5 4 (1.41%) PMO
6 3 (1.06%) SLA
7 2 (0.70%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.35%) Basel III
8 1 (0.35%) COREP
8 1 (0.35%) EMIR
8 1 (0.35%) FINREP
8 1 (0.35%) MiFID
8 1 (0.35%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (1.06%) SCCM
2 2 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.28%) SAP
3 14 (4.93%) Databricks
4 9 (3.17%) ServiceNow
5 8 (2.82%) Workday
6 6 (2.11%) Murex
6 6 (2.11%) Oracle
6 6 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.76%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.41%) Google
9 3 (1.06%) Adobe
9 3 (1.06%) Citrix
9 3 (1.06%) OneTrust
9 3 (1.06%) Splunk
10 2 (0.70%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.70%) Informatica
10 2 (0.70%) ION Trading
10 2 (0.70%) Nexthink
10 2 (0.70%) Remedy
10 2 (0.70%) Reuters