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 £457, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 8 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 305 319 425
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 17.35% 15.04% 15.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 18.54% 16.10% 16.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 209 281
10th Percentile £281 £263 £325
25th Percentile £362 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.05% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £656
90th Percentile £675 £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% +12.12%
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% +21.31%

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 1,645 1,981 2,594
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 93.40% 94.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,213 1,825
10th Percentile £325 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 15
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.06 £17.97
Median hourly rate £27.75 £57.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.74% +51.32% -10.06%
75th Percentile £44.63 £112.00 £50.63
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -22.76% -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 14 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 14 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 14 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 14 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 92 (30.16%) Agile
2 60 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (19.02%) SQL
4 53 (17.38%) Business Analysis
4 53 (17.38%) Data Analysis
5 52 (17.05%) Microsoft
6 47 (15.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (15.41%) User Acceptance Testing
7 46 (15.08%) User Stories
8 42 (13.77%) Migration
9 40 (13.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 34 (11.15%) Microsoft Excel
11 33 (10.82%) Requirements Gathering
12 32 (10.49%) Security Cleared
12 32 (10.49%) Workshop Facilitation
13 31 (10.16%) Degree
14 30 (9.84%) JIRA
15 29 (9.51%) Project Delivery
15 29 (9.51%) Python
16 28 (9.18%) SC Cleared
17 27 (8.85%) Data Modelling
17 27 (8.85%) Validation
18 25 (8.20%) Acceptance Criteria
18 25 (8.20%) Analytics
19 24 (7.87%) Business Intelligence
19 24 (7.87%) Decision-Making
19 24 (7.87%) QA
19 24 (7.87%) Scrum
20 22 (7.21%) Change Management
20 22 (7.21%) Collaborative Working

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 19 (6.23%) Confluence
2 13 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.66%) CMS
4 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.33%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.33%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 34 (11.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (5.25%) MS Visio
3 15 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.33%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (2.95%) Unit4 Business World
2 5 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.98%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.66%) Endur
4 2 (0.66%) HFM
4 2 (0.66%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.66%) 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 (6.89%) Power Platform
2 19 (6.23%) Azure
3 10 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.64%) AWS
5 5 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.31%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.31%) GCP
6 4 (1.31%) Snowflake
7 3 (0.98%) Collibra
7 3 (0.98%) Google Analytics
7 3 (0.98%) SaaS
8 2 (0.66%) Miro
8 2 (0.66%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.66%) 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%) prismic.io
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.97%) Network Security
2 4 (1.31%) Firewall
2 4 (1.31%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.66%) LAN
3 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.33%) ATM
4 1 (0.33%) DNS
4 1 (0.33%) Internet
4 1 (0.33%) SSH
4 1 (0.33%) VPN
4 1 (0.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (6.56%) Power BI
2 19 (6.23%) Tableau
3 9 (2.95%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.62%) Star Schema
5 6 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (1.97%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.98%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.66%) Looker
7 2 (0.66%) Metadata
7 2 (0.66%) MySQL
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.66%) Power Query
7 2 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (0.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.33%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.33%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 30 (9.84%) JIRA
2 2 (0.66%) Git
2 2 (0.66%) 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
1 137 (44.92%) Finance
2 105 (34.43%) Social Skills
3 83 (27.21%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (16.72%) Banking
5 18 (5.90%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (5.57%) Influencing Skills
6 17 (5.57%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.92%) Front Office
8 13 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
8 13 (4.26%) Investment Banking
9 11 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (2.95%) Back Office
10 9 (2.95%) Law
11 8 (2.62%) Legal
12 7 (2.30%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.64%) Retail
14 4 (1.31%) Marketing
15 2 (0.66%) Private Banking
15 2 (0.66%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.30%) XML
2 3 (0.98%) .NET
2 3 (0.98%) JSON
3 2 (0.66%) 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 (6.89%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 11 (3.61%) Reinsurance
4 10 (3.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.95%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (2.62%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.97%) Derivative
7 6 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (1.97%) iPad
7 6 (1.97%) iPhone
8 5 (1.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 5 (1.64%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.31%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.31%) PMI
9 4 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (0.98%) CMDB
10 3 (0.98%) Credit Risk
10 3 (0.98%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (0.98%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 17 (5.57%) Windows
2 7 (2.30%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.31%) Linux
3 4 (1.31%) 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 92 (30.16%) Agile
2 60 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (17.38%) Business Analysis
3 53 (17.38%) Data Analysis
4 47 (15.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (15.41%) User Acceptance Testing
5 46 (15.08%) User Stories
6 42 (13.77%) Migration
7 40 (13.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 33 (10.82%) Requirements Gathering
9 32 (10.49%) Workshop Facilitation
10 29 (9.51%) Project Delivery
11 27 (8.85%) Data Modelling
11 27 (8.85%) Validation
12 25 (8.20%) Acceptance Criteria
12 25 (8.20%) Analytics
13 24 (7.87%) Business Intelligence
13 24 (7.87%) Decision-Making
13 24 (7.87%) Scrum
14 22 (7.21%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 58 (19.02%) SQL
2 29 (9.51%) Python
3 7 (2.30%) VBA
4 4 (1.31%) C#
4 4 (1.31%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.98%) C++
5 3 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (0.98%) Java
6 2 (0.66%) Bash
6 2 (0.66%) Korn
6 2 (0.66%) 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 (10.49%) Security Cleared
2 31 (10.16%) Degree
3 28 (9.18%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.28%) CBAP
5 6 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.31%) PMI Certification
7 3 (0.98%) CompTIA CySA+
7 3 (0.98%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.66%) ACCA
8 2 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.66%) CFA
8 2 (0.66%) CIMA
8 2 (0.66%) CISMP
8 2 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.66%) IIBA
8 2 (0.66%) ISEB
8 2 (0.66%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.33%) CEH
9 1 (0.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.87%) QA
2 20 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.30%) EMIR
4 6 (1.97%) GDPR
4 6 (1.97%) ISO 20022
4 6 (1.97%) MiFID
4 6 (1.97%) PMO
5 5 (1.64%) PSD2
6 4 (1.31%) SEPA
7 3 (0.98%) ISO 8583
7 3 (0.98%) NIST
7 3 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.66%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.66%) Basel III
8 2 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.66%) GRC
8 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.66%) NCSC
8 2 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.66%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.33%) Firmware
2 1 (0.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (0.98%) SCCM
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.33%) Ansible
3 1 (0.33%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 52 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 14 (4.59%) Salesforce
3 8 (2.62%) Oracle
4 5 (1.64%) Google
4 5 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.31%) Guidewire
5 4 (1.31%) Intapp
5 4 (1.31%) SAP
6 3 (0.98%) Hyperion
6 3 (0.98%) IBM
6 3 (0.98%) ION Trading
6 3 (0.98%) Workday
7 2 (0.66%) Adobe
7 2 (0.66%) Apple
7 2 (0.66%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.66%) Charles River
7 2 (0.66%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.66%) LogRhythm
7 2 (0.66%) PeopleSoft
7 2 (0.66%) VMware