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 £516, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 10 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -5 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 270 246 358
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.12% 13.72% 15.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.94% 14.77% 16.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 166 238
10th Percentile £313 £260 £331
25th Percentile £401 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -5.91% +1.24%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £722 £725 £713
Central London median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £19.08 £25.32 -
25th Percentile £21.87 £26.31 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £28.58 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% -8.54% -34.90%
75th Percentile £47.25 £31.48 £40.00
90th Percentile £57.90 £32.84 -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £23.00
% change year-on-year -10.18% +26.39% -52.08%

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 1,937 1,666 2,218
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 92.92% 94.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,328 1,048 1,586
10th Percentile £350 £358 £339
25th Percentile £439 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.40% -7.05%
75th Percentile £671 £686 £683
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 19
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £16.15
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.66 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.25 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% +44.44% -35.71%
75th Percentile £51.00 £112.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £127.10 £49.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £26.41
% change year-on-year -19.66% +23.08% -24.56%

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 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 - 1 £650 -
Analyst
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 14 March 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 65 (24.07%) Agile
2 59 (21.85%) Business Analysis
3 52 (19.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 51 (18.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 46 (17.04%) SQL
6 45 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (15.93%) Microsoft
8 40 (14.81%) Workshop Facilitation
9 37 (13.70%) Data Analysis
9 37 (13.70%) Requirements Gathering
9 37 (13.70%) User Acceptance Testing
10 36 (13.33%) User Stories
11 34 (12.59%) JIRA
11 34 (12.59%) Power Platform
11 34 (12.59%) Security Cleared
12 32 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
12 32 (11.85%) Microsoft Excel
13 31 (11.48%) Power BI
13 31 (11.48%) SC Cleared
14 30 (11.11%) Process Improvement
15 28 (10.37%) QA
16 27 (10.00%) Migration
17 26 (9.63%) Analytics
17 26 (9.63%) Data Modelling
17 26 (9.63%) Project Delivery
18 25 (9.26%) Python
18 25 (9.26%) Validation
19 24 (8.89%) Data Quality
20 23 (8.52%) MS Visio
21 22 (8.15%) 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 21 (7.78%) Confluence
2 13 (4.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.74%) SAS
4 1 (0.37%) CMS
4 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.37%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 32 (11.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (8.52%) MS Visio
3 19 (7.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.48%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.74%) Actimize
2 2 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.74%) Loan IQ
2 2 (0.74%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.37%) Algo Collateral
3 1 (0.37%) Endur
3 1 (0.37%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.37%) iTrent
3 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.37%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 34 (12.59%) Power Platform
2 16 (5.93%) Azure
3 6 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (2.22%) SaaS
4 5 (1.85%) AWS
4 5 (1.85%) Entra ID
5 4 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.48%) GCP
5 4 (1.48%) Google Analytics
5 4 (1.48%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (1.11%) Miro
7 2 (0.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (0.74%) Collibra
7 2 (0.74%) GitHub
7 2 (0.74%) Google Workspace
7 2 (0.74%) Slack
7 2 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.37%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (0.37%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.59%) Network Security
2 5 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.74%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.48%) Power BI
2 20 (7.41%) Tableau
3 7 (2.59%) Metadata
4 4 (1.48%) Looker
4 4 (1.48%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.11%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.11%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.37%) Big Data
6 1 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.37%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.37%) MySQL
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.37%) PowerCenter
6 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (12.59%) JIRA
2 2 (0.74%) Selenium
2 2 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.37%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.37%) GitLab
3 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.37%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.37%) Postman
3 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.37%) WinAutomation
General
1 113 (41.85%) Finance
2 89 (32.96%) Analytical Skills
3 85 (31.48%) Social Skills
4 51 (18.89%) Banking
5 24 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (5.56%) Investment Banking
7 13 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.70%) Front Office
8 10 (3.70%) Legal
9 9 (3.33%) Law
10 8 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.96%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (1.85%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.48%) Publishing
13 3 (1.11%) Back Office
13 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.11%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.11%) Retail
13 3 (1.11%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.11%) .NET
2 2 (0.74%) JSON
2 2 (0.74%) Murex MxML
2 2 (0.74%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.74%) Playwright
2 2 (0.74%) SailPoint
2 2 (0.74%) XML
3 1 (0.37%) GeoJSON
3 1 (0.37%) Middleware
3 1 (0.37%) Next.js
3 1 (0.37%) NumPy
3 1 (0.37%) Pandas
3 1 (0.37%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.93%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.33%) Derivative
4 8 (2.96%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (2.96%) Fixed Income
4 8 (2.96%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 5 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.85%) Equities
7 5 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (1.85%) PMI
7 5 (1.85%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.48%) Data Structures
8 4 (1.48%) Market Risk
9 3 (1.11%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.11%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.48%) Unix
1 4 (1.48%) Windows
2 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.74%) Linux
3 1 (0.37%) Android
3 1 (0.37%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (24.07%) Agile
2 59 (21.85%) Business Analysis
3 52 (19.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 51 (18.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 45 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (14.81%) Workshop Facilitation
7 37 (13.70%) Data Analysis
7 37 (13.70%) Requirements Gathering
7 37 (13.70%) User Acceptance Testing
8 36 (13.33%) User Stories
9 32 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
10 30 (11.11%) Process Improvement
11 27 (10.00%) Migration
12 26 (9.63%) Analytics
12 26 (9.63%) Data Modelling
12 26 (9.63%) Project Delivery
13 25 (9.26%) Validation
14 22 (8.15%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (7.78%) Data Governance
15 21 (7.78%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 46 (17.04%) SQL
2 25 (9.26%) Python
3 3 (1.11%) Java
3 3 (1.11%) R
4 2 (0.74%) C#
4 2 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (0.74%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.37%) C++
5 1 (0.37%) Scala
5 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (12.59%) Security Cleared
2 31 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.04%) Degree
4 7 (2.59%) CBAP
5 6 (2.22%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.11%) IIBA
7 3 (1.11%) ISEB
8 2 (0.74%) CFA
8 2 (0.74%) CISMP
8 2 (0.74%) CISSP
8 2 (0.74%) CompTIA CySA+
8 2 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.74%) PMP
9 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.37%) QA
2 24 (8.89%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.96%) PMO
4 6 (2.22%) ISO 20022
5 5 (1.85%) PSD2
5 5 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 4 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.48%) IFRS
6 4 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.11%) Basel III
7 3 (1.11%) GDPR
7 3 (1.11%) GRC
7 3 (1.11%) MiFID
7 3 (1.11%) NIST
8 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.74%) EMIR
8 2 (0.74%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.74%) NCSC
8 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (2.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.37%) Ansible
2 1 (0.37%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.37%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.37%) SCCM
2 1 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.07%) Salesforce
3 7 (2.59%) Oracle
4 6 (2.22%) Google
4 6 (2.22%) Murex
4 6 (2.22%) SAP
4 6 (2.22%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.85%) Databricks
5 5 (1.85%) Workday
6 3 (1.11%) Intapp
7 2 (0.74%) Amplitude
7 2 (0.74%) Apple
7 2 (0.74%) CyberArk
7 2 (0.74%) Informatica
7 2 (0.74%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.74%) LogRhythm
7 2 (0.74%) Tenable
8 1 (0.37%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.37%) Remedy
8 1 (0.37%) Reuters