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 29 June 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 273 308 328
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.20% 17.53% 15.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.91% 18.68% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 194 217
10th Percentile £225 £270 £313
25th Percentile £356 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £595 £663 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £693
Central London median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £15.67 £19.76 £21.63
25th Percentile £15.93 £24.66 £26.50
Median hourly rate £16.62 £34.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.13% -15.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £17.05 £36.00 £69.06
90th Percentile £17.16 £67.65 £113.75
Central London median hourly rate £16.62 £29.07 £40.00
% change year-on-year -42.84% -27.33% +14.29%

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 2,292 1,649 2,042
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 93.85% 95.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 1,046 1,407
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £454 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
75th Percentile £672 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 21 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £16.33
25th Percentile £18.46 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.00 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year -42.65% +38.07% -29.64%
75th Percentile £42.74 £63.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £88.75 £64.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £31.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -16.87% +14.81% -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 29 June 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 29 June 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 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 29 June 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 50 (18.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (16.48%) Agile
3 44 (16.12%) SQL
4 41 (15.02%) Microsoft
5 40 (14.65%) Business Analysis
6 38 (13.92%) User Stories
7 35 (12.82%) Analytics
8 34 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (12.09%) Data Analysis
10 32 (11.72%) Migration
11 31 (11.36%) Validation
12 30 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
13 29 (10.62%) Power Platform
13 29 (10.62%) Requirements Gathering
13 29 (10.62%) Workshop Facilitation
14 28 (10.26%) Data Modelling
15 27 (9.89%) Data Quality
15 27 (9.89%) Microsoft Excel
15 27 (9.89%) Power BI
15 27 (9.89%) User Acceptance Testing
16 24 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 23 (8.42%) Decision-Making
18 21 (7.69%) Acceptance Criteria
18 21 (7.69%) Python
18 21 (7.69%) Security Cleared
19 20 (7.33%) Data Migration
19 20 (7.33%) JIRA
19 20 (7.33%) QA
20 19 (6.96%) Azure
21 18 (6.59%) AI

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 12 (4.40%) Confluence
2 7 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.37%) CMS
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.37%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.37%) SAS
3 1 (0.37%) WordPress
Applications
1 27 (9.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.66%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.20%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.47%) Workday HCM
3 3 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.73%) Actimize
4 2 (0.73%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.73%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.37%) Findur
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.37%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.37%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 29 (10.62%) Power Platform
2 19 (6.96%) Azure
3 8 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (2.93%) Snowflake
4 6 (2.20%) Entra ID
4 6 (2.20%) GCP
5 5 (1.83%) AWS
5 5 (1.83%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (1.47%) SaaS
7 3 (1.10%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.73%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (0.73%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.73%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (0.73%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (0.73%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.73%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.10%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.10%) VPN
2 2 (0.73%) DHCP
2 2 (0.73%) DNS
3 1 (0.37%) Internet
3 1 (0.37%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.37%) PSTN
3 1 (0.37%) SNMP
3 1 (0.37%) VLAN
3 1 (0.37%) VoIP
3 1 (0.37%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (9.89%) Power BI
2 13 (4.76%) Tableau
3 8 (2.93%) Metadata
4 6 (2.20%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.10%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.73%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.73%) Looker
7 2 (0.73%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.73%) Power Query
8 1 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.37%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.37%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.37%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.37%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 20 (7.33%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.37%) GitLab
2 1 (0.37%) Selenium
2 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
2 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (0.37%) WinAutomation
General
1 121 (44.32%) Finance
2 79 (28.94%) Social Skills
3 67 (24.54%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (13.55%) Banking
5 13 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.03%) Investment Banking
6 11 (4.03%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.30%) Front Office
7 9 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.20%) Back Office
8 6 (2.20%) Marketing
8 6 (2.20%) Retail
9 5 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.83%) Law
9 5 (1.83%) Legal
10 4 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.47%) Publishing
10 4 (1.47%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.47%) JSON
2 3 (1.10%) Middleware
2 3 (1.10%) SailPoint
3 2 (0.73%) Playwright
3 2 (0.73%) PySpark
3 2 (0.73%) XML
4 1 (0.37%) .NET
4 1 (0.37%) ADO
4 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.37%) GeoJSON
4 1 (0.37%) Great Expectations
4 1 (0.37%) LDAP
4 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.37%) Next.js
4 1 (0.37%) Node.js
4 1 (0.37%) NumPy
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.37%) Pandas
4 1 (0.37%) pytest
4 1 (0.37%) React
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.13%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.40%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (3.66%) Derivative
5 9 (3.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (2.93%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.20%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.83%) CMDB
8 5 (1.83%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.47%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.47%) Equities
9 4 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.10%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.10%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.73%) Freedom of Information
11 2 (0.73%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.66%) Windows
2 4 (1.47%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.73%) Unix
4 1 (0.37%) Android
4 1 (0.37%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (18.32%) Stakeholder Management
2 45 (16.48%) Agile
3 40 (14.65%) Business Analysis
4 38 (13.92%) User Stories
5 35 (12.82%) Analytics
6 34 (12.45%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (12.09%) Data Analysis
8 32 (11.72%) Migration
9 31 (11.36%) Validation
10 30 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (10.62%) Requirements Gathering
11 29 (10.62%) Workshop Facilitation
12 28 (10.26%) Data Modelling
13 27 (9.89%) User Acceptance Testing
14 24 (8.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 23 (8.42%) Decision-Making
16 21 (7.69%) Acceptance Criteria
17 20 (7.33%) Data Migration
18 18 (6.59%) AI
18 18 (6.59%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 44 (16.12%) SQL
2 21 (7.69%) Python
3 5 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.47%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.10%) R
6 2 (0.73%) Java
6 2 (0.73%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.37%) C#
7 1 (0.37%) Korn
7 1 (0.37%) Scala
7 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 18 (6.59%) SC Cleared
3 15 (5.49%) Degree
4 6 (2.20%) CISSP
5 4 (1.47%) CISA
5 4 (1.47%) CRISC
6 3 (1.10%) CBAP
7 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.73%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.37%) CCNA
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.37%) CISM
8 1 (0.37%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.37%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.37%) IIBA
8 1 (0.37%) ISEB
8 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.89%) Data Quality
2 20 (7.33%) QA
3 7 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.20%) NIST
5 5 (1.83%) COBIT
5 5 (1.83%) PMO
6 4 (1.47%) GDPR
6 4 (1.47%) IFRS
6 4 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.47%) ITGC
7 3 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.10%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.73%) PSD2
8 2 (0.73%) Solvency II
9 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.37%) Basel III
9 1 (0.37%) COREP
9 1 (0.37%) FINREP
9 1 (0.37%) GAAP
9 1 (0.37%) GRC
System Software
1 8 (2.93%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.10%) SCCM
2 2 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.37%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (15.02%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.03%) SAP
3 10 (3.66%) Databricks
4 9 (3.30%) Salesforce
5 8 (2.93%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.56%) Murex
6 7 (2.56%) Workday
7 6 (2.20%) Oracle
8 5 (1.83%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.47%) Google
10 3 (1.10%) Adobe
10 3 (1.10%) Citrix
10 3 (1.10%) OneTrust
10 3 (1.10%) Splunk
11 2 (0.73%) Amplitude
11 2 (0.73%) ION Trading
11 2 (0.73%) Nexthink
11 2 (0.73%) Reuters
11 2 (0.73%) Tenable
12 1 (0.37%) SimCorp