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 13 July 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 280 328 329
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 11.49% 17.50% 15.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.25% 18.73% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 206 220
10th Percentile £240 £273 £312
25th Percentile £356 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £589 £650 £638
90th Percentile £719 £725 £713
Central London median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £19.76 £29.20
25th Percentile £15.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £34.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.94% -15.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £16.50 £36.00 £78.75
90th Percentile - £67.65 £120.75
Central London median hourly rate £16.00 £29.07 £40.75
% change year-on-year -44.96% -28.66% +16.43%

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 2,285 1,751 2,048
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.80% 93.44% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,524 1,123 1,396
10th Percentile £356 £350 £350
25th Percentile £454 £450 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £791
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £551
% change year-on-year - -0.18% -8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 22 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £17.05
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £20.25 £32.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.69% +20.37% -22.86%
75th Percentile £39.81 £62.00 £50.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £86.43 £84.25
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -22.89% +8.00% -20.54%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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
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 13 July 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 54 (19.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 46 (16.43%) Agile
2 46 (16.43%) SQL
3 43 (15.36%) Microsoft
4 41 (14.64%) Analytics
5 40 (14.29%) Business Analysis
6 36 (12.86%) User Stories
7 35 (12.50%) Data Analysis
7 35 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (11.43%) Migration
9 31 (11.07%) Data Modelling
9 31 (11.07%) Requirements Gathering
10 30 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
10 30 (10.71%) Power Platform
10 30 (10.71%) Validation
10 30 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
11 28 (10.00%) Data Quality
11 28 (10.00%) Decision-Making
11 28 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
11 28 (10.00%) Power BI
12 26 (9.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 25 (8.93%) User Acceptance Testing
14 22 (7.86%) Security Cleared
15 21 (7.50%) Python
15 21 (7.50%) QA
16 20 (7.14%) Acceptance Criteria
16 20 (7.14%) AI
16 20 (7.14%) Azure
16 20 (7.14%) Data Migration
17 19 (6.79%) Data Governance

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 (4.29%) Confluence
2 7 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.36%) CMS
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (0.36%) SAS
3 1 (0.36%) WordPress
Applications
1 28 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.57%) MS Visio
3 9 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.14%) NetSuite
2 4 (1.43%) Workday HCM
3 3 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.71%) Actimize
4 2 (0.71%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.36%) Findur
5 1 (0.36%) iTrent
5 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.36%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 30 (10.71%) Power Platform
2 20 (7.14%) Azure
3 9 (3.21%) Snowflake
4 8 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.14%) AWS
5 6 (2.14%) Entra ID
5 6 (2.14%) GCP
6 5 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (1.43%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.07%) Google Analytics
8 3 (1.07%) SaaS
9 2 (0.71%) Adobe Analytics
9 2 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.71%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.71%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.07%) TCP/IP
1 3 (1.07%) VPN
2 2 (0.71%) DHCP
2 2 (0.71%) DNS
3 1 (0.36%) Internet
3 1 (0.36%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.36%) PSTN
3 1 (0.36%) SNMP
3 1 (0.36%) VLAN
3 1 (0.36%) VoIP
3 1 (0.36%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.00%) Power BI
2 12 (4.29%) Tableau
3 8 (2.86%) Metadata
4 6 (2.14%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.07%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.71%) Looker
7 2 (0.71%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.71%) Power Query
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.36%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.36%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.36%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.36%) KDB
8 1 (0.36%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.36%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 18 (6.43%) JIRA
2 2 (0.71%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.36%) Selenium
3 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.36%) WinAutomation
General
1 124 (44.29%) Finance
2 80 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 70 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.50%) Banking
5 13 (4.64%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (4.64%) Public Sector
6 11 (3.93%) Investment Banking
7 10 (3.57%) Front Office
8 8 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.50%) Back Office
10 6 (2.14%) Marketing
10 6 (2.14%) Retail
11 5 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.79%) Legal
12 4 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.43%) Law
12 4 (1.43%) Publishing
13 3 (1.07%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.71%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.14%) JSON
2 3 (1.07%) Middleware
2 3 (1.07%) SailPoint
2 3 (1.07%) XML
3 2 (0.71%) Playwright
3 2 (0.71%) PySpark
4 1 (0.36%) .NET
4 1 (0.36%) ADO
4 1 (0.36%) GeoJSON
4 1 (0.36%) Great Expectations
4 1 (0.36%) LDAP
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.36%) Next.js
4 1 (0.36%) Node.js
4 1 (0.36%) NumPy
4 1 (0.36%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.36%) Pandas
4 1 (0.36%) pytest
4 1 (0.36%) React
4 1 (0.36%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.00%) Onboarding
1 14 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (3.21%) Derivative
4 7 (2.50%) Fixed Income
4 7 (2.50%) Reinsurance
5 6 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.79%) CMDB
6 5 (1.79%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.43%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.43%) Equities
8 3 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.07%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.07%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.71%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
9 2 (0.71%) Life Science
9 2 (0.71%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.57%) Windows
2 4 (1.43%) Mac OS
3 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.71%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (19.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 46 (16.43%) Agile
3 41 (14.64%) Analytics
4 40 (14.29%) Business Analysis
5 36 (12.86%) User Stories
6 35 (12.50%) Data Analysis
6 35 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (11.43%) Migration
8 31 (11.07%) Data Modelling
8 31 (11.07%) Requirements Gathering
9 30 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
9 30 (10.71%) Validation
9 30 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
10 28 (10.00%) Decision-Making
11 26 (9.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 25 (8.93%) User Acceptance Testing
13 20 (7.14%) Acceptance Criteria
13 20 (7.14%) AI
13 20 (7.14%) Data Migration
14 19 (6.79%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 46 (16.43%) SQL
2 21 (7.50%) Python
3 6 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.43%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (1.07%) R
6 2 (0.71%) Java
6 2 (0.71%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.36%) C#
7 1 (0.36%) Korn
7 1 (0.36%) Scala
7 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (7.86%) Security Cleared
2 19 (6.79%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.64%) Degree
4 6 (2.14%) CISSP
5 4 (1.43%) CISA
5 4 (1.43%) CRISC
6 2 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.71%) CBAP
7 1 (0.36%) CCNA
7 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.36%) CISM
7 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.36%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.36%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.36%) IIBA
7 1 (0.36%) ISEB
7 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.36%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 21 (7.50%) QA
3 7 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 6 (2.14%) NIST
5 5 (1.79%) COBIT
5 5 (1.79%) PMO
6 4 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.43%) GDPR
6 4 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.43%) ITGC
7 2 (0.71%) IFRS
7 2 (0.71%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.71%) Solvency II
8 1 (0.36%) Basel III
8 1 (0.36%) COREP
8 1 (0.36%) EMIR
8 1 (0.36%) FINREP
8 1 (0.36%) GMP
8 1 (0.36%) MiFID
8 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (3.21%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.07%) SCCM
2 2 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 43 (15.36%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.29%) SAP
3 11 (3.93%) Databricks
4 8 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 8 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 8 (2.86%) Workday
5 6 (2.14%) Murex
5 6 (2.14%) Oracle
6 5 (1.79%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.43%) Google
8 3 (1.07%) Adobe
8 3 (1.07%) Citrix
8 3 (1.07%) OneTrust
8 3 (1.07%) Splunk
9 2 (0.71%) Amplitude
9 2 (0.71%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.71%) Nexthink
9 2 (0.71%) Reuters
9 2 (0.71%) Tenable
10 1 (0.36%) SimCorp