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 £523, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 10 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 276 239 356
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 13.02% 13.73% 15.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.83% 14.80% 16.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 159 239
10th Percentile £313 £263 £349
25th Percentile £406 £400 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -5.91% +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £725 £725 £703
Central London median daily rate £503 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.29% -3.67% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £19.08 £25.98 -
25th Percentile £21.87 £27.96 £21.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +4.00% -34.90%
75th Percentile £47.25 £34.21 £40.00
90th Percentile £57.90 £34.49 -
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 1,996 1,615 2,217
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 92.76% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 1,027 1,587
10th Percentile £350 £363 £340
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £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 23 10 17
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £15.30
25th Percentile £19.05 £24.66 £19.92
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.81% +41.11% -35.71%
75th Percentile £49.83 £45.23 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £76.13 £49.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £30.04 £26.41
% change year-on-year -13.07% +13.75% -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 26 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 26 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 26 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 - 2 £600 -
Analyst
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 26 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 66 (23.91%) Agile
2 64 (23.19%) Business Analysis
3 54 (19.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 52 (18.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 47 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (16.30%) SQL
7 44 (15.94%) Workshop Facilitation
8 41 (14.86%) Microsoft
9 38 (13.77%) Requirements Gathering
9 38 (13.77%) User Acceptance Testing
10 37 (13.41%) Data Analysis
10 37 (13.41%) Security Cleared
10 37 (13.41%) User Stories
11 34 (12.32%) JIRA
11 34 (12.32%) SC Cleared
12 33 (11.96%) Power Platform
13 32 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
14 31 (11.23%) Microsoft Excel
14 31 (11.23%) Process Improvement
15 30 (10.87%) Power BI
16 28 (10.14%) Analytics
16 28 (10.14%) Project Delivery
17 27 (9.78%) QA
18 26 (9.42%) Migration
19 25 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
19 25 (9.06%) Data Modelling
19 25 (9.06%) Data Quality
20 24 (8.70%) Python
20 24 (8.70%) Validation
21 23 (8.33%) Decision-Making

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 (7.61%) Confluence
2 12 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.72%) SAS
4 1 (0.36%) CMS
4 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.36%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 31 (11.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (7.97%) MS Visio
3 17 (6.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.72%) Actimize
2 2 (0.72%) Aladdin
2 2 (0.72%) Loan IQ
2 2 (0.72%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.36%) Algo Collateral
3 1 (0.36%) Endur
3 1 (0.36%) Findur
3 1 (0.36%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.36%) iTrent
3 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.36%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.36%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 33 (11.96%) Power Platform
2 15 (5.43%) Azure
3 6 (2.17%) AWS
4 5 (1.81%) GCP
4 5 (1.81%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (1.81%) SaaS
5 4 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.45%) Google Analytics
5 4 (1.45%) Snowflake
6 3 (1.09%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (1.09%) Miro
7 2 (0.72%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (0.72%) Collibra
7 2 (0.72%) Google Workspace
7 2 (0.72%) Slack
7 2 (0.72%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.36%) Alation
8 1 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.36%) prismic.io
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.54%) Network Security
2 5 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.72%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (10.87%) Power BI
2 19 (6.88%) Tableau
3 7 (2.54%) Metadata
4 4 (1.45%) Looker
4 4 (1.45%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.09%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.36%) Big Data
6 1 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.36%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.36%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.36%) MySQL
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.36%) PowerCenter
6 1 (0.36%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 34 (12.32%) JIRA
2 2 (0.72%) Selenium
2 2 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.36%) GitLab
3 1 (0.36%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.36%) Postman
3 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.36%) WinAutomation
General
1 110 (39.86%) Finance
2 96 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (31.52%) Social Skills
4 51 (18.48%) Banking
5 25 (9.06%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (5.43%) Investment Banking
8 12 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (3.62%) Legal
10 7 (2.54%) Front Office
10 7 (2.54%) Law
10 7 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.81%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.81%) Retail
13 4 (1.45%) Back Office
13 4 (1.45%) Publishing
13 4 (1.45%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.09%) .NET
2 2 (0.72%) JSON
2 2 (0.72%) Murex MxML
2 2 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.72%) Playwright
2 2 (0.72%) SailPoint
2 2 (0.72%) XML
3 1 (0.36%) GeoJSON
3 1 (0.36%) Great Expectations
3 1 (0.36%) Middleware
3 1 (0.36%) Next.js
3 1 (0.36%) Node.js
3 1 (0.36%) NumPy
3 1 (0.36%) Pandas
3 1 (0.36%) PySpark
3 1 (0.36%) pytest
3 1 (0.36%) React
3 1 (0.36%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.80%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.43%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (2.90%) Derivative
3 8 (2.90%) Fixed Income
3 8 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (2.90%) Virtual Team
4 7 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 5 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (1.81%) Equities
6 5 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (1.81%) PMI
6 5 (1.81%) Reinsurance
7 4 (1.45%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.45%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.09%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.09%) Digital Wallet
8 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.45%) Unix
2 3 (1.09%) Windows
3 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.72%) Linux
3 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.36%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (23.91%) Agile
2 64 (23.19%) Business Analysis
3 54 (19.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 52 (18.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 47 (17.03%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (15.94%) Workshop Facilitation
7 38 (13.77%) Requirements Gathering
7 38 (13.77%) User Acceptance Testing
8 37 (13.41%) Data Analysis
8 37 (13.41%) User Stories
9 32 (11.59%) Business Intelligence
10 31 (11.23%) Process Improvement
11 28 (10.14%) Analytics
11 28 (10.14%) Project Delivery
12 26 (9.42%) Migration
13 25 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (9.06%) Data Modelling
14 24 (8.70%) Validation
15 23 (8.33%) Decision-Making
16 22 (7.97%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 45 (16.30%) SQL
2 24 (8.70%) Python
3 4 (1.45%) Java
4 3 (1.09%) R
5 2 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.72%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.36%) C#
6 1 (0.36%) Scala
6 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 37 (13.41%) Security Cleared
2 34 (12.32%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.25%) Degree
4 7 (2.54%) CBAP
5 6 (2.17%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.09%) CISSP
7 3 (1.09%) IIBA
7 3 (1.09%) ISEB
8 2 (0.72%) CFA
8 2 (0.72%) CISA
8 2 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.72%) CRISC
8 2 (0.72%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.72%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.72%) PMP
9 1 (0.36%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (9.78%) QA
2 25 (9.06%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.90%) PMO
4 6 (2.17%) ISO 20022
4 6 (2.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.81%) PSD2
6 4 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
6 4 (1.45%) IFRS
6 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.09%) Basel III
7 3 (1.09%) GRC
7 3 (1.09%) MiFID
7 3 (1.09%) NIST
8 2 (0.72%) COBIT
8 2 (0.72%) GDPR
8 2 (0.72%) ISO 8583
8 2 (0.72%) ITGC
8 2 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.36%) GAAP
System Software
1 4 (1.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.36%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (0.36%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.36%) SCCM
2 1 (0.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 41 (14.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.62%) Salesforce
3 7 (2.54%) Oracle
4 6 (2.17%) Databricks
4 6 (2.17%) Google
4 6 (2.17%) Murex
4 6 (2.17%) SAP
5 4 (1.45%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.45%) Workday
6 3 (1.09%) Intapp
7 2 (0.72%) Amplitude
7 2 (0.72%) Apple
7 2 (0.72%) Informatica
7 2 (0.72%) ION Trading
7 2 (0.72%) Tenable
8 1 (0.36%) Adobe
8 1 (0.36%) Hitachi
8 1 (0.36%) HP
8 1 (0.36%) Reuters
8 1 (0.36%) SmartStream