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 £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 7 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 275 259 388
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 14.89% 13.62% 16.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 15.81% 14.63% 16.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 172 258
10th Percentile £306 £279 £345
25th Percentile £375 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £631 £641 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £721
Central London median daily rate £475 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -10.38% -3.64% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £20.01 - -
25th Percentile £24.18 £31.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.29 £32.50 £29.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +11.11% +17.00%
75th Percentile £38.38 £33.75 £36.88
90th Percentile £54.35 - £37.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £33.75 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.64% +46.74% -8.00%

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 1,739 1,770 2,286
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.15% 93.11% 94.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,210 1,084 1,640
10th Percentile £340 £363 £355
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +0.88% -0.87%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £788
Central London median daily rate £530 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -7.83% +2.22% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 15
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.37 £22.00 £20.09
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +35.42% -26.15%
75th Percentile £42.65 £112.00 £42.38
90th Percentile £50.63 £117.10 £63.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.40% +34.62% -10.34%

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 17 January 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 17 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the City of London

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

For the 6 months to 17 January 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 77 (28.00%) Agile
2 53 (19.27%) Business Analysis
3 51 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (17.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 46 (16.73%) SQL
6 43 (15.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 42 (15.27%) Microsoft
8 41 (14.91%) Data Analysis
9 40 (14.55%) User Acceptance Testing
10 38 (13.82%) User Stories
11 34 (12.36%) Microsoft Excel
11 34 (12.36%) Requirements Gathering
12 32 (11.64%) JIRA
12 32 (11.64%) Workshop Facilitation
13 31 (11.27%) Project Delivery
13 31 (11.27%) Security Cleared
14 28 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
14 28 (10.18%) Migration
14 28 (10.18%) SC Cleared
15 26 (9.45%) Power Platform
16 25 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
16 25 (9.09%) Degree
16 25 (9.09%) Power BI
16 25 (9.09%) Process Improvement
16 25 (9.09%) QA
17 24 (8.73%) Data Modelling
17 24 (8.73%) Decision-Making
18 23 (8.36%) Analytics
19 22 (8.00%) Project Management
19 22 (8.00%) Python

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 18 (6.55%) Confluence
2 12 (4.36%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.73%) CMS
4 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.36%) SAS
4 1 (0.36%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 34 (12.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (7.64%) MS Visio
3 18 (6.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (5.82%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.36%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.18%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (0.73%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.36%) Algo Collateral
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Endur
3 1 (0.36%) HFM
3 1 (0.36%) ION MarketView
3 1 (0.36%) iTrent
3 1 (0.36%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.36%) ProductWriter
3 1 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (9.45%) Power Platform
2 12 (4.36%) Azure
3 6 (2.18%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (2.18%) SaaS
4 5 (1.82%) AWS
5 4 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.45%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.09%) GCP
6 3 (1.09%) Google Workspace
6 3 (1.09%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.73%) Google Analytics
7 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (0.73%) Miro
7 2 (0.73%) Slack
7 2 (0.73%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.36%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.36%) ChatGPT
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.36%) prismic.io
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.27%) Network Security
2 5 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.73%) DMZ
3 2 (0.73%) Firewall
4 1 (0.36%) ATM
4 1 (0.36%) Internet
4 1 (0.36%) SSH
4 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.09%) Power BI
2 17 (6.18%) Tableau
3 6 (2.18%) Relational Database
4 5 (1.82%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.45%) Metadata
5 4 (1.45%) Star Schema
6 3 (1.09%) Looker
7 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.73%) MySQL
8 1 (0.36%) Big Data
8 1 (0.36%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.36%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.36%) PowerCenter
8 1 (0.36%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.36%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 32 (11.64%) JIRA
2 2 (0.73%) Selenium
2 2 (0.73%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.36%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.36%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.36%) Git
3 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.36%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.36%) Postman
3 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.36%) SpecFlow
3 1 (0.36%) WinAutomation
General
1 112 (40.73%) Finance
2 90 (32.73%) Social Skills
3 80 (29.09%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (18.91%) Banking
5 22 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.82%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (5.45%) Investment Banking
8 14 (5.09%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (4.36%) Front Office
10 10 (3.64%) Legal
11 9 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (2.91%) Law
13 6 (2.18%) Back Office
14 4 (1.45%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.45%) Telecoms
15 3 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.09%) Marketing
15 3 (1.09%) Retail
16 2 (0.73%) Private Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.82%) XML
2 3 (1.09%) .NET
3 2 (0.73%) JSON
3 2 (0.73%) Murex MxML
3 2 (0.73%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.73%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.36%) Middleware
4 1 (0.36%) Playwright
4 1 (0.36%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 16 (5.82%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 9 (3.27%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (2.91%) Derivative
5 6 (2.18%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.18%) PMI
5 6 (2.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 6 (2.18%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.45%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.09%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.09%) Equities
9 2 (0.73%) iPad
9 2 (0.73%) iPhone
9 2 (0.73%) Market Risk
9 2 (0.73%) Swaptions
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.91%) Windows
2 4 (1.45%) Unix
3 2 (0.73%) Linux
3 2 (0.73%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.36%) Android
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (28.00%) Agile
2 53 (19.27%) Business Analysis
3 51 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (17.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 43 (15.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 41 (14.91%) Data Analysis
7 40 (14.55%) User Acceptance Testing
8 38 (13.82%) User Stories
9 34 (12.36%) Requirements Gathering
10 32 (11.64%) Workshop Facilitation
11 31 (11.27%) Project Delivery
12 28 (10.18%) Business Intelligence
12 28 (10.18%) Migration
13 25 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
13 25 (9.09%) Process Improvement
14 24 (8.73%) Data Modelling
14 24 (8.73%) Decision-Making
15 23 (8.36%) Analytics
16 22 (8.00%) Project Management
17 20 (7.27%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 46 (16.73%) SQL
2 22 (8.00%) Python
3 4 (1.45%) C#
3 4 (1.45%) VBA
4 3 (1.09%) C++
4 3 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.09%) Java
5 2 (0.73%) Korn
5 2 (0.73%) R
5 2 (0.73%) RPG
6 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.36%) VC++
Qualifications
1 31 (11.27%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.18%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.09%) Degree
4 9 (3.27%) CBAP
5 7 (2.55%) PMI Certification
6 6 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.45%) IIBA
8 3 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.09%) CompTIA CySA+
8 3 (1.09%) ISEB
8 3 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.73%) CFA
9 2 (0.73%) CISMP
9 2 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.73%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.73%) GIAC
9 2 (0.73%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.09%) QA
2 17 (6.18%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.27%) PMO
4 8 (2.91%) ISO 20022
5 7 (2.55%) PSD2
6 6 (2.18%) GDPR
7 4 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (1.45%) Basel III
7 4 (1.45%) MiFID
8 3 (1.09%) EMIR
8 3 (1.09%) GRC
8 3 (1.09%) IFRS
8 3 (1.09%) ISO 8583
8 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.73%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.73%) NCSC
9 2 (0.73%) NIST
9 2 (0.73%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (2.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.36%) Ansible
2 1 (0.36%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.36%) RSA Archer
2 1 (0.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.09%) Salesforce
3 9 (3.27%) Oracle
4 6 (2.18%) SAP
5 5 (1.82%) Google
5 5 (1.82%) Murex
6 4 (1.45%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.09%) Databricks
7 3 (1.09%) Intapp
8 2 (0.73%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.73%) IBM
8 2 (0.73%) Informatica
8 2 (0.73%) ION Trading
8 2 (0.73%) LogRhythm
9 1 (0.36%) Adobe
9 1 (0.36%) Apple
9 1 (0.36%) HP
9 1 (0.36%) Hyperion
9 1 (0.36%) Progress
9 1 (0.36%) SmartStream