Analytical Skills Contracts in the City of London

Analytical Skills
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 13 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Analytical Skills 256 213 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 13.82% 10.29% 8.95%
As % of the General category 18.59% 15.15% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 151 189
10th Percentile £314 £368 £400
25th Percentile £424 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £669 £704 £725
90th Percentile £763 £750 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £19.77 - £17.40
25th Percentile £24.67 - £25.13
Median hourly rate £45.33 - £38.00
75th Percentile £70.00 - £53.38
90th Percentile £81.25 - £62.60
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £34.03 £38.00
% change year-on-year +1.32% -10.45% +46.15%

All General Skills
City of London

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in the City of London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,377 1,406 2,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 74.35% 67.92% 63.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 921 1,442
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £424 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £686 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 10
10th Percentile £17.08 £13.73 £14.05
25th Percentile £24.66 £17.06 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £27.00 £17.63
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +53.19% -57.01%
75th Percentile £63.75 £74.38 £35.69
90th Percentile £65.57 £98.13 £44.96
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £27.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year +11.24% +18.68% -43.83%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the City of London

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the City of London

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the City of London

Analytical Skills
DemandTrendContract 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 Analytical Skills within the City of London region over the 6 months to 19 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Moorgate +1 2 £345 -31.00%
London Bridge - 1 - -
Analytical Skills
Central London

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (6.64%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.69%) Confluence
3 7 (2.73%) Apache
4 6 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.34%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.78%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.39%) CICS
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 12 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.17%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.39%) EViews
6 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.56%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.56%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (1.56%) Oracle Financials
3 3 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.17%) ION Anvil
3 3 (1.17%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (1.17%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (1.17%) SAP MDG
4 2 (0.78%) SAP PLM
4 2 (0.78%) SAP VC
5 1 (0.39%) HFM
5 1 (0.39%) Maximo
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.39%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.39%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (15.23%) Azure
2 29 (11.33%) AWS
2 29 (11.33%) Power Platform
3 9 (3.52%) Snowflake
4 7 (2.73%) GCP
5 6 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (2.34%) SaaS
6 5 (1.95%) GitHub
6 5 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.56%) Collibra
8 3 (1.17%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.17%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (1.17%) dbt
8 3 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (1.17%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.17%) Serverless
9 2 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.73%) Firewall
2 3 (1.17%) SSH
3 2 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.78%) DNS
3 2 (0.78%) Internet
3 2 (0.78%) NAS
3 2 (0.78%) SAN
3 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.78%) VoIP
4 1 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.39%) DHCP
4 1 (0.39%) HTTP
4 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.39%) LAN
4 1 (0.39%) Multicast
4 1 (0.39%) Network Security
4 1 (0.39%) VPN
4 1 (0.39%) WAN
4 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.55%) Power BI
2 16 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 12 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (4.69%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.30%) Apache Hive
5 10 (3.91%) Tableau
6 8 (3.13%) Big Data
6 8 (3.13%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.73%) Metadata
8 5 (1.95%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.95%) Star Schema
9 4 (1.56%) Data Mining
10 3 (1.17%) Power Query
10 3 (1.17%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.78%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
11 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.78%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (7.81%) JIRA
2 17 (6.64%) Git
3 11 (4.30%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket Server
4 3 (1.17%) JUnit
4 3 (1.17%) Selenium
5 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.78%) Eclipse
5 2 (0.78%) GitLab
5 2 (0.78%) IntelliJ
5 2 (0.78%) Postman
5 2 (0.78%) RStudio
6 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.39%) Browser DevTools
6 1 (0.39%) Gatling
6 1 (0.39%) Gradle
6 1 (0.39%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.39%) Terragrunt
General
1 137 (53.52%) Finance
2 131 (51.17%) Social Skills
3 44 (17.19%) Banking
4 22 (8.59%) Financial Institution
5 20 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 16 (6.25%) Front Office
7 13 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
7 13 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.91%) Investment Banking
9 8 (3.13%) Back Office
9 8 (3.13%) Marketing
9 8 (3.13%) Police
10 6 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.34%) Legal
11 5 (1.95%) Law
12 4 (1.56%) Retail
13 3 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 84 (32.81%) Analyst
2 46 (17.97%) Business Analyst
3 27 (10.55%) Developer
4 23 (8.98%) Senior
5 18 (7.03%) Lead
6 13 (5.08%) Consultant
6 13 (5.08%) Data Analyst
6 13 (5.08%) Data Engineer
6 13 (5.08%) Java Developer
7 9 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (3.13%) Data Scientist
9 7 (2.73%) IT Analyst
10 6 (2.34%) Project Manager
11 5 (1.95%) Architect
11 5 (1.95%) Financial Analyst
11 5 (1.95%) IT Support
11 5 (1.95%) Operations Analyst
11 5 (1.95%) Security Analyst
11 5 (1.95%) Senior Business Analyst
11 5 (1.95%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.69%) PySpark
2 10 (3.91%) TensorFlow
3 7 (2.73%) Kafka
4 6 (2.34%) REST
4 6 (2.34%) scikit-learn
5 5 (1.95%) Pandas
5 5 (1.95%) Spark Streaming
6 4 (1.56%) .NET
6 4 (1.56%) CSS
6 4 (1.56%) JSON
6 4 (1.56%) XML
7 3 (1.17%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.17%) HTML
7 3 (1.17%) Smart Contracts
7 3 (1.17%) Spring
8 2 (0.78%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.78%) OAuth
8 2 (0.78%) pydantic
8 2 (0.78%) SAP Fiori
8 2 (0.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.59%) Analytical Mindset
2 15 (5.86%) Algorithms
2 15 (5.86%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.30%) Distributed Computing
4 9 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.13%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.73%) Credit Risk
6 7 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.73%) Market Risk
6 7 (2.73%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.34%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.95%) Equities
8 5 (1.95%) Reference Data
9 4 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.56%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.56%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.17%) Blockchain
10 3 (1.17%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.03%) Linux
2 14 (5.47%) Windows
3 8 (3.13%) Unix
4 3 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) AIX
5 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.39%) Solaris
5 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (20.70%) Agile
3 42 (16.41%) Analytics
4 38 (14.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (14.06%) Decision-Making
6 31 (12.11%) Data Analysis
7 30 (11.72%) Business Intelligence
7 30 (11.72%) Collaborative Working
8 29 (11.33%) DevOps
8 29 (11.33%) Risk Management
9 28 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (10.94%) Data Modelling
10 27 (10.55%) Actionable Insight
11 26 (10.16%) Data Science
11 26 (10.16%) User Acceptance Testing
12 25 (9.77%) Project Management
13 24 (9.38%) CI/CD
13 24 (9.38%) Data Governance
13 24 (9.38%) Data Management
14 23 (8.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 65 (25.39%) Python
2 52 (20.31%) SQL
3 22 (8.59%) Java
4 11 (4.30%) Bash
4 11 (4.30%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.13%) C#
5 8 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.13%) R
6 6 (2.34%) C++
7 5 (1.95%) Go
8 4 (1.56%) Scala
8 4 (1.56%) VBA
9 3 (1.17%) ABAP
9 3 (1.17%) DAML
9 3 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.78%) C
10 2 (0.78%) PromQL
10 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.39%) COBOL
11 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (16.41%) Degree
2 32 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 23 (8.98%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 6 (2.34%) PhD
7 4 (1.56%) CISA
7 4 (1.56%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.17%) PMP
9 2 (0.78%) CBAP
9 2 (0.78%) CCNP
9 2 (0.78%) CEH
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.78%) CRISC
9 2 (0.78%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (0.78%) OSCP
10 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.39%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.03%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.30%) QA
3 9 (3.52%) GDPR
3 9 (3.52%) PMO
4 7 (2.73%) NIST
5 4 (1.56%) COBIT
6 3 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.78%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.78%) MiFID
7 2 (0.78%) SEPA
7 2 (0.78%) SLA
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.39%) GAAP
8 1 (0.39%) GxP
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.39%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (1.56%) Docker
2 3 (1.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.39%) OpenAM
3 1 (0.39%) OpenDJ
3 1 (0.39%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 11 (4.30%) Kubernetes
1 11 (4.30%) Terraform
2 4 (1.56%) Ansible
3 2 (0.78%) Argo
3 2 (0.78%) CASB
3 2 (0.78%) Grafana
3 2 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.78%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.39%) Cisco LMS
4 1 (0.39%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.39%) Packer
4 1 (0.39%) QRadar
4 1 (0.39%) SCCM
4 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.39%) yum
4 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 39 (15.23%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.25%) Oracle
3 9 (3.52%) SAP
4 8 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.34%) Google
5 6 (2.34%) Splunk
6 5 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.95%) UiPath
6 5 (1.95%) Workday
7 4 (1.56%) Adobe
7 4 (1.56%) Cisco
7 4 (1.56%) Databricks
7 4 (1.56%) VMware
8 3 (1.17%) Alteryx
8 3 (1.17%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.17%) Sun
9 2 (0.78%) Blue Prism
9 2 (0.78%) Marketo
9 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.78%) Palantir