Analytical Thinking Contracts in the City of London

Analytical Thinking
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 98 147
Rank change year-on-year -16 +49 +36
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 12 25 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.65% 1.21% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.32% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 10
10th Percentile £450 £572 £631
25th Percentile £500 £665 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £705 £750
Median % change year-on-year -25.53% -6.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £710 £800
90th Percentile £671 - £804
Central London median daily rate £525 £705 £750
% change year-on-year -25.53% -6.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Analytical Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,737 1,894 2,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.25% 91.99% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,134 1,261 2,017
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 15
10th Percentile £17.89 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £19.79 £14.75
Median hourly rate £28.33 £26.63 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -3.18% -36.40%
75th Percentile £47.00 £82.19 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +8.55% -23.49% -17.65%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in the City of London

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in the City of London over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the City of London

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Analytical Thinking
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 1 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 3 (25.00%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Alation
4 1 (8.33%) dbt
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) KDB
2 1 (8.33%) Data Vault
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) IntelliJ
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (75.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Retail
5 1 (8.33%) Law
5 1 (8.33%) Legal
5 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) KDB Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) User Experience Researcher
3 1 (8.33%) Application Security Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Security Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Programme Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Technical Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior User Experience Researcher
3 1 (8.33%) Supplier Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Programme Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Transformation Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
1 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) OAuth
2 1 (8.33%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
2 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (25.00%) Storytelling
3 2 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Data Science
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) High Availability
3 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 2 (16.67%) Qualitative Research
3 2 (16.67%) Quantitative Research
3 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Usability Testing
3 2 (16.67%) User Experience
3 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Bash
3 2 (16.67%) C++
3 2 (16.67%) Go
3 2 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (16.67%) PromQL
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) PMO
2 1 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Grafana
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (8.33%) Qualtrics