Data Analysis Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Analysis
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 42 54
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 71 85 83
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.94% 4.45% 3.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.40% 4.83% 3.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 46 50
10th Percentile £348 £430 £325
25th Percentile £413 £473 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £561 £571
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% -1.71% +2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £708
90th Percentile £778 £704 £744
Central London median daily rate £533 £550 £559
% change year-on-year -3.18% -1.52% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £19.08 - -
25th Percentile £21.87 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -
75th Percentile £38.50 - -
90th Percentile £43.90 - -
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year +27.27% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Analysis 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,612 1,759 2,184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.51% 92.00% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,131 1,071 1,563
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £765 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.12% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £132.40 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -21.43%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Analysis job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Analysis

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analysis in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Analysis

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Analysis in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Analysis in the City of London

Data Analysis
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 4 (5.63%) Confluence
2 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (19.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (5.63%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.41%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.41%) HFM
1 1 (1.41%) Loan IQ
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (1.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
1 1 (1.41%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.41%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.72%) Power Platform
2 6 (8.45%) AWS
3 5 (7.04%) Azure
4 3 (4.23%) GCP
4 3 (4.23%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.82%) GitHub
5 2 (2.82%) IBM Watson
5 2 (2.82%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.41%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.41%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.41%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) ATM
1 1 (1.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.72%) Power BI
2 9 (12.68%) Tableau
3 4 (5.63%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.63%) Star Schema
4 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.82%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (2.82%) MySQL
5 2 (2.82%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.41%) Informix
6 1 (1.41%) Looker
6 1 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.41%) Power Query
6 1 (1.41%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.41%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 6 (8.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) Git
2 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.41%) JUnit
General
1 38 (53.52%) Finance
2 36 (50.70%) Social Skills
3 30 (42.25%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (26.76%) Banking
5 8 (11.27%) Front Office
5 8 (11.27%) Investment Banking
5 8 (11.27%) Legal
6 4 (5.63%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.82%) Marketing
8 2 (2.82%) Retail
8 2 (2.82%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.41%) Back Office
9 1 (1.41%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (57.75%) Analyst
2 25 (35.21%) Business Analyst
3 16 (22.54%) Data Analyst
4 8 (11.27%) Senior
5 7 (9.86%) Data Scientist
6 5 (7.04%) Finance Business Analyst
6 5 (7.04%) Financial Analyst
6 5 (7.04%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Banking Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (4.23%) Developer
7 3 (4.23%) Lead
7 3 (4.23%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) Business Finance Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) HR Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) HR Business Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) MiFID Business Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) PMO Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) SAP Analyst
8 2 (2.82%) SAP HR Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.04%) scikit-learn
2 3 (4.23%) Matplotlib
2 3 (4.23%) Pandas
2 3 (4.23%) Seaborn
3 2 (2.82%) NumPy
3 2 (2.82%) PyTorch
3 2 (2.82%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.41%) CSS
4 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.41%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.41%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.41%) HTML
4 1 (1.41%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.41%) Middleware
4 1 (1.41%) React
4 1 (1.41%) Spring
4 1 (1.41%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.41%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.41%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.86%) Algorithms
2 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (5.63%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (5.63%) Fixed Income
4 4 (5.63%) Management Information System
5 3 (4.23%) Derivative
5 3 (4.23%) Equities
6 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.41%) Clustering
7 1 (1.41%) CMDB
7 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.41%) DTCC
7 1 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.41%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.41%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.41%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Unix
2 1 (1.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (33.80%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (25.35%) Agile
2 18 (25.35%) Analytics
3 17 (23.94%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (23.94%) Data Modelling
3 17 (23.94%) Visualisation
4 16 (22.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (19.72%) Actionable Insight
5 14 (19.72%) Validation
6 13 (18.31%) Decision-Making
7 12 (16.90%) Data Governance
7 12 (16.90%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (15.49%) AI
9 10 (14.08%) Business Analysis
9 10 (14.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (12.68%) Machine Learning
10 9 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (11.27%) Process Improvement
11 8 (11.27%) Project Management
11 8 (11.27%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 23 (32.39%) SQL
2 17 (23.94%) Python
3 4 (5.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.41%) Java
4 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (12.68%) Degree
2 3 (4.23%) SC Cleared
2 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.82%) CBAP
3 2 (2.82%) CFA
4 1 (1.41%) IIBA
4 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.41%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (23.94%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.86%) QA
3 5 (7.04%) MiFID
3 5 (7.04%) PMO
4 4 (5.63%) GDPR
5 2 (2.82%) Basel III
5 2 (2.82%) EMIR
5 2 (2.82%) SLA
6 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.41%) GAAP
6 1 (1.41%) IFRS
6 1 (1.41%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 1 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.41%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (1.41%) Kibana
1 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.41%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.04%) Oracle
3 3 (4.23%) Google
3 3 (4.23%) Murex
3 3 (4.23%) SAP
4 2 (2.82%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.82%) Cognos
4 2 (2.82%) IBM
4 2 (2.82%) Sage
5 1 (1.41%) Ariba
5 1 (1.41%) Databricks
5 1 (1.41%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.41%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.41%) Solace
5 1 (1.41%) Tagetik
5 1 (1.41%) Talend
5 1 (1.41%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.41%) Workday
5 1 (1.41%) Xceptor