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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 47 67
Rank change year-on-year +9 +20 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 99 88 85
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.75% 4.17% 3.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.12% 4.55% 3.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 56 54
10th Percentile £363 £377 £333
25th Percentile £404 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £559
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -4.88% -2.87%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £693
90th Percentile £750 £700 £724
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £29.70 - -
25th Percentile £34.50 £76.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £77.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.94% +24.00% +89.39%
75th Percentile £55.63 £78.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £60.50 - -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £59.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -24.37% -4.80% +89.39%

All Process and 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 1,617 1,933 2,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.96% 91.65% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,123 1,187 1,740
10th Percentile £329 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +1.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £758 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -30.13%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £32.75
% change year-on-year -21.43% +6.87% -24.26%

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

Data Analysis
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

Data Analysis
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 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in the City of London

Data Analysis
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

Data Analysis
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 6 November 2025.

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 3 (3.03%) Confluence
2 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.01%) SAS
2 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (4.04%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.01%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Aladdin
1 3 (3.03%) OpenText MBPM
1 3 (3.03%) Oracle BPM
2 2 (2.02%) HFM
3 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.01%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.15%) Power Platform
2 11 (11.11%) Azure
3 4 (4.04%) AWS
3 4 (4.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (4.04%) Snowflake
4 3 (3.03%) GCP
5 1 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.01%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.01%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.01%) GitHub
5 1 (1.01%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.01%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.01%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) ATM
1 1 (1.01%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.15%) Power BI
2 14 (14.14%) SQL Server
3 8 (8.08%) Star Schema
4 7 (7.07%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (5.05%) Tableau
6 4 (4.04%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.03%) KDB
7 3 (3.03%) Power Query
8 2 (2.02%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (2.02%) MySQL
8 2 (2.02%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.02%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (2.02%) Spatial Data
8 2 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.01%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.01%) Informix
9 1 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (1.01%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (6.06%) JIRA
2 2 (2.02%) Eclipse
2 2 (2.02%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.01%) Git
3 1 (1.01%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.01%) JUnit
General
1 56 (56.57%) Finance
2 47 (47.47%) Social Skills
3 35 (35.35%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.13%) Banking
5 9 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 9 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (8.08%) Front Office
6 8 (8.08%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (7.07%) Legal
8 5 (5.05%) Financial Institution
9 4 (4.04%) Investment Banking
10 3 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (3.03%) Marketing
10 3 (3.03%) Retail
10 3 (3.03%) Spanish Language
11 2 (2.02%) Public Sector
12 1 (1.01%) Billing
12 1 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (1.01%) Private Banking
12 1 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (54.55%) Analyst
2 32 (32.32%) Business Analyst
3 20 (20.20%) Data Analyst
4 18 (18.18%) Developer
5 11 (11.11%) Financial Analyst
6 9 (9.09%) Senior
7 8 (8.08%) Consultant
7 8 (8.08%) Lead
8 7 (7.07%) Data Business Analyst
8 7 (7.07%) Finance Business Analyst
9 5 (5.05%) Applications Developer
9 5 (5.05%) Data Scientist
9 5 (5.05%) Lead Consultant
10 4 (4.04%) Automation Developer
10 4 (4.04%) Business Consultant
10 4 (4.04%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 4 (4.04%) Lead Business Analyst
11 3 (3.03%) BPM Developer
11 3 (3.03%) Charles River Consultant
11 3 (3.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.09%) .NET
2 3 (3.03%) Middleware
2 3 (3.03%) Spring
3 2 (2.02%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (2.02%) Pandas
3 2 (2.02%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.02%) WPF
4 1 (1.01%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.01%) DCOM
4 1 (1.01%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.01%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.01%) HTML
4 1 (1.01%) JPA
4 1 (1.01%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.01%) React
4 1 (1.01%) RESTful
4 1 (1.01%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.01%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.01%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.05%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.03%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.03%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.02%) Pricing Data
4 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.01%) ASIC
5 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.01%) CMDB
5 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.01%) Equities
5 1 (1.01%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.01%) Multi-touch
5 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.04%) Unix
2 3 (3.03%) Linux
2 3 (3.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (32.32%) Agile
2 27 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (26.26%) Data Modelling
4 22 (22.22%) Analytics
4 22 (22.22%) Decision-Making
5 18 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 17 (17.17%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (17.17%) Validation
6 17 (17.17%) Visualisation
7 16 (16.16%) Business Analysis
7 16 (16.16%) User Acceptance Testing
7 16 (16.16%) User Stories
8 15 (15.15%) Scrum
9 14 (14.14%) Collaborative Working
10 13 (13.13%) Project Management
10 13 (13.13%) Requirements Gathering
11 12 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 11 (11.11%) Data Governance
12 11 (11.11%) Migration
12 11 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (43.43%) SQL
2 25 (25.25%) Python
3 9 (9.09%) C#
4 8 (8.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (4.04%) Java
5 4 (4.04%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.04%) VBA
6 3 (3.03%) C++
7 2 (2.02%) R
8 1 (1.01%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (16.16%) Degree
2 5 (5.05%) CBAP
2 5 (5.05%) SC Cleared
2 5 (5.05%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.02%) ACCA
3 2 (2.02%) CFA
4 1 (1.01%) CIMA
4 1 (1.01%) IIBA
4 1 (1.01%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.01%) PhD
4 1 (1.01%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.20%) Data Quality
2 10 (10.10%) QA
3 7 (7.07%) MiFID
4 6 (6.06%) EMIR
5 4 (4.04%) PMO
6 3 (3.03%) GDPR
7 2 (2.02%) SLA
8 1 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 1 (1.01%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.01%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (1.01%) Kibana
1 1 (1.01%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.01%) logstash
Vendors
1 20 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.15%) Oracle
3 3 (3.03%) Charles River
3 3 (3.03%) Databricks
3 3 (3.03%) Dataiku
3 3 (3.03%) OpenText
4 2 (2.02%) FIS
4 2 (2.02%) Hyperion
4 2 (2.02%) Tagetik
4 2 (2.02%) UiPath
5 1 (1.01%) Adobe
5 1 (1.01%) Ariba
5 1 (1.01%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.01%) Google
5 1 (1.01%) Informatica
5 1 (1.01%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (1.01%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.01%) SAP
5 1 (1.01%) Talend
5 1 (1.01%) TIBCO