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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 46 56
Rank change year-on-year -12 +10 +32
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 67 77 81
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.53% 4.24% 3.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.96% 4.64% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 38 53
10th Percentile £370 £425 £321
25th Percentile £425 £486 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +7.96% -8.09%
75th Percentile £638 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £716 £744
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
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 1,690 1,661 2,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.99% 91.46% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 989 1,531
10th Percentile £351 £363 £350
25th Percentile £426 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £776 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.40% -6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 14
10th Percentile £20.06 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.06 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +28.57% -10.00%
75th Percentile £42.65 £64.56 £45.06
90th Percentile £52.64 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -17.60%

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 10 February 2026.

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 10 February 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 3 (4.48%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (17.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.48%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.99%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.49%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (2.99%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.49%) Actimize
2 1 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) HFM
2 1 (1.49%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.49%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 16 (23.88%) Power Platform
2 7 (10.45%) AWS
3 6 (8.96%) Azure
4 4 (5.97%) GitHub
5 3 (4.48%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (4.48%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (4.48%) IBM Watson
5 3 (4.48%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.99%) Serverless
6 2 (2.99%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.49%) GCP
7 1 (1.49%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.49%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (23.88%) Power BI
2 10 (14.93%) Tableau
3 4 (5.97%) Star Schema
4 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.49%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.49%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.49%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.49%) Informix
6 1 (1.49%) Looker
6 1 (1.49%) MySQL
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.49%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.49%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) JIRA
2 3 (4.48%) Git
3 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
General
1 36 (53.73%) Finance
2 30 (44.78%) Social Skills
3 27 (40.30%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (29.85%) Banking
5 10 (14.93%) Front Office
6 9 (13.43%) Investment Banking
7 7 (10.45%) Legal
8 5 (7.46%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (5.97%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (2.99%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.49%) Advertising
12 1 (1.49%) Back Office
12 1 (1.49%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
12 1 (1.49%) Marketing
12 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
12 1 (1.49%) Retail
12 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (50.75%) Analyst
2 21 (31.34%) Business Analyst
3 13 (19.40%) Data Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Data Scientist
4 7 (10.45%) Senior
5 6 (8.96%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (7.46%) Lead
7 4 (5.97%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (5.97%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Consultant
8 3 (4.48%) Developer
8 3 (4.48%) Finance Business Analyst
8 3 (4.48%) Financial Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Banking Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Business Finance Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) Data Consultant
9 2 (2.99%) HR Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) HR Business Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) SAP Analyst
9 2 (2.99%) SAP HR Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.96%) scikit-learn
2 4 (5.97%) Matplotlib
2 4 (5.97%) Seaborn
3 3 (4.48%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (4.48%) Middleware
3 3 (4.48%) NumPy
3 3 (4.48%) Pandas
3 3 (4.48%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.48%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.99%) JMS
4 2 (2.99%) Kafka
4 2 (2.99%) PySpark
4 2 (2.99%) REST
5 1 (1.49%) CSS
5 1 (1.49%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.49%) HTML
5 1 (1.49%) LangGraph
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.49%) RESTful
5 1 (1.49%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Algorithms
2 6 (8.96%) Equities
2 6 (8.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (7.46%) Fixed Income
3 5 (7.46%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.97%) Derivative
5 3 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.49%) Clustering
7 1 (1.49%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.49%) DTCC
7 1 (1.49%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.49%) Reference Data
7 1 (1.49%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (28.36%) Analytics
1 19 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (25.37%) Agile
2 17 (25.37%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (23.88%) Data Modelling
4 15 (22.39%) Validation
5 14 (20.90%) Visualisation
6 13 (19.40%) AI
7 12 (17.91%) Actionable Insight
7 12 (17.91%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (16.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (14.93%) Business Analysis
9 10 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (13.43%) Machine Learning
10 9 (13.43%) Process Improvement
10 9 (13.43%) Roadmaps
11 8 (11.94%) Data Governance
11 8 (11.94%) Data Visualisation
12 7 (10.45%) Natural Language Processing
Programming Languages
1 26 (38.81%) SQL
2 23 (34.33%) Python
3 2 (2.99%) Java
4 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.49%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (11.94%) Degree
2 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.99%) CFA
2 2 (2.99%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.99%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.49%) CBAP
3 1 (1.49%) IIBA
3 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.39%) Data Quality
2 8 (11.94%) QA
3 4 (5.97%) MiFID
3 4 (5.97%) PMO
4 2 (2.99%) Basel III
4 2 (2.99%) EMIR
4 2 (2.99%) GDPR
5 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.49%) GAAP
5 1 (1.49%) IFRS
5 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.49%) Docker
1 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Grafana
1 2 (2.99%) Terraform
2 1 (1.49%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (1.49%) Kibana
2 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.49%) logstash
Vendors
1 6 (8.96%) Databricks
1 6 (8.96%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.46%) Oracle
3 4 (5.97%) Google
4 3 (4.48%) Bloomberg
4 3 (4.48%) Cognos
4 3 (4.48%) IBM
4 3 (4.48%) Murex
4 3 (4.48%) Sage
4 3 (4.48%) SAP
5 2 (2.99%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.99%) Charles River
5 2 (2.99%) Foundry
5 2 (2.99%) Informatica
5 2 (2.99%) Palantir
5 2 (2.99%) Splunk
6 1 (1.49%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.49%) Solace
6 1 (1.49%) Talend
6 1 (1.49%) Xceptor