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 28 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 33 57
Rank change year-on-year -40 +24 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 64 105 72
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.63% 5.98% 3.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.07% 6.37% 3.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 67 42
10th Percentile £421 £394 £341
25th Percentile £509 £410 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £575 £524
Median % change year-on-year +6.52% +9.79% -14.84%
75th Percentile £688 £709 £588
90th Percentile £793 £725 £721
Central London median daily rate £590 £575 £525
% change year-on-year +2.61% +9.52% -13.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £15.67 £37.29 -
25th Percentile £15.93 £41.28 £76.25
Median hourly rate £16.62 £48.58 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.80% -37.32% +24.00%
75th Percentile £17.05 £56.48 £78.75
90th Percentile £17.16 £60.84 -
Central London median hourly rate £16.62 £49.50 £77.50
% change year-on-year -66.43% -36.13% +24.00%

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 2,083 1,648 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.76% 93.80% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 1,053 1,355
10th Percentile £364 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 19 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.96 £20.04
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.21 £20.36
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.83 £52.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £68.75 £67.35
Central London median hourly rate £26.39 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -18.82% +16.86% -20.54%

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 28 June 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
Contract 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 Data Analysis within the City of London region over the 6 months to 28 June 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £650 -
Data Analysis
Central 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 (6.25%) Confluence
2 3 (4.69%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (4.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (4.69%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.56%) Actimize
2 1 (1.56%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.56%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.75%) Power Platform
2 10 (15.63%) Azure
3 8 (12.50%) AWS
4 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (4.69%) GCP
6 3 (4.69%) GitHub
6 3 (4.69%) Serverless
7 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
7 2 (3.13%) Collibra
7 2 (3.13%) Google Analytics
7 2 (3.13%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.56%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.56%) IBM Watson
8 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) 2G
1 1 (1.56%) 3G
1 1 (1.56%) 4G
1 1 (1.56%) 5G
1 1 (1.56%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.75%) Power BI
2 6 (9.38%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.38%) Tableau
3 5 (7.81%) Metadata
3 5 (7.81%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.13%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.13%) GIS
5 1 (1.56%) Big Data
5 1 (1.56%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.56%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.56%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.56%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.56%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.56%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.56%) QGIS
5 1 (1.56%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) JIRA
2 3 (4.69%) Git
General
1 28 (43.75%) Finance
2 19 (29.69%) Banking
2 19 (29.69%) Social Skills
3 18 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.94%) Front Office
5 6 (9.38%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.69%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.13%) Back Office
7 2 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.56%) Automotive
8 1 (1.56%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.56%) Legal
8 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.56%) Retail
8 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.56%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (51.56%) Analyst
2 17 (26.56%) Business Analyst
3 10 (15.63%) Data Analyst
4 6 (9.38%) Developer
5 5 (7.81%) C# Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Risk Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Data Scientist
6 4 (6.25%) Lead
6 4 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Business Systems Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) Electronics Engineer
7 3 (4.69%) IT Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Senior
8 2 (3.13%) Principal Consultant
8 2 (3.13%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.13%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) .NET
1 5 (7.81%) .NET Framework
1 5 (7.81%) Kafka
1 5 (7.81%) PySpark
2 4 (6.25%) scikit-learn
3 3 (4.69%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (4.69%) JMS
3 3 (4.69%) Middleware
3 3 (4.69%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.69%) REST
3 3 (4.69%) TensorFlow
4 2 (3.13%) React
5 1 (1.56%) GraphX
5 1 (1.56%) JSON
5 1 (1.56%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.56%) NetworkX
5 1 (1.56%) NumPy
5 1 (1.56%) Pandas
5 1 (1.56%) Seaborn
5 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Algorithms
1 6 (9.38%) Equities
2 5 (7.81%) Derivative
3 4 (6.25%) Fixed Income
3 4 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.69%) Credit Risk
4 3 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.13%) Market Risk
5 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.56%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.56%) PMI
6 1 (1.56%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Windows
1 5 (7.81%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (31.25%) Analytics
2 18 (28.13%) Validation
3 16 (25.00%) Agile
4 15 (23.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (21.88%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (20.31%) Data Modelling
7 12 (18.75%) AI
7 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (12.50%) Machine Learning
8 8 (12.50%) Migration
8 8 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
8 8 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (10.94%) Data Migration
9 7 (10.94%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (10.94%) Data Validation
9 7 (10.94%) Visualisation
10 6 (9.38%) Data Governance
10 6 (9.38%) Data Mapping
10 6 (9.38%) Decision-Making
10 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 31 (48.44%) SQL
2 21 (32.81%) Python
3 5 (7.81%) C#
3 5 (7.81%) PL/SQL
3 5 (7.81%) T-SQL
4 3 (4.69%) Java
5 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.56%) Scala
6 1 (1.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (6.25%) Degree
2 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.56%) CBAP
4 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.31%) Data Quality
2 11 (17.19%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) GAAP
3 2 (3.13%) IFRS
4 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.56%) Basel III
4 1 (1.56%) GDPR
4 1 (1.56%) P3O
4 1 (1.56%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Docker
1 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) Grafana
1 3 (4.69%) Terraform
2 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (12.50%) Databricks
2 7 (10.94%) Oracle
3 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.81%) Citrix
5 3 (4.69%) AppDynamics
5 3 (4.69%) Bloomberg
5 3 (4.69%) Charles River
5 3 (4.69%) Foundry
5 3 (4.69%) Google
5 3 (4.69%) Palantir
5 3 (4.69%) Splunk
6 2 (3.13%) Murex
6 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.56%) Apple
7 1 (1.56%) Cognos
7 1 (1.56%) IBM
7 1 (1.56%) Informatica
7 1 (1.56%) Sage
7 1 (1.56%) SAP
7 1 (1.56%) Siemens