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 5 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 31 59
Rank change year-on-year -40 +28 +23
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 67 108 74
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.75% 5.94% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.20% 6.33% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 70 45
10th Percentile £422 £385 £342
25th Percentile £481 £405 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% +4.76% -14.63%
75th Percentile £684 £700 £588
90th Percentile £795 £725 £720
Central London median daily rate £583 £563 £525
% change year-on-year +3.56% +7.14% -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 2,093 1,705 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.78% 93.84% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 1,093 1,349
10th Percentile £366 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £552 £560
% change year-on-year -0.36% -1.43% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 16
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.21
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +16.43% -23.93%
75th Percentile £42.13 £56.75 £40.46
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £64.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -24.72% +20.37% -22.86%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 5 (7.46%) Confluence
2 3 (4.48%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.49%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.49%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.97%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (4.48%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.49%) Actimize
2 1 (1.49%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.49%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.49%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 12 (17.91%) Azure
1 12 (17.91%) Power Platform
2 8 (11.94%) AWS
3 5 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (4.48%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (4.48%) GCP
4 3 (4.48%) GitHub
4 3 (4.48%) Serverless
5 2 (2.99%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.99%) Collibra
5 2 (2.99%) Google Analytics
5 2 (2.99%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon Neptune
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.49%) IBM Watson
6 1 (1.49%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.49%) 2G
1 1 (1.49%) 3G
1 1 (1.49%) 4G
1 1 (1.49%) 5G
1 1 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.49%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.91%) Power BI
2 6 (8.96%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.96%) Tableau
3 5 (7.46%) Metadata
3 5 (7.46%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.99%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.99%) GIS
4 2 (2.99%) Neo4j
5 1 (1.49%) Big Data
5 1 (1.49%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.49%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.49%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.49%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.49%) QGIS
5 1 (1.49%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) JIRA
2 4 (5.97%) Git
General
1 28 (41.79%) Finance
2 21 (31.34%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (28.36%) Banking
3 19 (28.36%) Social Skills
4 6 (8.96%) Front Office
5 5 (7.46%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.48%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.48%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.99%) Back Office
7 2 (2.99%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.49%) Automotive
8 1 (1.49%) Legal
8 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.49%) Military
8 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.49%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (52.24%) Analyst
2 18 (26.87%) Business Analyst
3 11 (16.42%) Data Analyst
4 6 (8.96%) Developer
5 5 (7.46%) C# Developer
5 5 (7.46%) Data Scientist
5 5 (7.46%) Risk Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Lead
6 4 (5.97%) Senior
6 4 (5.97%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Business Systems Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Electronics Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) IT Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.99%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (2.99%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.46%) .NET
1 5 (7.46%) .NET Framework
1 5 (7.46%) Kafka
1 5 (7.46%) PySpark
1 5 (7.46%) scikit-learn
2 3 (4.48%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (4.48%) JMS
2 3 (4.48%) Middleware
2 3 (4.48%) PyTorch
2 3 (4.48%) REST
2 3 (4.48%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.99%) NumPy
3 2 (2.99%) Pandas
3 2 (2.99%) React
4 1 (1.49%) GraphX
4 1 (1.49%) JSON
4 1 (1.49%) Matplotlib
4 1 (1.49%) NetworkX
4 1 (1.49%) Seaborn
4 1 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Algorithms
1 6 (8.96%) Equities
2 5 (7.46%) Derivative
3 3 (4.48%) Credit Risk
3 3 (4.48%) Fixed Income
3 3 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.48%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.99%) Market Risk
4 2 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.49%) CMDB
5 1 (1.49%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.49%) PMI
5 1 (1.49%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Windows
1 5 (7.46%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
2 2 (2.99%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (32.84%) Analytics
2 17 (25.37%) Agile
2 17 (25.37%) Validation
3 15 (22.39%) Business Intelligence
3 15 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 14 (20.90%) Data Modelling
5 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (17.91%) AI
7 10 (14.93%) Requirements Gathering
8 9 (13.43%) Machine Learning
9 8 (11.94%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (11.94%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (11.94%) Visualisation
10 7 (10.45%) Decision-Making
10 7 (10.45%) Migration
10 7 (10.45%) Translating Business Requirements
11 6 (8.96%) Data Governance
11 6 (8.96%) Data Migration
11 6 (8.96%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 31 (46.27%) SQL
2 22 (32.84%) Python
3 5 (7.46%) C#
3 5 (7.46%) PL/SQL
3 5 (7.46%) T-SQL
4 3 (4.48%) Java
5 2 (2.99%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.49%) Cypher
6 1 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.49%) Gremlin
6 1 (1.49%) Scala
6 1 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (7.46%) Degree
2 3 (4.48%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.49%) CBAP
4 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.49%) IIBA
4 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (19.40%) Data Quality
2 12 (17.91%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.99%) GAAP
3 2 (2.99%) IFRS
4 1 (1.49%) Basel III
4 1 (1.49%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) P3O
4 1 (1.49%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.99%) Docker
1 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Grafana
1 3 (4.48%) Terraform
2 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.49%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (11.94%) Databricks
2 7 (10.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.45%) Oracle
3 5 (7.46%) Citrix
4 3 (4.48%) AppDynamics
4 3 (4.48%) Bloomberg
4 3 (4.48%) Charles River
4 3 (4.48%) Foundry
4 3 (4.48%) Google
4 3 (4.48%) Palantir
4 3 (4.48%) Splunk
5 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.49%) Apple
6 1 (1.49%) Cognos
6 1 (1.49%) IBM
6 1 (1.49%) Informatica
6 1 (1.49%) Murex
6 1 (1.49%) Sage
6 1 (1.49%) SAP
6 1 (1.49%) Siemens