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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 42 61
Rank change year-on-year -7 +19 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 81 97 86
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.51% 4.54% 3.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 4.95% 3.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 55 56
10th Percentile £313 £410 £338
25th Percentile £384 £476 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £563 £571
Median % change year-on-year -12.67% -1.49% +1.51%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £690
90th Percentile £738 £713 £741
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £571
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.68% +3.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £29.70 - -
25th Percentile £34.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +104.55% - -
75th Percentile £55.63 £50.38 -
90th Percentile £60.50 £67.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £31.75 -
% change year-on-year +41.73% - -

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 1,644 1,961 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.49% 91.81% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,209 1,674
10th Percentile £330 £370 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £754 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) SAS
2 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (19.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.94%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.23%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.23%) HFM
1 1 (1.23%) OpenText MBPM
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle BPM
1 1 (1.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.99%) Power Platform
2 8 (9.88%) Azure
3 6 (7.41%) AWS
4 3 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (3.70%) GCP
4 3 (3.70%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.47%) GitHub
5 2 (2.47%) IBM Watson
5 2 (2.47%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.23%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.23%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.23%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) ATM
1 1 (1.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.99%) Power BI
2 7 (8.64%) Tableau
3 6 (7.41%) Relational Database
4 5 (6.17%) SQL Server
4 5 (6.17%) Star Schema
5 3 (3.70%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.47%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.47%) KDB
6 2 (2.47%) MySQL
6 2 (2.47%) Power Query
6 2 (2.47%) Spatial Data
6 2 (2.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.23%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.23%) Informix
7 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (7.41%) JIRA
2 2 (2.47%) Eclipse
2 2 (2.47%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.23%) Git
3 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.23%) JUnit
General
1 45 (55.56%) Finance
2 37 (45.68%) Social Skills
3 28 (34.57%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (18.52%) Banking
5 6 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (7.41%) Legal
5 6 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.17%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.17%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.70%) Front Office
7 3 (3.70%) Spanish Language
8 2 (2.47%) Marketing
8 2 (2.47%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.47%) Retail
9 1 (1.23%) Back Office
9 1 (1.23%) Billing
9 1 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.23%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (54.32%) Analyst
2 24 (29.63%) Business Analyst
3 19 (23.46%) Data Analyst
4 10 (12.35%) Senior
5 8 (9.88%) Data Scientist
5 8 (9.88%) Developer
5 8 (9.88%) Financial Analyst
6 5 (6.17%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (4.94%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (4.94%) Finance Business Analyst
7 4 (4.94%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Data Manager
9 2 (2.47%) Consultant
9 2 (2.47%) Financial Business Analyst
9 2 (2.47%) SAP Business Analyst
9 2 (2.47%) Senior Business Analyst
9 2 (2.47%) Senior Data Analyst
9 2 (2.47%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.47%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.17%) scikit-learn
2 3 (3.70%) Matplotlib
2 3 (3.70%) Middleware
2 3 (3.70%) Pandas
2 3 (3.70%) Seaborn
2 3 (3.70%) Spring
3 2 (2.47%) NumPy
3 2 (2.47%) PyTorch
3 2 (2.47%) Spring Boot
3 2 (2.47%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.23%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.23%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.23%) JPA
4 1 (1.23%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.23%) React
4 1 (1.23%) RESTful
4 1 (1.23%) Spring Batch
4 1 (1.23%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.64%) Algorithms
3 6 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.47%) Equities
5 2 (2.47%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.23%) ASIC
6 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.23%) Clustering
6 1 (1.23%) CMDB
6 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.23%) Derivative
6 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.23%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.94%) Unix
2 3 (3.70%) Linux
3 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.86%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (29.63%) Analytics
3 23 (28.40%) Data Modelling
4 21 (25.93%) Visualisation
5 20 (24.69%) Agile
6 19 (23.46%) Business Intelligence
7 16 (19.75%) Decision-Making
7 16 (19.75%) Validation
8 14 (17.28%) Actionable Insight
8 14 (17.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (16.05%) Data Governance
10 12 (14.81%) Migration
10 12 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (13.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (12.35%) AI
12 10 (12.35%) Business Analysis
12 10 (12.35%) Machine Learning
13 9 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
13 9 (11.11%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 28 (34.57%) SQL
2 24 (29.63%) Python
3 7 (8.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (4.94%) Java
5 2 (2.47%) C++
5 2 (2.47%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.47%) VBA
6 1 (1.23%) C#
6 1 (1.23%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.23%) R
6 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (16.05%) Degree
2 5 (6.17%) CBAP
3 4 (4.94%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.94%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.47%) CFA
5 1 (1.23%) ACCA
5 1 (1.23%) IIBA
5 1 (1.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.88%) QA
3 4 (4.94%) GDPR
4 3 (3.70%) PMO
5 2 (2.47%) MiFID
5 2 (2.47%) SLA
6 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.23%) Basel III
6 1 (1.23%) EMIR
6 1 (1.23%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.23%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (1.23%) Kibana
1 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.23%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.17%) Oracle
3 3 (3.70%) Google
3 3 (3.70%) SAP
4 2 (2.47%) Cognos
4 2 (2.47%) Databricks
4 2 (2.47%) Dataiku
4 2 (2.47%) IBM
4 2 (2.47%) Sage
5 1 (1.23%) Ariba
5 1 (1.23%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.23%) Duck Creek
5 1 (1.23%) Hyperion
5 1 (1.23%) Informatica
5 1 (1.23%) OpenText
5 1 (1.23%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.23%) Tagetik
5 1 (1.23%) Talend
5 1 (1.23%) TIBCO