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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 51 60
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 101 86 92
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.96% 4.06% 3.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.31% 4.42% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 56 55
10th Percentile £363 £381 £335
25th Percentile £404 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -3.41% -3.30%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £695
90th Percentile £725 £700 £736
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 £76.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £77.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +24.00% +89.39%
75th Percentile £63.75 £78.75 £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £62.50 £59.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.04% -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 1,601 1,946 2,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.51% 91.88% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,200 1,800
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £764 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +54.55% -36.40%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.79%

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 19 October 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
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 2 (1.98%) Confluence
2 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.99%) SAS
2 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (20.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (4.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.95%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.99%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Aladdin
2 3 (2.97%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (2.97%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.98%) HFM
4 1 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.86%) Power Platform
2 12 (11.88%) Azure
3 4 (3.96%) AWS
3 4 (3.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (3.96%) Snowflake
4 3 (2.97%) GCP
5 1 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.99%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.99%) GitHub
5 1 (0.99%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.99%) Power Automate
5 1 (0.99%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.86%) Power BI
1 14 (13.86%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.92%) Star Schema
3 7 (6.93%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (3.96%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.96%) Tableau
7 3 (2.97%) KDB
7 3 (2.97%) Power Query
8 2 (1.98%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.98%) MySQL
8 2 (1.98%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.98%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.98%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.98%) Spatial Data
8 2 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.99%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.99%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.99%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (4.95%) JIRA
2 2 (1.98%) Eclipse
2 2 (1.98%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.99%) Git
3 1 (0.99%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.99%) JUnit
General
1 60 (59.41%) Finance
2 48 (47.52%) Social Skills
3 31 (30.69%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.89%) Banking
5 10 (9.90%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (8.91%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (7.92%) Front Office
7 8 (7.92%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.95%) Legal
9 4 (3.96%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.96%) Marketing
9 4 (3.96%) Retail
10 3 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.97%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.97%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.98%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.98%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.99%) Billing
12 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 58 (57.43%) Analyst
2 35 (34.65%) Business Analyst
3 20 (19.80%) Data Analyst
4 18 (17.82%) Developer
5 11 (10.89%) Financial Analyst
6 10 (9.90%) Consultant
6 10 (9.90%) Lead
7 8 (7.92%) Lead Consultant
8 7 (6.93%) Data Business Analyst
8 7 (6.93%) Finance Business Analyst
8 7 (6.93%) Lead Business Analyst
8 7 (6.93%) Senior
9 6 (5.94%) Business Consultant
10 5 (4.95%) Applications Developer
10 5 (4.95%) Data Scientist
11 4 (3.96%) Automation Developer
11 4 (3.96%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 4 (3.96%) Charles River Consultant
12 3 (2.97%) BPM Developer
12 3 (2.97%) Charles River Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.91%) .NET
2 3 (2.97%) Middleware
2 3 (2.97%) Spring
3 2 (1.98%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.98%) Pandas
3 2 (1.98%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.98%) WPF
4 1 (0.99%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.99%) DCOM
4 1 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.99%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.99%) JPA
4 1 (0.99%) LangGraph
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.99%) React
4 1 (0.99%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.99%) Spring Batch
4 1 (0.99%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.89%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.94%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.97%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.97%) Reinsurance
4 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.98%) Pricing Data
4 2 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.98%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.99%) ASIC
5 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.99%) CMDB
5 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.99%) Multi-touch
5 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.99%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.97%) Linux
1 3 (2.97%) Unix
1 3 (2.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (34.65%) Agile
2 26 (25.74%) Data Modelling
3 24 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (22.77%) Analytics
5 21 (20.79%) Decision-Making
6 19 (18.81%) Business Analysis
6 19 (18.81%) Business Intelligence
6 19 (18.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (18.81%) Validation
7 17 (16.83%) Project Management
7 17 (16.83%) Scrum
7 17 (16.83%) Visualisation
8 15 (14.85%) Collaborative Working
8 15 (14.85%) Requirements Gathering
8 15 (14.85%) User Acceptance Testing
8 15 (14.85%) User Stories
9 14 (13.86%) Project Delivery
10 12 (11.88%) Data Governance
11 11 (10.89%) Change Management
11 11 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 46 (45.54%) SQL
2 25 (24.75%) Python
3 9 (8.91%) C#
4 8 (7.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.96%) Java
5 4 (3.96%) VBA
6 3 (2.97%) C++
6 3 (2.97%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.97%) R
7 1 (0.99%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (14.85%) Degree
2 6 (5.94%) SC Cleared
2 6 (5.94%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.95%) CBAP
4 2 (1.98%) ACCA
5 1 (0.99%) CFA
5 1 (0.99%) CIMA
5 1 (0.99%) IIBA
5 1 (0.99%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.99%) PhD
5 1 (0.99%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.81%) Data Quality
2 10 (9.90%) MiFID
2 10 (9.90%) QA
3 9 (8.91%) EMIR
4 6 (5.94%) PMO
5 3 (2.97%) GDPR
6 1 (0.99%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.99%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.99%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (0.99%) Kibana
1 1 (0.99%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.99%) logstash
Vendors
1 25 (24.75%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.85%) Oracle
3 4 (3.96%) Charles River
4 3 (2.97%) Databricks
4 3 (2.97%) Dataiku
4 3 (2.97%) OpenText
5 2 (1.98%) FIS
5 2 (1.98%) Hyperion
5 2 (1.98%) Tagetik
5 2 (1.98%) UiPath
6 1 (0.99%) Adobe
6 1 (0.99%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.99%) Informatica
6 1 (0.99%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (0.99%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.99%) SimCorp
6 1 (0.99%) Talend
6 1 (0.99%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.99%) Workday