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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 43 57
Rank change year-on-year -29 +14 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 60 86 72
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.62% 4.95% 3.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 5.30% 3.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 44 40
10th Percentile £400 £409 £326
25th Percentile £500 £473 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £511
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +10.02% -14.79%
75th Percentile £675 £691 £597
90th Percentile £788 £725 £703
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -14.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £15.67 - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.62 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.48% - -
75th Percentile £17.05 £28.34 -
90th Percentile £17.16 £32.14 -
Central London median hourly rate £16.62 £31.86 -
% change year-on-year -47.85% - -

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 1,940 1,624 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 84.72% 93.44% 90.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,314 1,023 1,381
10th Percentile £360 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £568
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -0.44% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £28.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% +12.60% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £60.75 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -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 14 May 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 14 May 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 6 (10.00%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (18.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (8.33%) MS Visio
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (5.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.67%) Actimize
2 1 (1.67%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.67%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.67%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 15 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 10 (16.67%) Azure
3 8 (13.33%) AWS
4 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (5.00%) GCP
5 3 (5.00%) GitHub
5 3 (5.00%) Serverless
6 2 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.33%) Collibra
6 2 (3.33%) Google Analytics
6 2 (3.33%) IBM Watson
6 2 (3.33%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (25.00%) Power BI
2 9 (15.00%) Tableau
3 4 (6.67%) Metadata
4 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.33%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.33%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.67%) Big Data
6 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.67%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.67%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.67%) GIS
6 1 (1.67%) Looker
6 1 (1.67%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (1.67%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.67%) QlikView
6 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.67%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 6 (10.00%) JIRA
2 3 (5.00%) Git
General
1 28 (46.67%) Finance
2 21 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (33.33%) Banking
4 10 (16.67%) Front Office
5 6 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.00%) Legal
6 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.33%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.67%) Automotive
8 1 (1.67%) Back Office
8 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.67%) Military
8 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Retail
8 1 (1.67%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (58.33%) Analyst
2 17 (28.33%) Business Analyst
3 11 (18.33%) Data Analyst
4 6 (10.00%) Senior
5 5 (8.33%) Data Scientist
5 5 (8.33%) Lead
5 5 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Risk Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Business Systems Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Electronics Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Consultant
8 2 (3.33%) HR Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) HR Business Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Power BI Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Principal Consultant
8 2 (3.33%) Report Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) PySpark
1 4 (6.67%) scikit-learn
2 3 (5.00%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (5.00%) JMS
2 3 (5.00%) Kafka
2 3 (5.00%) Middleware
2 3 (5.00%) REST
3 2 (3.33%) .NET
3 2 (3.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (3.33%) Matplotlib
3 2 (3.33%) NumPy
3 2 (3.33%) Pandas
3 2 (3.33%) PyTorch
3 2 (3.33%) Seaborn
3 2 (3.33%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.67%) GraphX
4 1 (1.67%) NetworkX
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Algorithms
1 7 (11.67%) Equities
2 6 (10.00%) Derivative
2 6 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.67%) Fixed Income
4 3 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.00%) Credit Risk
4 3 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Market Risk
4 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.33%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.67%) PMI
6 1 (1.67%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
1 2 (3.33%) Mac OS
1 2 (3.33%) Windows
1 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.00%) Analytics
2 17 (28.33%) Business Intelligence
3 16 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (25.00%) Validation
5 14 (23.33%) Agile
5 14 (23.33%) Data Modelling
5 14 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (16.67%) Visualisation
7 9 (15.00%) AI
7 9 (15.00%) Business Analysis
8 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (13.33%) Data Governance
8 8 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (11.67%) Data Lineage
9 7 (11.67%) Risk Management
9 7 (11.67%) Roadmaps
10 6 (10.00%) Data Mapping
10 6 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
10 6 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
10 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 27 (45.00%) SQL
2 19 (31.67%) Python
3 3 (5.00%) Java
4 2 (3.33%) C#
4 2 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.33%) PL/SQL
4 2 (3.33%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.67%) Scala
5 1 (1.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) Degree
2 2 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
2 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) CBAP
3 1 (1.67%) CFA
3 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.67%) PMP
3 1 (1.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (23.33%) Data Quality
2 11 (18.33%) QA
3 3 (5.00%) Basel III
3 3 (5.00%) MiFID
3 3 (5.00%) PMO
4 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.67%) EMIR
4 1 (1.67%) GAAP
4 1 (1.67%) GDPR
4 1 (1.67%) IFRS
4 1 (1.67%) P3O
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Grafana
1 3 (5.00%) Terraform
2 1 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Databricks
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Bloomberg
2 4 (6.67%) Google
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle
3 3 (5.00%) AppDynamics
3 3 (5.00%) Charles River
3 3 (5.00%) Foundry
3 3 (5.00%) Murex
3 3 (5.00%) Palantir
3 3 (5.00%) SAP
3 3 (5.00%) Splunk
4 2 (3.33%) Citrix
4 2 (3.33%) Cognos
4 2 (3.33%) IBM
4 2 (3.33%) Sage
5 1 (1.67%) Apple
5 1 (1.67%) Informatica
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.67%) Siemens