Data Analysis Contracts in the City of London

Data Analysis
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 57 96
Rank change year-on-year +14 +39 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 82 74 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.67% 3.37% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.01% 3.72% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 40 54
10th Percentile £407 £326 £410
25th Percentile £469 £363 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -11.46% +14.29%
75th Percentile £681 £658 £700
90th Percentile £725 £726 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £588
% change year-on-year +4.76% -10.64% +11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 - -
75th Percentile £28.34 - -
90th Percentile £32.14 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.86 - -

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 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Data Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analysis in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in the City of London

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in the City of London

Data Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.32%) Confluence
2 3 (3.66%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.44%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (18.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (6.10%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Workday HCM
2 2 (2.44%) Actimize
3 1 (1.22%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.22%) Maximo
3 1 (1.22%) SAP BPC
3 1 (1.22%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.85%) Power Platform
2 10 (12.20%) Azure
3 5 (6.10%) AWS
4 4 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.44%) GCP
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (1.22%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.22%) Apigee
7 1 (1.22%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.22%) Boomi
7 1 (1.22%) Collibra
7 1 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.22%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.22%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.85%) Power BI
2 10 (12.20%) Tableau
3 7 (8.54%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.32%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (6.10%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.66%) Big Data
7 2 (2.44%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.44%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.22%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.22%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (1.22%) Essbase
8 1 (1.22%) Looker
8 1 (1.22%) Metadata
8 1 (1.22%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.22%) Power Query
8 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (15.85%) JIRA
2 3 (3.66%) Git
3 1 (1.22%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
General
1 40 (48.78%) Finance
2 25 (30.49%) Social Skills
3 20 (24.39%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (23.17%) Banking
5 8 (9.76%) Front Office
6 6 (7.32%) Financial Institution
6 6 (7.32%) Investment Banking
6 6 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (6.10%) Public Sector
8 4 (4.88%) Marketing
9 2 (2.44%) Back Office
9 2 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.44%) Retail
10 1 (1.22%) Legal
10 1 (1.22%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.22%) Military
10 1 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (59.76%) Analyst
2 29 (35.37%) Business Analyst
3 22 (26.83%) Data Analyst
4 12 (14.63%) Data Business Analyst
5 8 (9.76%) Senior
5 8 (9.76%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (7.32%) Developer
7 5 (6.10%) Data Scientist
8 4 (4.88%) Architect
8 4 (4.88%) Front Office Business Analyst
8 4 (4.88%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (3.66%) Analyst Developer
9 3 (3.66%) Junior
9 3 (3.66%) SQL Analyst
9 3 (3.66%) SQL Data Analyst
9 3 (3.66%) Support Analyst
9 3 (3.66%) Technical Business Analyst
9 3 (3.66%) Workday Analyst
10 2 (2.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 2 (2.44%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.32%) .NET
2 2 (2.44%) XML
3 1 (1.22%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.22%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.22%) Bootstrap
3 1 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.22%) FHIR
3 1 (1.22%) FpML
3 1 (1.22%) JSON
3 1 (1.22%) Kafka
3 1 (1.22%) Node.js
3 1 (1.22%) Plotly
3 1 (1.22%) pytest
3 1 (1.22%) React
3 1 (1.22%) RESTful
3 1 (1.22%) Swagger
3 1 (1.22%) WinForms
3 1 (1.22%) WPF
3 1 (1.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.76%) Data Structures
2 6 (7.32%) Equities
2 6 (7.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (6.10%) Fixed Income
3 5 (6.10%) Reference Data
4 4 (4.88%) Derivative
4 4 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.88%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.44%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.44%) Multi-touch
5 2 (2.44%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.22%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.22%) PMI
6 1 (1.22%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.22%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.66%) Windows
2 2 (2.44%) Linux
3 1 (1.22%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.61%) Business Intelligence
2 16 (19.51%) Agile
2 16 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 15 (18.29%) Analytics
3 15 (18.29%) Data Management
4 14 (17.07%) Decision-Making
4 14 (17.07%) Requirements Gathering
4 14 (17.07%) Visualisation
5 13 (15.85%) Process Improvement
6 12 (14.63%) Business Analysis
7 11 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (13.41%) Project Management
8 10 (12.20%) Data Modelling
9 9 (10.98%) Actionable Insight
9 9 (10.98%) Data Science
9 9 (10.98%) Data Visualisation
9 9 (10.98%) DevOps
10 8 (9.76%) Data Analytics
10 8 (9.76%) Data Governance
11 6 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 42 (51.22%) SQL
2 19 (23.17%) Python
3 4 (4.88%) C#
4 3 (3.66%) R
5 2 (2.44%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.44%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.44%) VBA
6 1 (1.22%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.22%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (13.41%) Degree
2 8 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.10%) CBAP
5 4 (4.88%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.66%) CFA
6 3 (3.66%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.44%) MBA
7 2 (2.44%) PMP
8 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.22%) IIBA
8 1 (1.22%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.98%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.76%) GDPR
3 6 (7.32%) QA
4 5 (6.10%) MiFID
5 4 (4.88%) Accessibility
5 4 (4.88%) EMIR
6 2 (2.44%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (1.22%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.22%) PMO
7 1 (1.22%) SLA
7 1 (1.22%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (1.22%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.22%) Ansible
1 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.22%) Rancher
1 1 (1.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (12.20%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.32%) Oracle
3 4 (4.88%) SAP
4 3 (3.66%) Bloomberg
4 3 (3.66%) Databricks
4 3 (3.66%) Google
4 3 (3.66%) Workday
5 2 (2.44%) GoldenSource
5 2 (2.44%) Trayport
6 1 (1.22%) Aderant
6 1 (1.22%) Advent
6 1 (1.22%) Citrix
6 1 (1.22%) dotdigital
6 1 (1.22%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.22%) Progress
6 1 (1.22%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.22%) SimCorp