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 28 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 35 50
Rank change year-on-year -41 +15 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 69 103 84
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.13% 5.96% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 6.32% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 73 53
10th Percentile £419 £363 £356
25th Percentile £451 £404 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £638
90th Percentile £795 £725 £685
Central London median daily rate £565 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +4.63% +2.86% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 £61.25 £76.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £62.50 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -74.40% -19.35% +24.00%
75th Percentile £16.50 £63.75 £78.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £16.00 £49.50 £59.50
% change year-on-year -67.68% -16.81% -4.80%

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 1,968 1,629 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.37% 94.33% 91.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,358 1,094 1,216
10th Percentile £368 £325 £371
25th Percentile £455 £423 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 19 19
10th Percentile £16.91 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.06% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £29.78 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £51.54 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -12.28% -18.57% +30.84%

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 28 September 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
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 (7.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.45%) Apache
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.45%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.45%) CMS
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (7.25%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) SAP MDG
1 2 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.45%) Advent Moxy
2 1 (1.45%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
2 1 (1.45%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.45%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.84%) Azure
2 10 (14.49%) Power Platform
3 6 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (7.25%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.35%) AWS
5 3 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.45%) Dagster
7 1 (1.45%) dbt
7 1 (1.45%) GitHub
7 1 (1.45%) Google Sheets
7 1 (1.45%) Miro
7 1 (1.45%) Prefect
7 1 (1.45%) SaaS
7 1 (1.45%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) 2G
1 1 (1.45%) 3G
1 1 (1.45%) 4G
1 1 (1.45%) 5G
1 1 (1.45%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.45%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.49%) Power BI
2 8 (11.59%) Metadata
3 5 (7.25%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (7.25%) Oracle Database
3 5 (7.25%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (4.35%) Data Lake
4 3 (4.35%) Tableau
5 2 (2.90%) GIS
5 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.90%) SAP BW
5 2 (2.90%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.45%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.45%) QlikView
6 1 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (11.59%) JIRA
2 1 (1.45%) Git
General
1 30 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 28 (40.58%) Finance
3 19 (27.54%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (24.64%) Banking
5 5 (7.25%) Front Office
6 3 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.90%) Advertising
7 2 (2.90%) Back Office
7 2 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.90%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.90%) Marketing
7 2 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.90%) Retail
8 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.45%) Automotive
8 1 (1.45%) Legal
8 1 (1.45%) Military
8 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (62.32%) Analyst
2 21 (30.43%) Business Analyst
3 18 (26.09%) Data Analyst
4 7 (10.14%) Developer
5 5 (7.25%) C# Developer
6 4 (5.80%) Data Business Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.80%) Financial Analyst
6 4 (5.80%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Consultant
7 3 (4.35%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 3 (4.35%) Lead
7 3 (4.35%) Risk Analyst
8 2 (2.90%) Business Data Analyst
8 2 (2.90%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 2 (2.90%) Data Integration Consultant
8 2 (2.90%) Integration Consultant
8 2 (2.90%) Report Analyst
8 2 (2.90%) SAP Analyst
8 2 (2.90%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.80%) .NET
1 4 (5.80%) .NET Framework
1 4 (5.80%) Kafka
2 2 (2.90%) PySpark
2 2 (2.90%) React
2 2 (2.90%) REST
2 2 (2.90%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.45%) JSON
3 1 (1.45%) NumPy
3 1 (1.45%) Pandas
3 1 (1.45%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.45%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Product Ownership
2 5 (7.25%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.80%) Reference Data
4 3 (4.35%) Fixed Income
4 3 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.90%) Derivative
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.90%) FMCG
5 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.45%) CMDB
6 1 (1.45%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.45%) Equities
6 1 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.45%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.45%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.45%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.45%) PMI
6 1 (1.45%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.45%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.25%) Windows
2 4 (5.80%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.90%) Linux
4 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.93%) Stakeholder Management
2 25 (36.23%) Agile
3 24 (34.78%) Validation
4 22 (31.88%) Data Modelling
5 18 (26.09%) Analytics
6 16 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (23.19%) User Stories
7 15 (21.74%) Data Mapping
8 14 (20.29%) Data Governance
8 14 (20.29%) Requirements Gathering
8 14 (20.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (20.29%) Translating Business Requirements
9 13 (18.84%) Migration
9 13 (18.84%) User Acceptance Testing
10 12 (17.39%) AI
10 12 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (17.39%) Data Validation
10 12 (17.39%) Decision-Making
11 11 (15.94%) Data Migration
11 11 (15.94%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (49.28%) SQL
2 12 (17.39%) Python
3 5 (7.25%) C#
4 4 (5.80%) PL/SQL
4 4 (5.80%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.90%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.90%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.45%) Cypher
7 1 (1.45%) Gremlin
7 1 (1.45%) Java
7 1 (1.45%) Scala
7 1 (1.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 6 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.25%) Degree
3 4 (5.80%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.90%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.45%) CBAP
5 1 (1.45%) IIBA
5 1 (1.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (23.19%) Data Quality
2 15 (21.74%) QA
3 3 (4.35%) GDPR
4 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.90%) PMO
5 1 (1.45%) Basel III
5 1 (1.45%) GAAP
5 1 (1.45%) IFRS
5 1 (1.45%) P3O
5 1 (1.45%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (2.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.70%) Databricks
3 5 (7.25%) Oracle
4 4 (5.80%) Citrix
5 2 (2.90%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.90%) eFront
5 2 (2.90%) Informatica
5 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.90%) SAP
5 2 (2.90%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.45%) Advent
6 1 (1.45%) Braze
6 1 (1.45%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.45%) Google
6 1 (1.45%) Jitterbit
6 1 (1.45%) PTC
6 1 (1.45%) Refinitiv
6 1 (1.45%) Siemens
6 1 (1.45%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.45%) Workday