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

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 43 60
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 83 98 84
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.58% 4.53% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.98% 4.95% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 56 55
10th Percentile £313 £377 £335
25th Percentile £384 £468 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £561 £567
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% -1.01% +0.80%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £693
90th Percentile £738 £713 £741
Central London median daily rate £500 £544 £567
% change year-on-year -8.05% -4.10% +3.09%
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 1,666 1,980 2,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.99% 91.62% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 1,224 1,655
10th Percentile £331 £363 £363
25th Percentile £419 £472 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £690
90th Percentile £750 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.70 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.69% +54.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £92.50 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £122.20 £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 5 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 5 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 (3.61%) Confluence
2 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.20%) SAS
2 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (19.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.82%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.20%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) HFM
2 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.20%) OpenText MBPM
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.48%) Power Platform
2 9 (10.84%) Azure
3 6 (7.23%) AWS
4 3 (3.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (3.61%) GCP
4 3 (3.61%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.41%) GitHub
5 2 (2.41%) IBM Watson
5 2 (2.41%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.20%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.20%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.20%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.20%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) ATM
1 1 (1.20%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (20.48%) Power BI
2 7 (8.43%) Tableau
3 6 (7.23%) Relational Database
3 6 (7.23%) Star Schema
4 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.61%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.41%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.41%) KDB
6 2 (2.41%) MySQL
6 2 (2.41%) Power Query
6 2 (2.41%) Spatial Data
6 2 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.20%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.20%) Informix
7 1 (1.20%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.20%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.20%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.23%) JIRA
2 2 (2.41%) Eclipse
2 2 (2.41%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.20%) Git
3 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.20%) JUnit
General
1 46 (55.42%) Finance
2 38 (45.78%) Social Skills
3 29 (34.94%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (18.07%) Banking
5 7 (8.43%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (8.43%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (7.23%) Legal
6 6 (7.23%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (6.02%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.61%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.61%) Front Office
8 3 (3.61%) Marketing
8 3 (3.61%) Spanish Language
9 2 (2.41%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.41%) Retail
10 1 (1.20%) Back Office
10 1 (1.20%) Billing
10 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (54.22%) Analyst
2 25 (30.12%) Business Analyst
3 19 (22.89%) Data Analyst
4 10 (12.05%) Senior
5 9 (10.84%) Data Scientist
5 9 (10.84%) Financial Analyst
6 8 (9.64%) Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Finance Business Analyst
7 5 (6.02%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (4.82%) Systems Analyst
9 3 (3.61%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Data Manager
10 2 (2.41%) Banking Analyst
10 2 (2.41%) Finance Systems Analyst
10 2 (2.41%) Financial Business Analyst
10 2 (2.41%) HR Analyst
10 2 (2.41%) PMO Analyst
10 2 (2.41%) SAP HR Analyst
10 2 (2.41%) SAP HR Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.02%) scikit-learn
2 4 (4.82%) Pandas
3 3 (3.61%) Matplotlib
3 3 (3.61%) Middleware
3 3 (3.61%) Seaborn
3 3 (3.61%) Spring
4 2 (2.41%) NumPy
4 2 (2.41%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.41%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.41%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.20%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.20%) JPA
5 1 (1.20%) LangGraph
5 1 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.20%) React
5 1 (1.20%) RESTful
5 1 (1.20%) Spring Batch
5 1 (1.20%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.84%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.43%) Algorithms
3 6 (7.23%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.41%) Equities
5 2 (2.41%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.20%) ASIC
6 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.20%) Clustering
6 1 (1.20%) CMDB
6 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.20%) Derivative
6 1 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.20%) Multi-touch
6 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.82%) Unix
2 3 (3.61%) Linux
3 1 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (30.12%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (28.92%) Analytics
2 24 (28.92%) Data Modelling
3 21 (25.30%) Agile
3 21 (25.30%) Visualisation
4 19 (22.89%) Business Intelligence
5 17 (20.48%) Validation
6 16 (19.28%) Decision-Making
7 14 (16.87%) Actionable Insight
7 14 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (15.66%) Data Governance
8 13 (15.66%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (14.46%) Migration
10 11 (13.25%) Machine Learning
10 11 (13.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (12.05%) AI
11 10 (12.05%) Business Analysis
11 10 (12.05%) Data Science
11 10 (12.05%) User Stories
12 9 (10.84%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.94%) SQL
2 25 (30.12%) Python
3 7 (8.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (4.82%) Java
5 2 (2.41%) C++
5 2 (2.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.41%) R
5 2 (2.41%) VBA
6 1 (1.20%) C#
6 1 (1.20%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.20%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.20%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (18.07%) Degree
2 5 (6.02%) CBAP
3 4 (4.82%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.41%) CFA
5 1 (1.20%) ACCA
5 1 (1.20%) IIBA
5 1 (1.20%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.20%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (21.69%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.64%) QA
3 4 (4.82%) GDPR
4 3 (3.61%) PMO
5 2 (2.41%) MiFID
5 2 (2.41%) SLA
6 1 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.20%) Basel III
6 1 (1.20%) EMIR
6 1 (1.20%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.20%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (1.20%) Kibana
1 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (14.46%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.23%) Oracle
3 3 (3.61%) Google
3 3 (3.61%) SAP
4 2 (2.41%) Cognos
4 2 (2.41%) Databricks
4 2 (2.41%) Dataiku
4 2 (2.41%) Hyperion
4 2 (2.41%) IBM
4 2 (2.41%) Sage
4 2 (2.41%) Tagetik
5 1 (1.20%) Ariba
5 1 (1.20%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.20%) Duck Creek
5 1 (1.20%) Informatica
5 1 (1.20%) OpenText
5 1 (1.20%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.20%) Talend
5 1 (1.20%) TIBCO