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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 51 78
Rank change year-on-year +20 +27 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 113 82 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 6.41% 3.94% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.80% 4.29% 3.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 49 41
10th Percentile £363 £351 £372
25th Percentile £404 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -8.70% +6.98%
75th Percentile £694 £638 £695
90th Percentile £725 £693 £719
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £37.29 - -
25th Percentile £41.28 £76.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate £48.58 £77.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.32% +24.00% +104.92%
75th Percentile £56.48 £78.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £60.84 - -
Central London median hourly rate £49.50 £59.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -16.81% -4.80% +104.92%

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 1,661 1,913 2,719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.27% 92.02% 90.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,212 1,878
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £705
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

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

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 17 September 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 17 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 3 (2.65%) Confluence
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.88%) SAS
2 1 (0.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (19.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (5.31%) MS Visio
4 5 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.77%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.88%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Aladdin
2 3 (2.65%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (2.65%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (1.77%) HFM
3 2 (1.77%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.88%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 18 (15.93%) Power Platform
2 14 (12.39%) Azure
3 6 (5.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (4.42%) AWS
4 5 (4.42%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.65%) GCP
6 2 (1.77%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.88%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.93%) Power BI
2 14 (12.39%) SQL Server
3 8 (7.08%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.08%) Relational Database
4 7 (6.19%) Star Schema
5 5 (4.42%) Data Lake
5 5 (4.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (4.42%) Tableau
6 4 (3.54%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.65%) KDB
7 3 (2.65%) Power Query
8 2 (1.77%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (1.77%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.77%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
8 2 (1.77%) Spatial Data
9 1 (0.88%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.88%) MySQL
9 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (6.19%) JIRA
2 2 (1.77%) Eclipse
2 2 (1.77%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.88%) JUnit
General
1 61 (53.98%) Finance
2 50 (44.25%) Social Skills
3 30 (26.55%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.73%) Banking
5 10 (8.85%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (7.96%) Front Office
6 9 (7.96%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (6.19%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (4.42%) Marketing
9 4 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (3.54%) Financial Institution
9 4 (3.54%) Legal
10 3 (2.65%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.65%) Retail
10 3 (2.65%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.77%) Back Office
12 1 (0.88%) Billing
12 1 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (59.29%) Analyst
2 35 (30.97%) Business Analyst
3 28 (24.78%) Data Analyst
4 21 (18.58%) Developer
5 10 (8.85%) Consultant
5 10 (8.85%) Financial Analyst
5 10 (8.85%) Lead
6 9 (7.96%) Data Business Analyst
6 9 (7.96%) Senior
7 8 (7.08%) Lead Consultant
8 7 (6.19%) Lead Business Analyst
9 6 (5.31%) Business Consultant
9 6 (5.31%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 6 (5.31%) Finance Business Analyst
10 5 (4.42%) Applications Developer
10 5 (4.42%) Data Scientist
11 4 (3.54%) Automation Developer
11 4 (3.54%) Charles River Consultant
11 4 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
12 3 (2.65%) Charles River Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.85%) .NET
2 3 (2.65%) Middleware
2 3 (2.65%) Spring
2 3 (2.65%) WPF
3 2 (1.77%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (1.77%) Pandas
3 2 (1.77%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.88%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.88%) DCOM
4 1 (0.88%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.88%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.88%) JPA
4 1 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.88%) React
4 1 (0.88%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.88%) Spring Batch
4 1 (0.88%) Ultra Messaging
4 1 (0.88%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.85%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.31%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.42%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.54%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.65%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.65%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.77%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.77%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.88%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.88%) CMDB
7 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.88%) Multi-touch
7 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.88%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.54%) Windows
2 3 (2.65%) Linux
2 3 (2.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.09%) Agile
2 25 (22.12%) Business Intelligence
2 25 (22.12%) Data Modelling
2 25 (22.12%) Decision-Making
2 25 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (21.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (20.35%) Analytics
5 21 (18.58%) Business Analysis
6 20 (17.70%) Visualisation
7 18 (15.93%) Validation
8 16 (14.16%) Project Management
8 16 (14.16%) Requirements Gathering
8 16 (14.16%) Scrum
9 15 (13.27%) User Stories
10 14 (12.39%) Collaborative Working
10 14 (12.39%) Data Governance
10 14 (12.39%) Project Delivery
11 13 (11.50%) User Acceptance Testing
12 12 (10.62%) Change Management
12 12 (10.62%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 57 (50.44%) SQL
2 27 (23.89%) Python
3 10 (8.85%) C#
4 8 (7.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (3.54%) Java
5 4 (3.54%) VBA
6 3 (2.65%) C++
6 3 (2.65%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.65%) R
7 1 (0.88%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (13.27%) Degree
2 5 (4.42%) CBAP
2 5 (4.42%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.42%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.77%) ACCA
4 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.88%) CFA
4 1 (0.88%) CIMA
4 1 (0.88%) IIBA
4 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.88%) PhD
4 1 (0.88%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.81%) Data Quality
2 10 (8.85%) QA
3 9 (7.96%) MiFID
4 8 (7.08%) EMIR
5 6 (5.31%) GDPR
6 5 (4.42%) PMO
7 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.88%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.88%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (0.88%) Kibana
1 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
1 1 (0.88%) logstash
Vendors
1 27 (23.89%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.16%) Oracle
3 4 (3.54%) Charles River
4 3 (2.65%) Databricks
4 3 (2.65%) Dataiku
4 3 (2.65%) OpenText
4 3 (2.65%) Workday
5 2 (1.77%) FIS
5 2 (1.77%) Hyperion
5 2 (1.77%) SAP
5 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.77%) Tagetik
5 2 (1.77%) UiPath
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe
6 1 (0.88%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.88%) Google
6 1 (0.88%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.88%) SimCorp
6 1 (0.88%) TIBCO