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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 29 56
Rank change year-on-year -49 +27 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 64 119 77
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.66% 6.33% 3.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 6.72% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 85 48
10th Percentile £445 £371 £343
25th Percentile £509 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £724 £700 £628
90th Percentile £795 £725 £688
Central London median daily rate £600 £540 £531
% change year-on-year +11.11% +1.65% -9.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £37.29 -
25th Percentile £15.50 £41.28 £76.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £48.58 £77.50
Median % change year-on-year -67.06% -37.32% +24.00%
75th Percentile £16.50 £56.48 £78.75
90th Percentile - £60.84 -
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 2,107 1,772 1,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.61% 94.21% 91.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,435 1,162 1,281
10th Percentile £375 £329 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £470
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 £765 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £37.17 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £61.83 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 5 (7.81%) Confluence
2 4 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.56%) Apache
4 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.56%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.56%) CMS
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.56%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.25%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.13%) SAP MDG
1 2 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.56%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.56%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.56%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.56%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.19%) Azure
2 10 (15.63%) Power Platform
3 7 (10.94%) AWS
4 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.69%) GCP
5 3 (4.69%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.13%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.56%) Collibra
7 1 (1.56%) dbt
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub
7 1 (1.56%) Miro
7 1 (1.56%) SaaS
7 1 (1.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.56%) 2G
1 1 (1.56%) 3G
1 1 (1.56%) 4G
1 1 (1.56%) 5G
1 1 (1.56%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.56%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.63%) Power BI
2 9 (14.06%) Metadata
3 5 (7.81%) Oracle Database
3 5 (7.81%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.81%) Tableau
4 4 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.69%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.13%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.13%) GIS
6 2 (3.13%) Neo4j
6 2 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.13%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.56%) Big Data
7 1 (1.56%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.56%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.56%) QlikView
7 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (7.81%) JIRA
2 2 (3.13%) Git
General
1 25 (39.06%) Finance
1 25 (39.06%) Social Skills
2 21 (32.81%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (26.56%) Banking
4 5 (7.81%) Front Office
5 3 (4.69%) Back Office
5 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Financial Institution
5 3 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.69%) Retail
6 2 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Marketing
6 2 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.56%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.56%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.56%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (62.50%) Analyst
2 20 (31.25%) Business Analyst
3 16 (25.00%) Data Analyst
4 6 (9.38%) Developer
5 5 (7.81%) C# Developer
5 5 (7.81%) Risk Analyst
6 3 (4.69%) Architect
6 3 (4.69%) Business Systems Analyst
6 3 (4.69%) Data Business Analyst
6 3 (4.69%) Data Scientist
6 3 (4.69%) IT Analyst
6 3 (4.69%) Report Analyst
6 3 (4.69%) Senior
6 3 (4.69%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.13%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Lead
7 2 (3.13%) Migration Analyst
7 2 (3.13%) Risk Data Analyst
7 2 (3.13%) SAP MDM Analyst
7 2 (3.13%) Technology Risk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) .NET
1 5 (7.81%) .NET Framework
2 4 (6.25%) Kafka
3 3 (4.69%) PySpark
3 3 (4.69%) scikit-learn
4 2 (3.13%) PyTorch
4 2 (3.13%) React
4 2 (3.13%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.56%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (1.56%) GraphX
5 1 (1.56%) JMS
5 1 (1.56%) JSON
5 1 (1.56%) Middleware
5 1 (1.56%) NetworkX
5 1 (1.56%) NumPy
5 1 (1.56%) Pandas
5 1 (1.56%) REST
5 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.25%) Reference Data
3 3 (4.69%) Derivative
3 3 (4.69%) Equities
3 3 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.13%) Credit Risk
4 2 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.13%) FMCG
4 2 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.13%) Market Risk
4 2 (3.13%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.56%) CMDB
5 1 (1.56%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.56%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Windows
1 5 (7.81%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 21 (32.81%) Analytics
3 19 (29.69%) Agile
3 19 (29.69%) Validation
4 18 (28.13%) Data Modelling
5 14 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (20.31%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (18.75%) Translating Business Requirements
7 12 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (17.19%) AI
8 11 (17.19%) Data Governance
9 9 (14.06%) Data Lineage
9 9 (14.06%) Data Migration
9 9 (14.06%) Decision-Making
9 9 (14.06%) Machine Learning
9 9 (14.06%) Migration
9 9 (14.06%) Requirements Gathering
9 9 (14.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (14.06%) User Stories
10 8 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (48.44%) SQL
2 13 (20.31%) Python
3 5 (7.81%) C#
3 5 (7.81%) PL/SQL
3 5 (7.81%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.56%) Cypher
5 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.56%) Gremlin
5 1 (1.56%) Java
5 1 (1.56%) Scala
5 1 (1.56%) SOQL
5 1 (1.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (6.25%) Degree
1 4 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) CBAP
3 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) IIBA
3 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.44%) Data Quality
2 12 (18.75%) QA
3 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.13%) PMO
4 1 (1.56%) Basel III
4 1 (1.56%) GAAP
4 1 (1.56%) GDPR
4 1 (1.56%) IFRS
4 1 (1.56%) P3O
4 1 (1.56%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.56%) Grafana
2 1 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.38%) Databricks
3 5 (7.81%) Citrix
3 5 (7.81%) Oracle
4 3 (4.69%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.69%) SAP
5 2 (3.13%) Bloomberg
5 2 (3.13%) Google
5 2 (3.13%) Informatica
5 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.56%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.56%) Apple
6 1 (1.56%) Charles River
6 1 (1.56%) Foundry
6 1 (1.56%) Jitterbit
6 1 (1.56%) Palantir
6 1 (1.56%) PTC
6 1 (1.56%) Siemens
6 1 (1.56%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.56%) Splunk