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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 30 52
Rank change year-on-year -47 +22 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 65 115 79
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.80% 6.34% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 6.73% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 81 50
10th Percentile £435 £363 £343
25th Percentile £485 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +2.86% -10.64%
75th Percentile £724 £700 £633
90th Percentile £795 £725 £688
Central London median daily rate £595 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +8.18% +4.76% -8.70%
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 2,042 1,709 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.87% 94.26% 91.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,404 1,129 1,242
10th Percentile £382 £325 £375
25th Percentile £462 £421 £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 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £20.25 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -28.51% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £31.52 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £49.64 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -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 30 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 30 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 6 (9.23%) Confluence
2 3 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.54%) Apache
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.54%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.54%) CMS
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (9.23%) MS Visio
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) SAP MDG
1 2 (3.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.54%) Advent Moxy
2 1 (1.54%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
2 1 (1.54%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.54%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.00%) Azure
2 10 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 6 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.15%) AWS
4 4 (6.15%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon Neptune
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.54%) Collibra
7 1 (1.54%) Dagster
7 1 (1.54%) dbt
7 1 (1.54%) GCP
7 1 (1.54%) Miro
7 1 (1.54%) Prefect
7 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) 2G
1 1 (1.54%) 3G
1 1 (1.54%) 4G
1 1 (1.54%) 5G
1 1 (1.54%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.54%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.38%) Power BI
2 9 (13.85%) Metadata
3 6 (9.23%) Tableau
4 5 (7.69%) Oracle Database
4 5 (7.69%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.62%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (4.62%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.08%) GIS
7 2 (3.08%) NoSQL
7 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.08%) SAP BW
8 1 (1.54%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.54%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.54%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.54%) QGIS
8 1 (1.54%) QlikView
8 1 (1.54%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) JIRA
2 1 (1.54%) Git
General
1 28 (43.08%) Finance
1 28 (43.08%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.62%) Banking
3 15 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Front Office
5 3 (4.62%) Back Office
5 3 (4.62%) Financial Institution
5 3 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Legal
6 2 (3.08%) Marketing
6 2 (3.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.08%) Retail
7 1 (1.54%) Advertising
7 1 (1.54%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.54%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.54%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (61.54%) Analyst
2 21 (32.31%) Business Analyst
3 18 (27.69%) Data Analyst
4 6 (9.23%) Developer
5 5 (7.69%) C# Developer
5 5 (7.69%) Risk Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Data Business Analyst
6 4 (6.15%) Data Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Business Systems Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Consultant
7 3 (4.62%) Lead
7 3 (4.62%) Report Analyst
7 3 (4.62%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Data Consultant
8 2 (3.08%) Integration Consultant
8 2 (3.08%) SAP Business Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.69%) .NET
1 5 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 3 (4.62%) Kafka
3 2 (3.08%) PySpark
3 2 (3.08%) React
3 2 (3.08%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.54%) JSON
4 1 (1.54%) NumPy
4 1 (1.54%) Pandas
4 1 (1.54%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.54%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.15%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.15%) Derivative
2 4 (6.15%) Reference Data
3 3 (4.62%) Credit Risk
3 3 (4.62%) Fixed Income
3 3 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.62%) Market Risk
4 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.08%) Equities
4 2 (3.08%) FMCG
4 2 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.54%) CMDB
5 1 (1.54%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.54%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.54%) PMI
5 1 (1.54%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.54%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Windows
1 5 (7.69%) Windows Server
2 1 (1.54%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.54%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 23 (35.38%) Agile
3 21 (32.31%) Validation
4 20 (30.77%) Data Modelling
5 18 (27.69%) Analytics
6 15 (23.08%) Translating Business Requirements
7 14 (21.54%) Data Mapping
7 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (21.54%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (20.00%) Data Governance
8 13 (20.00%) User Stories
9 12 (18.46%) AI
9 12 (18.46%) Migration
9 12 (18.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (16.92%) Data Migration
10 11 (16.92%) Requirements Gathering
11 10 (15.38%) Data Lineage
11 10 (15.38%) Data Validation
11 10 (15.38%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (50.77%) SQL
2 10 (15.38%) Python
3 5 (7.69%) C#
3 5 (7.69%) PL/SQL
3 5 (7.69%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.54%) Cypher
5 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.54%) Gremlin
5 1 (1.54%) Scala
5 1 (1.54%) SOQL
5 1 (1.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (7.69%) Degree
1 5 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.62%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.08%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.54%) CBAP
4 1 (1.54%) IIBA
4 1 (1.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (24.62%) Data Quality
2 15 (23.08%) QA
3 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.08%) Basel III
3 2 (3.08%) GDPR
3 2 (3.08%) PMO
4 1 (1.54%) GAAP
4 1 (1.54%) IFRS
4 1 (1.54%) P3O
4 1 (1.54%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.69%) Citrix
2 5 (7.69%) Databricks
2 5 (7.69%) Oracle
3 3 (4.62%) SAP
4 2 (3.08%) eFront
4 2 (3.08%) Informatica
4 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.54%) Advent
5 1 (1.54%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.54%) Jitterbit
5 1 (1.54%) PTC
5 1 (1.54%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.54%) Siemens
5 1 (1.54%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.54%) Workday