Data Analysis Contracts in the City of London

Data Analysis
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 59 86
Rank change year-on-year +27 +27 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 105 71 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.90% 3.33% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.29% 3.66% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 42 53
10th Percentile £394 £341 £378
25th Percentile £410 £372 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £524 £615
Median % change year-on-year +9.79% -14.84% +17.14%
75th Percentile £709 £588 £700
90th Percentile £725 £721 £730
Central London median daily rate £575 £525 £606
% change year-on-year +9.52% -13.40% +14.12%
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 £77.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -36.13% +24.00% +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 1,669 1,940 3,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.82% 91.04% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,068 1,350 2,115
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.74% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.79% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 15 24
10th Percentile £17.02 £20.04 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.43 £20.36 £16.33
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -22.86% -18.83%
75th Percentile £50.75 £40.92 £57.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £67.35 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +11.47% -20.54% -18.13%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Analysis in the City of London

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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 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analysis in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analysis in the City of London

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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 2 July 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 4 (3.81%) Confluence
2 2 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.95%) SAS
3 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
Applications
1 20 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.81%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Aladdin
2 3 (2.86%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (2.86%) Oracle BPM
2 3 (2.86%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.95%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.95%) HFM
3 1 (0.95%) Maximo
3 1 (0.95%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.95%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (15.24%) Power Platform
2 14 (13.33%) Azure
3 6 (5.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (3.81%) AWS
5 3 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.90%) GCP
6 2 (1.90%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (1.90%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (0.95%) Apigee
7 1 (0.95%) Boomi
7 1 (0.95%) Collibra
7 1 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.95%) GitHub
7 1 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.95%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (15.24%) Power BI
1 16 (15.24%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.57%) Tableau
3 8 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.76%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (3.81%) Star Schema
6 3 (2.86%) Big Data
6 3 (2.86%) KDB
6 3 (2.86%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.90%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.95%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.95%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.95%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.95%) Looker
8 1 (0.95%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (8.57%) JIRA
2 2 (1.90%) Eclipse
2 2 (1.90%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (53.33%) Finance
2 43 (40.95%) Social Skills
3 26 (24.76%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.38%) Banking
5 11 (10.48%) Front Office
6 9 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.76%) Financial Institution
8 5 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.86%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.86%) Legal
9 3 (2.86%) Marketing
10 2 (1.90%) Back Office
10 2 (1.90%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (1.90%) Retail
11 1 (0.95%) Billing
11 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.95%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 64 (60.95%) Analyst
2 35 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 26 (24.76%) Data Analyst
4 21 (20.00%) Developer
5 11 (10.48%) Data Business Analyst
5 11 (10.48%) Lead
6 10 (9.52%) Senior
7 9 (8.57%) Consultant
8 8 (7.62%) Lead Consultant
9 7 (6.67%) Financial Analyst
9 7 (6.67%) Lead Business Analyst
9 7 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (5.71%) Business Consultant
11 5 (4.76%) Applications Developer
11 5 (4.76%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 4 (3.81%) .NET Developer
12 4 (3.81%) Architect
12 4 (3.81%) C# Developer
12 4 (3.81%) Charles River Consultant
12 4 (3.81%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.43%) .NET
2 3 (2.86%) WPF
3 2 (1.90%) Middleware
3 2 (1.90%) Spring
4 1 (0.95%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.95%) DCOM
4 1 (0.95%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.95%) FpML
4 1 (0.95%) Pandas
4 1 (0.95%) pytest
4 1 (0.95%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.95%) Swagger
4 1 (0.95%) WinForms
4 1 (0.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 6 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.86%) Reference Data
5 3 (2.86%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.90%) Derivative
6 2 (1.90%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.90%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.95%) Data Fabric
7 1 (0.95%) Equities
7 1 (0.95%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 1 (0.95%) Multi-touch
7 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.81%) Windows
2 2 (1.90%) Linux
2 2 (1.90%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (30.48%) Agile
2 24 (22.86%) Business Analysis
2 24 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 22 (20.95%) Data Modelling
4 19 (18.10%) Decision-Making
5 17 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (16.19%) Project Management
5 17 (16.19%) Requirements Gathering
5 17 (16.19%) Scrum
6 16 (15.24%) Project Delivery
7 15 (14.29%) Analytics
8 14 (13.33%) User Stories
8 14 (13.33%) Visualisation
9 13 (12.38%) Change Management
9 13 (12.38%) Risk Management
9 13 (12.38%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (12.38%) Validation
10 12 (11.43%) Collaborative Working
11 11 (10.48%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (60.00%) SQL
2 26 (24.76%) Python
3 11 (10.48%) C#
4 5 (4.76%) R
5 4 (3.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 3 (2.86%) C++
6 3 (2.86%) Java
6 3 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.90%) VBA
8 1 (0.95%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (15.24%) Degree
2 6 (5.71%) CBAP
3 4 (3.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.95%) ACCA
4 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.95%) CFA
4 1 (0.95%) CIMA
4 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.95%) IIBA
4 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.95%) PhD
4 1 (0.95%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.95%) PMP
4 1 (0.95%) RIBA
4 1 (0.95%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 11 (10.48%) MiFID
3 10 (9.52%) EMIR
3 10 (9.52%) QA
4 5 (4.76%) GDPR
5 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.86%) PMO
6 1 (0.95%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.95%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (0.95%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 24 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 17 (16.19%) Oracle
3 4 (3.81%) Charles River
3 4 (3.81%) Databricks
3 4 (3.81%) SAP
4 3 (2.86%) Dataiku
4 3 (2.86%) Google
4 3 (2.86%) OpenText
4 3 (2.86%) Workday
5 2 (1.90%) FIS
5 2 (1.90%) SimCorp
5 2 (1.90%) UiPath
6 1 (0.95%) Aderant
6 1 (0.95%) Advent
6 1 (0.95%) dotdigital
6 1 (0.95%) Duck Creek
6 1 (0.95%) GoldenSource
6 1 (0.95%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.95%) Tagetik