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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 44 64
Rank change year-on-year +2 +20 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 91 96 87
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.08% 4.41% 3.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.47% 4.82% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 56 56
10th Percentile £343 £377 £338
25th Percentile £399 £468 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £555 £571
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% -2.80% +0.40%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £696
90th Percentile £725 £704 £741
Central London median daily rate £498 £531 £571
% change year-on-year -6.35% -6.96% +3.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £29.70 £27.43 -
25th Percentile £34.50 £35.56 £56.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £49.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% -20.40% +104.92%
75th Percentile £55.63 £64.56 £68.75
90th Percentile £60.50 £73.08 -
Central London median hourly rate £45.00 £41.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.43% -33.60% +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 1,664 1,992 2,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.91% 91.50% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 1,221 1,697
10th Percentile £338 £375 £363
25th Percentile £418 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 13
10th Percentile £20.02 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +54.55% -47.12%
75th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -47.55%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 (3.30%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.10%) SAS
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 18 (19.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (4.40%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.10%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.10%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Aladdin
1 2 (2.20%) HFM
1 2 (2.20%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (2.20%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.58%) Power Platform
2 9 (9.89%) Azure
3 5 (5.49%) AWS
4 3 (3.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (3.30%) GCP
4 3 (3.30%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.20%) GitHub
5 2 (2.20%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.10%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.10%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.10%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.10%) IBM Watson
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.10%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) ATM
1 1 (1.10%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.58%) Power BI
2 11 (12.09%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.59%) Star Schema
3 6 (6.59%) Tableau
4 5 (5.49%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
5 3 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.30%) Power Query
5 3 (3.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.20%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (2.20%) KDB
6 2 (2.20%) MySQL
6 2 (2.20%) Spatial Data
6 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.10%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.10%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (6.59%) JIRA
2 2 (2.20%) Eclipse
2 2 (2.20%) IntelliJ
3 1 (1.10%) Git
3 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.10%) JUnit
General
1 52 (57.14%) Finance
2 43 (47.25%) Social Skills
3 33 (36.26%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (15.38%) Banking
5 7 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.59%) Front Office
6 6 (6.59%) Legal
6 6 (6.59%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.49%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.30%) Marketing
8 3 (3.30%) Spanish Language
9 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.20%) Retail
10 1 (1.10%) Back Office
10 1 (1.10%) Billing
10 1 (1.10%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 49 (53.85%) Analyst
2 30 (32.97%) Business Analyst
3 17 (18.68%) Data Analyst
4 13 (14.29%) Developer
5 10 (10.99%) Financial Analyst
6 9 (9.89%) Senior
7 8 (8.79%) Data Scientist
8 6 (6.59%) Finance Business Analyst
9 5 (5.49%) Consultant
9 5 (5.49%) Data Business Analyst
9 5 (5.49%) Lead
10 4 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (4.40%) Systems Analyst
11 3 (3.30%) Applications Developer
11 3 (3.30%) Business Consultant
11 3 (3.30%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 3 (3.30%) Data Manager
11 3 (3.30%) Lead Business Analyst
11 3 (3.30%) Lead Consultant
11 3 (3.30%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.59%) .NET
2 4 (4.40%) scikit-learn
3 3 (3.30%) Middleware
3 3 (3.30%) Pandas
3 3 (3.30%) Spring
4 2 (2.20%) Matplotlib
4 2 (2.20%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.20%) Seaborn
4 2 (2.20%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.20%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.20%) WPF
5 1 (1.10%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.10%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.10%) JPA
5 1 (1.10%) LangGraph
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.10%) React
5 1 (1.10%) RESTful
5 1 (1.10%) Spring Batch
5 1 (1.10%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.89%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.59%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.59%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.30%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.20%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.20%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.10%) ASIC
5 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.10%) Clustering
5 1 (1.10%) CMDB
5 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.10%) Equities
5 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.10%) Multi-touch
5 1 (1.10%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.40%) Unix
2 3 (3.30%) Linux
2 3 (3.30%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (29.67%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (28.57%) Agile
3 24 (26.37%) Analytics
4 21 (23.08%) Data Modelling
5 19 (20.88%) Validation
5 19 (20.88%) Visualisation
6 18 (19.78%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (18.68%) Decision-Making
8 15 (16.48%) Business Analysis
9 14 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
10 13 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
11 12 (13.19%) Migration
11 12 (13.19%) Project Delivery
11 12 (13.19%) User Stories
12 11 (12.09%) Data Governance
12 11 (12.09%) Project Management
12 11 (12.09%) Requirements Gathering
12 11 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 10 (10.99%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 35 (38.46%) SQL
2 24 (26.37%) Python
3 6 (6.59%) C#
3 6 (6.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (4.40%) Java
5 3 (3.30%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.30%) VBA
6 2 (2.20%) C++
6 2 (2.20%) R
7 1 (1.10%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.10%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (16.48%) Degree
2 5 (5.49%) CBAP
2 5 (5.49%) SC Cleared
2 5 (5.49%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.20%) ACCA
3 2 (2.20%) CFA
4 1 (1.10%) CIMA
4 1 (1.10%) IIBA
4 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.10%) PhD
4 1 (1.10%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (19.78%) Data Quality
2 11 (12.09%) QA
3 5 (5.49%) MiFID
4 4 (4.40%) EMIR
4 4 (4.40%) PMO
5 3 (3.30%) GDPR
6 2 (2.20%) SLA
7 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.10%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.10%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.10%) ITRS Geneos
1 1 (1.10%) Kibana
1 1 (1.10%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.10%) logstash
Vendors
1 16 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.09%) Oracle
3 3 (3.30%) SAP
4 2 (2.20%) Databricks
4 2 (2.20%) Dataiku
4 2 (2.20%) Google
4 2 (2.20%) Hyperion
4 2 (2.20%) OpenText
4 2 (2.20%) Tagetik
5 1 (1.10%) Duck Creek
5 1 (1.10%) FIS
5 1 (1.10%) Informatica
5 1 (1.10%) Refinitiv
5 1 (1.10%) Sage
5 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.10%) Solace
5 1 (1.10%) Talend
5 1 (1.10%) UiPath
5 1 (1.10%) Workday
5 1 (1.10%) Xceptor