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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 46 56
Rank change year-on-year -14 +10 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 71 77 81
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.62% 4.27% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.06% 4.66% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 37 53
10th Percentile £370 £424 £324
25th Percentile £469 £500 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £681
90th Percentile £768 £725 £744
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £19.08 - -
25th Percentile £21.87 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% - -
75th Percentile £38.50 - -
90th Percentile £43.90 - -
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 -
% change year-on-year +27.27% - -

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 1,748 1,654 2,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.00% 91.69% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,208 1,015 1,504
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £430 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £668 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.40% -6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £31.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +54.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £45.08 £48.75 £41.84
90th Percentile £54.94 £112.00 £49.55
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

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

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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 24 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analysis in the City of London

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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

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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 24 February 2026.

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 (4.23%) Confluence
1 3 (4.23%) Palantir Foundry
2 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (16.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.82%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (4.23%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.41%) Actimize
2 1 (1.41%) HFM
2 1 (1.41%) Loan IQ
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.41%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 15 (21.13%) Power Platform
2 9 (12.68%) AWS
3 7 (9.86%) Azure
4 5 (7.04%) GitHub
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon SageMaker
5 3 (4.23%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (4.23%) IBM Watson
5 3 (4.23%) Serverless
5 3 (4.23%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.82%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.82%) GCP
6 2 (2.82%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.41%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.41%) Collibra
7 1 (1.41%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.13%) Power BI
2 10 (14.08%) Tableau
3 4 (5.63%) Star Schema
4 3 (4.23%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.41%) Big Data
6 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.41%) Data Vault
6 1 (1.41%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.41%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.41%) Informix
6 1 (1.41%) Looker
6 1 (1.41%) MySQL
6 1 (1.41%) Neo4j
6 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.41%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.41%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 4 (5.63%) Git
1 4 (5.63%) JIRA
2 1 (1.41%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (52.11%) Finance
2 31 (43.66%) Social Skills
3 30 (42.25%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (30.99%) Banking
5 11 (15.49%) Front Office
6 10 (14.08%) Investment Banking
7 7 (9.86%) Legal
8 6 (8.45%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (5.63%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.82%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (2.82%) Financial Institution
11 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.82%) Retail
11 2 (2.82%) Retail Banking
12 1 (1.41%) Advertising
12 1 (1.41%) Back Office
12 1 (1.41%) Manufacturing
12 1 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (52.11%) Analyst
2 23 (32.39%) Business Analyst
3 12 (16.90%) Data Analyst
4 8 (11.27%) Data Scientist
5 7 (9.86%) Senior
6 6 (8.45%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (7.04%) Lead
8 4 (5.63%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (5.63%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (4.23%) Consultant
9 3 (4.23%) Electronics Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Finance Business Analyst
9 3 (4.23%) Financial Analyst
9 3 (4.23%) Technical Analyst
10 2 (2.82%) Business Finance Analyst
10 2 (2.82%) Data Consultant
10 2 (2.82%) HR Analyst
10 2 (2.82%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 2 (2.82%) MiFID Business Analyst
10 2 (2.82%) SAP HR Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.86%) scikit-learn
2 4 (5.63%) FIX Protocol
2 4 (5.63%) Matplotlib
2 4 (5.63%) Middleware
2 4 (5.63%) PySpark
2 4 (5.63%) PyTorch
2 4 (5.63%) Seaborn
2 4 (5.63%) TensorFlow
3 3 (4.23%) JMS
3 3 (4.23%) Kafka
3 3 (4.23%) NumPy
3 3 (4.23%) Pandas
3 3 (4.23%) REST
4 1 (1.41%) CSS
4 1 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.41%) HTML
4 1 (1.41%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.41%) NetworkX
4 1 (1.41%) RESTful
4 1 (1.41%) Ultra Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Algorithms
2 7 (9.86%) Equities
3 6 (8.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (7.04%) Fixed Income
5 4 (5.63%) Derivative
5 4 (5.63%) Product Ownership
6 3 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (4.23%) Public Cloud
7 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.41%) Clustering
8 1 (1.41%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.41%) DTCC
8 1 (1.41%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.41%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.41%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.41%) Linux
1 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (30.99%) Analytics
2 20 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (23.94%) Agile
4 16 (22.54%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (22.54%) Data Modelling
4 16 (22.54%) Validation
5 15 (21.13%) Visualisation
6 14 (19.72%) AI
7 12 (16.90%) User Acceptance Testing
8 11 (15.49%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (14.08%) Actionable Insight
9 10 (14.08%) Business Analysis
9 10 (14.08%) Machine Learning
9 10 (14.08%) Process Improvement
10 9 (12.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (11.27%) Data Science
11 8 (11.27%) Data Visualisation
11 8 (11.27%) Requirements Gathering
11 8 (11.27%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 30 (42.25%) SQL
2 27 (38.03%) Python
3 3 (4.23%) Java
4 1 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (11.27%) Degree
2 2 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (2.82%) CFA
2 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
2 2 (2.82%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.41%) CBAP
3 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.41%) IIBA
3 1 (1.41%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.72%) Data Quality
2 8 (11.27%) QA
3 4 (5.63%) MiFID
4 3 (4.23%) PMO
5 2 (2.82%) Basel III
5 2 (2.82%) EMIR
5 2 (2.82%) GDPR
6 1 (1.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.41%) GAAP
6 1 (1.41%) IFRS
6 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.23%) Grafana
1 3 (4.23%) Terraform
2 1 (1.41%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (1.41%) Kibana
2 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.41%) logstash
Vendors
1 7 (9.86%) Databricks
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.04%) Google
4 4 (5.63%) Bloomberg
4 4 (5.63%) Oracle
5 3 (4.23%) AppDynamics
5 3 (4.23%) Charles River
5 3 (4.23%) Cognos
5 3 (4.23%) Foundry
5 3 (4.23%) IBM
5 3 (4.23%) Murex
5 3 (4.23%) Palantir
5 3 (4.23%) Sage
5 3 (4.23%) SAP
5 3 (4.23%) Splunk
6 2 (2.82%) Informatica
7 1 (1.41%) Ariba
7 1 (1.41%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.41%) Solace
7 1 (1.41%) TIBCO