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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 34 56
Rank change year-on-year -36 +22 +26
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 66 108 78
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.71% 5.76% 3.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 6.13% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 72 49
10th Percentile £445 £385 £338
25th Percentile £509 £405 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -15.32%
75th Percentile £694 £700 £621
90th Percentile £795 £725 £693
Central London median daily rate £590 £563 £525
% change year-on-year +4.89% +7.14% -14.29%
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 2,106 1,762 1,957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.60% 93.97% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,424 1,140 1,338
10th Percentile £370 £338 £363
25th Percentile £455 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £101.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -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

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 (7.58%) Confluence
2 3 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.03%) Palantir Foundry
4 1 (1.52%) Apache
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.52%) ArcGIS
4 1 (1.52%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (12.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.06%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.03%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (3.03%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.52%) Actimize
2 1 (1.52%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.52%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.52%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.52%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 11 (16.67%) Azure
3 8 (12.12%) AWS
4 5 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (7.58%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.55%) GCP
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (3.03%) Collibra
6 2 (3.03%) GitHub
6 2 (3.03%) Google Analytics
6 2 (3.03%) Serverless
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.52%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.52%) Dagster
7 1 (1.52%) dbt
7 1 (1.52%) Miro
7 1 (1.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) 2G
1 1 (1.52%) 3G
1 1 (1.52%) 4G
1 1 (1.52%) 5G
1 1 (1.52%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (1.52%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.18%) Power BI
2 7 (10.61%) Metadata
3 6 (9.09%) Tableau
4 5 (7.58%) Oracle Database
4 5 (7.58%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.03%) BigQuery
6 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
6 2 (3.03%) GIS
6 2 (3.03%) Neo4j
6 2 (3.03%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.52%) Big Data
7 1 (1.52%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.52%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.52%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.52%) QGIS
7 1 (1.52%) QlikView
7 1 (1.52%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) JIRA
2 3 (4.55%) Git
General
1 29 (43.94%) Finance
2 21 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
2 21 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 19 (28.79%) Banking
4 6 (9.09%) Front Office
5 4 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Back Office
6 3 (4.55%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.03%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Retail
8 1 (1.52%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Marketing
8 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.52%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (56.06%) Analyst
2 20 (30.30%) Business Analyst
3 14 (21.21%) Data Analyst
4 6 (9.09%) Developer
5 5 (7.58%) C# Developer
5 5 (7.58%) Risk Analyst
6 4 (6.06%) Data Scientist
6 4 (6.06%) Lead
6 4 (6.06%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Architect
7 3 (4.55%) Business Systems Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) Consultant
7 3 (4.55%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (4.55%) IT Analyst
8 2 (3.03%) IT Risk Analyst
8 2 (3.03%) Principal Consultant
8 2 (3.03%) Report Analyst
8 2 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.03%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (3.03%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) .NET
1 5 (7.58%) .NET Framework
1 5 (7.58%) Kafka
2 4 (6.06%) PySpark
2 4 (6.06%) scikit-learn
3 2 (3.03%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (3.03%) JMS
3 2 (3.03%) Middleware
3 2 (3.03%) NumPy
3 2 (3.03%) Pandas
3 2 (3.03%) PyTorch
3 2 (3.03%) React
3 2 (3.03%) REST
3 2 (3.03%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.52%) GraphX
4 1 (1.52%) JSON
4 1 (1.52%) Matplotlib
4 1 (1.52%) NetworkX
4 1 (1.52%) Seaborn
4 1 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.58%) Equities
1 5 (7.58%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.06%) Algorithms
2 4 (6.06%) Derivative
2 4 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.55%) Credit Risk
3 3 (4.55%) Fixed Income
3 3 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.03%) Market Risk
4 2 (3.03%) Reference Data
4 2 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.52%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.58%) Windows
1 5 (7.58%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.03%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.03%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.85%) Analytics
2 21 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (28.79%) Validation
4 17 (25.76%) Agile
5 16 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (22.73%) Data Modelling
7 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (18.18%) AI
9 10 (15.15%) Data Governance
9 10 (15.15%) Decision-Making
9 10 (15.15%) Requirements Gathering
9 10 (15.15%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (13.64%) Translating Business Requirements
11 8 (12.12%) Machine Learning
11 8 (12.12%) Migration
11 8 (12.12%) User Stories
12 7 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (10.61%) Data Migration
12 7 (10.61%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (48.48%) SQL
2 19 (28.79%) Python
3 5 (7.58%) C#
3 5 (7.58%) PL/SQL
3 5 (7.58%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.03%) Java
4 2 (3.03%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.03%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.52%) Cypher
5 1 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.52%) Gremlin
5 1 (1.52%) Scala
5 1 (1.52%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (6.06%) Degree
2 3 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) CBAP
3 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) IIBA
3 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.73%) Data Quality
2 12 (18.18%) QA
3 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.52%) Basel III
4 1 (1.52%) GAAP
4 1 (1.52%) GDPR
4 1 (1.52%) IFRS
4 1 (1.52%) P3O
4 1 (1.52%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.03%) Docker
1 2 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.03%) Grafana
1 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.03%) Terraform
2 1 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.61%) Databricks
3 5 (7.58%) Citrix
3 5 (7.58%) Oracle
4 3 (4.55%) Bloomberg
4 3 (4.55%) Google
5 2 (3.03%) AppDynamics
5 2 (3.03%) Charles River
5 2 (3.03%) Foundry
5 2 (3.03%) Palantir
5 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.03%) SAP
5 2 (3.03%) Splunk
6 1 (1.52%) Apple
6 1 (1.52%) Cognos
6 1 (1.52%) IBM
6 1 (1.52%) Informatica
6 1 (1.52%) Sage
6 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.52%) Siemens