Data Analytics Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Analytics
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 90 112
Rank change year-on-year +1 +22 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 33 38 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.95% 1.79% 1.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 1.95% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 27
10th Percentile £394 £443 £330
25th Percentile £493 £506 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +20.37% +4.85%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £638
90th Percentile £758 £819 £655
Central London median daily rate £600 £650 £558
% change year-on-year -7.69% +16.59% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.50 - -
Median hourly rate £17.00 - -
75th Percentile £17.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £17.00 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year -51.43% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Analytics 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 1,601 1,946 2,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.51% 91.88% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,200 1,800
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £421 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £764 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 17
10th Percentile £16.85 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.48% +54.55% -36.40%
75th Percentile £36.00 £112.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -22.76% +30.84% -37.79%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Analytics job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Analytics in the City of London over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the City of London

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
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 4 (12.12%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) AWS
2 7 (21.21%) Power Platform
3 5 (15.15%) GCP
4 4 (12.12%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (6.06%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (6.06%) Collibra
5 2 (6.06%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.03%) Azure AI
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.03%) Serverless
6 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Power BI
1 7 (21.21%) Tableau
2 5 (15.15%) BigQuery
2 5 (15.15%) Hadoop
3 4 (12.12%) Apache Hive
3 4 (12.12%) Big Data
3 4 (12.12%) Data Lake
3 4 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (6.06%) MySQL
5 2 (6.06%) Spark SQL
5 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.03%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (3.03%) Informix
6 1 (3.03%) Looker
6 1 (3.03%) Metadata
6 1 (3.03%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Git
2 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.03%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 18 (54.55%) Finance
2 13 (39.39%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
4 9 (27.27%) Banking
5 4 (12.12%) Financial Institution
6 3 (9.09%) Legal
6 3 (9.09%) Retail
7 2 (6.06%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (6.06%) Investment Banking
7 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (6.06%) Retail Banking
8 1 (3.03%) Front Office
8 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Analyst
2 5 (15.15%) Business Analyst
2 5 (15.15%) Data Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Senior
4 3 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Data Scientist
5 2 (6.06%) Developer
5 2 (6.06%) GCP Data Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Governance Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Insurance Systems Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Lead
5 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) SQL Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) SQL Data Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) PySpark
2 3 (9.09%) HTML
3 2 (6.06%) CSS
3 2 (6.06%) TensorFlow
4 1 (3.03%) .NET
4 1 (3.03%) ADO
4 1 (3.03%) LangChain
4 1 (3.03%) LangGraph
4 1 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (3.03%) Node.js
4 1 (3.03%) NumPy
4 1 (3.03%) Pandas
4 1 (3.03%) scikit-learn
4 1 (3.03%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (12.12%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (6.06%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.06%) AS400
2 2 (6.06%) Credit Risk
2 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.03%) iSeries
3 1 (3.03%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) Analytics
2 13 (39.39%) Agile
2 13 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (27.27%) Data Modelling
4 8 (24.24%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (21.21%) AI
5 7 (21.21%) Data Science
5 7 (21.21%) Visualisation
6 6 (18.18%) Data Analysis
6 6 (18.18%) Data Management
6 6 (18.18%) ETL
6 6 (18.18%) Machine Learning
6 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (15.15%) Data Governance
7 5 (15.15%) DevOps
8 4 (12.12%) Continuous Delivery
8 4 (12.12%) Data Transformation
8 4 (12.12%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (12.12%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (57.58%) SQL
2 16 (48.48%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) Java
3 3 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) Korn
4 2 (6.06%) RPG
4 2 (6.06%) VBA
5 1 (3.03%) LookML
5 1 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Degree
2 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.06%) CISSP
3 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.06%) PhD
4 1 (3.03%) ACCA
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CFA
4 1 (3.03%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.06%) PMO
2 2 (6.06%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
1 4 (12.12%) Terraform
2 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.03%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.15%) Google
3 3 (9.09%) Alteryx
3 3 (9.09%) Foundry
4 2 (6.06%) Informatica
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Palantir
4 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.06%) Talend
5 1 (3.03%) Ab Initio
5 1 (3.03%) Aderant
5 1 (3.03%) Databricks
5 1 (3.03%) HP
5 1 (3.03%) Okta
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) SAP
5 1 (3.03%) Workday