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 29 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 86 86
Rank change year-on-year -36 0 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 20 31 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.91% 1.81% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.91% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 27
10th Percentile £303 £406 £431
25th Percentile £539 £517 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £605 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% -6.92% +10.64%
75th Percentile £623 £741 £738
90th Percentile £734 £806 £810
Central London median daily rate £600 £605 £638
% change year-on-year -0.83% -5.10% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £17.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year - -51.43% -

All Process & 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 1,971 1,619 1,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.47% 94.35% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,359 1,086 1,205
10th Percentile £365 £323 £371
25th Percentile £455 £420 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £769 £791
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 19
10th Percentile £16.98 £16.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £17.60 £22.88 £21.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -26.88% +40.00%
75th Percentile £36.13 £50.25 £102.25
90th Percentile £59.70 £68.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.57 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.30% -18.57% +30.84%

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

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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 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 29 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics 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 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 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (15.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (5.00%) Alation
2 1 (5.00%) Azure AI
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Machine Learning
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (5.00%) Collibra
2 1 (5.00%) Copilot Studio
2 1 (5.00%) GitHub
2 1 (5.00%) Google Ads
2 1 (5.00%) Matillion
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
2 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (40.00%) Tableau
2 5 (25.00%) BigQuery
3 3 (15.00%) Power BI
4 2 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (5.00%) GIS
5 1 (5.00%) Looker
5 1 (5.00%) Metadata
5 1 (5.00%) Mixpanel
5 1 (5.00%) MySQL
5 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (5.00%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (5.00%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) ER Studio
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Jasmine
1 1 (5.00%) JUnit
1 1 (5.00%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Automotive
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Legal
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Data Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) GCP Data Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Business Data Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Data Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Angular Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Analytics Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Data Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) DBA
6 1 (5.00%) Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Process Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Risk Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Sybase DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.00%) CSS
1 1 (5.00%) CSS3
1 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (5.00%) HTML
1 1 (5.00%) HTML5
1 1 (5.00%) NgRx
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (5.00%) REST
1 1 (5.00%) RESTful
1 1 (5.00%) Snowpark
1 1 (5.00%) Spring
1 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (10.00%) Replication
2 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Learning Management System
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Analytics
2 9 (45.00%) Data Science
3 7 (35.00%) AI
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (20.00%) LLM
5 3 (15.00%) Fintech
5 3 (15.00%) Generative AI
5 3 (15.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.00%) Use Case
5 3 (15.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (10.00%) Anomaly Detection
6 2 (10.00%) Data Governance
6 2 (10.00%) Data Integration
6 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Python
2 5 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) R
4 1 (5.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) Korn
4 1 (5.00%) Perl
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) CISA
2 1 (5.00%) CISSP
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 1 (5.00%) GRC
2 1 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Databricks
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Alteryx
3 1 (5.00%) Amplitude
3 1 (5.00%) Cribl.io
3 1 (5.00%) Foundry
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) OpenAI
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) Sybase