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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 92 93
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 27 27 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.32% 1.48% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.61% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 17 26
10th Percentile £321 £420 £431
25th Percentile £419 £463 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £535 £545
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -1.83% +12.95%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £685
90th Percentile £638 £818 £709
Central London median daily rate £540 £535 £545
% change year-on-year +0.93% -1.83% -9.17%

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 1,810 1,679 2,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.77% 91.85% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,248 1,045 1,497
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £567
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.41% -5.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 13
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.00 £35.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.13% +42.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.50 £41.84
90th Percentile £59.72 £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 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

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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 6 March 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 (3.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
1 7 (25.93%) Power Platform
2 4 (14.81%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) Snowflake
3 2 (7.41%) Azure AI
3 2 (7.41%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.70%) Collibra
4 1 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Serverless
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) Power BI
2 6 (22.22%) Tableau
3 3 (11.11%) Looker
3 3 (11.11%) Mixpanel
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.41%) Big Data
4 2 (7.41%) MySQL
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
5 1 (3.70%) Informix
5 1 (3.70%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Git
General
1 13 (48.15%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Banking
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Front Office
4 2 (7.41%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (14.81%) Business Analyst
2 4 (14.81%) Consultant
3 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Data Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Data Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Information Assurance Consultant
4 2 (7.41%) Principal Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Customer Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Data Governance Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Data Scientist
5 1 (3.70%) Governance Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Information Assurance Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce Administrator
5 1 (3.70%) Senior IT Business Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Test Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) .NET
1 1 (3.70%) JSON
1 1 (3.70%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (3.70%) Node.js
1 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (3.70%) Derivative
1 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (3.70%) Equities
1 1 (3.70%) Fixed Income
1 1 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (3.70%) Hedge funds
1 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Analytics
2 9 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 8 (29.63%) Business Intelligence
4 7 (25.93%) Data Modelling
4 7 (25.93%) Data Visualisation
4 7 (25.93%) Machine Learning
5 6 (22.22%) Agile
5 6 (22.22%) Data Analysis
6 5 (18.52%) AI
6 5 (18.52%) Data Governance
6 5 (18.52%) Validation
7 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (14.81%) Data Science
7 4 (14.81%) Migration
7 4 (14.81%) Predictive Modelling
7 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.81%) Risk Management
8 3 (11.11%) A/B Testing
8 3 (11.11%) Personalization
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) SQL
2 12 (44.44%) Python
3 4 (14.81%) R
4 1 (3.70%) C++
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Degree
2 3 (11.11%) GIAC
2 3 (11.11%) ISACA
2 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.93%) Data Quality
2 3 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Databricks
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.11%) Amplitude
3 3 (11.11%) Oracle
4 2 (7.41%) Foundry
4 2 (7.41%) Informatica
4 2 (7.41%) OpenAI
4 2 (7.41%) Talend
5 1 (3.70%) Apple
5 1 (3.70%) Denodo
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce