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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 97 100
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +54
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 23 25 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.28% 1.32% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 1.44% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 24
10th Percentile £320 £454 £375
25th Percentile £416 £476 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% +5.41% +6.08%
75th Percentile £638 £766 £688
90th Percentile £730 £941 £711
Central London median daily rate £556 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -3.18% +5.41% +3.81%

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 1,608 1,738 2,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.53% 92.01% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,128 1,056 1,550
10th Percentile £350 £367 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £761 £791 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 10
10th Percentile £19.94 £14.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +46.67% -35.19%
75th Percentile £42.30 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.56 £137.50 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -27.15%

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 12 January 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 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
3 4 (17.39%) AWS
4 3 (13.04%) GCP
5 2 (8.70%) Azure AI
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.35%) Collibra
6 1 (4.35%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (4.35%) Dataform
6 1 (4.35%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (4.35%) SaaS
6 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (4.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (4.35%) Serverless
6 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
6 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Power BI
2 5 (21.74%) Tableau
3 2 (8.70%) Big Data
3 2 (8.70%) BigQuery
3 2 (8.70%) MySQL
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.35%) Informix
4 1 (4.35%) Looker
4 1 (4.35%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Eclipse
1 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
4 4 (17.39%) Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Front Office
5 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Legal
5 2 (8.70%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Analyst
2 4 (17.39%) Business Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Data Manager
4 2 (8.70%) Business Systems Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Information Assurance Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Insurance Systems Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.35%) AWS Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Data Analytics Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Data Governance Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Migration Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Project Assurance Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) .NET
1 1 (4.35%) JSON
1 1 (4.35%) LangChain
1 1 (4.35%) LangGraph
1 1 (4.35%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (4.35%) Node.js
1 1 (4.35%) NumPy
1 1 (4.35%) Pandas
1 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
1 1 (4.35%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (8.70%) AS400
2 2 (8.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.35%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.35%) iSeries
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) Analytics
2 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (26.09%) Agile
3 6 (26.09%) Visualisation
4 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (21.74%) Data Governance
5 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (17.39%) ETL
5 4 (17.39%) Machine Learning
5 4 (17.39%) Migration
5 4 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (13.04%) AI
6 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (13.04%) Data Management
6 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
6 3 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (13.04%) Incident Management
6 3 (13.04%) Information Assurance
6 3 (13.04%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) SQL
2 7 (30.43%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) Korn
3 2 (8.70%) RPG
4 1 (4.35%) C++
4 1 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.35%) LookML
4 1 (4.35%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) GIAC
2 3 (13.04%) ISACA
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.35%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
1 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) Alteryx
2 2 (8.70%) Databricks
2 2 (8.70%) Foundry
2 2 (8.70%) Google
2 2 (8.70%) Informatica
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Talend
3 1 (4.35%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce