Data Analytics Contracts in the City of London

Data Analytics
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 103 121
Rank change year-on-year +20 +18 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 39 27 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.15% 1.26% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.29% 1.38% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 23 22
10th Percentile £410 £391 £428
25th Percentile £475 £488 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £718
90th Percentile £763 £708 £738
Central London median daily rate £555 £613 £625
% change year-on-year -9.39% -2.00% +11.11%
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 - -

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 1,705 1,952 3,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.26% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,349 2,158
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

Data Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Analytics in the City of London

Data Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Analytics in the City of London

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 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the City of London

Data Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Analytics in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Analytics in the City of London

Data Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (20.51%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) Apache
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
5 1 (2.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (25.64%) Azure
2 9 (23.08%) Power Platform
3 7 (17.95%) AWS
4 6 (15.38%) GCP
5 3 (7.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (5.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Composer
6 2 (5.13%) Cloud Functions
6 2 (5.13%) dbt
6 2 (5.13%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (5.13%) Serverless
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.56%) Collibra
7 1 (2.56%) Google Analytics
7 1 (2.56%) SaaS
7 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) Power BI
2 8 (20.51%) Hadoop
3 7 (17.95%) BigQuery
3 7 (17.95%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (17.95%) Tableau
4 5 (12.82%) Apache Hive
4 5 (12.82%) Big Data
4 5 (12.82%) Data Lake
5 4 (10.26%) Looker
6 2 (5.13%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
6 2 (5.13%) Spark SQL
7 1 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
7 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
7 1 (2.56%) MySQL
7 1 (2.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (2.56%) Pentaho
7 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) JIRA
2 1 (2.56%) Appium
2 1 (2.56%) Selenium
General
1 24 (61.54%) Finance
2 16 (41.03%) Social Skills
3 14 (35.90%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (25.64%) Banking
5 5 (12.82%) Financial Institution
6 3 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.13%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Advertising
8 1 (2.56%) Back Office
8 1 (2.56%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Electronics
8 1 (2.56%) Front Office
8 1 (2.56%) Legal
8 1 (2.56%) Marketing
8 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.56%) Retail
8 1 (2.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Analyst
2 8 (20.51%) Data Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Business Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Data Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Architect
5 3 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Lead
5 3 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.69%) SQL Analyst
5 3 (7.69%) SQL Data Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Data Analytics Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Data Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Developer
6 2 (5.13%) GCP Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) PySpark
2 3 (7.69%) HTML
2 3 (7.69%) TensorFlow
3 2 (5.13%) CSS
4 1 (2.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 3 (7.69%) Credit Risk
3 2 (5.13%) Fixed Income
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) Derivative
4 1 (2.56%) Equities
4 1 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.56%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.56%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Analytics
2 20 (51.28%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (41.03%) Agile
4 14 (35.90%) Business Intelligence
5 12 (30.77%) Decision-Making
6 11 (28.21%) Data Science
7 10 (25.64%) Data Pipeline
8 9 (23.08%) Data Analysis
8 9 (23.08%) Data Engineering
8 9 (23.08%) Visualisation
9 8 (20.51%) Computer Science
9 8 (20.51%) Data Management
9 8 (20.51%) Data Modelling
10 7 (17.95%) ETL
10 7 (17.95%) Machine Learning
10 7 (17.95%) Risk Management
11 6 (15.38%) Data Integration
11 6 (15.38%) Data Transformation
11 6 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
11 6 (15.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) SQL
2 17 (43.59%) Python
3 4 (10.26%) Java
4 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.13%) VBA
5 1 (2.56%) R
5 1 (2.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) Master's Degree
3 3 (7.69%) PhD
3 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.13%) AWS Certification
4 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.13%) PMP
5 1 (2.56%) ACCA
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.56%) CBAP
5 1 (2.56%) CFA
5 1 (2.56%) CISSP
5 1 (2.56%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) PMO
3 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.13%) MiFID
4 1 (2.56%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (2.56%) EMIR
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.56%) HP ALM
3 1 (2.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (15.38%) Google
2 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.69%) SAP
4 2 (5.13%) Databricks
4 2 (5.13%) Foundry
4 2 (5.13%) Palantir
4 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.56%) Ab Initio
5 1 (2.56%) Aderant
5 1 (2.56%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.56%) HP
5 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (2.56%) Workday