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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 91 103
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 +62
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 21 26 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.15% 1.39% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.29% 1.51% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 23
10th Percentile £318 £443 £390
25th Percentile £413 £476 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +4.45% +7.32%
75th Percentile £625 £766 £688
90th Percentile £638 £941 £713
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.01% +4.45% +2.33%

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 1,633 1,723 2,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.23% 91.99% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,047 1,548
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.95%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £770 £791 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £571
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.66% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 10
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.73 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.83% +35.24% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.12 £94.94 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.08 £114.55 £74.13
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 19 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 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) Power Platform
3 4 (19.05%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) Azure AI
4 2 (9.52%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.76%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (4.76%) Dataform
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (4.76%) SaaS
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (4.76%) Serverless
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Power BI
2 4 (19.05%) Tableau
3 2 (9.52%) MySQL
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 2 (9.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.76%) Big Data
4 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
4 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.76%) Informix
4 1 (4.76%) Looker
4 1 (4.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Eclipse
1 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (19.05%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Front Office
4 2 (9.52%) Investment Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Retail
5 1 (4.76%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Data Manager
3 2 (9.52%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Data Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Data Business Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Information Assurance Consultant
3 2 (9.52%) Insurance Systems Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Data Governance Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Data Scientist
4 1 (4.76%) Governance Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Information Assurance Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce Administrator
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Senior IT Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Test Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) .NET
1 1 (4.76%) JSON
1 1 (4.76%) LangChain
1 1 (4.76%) LangGraph
1 1 (4.76%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (4.76%) Node.js
1 1 (4.76%) NumPy
1 1 (4.76%) Pandas
1 1 (4.76%) scikit-learn
1 1 (4.76%) Semantic Kernel
1 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (9.52%) AS400
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.76%) Hedge funds
2 1 (4.76%) iSeries
2 1 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Analytics
2 6 (28.57%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (28.57%) Visualisation
3 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (19.05%) Data Governance
3 4 (19.05%) Migration
4 3 (14.29%) AI
4 3 (14.29%) Architectural Design
4 3 (14.29%) Backlog Management
4 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (14.29%) Data Modelling
4 3 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (14.29%) ETL
4 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 3 (14.29%) Information Assurance
4 3 (14.29%) Machine Learning
4 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 6 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) Korn
3 2 (9.52%) RPG
4 1 (4.76%) C++
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.76%) LookML
4 1 (4.76%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) GIAC
2 3 (14.29%) ISACA
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Databricks
2 2 (9.52%) Foundry
2 2 (9.52%) Informatica
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) Talend
3 1 (4.76%) Alteryx
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce