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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 94 122
Rank change year-on-year +6 +28 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 34 33 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.93% 1.59% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 1.73% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 24
10th Percentile £422 £435 £296
25th Percentile £526 £500 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £650 £609
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +6.73% +16.00%
75th Percentile £734 £738 £655
90th Percentile £794 £828 £734
Central London median daily rate £605 £650 £609
% change year-on-year -6.92% +6.73% +16.00%
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 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year -51.43% - -

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 1,657 1,905 2,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.20% 92.07% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,207 1,901
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £415 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £706
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

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
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 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Analytics in the City of London

Data Analytics
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 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 4 (11.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.94%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Power Platform
2 8 (23.53%) Azure
3 5 (14.71%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) GCP
4 4 (11.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (5.88%) Collibra
5 2 (5.88%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (2.94%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (2.94%) Serverless
6 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) Power BI
2 6 (17.65%) Tableau
3 5 (14.71%) Big Data
3 5 (14.71%) BigQuery
3 5 (14.71%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (14.71%) Hadoop
4 4 (11.76%) Apache Hive
4 4 (11.76%) Data Lake
5 2 (5.88%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (5.88%) Spark SQL
6 1 (2.94%) Looker
6 1 (2.94%) Metadata
6 1 (2.94%) Pentaho
6 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
1 1 (2.94%) Eclipse
1 1 (2.94%) Git
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 18 (52.94%) Finance
2 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
3 12 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (20.59%) Banking
5 4 (11.76%) Financial Institution
6 3 (8.82%) Legal
6 3 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.94%) Advertising
8 1 (2.94%) Back Office
8 1 (2.94%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.94%) Electronics
8 1 (2.94%) Front Office
8 1 (2.94%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.94%) Marketing
8 1 (2.94%) Retail
8 1 (2.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Analyst
2 5 (14.71%) Data Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Business Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Data Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 3 (8.82%) Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Data Scientist
5 2 (5.88%) Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Governance Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Programme Manager
5 2 (5.88%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.88%) SQL Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) SQL Data Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) PySpark
2 3 (8.82%) HTML
3 2 (5.88%) CSS
3 2 (5.88%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.94%) ADO
4 1 (2.94%) LangChain
4 1 (2.94%) LangGraph
4 1 (2.94%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.94%) NumPy
4 1 (2.94%) Pandas
4 1 (2.94%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.94%) Semantic Kernel
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (11.76%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.88%) AS400
2 2 (5.88%) Credit Risk
2 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.88%) Mobile Banking
2 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.88%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.94%) iSeries
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) Analytics
2 14 (41.18%) Agile
3 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (26.47%) Data Modelling
5 9 (26.47%) Data Science
6 8 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
6 8 (23.53%) Visualisation
7 7 (20.59%) Artificial Intelligence
8 6 (17.65%) Data Analysis
8 6 (17.65%) Data Management
8 6 (17.65%) Decision-Making
8 6 (17.65%) DevOps
8 6 (17.65%) Machine Learning
9 5 (14.71%) Cloud Security
9 5 (14.71%) ETL
9 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (11.76%) CI/CD
10 4 (11.76%) CRM
10 4 (11.76%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) SQL
2 16 (47.06%) Python
3 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.88%) Java
4 2 (5.88%) Korn
4 2 (5.88%) RPG
4 2 (5.88%) VBA
5 1 (2.94%) LookML
5 1 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (26.47%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) CISSP
3 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 2 (5.88%) PhD
4 1 (2.94%) ACCA
4 1 (2.94%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) CFA
4 1 (2.94%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) Data Quality
1 3 (8.82%) PMO
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 4 (11.76%) Terraform
2 2 (5.88%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.94%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Google
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) Alteryx
2 3 (8.82%) Foundry
2 3 (8.82%) Salesforce
2 3 (8.82%) SAP
3 2 (5.88%) Palantir
4 1 (2.94%) Ab Initio
4 1 (2.94%) Aderant
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) HP
4 1 (2.94%) Okta
4 1 (2.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Workday