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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 87 93
Rank change year-on-year -23 +6 +31
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 27 38 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.17% 2.10% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 2.22% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 30 25
10th Percentile £326 £463 £435
25th Percentile £355 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £613 £734 £700
90th Percentile £617 £769 £745
Central London median daily rate £585 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.00% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
Central London median hourly rate - £17.00 -

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 2,033 1,710 1,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.74% 94.32% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 1,123 1,253
10th Percentile £381 £325 £375
25th Percentile £460 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £33.10 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £26.78
% change year-on-year -17.44% +8.55% -23.49%

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

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 25 August 2026.

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 & 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%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Chatbot
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (14.81%) Azure
1 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
1 4 (14.81%) Snowflake
2 2 (7.41%) Azure AI
2 2 (7.41%) Copilot Studio
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (3.70%) Alation
3 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
3 1 (3.70%) Collibra
3 1 (3.70%) GCP
3 1 (3.70%) GitHub
3 1 (3.70%) Matillion
3 1 (3.70%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.70%) PowerApps
3 1 (3.70%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (37.04%) Tableau
2 7 (25.93%) BigQuery
3 4 (14.81%) Big Data
3 4 (14.81%) Power BI
4 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
4 2 (7.41%) NoSQL
5 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.70%) GIS
5 1 (3.70%) Looker
5 1 (3.70%) Mixpanel
5 1 (3.70%) MySQL
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (3.70%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.70%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) ER Studio
1 1 (3.70%) Git
1 1 (3.70%) Jasmine
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
1 1 (3.70%) JUnit
1 1 (3.70%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 5 (18.52%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Law
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
4 1 (3.70%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) GCP Data Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) GCP Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) DBA
3 4 (14.81%) Senior
3 4 (14.81%) Senior DBA
3 4 (14.81%) Senior SQL DBA
3 4 (14.81%) SQL DBA
4 2 (7.41%) Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Business Data Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Data Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Principal Architect
5 1 (3.70%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.70%) CSS
1 1 (3.70%) CSS3
1 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
1 1 (3.70%) HTML
1 1 (3.70%) HTML5
1 1 (3.70%) NgRx
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 1 (3.70%) PySpark
1 1 (3.70%) REST
1 1 (3.70%) RESTful
1 1 (3.70%) Snowpark
1 1 (3.70%) Spring
1 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
1 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) CMDB
3 1 (3.70%) Learning Management System
3 1 (3.70%) Replication
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Analytics
2 11 (40.74%) Data Science
3 9 (33.33%) AI
4 6 (22.22%) Agile
5 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (18.52%) LLM
5 5 (18.52%) Machine Learning
6 4 (14.81%) Big Data Analytics
6 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (14.81%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (11.11%) Fintech
7 3 (11.11%) Generative AI
7 3 (11.11%) Visualisation
8 2 (7.41%) API Development
8 2 (7.41%) CI/CD
8 2 (7.41%) Data Engineering
8 2 (7.41%) Feature Engineering
8 2 (7.41%) Prompt Engineering
8 2 (7.41%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
8 2 (7.41%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) SQL
2 6 (22.22%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) R
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) Scala
4 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) ACCA
2 1 (3.70%) CFA
2 1 (3.70%) CIMA
2 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (7.41%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Databricks
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Foundry
3 2 (7.41%) OpenAI
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Alteryx
4 1 (3.70%) Amplitude
4 1 (3.70%) Cribl.io
4 1 (3.70%) Denodo
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow