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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 87 109
Rank change year-on-year -1 +22 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 35 37 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.01% 1.74% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.14% 1.90% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 25 29
10th Percentile £363 £441 £375
25th Percentile £481 £525 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £609
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.73% +18.25%
75th Percentile £660 £738 £655
90th Percentile £745 £828 £705
Central London median daily rate £600 £650 £605
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.53% +15.14%
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 1,634 1,946 2,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.96% 91.66% 89.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,194 1,750
10th Percentile £331 £375 £363
25th Percentile £420 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.71% +1.74%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -30.13%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.40%

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 7 November 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 & 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 3 (8.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (22.86%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) AWS
2 7 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (14.29%) GCP
4 4 (11.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Composer
5 2 (5.71%) Cloud Functions
5 2 (5.71%) Collibra
5 2 (5.71%) Google Compute Engine
5 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (5.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.86%) Azure AI
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.86%) SaaS
6 1 (2.86%) Serverless
6 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) Power BI
1 7 (20.00%) Tableau
2 5 (14.29%) BigQuery
3 4 (11.43%) Big Data
3 4 (11.43%) Data Lake
3 4 (11.43%) Hadoop
4 3 (8.57%) Apache Hive
4 3 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (8.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.71%) MySQL
5 2 (5.71%) Spark SQL
5 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (2.86%) Informix
6 1 (2.86%) Looker
6 1 (2.86%) Metadata
6 1 (2.86%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.86%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 17 (48.57%) Finance
2 12 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
3 9 (25.71%) Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Financial Institution
4 3 (8.57%) Investment Banking
4 3 (8.57%) Retail
5 2 (5.71%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (5.71%) Front Office
5 2 (5.71%) Legal
5 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Retail Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Marketing
6 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Senior
3 4 (11.43%) GCP Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Data Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Data Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Developer
5 2 (5.71%) GCP Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Governance Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Insurance Systems Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Gen AI Specialist
6 1 (2.86%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) HTML
1 3 (8.57%) PySpark
2 2 (5.71%) CSS
2 2 (5.71%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.86%) .NET
3 1 (2.86%) ADO
3 1 (2.86%) LangChain
3 1 (2.86%) LangGraph
3 1 (2.86%) Node.js
3 1 (2.86%) NumPy
3 1 (2.86%) Pandas
3 1 (2.86%) scikit-learn
3 1 (2.86%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (2.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (8.57%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (5.71%) AS400
3 2 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.71%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.86%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.86%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.86%) iSeries
4 1 (2.86%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) Analytics
2 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (34.29%) Agile
4 9 (25.71%) Data Modelling
5 8 (22.86%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (22.86%) Data Pipeline
6 7 (20.00%) Data Management
6 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (17.14%) AI
7 6 (17.14%) Data Science
7 6 (17.14%) ETL
7 6 (17.14%) Visualisation
8 5 (14.29%) Data Analysis
8 5 (14.29%) Data Governance
8 5 (14.29%) DevOps
8 5 (14.29%) Machine Learning
8 5 (14.29%) Migration
9 4 (11.43%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (11.43%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) SQL
2 14 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) Java
3 3 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.71%) Korn
4 2 (5.71%) RPG
4 2 (5.71%) VBA
5 1 (2.86%) LookML
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.71%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.71%) CISSP
4 1 (2.86%) ACCA
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) CFA
4 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.86%) PhD
4 1 (2.86%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.71%) PMO
2 2 (5.71%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Kubernetes
1 4 (11.43%) Terraform
2 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.86%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Google
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Alteryx
2 3 (8.57%) Foundry
2 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.71%) Informatica
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle
3 2 (5.71%) Palantir
3 2 (5.71%) Talend
4 1 (2.86%) Ab Initio
4 1 (2.86%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) HP
4 1 (2.86%) Okta
4 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) Workday