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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 91 110
Rank change year-on-year -3 +19 +55
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 32 33 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.79% 1.52% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 1.66% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 28
10th Percentile £351 £461 £375
25th Percentile £498 £525 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 £609
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +10.84% +16.00%
75th Percentile £654 £741 £681
90th Percentile £744 £874 £706
Central London median daily rate £600 £675 £609
% change year-on-year -11.11% +10.84% +10.73%

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 1,664 1,992 2,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 92.91% 91.50% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 1,221 1,697
10th Percentile £338 £375 £363
25th Percentile £418 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £756 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 17 13
10th Percentile £20.02 £16.70 -
25th Percentile £25.75 £22.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +54.55% -47.12%
75th Percentile £47.50 £112.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -20.00% +30.84% -47.55%

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 28 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 4 (12.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) Power Platform
4 4 (12.50%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) Azure AI
5 2 (6.25%) Collibra
5 2 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.13%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (3.13%) SaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Serverless
6 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) Power BI
2 6 (18.75%) Tableau
3 5 (15.63%) Hadoop
4 3 (9.38%) Apache Hive
4 3 (9.38%) Big Data
4 3 (9.38%) BigQuery
4 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (9.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
5 2 (6.25%) Metadata
5 2 (6.25%) MySQL
5 2 (6.25%) Spark SQL
5 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (3.13%) Informix
6 1 (3.13%) Looker
6 1 (3.13%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.13%) Eclipse
2 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
2 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 11 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (25.00%) Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.25%) Front Office
5 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.25%) Legal
5 2 (6.25%) Retail
6 1 (3.13%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Business Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Data Manager
3 3 (9.38%) Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Business Systems Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Insurance Systems Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Customer Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) SAP Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) PySpark
2 2 (6.25%) CSS
2 2 (6.25%) HTML
2 2 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (3.13%) .NET
3 1 (3.13%) ADO
3 1 (3.13%) JSON
3 1 (3.13%) LangChain
3 1 (3.13%) LangGraph
3 1 (3.13%) Node.js
3 1 (3.13%) NumPy
3 1 (3.13%) Pandas
3 1 (3.13%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.13%) Semantic Kernel
3 1 (3.13%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
2 3 (9.38%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.25%) AS400
3 2 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.13%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.13%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.13%) iSeries
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) Analytics
2 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (34.38%) Agile
4 8 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (21.88%) Data Management
5 7 (21.88%) Data Modelling
5 7 (21.88%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (21.88%) Machine Learning
5 7 (21.88%) Visualisation
6 6 (18.75%) Data Governance
6 6 (18.75%) Data Science
6 6 (18.75%) ETL
6 6 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (15.63%) AI
7 5 (15.63%) Data Analysis
7 5 (15.63%) DevOps
7 5 (15.63%) Migration
8 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
8 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) Python
2 13 (40.63%) SQL
3 3 (9.38%) Java
3 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) Korn
4 2 (6.25%) RPG
5 1 (3.13%) C++
5 1 (3.13%) LookML
5 1 (3.13%) R
5 1 (3.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.25%) CISSP
4 1 (3.13%) ACCA
4 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.13%) CFA
4 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) GIAC
4 1 (3.13%) ISACA
4 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.13%) PhD
4 1 (3.13%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) PMO
2 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.50%) Foundry
3 3 (9.38%) Alteryx
3 3 (9.38%) Google
4 2 (6.25%) Databricks
4 2 (6.25%) Informatica
4 2 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (6.25%) Palantir
4 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.25%) Talend
5 1 (3.13%) Ab Initio
5 1 (3.13%) HP
5 1 (3.13%) Okta
5 1 (3.13%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.13%) SAP