Software Analyst Contracts in the City of London

Software Analyst
Central London > City of London

The median Software Analyst daily rate in the City of London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 126 177
Rank change year-on-year +8 +51 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Software Analyst 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% 0.046% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.048% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £625 £450 -
% change year-on-year +38.89% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,632 2,086 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 94.95% 95.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 1,483 2,364
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £681 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £798 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%

Software Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Software Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Analyst in the City of London

Software Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Analyst in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Software Analyst in the City of London

Software Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Analyst in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Analyst in the City of London

Software Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Software Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Software Analyst in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Fidessa
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Reuters
1 1 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (100.00%) CQG
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (100.00%) Equities
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) ION Trading
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
1 1 (100.00%) MiFID
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA

Software Analyst Skill Set
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Front Office
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Derivative
1 1 (100.00%) Equities
1 1 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) CRUD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) KYC
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) EMIR
1 1 (100.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (100.00%) CQG
1 1 (100.00%) ION Trading
1 1 (100.00%) Reuters