Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Analyst
England > London

The median Analyst daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,845 1,659 2,384
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.48% 11.94% 13.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.48% 12.75% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,244 1,171 1,743
10th Percentile £313 £275 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
England median daily rate £455 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -4.21% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 29 26
10th Percentile £21.00 £22.27 £18.25
25th Percentile £23.67 £26.00 £19.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £34.00 £25.40
Median % change year-on-year -25.09% +33.88% +1.58%
75th Percentile £32.62 £44.50 £39.50
90th Percentile £47.95 £80.75 £49.00
England median hourly rate £18.57 £24.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -24.20% +36.11% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Roles
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 13,690 13,011 16,973
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 93.60% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,077 8,349 12,255
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 141 306
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.14
25th Percentile £23.65 £24.18 £19.10
Median hourly rate £33.46 £35.00 £29.61
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% +18.20% -14.17%
75th Percentile £63.05 £53.75 £50.63
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.75 £67.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -6.67% +7.14%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Analyst job vacancy trend in London

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in London

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in London over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in London

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in London

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in London over the 6 months to 29 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in London

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London 0 290 £500 -4.76% 75
South London -10 28 £425 +21.43% 11
East London +4 26 £295 -34.40% 11
West London -14 23 £478 +94.90% 19
North London 0 3 £500 -9.09% 4
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 29 January 2026, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 461 (24.99%) Agile
2 419 (22.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 368 (19.95%) SQL
4 315 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
5 301 (16.31%) Business Analysis
6 264 (14.31%) Microsoft
6 264 (14.31%) Requirements Gathering
7 253 (13.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 236 (12.79%) User Stories
9 213 (11.54%) Data Analysis
10 208 (11.27%) Business Intelligence
11 206 (11.17%) Power Platform
11 206 (11.17%) Workshop Facilitation
12 204 (11.06%) User Acceptance Testing
13 199 (10.79%) Security Cleared
14 193 (10.46%) Analytics
15 191 (10.35%) Power BI
16 184 (9.97%) Migration
17 182 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
18 178 (9.65%) JIRA
19 174 (9.43%) SC Cleared
20 170 (9.21%) Azure
20 170 (9.21%) Decision-Making
21 160 (8.67%) Validation
22 156 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
23 143 (7.75%) Python
24 141 (7.64%) Data Modelling
25 140 (7.59%) Data Quality
26 137 (7.43%) Degree
27 134 (7.26%) Process Improvement

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 98 (5.31%) Confluence
2 51 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.54%) CMS
4 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.43%) SAS
5 7 (0.38%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.33%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.33%) MQSeries
7 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.054%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.054%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.054%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.054%) Kentico
10 1 (0.054%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.054%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.054%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.054%) WebSphere
Applications
1 182 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 79 (4.28%) MS Visio
4 67 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
5 25 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.22%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.22%) Notion
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.054%) Sketch
9 1 (0.054%) SPSS
9 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (1.41%) Endur
2 21 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 14 (0.76%) Loan IQ
4 13 (0.70%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.43%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.38%) SAP HR
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 5 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.22%) ION MarketView
9 4 (0.22%) Markit EDM
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.16%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 206 (11.17%) Power Platform
2 170 (9.21%) Azure
3 94 (5.09%) AWS
4 67 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (2.33%) GCP
7 36 (1.95%) Snowflake
8 31 (1.68%) Azure Sentinel
9 28 (1.52%) Entra ID
9 28 (1.52%) SaaS
10 23 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (0.92%) Power Automate
12 14 (0.76%) Google Workspace
13 13 (0.70%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.65%) Lucidchart
14 12 (0.65%) OneDrive
15 10 (0.54%) Miro
16 9 (0.49%) Google Tag Manager
17 8 (0.43%) Amazon S3
17 8 (0.43%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.03%) Firewall
2 15 (0.81%) VPN
3 13 (0.70%) DNS
3 13 (0.70%) Network Security
4 10 (0.54%) DHCP
4 10 (0.54%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.38%) Internet
5 7 (0.38%) Skype
5 7 (0.38%) Unified Communications
6 6 (0.33%) FIX Connectivity
6 6 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.27%) Broadband
7 5 (0.27%) DMZ
7 5 (0.27%) LAN
8 3 (0.16%) Softphone
9 2 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
9 2 (0.11%) NAS
9 2 (0.11%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.11%) SSH
9 2 (0.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (10.35%) Power BI
2 84 (4.55%) Tableau
3 46 (2.49%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (2.01%) Metadata
5 26 (1.41%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.25%) BigQuery
7 16 (0.87%) Power Query
8 15 (0.81%) Looker
9 12 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
10 11 (0.60%) Big Data
10 11 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (0.49%) KNIME
12 8 (0.43%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.43%) Relational Database
13 7 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 5 (0.27%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.27%) NoSQL
15 5 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 178 (9.65%) JIRA
2 9 (0.49%) Git
2 9 (0.49%) Jenkins
2 9 (0.49%) Postman
3 7 (0.38%) Selenium
4 6 (0.33%) MSI
5 4 (0.22%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (0.16%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.16%) Fiddler
6 3 (0.16%) GitLab
6 3 (0.16%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.16%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.11%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.11%) ERwin
7 2 (0.11%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.11%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 677 (36.69%) Finance
2 668 (36.21%) Social Skills
3 393 (21.30%) Analytical Skills
4 254 (13.77%) Banking
5 127 (6.88%) Public Sector
6 76 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
6 76 (4.12%) Front Office
7 73 (3.96%) Investment Banking
8 58 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
9 52 (2.82%) Marketing
10 48 (2.60%) Legal
11 41 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
12 40 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 40 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (2.11%) Retail
14 37 (2.01%) Telecoms
15 34 (1.84%) Back Office
15 34 (1.84%) Financial Institution
16 23 (1.25%) Local Government
17 21 (1.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.63%) XML
2 21 (1.14%) REST
3 14 (0.76%) SOAP
4 13 (0.70%) Middleware
5 11 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
6 10 (0.54%) ADO
6 10 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (0.43%) .NET
7 8 (0.43%) JSON
7 8 (0.43%) Web Services
8 7 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (0.38%) HTML
9 5 (0.27%) Playwright
9 5 (0.27%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.22%) LangChain
10 4 (0.22%) Pandas
10 4 (0.22%) RESTful
10 4 (0.22%) VML
10 4 (0.22%) YAML
11 3 (0.16%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 100 (5.42%) Product Ownership
2 85 (4.61%) Onboarding
3 49 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
4 43 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
5 40 (2.17%) Derivative
6 37 (2.01%) Management Information System
7 33 (1.79%) Fixed Income
8 31 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 28 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 28 (1.52%) PMI
10 27 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (1.30%) Credit Risk
12 23 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
13 21 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
14 19 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
14 19 (1.03%) Equities
15 18 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 16 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
17 15 (0.81%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 77 (4.17%) Windows
2 22 (1.19%) Linux
3 21 (1.14%) Windows 10
4 20 (1.08%) Unix
5 12 (0.65%) Android
5 12 (0.65%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.11%) VMS
8 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.054%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 461 (24.99%) Agile
2 419 (22.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 315 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
4 301 (16.31%) Business Analysis
5 264 (14.31%) Requirements Gathering
6 253 (13.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 236 (12.79%) User Stories
8 213 (11.54%) Data Analysis
9 208 (11.27%) Business Intelligence
10 206 (11.17%) Workshop Facilitation
11 204 (11.06%) User Acceptance Testing
12 193 (10.46%) Analytics
13 184 (9.97%) Migration
14 170 (9.21%) Decision-Making
15 160 (8.67%) Validation
16 156 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
17 141 (7.64%) Data Modelling
18 134 (7.26%) Process Improvement
19 126 (6.83%) Project Delivery
20 124 (6.72%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 368 (19.95%) SQL
2 143 (7.75%) Python
3 33 (1.79%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.25%) JavaScript
5 22 (1.19%) Java
5 22 (1.19%) Kusto Query Language
5 22 (1.19%) R
6 15 (0.81%) C#
6 15 (0.81%) VBA
7 11 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (0.43%) RPG
9 7 (0.38%) Bash
9 7 (0.38%) Korn
10 6 (0.33%) C++
11 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.11%) Perl
12 2 (0.11%) VC++
13 1 (0.054%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.054%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 199 (10.79%) Security Cleared
2 174 (9.43%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.43%) Degree
4 54 (2.93%) CBAP
5 37 (2.01%) PMI Certification
6 25 (1.36%) IIBA
7 24 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (0.98%) CISSP
10 15 (0.81%) ISEB
10 15 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.76%) DV Cleared
11 14 (0.76%) PMP
12 13 (0.70%) CISM
13 12 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.54%) ISTQB
14 10 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.49%) CEH
15 9 (0.49%) CompTIA CySA+
15 9 (0.49%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (7.59%) Data Quality
2 111 (6.02%) QA
3 44 (2.38%) GDPR
4 42 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 41 (2.22%) PMO
6 33 (1.79%) GRC
7 31 (1.68%) NIST
8 27 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 22 (1.19%) EMIR
10 21 (1.14%) MiFID
11 20 (1.08%) Accessibility
12 12 (0.65%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.65%) SLA
13 11 (0.60%) IFRS
13 11 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.54%) PSD2
15 9 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.43%) GMP
16 8 (0.43%) NCSC
16 8 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (2.98%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (0.27%) Docker
4 4 (0.22%) Snort
4 4 (0.22%) Squid
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.054%) vSphere
6 1 (0.054%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.76%) HP SiteScope
2 14 (0.76%) SCOM
3 11 (0.60%) SCCM
4 7 (0.38%) Control-M
4 7 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.33%) Nessus
6 4 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.22%) Kubernetes
6 4 (0.22%) Nexpose
6 4 (0.22%) Suricata
7 3 (0.16%) Ansible
7 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.11%) WSUS
9 1 (0.054%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.054%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.054%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.054%) Terraform
9 1 (0.054%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 264 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 88 (4.77%) Salesforce
3 83 (4.50%) Oracle
4 72 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 71 (3.85%) SAP
6 62 (3.36%) Splunk
7 32 (1.73%) Google
8 24 (1.30%) Bloomberg
9 23 (1.25%) Adobe
9 23 (1.25%) Murex
9 23 (1.25%) Qualys
9 23 (1.25%) Workday
10 21 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
11 20 (1.08%) Databricks
12 17 (0.92%) Carbon Black
13 14 (0.76%) Remedy
14 12 (0.65%) MuleSoft
14 12 (0.65%) Zscaler
15 11 (0.60%) IBM
16 10 (0.54%) Informatica