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 31 January 2026.

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

6 months to
31 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 1,854 1,663 2,421
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.52% 12.02% 13.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.51% 12.83% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,243 1,163 1,774
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 £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
England median daily rate £454 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -4.40% -4.04% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 30 27
10th Percentile £21.00 £22.27 £18.30
25th Percentile £23.67 £26.06 £20.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £34.50 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year -26.17% +33.77% +3.16%
75th Percentile £32.62 £43.81 £40.00
90th Percentile £47.95 £80.75 £48.15
England median hourly rate £18.00 £24.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -26.53% +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 13,721 12,957 17,285
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 93.63% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,099 8,286 12,493
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 £780
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 141 321
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.60 £24.50 £19.05
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +16.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £63.08 £53.75 £50.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.75 £66.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.11% +4.29%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 0 292 £500 -4.76% 77
South London -8 29 £425 +21.43% 12
East London +2 26 £295 -34.40% 12
West London -20 23 £478 +75.23% 17
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 31 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.

1 464 (25.03%) Agile
2 420 (22.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 370 (19.96%) SQL
4 319 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
5 302 (16.29%) Business Analysis
6 268 (14.46%) Requirements Gathering
7 266 (14.35%) Microsoft
8 254 (13.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 235 (12.68%) User Stories
10 210 (11.33%) Data Analysis
11 208 (11.22%) Business Intelligence
12 207 (11.17%) User Acceptance Testing
13 206 (11.11%) Power Platform
14 204 (11.00%) Workshop Facilitation
15 200 (10.79%) Security Cleared
16 198 (10.68%) Analytics
17 191 (10.30%) Power BI
18 189 (10.19%) Migration
19 185 (9.98%) Microsoft Excel
20 178 (9.60%) JIRA
21 175 (9.44%) Decision-Making
21 175 (9.44%) SC Cleared
22 171 (9.22%) Azure
23 166 (8.95%) Validation
24 156 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
25 146 (7.87%) Data Quality
26 141 (7.61%) Python
27 140 (7.55%) Data Modelling
28 139 (7.50%) Degree
29 134 (7.23%) 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 97 (5.23%) Confluence
2 50 (2.70%) 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 (0.32%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.32%) MQSeries
7 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.11%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.054%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.054%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.054%) Kentico
10 1 (0.054%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.054%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.054%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.054%) WebSphere
Applications
1 185 (9.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 83 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 79 (4.26%) MS Visio
4 67 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
5 26 (1.40%) 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 (1.40%) Endur
2 21 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 15 (0.81%) Loan IQ
4 14 (0.76%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
6 10 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.43%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.38%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
10 5 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.22%) ION MarketView
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
12 3 (0.16%) Markit EDM
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 206 (11.11%) Power Platform
2 171 (9.22%) Azure
3 96 (5.18%) AWS
4 68 (3.67%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (2.32%) GCP
7 37 (2.00%) Snowflake
8 30 (1.62%) Azure Sentinel
8 30 (1.62%) SaaS
9 28 (1.51%) Entra ID
10 23 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (0.92%) Power Automate
12 14 (0.76%) Google Workspace
13 13 (0.70%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.65%) OneDrive
15 11 (0.59%) Lucidchart
16 10 (0.54%) Miro
17 9 (0.49%) Amazon S3
17 9 (0.49%) Google Tag Manager
18 8 (0.43%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.02%) Firewall
2 16 (0.86%) VPN
3 14 (0.76%) DNS
4 13 (0.70%) Network Security
5 11 (0.59%) DHCP
5 11 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.38%) Internet
6 7 (0.38%) Skype
6 7 (0.38%) Unified Communications
7 6 (0.32%) FIX Connectivity
7 6 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.27%) Broadband
8 5 (0.27%) DMZ
8 5 (0.27%) LAN
9 3 (0.16%) Softphone
10 2 (0.11%) FTP
10 2 (0.11%) HTTP
10 2 (0.11%) VoIP
10 2 (0.11%) WAN
10 2 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (10.30%) Power BI
2 85 (4.58%) Tableau
3 46 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (1.94%) Metadata
5 26 (1.40%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.24%) BigQuery
7 16 (0.86%) Looker
7 16 (0.86%) Power Query
8 13 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (0.59%) Big Data
9 11 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (0.49%) KNIME
10 9 (0.49%) Relational Database
11 8 (0.43%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 5 (0.27%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.27%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 178 (9.60%) JIRA
2 9 (0.49%) Git
2 9 (0.49%) Jenkins
2 9 (0.49%) Postman
3 8 (0.43%) Selenium
4 6 (0.32%) 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%) Toad
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
General
1 686 (37.00%) Finance
2 669 (36.08%) Social Skills
3 398 (21.47%) Analytical Skills
4 260 (14.02%) Banking
5 129 (6.96%) Public Sector
6 78 (4.21%) Front Office
7 75 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
8 74 (3.99%) Investment Banking
9 58 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
10 54 (2.91%) Marketing
11 48 (2.59%) Legal
12 43 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
13 41 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 41 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
14 39 (2.10%) Retail
15 38 (2.05%) Telecoms
16 34 (1.83%) Back Office
16 34 (1.83%) Financial Institution
17 23 (1.24%) Law
18 21 (1.13%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.56%) XML
2 21 (1.13%) REST
3 14 (0.76%) SOAP
4 13 (0.70%) Middleware
5 11 (0.59%) 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%) LlamaIndex
10 4 (0.22%) Pandas
10 4 (0.22%) RESTful
10 4 (0.22%) VML
10 4 (0.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 100 (5.39%) Product Ownership
2 85 (4.58%) Onboarding
3 49 (2.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 43 (2.32%) Data Protection Act
5 42 (2.27%) Derivative
6 38 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 33 (1.78%) Fixed Income
8 31 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 30 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 28 (1.51%) PMI
11 27 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (1.24%) Credit Risk
12 23 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
13 21 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
14 20 (1.08%) Equities
15 19 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
15 19 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 16 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
17 15 (0.81%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 78 (4.21%) Windows
2 23 (1.24%) Linux
3 21 (1.13%) Windows 10
4 19 (1.02%) Unix
5 13 (0.70%) Android
5 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.38%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.11%) VMS
9 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.054%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (25.03%) Agile
2 420 (22.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 319 (17.21%) Problem-Solving
4 302 (16.29%) Business Analysis
5 268 (14.46%) Requirements Gathering
6 254 (13.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 235 (12.68%) User Stories
8 210 (11.33%) Data Analysis
9 208 (11.22%) Business Intelligence
10 207 (11.17%) User Acceptance Testing
11 204 (11.00%) Workshop Facilitation
12 198 (10.68%) Analytics
13 189 (10.19%) Migration
14 175 (9.44%) Decision-Making
15 166 (8.95%) Validation
16 156 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
17 140 (7.55%) Data Modelling
18 134 (7.23%) Process Improvement
19 126 (6.80%) Project Delivery
20 123 (6.63%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 370 (19.96%) SQL
2 141 (7.61%) Python
3 34 (1.83%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.24%) Java
4 23 (1.24%) JavaScript
5 22 (1.19%) R
6 21 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
7 15 (0.81%) C#
8 14 (0.76%) VBA
9 11 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.43%) Bash
10 8 (0.43%) RPG
11 7 (0.38%) Korn
12 6 (0.32%) C++
13 4 (0.22%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.11%) Perl
15 2 (0.11%) VC++
16 1 (0.054%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.054%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 200 (10.79%) Security Cleared
2 175 (9.44%) SC Cleared
3 139 (7.50%) Degree
4 54 (2.91%) CBAP
5 37 (2.00%) PMI Certification
6 25 (1.35%) IIBA
7 24 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (0.97%) CISSP
10 16 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.81%) ISEB
12 14 (0.76%) PMP
13 13 (0.70%) CISM
13 13 (0.70%) DV Cleared
14 12 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (0.54%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.49%) CEH
16 9 (0.49%) CompTIA CySA+
16 9 (0.49%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (7.87%) Data Quality
2 112 (6.04%) QA
3 44 (2.37%) GDPR
4 42 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (2.27%) PMO
5 33 (1.78%) GRC
6 31 (1.67%) NIST
7 27 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
8 22 (1.19%) EMIR
9 21 (1.13%) MiFID
10 20 (1.08%) Accessibility
11 13 (0.70%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.65%) SLA
13 11 (0.59%) PSD2
13 11 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.54%) IFRS
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 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.32%) 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 15 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.76%) HP SiteScope
2 14 (0.76%) SCOM
3 11 (0.59%) SCCM
4 8 (0.43%) Control-M
5 7 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.32%) Nessus
7 4 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.22%) Kubernetes
7 4 (0.22%) Nexpose
7 4 (0.22%) Suricata
8 3 (0.16%) Ansible
8 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.11%) WSUS
10 1 (0.054%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.054%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.054%) EMC VPLEX
10 1 (0.054%) Terraform
10 1 (0.054%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 266 (14.35%) Microsoft
2 90 (4.85%) Salesforce
3 83 (4.48%) Oracle
4 74 (3.99%) SAP
5 73 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 63 (3.40%) Splunk
7 33 (1.78%) Google
8 25 (1.35%) Bloomberg
9 24 (1.29%) Workday
10 23 (1.24%) Adobe
10 23 (1.24%) Murex
10 23 (1.24%) Qualys
11 21 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
12 20 (1.08%) Databricks
13 17 (0.92%) Carbon Black
14 14 (0.76%) Remedy
15 12 (0.65%) MuleSoft
15 12 (0.65%) Zscaler
16 11 (0.59%) Charles River
16 11 (0.59%) Guidewire