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 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 13 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,909 1,896 2,642
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.43% 11.91% 13.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.54% 12.72% 14.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,257 1,374 1,940
10th Percentile £306 £300 £281
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -0.86% -
75th Percentile £615 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £713
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 32 27
10th Percentile £21.00 £26.03 £17.90
25th Percentile £22.75 £34.06 £19.13
Median hourly rate £25.47 £42.00 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year -39.36% +62.85% -9.51%
75th Percentile £32.88 £79.25 £40.75
90th Percentile £53.85 £98.08 £53.45
England median hourly rate £20.79 £26.13 £19.00
% change year-on-year -20.42% +37.50% +8.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 13,126 14,911 18,269
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 93.69% 93.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,694 9,671 13,219
10th Percentile £333 £340 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.68%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £765 £794 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 162 215
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.07
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.98 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.89 £37.50 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -28.29% +3.36% +3.66%
75th Percentile £50.13 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £81.14 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -36.33% -11.11% +38.38%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 +2 336 £470 -10.43% 92
East London +6 24 £190 -56.77% 46
South London -4 22 £425 +84.78% 33
West London -24 13 £455 +21.33% 60
North London -2 3 £484 -12.05% 17
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, 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.

1 481 (25.20%) Agile
2 396 (20.74%) SQL
3 378 (19.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 337 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 300 (15.72%) Business Analysis
6 289 (15.14%) Microsoft
7 262 (13.72%) Data Analysis
8 241 (12.62%) Requirements Gathering
9 236 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 212 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
11 208 (10.90%) Analytics
12 204 (10.69%) Business Intelligence
12 204 (10.69%) User Stories
13 187 (9.80%) Migration
14 186 (9.74%) Power Platform
15 183 (9.59%) Python
16 181 (9.48%) Workshop Facilitation
17 178 (9.32%) Power BI
18 172 (9.01%) Microsoft Excel
19 169 (8.85%) Security Cleared
20 166 (8.70%) Decision-Making
21 155 (8.12%) JIRA
22 154 (8.07%) Azure
23 153 (8.01%) Validation
24 146 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
24 146 (7.65%) Degree
25 145 (7.60%) SC Cleared
26 140 (7.33%) Data Modelling
27 133 (6.97%) Visualisation
28 131 (6.86%) Data Quality

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 89 (4.66%) Confluence
2 55 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.68%) CMS
5 7 (0.37%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.31%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.31%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.31%) MQSeries
7 5 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.26%) SAS
8 2 (0.10%) Apache Superset
8 2 (0.10%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.052%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.052%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.052%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.052%) JBoss
9 1 (0.052%) Kentico
9 1 (0.052%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.052%) WebLogic
Applications
1 172 (9.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (3.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 72 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (3.77%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.21%) Autodesk Inventor
7 2 (0.10%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.10%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.10%) SPSS
8 1 (0.052%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.052%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.052%) Notion
8 1 (0.052%) Revit
8 1 (0.052%) Sketch
8 1 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 40 (2.10%) Endur
2 19 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.63%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.58%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.52%) Loan IQ
5 10 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
7 7 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.37%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.31%) Temenos T24
9 5 (0.26%) ION MarketView
9 5 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.26%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.21%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 186 (9.74%) Power Platform
2 154 (8.07%) Azure
3 89 (4.66%) AWS
4 63 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (2.67%) GCP
6 47 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
7 34 (1.78%) Entra ID
8 31 (1.62%) Snowflake
9 30 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
10 28 (1.47%) SaaS
11 17 (0.89%) Miro
12 15 (0.79%) Power Automate
12 15 (0.79%) PowerApps
13 13 (0.68%) Collibra
14 12 (0.63%) OneDrive
15 10 (0.52%) Google Analytics
16 9 (0.47%) dbt
16 9 (0.47%) Lucidchart
17 8 (0.42%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.36%) Firewall
2 16 (0.84%) DNS
3 15 (0.79%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.68%) DHCP
5 12 (0.63%) Network Security
6 11 (0.58%) VPN
7 7 (0.37%) Internet
7 7 (0.37%) Skype
7 7 (0.37%) Unified Communications
8 6 (0.31%) LAN
8 6 (0.31%) VLAN
8 6 (0.31%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.26%) IP Telephony
10 3 (0.16%) HTTP
10 3 (0.16%) Softphone
10 3 (0.16%) VoIP
10 3 (0.16%) WAN
11 2 (0.10%) ATM
11 2 (0.10%) Broadband
11 2 (0.10%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (9.32%) Power BI
2 93 (4.87%) Tableau
3 43 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (1.89%) Metadata
5 30 (1.57%) BigQuery
6 27 (1.41%) SQL Server
7 20 (1.05%) Power Query
8 18 (0.94%) Looker
9 16 (0.84%) Relational Database
10 14 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
11 10 (0.52%) Data Lake
11 10 (0.52%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.37%) Big Data
13 6 (0.31%) Star Schema
14 5 (0.26%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.21%) Data Mart
15 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 155 (8.12%) JIRA
2 11 (0.58%) Git
2 11 (0.58%) Jenkins
2 11 (0.58%) Postman
2 11 (0.58%) Selenium
3 5 (0.26%) REST Assured
4 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
5 3 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.16%) Charles Proxy
5 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.16%) TestRail
6 2 (0.10%) Appium
6 2 (0.10%) Browser DevTools
6 2 (0.10%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.10%) ERwin
6 2 (0.10%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.10%) GitLab
6 2 (0.10%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.10%) SoapUI
General
1 733 (38.40%) Finance
2 699 (36.62%) Social Skills
3 429 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (14.35%) Banking
5 127 (6.65%) Public Sector
6 80 (4.19%) Investment Banking
7 78 (4.09%) Front Office
8 70 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
9 59 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
10 58 (3.04%) Back Office
11 56 (2.93%) Marketing
11 56 (2.93%) Retail
12 53 (2.78%) Legal
13 48 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 45 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
15 41 (2.15%) Financial Institution
16 35 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
17 33 (1.73%) Telecoms
18 27 (1.41%) Manufacturing
19 26 (1.36%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.57%) XML
2 18 (0.94%) REST
3 13 (0.68%) SOAP
4 11 (0.58%) JSON
4 11 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
5 10 (0.52%) .NET
6 9 (0.47%) ADO
7 8 (0.42%) HTML
7 8 (0.42%) Playwright
8 7 (0.37%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (0.37%) Middleware
8 7 (0.37%) Swagger
9 6 (0.31%) Pandas
10 5 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.26%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.26%) Web Services
11 4 (0.21%) CSS
11 4 (0.21%) DCOM
11 4 (0.21%) LangChain
11 4 (0.21%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 107 (5.61%) Product Ownership
2 77 (4.03%) Onboarding
3 59 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
4 54 (2.83%) Derivative
5 48 (2.51%) Management Information System
6 44 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 35 (1.83%) Fixed Income
7 35 (1.83%) Reinsurance
8 32 (1.68%) Data Structures
9 30 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 30 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
11 25 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
13 23 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 22 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
14 22 (1.15%) PMI
15 19 (1.00%) Credit Risk
16 16 (0.84%) Virtual Team
17 15 (0.79%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 93 (4.87%) Windows
2 32 (1.68%) Windows 10
3 25 (1.31%) Linux
4 15 (0.79%) Unix
5 14 (0.73%) Android
5 14 (0.73%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.42%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.31%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.10%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.052%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.052%) VMS
10 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.052%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (25.20%) Agile
2 378 (19.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 337 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 300 (15.72%) Business Analysis
5 262 (13.72%) Data Analysis
6 241 (12.62%) Requirements Gathering
7 236 (12.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 212 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 208 (10.90%) Analytics
10 204 (10.69%) Business Intelligence
10 204 (10.69%) User Stories
11 187 (9.80%) Migration
12 181 (9.48%) Workshop Facilitation
13 166 (8.70%) Decision-Making
14 153 (8.01%) Validation
15 146 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
16 140 (7.33%) Data Modelling
17 133 (6.97%) Visualisation
18 129 (6.76%) Process Improvement
19 121 (6.34%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 396 (20.74%) SQL
2 183 (9.59%) Python
3 38 (1.99%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.26%) C#
5 23 (1.20%) Java
5 23 (1.20%) Kusto Query Language
6 20 (1.05%) VBA
7 19 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 19 (1.00%) R
8 16 (0.84%) C++
9 12 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (0.52%) Bash
11 8 (0.42%) RPG
12 6 (0.31%) Korn
13 4 (0.21%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.16%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.10%) Perl
15 2 (0.10%) Scala
15 2 (0.10%) VC++
Qualifications
1 169 (8.85%) Security Cleared
2 146 (7.65%) Degree
3 145 (7.60%) SC Cleared
4 35 (1.83%) CBAP
5 28 (1.47%) PMI Certification
6 27 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.20%) CISSP
8 22 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (0.79%) CISM
10 15 (0.79%) DV Cleared
11 12 (0.63%) ACCA
12 11 (0.58%) CEH
12 11 (0.58%) ISEB
12 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (0.52%) Azure Certification
13 10 (0.52%) CIMA
13 10 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.47%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 131 (6.86%) Data Quality
2 120 (6.29%) QA
3 51 (2.67%) GDPR
4 43 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (1.83%) NIST
6 34 (1.78%) GRC
7 31 (1.62%) PMO
8 27 (1.41%) EMIR
8 27 (1.41%) MiFID
9 18 (0.94%) SEPA
10 15 (0.79%) Accessibility
10 15 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.73%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
13 10 (0.52%) SLA
14 8 (0.42%) NCSC
14 8 (0.42%) PSD2
15 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.31%) Solvency II
System Software
1 63 (3.30%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.31%) Docker
3 5 (0.26%) Snort
3 5 (0.26%) Squid
4 1 (0.052%) Firmware
4 1 (0.052%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.052%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.052%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.052%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.052%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.052%) Xen
4 1 (0.052%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (0.73%) HP SiteScope
1 14 (0.73%) SCOM
2 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (0.58%) SCCM
3 7 (0.37%) Nessus
3 7 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.31%) Ansible
4 6 (0.31%) Control-M
5 5 (0.26%) Kubernetes
5 5 (0.26%) Nexpose
5 5 (0.26%) Suricata
6 4 (0.21%) BladeLogic
6 4 (0.21%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.16%) CSIRT
7 3 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
7 3 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.10%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.10%) WSUS
9 1 (0.052%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.052%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 289 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 94 (4.92%) Oracle
3 75 (3.93%) SAP
4 65 (3.40%) Salesforce
5 63 (3.30%) Splunk
6 54 (2.83%) ServiceNow
7 40 (2.10%) Google
8 28 (1.47%) Workday
9 25 (1.31%) Murex
10 24 (1.26%) Bloomberg
11 23 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
12 21 (1.10%) Qualys
13 20 (1.05%) Adobe
14 19 (1.00%) Carbon Black
14 19 (1.00%) Databricks
15 18 (0.94%) OpenLink
16 15 (0.79%) ION Trading
17 14 (0.73%) Alteryx
17 14 (0.73%) CyberArk
18 13 (0.68%) IBM