Analyst Contracts in London

Analyst
England > London

The median Analyst daily rate in London is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 10 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,769 2,111 3,392
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.50% 11.98% 13.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.45% 12.75% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,511 2,523
10th Percentile £307 £312 £276
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £534
Median % change year-on-year - -4.03% +6.80%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
England median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 37 35
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.50 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.73 £21.25 £20.72
Median hourly rate £26.50 £28.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +14.00% +2.67%
75th Percentile £33.88 £55.00 £40.90
90th Percentile £44.90 £77.25 £65.60
England median hourly rate £22.53 £16.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year +38.22% -14.21% +11.76%

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 12,238 16,553 23,993
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 93.92% 94.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,262 11,866 17,518
10th Percentile £332 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 312 271
10th Percentile £18.87 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.60 £20.24 £22.95
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% -25.84% +7.14%
75th Percentile £50.63 £46.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £64.25 £67.90 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.18 £40.00 £43.93
% change year-on-year -29.55% -8.95% +75.72%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in London

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in London.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in London

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in London

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in London.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in London

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in London over the 6 months to 3 July 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 3 July 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 +1 357 £525 +0.96% 516
West London 0 26 £420 +2.44% 65
East London +4 10 £540 +17.39% 35
South London -20 8 £475 +11.76% 32
North London -1 6 £468 +7.16% 16
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, 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 London region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 706 (39.91%) Finance
2 641 (36.24%) Social Skills
3 443 (25.04%) Agile
4 408 (23.06%) SQL
5 375 (21.20%) Analytical Skills
6 319 (18.03%) Business Analysis
7 315 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
8 286 (16.17%) Data Analysis
9 271 (15.32%) Python
10 270 (15.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 251 (14.19%) Banking
12 245 (13.85%) Microsoft
13 215 (12.15%) Business Intelligence
14 198 (11.19%) Requirements Gathering
15 192 (10.85%) Analytics
16 191 (10.80%) User Acceptance Testing
17 174 (9.84%) Power Platform
18 169 (9.55%) Power BI
19 168 (9.50%) User Stories
20 166 (9.38%) Migration
21 163 (9.21%) Microsoft Excel
22 152 (8.59%) Degree
23 151 (8.54%) Azure
24 150 (8.48%) Decision-Making
25 147 (8.31%) Front Office
26 143 (8.08%) Project Management
27 142 (8.03%) Asset Management
28 136 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
29 134 (7.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
30 129 (7.29%) JIRA

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 76 (4.30%) Confluence
2 45 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.51%) CMS
5 7 (0.40%) SAS
6 6 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.28%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.11%) Apache
9 2 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.11%) IIS
9 2 (0.11%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.057%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.057%) Smallworld
Applications
1 163 (9.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 81 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (3.28%) MS Visio
4 55 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.17%) Trello
8 2 (0.11%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.057%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.057%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.057%) EViews
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.057%) Revit
Business Applications
1 53 (3.00%) Aladdin
2 27 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 25 (1.41%) Endur
4 19 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
4 19 (1.07%) thinkFolio
5 10 (0.57%) Loan IQ
6 7 (0.40%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.28%) Shopify
7 5 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
8 4 (0.23%) CA PPM
8 4 (0.23%) ION Anvil
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.23%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.23%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.17%) iTrent
9 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 174 (9.84%) Power Platform
2 151 (8.54%) Azure
3 72 (4.07%) AWS
4 60 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (2.43%) GCP
6 41 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (2.04%) SaaS
8 31 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (1.47%) Snowflake
10 21 (1.19%) Entra ID
11 17 (0.96%) Lucidchart
12 14 (0.79%) dbt
13 10 (0.57%) Amazon S3
13 10 (0.57%) Collibra
13 10 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
13 10 (0.57%) Miro
14 9 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (0.51%) OneDrive
15 8 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (0.45%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.41%) Firewall
2 16 (0.90%) DNS
3 15 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.62%) DHCP
4 11 (0.62%) VPN
5 9 (0.51%) LAN
6 8 (0.45%) Network Security
7 6 (0.34%) HTTP
7 6 (0.34%) Remote Desktop
7 6 (0.34%) VLAN
7 6 (0.34%) WAN
8 5 (0.28%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.28%) IP Telephony
8 5 (0.28%) NAS
9 4 (0.23%) SMTP
9 4 (0.23%) WebEx
10 3 (0.17%) Intranet
10 3 (0.17%) VoIP
10 3 (0.17%) VoWiFi
10 3 (0.17%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (9.55%) Power BI
2 98 (5.54%) Tableau
3 61 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 23 (1.30%) BigQuery
6 20 (1.13%) Power Query
7 19 (1.07%) Data Lake
8 17 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 16 (0.90%) Metadata
10 15 (0.85%) Looker
11 14 (0.79%) Relational Database
12 13 (0.73%) MS Access
13 12 (0.68%) Big Data
13 12 (0.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (0.51%) Star Schema
15 8 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
16 7 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
16 7 (0.40%) Data Mart
16 7 (0.40%) Oracle Database
17 6 (0.34%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 129 (7.29%) JIRA
2 16 (0.90%) Git
3 13 (0.73%) Selenium
4 12 (0.68%) JMeter
5 10 (0.57%) Postman
6 9 (0.51%) LoadRunner
7 8 (0.45%) QARun
7 8 (0.45%) WinRunner
8 7 (0.40%) Jenkins
9 6 (0.34%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.28%) HP UFT
10 5 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
10 5 (0.28%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.28%) SoapUI
10 5 (0.28%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.23%) Appium
11 4 (0.23%) TestComplete
12 3 (0.17%) JUnit
13 2 (0.11%) Ant
General
1 706 (39.91%) Finance
2 641 (36.24%) Social Skills
3 375 (21.20%) Analytical Skills
4 251 (14.19%) Banking
5 147 (8.31%) Front Office
6 80 (4.52%) Investment Banking
7 68 (3.84%) Retail
8 67 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
9 61 (3.45%) Public Sector
10 60 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 56 (3.17%) Back Office
12 48 (2.71%) Legal
13 43 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
14 37 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
15 36 (2.04%) Marketing
16 32 (1.81%) Financial Institution
17 31 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
18 27 (1.53%) Local Government
19 25 (1.41%) Law
20 20 (1.13%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.19%) XML
2 13 (0.73%) FIX Protocol
2 13 (0.73%) JSON
3 12 (0.68%) SailPoint
4 11 (0.62%) .NET
5 9 (0.51%) ADO
5 9 (0.51%) Playwright
6 8 (0.45%) Kafka
6 8 (0.45%) Web Services
7 6 (0.34%) FpML
7 6 (0.34%) Swagger
8 5 (0.28%) REST
9 4 (0.23%) DCOM
9 4 (0.23%) Middleware
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (0.23%) Pandas
9 4 (0.23%) PySpark
9 4 (0.23%) VML
10 3 (0.17%) NumPy
10 3 (0.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 80 (4.52%) Derivative
2 77 (4.35%) Fixed Income
3 72 (4.07%) Product Ownership
4 69 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 56 (3.17%) Hedge funds
6 55 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 44 (2.49%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 39 (2.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 34 (1.92%) Reinsurance
10 30 (1.70%) Equities
11 29 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 28 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
13 27 (1.53%) Data Structures
13 27 (1.53%) Market Risk
14 26 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
14 26 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
15 23 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
16 20 (1.13%) Security Posture
17 19 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
18 17 (0.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 112 (6.33%) Windows
2 30 (1.70%) Windows 10
3 28 (1.58%) Linux
4 16 (0.90%) Apple iOS
4 16 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 15 (0.85%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.73%) Android
7 11 (0.62%) Unix
8 6 (0.34%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.057%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.057%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.057%) VMS
10 1 (0.057%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (25.04%) Agile
2 319 (18.03%) Business Analysis
3 315 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
4 286 (16.17%) Data Analysis
5 270 (15.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 215 (12.15%) Business Intelligence
7 198 (11.19%) Requirements Gathering
8 192 (10.85%) Analytics
9 191 (10.80%) User Acceptance Testing
10 168 (9.50%) User Stories
11 166 (9.38%) Migration
12 150 (8.48%) Decision-Making
13 143 (8.08%) Project Management
14 142 (8.03%) Asset Management
15 136 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
16 134 (7.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 127 (7.18%) Data Modelling
17 127 (7.18%) Validation
18 126 (7.12%) Risk Management
19 125 (7.07%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 408 (23.06%) SQL
2 271 (15.32%) Python
3 38 (2.15%) PowerShell
4 31 (1.75%) Java
4 31 (1.75%) VBA
5 29 (1.64%) R
6 23 (1.30%) Bash
7 18 (1.02%) C#
8 14 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 13 (0.73%) C++
10 12 (0.68%) VB
11 9 (0.51%) JavaScript
11 9 (0.51%) PL/SQL
12 7 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.34%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.17%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.17%) RPG
14 3 (0.17%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.057%) Magik
15 1 (0.057%) PHP
Qualifications
1 152 (8.59%) Degree
2 127 (7.18%) Security Cleared
3 114 (6.44%) SC Cleared
4 26 (1.47%) CBAP
5 23 (1.30%) Master's Degree
6 14 (0.79%) CISSP
6 14 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
7 13 (0.73%) DV Cleared
7 13 (0.73%) PMI Certification
8 11 (0.62%) ACCA
8 11 (0.62%) CISM
9 9 (0.51%) CIMA
10 8 (0.45%) CEH
10 8 (0.45%) GCIH
10 8 (0.45%) IIBA
10 8 (0.45%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (6.11%) QA
2 88 (4.97%) Data Quality
3 41 (2.32%) GDPR
3 41 (2.32%) PMO
4 35 (1.98%) MiFID
5 31 (1.75%) EMIR
6 24 (1.36%) NIST
7 20 (1.13%) SEPA
8 18 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 16 (0.90%) GRC
10 13 (0.73%) Accessibility
10 13 (0.73%) SLA
11 12 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
12 11 (0.62%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.51%) Dodd-Frank
14 8 (0.45%) NIST 800
14 8 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 7 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
16 5 (0.28%) Basel III
16 5 (0.28%) Solvency II
System Software
1 76 (4.30%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.28%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 3 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.11%) Docker
4 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.057%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.057%) IAG
5 1 (0.057%) Snort
5 1 (0.057%) Squid
5 1 (0.057%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.057%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (0.51%) SCCM
3 5 (0.28%) Tivoli
4 3 (0.17%) Cisco UCCX
4 3 (0.17%) CSIRT
4 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.17%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.11%) AirWatch
5 2 (0.11%) Ansible
5 2 (0.11%) BladeLogic
5 2 (0.11%) Control-M
5 2 (0.11%) Grafana
5 2 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.11%) Nessus
5 2 (0.11%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 2 (0.11%) Terraform
6 1 (0.057%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (0.057%) Nexpose
6 1 (0.057%) QRadar
6 1 (0.057%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 245 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 89 (5.03%) Oracle
3 69 (3.90%) SAP
4 57 (3.22%) Salesforce
5 46 (2.60%) ServiceNow
6 42 (2.37%) Google
7 40 (2.26%) BISAM
8 33 (1.87%) Workday
9 27 (1.53%) Charles River
10 24 (1.36%) Murex
11 22 (1.24%) Splunk
12 21 (1.19%) Calypso
12 21 (1.19%) Databricks
12 21 (1.19%) SimCorp
13 18 (1.02%) Bloomberg
13 18 (1.02%) Citrix
14 17 (0.96%) OpenLink
15 13 (0.73%) Alteryx
15 13 (0.73%) Reuters
16 12 (0.68%) Adobe