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 18 July 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 2,062 1,868 2,057
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.37% 13.77% 11.98%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.16% 14.77% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,321 1,233 1,487
10th Percentile £288 £307 £312
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -3.77%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
England median daily rate £460 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 41 37
10th Percentile £24.49 £22.50 £20.50
25th Percentile £26.45 £23.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.45 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.98% -24.43% +37.25%
75th Percentile £50.94 £33.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £57.50 £77.25
England median hourly rate £24.63 £22.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +9.44% +28.57% -9.72%

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 18,483 12,644 16,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 93.24% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,119 8,558 11,524
10th Percentile £360 £331 £330
25th Percentile £450 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £681
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 198 275
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £16.49
25th Percentile £22.31 £22.79 £20.98
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.90 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +26.20% +2.46% -19.40%
75th Percentile £59.99 £50.38 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.71 £63.75 £69.20
England median hourly rate £45.56 £27.64 £40.33
% change year-on-year +64.82% -31.46% -6.22%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -7 310 £500 -2.91% 76
West London +8 61 £388 -7.74% 24
South London +15 36 £463 +105.56% 8
East London -2 8 £375 -25.00% 21
North London -1 5 £400 -14.44% 8
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 July 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.

1 470 (22.79%) Agile
1 470 (22.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 388 (18.82%) SQL
3 347 (16.83%) Business Analysis
4 303 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
5 297 (14.40%) User Stories
6 287 (13.92%) User Acceptance Testing
7 285 (13.82%) Requirements Gathering
8 283 (13.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 275 (13.34%) Microsoft
10 265 (12.85%) Business Intelligence
11 255 (12.37%) Data Analysis
12 250 (12.12%) Validation
13 237 (11.49%) Power Platform
14 229 (11.11%) Power BI
15 228 (11.06%) Workshop Facilitation
16 221 (10.72%) Analytics
17 214 (10.38%) Azure
18 205 (9.94%) Data Quality
19 204 (9.89%) Migration
20 203 (9.84%) JIRA
21 202 (9.80%) Acceptance Criteria
22 201 (9.75%) Decision-Making
23 200 (9.70%) Data Modelling
24 196 (9.51%) Security Cleared
25 185 (8.97%) Microsoft Excel
26 173 (8.39%) AI
27 157 (7.61%) Python
27 157 (7.61%) SC Cleared
28 155 (7.52%) Continuous 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 96 (4.66%) Confluence
2 48 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 40 (1.94%) CMS
4 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.29%) SAS
5 5 (0.24%) Apache
5 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.15%) Kentico
7 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.097%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.097%) WordPress
9 1 (0.048%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.048%) Appian
9 1 (0.048%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.048%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 185 (8.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (3.44%) MS Visio
3 56 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 48 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.48%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.39%) Revit
9 4 (0.19%) Notion
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.048%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.048%) SPSS
10 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 18 (0.87%) Workday HCM
3 17 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.78%) Loan IQ
5 11 (0.53%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.44%) Actimize
7 8 (0.39%) Endur
7 8 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.34%) iTrent
8 7 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.34%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.29%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.24%) Findur
10 5 (0.24%) HFM
10 5 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 237 (11.49%) Power Platform
2 214 (10.38%) Azure
3 108 (5.24%) AWS
4 75 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
5 55 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
6 48 (2.33%) SaaS
7 47 (2.28%) Snowflake
8 43 (2.09%) Entra ID
9 39 (1.89%) GCP
10 29 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
11 25 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
12 20 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
13 17 (0.82%) Power Automate
14 16 (0.78%) Google Workspace
14 16 (0.78%) OneDrive
15 15 (0.73%) Amazon S3
16 14 (0.68%) Lucidchart
16 14 (0.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 14 (0.68%) Serverless
17 13 (0.63%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 19 (0.92%) TCP/IP
2 17 (0.82%) VPN
3 14 (0.68%) Firewall
4 12 (0.58%) DNS
5 11 (0.53%) Network Security
6 10 (0.48%) DHCP
7 7 (0.34%) VoIP
7 7 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.24%) DMZ
8 5 (0.24%) Wireless
9 4 (0.19%) Internet
9 4 (0.19%) Intranet
10 3 (0.15%) HTTP
10 3 (0.15%) IP Telephony
10 3 (0.15%) WAN
10 3 (0.15%) WinSCP
11 2 (0.097%) FTP
11 2 (0.097%) PSTN
11 2 (0.097%) VLAN
11 2 (0.097%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (11.11%) Power BI
2 91 (4.41%) Tableau
3 57 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (2.67%) Metadata
5 36 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 18 (0.87%) BigQuery
6 18 (0.87%) Looker
7 17 (0.82%) Data Lake
8 16 (0.78%) Power Query
9 11 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
9 11 (0.53%) SQL Server
10 10 (0.48%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (0.44%) Big Data
12 6 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.29%) BusinessObjects
12 6 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (0.24%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.19%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.19%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 203 (9.84%) JIRA
2 24 (1.16%) Postman
3 10 (0.48%) Selenium
4 8 (0.39%) Git
4 8 (0.39%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.24%) Cypress.io
5 5 (0.24%) GitLab
6 4 (0.19%) Appium
6 4 (0.19%) JUnit
6 4 (0.19%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.15%) Gemini Tracker
7 3 (0.15%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.15%) TestRail
8 2 (0.097%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.097%) Snyk
8 2 (0.097%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.097%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.097%) Toad
General
1 828 (40.16%) Finance
2 640 (31.04%) Social Skills
3 463 (22.45%) Analytical Skills
4 287 (13.92%) Banking
5 136 (6.60%) Public Sector
6 115 (5.58%) Front Office
7 92 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
8 85 (4.12%) Marketing
9 82 (3.98%) Investment Banking
10 81 (3.93%) Retail
11 75 (3.64%) Legal
12 57 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
13 49 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
14 44 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 38 (1.84%) Financial Institution
16 35 (1.70%) Back Office
17 31 (1.50%) Local Government
18 21 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
18 21 (1.02%) Manufacturing
19 18 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
2 24 (1.16%) JSON
3 21 (1.02%) XML
4 15 (0.73%) Middleware
4 15 (0.73%) Pandas
5 11 (0.53%) Kafka
6 10 (0.48%) ADO
6 10 (0.48%) REST
7 8 (0.39%) .NET
7 8 (0.39%) NumPy
8 7 (0.34%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.29%) SOAP
9 6 (0.29%) YAML
10 5 (0.24%) Playwright
11 4 (0.19%) PySpark
11 4 (0.19%) VML
12 3 (0.15%) FIX Protocol
12 3 (0.15%) GeoJSON
12 3 (0.15%) OAuth
12 3 (0.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 125 (6.06%) Product Ownership
2 92 (4.46%) Onboarding
3 65 (3.15%) Derivative
4 49 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
5 46 (2.23%) Fixed Income
6 44 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 44 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 44 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 41 (1.99%) Data Structures
7 41 (1.99%) Management Information System
8 27 (1.31%) Hedge funds
9 24 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (1.12%) Credit Risk
11 22 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.02%) Market Risk
13 18 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
14 17 (0.82%) CMDB
14 17 (0.82%) Cyber Threat
14 17 (0.82%) Reference Data
15 16 (0.78%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 74 (3.59%) Windows
2 17 (0.82%) Android
3 16 (0.78%) Linux
3 16 (0.78%) Mac OS
4 15 (0.73%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.68%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.48%) Unix
7 7 (0.34%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (22.79%) Agile
1 470 (22.79%) Stakeholder Management
2 347 (16.83%) Business Analysis
3 303 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
4 297 (14.40%) User Stories
5 287 (13.92%) User Acceptance Testing
6 285 (13.82%) Requirements Gathering
7 283 (13.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 265 (12.85%) Business Intelligence
9 255 (12.37%) Data Analysis
10 250 (12.12%) Validation
11 228 (11.06%) Workshop Facilitation
12 221 (10.72%) Analytics
13 204 (9.89%) Migration
14 202 (9.80%) Acceptance Criteria
15 201 (9.75%) Decision-Making
16 200 (9.70%) Data Modelling
17 173 (8.39%) AI
18 155 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
19 151 (7.32%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 388 (18.82%) SQL
2 157 (7.61%) Python
3 28 (1.36%) Java
4 25 (1.21%) PowerShell
5 21 (1.02%) R
6 18 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (0.73%) VBA
8 12 (0.58%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.44%) Korn
10 7 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.29%) C#
11 6 (0.29%) Scala
12 5 (0.24%) C
12 5 (0.24%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.19%) C++
13 4 (0.19%) Groovy
13 4 (0.19%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.15%) Bash
14 3 (0.15%) JavaScript
15 2 (0.097%) Perl
Qualifications
1 196 (9.51%) Security Cleared
2 157 (7.61%) SC Cleared
3 131 (6.35%) Degree
4 26 (1.26%) CISSP
5 25 (1.21%) DV Cleared
6 20 (0.97%) CBAP
7 17 (0.82%) IIBA
7 17 (0.82%) PMI Certification
8 16 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
10 12 (0.58%) CompTIA CySA+
11 10 (0.48%) ACCA
11 10 (0.48%) CIMA
11 10 (0.48%) CISM
11 10 (0.48%) GIAC
12 9 (0.44%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (0.44%) PMP
13 8 (0.39%) CEH
13 8 (0.39%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (9.94%) Data Quality
2 102 (4.95%) QA
3 62 (3.01%) PMO
4 53 (2.57%) NIST
5 44 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.04%) GDPR
7 29 (1.41%) SLA
8 20 (0.97%) GRC
8 20 (0.97%) IFRS
9 17 (0.82%) Accessibility
10 16 (0.78%) EMIR
11 15 (0.73%) COBIT
11 15 (0.73%) ISO 20022
11 15 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.68%) GAAP
13 13 (0.63%) MiFID
14 9 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.39%) SEPA
16 6 (0.29%) COREP
16 6 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 47 (2.28%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (0.24%) Docker
5 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.048%) RACF
6 1 (0.048%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.048%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.048%) vSphere
6 1 (0.048%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.68%) SCCM
3 12 (0.58%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.29%) WSUS
5 5 (0.24%) Terraform
6 3 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.15%) Nessus
6 3 (0.15%) QRadar
6 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.097%) Control-M
7 2 (0.097%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.097%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.097%) Nexpose
7 2 (0.097%) Puppet
8 1 (0.048%) CASB
8 1 (0.048%) Grafana
8 1 (0.048%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.048%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.048%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.048%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 275 (13.34%) Microsoft
2 117 (5.67%) Salesforce
3 112 (5.43%) SAP
4 93 (4.51%) Oracle
5 89 (4.32%) ServiceNow
6 67 (3.25%) Databricks
7 39 (1.89%) Google
7 39 (1.89%) Workday
8 33 (1.60%) Bloomberg
9 32 (1.55%) Murex
10 20 (0.97%) Citrix
10 20 (0.97%) Splunk
11 19 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
12 18 (0.87%) Adobe
13 17 (0.82%) Alteryx
14 16 (0.78%) ION Trading
15 14 (0.68%) CyberArk
15 14 (0.68%) Reuters
16 12 (0.58%) MuleSoft
17 11 (0.53%) Qualys