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 13 September 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 2,091 1,877 1,918
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.33% 13.95% 11.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.09% 15.05% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,290 1,236 1,391
10th Percentile £287 £306 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £688 £738 £725
England median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 45 29
10th Percentile £24.49 £22.50 £21.85
25th Percentile £26.25 £23.33 £26.50
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.45 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +20.98% -36.27% +61.17%
75th Percentile £54.69 £33.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.05 £55.90 £109.75
England median hourly rate £26.66 £22.05 £19.00
% change year-on-year +20.91% +16.05% -3.32%

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 18,862 12,471 15,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 92.70% 94.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,159 8,349 10,331
10th Percentile £363 £326 £345
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 208 183
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.58
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.93% -13.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.00 £56.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.15 £74.38
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +5.56%

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 13 September 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 13 September 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 13 September 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 -12 293 £463 -7.50% 183
West London +9 58 £400 -4.76% 28
South London -15 16 £488 +14.71% 8
East London -7 9 £425 +123.43% 14
North London +1 6 £400 -28.41% 5
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 September 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.

1 574 (27.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 467 (22.33%) Agile
3 433 (20.71%) SQL
4 392 (18.75%) Business Analysis
5 354 (16.93%) Requirements Gathering
6 345 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
7 327 (15.64%) User Stories
8 302 (14.44%) Microsoft
9 301 (14.40%) User Acceptance Testing
10 295 (14.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 288 (13.77%) Workshop Facilitation
12 287 (13.73%) Data Analysis
13 278 (13.30%) Validation
14 268 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
15 253 (12.10%) Analytics
16 247 (11.81%) Power Platform
17 230 (11.00%) Decision-Making
17 230 (11.00%) Power BI
18 229 (10.95%) AI
19 224 (10.71%) Data Quality
20 216 (10.33%) Azure
21 214 (10.23%) Acceptance Criteria
22 198 (9.47%) Data Modelling
23 191 (9.13%) Migration
24 190 (9.09%) JIRA
25 179 (8.56%) Security Cleared
26 177 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
27 176 (8.42%) Python
28 167 (7.99%) Microsoft Excel
29 165 (7.89%) 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 94 (4.50%) Confluence
2 54 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.58%) CMS
4 11 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.24%) SAS
7 4 (0.19%) Apache
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
8 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.096%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.096%) Appian
9 2 (0.096%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.096%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.096%) WordPress
10 1 (0.048%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.048%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.048%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.048%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 167 (7.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (2.68%) MS Visio
3 47 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.48%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.38%) Revit
8 4 (0.19%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.048%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.048%) SPSS
10 1 (0.048%) Trello
10 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 31 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.57%) Aladdin
3 12 (0.57%) Endur
3 12 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
3 12 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 11 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.53%) Workday HCM
5 9 (0.43%) iTrent
6 8 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.33%) HFM
7 7 (0.33%) Summit
8 6 (0.29%) Front Arena
8 6 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 5 (0.24%) Findur
10 4 (0.19%) Actimize
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 247 (11.81%) Power Platform
2 216 (10.33%) Azure
3 111 (5.31%) AWS
4 90 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
5 65 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (2.97%) SaaS
7 54 (2.58%) Entra ID
8 48 (2.30%) Snowflake
9 43 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
10 38 (1.82%) GCP
11 24 (1.15%) OneDrive
12 21 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (1.00%) Power Automate
13 20 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
14 19 (0.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 19 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
15 17 (0.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 15 (0.72%) Collibra
16 15 (0.72%) GitHub
16 15 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.20%) TCP/IP
2 23 (1.10%) VPN
3 16 (0.77%) DNS
3 16 (0.77%) Firewall
3 16 (0.77%) Network Security
4 13 (0.62%) DHCP
4 13 (0.62%) PSTN
5 12 (0.57%) VoIP
6 11 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (0.38%) Wireless
8 7 (0.33%) IP Telephony
9 5 (0.24%) DMZ
9 5 (0.24%) HTTP
9 5 (0.24%) Internet
10 4 (0.19%) Intranet
11 3 (0.14%) SSL
11 3 (0.14%) WinSCP
12 2 (0.096%) WAN
12 2 (0.096%) Wireless Security
12 2 (0.096%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (11.00%) Power BI
2 87 (4.16%) Tableau
3 61 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (2.53%) Metadata
5 26 (1.24%) Relational Database
6 21 (1.00%) Looker
7 20 (0.96%) Power Query
8 18 (0.86%) Data Lake
9 17 (0.81%) BigQuery
10 11 (0.53%) Big Data
10 11 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
10 11 (0.53%) SQL Server
11 10 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
12 8 (0.38%) MongoDB
13 7 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (0.29%) Amazon QuickSight
14 6 (0.29%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
15 5 (0.24%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 190 (9.09%) JIRA
2 19 (0.91%) Postman
3 14 (0.67%) Git
4 10 (0.48%) Selenium
5 8 (0.38%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.33%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.24%) GitLab
7 5 (0.24%) TestRail
7 5 (0.24%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.14%) Appium
9 3 (0.14%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.14%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.14%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.096%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.096%) JMeter
10 2 (0.096%) JUnit
10 2 (0.096%) Snyk
10 2 (0.096%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.096%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 850 (40.65%) Finance
2 681 (32.57%) Social Skills
3 479 (22.91%) Analytical Skills
4 312 (14.92%) Banking
5 123 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 120 (5.74%) Front Office
7 112 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
8 104 (4.97%) Retail
9 95 (4.54%) Legal
10 89 (4.26%) Marketing
11 80 (3.83%) Investment Banking
12 55 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 53 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
14 39 (1.87%) Financial Institution
15 38 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
16 37 (1.77%) Local Government
17 34 (1.63%) Back Office
18 30 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
19 25 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
20 23 (1.10%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
2 27 (1.29%) JSON
3 18 (0.86%) Middleware
4 17 (0.81%) XML
5 11 (0.53%) Pandas
6 10 (0.48%) .NET
6 10 (0.48%) Kafka
6 10 (0.48%) Playwright
7 9 (0.43%) REST
7 9 (0.43%) SailPoint
8 8 (0.38%) ADO
8 8 (0.38%) PySpark
9 7 (0.33%) NumPy
10 6 (0.29%) FIDO
10 6 (0.29%) Terraform
10 6 (0.29%) WebAuthn
10 6 (0.29%) YAML
11 4 (0.19%) Gherkin
11 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (0.19%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 147 (7.03%) Product Ownership
2 123 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 65 (3.11%) Derivative
4 59 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 46 (2.20%) Data Structures
6 44 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 41 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
7 41 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 38 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (1.72%) Fixed Income
10 27 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
10 27 (1.29%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.00%) Credit Risk
13 20 (0.96%) CMDB
13 20 (0.96%) Hedge funds
14 19 (0.91%) Market Risk
14 19 (0.91%) Reference Data
14 19 (0.91%) Security Operations Centre
15 16 (0.77%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 83 (3.97%) Windows
2 19 (0.91%) Mac OS
3 17 (0.81%) Linux
3 17 (0.81%) Windows 10
4 14 (0.67%) Android
5 13 (0.62%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.24%) Unix
7 4 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 574 (27.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 467 (22.33%) Agile
3 392 (18.75%) Business Analysis
4 354 (16.93%) Requirements Gathering
5 345 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
6 327 (15.64%) User Stories
7 301 (14.40%) User Acceptance Testing
8 295 (14.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 288 (13.77%) Workshop Facilitation
10 287 (13.73%) Data Analysis
11 278 (13.30%) Validation
12 268 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
13 253 (12.10%) Analytics
14 230 (11.00%) Decision-Making
15 229 (10.95%) AI
16 214 (10.23%) Acceptance Criteria
17 198 (9.47%) Data Modelling
18 191 (9.13%) Migration
19 177 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
20 165 (7.89%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 433 (20.71%) SQL
2 176 (8.42%) Python
3 34 (1.63%) PowerShell
4 32 (1.53%) R
5 31 (1.48%) Java
6 20 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 17 (0.81%) Korn
8 15 (0.72%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.53%) VBA
10 10 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (0.43%) C#
11 9 (0.43%) C++
11 9 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.33%) Scala
13 6 (0.29%) C
14 5 (0.24%) Bash
14 5 (0.24%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.19%) JavaScript
16 3 (0.14%) VBScript
17 2 (0.096%) Perl
Qualifications
1 179 (8.56%) Security Cleared
2 157 (7.51%) Degree
3 145 (6.93%) SC Cleared
4 31 (1.48%) DV Cleared
5 30 (1.43%) CISSP
6 23 (1.10%) PMI Certification
7 21 (1.00%) IIBA
8 19 (0.91%) ACCA
9 18 (0.86%) CIMA
10 16 (0.77%) CBAP
10 16 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
10 16 (0.77%) PMP
11 15 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.62%) CompTIA CySA+
14 12 (0.57%) CISM
14 12 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
15 11 (0.53%) FFIEC
15 11 (0.53%) GIAC
16 9 (0.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (10.71%) Data Quality
2 116 (5.55%) QA
3 56 (2.68%) PMO
4 54 (2.58%) NIST
5 43 (2.06%) GDPR
6 40 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.39%) SLA
8 22 (1.05%) COBIT
8 22 (1.05%) GRC
8 22 (1.05%) IFRS
9 16 (0.77%) Accessibility
10 15 (0.72%) ISO 20022
10 15 (0.72%) MiFID
10 15 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 14 (0.67%) EMIR
12 11 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.38%) GAAP
14 7 (0.33%) Basel III
14 7 (0.33%) ISO 15022
14 7 (0.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 55 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
2 9 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (0.19%) Docker
4 2 (0.096%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (0.96%) SCCM
3 12 (0.57%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.29%) WSUS
6 4 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.14%) QRadar
8 2 (0.096%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.096%) Nessus
8 2 (0.096%) Nexpose
8 2 (0.096%) Puppet
9 1 (0.048%) CASB
9 1 (0.048%) Control-M
9 1 (0.048%) Grafana
9 1 (0.048%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.048%) Kibana
9 1 (0.048%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 302 (14.44%) Microsoft
2 108 (5.16%) Salesforce
3 105 (5.02%) SAP
4 99 (4.73%) ServiceNow
5 84 (4.02%) Oracle
6 66 (3.16%) Databricks
7 38 (1.82%) Google
8 37 (1.77%) Murex
9 32 (1.53%) Bloomberg
10 24 (1.15%) Workday
11 23 (1.10%) Splunk
12 22 (1.05%) Alteryx
13 20 (0.96%) Adobe
14 18 (0.86%) CyberArk
15 17 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
16 15 (0.72%) Citrix
17 14 (0.67%) IBM
18 12 (0.57%) Cisco
18 12 (0.57%) ION Trading
19 10 (0.48%) Calypso