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 15 November 2025.

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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 13 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,874 1,872 2,757
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.36% 11.90% 13.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.44% 12.68% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,228 1,351 2,027
10th Percentile £313 £300 £285
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 33 29
10th Percentile £21.10 £26.05 £17.04
25th Percentile £23.00 £35.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.31 £42.50 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year -40.45% +64.79% +3.16%
75th Percentile £33.75 £76.25 £40.75
90th Percentile £49.05 £96.15 £53.35
England median hourly rate £20.79 £26.31 £19.00
% change year-on-year -20.99% +38.49% +11.50%

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 12,975 14,769 18,950
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 93.91% 93.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,604 9,567 13,754
10th Percentile £334 £338 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £566
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -2.82% -1.57%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £789 £794
England median daily rate £510 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 156 226
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £37.50 £38.45
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -2.48% +21.11%
75th Percentile £49.13 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.15 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.11% +50.00%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +2 338 £470 -10.43% 359
East London +8 24 £190 -56.77% 57
South London -7 21 £425 +84.78% 34
West London -21 16 £440 +17.33% 65
North London +2 3 £484 - 19
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 464 (24.76%) Agile
2 392 (20.92%) SQL
3 352 (18.78%) Stakeholder Management
4 335 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
5 286 (15.26%) Business Analysis
5 286 (15.26%) Microsoft
6 274 (14.62%) Data Analysis
7 232 (12.38%) Requirements Gathering
8 231 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 209 (11.15%) Analytics
10 203 (10.83%) User Acceptance Testing
11 194 (10.35%) Business Intelligence
12 193 (10.30%) User Stories
13 188 (10.03%) Python
14 177 (9.45%) Power Platform
15 173 (9.23%) Migration
16 172 (9.18%) Workshop Facilitation
17 171 (9.12%) Power BI
18 167 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
19 155 (8.27%) Security Cleared
20 154 (8.22%) Azure
21 153 (8.16%) Decision-Making
22 143 (7.63%) Degree
22 143 (7.63%) JIRA
22 143 (7.63%) Validation
23 141 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
24 137 (7.31%) Visualisation
25 133 (7.10%) SC Cleared
26 127 (6.78%) Data Modelling
27 126 (6.72%) 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 82 (4.38%) Confluence
2 51 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.69%) CMS
3 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.37%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.32%) Anypoint
5 6 (0.32%) Mattermost
5 6 (0.32%) MQSeries
6 5 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.21%) SAS
7 4 (0.21%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.053%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.053%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.053%) JBoss
9 1 (0.053%) Kentico
9 1 (0.053%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.053%) WebLogic
Applications
1 167 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (3.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 67 (3.58%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.21%) Autodesk Inventor
7 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.11%) GNU Octave
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
7 2 (0.11%) SPSS
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.053%) Notion
8 1 (0.053%) Revit
8 1 (0.053%) Sketch
8 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 40 (2.13%) Endur
2 21 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.96%) SAP S/4HANA
4 14 (0.75%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.53%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
7 7 (0.37%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.32%) Temenos T24
9 5 (0.27%) ION MarketView
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.27%) SAP GTS
9 5 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 5 (0.27%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
10 4 (0.21%) Loan IQ
11 3 (0.16%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 177 (9.45%) Power Platform
2 154 (8.22%) Azure
3 84 (4.48%) AWS
4 60 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (2.72%) GCP
6 44 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.81%) Entra ID
8 33 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (1.65%) Snowflake
10 30 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
11 25 (1.33%) SaaS
12 18 (0.96%) Miro
13 15 (0.80%) Power Automate
13 15 (0.80%) PowerApps
14 13 (0.69%) Collibra
15 12 (0.64%) OneDrive
16 10 (0.53%) Google Analytics
17 8 (0.43%) dbt
17 8 (0.43%) Google Workspace
17 8 (0.43%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.39%) Firewall
2 15 (0.80%) DNS
2 15 (0.80%) TCP/IP
3 12 (0.64%) DHCP
4 11 (0.59%) Network Security
5 10 (0.53%) VPN
6 7 (0.37%) Internet
6 7 (0.37%) Skype
6 7 (0.37%) Unified Communications
7 6 (0.32%) VLAN
8 5 (0.27%) IP Telephony
8 5 (0.27%) LAN
8 5 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.16%) HTTP
9 3 (0.16%) Softphone
9 3 (0.16%) VoIP
9 3 (0.16%) WAN
10 2 (0.11%) ATM
10 2 (0.11%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.11%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (9.12%) Power BI
2 99 (5.28%) Tableau
3 44 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (1.60%) BigQuery
5 27 (1.44%) Metadata
6 24 (1.28%) SQL Server
7 20 (1.07%) Power Query
8 19 (1.01%) Looker
8 19 (1.01%) Relational Database
9 14 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
10 12 (0.64%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.53%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.48%) Big Data
13 8 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.43%) Star Schema
14 5 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (0.21%) Data Mart
15 4 (0.21%) Qlik Sense
15 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 143 (7.63%) JIRA
2 11 (0.59%) Git
2 11 (0.59%) Jenkins
2 11 (0.59%) Postman
3 10 (0.53%) Selenium
4 5 (0.27%) REST Assured
5 3 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.16%) Charles Proxy
5 3 (0.16%) IBM UrbanCode
5 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.16%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.11%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.11%) ERwin
6 2 (0.11%) Fiddler
6 2 (0.11%) Metasploit
6 2 (0.11%) NUnit
6 2 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
6 2 (0.11%) SoapUI
General
1 715 (38.15%) Finance
2 689 (36.77%) Social Skills
3 419 (22.36%) Analytical Skills
4 279 (14.89%) Banking
5 110 (5.87%) Public Sector
6 86 (4.59%) Investment Banking
7 85 (4.54%) Front Office
8 65 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
9 60 (3.20%) Back Office
9 60 (3.20%) Retail
10 56 (2.99%) Legal
11 54 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 54 (2.88%) Marketing
12 53 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
13 44 (2.35%) Financial Institution
14 42 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.81%) Telecoms
16 33 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
17 27 (1.44%) Local Government
17 27 (1.44%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.55%) XML
2 17 (0.91%) REST
3 12 (0.64%) SOAP
4 11 (0.59%) JSON
5 10 (0.53%) .NET
6 9 (0.48%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (0.43%) ADO
7 8 (0.43%) Playwright
7 8 (0.43%) Swagger
8 7 (0.37%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (0.37%) HTML
9 5 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (0.27%) LangChain
9 5 (0.27%) Pandas
9 5 (0.27%) SailPoint
9 5 (0.27%) Web Services
10 4 (0.21%) DCOM
10 4 (0.21%) Kafka
10 4 (0.21%) OAuth
10 4 (0.21%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 107 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 73 (3.90%) Onboarding
3 59 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
4 53 (2.83%) Derivative
5 45 (2.40%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
7 38 (2.03%) Fixed Income
7 38 (2.03%) Reinsurance
8 32 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 28 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
10 27 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
10 27 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
11 26 (1.39%) Data Structures
11 26 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 22 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
13 21 (1.12%) PMI
14 19 (1.01%) Credit Risk
14 19 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
15 16 (0.85%) Equities
15 16 (0.85%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 92 (4.91%) Windows
2 33 (1.76%) Windows 10
3 24 (1.28%) Linux
4 16 (0.85%) Unix
5 15 (0.80%) Android
5 15 (0.80%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.43%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.32%) Windows 7
8 5 (0.27%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.053%) VMS
10 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.053%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (24.76%) Agile
2 352 (18.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 335 (17.88%) Problem-Solving
4 286 (15.26%) Business Analysis
5 274 (14.62%) Data Analysis
6 232 (12.38%) Requirements Gathering
7 231 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 209 (11.15%) Analytics
9 203 (10.83%) User Acceptance Testing
10 194 (10.35%) Business Intelligence
11 193 (10.30%) User Stories
12 173 (9.23%) Migration
13 172 (9.18%) Workshop Facilitation
14 153 (8.16%) Decision-Making
15 143 (7.63%) Validation
16 141 (7.52%) Continuous Improvement
17 137 (7.31%) Visualisation
18 127 (6.78%) Data Modelling
19 126 (6.72%) Process Improvement
20 114 (6.08%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 392 (20.92%) SQL
2 188 (10.03%) Python
3 38 (2.03%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.28%) C#
5 22 (1.17%) Kusto Query Language
6 21 (1.12%) Java
7 19 (1.01%) VBA
8 18 (0.96%) R
9 17 (0.91%) JavaScript
10 15 (0.80%) C++
11 14 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.53%) Bash
13 8 (0.43%) RPG
14 6 (0.32%) Korn
15 4 (0.21%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.16%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.16%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
17 2 (0.11%) Perl
17 2 (0.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 155 (8.27%) Security Cleared
2 143 (7.63%) Degree
3 133 (7.10%) SC Cleared
4 34 (1.81%) CBAP
5 28 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (1.49%) PMI Certification
6 23 (1.23%) Master's Degree
7 21 (1.12%) CISSP
8 15 (0.80%) DV Cleared
9 14 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (0.75%) CISM
10 11 (0.59%) ACCA
10 11 (0.59%) CEH
10 11 (0.59%) ISEB
10 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 10 (0.53%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.53%) CIMA
11 10 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
11 10 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
12 9 (0.48%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (6.40%) Data Quality
2 119 (6.35%) QA
3 50 (2.67%) GDPR
4 41 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (1.87%) NIST
6 32 (1.71%) GRC
7 31 (1.65%) PMO
8 29 (1.55%) MiFID
9 23 (1.23%) EMIR
10 20 (1.07%) SEPA
11 16 (0.85%) ISO 20022
12 13 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
12 13 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.64%) Accessibility
14 9 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.48%) SLA
15 8 (0.43%) PSD2
16 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
17 6 (0.32%) GMP
17 6 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 64 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.27%) Docker
3 4 (0.21%) Snort
3 4 (0.21%) Squid
4 3 (0.16%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.053%) Firmware
5 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.053%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.053%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.053%) Xen
5 1 (0.053%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (0.75%) HP SiteScope
1 14 (0.75%) SCOM
2 11 (0.59%) SCCM
3 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.32%) Ansible
5 6 (0.32%) Control-M
5 6 (0.32%) Nessus
6 5 (0.27%) Kubernetes
7 4 (0.21%) BladeLogic
7 4 (0.21%) Nexpose
7 4 (0.21%) Suricata
8 3 (0.16%) CSIRT
8 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.16%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.11%) WSUS
10 1 (0.053%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 286 (15.26%) Microsoft
2 90 (4.80%) Oracle
3 75 (4.00%) SAP
4 66 (3.52%) Salesforce
5 60 (3.20%) Splunk
6 52 (2.77%) ServiceNow
7 43 (2.29%) Google
8 33 (1.76%) Workday
9 27 (1.44%) Murex
10 23 (1.23%) Bloomberg
11 22 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
12 20 (1.07%) Qualys
13 19 (1.01%) Adobe
13 19 (1.01%) Databricks
13 19 (1.01%) OpenLink
14 18 (0.96%) Carbon Black
15 16 (0.85%) Alteryx
15 16 (0.85%) ION Trading
16 14 (0.75%) CyberArk
16 14 (0.75%) IBM