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 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,927 1,617 2,116
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.43% 13.29% 12.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.23% 14.22% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,266 1,080 1,520
10th Percentile £297 £305 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £718 £750 £700
England median daily rate £450 £474 £475
% change year-on-year -5.06% -0.21% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 33 30
10th Percentile £19.55 £22.27 £20.45
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.04 £28.60 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.54% +19.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £37.00 £33.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £41.21 £60.50
England median hourly rate £21.80 £22.14 £16.15
% change year-on-year -1.54% +37.09% -15.00%

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 17,158 11,372 16,354
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.47% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,358 7,721 11,830
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £431 £425 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 153 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.20 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.00 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +15.71% -23.18%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.75 £46.50
90th Percentile £76.64 £61.85 £65.03
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.33 £37.50
% change year-on-year +53.43% -21.79% -16.67%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -4 310 £515 -1.90% 65
West London -7 56 £400 - 23
South London +5 37 £463 -2.63% 9
East London -2 15 £495 -1.00% 10
North London -3 3 £339 -37.84% 8
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 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.

1 440 (22.83%) Agile
2 392 (20.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 352 (18.27%) SQL
4 304 (15.78%) Business Analysis
5 293 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
6 282 (14.63%) User Stories
7 250 (12.97%) Requirements Gathering
8 244 (12.66%) Business Intelligence
9 243 (12.61%) Microsoft
10 240 (12.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 240 (12.45%) User Acceptance Testing
11 225 (11.68%) Data Analysis
12 219 (11.36%) Power Platform
13 216 (11.21%) Workshop Facilitation
14 215 (11.16%) Validation
15 210 (10.90%) Power BI
16 206 (10.69%) Security Cleared
17 198 (10.28%) Analytics
18 194 (10.07%) Data Quality
19 193 (10.02%) Azure
20 192 (9.96%) Decision-Making
21 190 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
22 189 (9.81%) JIRA
23 187 (9.70%) Acceptance Criteria
24 186 (9.65%) Migration
25 184 (9.55%) Data Modelling
26 175 (9.08%) SC Cleared
27 148 (7.68%) Python
28 143 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
29 138 (7.16%) AI

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 99 (5.14%) Confluence
2 31 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.50%) CMS
4 9 (0.47%) SAS
5 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.21%) Apache
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.10%) Kentico
9 2 (0.10%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.052%) Appian
10 1 (0.052%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.052%) WordPress
Applications
1 190 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (4.05%) MS Visio
3 63 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
5 24 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.26%) Notion
8 4 (0.21%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.21%) Revit
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.052%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.052%) SPSS
10 1 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 23 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.14%) Aladdin
3 19 (0.99%) Loan IQ
4 14 (0.73%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.67%) Workday HCM
6 9 (0.47%) Endur
7 8 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.31%) Actimize
9 6 (0.31%) Fidessa
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.26%) Findur
10 5 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.26%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.26%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.21%) iTrent
11 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 219 (11.36%) Power Platform
2 193 (10.02%) Azure
3 97 (5.03%) AWS
4 62 (3.22%) Microsoft 365
5 48 (2.49%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (2.13%) Snowflake
7 36 (1.87%) SaaS
8 30 (1.56%) GCP
9 29 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.30%) Entra ID
11 18 (0.93%) Google Workspace
12 17 (0.88%) Amazon S3
12 17 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
13 15 (0.78%) Serverless
14 14 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (0.73%) Lucidchart
14 14 (0.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 13 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 12 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (0.67%) VPN
2 12 (0.62%) DNS
2 12 (0.62%) TCP/IP
3 11 (0.57%) DHCP
3 11 (0.57%) Firewall
4 9 (0.47%) Network Security
5 6 (0.31%) DMZ
5 6 (0.31%) FIX Connectivity
6 5 (0.26%) VoIP
6 5 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.21%) Broadband
8 3 (0.16%) FTP
8 3 (0.16%) WAN
8 3 (0.16%) Wireless
9 2 (0.10%) 802.11
9 2 (0.10%) Internet
9 2 (0.10%) Intranet
9 2 (0.10%) LAN
9 2 (0.10%) Wireless Security
9 2 (0.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 210 (10.90%) Power BI
2 94 (4.88%) Tableau
3 50 (2.59%) Metadata
4 47 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
5 29 (1.50%) Relational Database
6 17 (0.88%) Power Query
7 15 (0.78%) BigQuery
7 15 (0.78%) Looker
8 14 (0.73%) Big Data
9 12 (0.62%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (0.57%) Qlik Sense
10 11 (0.57%) SQL Server
11 7 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.31%) KNIME
12 6 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (0.26%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.26%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 189 (9.81%) JIRA
2 20 (1.04%) Postman
3 7 (0.36%) Selenium
4 6 (0.31%) MSI
5 5 (0.26%) Git
5 5 (0.26%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.21%) Appium
6 4 (0.21%) JUnit
6 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.16%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.16%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.16%) GitLab
7 3 (0.16%) TestRail
7 3 (0.16%) Toad
8 2 (0.10%) Charles Proxy
8 2 (0.10%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.052%) Subversion
9 1 (0.052%) Xcode
General
1 770 (39.96%) Finance
2 608 (31.55%) Social Skills
3 418 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (14.32%) Banking
5 121 (6.28%) Public Sector
6 105 (5.45%) Front Office
7 90 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
8 82 (4.26%) Investment Banking
9 73 (3.79%) Marketing
10 65 (3.37%) Legal
11 57 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
12 53 (2.75%) Retail
13 51 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
14 41 (2.13%) Financial Institution
15 36 (1.87%) Back Office
16 34 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 27 (1.40%) Local Government
18 24 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.99%) Manufacturing
20 17 (0.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.09%) XML
2 18 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (0.78%) Middleware
3 15 (0.78%) Pandas
4 12 (0.62%) ADO
5 11 (0.57%) REST
6 10 (0.52%) .NET
6 10 (0.52%) JSON
7 8 (0.42%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (0.42%) NumPy
7 8 (0.42%) VML
8 7 (0.36%) Kafka
9 6 (0.31%) PySpark
9 6 (0.31%) SOAP
10 4 (0.21%) Playwright
10 4 (0.21%) Web Services
10 4 (0.21%) YAML
11 3 (0.16%) GeoJSON
11 3 (0.16%) SailPoint
12 2 (0.10%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 118 (6.12%) Product Ownership
2 68 (3.53%) Onboarding
3 53 (2.75%) Derivative
4 44 (2.28%) Fixed Income
5 42 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
6 40 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 40 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
7 37 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 35 (1.82%) Data Structures
9 34 (1.76%) Management Information System
10 28 (1.45%) Hedge funds
11 24 (1.25%) Credit Risk
12 22 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
13 18 (0.93%) Market Risk
14 17 (0.88%) CMDB
15 15 (0.78%) Equities
15 15 (0.78%) Security Posture
16 14 (0.73%) PMI
17 13 (0.67%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 71 (3.68%) Windows
2 22 (1.14%) Android
3 20 (1.04%) Apple iOS
4 16 (0.83%) Windows 10
5 15 (0.78%) Mac OS
6 14 (0.73%) Unix
7 12 (0.62%) Linux
8 7 (0.36%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.052%) VMS
9 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (22.83%) Agile
2 392 (20.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 304 (15.78%) Business Analysis
4 293 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
5 282 (14.63%) User Stories
6 250 (12.97%) Requirements Gathering
7 244 (12.66%) Business Intelligence
8 240 (12.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 240 (12.45%) User Acceptance Testing
9 225 (11.68%) Data Analysis
10 216 (11.21%) Workshop Facilitation
11 215 (11.16%) Validation
12 198 (10.28%) Analytics
13 192 (9.96%) Decision-Making
14 187 (9.70%) Acceptance Criteria
15 186 (9.65%) Migration
16 184 (9.55%) Data Modelling
17 143 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
18 138 (7.16%) AI
19 132 (6.85%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 352 (18.27%) SQL
2 148 (7.68%) Python
3 25 (1.30%) R
4 19 (0.99%) PowerShell
5 18 (0.93%) Java
6 16 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 15 (0.78%) VBA
8 11 (0.57%) C#
9 9 (0.47%) Korn
9 9 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
10 8 (0.42%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.36%) JavaScript
12 5 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.21%) Bash
13 4 (0.21%) Groovy
14 3 (0.16%) C
14 3 (0.16%) C++
14 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.10%) Perl
15 2 (0.10%) PHP
Qualifications
1 206 (10.69%) Security Cleared
2 175 (9.08%) SC Cleared
3 129 (6.69%) Degree
4 36 (1.87%) CBAP
5 28 (1.45%) IIBA
6 20 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (1.04%) PMI Certification
7 19 (0.99%) CISSP
8 11 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 11 (0.57%) DV Cleared
9 10 (0.52%) ACCA
9 10 (0.52%) CISM
10 9 (0.47%) CIMA
10 9 (0.47%) CISA
10 9 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (0.47%) ISEB
10 9 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 8 (0.42%) CSPO
11 8 (0.42%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (10.07%) Data Quality
2 112 (5.81%) QA
3 59 (3.06%) PMO
4 42 (2.18%) GDPR
5 37 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (1.76%) NIST
7 25 (1.30%) IFRS
8 23 (1.19%) SLA
9 20 (1.04%) Actionable Recommendations
10 19 (0.99%) GRC
11 17 (0.88%) EMIR
11 17 (0.88%) GAAP
12 16 (0.83%) Accessibility
12 16 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 15 (0.78%) COBIT
14 14 (0.73%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.67%) MiFID
16 6 (0.31%) ITGC
16 6 (0.31%) PSD2
16 6 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (1.92%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.10%) Docker
4 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.052%) RACF
5 1 (0.052%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.052%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.052%) vSphere
5 1 (0.052%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (0.52%) SCCM
3 6 (0.31%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.21%) Nessus
4 4 (0.21%) WSUS
5 3 (0.16%) Control-M
5 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.16%) Terraform
6 2 (0.10%) Nexpose
6 2 (0.10%) Puppet
7 1 (0.052%) CASB
7 1 (0.052%) Grafana
7 1 (0.052%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.052%) Kibana
7 1 (0.052%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.052%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.052%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.052%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.052%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 243 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 119 (6.18%) Salesforce
3 102 (5.29%) SAP
4 83 (4.31%) Oracle
5 80 (4.15%) ServiceNow
6 54 (2.80%) Databricks
7 36 (1.87%) Workday
8 30 (1.56%) Google
9 28 (1.45%) Bloomberg
10 27 (1.40%) Murex
11 21 (1.09%) Splunk
12 17 (0.88%) CrowdStrike
13 16 (0.83%) Citrix
14 13 (0.67%) Adobe
14 13 (0.67%) Charles River
14 13 (0.67%) Qualys
15 12 (0.62%) Alteryx
16 11 (0.57%) ION Trading
16 11 (0.57%) Reuters
16 11 (0.57%) Zscaler