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 1 November 2025.

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

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 12 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,823 1,907 2,824
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.35% 12.18% 13.81%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.43% 12.96% 14.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,212 1,372 2,077
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
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 £725 £713 £725
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 33 31
10th Percentile £21.80 £26.05 £17.75
25th Percentile £23.00 £35.00 £19.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +68.63% -2.86%
75th Percentile £33.75 £76.25 £40.75
90th Percentile £51.80 £96.15 £53.25
England median hourly rate £20.79 £24.20 £19.00
% change year-on-year -14.09% +27.37% +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 12,631 14,719 19,198
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.01% 93.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,383 9,518 13,972
10th Percentile £332 £338 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £794 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 161 212
10th Percentile £17.16 £17.25 £18.02
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.50 £21.94
Median hourly rate £27.40 £39.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.74% -3.70% +25.58%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.00 £61.94
90th Percentile £67.11 £80.75 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.94
% change year-on-year -39.40% -9.66% +53.13%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +2 334 £475 -9.52% 291
East London +5 21 £190 -56.82% 41
South London -8 20 £425 +84.78% 32
West London -22 14 £425 +11.11% 48
North London +3 3 £484 - 13
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 458 (25.12%) Agile
2 388 (21.28%) SQL
3 332 (18.21%) Stakeholder Management
4 319 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
5 285 (15.63%) Data Analysis
6 281 (15.41%) Business Analysis
7 277 (15.19%) Microsoft
8 219 (12.01%) Requirements Gathering
8 219 (12.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 205 (11.25%) Analytics
10 200 (10.97%) User Acceptance Testing
11 195 (10.70%) Python
12 188 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
13 186 (10.20%) User Stories
14 168 (9.22%) Power Platform
15 166 (9.11%) Microsoft Excel
16 164 (9.00%) Power BI
17 163 (8.94%) Workshop Facilitation
18 161 (8.83%) Decision-Making
18 161 (8.83%) Migration
19 148 (8.12%) Degree
20 144 (7.90%) Azure
21 142 (7.79%) JIRA
22 135 (7.41%) Security Cleared
22 135 (7.41%) Visualisation
23 133 (7.30%) Validation
24 132 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
25 128 (7.02%) Data Modelling
26 125 (6.86%) Process Improvement
27 118 (6.47%) Data Quality

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 85 (4.66%) Confluence
2 49 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.66%) CMS
5 7 (0.38%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.33%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.33%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.33%) MQSeries
7 5 (0.27%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.16%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.16%) SAS
10 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.055%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.055%) JBoss
10 1 (0.055%) Kentico
10 1 (0.055%) Smallworld
10 1 (0.055%) WebLogic
Applications
1 166 (9.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (3.62%) MS Visio
4 65 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.22%) Autodesk Inventor
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.11%) GNU Octave
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.11%) SPSS
9 1 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.055%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.055%) Notion
9 1 (0.055%) Revit
9 1 (0.055%) Sketch
9 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 39 (2.14%) Endur
2 22 (1.21%) Aladdin
3 21 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 17 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
7 7 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.38%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.33%) Temenos T24
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.27%) SAP GTS
9 5 (0.27%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.22%) Infor SunSystems
10 4 (0.22%) ION MarketView
10 4 (0.22%) Loan IQ
10 4 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.22%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 168 (9.22%) Power Platform
2 144 (7.90%) Azure
3 75 (4.11%) AWS
4 56 (3.07%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (2.58%) GCP
6 44 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (1.76%) Entra ID
8 31 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
9 30 (1.65%) Snowflake
10 26 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
11 25 (1.37%) SaaS
12 17 (0.93%) Miro
13 13 (0.71%) Collibra
13 13 (0.71%) Lucidchart
14 12 (0.66%) OneDrive
14 12 (0.66%) PowerApps
15 11 (0.60%) dbt
15 11 (0.60%) Power Automate
16 10 (0.55%) Google Analytics
17 8 (0.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.48%) Firewall
2 17 (0.93%) DNS
3 15 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.77%) DHCP
5 8 (0.44%) Network Security
5 8 (0.44%) Unified Communications
5 8 (0.44%) VPN
6 7 (0.38%) LAN
6 7 (0.38%) Skype
7 6 (0.33%) VLAN
8 5 (0.27%) Internet
8 5 (0.27%) IP Telephony
8 5 (0.27%) WAN
9 3 (0.16%) HTTP
10 2 (0.11%) ATM
10 2 (0.11%) Intrusion Detection
10 2 (0.11%) SMTP
10 2 (0.11%) Softphone
10 2 (0.11%) VoIP
10 2 (0.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (9.00%) Power BI
2 102 (5.60%) Tableau
3 45 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (1.76%) BigQuery
5 25 (1.37%) Metadata
6 24 (1.32%) SQL Server
7 21 (1.15%) Power Query
8 20 (1.10%) Looker
8 20 (1.10%) Relational Database
9 12 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.60%) Big Data
10 11 (0.60%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (0.55%) Star Schema
12 7 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
13 6 (0.33%) GIS
14 5 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
15 4 (0.22%) Data Mart
15 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 142 (7.79%) JIRA
2 15 (0.82%) Git
3 11 (0.60%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.60%) Postman
4 9 (0.49%) Selenium
5 5 (0.27%) REST Assured
6 4 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.16%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.11%) Appium
8 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.11%) ER Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.11%) NUnit
8 2 (0.11%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.11%) TestRail
9 1 (0.055%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.055%) GitLab
General
1 709 (38.89%) Finance
2 666 (36.53%) Social Skills
3 396 (21.72%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (14.48%) Banking
5 103 (5.65%) Public Sector
6 98 (5.38%) Front Office
7 79 (4.33%) Investment Banking
8 65 (3.57%) Back Office
9 57 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
10 56 (3.07%) Legal
11 55 (3.02%) Retail
12 53 (2.91%) Presentation Skills
13 52 (2.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 51 (2.80%) Marketing
15 45 (2.47%) Financial Institution
16 41 (2.25%) Influencing Skills
17 32 (1.76%) Telecoms
18 31 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
19 27 (1.48%) Local Government
19 27 (1.48%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.81%) XML
2 15 (0.82%) REST
3 14 (0.77%) JSON
4 12 (0.66%) SOAP
5 9 (0.49%) .NET
6 8 (0.44%) ADO
7 7 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
7 7 (0.38%) Playwright
7 7 (0.38%) Swagger
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
8 6 (0.33%) Pandas
9 5 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (0.27%) HTML
9 5 (0.27%) LangChain
9 5 (0.27%) Web Services
10 4 (0.22%) DCOM
10 4 (0.22%) Kafka
10 4 (0.22%) Rendezvous
10 4 (0.22%) RESTful
10 4 (0.22%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 103 (5.65%) Product Ownership
2 69 (3.78%) Onboarding
3 60 (3.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 58 (3.18%) Derivative
5 48 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 42 (2.30%) Fixed Income
7 39 (2.14%) Reinsurance
8 38 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
9 34 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 29 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
11 28 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
11 28 (1.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 26 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
13 24 (1.32%) Data Structures
14 20 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
15 19 (1.04%) Credit Risk
15 19 (1.04%) Market Risk
15 19 (1.04%) PMI
16 17 (0.93%) Equities
17 16 (0.88%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 91 (4.99%) Windows
2 31 (1.70%) Windows 10
3 24 (1.32%) Linux
4 15 (0.82%) Mac OS
5 14 (0.77%) Unix
6 12 (0.66%) Android
7 6 (0.33%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.33%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.16%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.055%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.055%) VMS
10 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.055%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (25.12%) Agile
2 332 (18.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 319 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
4 285 (15.63%) Data Analysis
5 281 (15.41%) Business Analysis
6 219 (12.01%) Requirements Gathering
6 219 (12.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 205 (11.25%) Analytics
8 200 (10.97%) User Acceptance Testing
9 188 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
10 186 (10.20%) User Stories
11 163 (8.94%) Workshop Facilitation
12 161 (8.83%) Decision-Making
12 161 (8.83%) Migration
13 135 (7.41%) Visualisation
14 133 (7.30%) Validation
15 132 (7.24%) Continuous Improvement
16 128 (7.02%) Data Modelling
17 125 (6.86%) Process Improvement
18 115 (6.31%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 388 (21.28%) SQL
2 195 (10.70%) Python
3 38 (2.08%) PowerShell
4 23 (1.26%) C#
5 20 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
6 19 (1.04%) Java
6 19 (1.04%) VBA
7 17 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 15 (0.82%) C++
8 15 (0.82%) R
9 12 (0.66%) Bash
10 11 (0.60%) JavaScript
11 8 (0.44%) RPG
12 4 (0.22%) Korn
12 4 (0.22%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.16%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.11%) Perl
14 2 (0.11%) Scala
14 2 (0.11%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.11%) VC++
Qualifications
1 148 (8.12%) Degree
2 135 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 114 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 33 (1.81%) CBAP
5 28 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 25 (1.37%) PMI Certification
7 24 (1.32%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.10%) CISSP
9 15 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 15 (0.82%) DV Cleared
10 14 (0.77%) CISM
11 12 (0.66%) CEH
12 11 (0.60%) ACCA
12 11 (0.60%) ISEB
13 10 (0.55%) Azure Certification
13 10 (0.55%) CIMA
13 10 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (0.49%) CompTIA CySA+
14 9 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (6.47%) Data Quality
2 108 (5.92%) QA
3 47 (2.58%) GDPR
4 38 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (1.87%) PMO
6 33 (1.81%) MiFID
7 32 (1.76%) NIST
8 29 (1.59%) EMIR
8 29 (1.59%) GRC
9 21 (1.15%) SEPA
10 17 (0.93%) ISO 20022
11 13 (0.71%) Accessibility
11 13 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
11 13 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.44%) SLA
14 6 (0.33%) GMP
14 6 (0.33%) NCSC
14 6 (0.33%) Solvency II
15 5 (0.27%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 66 (3.62%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.27%) Docker
3 4 (0.22%) Snort
3 4 (0.22%) Squid
3 4 (0.22%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.055%) Firmware
4 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.055%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.055%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.055%) Xen
4 1 (0.055%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (0.77%) HP SiteScope
1 14 (0.77%) SCOM
2 10 (0.55%) SCCM
3 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.33%) Ansible
5 6 (0.33%) Control-M
5 6 (0.33%) Nessus
6 5 (0.27%) Kubernetes
7 4 (0.22%) BladeLogic
7 4 (0.22%) Nexpose
7 4 (0.22%) Suricata
7 4 (0.22%) Tivoli
8 3 (0.16%) CSIRT
8 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.11%) Terraform
10 1 (0.055%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.055%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 277 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 87 (4.77%) Oracle
3 76 (4.17%) SAP
4 64 (3.51%) Salesforce
5 57 (3.13%) Splunk
6 50 (2.74%) ServiceNow
7 39 (2.14%) Google
8 32 (1.76%) Workday
9 28 (1.54%) Murex
10 21 (1.15%) OpenLink
11 20 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
12 19 (1.04%) Bloomberg
13 18 (0.99%) Qualys
14 16 (0.88%) Alteryx
14 16 (0.88%) Carbon Black
14 16 (0.88%) Databricks
15 15 (0.82%) IBM
16 14 (0.77%) Adobe
17 13 (0.71%) Charles River
17 13 (0.71%) CyberArk