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 November 2025.

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

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,872 1,888 2,667
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.29% 11.96% 13.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.39% 12.77% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,368 1,955
10th Percentile £306 £300 £280
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £720
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 32 27
10th Percentile £21.00 £26.03 £17.90
25th Percentile £22.50 £34.06 £19.13
Median hourly rate £25.47 £42.00 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year -39.36% +62.85% -9.51%
75th Percentile £33.75 £79.25 £40.75
90th Percentile £49.75 £98.08 £53.45
England median hourly rate £19.80 £26.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -23.85% +36.84% +8.57%

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 13,005 14,786 18,465
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 93.65% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,627 9,590 13,357
10th Percentile £333 £338 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £790
England median daily rate £505 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 159 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.25 £36.80 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -25.95% +1.83% +3.26%
75th Percentile £52.88 £57.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £81.24 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% -16.67% +38.46%

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 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 30 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 30 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 +1 321 £464 -12.45% 79
East London +7 24 £190 -56.72% 42
South London -4 22 £425 +84.78% 30
West London -19 13 £455 +21.33% 56
North London -1 3 £484 -12.05% 20
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 468 (25.00%) Agile
2 386 (20.62%) SQL
3 370 (19.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 325 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
5 292 (15.60%) Business Analysis
6 284 (15.17%) Microsoft
7 246 (13.14%) Data Analysis
8 238 (12.71%) Requirements Gathering
9 236 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 207 (11.06%) User Acceptance Testing
11 199 (10.63%) Business Intelligence
12 198 (10.58%) Analytics
13 195 (10.42%) User Stories
14 183 (9.78%) Migration
15 182 (9.72%) Power Platform
16 178 (9.51%) Python
16 178 (9.51%) Workshop Facilitation
17 174 (9.29%) Power BI
18 165 (8.81%) Microsoft Excel
18 165 (8.81%) Security Cleared
19 158 (8.44%) Decision-Making
20 152 (8.12%) Azure
21 151 (8.07%) Validation
22 150 (8.01%) JIRA
23 146 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
24 145 (7.75%) Degree
25 141 (7.53%) SC Cleared
26 138 (7.37%) Data Modelling
27 131 (7.00%) Visualisation
28 129 (6.89%) 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 88 (4.70%) Confluence
2 54 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.69%) CMS
5 7 (0.37%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.32%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.32%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.32%) MQSeries
7 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.27%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) 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
9 1 (0.053%) WebSphere
Applications
1 165 (8.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 70 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (3.74%) MS Visio
4 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.48%) 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%) Sketch
8 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 41 (2.19%) Endur
2 19 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.64%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
6 9 (0.48%) Loan IQ
6 9 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
7 7 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.37%) SAP HR
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 6 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.32%) Temenos T24
9 5 (0.27%) ION MarketView
9 5 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
10 4 (0.21%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.21%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 182 (9.72%) Power Platform
2 152 (8.12%) Azure
3 90 (4.81%) AWS
4 64 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
5 53 (2.83%) GCP
6 43 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
7 35 (1.87%) Entra ID
8 31 (1.66%) Azure Sentinel
9 30 (1.60%) Snowflake
10 28 (1.50%) SaaS
11 17 (0.91%) Miro
12 15 (0.80%) Power Automate
12 15 (0.80%) PowerApps
13 13 (0.69%) Collibra
13 13 (0.69%) OneDrive
14 10 (0.53%) Google Analytics
15 9 (0.48%) dbt
16 8 (0.43%) Google Tag Manager
16 8 (0.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.44%) Firewall
2 16 (0.85%) DNS
2 16 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 14 (0.75%) Network Security
4 13 (0.69%) DHCP
5 11 (0.59%) VPN
6 7 (0.37%) Internet
6 7 (0.37%) Skype
6 7 (0.37%) Unified Communications
6 7 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.32%) LAN
7 6 (0.32%) VLAN
8 5 (0.27%) IP Telephony
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%) Broadband
10 2 (0.11%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (9.29%) Power BI
2 94 (5.02%) Tableau
3 42 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (1.92%) Metadata
5 30 (1.60%) BigQuery
6 26 (1.39%) SQL Server
7 18 (0.96%) Looker
8 16 (0.85%) Power Query
8 16 (0.85%) Relational Database
9 13 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
10 11 (0.59%) Data Lake
11 10 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
12 9 (0.48%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.37%) Big Data
14 6 (0.32%) Star Schema
15 5 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
16 4 (0.21%) Amazon Redshift
16 4 (0.21%) Data Mart
16 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
16 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 150 (8.01%) JIRA
2 11 (0.59%) Jenkins
2 11 (0.59%) Postman
3 10 (0.53%) Git
3 10 (0.53%) Selenium
4 5 (0.27%) REST Assured
5 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.16%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.16%) TestRail
7 2 (0.11%) Appium
7 2 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
7 2 (0.11%) ERwin
7 2 (0.11%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
7 2 (0.11%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.11%) SoapUI
General
1 709 (37.87%) Finance
2 684 (36.54%) Social Skills
3 416 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 262 (14.00%) Banking
5 125 (6.68%) Public Sector
6 75 (4.01%) Front Office
7 74 (3.95%) Investment Banking
8 70 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
9 59 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
10 58 (3.10%) Back Office
11 56 (2.99%) Marketing
12 54 (2.88%) Legal
13 52 (2.78%) Retail
14 49 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 46 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
16 40 (2.14%) Financial Institution
17 34 (1.82%) Telecoms
18 33 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
19 26 (1.39%) Manufacturing
20 25 (1.34%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.60%) XML
2 18 (0.96%) REST
3 13 (0.69%) SOAP
4 11 (0.59%) JSON
4 11 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
5 10 (0.53%) .NET
6 9 (0.48%) ADO
7 8 (0.43%) HTML
8 7 (0.37%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (0.37%) Middleware
8 7 (0.37%) Playwright
8 7 (0.37%) Swagger
9 6 (0.32%) Pandas
10 5 (0.27%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.27%) Web Services
11 4 (0.21%) CSS
11 4 (0.21%) DCOM
11 4 (0.21%) LangChain
11 4 (0.21%) Rendezvous
11 4 (0.21%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 108 (5.77%) Product Ownership
2 78 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 59 (3.15%) Analytical Mindset
4 53 (2.83%) Derivative
5 46 (2.46%) Management Information System
6 44 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
7 35 (1.87%) Fixed Income
8 33 (1.76%) Data Structures
9 30 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 30 (1.60%) Reinsurance
10 29 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
11 25 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
13 23 (1.23%) PMI
14 22 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
14 22 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 19 (1.01%) Credit Risk
16 17 (0.91%) Virtual Team
17 15 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 94 (5.02%) Windows
2 33 (1.76%) Windows 10
3 24 (1.28%) Linux
4 15 (0.80%) Mac OS
4 15 (0.80%) Unix
5 14 (0.75%) Android
6 8 (0.43%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.32%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.053%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.053%) VMS
9 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.053%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (25.00%) Agile
2 370 (19.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 325 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
4 292 (15.60%) Business Analysis
5 246 (13.14%) Data Analysis
6 238 (12.71%) Requirements Gathering
7 236 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 207 (11.06%) User Acceptance Testing
9 199 (10.63%) Business Intelligence
10 198 (10.58%) Analytics
11 195 (10.42%) User Stories
12 183 (9.78%) Migration
13 178 (9.51%) Workshop Facilitation
14 158 (8.44%) Decision-Making
15 151 (8.07%) Validation
16 146 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
17 138 (7.37%) Data Modelling
18 131 (7.00%) Visualisation
19 126 (6.73%) Process Improvement
20 118 (6.30%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 386 (20.62%) SQL
2 178 (9.51%) Python
3 39 (2.08%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.28%) Kusto Query Language
5 23 (1.23%) C#
6 22 (1.18%) Java
7 20 (1.07%) R
8 19 (1.01%) JavaScript
9 16 (0.85%) VBA
10 15 (0.80%) C++
11 10 (0.53%) Bash
11 10 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.43%) RPG
13 6 (0.32%) Korn
14 4 (0.21%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.16%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.11%) Perl
16 2 (0.11%) Scala
16 2 (0.11%) VC++
Qualifications
1 165 (8.81%) Security Cleared
2 145 (7.75%) Degree
3 141 (7.53%) SC Cleared
4 37 (1.98%) CBAP
5 29 (1.55%) PMI Certification
6 27 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.28%) CISSP
8 22 (1.18%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (0.91%) DV Cleared
11 16 (0.85%) CISM
12 12 (0.64%) CEH
13 11 (0.59%) ACCA
13 11 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
13 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.53%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.53%) ISEB
14 10 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.48%) CIMA
15 9 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (6.89%) Data Quality
2 123 (6.57%) QA
3 54 (2.88%) GDPR
4 44 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (1.92%) NIST
6 34 (1.82%) GRC
7 30 (1.60%) PMO
8 25 (1.34%) EMIR
8 25 (1.34%) MiFID
9 17 (0.91%) SEPA
10 15 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.75%) Accessibility
12 13 (0.69%) ISO 20022
13 12 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.53%) SLA
15 8 (0.43%) NCSC
15 8 (0.43%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.43%) PSD2
16 6 (0.32%) Solvency II
System Software
1 64 (3.42%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.32%) Docker
3 5 (0.27%) Snort
3 5 (0.27%) Squid
4 1 (0.053%) Firmware
4 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.053%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.053%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.053%) Xen
4 1 (0.053%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (0.75%) HP SiteScope
1 14 (0.75%) SCOM
2 12 (0.64%) SCCM
3 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (0.37%) Nessus
4 7 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.32%) Ansible
5 6 (0.32%) Control-M
6 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.27%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.27%) Nexpose
6 5 (0.27%) Suricata
7 4 (0.21%) BladeLogic
8 3 (0.16%) CSIRT
8 3 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.11%) WSUS
10 1 (0.053%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.053%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 284 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 92 (4.91%) Oracle
3 74 (3.95%) SAP
4 66 (3.53%) Salesforce
5 64 (3.42%) Splunk
6 55 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 40 (2.14%) Google
8 25 (1.34%) Bloomberg
9 24 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
9 24 (1.28%) Murex
9 24 (1.28%) Workday
10 22 (1.18%) Adobe
10 22 (1.18%) Qualys
11 20 (1.07%) Carbon Black
12 19 (1.01%) Databricks
13 18 (0.96%) OpenLink
14 15 (0.80%) ION Trading
15 14 (0.75%) CyberArk
16 13 (0.69%) Alteryx
17 12 (0.64%) Cisco