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 18 January 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,806 1,662 2,399
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.59% 11.87% 13.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.61% 12.68% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,218 1,173 1,754
10th Percentile £313 £275 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £611 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 27 25
10th Percentile £21.00 £22.27 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.67 £25.88 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +40.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £32.62 £54.75 £38.00
90th Percentile £47.95 £80.75 £49.85
England median hourly rate £18.00 £24.35 £17.72
% change year-on-year -26.08% +37.42% +4.11%

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 13,269 13,107 16,957
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 93.57% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,794 8,428 12,231
10th Percentile £350 £339 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 143 258
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.15 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.55 £23.80 £19.10
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £31.61
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +10.74% -7.04%
75th Percentile £62.63 £53.75 £53.69
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.35 £70.60
England median hourly rate £28.00 £35.00 £41.23
% change year-on-year -20.00% -15.11% +17.80%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 +2 302 £475 -9.52% 67
South London -8 28 £425 +30.77% 14
East London +5 27 £400 -11.11% 14
West London -18 21 £455 +66.97% 20
North London 0 3 £500 -9.09% 3
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 January 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.

1 441 (24.42%) Agile
2 400 (22.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 360 (19.93%) SQL
4 311 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
5 284 (15.73%) Business Analysis
6 252 (13.95%) Microsoft
7 250 (13.84%) Requirements Gathering
8 244 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 218 (12.07%) User Stories
10 216 (11.96%) Data Analysis
11 209 (11.57%) Business Intelligence
12 202 (11.18%) Power Platform
13 200 (11.07%) Workshop Facilitation
14 195 (10.80%) Analytics
15 193 (10.69%) User Acceptance Testing
16 190 (10.52%) Security Cleared
17 188 (10.41%) Power BI
18 175 (9.69%) Migration
19 173 (9.58%) Decision-Making
20 171 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
21 167 (9.25%) SC Cleared
22 164 (9.08%) JIRA
23 163 (9.03%) Validation
24 159 (8.80%) Azure
25 147 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
25 147 (8.14%) Python
26 140 (7.75%) Data Quality
27 139 (7.70%) Data Modelling
28 137 (7.59%) Degree
29 133 (7.36%) 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 92 (5.09%) Confluence
2 50 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.55%) CMS
4 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.44%) SAS
5 7 (0.39%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.33%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.33%) MQSeries
7 5 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.22%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.055%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.055%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.055%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.055%) Kentico
11 1 (0.055%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.055%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.055%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.055%) WebSphere
Applications
1 171 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (4.26%) MS Visio
3 72 (3.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 67 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.22%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.22%) Notion
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.055%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.055%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.055%) Sketch
9 1 (0.055%) SPSS
9 1 (0.055%) Trello
Business Applications
1 29 (1.61%) Endur
2 23 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.72%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.72%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.50%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.39%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 5 (0.28%) Unit4 Business World
11 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
11 4 (0.22%) ION MarketView
11 4 (0.22%) Markit EDM
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 202 (11.18%) Power Platform
2 159 (8.80%) Azure
3 92 (5.09%) AWS
4 63 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (2.49%) GCP
6 42 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (1.83%) Azure Sentinel
7 33 (1.83%) Snowflake
8 26 (1.44%) SaaS
9 25 (1.38%) Entra ID
10 24 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (0.94%) Power Automate
12 14 (0.78%) PowerApps
13 13 (0.72%) Google Workspace
14 12 (0.66%) OneDrive
15 11 (0.61%) Lucidchart
16 9 (0.50%) Google Tag Manager
17 8 (0.44%) Collibra
17 8 (0.44%) Miro
17 8 (0.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.11%) Firewall
2 15 (0.83%) VPN
3 14 (0.78%) DNS
3 14 (0.78%) Network Security
4 11 (0.61%) DHCP
4 11 (0.61%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.39%) Internet
5 7 (0.39%) Skype
5 7 (0.39%) Unified Communications
6 6 (0.33%) FIX Connectivity
6 6 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.28%) Broadband
7 5 (0.28%) DMZ
7 5 (0.28%) LAN
8 3 (0.17%) Softphone
9 2 (0.11%) FTP
9 2 (0.11%) HTTP
9 2 (0.11%) VoIP
9 2 (0.11%) WAN
9 2 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (10.41%) Power BI
2 83 (4.60%) Tableau
3 42 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 35 (1.94%) Metadata
5 27 (1.50%) SQL Server
6 23 (1.27%) BigQuery
7 17 (0.94%) Power Query
8 15 (0.83%) Looker
9 12 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
10 11 (0.61%) Big Data
11 9 (0.50%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.44%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.39%) Data Lake
13 7 (0.39%) KNIME
13 7 (0.39%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 5 (0.28%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 164 (9.08%) JIRA
2 10 (0.55%) Postman
3 9 (0.50%) Git
3 9 (0.50%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.39%) Selenium
5 5 (0.28%) MSI
6 4 (0.22%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.17%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.17%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.17%) GitLab
7 3 (0.17%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.17%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.11%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.11%) ERwin
8 2 (0.11%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.11%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.11%) Toad
General
1 656 (36.32%) Finance
2 648 (35.88%) Social Skills
3 391 (21.65%) Analytical Skills
4 249 (13.79%) Banking
5 129 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 76 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
7 73 (4.04%) Front Office
8 70 (3.88%) Investment Banking
9 54 (2.99%) Marketing
9 54 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (2.49%) Legal
11 44 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
12 42 (2.33%) Back Office
12 42 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 40 (2.21%) Retail
14 36 (1.99%) Financial Institution
14 36 (1.99%) Telecoms
15 34 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
16 25 (1.38%) Local Government
17 22 (1.22%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.66%) XML
2 20 (1.11%) REST
3 13 (0.72%) SOAP
4 12 (0.66%) Middleware
5 10 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
7 8 (0.44%) .NET
7 8 (0.44%) ADO
8 7 (0.39%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (0.39%) HTML
8 7 (0.39%) JSON
9 6 (0.33%) Web Services
10 5 (0.28%) Playwright
10 5 (0.28%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.22%) LangChain
11 4 (0.22%) RESTful
11 4 (0.22%) VML
12 3 (0.17%) CSS
12 3 (0.17%) XSLT
12 3 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.37%) Product Ownership
2 84 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 53 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
4 40 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
5 39 (2.16%) Derivative
6 38 (2.10%) Management Information System
7 30 (1.66%) Fixed Income
8 28 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 28 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 28 (1.55%) PMI
9 27 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
11 23 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
13 20 (1.11%) Credit Risk
14 19 (1.05%) Cyber Defence
15 18 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 17 (0.94%) Equities
17 16 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
18 15 (0.83%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 78 (4.32%) Windows
2 22 (1.22%) Windows 10
3 21 (1.16%) Linux
4 18 (1.00%) Unix
5 12 (0.66%) Android
5 12 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.39%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
7 2 (0.11%) VMS
8 1 (0.055%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (24.42%) Agile
2 400 (22.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 311 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
4 284 (15.73%) Business Analysis
5 250 (13.84%) Requirements Gathering
6 244 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 218 (12.07%) User Stories
8 216 (11.96%) Data Analysis
9 209 (11.57%) Business Intelligence
10 200 (11.07%) Workshop Facilitation
11 195 (10.80%) Analytics
12 193 (10.69%) User Acceptance Testing
13 175 (9.69%) Migration
14 173 (9.58%) Decision-Making
15 163 (9.03%) Validation
16 147 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 139 (7.70%) Data Modelling
18 133 (7.36%) Process Improvement
19 115 (6.37%) Visualisation
20 112 (6.20%) Acceptance Criteria
Programming Languages
1 360 (19.93%) SQL
2 147 (8.14%) Python
3 33 (1.83%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.38%) Kusto Query Language
5 23 (1.27%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.22%) Java
6 22 (1.22%) R
7 16 (0.89%) C#
8 15 (0.83%) VBA
9 13 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (0.55%) C++
11 8 (0.44%) RPG
12 7 (0.39%) Bash
12 7 (0.39%) Korn
13 3 (0.17%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.17%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.11%) Perl
14 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.11%) VC++
15 1 (0.055%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 190 (10.52%) Security Cleared
2 167 (9.25%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.59%) Degree
4 49 (2.71%) CBAP
5 37 (2.05%) PMI Certification
6 26 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.11%) IIBA
9 18 (1.00%) CISSP
10 15 (0.83%) ISEB
10 15 (0.83%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 14 (0.78%) PMP
12 13 (0.72%) CISM
13 12 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.50%) Azure Certification
15 9 (0.50%) CEH
15 9 (0.50%) CompTIA CySA+
15 9 (0.50%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (7.75%) Data Quality
2 112 (6.20%) QA
3 46 (2.55%) GDPR
4 41 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (2.27%) PMO
5 32 (1.77%) GRC
6 30 (1.66%) NIST
7 26 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
8 22 (1.22%) EMIR
8 22 (1.22%) MiFID
9 19 (1.05%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.66%) ISO 20022
10 12 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.61%) SLA
12 10 (0.55%) IFRS
12 10 (0.55%) PSD2
13 8 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 8 (0.44%) NCSC
13 8 (0.44%) PCI DSS
14 7 (0.39%) Basel III
System Software
1 55 (3.05%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.22%) Docker
3 4 (0.22%) Snort
3 4 (0.22%) Squid
4 1 (0.055%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.055%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.78%) HP SiteScope
2 14 (0.78%) SCOM
3 12 (0.66%) SCCM
4 7 (0.39%) Control-M
4 7 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.33%) Nessus
6 4 (0.22%) Ansible
6 4 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.22%) Kubernetes
6 4 (0.22%) Nexpose
6 4 (0.22%) Suricata
7 3 (0.17%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.11%) BladeLogic
8 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.11%) WSUS
9 1 (0.055%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.055%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.055%) Terraform
9 1 (0.055%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 252 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 85 (4.71%) Oracle
3 83 (4.60%) Salesforce
4 71 (3.93%) SAP
5 68 (3.77%) ServiceNow
6 65 (3.60%) Splunk
7 34 (1.88%) Google
8 28 (1.55%) Bloomberg
9 24 (1.33%) Murex
9 24 (1.33%) Qualys
10 23 (1.27%) Adobe
10 23 (1.27%) CrowdStrike
11 21 (1.16%) Workday
12 20 (1.11%) Carbon Black
13 18 (1.00%) Databricks
14 14 (0.78%) Remedy
15 13 (0.72%) ION Trading
16 12 (0.66%) MuleSoft
16 12 (0.66%) Zscaler
17 11 (0.61%) OpenLink