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 7 December 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 12 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,904 1,881 2,648
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.32% 12.06% 13.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.45% 12.89% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,276 1,358 1,932
10th Percentile £311 £300 £285
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £614 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £713
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 28 26
10th Percentile £21.00 £25.93 £17.88
25th Percentile £22.88 £31.09 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £39.25 £25.40
Median % change year-on-year -35.11% +54.56% -10.89%
75th Percentile £34.70 £64.31 £40.06
90th Percentile £50.78 £80.75 £49.00
England median hourly rate £19.00 £24.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.45% +28.95% +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 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 7 December 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 +2 328 £475 -11.21% 80
East London +7 27 £300 -31.82% 38
South London -8 23 £425 +70.00% 53
West London -15 18 £478 +27.33% 52
North London -1 4 £500 -9.09% 15
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 December 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.

1 467 (24.53%) Agile
2 396 (20.80%) SQL
3 375 (19.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 330 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
5 295 (15.49%) Business Analysis
6 281 (14.76%) Microsoft
7 251 (13.18%) Data Analysis
8 244 (12.82%) Requirements Gathering
9 239 (12.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 207 (10.87%) Analytics
11 206 (10.82%) User Acceptance Testing
12 205 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
13 204 (10.71%) User Stories
14 187 (9.82%) Power Platform
15 184 (9.66%) Migration
16 183 (9.61%) Workshop Facilitation
17 179 (9.40%) Power BI
17 179 (9.40%) Python
18 171 (8.98%) Microsoft Excel
19 167 (8.77%) Security Cleared
20 165 (8.67%) Decision-Making
21 159 (8.35%) Validation
22 155 (8.14%) Azure
23 152 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
24 150 (7.88%) JIRA
25 148 (7.77%) Data Modelling
26 147 (7.72%) Degree
27 142 (7.46%) SC Cleared
28 140 (7.35%) Data Quality
29 130 (6.83%) Visualisation

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 89 (4.67%) Confluence
2 52 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.68%) CMS
4 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.37%) SAS
5 7 (0.37%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.32%) Anypoint
6 6 (0.32%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.32%) MQSeries
7 5 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.053%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.053%) JBoss
9 1 (0.053%) Kentico
9 1 (0.053%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.053%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.053%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.053%) WebSphere
Applications
1 171 (8.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (4.10%) MS Visio
3 76 (3.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 70 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
5 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.21%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.21%) Notion
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 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.053%) Sketch
9 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 41 (2.15%) Endur
2 24 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.63%) NetSuite
5 11 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.53%) Aladdin
6 10 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
7 9 (0.47%) Loan IQ
7 9 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
8 7 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.37%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.37%) Temenos T24
9 5 (0.26%) ION MarketView
9 5 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
10 4 (0.21%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 187 (9.82%) Power Platform
2 155 (8.14%) Azure
3 90 (4.73%) AWS
4 61 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (2.68%) GCP
6 44 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 34 (1.79%) Entra ID
9 33 (1.73%) Azure Sentinel
10 30 (1.58%) SaaS
10 30 (1.58%) Snowflake
11 16 (0.84%) Miro
11 16 (0.84%) PowerApps
12 15 (0.79%) Power Automate
13 14 (0.74%) Collibra
14 12 (0.63%) OneDrive
15 11 (0.58%) Lucidchart
16 9 (0.47%) Google Analytics
16 9 (0.47%) Google Tag Manager
17 8 (0.42%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.42%) Firewall
2 16 (0.84%) DNS
3 15 (0.79%) TCP/IP
4 14 (0.74%) Network Security
5 13 (0.68%) DHCP
6 11 (0.58%) VPN
7 7 (0.37%) Internet
7 7 (0.37%) Skype
7 7 (0.37%) Unified Communications
7 7 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.32%) LAN
9 5 (0.26%) VLAN
10 4 (0.21%) IP Telephony
11 3 (0.16%) HTTP
11 3 (0.16%) Softphone
11 3 (0.16%) VoIP
11 3 (0.16%) WAN
12 2 (0.11%) ATM
12 2 (0.11%) Broadband
12 2 (0.11%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (9.40%) Power BI
2 98 (5.15%) Tableau
3 45 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (2.15%) Metadata
5 27 (1.42%) BigQuery
6 26 (1.37%) SQL Server
7 17 (0.89%) Looker
8 16 (0.84%) Power Query
8 16 (0.84%) Relational Database
9 14 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
10 10 (0.53%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (0.53%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.47%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.37%) Big Data
13 5 (0.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 5 (0.26%) Qlik Sense
13 5 (0.26%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.26%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.21%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 150 (7.88%) JIRA
2 11 (0.58%) Jenkins
2 11 (0.58%) Postman
3 10 (0.53%) Git
3 10 (0.53%) Selenium
4 5 (0.26%) REST Assured
5 4 (0.21%) Charles Proxy
5 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.16%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.16%) Fiddler
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%) ERwin
7 2 (0.11%) GitLab
7 2 (0.11%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.11%) SoapUI
General
1 730 (38.34%) Finance
2 696 (36.55%) Social Skills
3 414 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 269 (14.13%) Banking
5 126 (6.62%) Public Sector
6 76 (3.99%) Investment Banking
7 75 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
8 73 (3.83%) Front Office
9 58 (3.05%) Back Office
9 58 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
10 55 (2.89%) Marketing
11 54 (2.84%) Legal
12 51 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 50 (2.63%) Retail
14 45 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
15 44 (2.31%) Financial Institution
16 35 (1.84%) Telecoms
17 32 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
18 27 (1.42%) Local Government
19 25 (1.31%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.58%) XML
2 18 (0.95%) REST
3 13 (0.68%) SOAP
4 11 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
5 10 (0.53%) .NET
5 10 (0.53%) JSON
6 9 (0.47%) ADO
7 8 (0.42%) HTML
7 8 (0.42%) Middleware
8 7 (0.37%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (0.37%) Playwright
8 7 (0.37%) Swagger
9 6 (0.32%) Pandas
10 5 (0.26%) Web Services
11 4 (0.21%) CSS
11 4 (0.21%) DCOM
11 4 (0.21%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.21%) LangChain
11 4 (0.21%) Rendezvous
11 4 (0.21%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 110 (5.78%) Product Ownership
2 80 (4.20%) Onboarding
3 61 (3.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 53 (2.78%) Derivative
5 46 (2.42%) Management Information System
6 42 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
7 36 (1.89%) Data Structures
8 35 (1.84%) Fixed Income
9 30 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 30 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
10 29 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (1.52%) Reinsurance
11 25 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 24 (1.26%) PMI
13 23 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
14 22 (1.16%) Cyber Defence
14 22 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 18 (0.95%) Credit Risk
16 17 (0.89%) Virtual Team
17 15 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 89 (4.67%) Windows
2 30 (1.58%) Windows 10
3 20 (1.05%) Linux
4 15 (0.79%) Unix
5 14 (0.74%) Android
5 14 (0.74%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.42%) Windows Server
8 5 (0.26%) Windows 7
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
1 467 (24.53%) Agile
2 375 (19.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 330 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
4 295 (15.49%) Business Analysis
5 251 (13.18%) Data Analysis
6 244 (12.82%) Requirements Gathering
7 239 (12.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 207 (10.87%) Analytics
9 206 (10.82%) User Acceptance Testing
10 205 (10.77%) Business Intelligence
11 204 (10.71%) User Stories
12 184 (9.66%) Migration
13 183 (9.61%) Workshop Facilitation
14 165 (8.67%) Decision-Making
15 159 (8.35%) Validation
16 152 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
17 148 (7.77%) Data Modelling
18 130 (6.83%) Visualisation
19 126 (6.62%) Process Improvement
20 116 (6.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 396 (20.80%) SQL
2 179 (9.40%) Python
3 38 (2.00%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.31%) Kusto Query Language
5 24 (1.26%) C#
6 22 (1.16%) Java
7 21 (1.10%) R
8 20 (1.05%) JavaScript
9 17 (0.89%) VBA
10 15 (0.79%) C++
11 11 (0.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.47%) Bash
13 8 (0.42%) RPG
14 6 (0.32%) Korn
15 4 (0.21%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.16%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
17 2 (0.11%) Perl
17 2 (0.11%) Scala
17 2 (0.11%) VC++
Qualifications
1 167 (8.77%) Security Cleared
2 147 (7.72%) Degree
3 142 (7.46%) SC Cleared
4 44 (2.31%) CBAP
5 30 (1.58%) PMI Certification
6 27 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 25 (1.31%) CISSP
8 22 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.95%) DV Cleared
11 17 (0.89%) CISM
12 12 (0.63%) CEH
12 12 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (0.53%) ACCA
13 10 (0.53%) Azure Certification
13 10 (0.53%) IIBA
13 10 (0.53%) ISEB
13 10 (0.53%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (7.35%) Data Quality
2 123 (6.46%) QA
3 55 (2.89%) GDPR
4 45 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (1.94%) NIST
6 34 (1.79%) GRC
7 33 (1.73%) PMO
8 24 (1.26%) MiFID
9 23 (1.21%) EMIR
10 17 (0.89%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (0.84%) SEPA
12 14 (0.74%) Accessibility
13 13 (0.68%) ISO 20022
14 12 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.58%) SLA
16 9 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
17 8 (0.42%) NCSC
17 8 (0.42%) PCI DSS
17 8 (0.42%) PSD2
18 7 (0.37%) Basel III
System Software
1 63 (3.31%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.32%) Docker
3 5 (0.26%) Snort
3 5 (0.26%) 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%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (0.74%) HP SiteScope
1 14 (0.74%) SCOM
2 12 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (0.63%) SCCM
3 8 (0.42%) Nessus
4 7 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.32%) Ansible
5 6 (0.32%) Control-M
6 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.26%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.26%) Nexpose
6 5 (0.26%) 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
1 281 (14.76%) Microsoft
2 94 (4.94%) Oracle
3 79 (4.15%) SAP
4 69 (3.62%) Salesforce
5 65 (3.41%) Splunk
6 56 (2.94%) ServiceNow
7 37 (1.94%) Google
8 26 (1.37%) Workday
9 25 (1.31%) Bloomberg
9 25 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
10 24 (1.26%) Murex
10 24 (1.26%) Qualys
11 23 (1.21%) Adobe
12 21 (1.10%) Carbon Black
13 18 (0.95%) Databricks
13 18 (0.95%) OpenLink
14 15 (0.79%) Alteryx
14 15 (0.79%) ION Trading
15 14 (0.74%) CyberArk
16 12 (0.63%) IBM