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 15 January 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,821 1,663 2,368
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.68% 11.84% 13.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.69% 12.67% 14.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,231 1,187 1,727
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 £610 £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 38 26 26
10th Percentile £21.00 £22.27 £18.25
25th Percentile £24.01 £25.81 £19.56
Median hourly rate £25.79 £35.00 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -26.31% +44.33% -10.19%
75th Percentile £33.19 £57.75 £37.63
90th Percentile £48.18 £80.75 £49.00
England median hourly rate £18.00 £23.35 £18.00
% change year-on-year -22.91% +29.72% +5.02%

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 13,299 13,129 16,613
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 93.49% 93.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,823 8,461 11,971
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -4.27%
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 221 142 236
10th Percentile £17.98 £20.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.55 £23.80 £20.38
Median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.03% +7.69% -4.41%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.55 £71.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% -19.54% +24.29%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +1 307 £475 -10.38% 67
South London -8 28 £425 +30.77% 12
East London +7 27 £400 -8.57% 16
West London -17 22 £478 +75.23% 20
North London 0 3 £500 -9.09% 4
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 445 (24.44%) Agile
2 397 (21.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 367 (20.15%) SQL
4 316 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
5 285 (15.65%) Business Analysis
6 254 (13.95%) Microsoft
7 250 (13.73%) Requirements Gathering
8 243 (13.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 227 (12.47%) Data Analysis
10 211 (11.59%) User Stories
11 209 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
12 203 (11.15%) Power Platform
13 199 (10.93%) Analytics
13 199 (10.93%) Workshop Facilitation
14 190 (10.43%) User Acceptance Testing
15 189 (10.38%) Power BI
15 189 (10.38%) Security Cleared
16 173 (9.50%) Decision-Making
17 172 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
17 172 (9.45%) Migration
18 165 (9.06%) Validation
19 163 (8.95%) SC Cleared
20 160 (8.79%) Azure
21 157 (8.62%) JIRA
22 151 (8.29%) Python
23 147 (8.07%) Continuous Improvement
24 140 (7.69%) Data Quality
24 140 (7.69%) Degree
25 137 (7.52%) Data Modelling
26 136 (7.47%) 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 88 (4.83%) Confluence
2 50 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.55%) CMS
4 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.38%) SAS
5 7 (0.38%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.33%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.33%) MQSeries
7 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.22%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.16%) 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
1 172 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (4.23%) MS Visio
3 73 (4.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 68 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
5 21 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.49%) 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 32 (1.76%) Endur
2 24 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 20 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.71%) Aladdin
4 13 (0.71%) Remedy ITSM
5 10 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.49%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.44%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.44%) Unit4 Business World
8 7 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.38%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.22%) Fidessa
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
12 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 203 (11.15%) Power Platform
2 160 (8.79%) Azure
3 95 (5.22%) AWS
4 62 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
5 46 (2.53%) GCP
6 43 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (1.81%) Azure Sentinel
7 33 (1.81%) Snowflake
8 26 (1.43%) Entra ID
8 26 (1.43%) SaaS
9 25 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
10 17 (0.93%) Power Automate
11 16 (0.88%) PowerApps
12 13 (0.71%) Google Workspace
13 12 (0.66%) OneDrive
14 11 (0.60%) Collibra
14 11 (0.60%) Lucidchart
14 11 (0.60%) Miro
15 9 (0.49%) Google Tag Manager
16 8 (0.44%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 20 (1.10%) Firewall
2 15 (0.82%) VPN
3 14 (0.77%) DNS
3 14 (0.77%) Network Security
4 11 (0.60%) DHCP
4 11 (0.60%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.38%) Internet
5 7 (0.38%) Skype
5 7 (0.38%) Unified Communications
6 6 (0.33%) FIX Connectivity
6 6 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.27%) Broadband
7 5 (0.27%) DMZ
7 5 (0.27%) LAN
8 3 (0.16%) 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
1 189 (10.38%) Power BI
2 86 (4.72%) Tableau
3 42 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (2.03%) Metadata
5 28 (1.54%) SQL Server
6 24 (1.32%) BigQuery
7 18 (0.99%) Power Query
8 15 (0.82%) Looker
9 12 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
10 11 (0.60%) Big Data
11 10 (0.55%) Relational Database
12 8 (0.44%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.38%) KNIME
13 7 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
14 6 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.33%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 5 (0.27%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 157 (8.62%) JIRA
2 10 (0.55%) Postman
3 9 (0.49%) Git
3 9 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.33%) Selenium
5 5 (0.27%) MSI
6 4 (0.22%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.16%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.16%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.16%) GitLab
7 3 (0.16%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (0.16%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
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
1 672 (36.90%) Finance
2 652 (35.80%) Social Skills
3 401 (22.02%) Analytical Skills
4 256 (14.06%) Banking
5 131 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 75 (4.12%) Front Office
7 74 (4.06%) Investment Banking
8 73 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (2.86%) Marketing
9 52 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
10 50 (2.75%) Legal
11 45 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
12 43 (2.36%) Back Office
13 42 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 39 (2.14%) Retail
15 38 (2.09%) Financial Institution
16 36 (1.98%) Telecoms
17 32 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
18 24 (1.32%) Local Government
19 22 (1.21%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (1.70%) XML
2 20 (1.10%) REST
3 13 (0.71%) SOAP
4 12 (0.66%) Middleware
5 10 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
6 9 (0.49%) ADO
6 9 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (0.38%) .NET
7 7 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
7 7 (0.38%) HTML
7 7 (0.38%) JSON
8 6 (0.33%) Web Services
9 4 (0.22%) LangChain
9 4 (0.22%) Pandas
9 4 (0.22%) Playwright
9 4 (0.22%) RESTful
9 4 (0.22%) SailPoint
10 3 (0.16%) Kafka
10 3 (0.16%) PySpark
10 3 (0.16%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 97 (5.33%) Product Ownership
2 85 (4.67%) Onboarding
3 56 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 40 (2.20%) Derivative
4 40 (2.20%) Management Information System
5 39 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
6 29 (1.59%) PMI
7 28 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 28 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 27 (1.48%) Fixed Income
8 27 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 23 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
12 20 (1.10%) Credit Risk
12 20 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 19 (1.04%) Cyber Defence
14 17 (0.93%) Equities
15 16 (0.88%) Reinsurance
15 16 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 77 (4.23%) Windows
2 22 (1.21%) Windows 10
3 21 (1.15%) Linux
4 18 (0.99%) Unix
5 12 (0.66%) Android
5 12 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.33%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) VMS
9 1 (0.055%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.055%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 445 (24.44%) Agile
2 397 (21.80%) Stakeholder Management
3 316 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
4 285 (15.65%) Business Analysis
5 250 (13.73%) Requirements Gathering
6 243 (13.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 227 (12.47%) Data Analysis
8 211 (11.59%) User Stories
9 209 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
10 199 (10.93%) Analytics
10 199 (10.93%) Workshop Facilitation
11 190 (10.43%) User Acceptance Testing
12 173 (9.50%) Decision-Making
13 172 (9.45%) Migration
14 165 (9.06%) Validation
15 147 (8.07%) Continuous Improvement
16 137 (7.52%) Data Modelling
17 136 (7.47%) Process Improvement
18 114 (6.26%) Visualisation
19 112 (6.15%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 367 (20.15%) SQL
2 151 (8.29%) Python
3 33 (1.81%) PowerShell
4 25 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
5 23 (1.26%) JavaScript
6 22 (1.21%) R
7 21 (1.15%) Java
8 18 (0.99%) C#
9 14 (0.77%) VBA
10 12 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 11 (0.60%) C++
12 8 (0.44%) RPG
13 7 (0.38%) Bash
13 7 (0.38%) Korn
14 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.11%) Perl
15 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.11%) VC++
16 1 (0.055%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 189 (10.38%) Security Cleared
2 163 (8.95%) SC Cleared
3 140 (7.69%) Degree
4 49 (2.69%) CBAP
5 38 (2.09%) PMI Certification
6 26 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.04%) CISSP
9 17 (0.93%) DV Cleared
9 17 (0.93%) IIBA
10 16 (0.88%) Master's Degree
11 14 (0.77%) CISM
11 14 (0.77%) PMP
12 13 (0.71%) ISEB
13 12 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.55%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.55%) ITIL Certification
15 9 (0.49%) CEH
15 9 (0.49%) CompTIA CySA+
15 9 (0.49%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 110 (6.04%) QA
3 49 (2.69%) GDPR
4 42 (2.31%) PMO
5 41 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 33 (1.81%) GRC
7 30 (1.65%) NIST
8 26 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (1.32%) EMIR
9 24 (1.32%) MiFID
10 16 (0.88%) Accessibility
11 14 (0.77%) ISO 20022
12 13 (0.71%) SLA
13 12 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.55%) PSD2
15 9 (0.49%) IFRS
15 9 (0.49%) SEPA
16 8 (0.44%) NCSC
16 8 (0.44%) PCI DSS
17 7 (0.38%) Basel III
System Software
1 54 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.27%) 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 14 (0.77%) HP SiteScope
1 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
1 14 (0.77%) SCOM
2 12 (0.66%) SCCM
3 7 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (0.33%) Control-M
4 6 (0.33%) Nessus
5 4 (0.22%) Ansible
5 4 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.22%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.22%) Nexpose
5 4 (0.22%) Suricata
6 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.11%) BladeLogic
7 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
7 2 (0.11%) WSUS
8 1 (0.055%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (0.055%) EMC VPLEX
8 1 (0.055%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.055%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 254 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 88 (4.83%) Oracle
3 83 (4.56%) Salesforce
4 73 (4.01%) SAP
5 68 (3.73%) ServiceNow
6 65 (3.57%) Splunk
7 35 (1.92%) Google
8 28 (1.54%) Bloomberg
9 24 (1.32%) Qualys
10 23 (1.26%) CrowdStrike
10 23 (1.26%) Murex
11 22 (1.21%) Adobe
11 22 (1.21%) Workday
12 20 (1.10%) Carbon Black
13 19 (1.04%) Databricks
14 14 (0.77%) Remedy
15 13 (0.71%) Alteryx
16 12 (0.66%) ION Trading
16 12 (0.66%) MuleSoft
16 12 (0.66%) OpenLink