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 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 13 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,841 1,714 2,418
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.87% 11.98% 13.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.92% 12.83% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,247 1,225 1,771
10th Percentile £313 £275 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -3.62% -
75th Percentile £600 £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 40 27 27
10th Percentile £21.00 £22.27 £17.90
25th Percentile £23.83 £25.88 £19.13
Median hourly rate £25.79 £35.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.31% +40.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £33.88 £54.75 £39.38
90th Percentile £50.78 £80.75 £53.35
England median hourly rate £18.87 £24.35 £18.00
% change year-on-year -22.51% +35.28% +5.63%

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 13,226 13,363 16,977
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 93.40% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,788 8,620 12,244
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £559
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.61% -3.62%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £799 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 149 224
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.58 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.44
Median hourly rate £31.57 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £59.69 £53.75 £54.34
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £44.78
% change year-on-year -21.43% -21.83% +33.66%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +3 311 £475 -9.52% 147
East London +9 29 £300 -31.43% 15
South London -8 27 £425 +41.67% 22
West London -17 22 £478 +75.23% 24
North London 0 3 £500 -9.09% 8
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 4 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.

1 449 (24.39%) Agile
2 386 (20.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 374 (20.32%) SQL
4 320 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
5 284 (15.43%) Business Analysis
6 272 (14.77%) Microsoft
7 239 (12.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 238 (12.93%) Requirements Gathering
9 227 (12.33%) Data Analysis
10 214 (11.62%) Business Intelligence
10 214 (11.62%) User Stories
11 206 (11.19%) Analytics
12 204 (11.08%) Power Platform
13 195 (10.59%) Workshop Facilitation
14 193 (10.48%) User Acceptance Testing
15 190 (10.32%) Power BI
16 183 (9.94%) Security Cleared
17 173 (9.40%) Decision-Making
17 173 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
18 172 (9.34%) Migration
19 158 (8.58%) Python
20 157 (8.53%) SC Cleared
21 154 (8.37%) Azure
22 153 (8.31%) JIRA
22 153 (8.31%) Validation
23 148 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
24 143 (7.77%) Data Modelling
25 141 (7.66%) Data Quality
25 141 (7.66%) Degree
26 138 (7.50%) 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 85 (4.62%) Confluence
2 50 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.65%) CMS
4 10 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.38%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.33%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.33%) MQSeries
6 6 (0.33%) SAS
7 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.054%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.054%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.054%) Kentico
10 1 (0.054%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.054%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.054%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.054%) WebSphere
Applications
1 173 (9.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (4.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 76 (4.13%) MS Visio
4 71 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.43%) 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 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.054%) Sketch
9 1 (0.054%) SPSS
9 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 36 (1.96%) Endur
2 24 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 23 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
5 11 (0.60%) Aladdin
6 10 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
7 9 (0.49%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.38%) Loan IQ
8 7 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.38%) SAP HR
9 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 5 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.22%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.22%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.16%) Algo Collateral
11 3 (0.16%) ION MarketView
11 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 204 (11.08%) Power Platform
2 154 (8.37%) Azure
3 94 (5.11%) AWS
4 64 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
5 46 (2.50%) GCP
6 40 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
7 33 (1.79%) Snowflake
8 31 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
9 29 (1.58%) Entra ID
10 26 (1.41%) SaaS
11 17 (0.92%) Power Automate
11 17 (0.92%) PowerApps
12 13 (0.71%) Collibra
13 12 (0.65%) Google Workspace
13 12 (0.65%) Miro
13 12 (0.65%) OneDrive
14 11 (0.60%) Lucidchart
15 9 (0.49%) Google Tag Manager
16 8 (0.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.14%) Firewall
2 16 (0.87%) DNS
3 15 (0.81%) Network Security
3 15 (0.81%) VPN
4 12 (0.65%) DHCP
4 12 (0.65%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.43%) Internet
6 7 (0.38%) Skype
6 7 (0.38%) Unified Communications
7 6 (0.33%) FIX Connectivity
7 6 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.27%) Broadband
8 5 (0.27%) DMZ
8 5 (0.27%) LAN
9 3 (0.16%) HTTP
9 3 (0.16%) Softphone
10 2 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
10 2 (0.11%) FTP
10 2 (0.11%) SSH
10 2 (0.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (10.32%) Power BI
2 89 (4.83%) Tableau
3 41 (2.23%) Data Warehouse
4 39 (2.12%) Metadata
5 28 (1.52%) SQL Server
6 25 (1.36%) BigQuery
7 18 (0.98%) Power Query
8 14 (0.76%) Looker
9 12 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
9 12 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
9 12 (0.65%) Relational Database
10 11 (0.60%) Big Data
11 8 (0.43%) Oracle Database
12 7 (0.38%) KNIME
12 7 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 5 (0.27%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.27%) Qlik Sense
14 5 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 153 (8.31%) JIRA
2 11 (0.60%) Postman
3 9 (0.49%) Git
3 9 (0.49%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.43%) Selenium
5 4 (0.22%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (0.16%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.16%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.16%) Fiddler
6 3 (0.16%) GitLab
6 3 (0.16%) MSI
6 3 (0.16%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.16%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.11%) ERwin
7 2 (0.11%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.11%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 680 (36.94%) Finance
2 655 (35.58%) Social Skills
3 399 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
4 266 (14.45%) Banking
5 133 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 75 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
6 75 (4.07%) Front Office
6 75 (4.07%) Investment Banking
7 59 (3.20%) Marketing
8 51 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
9 50 (2.72%) Legal
10 45 (2.44%) Back Office
11 44 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
12 43 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 40 (2.17%) Retail
14 38 (2.06%) Financial Institution
15 36 (1.96%) Telecoms
16 33 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
17 27 (1.47%) Local Government
18 21 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (1.68%) XML
2 20 (1.09%) REST
3 13 (0.71%) SOAP
4 10 (0.54%) ADO
4 10 (0.54%) FIX Protocol
4 10 (0.54%) Middleware
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (0.43%) .NET
6 8 (0.43%) JSON
7 7 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
7 7 (0.38%) HTML
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
9 4 (0.22%) Swagger
10 3 (0.16%) Kafka
10 3 (0.16%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 99 (5.38%) Product Ownership
2 87 (4.73%) Onboarding
3 54 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
4 42 (2.28%) Management Information System
5 41 (2.23%) Derivative
6 39 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
7 29 (1.58%) Data Structures
7 29 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
8 28 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 28 (1.52%) PMI
9 27 (1.47%) Fixed Income
9 27 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 24 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
12 20 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
12 20 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 18 (0.98%) Equities
14 17 (0.92%) Credit Risk
14 17 (0.92%) Reinsurance
15 16 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 83 (4.51%) Windows
2 24 (1.30%) Windows 10
3 21 (1.14%) Linux
4 18 (0.98%) Unix
5 13 (0.71%) Android
6 12 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.38%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.11%) VMS
10 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (24.39%) Agile
2 386 (20.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 320 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
4 284 (15.43%) Business Analysis
5 239 (12.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 238 (12.93%) Requirements Gathering
7 227 (12.33%) Data Analysis
8 214 (11.62%) Business Intelligence
8 214 (11.62%) User Stories
9 206 (11.19%) Analytics
10 195 (10.59%) Workshop Facilitation
11 193 (10.48%) User Acceptance Testing
12 173 (9.40%) Decision-Making
13 172 (9.34%) Migration
14 153 (8.31%) Validation
15 148 (8.04%) Continuous Improvement
16 143 (7.77%) Data Modelling
17 138 (7.50%) Process Improvement
18 121 (6.57%) Visualisation
19 111 (6.03%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 374 (20.32%) SQL
2 158 (8.58%) Python
3 35 (1.90%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.41%) Kusto Query Language
5 23 (1.25%) JavaScript
5 23 (1.25%) R
6 21 (1.14%) Java
7 20 (1.09%) C#
8 14 (0.76%) VBA
9 13 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 12 (0.65%) C++
11 8 (0.43%) Bash
11 8 (0.43%) RPG
12 6 (0.33%) Korn
13 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.11%) Perl
14 2 (0.11%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.11%) Scala
14 2 (0.11%) VC++
Qualifications
1 183 (9.94%) Security Cleared
2 157 (8.53%) SC Cleared
3 141 (7.66%) Degree
4 49 (2.66%) CBAP
5 36 (1.96%) PMI Certification
6 26 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (1.20%) CISSP
8 21 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 17 (0.92%) Master's Degree
10 16 (0.87%) CISM
10 16 (0.87%) IIBA
11 13 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
11 13 (0.71%) PMP
12 12 (0.65%) ISEB
13 10 (0.54%) Azure Certification
13 10 (0.54%) CEH
13 10 (0.54%) CompTIA CySA+
13 10 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (7.66%) Data Quality
2 107 (5.81%) QA
3 50 (2.72%) GDPR
4 42 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 41 (2.23%) PMO
6 32 (1.74%) GRC
6 32 (1.74%) NIST
7 25 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 25 (1.36%) EMIR
7 25 (1.36%) MiFID
8 16 (0.87%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.81%) ISO 20022
10 13 (0.71%) SLA
11 12 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 10 (0.54%) PSD2
12 10 (0.54%) SEPA
13 8 (0.43%) Basel III
13 8 (0.43%) NCSC
13 8 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.33%) GMP
System Software
1 57 (3.10%) 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 (0.054%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.054%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.054%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.76%) HP SiteScope
2 14 (0.76%) SCOM
3 13 (0.71%) SCCM
4 7 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.33%) Control-M
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 (0.16%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.11%) BladeLogic
8 2 (0.11%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.11%) WSUS
9 1 (0.054%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.054%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.054%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 272 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 84 (4.56%) Oracle
3 79 (4.29%) Salesforce
4 72 (3.91%) SAP
5 68 (3.69%) ServiceNow
6 65 (3.53%) Splunk
7 35 (1.90%) Google
8 26 (1.41%) Bloomberg
9 24 (1.30%) Adobe
9 24 (1.30%) CrowdStrike
10 23 (1.25%) Qualys
11 21 (1.14%) Workday
12 20 (1.09%) Carbon Black
12 20 (1.09%) Murex
13 19 (1.03%) Databricks
14 15 (0.81%) OpenLink
15 13 (0.71%) Alteryx
15 13 (0.71%) ION Trading
15 13 (0.71%) Remedy
15 13 (0.71%) Zscaler