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 22 November 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 14 6
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,901 1,873 2,739
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.43% 11.84% 13.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.53% 12.64% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,351 2,014
10th Percentile £306 £300 £285
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 33 27
10th Percentile £21.00 £26.05 £17.90
25th Percentile £22.75 £35.00 £19.13
Median hourly rate £25.47 £42.50 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year -40.07% +64.79% +3.16%
75th Percentile £32.88 £78.75 £40.75
90th Percentile £53.85 £96.15 £53.45
England median hourly rate £20.77 £26.13 £19.00
% change year-on-year -20.50% +37.50% +10.14%

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 13,086 14,820 18,801
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 93.71% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,679 9,611 13,623
10th Percentile £333 £338 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £564
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.48% -1.91%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £790 £792
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 160 225
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.23
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.57 £37.15 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.48% -0.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £49.50 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.20 £80.79 £73.71
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.13% -12.82% +43.38%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +1 337 £470 -10.43% 374
East London +7 24 £190 -57.26% 57
South London -4 22 £425 +84.78% 33
West London -20 14 £440 +17.33% 71
North London -1 3 £484 +1.36% 17
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 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.

1 475 (24.99%) Agile
2 392 (20.62%) SQL
3 366 (19.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 335 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
5 298 (15.68%) Business Analysis
6 288 (15.15%) Microsoft
7 270 (14.20%) Data Analysis
8 240 (12.62%) Requirements Gathering
9 233 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 211 (11.10%) Analytics
11 209 (10.99%) User Acceptance Testing
12 202 (10.63%) User Stories
13 201 (10.57%) Business Intelligence
14 186 (9.78%) Power Platform
15 183 (9.63%) Python
16 180 (9.47%) Migration
17 178 (9.36%) Power BI
17 178 (9.36%) Workshop Facilitation
18 174 (9.15%) Microsoft Excel
19 166 (8.73%) Security Cleared
20 164 (8.63%) Decision-Making
21 157 (8.26%) Azure
22 152 (8.00%) JIRA
23 145 (7.63%) Degree
23 145 (7.63%) Validation
24 144 (7.57%) Continuous Improvement
25 141 (7.42%) SC Cleared
26 136 (7.15%) Visualisation
27 135 (7.10%) Data Modelling
28 130 (6.84%) 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 87 (4.58%) Confluence
2 55 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (0.68%) 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 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.21%) SAS
9 3 (0.16%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.053%) Apache Spark
11 1 (0.053%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.053%) JBoss
11 1 (0.053%) Kentico
11 1 (0.053%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.053%) WebLogic
Applications
1 174 (9.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (3.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 73 (3.84%) Microsoft Office
4 70 (3.68%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.21%) Autodesk Inventor
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%) Notion
9 1 (0.053%) Revit
9 1 (0.053%) Sketch
9 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 40 (2.10%) Endur
2 19 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.63%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
4 10 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
5 9 (0.47%) Loan IQ
5 9 (0.47%) Unit4 Business World
6 7 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.37%) SAP HR
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
7 6 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
7 6 (0.32%) Temenos T24
8 5 (0.26%) ION MarketView
8 5 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 5 (0.26%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.21%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 186 (9.78%) Power Platform
2 157 (8.26%) Azure
3 86 (4.52%) AWS
4 61 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
5 52 (2.74%) GCP
6 46 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (1.79%) Entra ID
8 33 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
9 31 (1.63%) Snowflake
10 30 (1.58%) Azure Sentinel
11 26 (1.37%) SaaS
12 18 (0.95%) Miro
13 15 (0.79%) Power Automate
13 15 (0.79%) PowerApps
14 13 (0.68%) Collibra
15 12 (0.63%) OneDrive
16 10 (0.53%) Google Analytics
17 9 (0.47%) Google Workspace
18 8 (0.42%) dbt
18 8 (0.42%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.37%) Firewall
2 16 (0.84%) DNS
3 15 (0.79%) TCP/IP
4 13 (0.68%) DHCP
5 12 (0.63%) Network Security
6 11 (0.58%) VPN
7 7 (0.37%) Internet
7 7 (0.37%) Skype
7 7 (0.37%) Unified Communications
8 6 (0.32%) LAN
8 6 (0.32%) VLAN
8 6 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.26%) IP Telephony
10 4 (0.21%) VoIP
11 3 (0.16%) HTTP
11 3 (0.16%) Softphone
11 3 (0.16%) WAN
12 2 (0.11%) DMZ
12 2 (0.11%) SSH
12 2 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (9.36%) Power BI
2 94 (4.94%) Tableau
3 42 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (1.63%) BigQuery
4 31 (1.63%) Metadata
5 26 (1.37%) SQL Server
6 21 (1.10%) Power Query
7 19 (1.00%) Looker
8 17 (0.89%) Relational Database
9 14 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
10 11 (0.58%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.53%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (0.42%) Big Data
14 6 (0.32%) Star Schema
15 5 (0.26%) 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
1 152 (8.00%) JIRA
2 12 (0.63%) Git
3 11 (0.58%) Jenkins
3 11 (0.58%) Postman
4 10 (0.53%) Selenium
5 5 (0.26%) REST Assured
6 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.16%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.11%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.11%) ERwin
8 2 (0.11%) Fiddler
8 2 (0.11%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.11%) NUnit
8 2 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.11%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 727 (38.24%) Finance
2 701 (36.88%) Social Skills
3 425 (22.36%) Analytical Skills
4 276 (14.52%) Banking
5 126 (6.63%) Public Sector
6 82 (4.31%) Investment Banking
7 81 (4.26%) Front Office
8 69 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
9 60 (3.16%) Back Office
10 59 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
11 58 (3.05%) Retail
12 56 (2.95%) Marketing
13 54 (2.84%) Legal
14 49 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 44 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
16 42 (2.21%) Financial Institution
17 36 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
18 32 (1.68%) Telecoms
19 27 (1.42%) Manufacturing
20 26 (1.37%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.58%) XML
2 19 (1.00%) REST
3 13 (0.68%) SOAP
4 11 (0.58%) JSON
4 11 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
5 10 (0.53%) .NET
6 9 (0.47%) ADO
7 8 (0.42%) HTML
7 8 (0.42%) Playwright
8 7 (0.37%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (0.37%) Swagger
9 6 (0.32%) Pandas
10 5 (0.26%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.26%) Middleware
10 5 (0.26%) SailPoint
10 5 (0.26%) Web Services
11 4 (0.21%) CSS
11 4 (0.21%) DCOM
11 4 (0.21%) OAuth
11 4 (0.21%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 105 (5.52%) Product Ownership
2 74 (3.89%) Onboarding
3 59 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
4 55 (2.89%) Derivative
5 48 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 42 (2.21%) Data Protection Act
7 37 (1.95%) Reinsurance
8 35 (1.84%) Fixed Income
9 30 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 29 (1.53%) Data Structures
10 29 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
11 28 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
12 26 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 23 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
15 22 (1.16%) PMI
16 19 (1.00%) Credit Risk
16 19 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
17 17 (0.89%) Equities
18 16 (0.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 94 (4.94%) Windows
2 32 (1.68%) Windows 10
3 25 (1.32%) Linux
4 15 (0.79%) Android
4 15 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 15 (0.79%) Unix
5 8 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.37%) 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
1 475 (24.99%) Agile
2 366 (19.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 335 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
4 298 (15.68%) Business Analysis
5 270 (14.20%) Data Analysis
6 240 (12.62%) Requirements Gathering
7 233 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 211 (11.10%) Analytics
9 209 (10.99%) User Acceptance Testing
10 202 (10.63%) User Stories
11 201 (10.57%) Business Intelligence
12 180 (9.47%) Migration
13 178 (9.36%) Workshop Facilitation
14 164 (8.63%) Decision-Making
15 145 (7.63%) Validation
16 144 (7.57%) Continuous Improvement
17 136 (7.15%) Visualisation
18 135 (7.10%) Data Modelling
19 127 (6.68%) Process Improvement
20 118 (6.21%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 392 (20.62%) SQL
2 183 (9.63%) Python
3 39 (2.05%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.26%) C#
5 23 (1.21%) Java
6 22 (1.16%) Kusto Query Language
7 21 (1.10%) VBA
8 19 (1.00%) R
9 18 (0.95%) JavaScript
10 16 (0.84%) C++
11 14 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (0.53%) 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
1 166 (8.73%) Security Cleared
2 145 (7.63%) Degree
3 141 (7.42%) SC Cleared
4 34 (1.79%) CBAP
5 28 (1.47%) PMI Certification
6 27 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
7 23 (1.21%) CISSP
8 22 (1.16%) Master's Degree
9 19 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 16 (0.84%) DV Cleared
11 15 (0.79%) CISM
12 12 (0.63%) ACCA
12 12 (0.63%) CEH
13 11 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
13 11 (0.58%) ISEB
13 11 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.53%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.53%) CIMA
15 9 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (6.84%) Data Quality
2 119 (6.26%) QA
3 51 (2.68%) GDPR
4 44 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (1.89%) NIST
6 34 (1.79%) GRC
7 31 (1.63%) PMO
8 28 (1.47%) MiFID
9 27 (1.42%) EMIR
10 19 (1.00%) SEPA
11 15 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.79%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.74%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
15 9 (0.47%) SLA
16 8 (0.42%) PSD2
17 7 (0.37%) NCSC
17 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
18 6 (0.32%) Basel III
System Software
1 64 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.26%) Docker
3 4 (0.21%) Snort
3 4 (0.21%) Squid
4 2 (0.11%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.053%) Firmware
5 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.053%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.053%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.053%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.053%) Xen
5 1 (0.053%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (0.74%) HP SiteScope
1 14 (0.74%) SCOM
2 12 (0.63%) SCCM
3 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.32%) Ansible
5 6 (0.32%) Control-M
5 6 (0.32%) Nessus
6 4 (0.21%) BladeLogic
6 4 (0.21%) Kubernetes
6 4 (0.21%) Nexpose
6 4 (0.21%) Suricata
7 3 (0.16%) CSIRT
7 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.11%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.11%) WSUS
9 1 (0.053%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 288 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 96 (5.05%) Oracle
3 77 (4.05%) SAP
4 65 (3.42%) Salesforce
5 60 (3.16%) Splunk
6 55 (2.89%) ServiceNow
7 41 (2.16%) Google
8 30 (1.58%) Workday
9 26 (1.37%) Murex
10 24 (1.26%) Bloomberg
11 22 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
12 20 (1.05%) Adobe
12 20 (1.05%) Qualys
13 19 (1.00%) Databricks
14 18 (0.95%) Carbon Black
14 18 (0.95%) OpenLink
15 16 (0.84%) Alteryx
16 15 (0.79%) ION Trading
17 14 (0.74%) CyberArk
18 13 (0.68%) IBM