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 21 December 2025.

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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 12 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,868 1,808 2,519
As % of all contract jobs in London 13.05% 12.05% 13.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.14% 12.88% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,252 1,298 1,842
10th Percentile £313 £285 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £630
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 42 30 25
10th Percentile £21.10 £22.27 £17.85
25th Percentile £23.50 £26.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.79 £36.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.86% +45.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £34.14 £59.31 £38.00
90th Percentile £49.53 £80.75 £49.85
England median hourly rate £20.00 £24.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -18.39% +32.43% +6.84%

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 13,213 14,032 17,548
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 93.52% 93.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,756 9,076 12,684
10th Percentile £344 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -3.02%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £757 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -2.86% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 154 209
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.65 £17.20
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £28.13 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% - -
75th Percentile £57.00 £54.69 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -24.86% -22.58% +39.11%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +2 322 £475 -11.21% 46
East London +7 29 £200 -53.76% 11
South London -9 24 £425 +54.55% 17
West London -18 22 £478 +91.00% 27
North London 0 3 £500 -9.09% 5
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 449 (24.04%) Agile
2 393 (21.04%) SQL
3 372 (19.91%) Stakeholder Management
4 325 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
5 282 (15.10%) Microsoft
6 277 (14.83%) Business Analysis
7 241 (12.90%) Data Analysis
8 237 (12.69%) Requirements Gathering
8 237 (12.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 208 (11.13%) Business Intelligence
10 201 (10.76%) User Stories
11 199 (10.65%) Power Platform
12 195 (10.44%) Analytics
13 193 (10.33%) User Acceptance Testing
14 187 (10.01%) Workshop Facilitation
15 185 (9.90%) Power BI
16 180 (9.64%) Security Cleared
17 176 (9.42%) Migration
18 173 (9.26%) Python
19 171 (9.15%) Microsoft Excel
20 170 (9.10%) Decision-Making
21 158 (8.46%) Azure
22 153 (8.19%) SC Cleared
23 149 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
24 148 (7.92%) Data Modelling
25 146 (7.82%) Validation
26 144 (7.71%) JIRA
27 140 (7.49%) Data Quality
28 138 (7.39%) Degree
29 137 (7.33%) 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 91 (4.87%) Confluence
2 54 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 13 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.64%) CMS
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 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.054%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.054%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.054%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.054%) JBoss
9 1 (0.054%) Kentico
9 1 (0.054%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.054%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.054%) WebLogic
Applications
1 171 (9.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (4.28%) MS Visio
3 76 (4.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 72 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.48%) 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 (0.054%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.054%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.054%) Sketch
9 1 (0.054%) Trello
Business Applications
1 40 (2.14%) Endur
2 23 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.64%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
4 11 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
6 9 (0.48%) Aladdin
7 8 (0.43%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.37%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.37%) Temenos T24
9 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.21%) Infor SunSystems
10 4 (0.21%) ION MarketView
10 4 (0.21%) NEC Housing
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 199 (10.65%) Power Platform
2 158 (8.46%) Azure
3 89 (4.76%) AWS
4 62 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
5 50 (2.68%) GCP
6 42 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (1.93%) Dynamics 365
8 35 (1.87%) Azure Sentinel
9 33 (1.77%) Entra ID
10 32 (1.71%) Snowflake
11 27 (1.45%) SaaS
12 19 (1.02%) Power Automate
13 18 (0.96%) PowerApps
14 14 (0.75%) Miro
15 13 (0.70%) Collibra
16 12 (0.64%) Lucidchart
16 12 (0.64%) OneDrive
17 9 (0.48%) Google Tag Manager
18 8 (0.43%) dbt
18 8 (0.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.28%) Firewall
2 18 (0.96%) DNS
3 15 (0.80%) Network Security
4 14 (0.75%) DHCP
4 14 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 12 (0.64%) VPN
6 8 (0.43%) 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 (0.27%) Broadband
10 3 (0.16%) DMZ
10 3 (0.16%) HTTP
10 3 (0.16%) Softphone
10 3 (0.16%) VLAN
10 3 (0.16%) WAN
11 2 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
11 2 (0.11%) IP Telephony
11 2 (0.11%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (9.90%) Power BI
2 91 (4.87%) Tableau
3 43 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (2.14%) Metadata
5 26 (1.39%) BigQuery
5 26 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 18 (0.96%) Power Query
7 15 (0.80%) Looker
8 14 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
8 14 (0.75%) Relational Database
9 12 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (0.43%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.43%) Oracle Database
11 6 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (0.32%) Big Data
11 6 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 5 (0.27%) KNIME
12 5 (0.27%) Qlik Sense
12 5 (0.27%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 144 (7.71%) JIRA
2 11 (0.59%) Postman
3 10 (0.54%) Git
4 9 (0.48%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.43%) Selenium
6 4 (0.21%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.16%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.16%) Eclipse
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%) ERwin
8 2 (0.11%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.11%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.054%) Axure RP
9 1 (0.054%) Balsamiq
General
1 706 (37.79%) Finance
2 667 (35.71%) Social Skills
3 403 (21.57%) Analytical Skills
4 262 (14.03%) Banking
5 126 (6.75%) Public Sector
6 79 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
7 71 (3.80%) Front Office
8 70 (3.75%) Investment Banking
9 59 (3.16%) Marketing
10 55 (2.94%) Legal
11 52 (2.78%) Back Office
11 52 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (2.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 43 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (2.25%) Retail
15 41 (2.19%) Financial Institution
16 35 (1.87%) Telecoms
17 31 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
18 28 (1.50%) Local Government
19 22 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.61%) XML
2 18 (0.96%) REST
3 13 (0.70%) SOAP
4 11 (0.59%) ADO
5 10 (0.54%) JSON
5 10 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (0.48%) .NET
6 9 (0.48%) Middleware
7 8 (0.43%) HTML
8 7 (0.37%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (0.37%) Swagger
9 5 (0.27%) Pandas
9 5 (0.27%) Playwright
9 5 (0.27%) Web Services
10 4 (0.21%) CSS
10 4 (0.21%) LangChain
10 4 (0.21%) RESTful
10 4 (0.21%) SailPoint
11 3 (0.16%) Rendezvous
11 3 (0.16%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 98 (5.25%) Product Ownership
2 78 (4.18%) Onboarding
3 61 (3.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 46 (2.46%) Derivative
5 44 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 41 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
7 34 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 31 (1.66%) Fixed Income
8 31 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
8 31 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
9 29 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
10 24 (1.28%) Reinsurance
11 23 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.18%) PMI
12 22 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 20 (1.07%) Cyber Defence
14 18 (0.96%) Credit Risk
14 18 (0.96%) Equities
15 15 (0.80%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 86 (4.60%) Windows
2 26 (1.39%) Windows 10
3 20 (1.07%) Linux
4 14 (0.75%) Unix
5 12 (0.64%) Android
5 12 (0.64%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.11%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.11%) VMS
8 2 (0.11%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.054%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 449 (24.04%) Agile
2 372 (19.91%) Stakeholder Management
3 325 (17.40%) Problem-Solving
4 277 (14.83%) Business Analysis
5 241 (12.90%) Data Analysis
6 237 (12.69%) Requirements Gathering
6 237 (12.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 208 (11.13%) Business Intelligence
8 201 (10.76%) User Stories
9 195 (10.44%) Analytics
10 193 (10.33%) User Acceptance Testing
11 187 (10.01%) Workshop Facilitation
12 176 (9.42%) Migration
13 170 (9.10%) Decision-Making
14 149 (7.98%) Continuous Improvement
15 148 (7.92%) Data Modelling
16 146 (7.82%) Validation
17 137 (7.33%) Process Improvement
18 123 (6.58%) Visualisation
19 115 (6.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 393 (21.04%) SQL
2 173 (9.26%) Python
3 36 (1.93%) PowerShell
4 26 (1.39%) C#
4 26 (1.39%) Kusto Query Language
5 23 (1.23%) Java
5 23 (1.23%) JavaScript
6 20 (1.07%) R
7 16 (0.86%) VBA
8 12 (0.64%) C++
9 9 (0.48%) Bash
9 9 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.43%) RPG
11 6 (0.32%) Korn
12 3 (0.16%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.11%) Perl
13 2 (0.11%) Scala
13 2 (0.11%) VC++
Qualifications
1 180 (9.64%) Security Cleared
2 153 (8.19%) SC Cleared
3 138 (7.39%) Degree
4 41 (2.19%) CBAP
5 29 (1.55%) PMI Certification
6 27 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (1.28%) CISSP
8 21 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (0.96%) DV Cleared
10 16 (0.86%) CISM
11 15 (0.80%) Master's Degree
12 12 (0.64%) CEH
12 12 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
12 12 (0.64%) IIBA
12 12 (0.64%) ISEB
13 11 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.54%) Azure Certification
14 10 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (0.54%) PMP
15 8 (0.43%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (7.49%) Data Quality
2 110 (5.89%) QA
3 54 (2.89%) GDPR
4 45 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.03%) PMO
6 37 (1.98%) NIST
7 31 (1.66%) GRC
8 25 (1.34%) EMIR
8 25 (1.34%) MiFID
9 17 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
10 14 (0.75%) Accessibility
11 13 (0.70%) ISO 20022
11 13 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.64%) SEPA
13 11 (0.59%) SLA
14 8 (0.43%) Basel III
14 8 (0.43%) NCSC
14 8 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.43%) PSD2
15 7 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 61 (3.27%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.32%) Docker
3 5 (0.27%) Snort
3 5 (0.27%) Squid
4 4 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.054%) Firmware
5 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.054%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.054%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (0.75%) HP SiteScope
1 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
1 14 (0.75%) SCOM
2 13 (0.70%) SCCM
3 8 (0.43%) Nessus
4 7 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.32%) Control-M
6 5 (0.27%) Ansible
6 5 (0.27%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.27%) Nexpose
6 5 (0.27%) Suricata
7 3 (0.16%) BladeLogic
7 3 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.11%) CSIRT
8 2 (0.11%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.11%) ITRS Geneos
8 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.11%) WSUS
9 1 (0.054%) EMC VPLEX
9 1 (0.054%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 282 (15.10%) Microsoft
2 90 (4.82%) Oracle
3 75 (4.01%) SAP
4 74 (3.96%) Salesforce
5 68 (3.64%) Splunk
6 61 (3.27%) ServiceNow
7 36 (1.93%) Google
8 26 (1.39%) Bloomberg
8 26 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
9 25 (1.34%) Qualys
10 24 (1.28%) Murex
11 23 (1.23%) Adobe
11 23 (1.23%) Workday
12 22 (1.18%) Carbon Black
13 19 (1.02%) Databricks
14 18 (0.96%) OpenLink
15 14 (0.75%) Alteryx
15 14 (0.75%) CyberArk
15 14 (0.75%) ION Trading
16 13 (0.70%) Remedy