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 5 February 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -6 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,852 1,651 2,373
As % of all contract jobs in London 12.42% 12.04% 12.91%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.41% 12.87% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,243 1,148 1,737
10th Percentile £313 £269 £267
25th Percentile £400 £393 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
England median daily rate £455 £475 £489
% change year-on-year -4.21% -2.86% +2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 30 28
10th Percentile £21.00 £22.27 £17.93
25th Percentile £24.02 £26.06 £19.19
Median hourly rate £26.11 £34.50 £25.40
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% +35.85% -5.94%
75th Percentile £33.88 £43.81 £40.00
90th Percentile £48.63 £80.75 £47.30
England median hourly rate £18.00 £24.50 £17.64
% change year-on-year -26.53% +38.89% +3.76%

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 13,809 12,833 17,092
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 93.62% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,178 8,202 12,366
10th Percentile £350 £336 £325
25th Percentile £425 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 140 334
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.98 £15.96
25th Percentile £23.75 £24.66 £18.95
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +24.31% -15.34%
75th Percentile £63.00 £53.75 £49.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.95 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -2.10%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +1 291 £500 -4.76% 139
South London -14 29 £425 +21.43% 13
West London -20 23 £478 +75.23% 18
East London 0 21 £450 - 13
North London -1 2 £500 -9.09% 4
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 February 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.

1 458 (24.73%) Agile
2 417 (22.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 367 (19.82%) SQL
4 323 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
5 298 (16.09%) Business Analysis
6 267 (14.42%) Requirements Gathering
7 264 (14.25%) Microsoft
8 252 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 236 (12.74%) User Stories
10 210 (11.34%) Data Analysis
10 210 (11.34%) User Acceptance Testing
11 204 (11.02%) Workshop Facilitation
12 203 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
13 202 (10.91%) Power Platform
14 201 (10.85%) Security Cleared
15 197 (10.64%) Analytics
16 189 (10.21%) Migration
17 187 (10.10%) Power BI
18 183 (9.88%) Microsoft Excel
19 179 (9.67%) JIRA
20 174 (9.40%) SC Cleared
21 173 (9.34%) Decision-Making
22 170 (9.18%) Azure
23 167 (9.02%) Validation
24 154 (8.32%) Continuous Improvement
25 146 (7.88%) Data Quality
26 140 (7.56%) Data Modelling
26 140 (7.56%) Degree
27 137 (7.40%) Python
28 131 (7.07%) 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 98 (5.29%) Confluence
2 48 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.54%) CMS
4 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.43%) SAS
5 7 (0.38%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.32%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.32%) MQSeries
7 5 (0.27%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.054%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.054%) Apache
9 1 (0.054%) Apache Superset
9 1 (0.054%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.054%) Kentico
9 1 (0.054%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.054%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.054%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.054%) WebSphere
Applications
1 183 (9.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (4.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 79 (4.27%) MS Visio
4 66 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
5 26 (1.40%) 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 26 (1.40%) Endur
2 21 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
4 15 (0.81%) Loan IQ
5 14 (0.76%) Aladdin
6 13 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
7 10 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
8 9 (0.49%) NetSuite
9 7 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
9 7 (0.38%) SAP HR
10 6 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
11 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
11 5 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
11 5 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 4 (0.22%) Actimize
12 4 (0.22%) ION MarketView
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
12 4 (0.22%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
13 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 202 (10.91%) Power Platform
2 170 (9.18%) Azure
3 95 (5.13%) AWS
4 67 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
5 48 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (2.38%) GCP
7 37 (2.00%) Snowflake
8 30 (1.62%) Azure Sentinel
9 28 (1.51%) Entra ID
9 28 (1.51%) SaaS
10 23 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (0.92%) Power Automate
12 15 (0.81%) Google Workspace
13 13 (0.70%) PowerApps
14 12 (0.65%) OneDrive
15 11 (0.59%) Lucidchart
16 10 (0.54%) Miro
17 9 (0.49%) Amazon S3
18 8 (0.43%) GitHub
18 8 (0.43%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.03%) Firewall
2 16 (0.86%) VPN
3 14 (0.76%) DNS
4 13 (0.70%) Network Security
5 11 (0.59%) DHCP
5 11 (0.59%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.38%) Internet
6 7 (0.38%) Skype
6 7 (0.38%) Unified Communications
7 6 (0.32%) FIX Connectivity
7 6 (0.32%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.27%) Broadband
8 5 (0.27%) DMZ
8 5 (0.27%) LAN
9 3 (0.16%) Softphone
10 2 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
10 2 (0.11%) FTP
10 2 (0.11%) HTTP
10 2 (0.11%) VoIP
10 2 (0.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (10.10%) Power BI
2 83 (4.48%) Tableau
3 45 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (1.94%) Metadata
5 26 (1.40%) SQL Server
6 24 (1.30%) BigQuery
7 16 (0.86%) Looker
7 16 (0.86%) Power Query
8 13 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
9 11 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
10 10 (0.54%) Big Data
10 10 (0.54%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.49%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.49%) KNIME
12 7 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (0.38%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.32%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 5 (0.27%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.27%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 179 (9.67%) JIRA
2 9 (0.49%) Jenkins
2 9 (0.49%) Selenium
3 8 (0.43%) Git
3 8 (0.43%) Postman
4 6 (0.32%) MSI
5 4 (0.22%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (0.16%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.16%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.16%) Fiddler
6 3 (0.16%) GitLab
6 3 (0.16%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (0.16%) TestRail
6 3 (0.16%) Toad
6 3 (0.16%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.11%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.11%) SoapUI
General
1 694 (37.47%) Finance
2 668 (36.07%) Social Skills
3 399 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
4 264 (14.25%) Banking
5 131 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 78 (4.21%) Front Office
7 75 (4.05%) Investment Banking
8 74 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
9 57 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
10 51 (2.75%) Marketing
11 49 (2.65%) Legal
12 43 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
13 39 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 39 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (2.00%) Retail
15 35 (1.89%) Back Office
15 35 (1.89%) Telecoms
16 34 (1.84%) Financial Institution
17 23 (1.24%) Law
18 21 (1.13%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.57%) XML
2 21 (1.13%) REST
3 13 (0.70%) Middleware
3 13 (0.70%) SOAP
4 11 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
5 10 (0.54%) ADO
5 10 (0.54%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (0.43%) .NET
6 8 (0.43%) JSON
6 8 (0.43%) Web Services
7 7 (0.38%) Apache NiFi
7 7 (0.38%) HTML
8 5 (0.27%) Playwright
8 5 (0.27%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.22%) Kafka
9 4 (0.22%) Pandas
9 4 (0.22%) VML
9 4 (0.22%) YAML
10 3 (0.16%) CSS
10 3 (0.16%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 102 (5.51%) Product Ownership
2 83 (4.48%) Onboarding
3 46 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 44 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 42 (2.27%) Derivative
6 37 (2.00%) Management Information System
7 34 (1.84%) Fixed Income
8 31 (1.67%) Data Structures
8 31 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 28 (1.51%) PMI
10 25 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
11 22 (1.19%) Credit Risk
12 21 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
12 21 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
12 21 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.08%) Equities
14 19 (1.03%) Cyber Defence
14 19 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 16 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
16 15 (0.81%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 78 (4.21%) Windows
2 22 (1.19%) Linux
3 21 (1.13%) Windows 10
4 18 (0.97%) Unix
5 13 (0.70%) Android
5 13 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.43%) Mac OS
7 7 (0.38%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.11%) VMS
9 1 (0.054%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.054%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (24.73%) Agile
2 417 (22.52%) Stakeholder Management
3 323 (17.44%) Problem-Solving
4 298 (16.09%) Business Analysis
5 267 (14.42%) Requirements Gathering
6 252 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 236 (12.74%) User Stories
8 210 (11.34%) Data Analysis
8 210 (11.34%) User Acceptance Testing
9 204 (11.02%) Workshop Facilitation
10 203 (10.96%) Business Intelligence
11 197 (10.64%) Analytics
12 189 (10.21%) Migration
13 173 (9.34%) Decision-Making
14 167 (9.02%) Validation
15 154 (8.32%) Continuous Improvement
16 140 (7.56%) Data Modelling
17 131 (7.07%) Process Improvement
18 126 (6.80%) Acceptance Criteria
19 125 (6.75%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 367 (19.82%) SQL
2 137 (7.40%) Python
3 34 (1.84%) PowerShell
4 24 (1.30%) JavaScript
5 23 (1.24%) Java
6 21 (1.13%) Kusto Query Language
7 20 (1.08%) R
8 15 (0.81%) C#
8 15 (0.81%) VBA
9 11 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 8 (0.43%) Bash
10 8 (0.43%) Korn
10 8 (0.43%) RPG
11 6 (0.32%) C++
12 4 (0.22%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.11%) VC++
15 1 (0.054%) Perl
15 1 (0.054%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.054%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 201 (10.85%) Security Cleared
2 174 (9.40%) SC Cleared
3 140 (7.56%) Degree
4 54 (2.92%) CBAP
5 37 (2.00%) PMI Certification
6 25 (1.35%) IIBA
7 24 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 18 (0.97%) CISSP
10 16 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.81%) ISEB
12 14 (0.76%) PMP
13 13 (0.70%) CISM
13 13 (0.70%) DV Cleared
14 12 (0.65%) CompTIA Security+
14 12 (0.65%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
16 9 (0.49%) CEH
16 9 (0.49%) CompTIA CySA+
16 9 (0.49%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (7.88%) Data Quality
2 115 (6.21%) QA
3 44 (2.38%) GDPR
4 43 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (2.11%) PMO
6 35 (1.89%) GRC
7 32 (1.73%) NIST
8 27 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 23 (1.24%) EMIR
10 21 (1.13%) MiFID
11 19 (1.03%) Accessibility
12 13 (0.70%) ISO 20022
13 12 (0.65%) SLA
14 11 (0.59%) PSD2
14 11 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.54%) IFRS
16 9 (0.49%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.43%) GMP
17 8 (0.43%) NCSC
17 8 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 55 (2.97%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (0.27%) Docker
4 4 (0.22%) Snort
4 4 (0.22%) Squid
5 2 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.054%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.054%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.054%) vSphere
6 1 (0.054%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.76%) HP SiteScope
2 14 (0.76%) SCOM
3 11 (0.59%) SCCM
4 8 (0.43%) Control-M
5 7 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.32%) Nessus
7 4 (0.22%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.22%) Kubernetes
7 4 (0.22%) Nexpose
7 4 (0.22%) Suricata
8 3 (0.16%) Ansible
9 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.11%) WSUS
10 1 (0.054%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.054%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.054%) EMC VPLEX
10 1 (0.054%) Terraform
10 1 (0.054%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 264 (14.25%) Microsoft
2 87 (4.70%) Salesforce
3 82 (4.43%) Oracle
4 76 (4.10%) SAP
5 74 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 63 (3.40%) Splunk
7 32 (1.73%) Google
8 26 (1.40%) Bloomberg
8 26 (1.40%) Workday
9 24 (1.30%) Murex
10 23 (1.24%) Adobe
10 23 (1.24%) Qualys
11 21 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
12 20 (1.08%) Databricks
13 17 (0.92%) Carbon Black
14 14 (0.76%) Remedy
15 12 (0.65%) Zscaler
16 11 (0.59%) Informatica
16 11 (0.59%) ION Trading
16 11 (0.59%) MuleSoft