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 11 October 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -10 +2 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 2,016 1,834 1,931
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.97% 13.70% 11.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.71% 14.81% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,246 1,216 1,386
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.30%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £625
90th Percentile £681 £725 £713
England median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 43 26
10th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £30.92
25th Percentile £26.25 £23.00 £35.31
Median hourly rate £34.75 £25.01 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year +38.94% -44.73% +75.73%
75th Percentile £57.50 £34.01 £78.13
90th Percentile £68.25 £57.95 £124.38
England median hourly rate £28.00 £20.71 £21.44
% change year-on-year +35.23% -3.41% +12.82%

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 18,819 12,387 15,194
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.09% 92.52% 94.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,155 8,273 9,917
10th Percentile £363 £335 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -0.94% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 210 176
10th Percentile £16.94 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £24.06
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.20 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +50.74% -23.92% -9.31%
75th Percentile £65.60 £49.00 £59.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.75 £79.38
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.89%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 11 October 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 -12 286 £474 -0.21% 295
West London +10 52 £400 -5.88% 42
South London -24 11 £500 +17.65% 13
East London -8 7 £500 +162.56% 12
North London -1 6 £400 -30.43% 1
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 October 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.

1 626 (31.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 448 (22.22%) Agile
3 443 (21.97%) SQL
4 408 (20.24%) Business Analysis
5 379 (18.80%) Requirements Gathering
6 345 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
7 332 (16.47%) User Stories
8 318 (15.77%) Microsoft
9 306 (15.18%) Workshop Facilitation
10 301 (14.93%) User Acceptance Testing
11 297 (14.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 293 (14.53%) Data Analysis
13 281 (13.94%) Validation
14 268 (13.29%) Analytics
15 267 (13.24%) Business Intelligence
16 249 (12.35%) Power Platform
17 247 (12.25%) Data Quality
18 243 (12.05%) AI
19 232 (11.51%) Power BI
20 230 (11.41%) Decision-Making
21 223 (11.06%) Acceptance Criteria
22 217 (10.76%) Azure
23 211 (10.47%) Migration
24 200 (9.92%) Data Modelling
25 191 (9.47%) JIRA
26 182 (9.03%) Security Cleared
27 179 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
28 171 (8.48%) Data Governance
29 170 (8.43%) Microsoft Excel
29 170 (8.43%) Python

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
1 102 (5.06%) Confluence
2 52 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.49%) CMS
4 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.25%) Kentico
7 4 (0.20%) SAS
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.15%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.099%) Apache
9 2 (0.099%) Appian
9 2 (0.099%) Headless CMS
9 2 (0.099%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.099%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.099%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.099%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.099%) WordPress
10 1 (0.050%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 170 (8.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (2.53%) MS Visio
3 44 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
5 16 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.40%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.30%) Revit
9 4 (0.20%) Notion
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.099%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.050%) SPSS
12 1 (0.050%) Trello
12 1 (0.050%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 30 (1.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
3 12 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
4 9 (0.45%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.45%) Endur
4 9 (0.45%) iTrent
4 9 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.40%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.35%) HFM
7 6 (0.30%) Front Arena
7 6 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 6 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.30%) Summit
8 5 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
10 3 (0.15%) Bloomberg TOMS
10 3 (0.15%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 249 (12.35%) Power Platform
2 217 (10.76%) Azure
3 108 (5.36%) AWS
4 87 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
5 74 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (2.98%) SaaS
7 55 (2.73%) Entra ID
8 54 (2.68%) Snowflake
9 44 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
10 38 (1.88%) GCP
11 28 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
12 25 (1.24%) OneDrive
13 21 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
13 21 (1.04%) Power Automate
13 21 (1.04%) SuccessFactors
14 16 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 15 (0.74%) PowerApps
16 14 (0.69%) GitHub
16 14 (0.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 13 (0.64%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.04%) TCP/IP
1 21 (1.04%) VPN
2 17 (0.84%) Network Security
3 16 (0.79%) DNS
4 13 (0.64%) DHCP
4 13 (0.64%) PSTN
4 13 (0.64%) VoIP
5 12 (0.60%) Firewall
6 10 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (0.40%) Wireless
8 7 (0.35%) IP Telephony
9 6 (0.30%) HTTP
9 6 (0.30%) Internet
10 5 (0.25%) Cisco IPT
11 4 (0.20%) Intranet
12 3 (0.15%) DMZ
12 3 (0.15%) WinSCP
13 2 (0.099%) 802.11
13 2 (0.099%) SSL
13 2 (0.099%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 232 (11.51%) Power BI
2 91 (4.51%) Tableau
3 66 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (2.68%) Metadata
5 28 (1.39%) Relational Database
6 24 (1.19%) Looker
7 23 (1.14%) Power Query
8 22 (1.09%) Data Lake
9 19 (0.94%) BigQuery
10 14 (0.69%) SQL Server
11 12 (0.60%) Big Data
12 10 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
13 9 (0.45%) Amazon Athena
13 9 (0.45%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.30%) Amazon QuickSight
15 5 (0.25%) Data Hub
15 5 (0.25%) DynamoDB
15 5 (0.25%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.25%) PowerPivot
15 5 (0.25%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 191 (9.47%) JIRA
2 14 (0.69%) Git
2 14 (0.69%) Postman
3 10 (0.50%) Selenium
4 7 (0.35%) Cypress.io
5 6 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.25%) TestRail
7 4 (0.20%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.20%) GitLab
7 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (0.20%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.15%) Charles Proxy
8 3 (0.15%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.15%) Xcode
9 2 (0.099%) Appium
9 2 (0.099%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.099%) JMeter
9 2 (0.099%) MSI
9 2 (0.099%) Snyk
9 2 (0.099%) SonarQube
General
1 812 (40.28%) Finance
2 668 (33.13%) Social Skills
3 485 (24.06%) Analytical Skills
4 317 (15.72%) Banking
5 140 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 113 (5.61%) Documentation Skills
7 110 (5.46%) Retail
8 105 (5.21%) Legal
9 103 (5.11%) Front Office
10 81 (4.02%) Marketing
11 77 (3.82%) Investment Banking
12 49 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 39 (1.93%) Local Government
15 38 (1.88%) Financial Institution
16 32 (1.59%) Back Office
17 28 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
18 27 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
19 24 (1.19%) Law
19 24 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
2 26 (1.29%) JSON
3 18 (0.89%) XML
4 13 (0.64%) Middleware
5 10 (0.50%) .NET
5 10 (0.50%) Playwright
6 9 (0.45%) Kafka
7 8 (0.40%) REST
7 8 (0.40%) SailPoint
8 7 (0.35%) ADO
8 7 (0.35%) Pandas
8 7 (0.35%) WebAuthn
9 6 (0.30%) FIDO
9 6 (0.30%) YAML
10 5 (0.25%) PySpark
10 5 (0.25%) Terraform
11 4 (0.20%) Gherkin
11 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Graph
12 3 (0.15%) NumPy
12 3 (0.15%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 133 (6.60%) Product Ownership
2 119 (5.90%) Onboarding
3 69 (3.42%) Management Information System
4 55 (2.73%) Data Structures
5 53 (2.63%) Derivative
6 46 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
7 40 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 37 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 33 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
11 28 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
12 26 (1.29%) Fixed Income
12 26 (1.29%) Reference Data
13 20 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
14 19 (0.94%) CMDB
14 19 (0.94%) Taxonomies
15 18 (0.89%) Credit Risk
15 18 (0.89%) Market Risk
15 18 (0.89%) Security Posture
16 16 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 80 (3.97%) Windows
2 19 (0.94%) Linux
2 19 (0.94%) macOS
3 17 (0.84%) Windows 10
4 14 (0.69%) Android
5 13 (0.64%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.25%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 626 (31.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 448 (22.22%) Agile
3 408 (20.24%) Business Analysis
4 379 (18.80%) Requirements Gathering
5 345 (17.11%) Problem-Solving
6 332 (16.47%) User Stories
7 306 (15.18%) Workshop Facilitation
8 301 (14.93%) User Acceptance Testing
9 297 (14.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 293 (14.53%) Data Analysis
11 281 (13.94%) Validation
12 268 (13.29%) Analytics
13 267 (13.24%) Business Intelligence
14 243 (12.05%) AI
15 230 (11.41%) Decision-Making
16 223 (11.06%) Acceptance Criteria
17 211 (10.47%) Migration
18 200 (9.92%) Data Modelling
19 179 (8.88%) Continuous Improvement
20 171 (8.48%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 443 (21.97%) SQL
2 170 (8.43%) Python
3 33 (1.64%) R
4 30 (1.49%) Java
4 30 (1.49%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 22 (1.09%) Korn
6 15 (0.74%) PL/SQL
7 12 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
8 9 (0.45%) C#
8 9 (0.45%) Shell Script
9 8 (0.40%) C++
10 7 (0.35%) VBA
11 6 (0.30%) Scala
12 5 (0.25%) Bash
12 5 (0.25%) C
12 5 (0.25%) JavaScript
13 4 (0.20%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.15%) LookML
14 3 (0.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 182 (9.03%) Security Cleared
2 167 (8.28%) Degree
3 145 (7.19%) SC Cleared
4 27 (1.34%) CISSP
4 27 (1.34%) DV Cleared
5 22 (1.09%) PMI Certification
6 20 (0.99%) ACCA
6 20 (0.99%) CBAP
6 20 (0.99%) IIBA
7 19 (0.94%) CIMA
8 18 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (0.79%) PMP
10 14 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.64%) CompTIA CySA+
11 13 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 13 (0.64%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (0.60%) CISM
13 11 (0.55%) FFIEC
14 10 (0.50%) GIAC
15 9 (0.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (12.25%) Data Quality
2 110 (5.46%) QA
3 53 (2.63%) NIST
4 49 (2.43%) PMO
5 45 (2.23%) GDPR
6 38 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.29%) GRC
8 24 (1.19%) SLA
9 19 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
9 19 (0.94%) IFRS
10 18 (0.89%) Accessibility
10 18 (0.89%) COBIT
11 14 (0.69%) ISO 20022
12 11 (0.55%) MiFID
13 10 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.45%) EMIR
15 8 (0.40%) Basel III
16 7 (0.35%) ISO 15022
16 7 (0.35%) SEPA
17 5 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 55 (2.73%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
2 9 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.15%) Docker
4 2 (0.099%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.050%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.050%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 25 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (0.84%) SCCM
3 11 (0.55%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.15%) QRadar
6 3 (0.15%) WSUS
7 2 (0.099%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.099%) Nessus
7 2 (0.099%) Nexpose
7 2 (0.099%) Puppet
8 1 (0.050%) CASB
8 1 (0.050%) EnCase
8 1 (0.050%) FTK
8 1 (0.050%) Grafana
8 1 (0.050%) Kibana
Vendors
1 318 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 99 (4.91%) SAP
3 92 (4.56%) ServiceNow
4 89 (4.41%) Salesforce
5 85 (4.22%) Oracle
6 62 (3.08%) Databricks
7 42 (2.08%) Google
8 37 (1.84%) Murex
9 29 (1.44%) Bloomberg
10 23 (1.14%) Alteryx
10 23 (1.14%) Splunk
11 21 (1.04%) Workday
12 20 (0.99%) Adobe
13 19 (0.94%) CyberArk
14 16 (0.79%) IBM
15 15 (0.74%) CrowdStrike
16 14 (0.69%) Cisco
17 12 (0.60%) Citrix
18 11 (0.55%) Aderant
18 11 (0.55%) ION Trading