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 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,949 1,640 2,113
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.34% 13.36% 11.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.12% 14.28% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,267 1,086 1,523
10th Percentile £289 £313 £310
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £711
England median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 36 35
10th Percentile £18.99 £22.39 £20.50
25th Percentile £25.39 £24.00 £20.88
Median hourly rate £30.27 £27.55 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.87% +10.20% -
75th Percentile £37.00 £33.81 £51.13
90th Percentile £65.38 £49.63 £75.75
England median hourly rate £22.35 £22.14 £16.30
% change year-on-year +0.95% +35.83% -15.07%

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 17,520 11,482 16,565
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 93.52% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,559 7,780 11,924
10th Percentile £358 £342 £325
25th Percentile £431 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £677
90th Percentile £760 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 163 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.23 £24.66 £20.17
Median hourly rate £40.98 £34.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +20.53% +22.26% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.63 £46.59
90th Percentile £78.69 £64.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.04 £39.50
% change year-on-year +54.99% -26.49% -12.22%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 -5 306 £500 -4.76% 138
West London -2 59 £375 -7.29% 23
South London +12 36 £463 -2.63% 16
East London -2 11 £400 -23.08% 16
North London -2 2 £178 -67.43% 6
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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.

1 453 (23.24%) Agile
2 416 (21.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 355 (18.21%) SQL
4 311 (15.96%) Business Analysis
5 298 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
6 289 (14.83%) User Stories
7 258 (13.24%) Requirements Gathering
7 258 (13.24%) User Acceptance Testing
8 256 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 250 (12.83%) Microsoft
10 244 (12.52%) Business Intelligence
11 228 (11.70%) Workshop Facilitation
12 226 (11.60%) Data Analysis
13 223 (11.44%) Validation
14 220 (11.29%) Power Platform
15 211 (10.83%) Power BI
16 206 (10.57%) Security Cleared
17 202 (10.36%) Azure
18 201 (10.31%) JIRA
19 198 (10.16%) Data Quality
20 195 (10.01%) Acceptance Criteria
21 194 (9.95%) Analytics
22 191 (9.80%) Migration
23 189 (9.70%) Decision-Making
24 187 (9.59%) Data Modelling
25 183 (9.39%) Microsoft Excel
26 175 (8.98%) SC Cleared
27 147 (7.54%) Python
28 146 (7.49%) AI
29 145 (7.44%) Continuous 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 96 (4.93%) Confluence
2 34 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.64%) CMS
4 8 (0.41%) SAS
5 6 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.26%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (0.21%) Apache
7 4 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.15%) Kentico
9 2 (0.10%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.10%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.051%) Appian
10 1 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.051%) WordPress
Applications
1 183 (9.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (3.80%) MS Visio
3 59 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 51 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
5 23 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.36%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.36%) Revit
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.10%) Notion
10 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.051%) SPSS
10 1 (0.051%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 21 (1.08%) Aladdin
3 19 (0.97%) Loan IQ
4 16 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
5 14 (0.72%) Workday HCM
6 11 (0.56%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.41%) Endur
8 7 (0.36%) Actimize
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.26%) Findur
10 5 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.26%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.26%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.21%) SAP CO
11 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 220 (11.29%) Power Platform
2 202 (10.36%) Azure
3 100 (5.13%) AWS
4 65 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
5 55 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (2.26%) Snowflake
7 40 (2.05%) SaaS
8 29 (1.49%) GCP
9 26 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (1.28%) Entra ID
11 20 (1.03%) Google Workspace
12 19 (0.97%) Microsoft Purview
13 16 (0.82%) Amazon S3
14 15 (0.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 14 (0.72%) Serverless
16 13 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (0.67%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.67%) Lucidchart
16 13 (0.67%) Power Automate
16 13 (0.67%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.82%) TCP/IP
1 16 (0.82%) VPN
2 14 (0.72%) Firewall
3 11 (0.56%) Network Security
4 10 (0.51%) DNS
5 9 (0.46%) DHCP
6 8 (0.41%) DMZ
7 7 (0.36%) VoIP
8 6 (0.31%) FIX Connectivity
9 5 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.21%) Broadband
11 3 (0.15%) FTP
11 3 (0.15%) Internet
11 3 (0.15%) IP Telephony
11 3 (0.15%) WAN
11 3 (0.15%) Wireless
12 2 (0.10%) 802.11
12 2 (0.10%) Intranet
12 2 (0.10%) PSTN
12 2 (0.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 211 (10.83%) Power BI
2 92 (4.72%) Tableau
3 44 (2.26%) Metadata
4 43 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (1.59%) Relational Database
6 18 (0.92%) Power Query
7 15 (0.77%) Big Data
7 15 (0.77%) BigQuery
7 15 (0.77%) Data Lake
8 14 (0.72%) Looker
9 11 (0.56%) SQL Server
10 10 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.51%) Qlik Sense
11 6 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
12 5 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.26%) Hadoop
12 5 (0.26%) KNIME
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 201 (10.31%) JIRA
2 22 (1.13%) Postman
3 7 (0.36%) Selenium
4 6 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.31%) MSI
5 5 (0.26%) Git
6 4 (0.21%) Appium
6 4 (0.21%) GitLab
6 4 (0.21%) JUnit
6 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.15%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.15%) Gemini Tracker
7 3 (0.15%) TestRail
7 3 (0.15%) Toad
8 2 (0.10%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.051%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.051%) Charles Proxy
9 1 (0.051%) Snyk
General
1 769 (39.46%) Finance
2 610 (31.30%) Social Skills
3 435 (22.32%) Analytical Skills
4 275 (14.11%) Banking
5 127 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 110 (5.64%) Front Office
7 92 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
8 86 (4.41%) Investment Banking
9 75 (3.85%) Marketing
10 68 (3.49%) Legal
11 63 (3.23%) Retail
12 59 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
13 55 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
14 39 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 37 (1.90%) Financial Institution
16 36 (1.85%) Back Office
17 27 (1.39%) Local Government
18 23 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.97%) Manufacturing
20 18 (0.92%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
2 20 (1.03%) XML
3 17 (0.87%) Middleware
4 15 (0.77%) Pandas
5 11 (0.56%) ADO
5 11 (0.56%) JSON
5 11 (0.56%) REST
6 10 (0.51%) .NET
7 8 (0.41%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (0.41%) NumPy
7 8 (0.41%) VML
8 7 (0.36%) Kafka
9 6 (0.31%) PySpark
9 6 (0.31%) SailPoint
9 6 (0.31%) SOAP
10 4 (0.21%) Playwright
10 4 (0.21%) Web Services
10 4 (0.21%) YAML
11 3 (0.15%) GeoJSON
12 2 (0.10%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 119 (6.11%) Product Ownership
2 75 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 57 (2.92%) Derivative
4 46 (2.36%) Fixed Income
5 44 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
6 43 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 40 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
8 39 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
9 37 (1.90%) Management Information System
10 33 (1.69%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.39%) Hedge funds
12 25 (1.28%) Credit Risk
13 22 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (0.97%) Market Risk
15 19 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
16 18 (0.92%) CMDB
17 15 (0.77%) Equities
17 15 (0.77%) PMI
17 15 (0.77%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 72 (3.69%) Windows
2 20 (1.03%) Android
3 18 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 15 (0.77%) Mac OS
5 14 (0.72%) Linux
5 14 (0.72%) Unix
5 14 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.31%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.051%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (23.24%) Agile
2 416 (21.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 311 (15.96%) Business Analysis
4 298 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
5 289 (14.83%) User Stories
6 258 (13.24%) Requirements Gathering
6 258 (13.24%) User Acceptance Testing
7 256 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 244 (12.52%) Business Intelligence
9 228 (11.70%) Workshop Facilitation
10 226 (11.60%) Data Analysis
11 223 (11.44%) Validation
12 195 (10.01%) Acceptance Criteria
13 194 (9.95%) Analytics
14 191 (9.80%) Migration
15 189 (9.70%) Decision-Making
16 187 (9.59%) Data Modelling
17 146 (7.49%) AI
18 145 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
19 133 (6.82%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 355 (18.21%) SQL
2 147 (7.54%) Python
3 24 (1.23%) R
4 23 (1.18%) Java
5 21 (1.08%) PowerShell
6 17 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 13 (0.67%) VBA
8 10 (0.51%) C#
8 10 (0.51%) Korn
8 10 (0.51%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
10 6 (0.31%) JavaScript
11 5 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.21%) Bash
12 4 (0.21%) Groovy
13 3 (0.15%) C
13 3 (0.15%) C++
13 3 (0.15%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.10%) Perl
14 2 (0.10%) PHP
Qualifications
1 206 (10.57%) Security Cleared
2 175 (8.98%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.03%) Degree
4 29 (1.49%) CBAP
5 25 (1.28%) IIBA
6 21 (1.08%) CISSP
7 20 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 20 (1.03%) PMI Certification
8 14 (0.72%) DV Cleared
9 12 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
10 11 (0.56%) ACCA
10 11 (0.56%) CISM
10 11 (0.56%) Master's Degree
11 10 (0.51%) CIMA
11 10 (0.51%) Computer Science Degree
11 10 (0.51%) ISEB
11 10 (0.51%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.46%) CISA
13 8 (0.41%) CompTIA CySA+
13 8 (0.41%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (10.16%) Data Quality
2 111 (5.70%) QA
3 57 (2.92%) PMO
4 43 (2.21%) GDPR
5 37 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 36 (1.85%) NIST
7 26 (1.33%) SLA
8 24 (1.23%) IFRS
9 20 (1.03%) GRC
10 18 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
11 17 (0.87%) Accessibility
11 17 (0.87%) GAAP
12 16 (0.82%) COBIT
12 16 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 15 (0.77%) EMIR
14 14 (0.72%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.67%) MiFID
16 6 (0.31%) ITGC
16 6 (0.31%) PSD2
16 6 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.15%) Docker
3 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.051%) RACF
4 1 (0.051%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
4 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.051%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.051%) vSphere
4 1 (0.051%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 14 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (0.62%) SCCM
3 7 (0.36%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.31%) WSUS
5 5 (0.26%) Terraform
6 4 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.15%) Control-M
7 3 (0.15%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.15%) Nessus
8 2 (0.10%) Nexpose
8 2 (0.10%) Puppet
8 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.051%) CASB
9 1 (0.051%) Grafana
9 1 (0.051%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.051%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.051%) Kibana
9 1 (0.051%) QRadar
9 1 (0.051%) RSA Archer
9 1 (0.051%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 250 (12.83%) Microsoft
2 119 (6.11%) Salesforce
3 100 (5.13%) SAP
4 90 (4.62%) Oracle
5 89 (4.57%) ServiceNow
6 59 (3.03%) Databricks
7 35 (1.80%) Workday
8 33 (1.69%) Google
9 32 (1.64%) Bloomberg
10 26 (1.33%) Murex
11 19 (0.97%) Citrix
12 18 (0.92%) Splunk
13 17 (0.87%) Adobe
14 16 (0.82%) ION Trading
15 15 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
16 14 (0.72%) Reuters
17 12 (0.62%) Charles River
17 12 (0.62%) MuleSoft
18 10 (0.51%) Alteryx
18 10 (0.51%) Qualys