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 20 September 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -6
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 2,069 1,871 1,905
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.22% 13.90% 11.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.96% 14.99% 12.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 1,227 1,376
10th Percentile £288 £306 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.66%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £695 £738 £715
England median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 44 29
10th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £21.85
25th Percentile £26.25 £23.25 £26.50
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.80 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.03% -37.83% +61.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £33.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £56.93 £109.75
England median hourly rate £27.38 £22.03 £19.79
% change year-on-year +24.31% +11.32% +4.13%

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 18,881 12,479 15,325
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 92.73% 94.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,191 8,352 10,227
10th Percentile £363 £331 £341
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £658 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 206 180
10th Percentile £17.39 £17.00 £17.48
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% -4.21%
75th Percentile £63.10 £51.13 £56.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.54 £72.19
England median hourly rate £43.61 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +73.38% -45.54% +2.62%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 20 September 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 -11 300 £473 -5.50% 228
West London +9 58 £400 -5.88% 33
South London -15 15 £500 +17.65% 10
East London -11 7 £425 +123.43% 20
North London +1 6 £400 -28.41% 5
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 September 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.

1 585 (28.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 454 (21.94%) Agile
3 429 (20.73%) SQL
4 394 (19.04%) Business Analysis
5 362 (17.50%) Requirements Gathering
6 348 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
7 320 (15.47%) User Stories
8 311 (15.03%) Microsoft
9 298 (14.40%) User Acceptance Testing
10 294 (14.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 289 (13.97%) Workshop Facilitation
12 285 (13.77%) Data Analysis
13 277 (13.39%) Validation
14 267 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
15 255 (12.32%) Analytics
16 247 (11.94%) Power Platform
17 234 (11.31%) AI
18 230 (11.12%) Decision-Making
18 230 (11.12%) Power BI
19 224 (10.83%) Data Quality
20 213 (10.29%) Azure
21 210 (10.15%) Acceptance Criteria
22 196 (9.47%) Data Modelling
23 192 (9.28%) Migration
24 185 (8.94%) JIRA
25 174 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
26 171 (8.26%) Python
27 170 (8.22%) Security Cleared
28 169 (8.17%) Microsoft Excel
29 168 (8.12%) 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 89 (4.30%) Confluence
2 52 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.55%) CMS
4 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.24%) SAS
7 4 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.14%) Apache
8 3 (0.14%) Kentico
8 3 (0.14%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.097%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.097%) Appian
9 2 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.097%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.097%) WordPress
10 1 (0.048%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.048%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.048%) JBoss
10 1 (0.048%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 169 (8.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (2.66%) MS Visio
3 48 (2.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
5 17 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.48%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.39%) Revit
8 4 (0.19%) Notion
9 3 (0.14%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.097%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.048%) SPSS
11 1 (0.048%) Trello
11 1 (0.048%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 33 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
3 12 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
4 11 (0.53%) Endur
4 11 (0.53%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.48%) Aladdin
6 9 (0.43%) iTrent
6 9 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
6 9 (0.43%) Workday HCM
7 8 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
8 7 (0.34%) HFM
9 6 (0.29%) Front Arena
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.29%) Summit
10 4 (0.19%) Actimize
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
11 3 (0.14%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 247 (11.94%) Power Platform
2 213 (10.29%) Azure
3 110 (5.32%) AWS
4 89 (4.30%) Microsoft 365
5 66 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (2.95%) SaaS
7 53 (2.56%) Entra ID
8 48 (2.32%) Snowflake
9 45 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
10 36 (1.74%) GCP
11 24 (1.16%) OneDrive
12 21 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
12 21 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
12 21 (1.01%) Power Automate
13 20 (0.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 20 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
14 18 (0.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 15 (0.72%) Google Workspace
15 15 (0.72%) PowerApps
16 14 (0.68%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.21%) TCP/IP
2 24 (1.16%) VPN
3 16 (0.77%) DNS
3 16 (0.77%) Network Security
4 15 (0.72%) Firewall
5 13 (0.63%) DHCP
5 13 (0.63%) PSTN
6 12 (0.58%) VoIP
7 11 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (0.39%) Wireless
9 7 (0.34%) IP Telephony
10 5 (0.24%) DMZ
10 5 (0.24%) HTTP
11 4 (0.19%) Internet
11 4 (0.19%) Intranet
12 3 (0.14%) WinSCP
13 2 (0.097%) LAN
13 2 (0.097%) WAN
13 2 (0.097%) Wireless Security
13 2 (0.097%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (11.12%) Power BI
2 87 (4.20%) Tableau
3 59 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (2.46%) Metadata
5 26 (1.26%) Relational Database
6 21 (1.01%) Looker
6 21 (1.01%) Power Query
7 18 (0.87%) Data Lake
8 15 (0.72%) BigQuery
9 11 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
9 11 (0.53%) SQL Server
10 10 (0.48%) Big Data
10 10 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
11 8 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
11 8 (0.39%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.29%) Amazon QuickSight
12 6 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.29%) Oracle Database
12 6 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (0.24%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 185 (8.94%) JIRA
2 18 (0.87%) Postman
3 14 (0.68%) Git
4 10 (0.48%) Selenium
5 7 (0.34%) Cypress.io
5 7 (0.34%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.24%) TestRail
6 5 (0.24%) Zephyr
7 4 (0.19%) GitLab
7 4 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.14%) Appium
8 3 (0.14%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.14%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.14%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.097%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.097%) Gemini Tracker
9 2 (0.097%) JUnit
9 2 (0.097%) Snyk
9 2 (0.097%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.097%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 843 (40.74%) Finance
2 678 (32.77%) Social Skills
3 477 (23.05%) Analytical Skills
4 311 (15.03%) Banking
5 122 (5.90%) Public Sector
6 114 (5.51%) Front Office
7 108 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
8 105 (5.07%) Retail
9 99 (4.78%) Legal
10 90 (4.35%) Marketing
11 79 (3.82%) Investment Banking
12 53 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 53 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
13 39 (1.88%) Financial Institution
14 38 (1.84%) Local Government
15 34 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
16 31 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
17 30 (1.45%) Back Office
18 25 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (1.16%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
2 27 (1.30%) JSON
3 18 (0.87%) Middleware
4 16 (0.77%) XML
5 11 (0.53%) Pandas
6 10 (0.48%) .NET
6 10 (0.48%) Kafka
6 10 (0.48%) Playwright
7 9 (0.43%) SailPoint
8 8 (0.39%) ADO
8 8 (0.39%) REST
9 7 (0.34%) NumPy
9 7 (0.34%) PySpark
10 6 (0.29%) FIDO
10 6 (0.29%) Terraform
10 6 (0.29%) WebAuthn
10 6 (0.29%) YAML
11 4 (0.19%) Gherkin
11 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (0.19%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 143 (6.91%) Product Ownership
2 123 (5.94%) Onboarding
3 61 (2.95%) Derivative
4 60 (2.90%) Management Information System
5 48 (2.32%) Data Structures
6 43 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 41 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
8 38 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
8 38 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 32 (1.55%) Fixed Income
10 28 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
11 27 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
12 21 (1.01%) CMDB
13 20 (0.97%) Credit Risk
14 19 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
14 19 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
15 18 (0.87%) Hedge funds
15 18 (0.87%) Market Risk
15 18 (0.87%) Reference Data
16 16 (0.77%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 84 (4.06%) Windows
2 19 (0.92%) Mac OS
3 17 (0.82%) Linux
3 17 (0.82%) Windows 10
4 14 (0.68%) Android
5 12 (0.58%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.19%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 585 (28.27%) Stakeholder Management
2 454 (21.94%) Agile
3 394 (19.04%) Business Analysis
4 362 (17.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 348 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
6 320 (15.47%) User Stories
7 298 (14.40%) User Acceptance Testing
8 294 (14.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 289 (13.97%) Workshop Facilitation
10 285 (13.77%) Data Analysis
11 277 (13.39%) Validation
12 267 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
13 255 (12.32%) Analytics
14 234 (11.31%) AI
15 230 (11.12%) Decision-Making
16 210 (10.15%) Acceptance Criteria
17 196 (9.47%) Data Modelling
18 192 (9.28%) Migration
19 174 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
20 168 (8.12%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 429 (20.73%) SQL
2 171 (8.26%) Python
3 34 (1.64%) PowerShell
4 32 (1.55%) R
5 31 (1.50%) Java
6 20 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 19 (0.92%) Korn
8 15 (0.72%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.53%) VBA
10 10 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
11 9 (0.43%) C#
11 9 (0.43%) C++
11 9 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.34%) Scala
13 6 (0.29%) C
14 5 (0.24%) Bash
14 5 (0.24%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.19%) JavaScript
16 3 (0.14%) VBScript
17 2 (0.097%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 170 (8.22%) Security Cleared
2 159 (7.68%) Degree
3 135 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 31 (1.50%) DV Cleared
5 30 (1.45%) CISSP
6 22 (1.06%) PMI Certification
7 20 (0.97%) ACCA
8 19 (0.92%) CIMA
8 19 (0.92%) IIBA
9 16 (0.77%) CBAP
10 15 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
10 15 (0.72%) PMP
11 14 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.63%) CISM
12 13 (0.63%) CompTIA CySA+
13 12 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.53%) FFIEC
14 11 (0.53%) GIAC
15 9 (0.43%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (10.83%) Data Quality
2 113 (5.46%) QA
3 56 (2.71%) PMO
4 55 (2.66%) NIST
5 43 (2.08%) GDPR
6 41 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.40%) SLA
8 23 (1.11%) IFRS
9 21 (1.01%) COBIT
9 21 (1.01%) GRC
10 16 (0.77%) Accessibility
11 15 (0.72%) ISO 20022
11 15 (0.72%) MiFID
11 15 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.63%) EMIR
13 12 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.34%) Basel III
14 7 (0.34%) GAAP
14 7 (0.34%) ISO 15022
14 7 (0.34%) SEPA
System Software
1 55 (2.66%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
2 9 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.14%) Docker
4 2 (0.097%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 20 (0.97%) SCCM
3 12 (0.58%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (0.29%) WSUS
6 4 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.14%) QRadar
8 2 (0.097%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.097%) Nessus
8 2 (0.097%) Nexpose
8 2 (0.097%) Puppet
9 1 (0.048%) Control-M
9 1 (0.048%) Grafana
9 1 (0.048%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.048%) Kibana
Vendors
1 311 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 107 (5.17%) Salesforce
3 104 (5.03%) SAP
4 98 (4.74%) ServiceNow
5 85 (4.11%) Oracle
6 65 (3.14%) Databricks
7 40 (1.93%) Google
8 36 (1.74%) Murex
9 32 (1.55%) Bloomberg
10 24 (1.16%) Alteryx
11 23 (1.11%) Splunk
11 23 (1.11%) Workday
12 21 (1.01%) Adobe
13 18 (0.87%) CyberArk
14 15 (0.72%) Citrix
14 15 (0.72%) CrowdStrike
14 15 (0.72%) IBM
15 12 (0.58%) Cisco
15 12 (0.58%) ION Trading
16 11 (0.53%) Guidewire