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 16 April 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 11 9
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,960 1,587 2,180
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.32% 12.53% 12.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.20% 13.40% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,326 1,090 1,568
10th Percentile £306 £300 £294
25th Percentile £400 £395 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £634 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
England median daily rate £450 £475 £486
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.26% +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 32 31
10th Percentile £21.00 £22.27 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £25.67 £20.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 £29.07 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +26.39% -11.54%
75th Percentile £32.00 £39.47 £34.02
90th Percentile £62.00 £60.43 £44.75
England median hourly rate £19.34 £22.64 £16.30
% change year-on-year -14.56% +38.87% -16.41%

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 16,061 11,840 16,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 93.48% 93.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,718 8,107 12,065
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 144 342
10th Percentile £18.63 £21.22 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.66 £19.65
Median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% +25.85% -20.54%
75th Percentile £63.03 £50.75 £44.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.63 £64.95
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £34.53
% change year-on-year +38.46% -5.88% -21.17%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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 +2 311 £508 -2.87% 142
West London -10 41 £400 +12.28% 28
South London -1 36 £463 -2.63% 15
East London +5 20 £473 -5.03% 23
North London -5 1 £500 +13.64% 5
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 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.

1 456 (23.27%) Agile
2 422 (21.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 365 (18.62%) SQL
4 313 (15.97%) Business Analysis
5 303 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
6 278 (14.18%) User Stories
7 276 (14.08%) Requirements Gathering
8 251 (12.81%) Microsoft
9 242 (12.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 238 (12.14%) Security Cleared
11 237 (12.09%) Workshop Facilitation
12 236 (12.04%) Business Intelligence
13 230 (11.73%) User Acceptance Testing
14 216 (11.02%) Data Analysis
15 214 (10.92%) Power Platform
16 208 (10.61%) SC Cleared
17 207 (10.56%) Migration
18 201 (10.26%) Power BI
18 201 (10.26%) Validation
19 194 (9.90%) JIRA
19 194 (9.90%) Microsoft Excel
20 185 (9.44%) Decision-Making
21 184 (9.39%) Azure
22 179 (9.13%) Data Modelling
22 179 (9.13%) Data Quality
23 178 (9.08%) Analytics
24 167 (8.52%) Acceptance Criteria
25 144 (7.35%) Python
26 139 (7.09%) Continuous Improvement
27 127 (6.48%) Data Governance

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
1 112 (5.71%) Confluence
2 41 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.28%) CMS
4 11 (0.56%) SAS
5 7 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.20%) Apache
7 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.10%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.051%) Appian
9 1 (0.051%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.051%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.051%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.051%) WebSphere
Applications
1 194 (9.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 87 (4.44%) MS Visio
3 78 (3.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 56 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
5 30 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.15%) Notion
8 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.10%) Revit
9 1 (0.051%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.051%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 24 (1.22%) Loan IQ
2 21 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
3 18 (0.92%) Aladdin
3 18 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.82%) Endur
5 12 (0.61%) NetSuite
5 12 (0.61%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.36%) Actimize
6 7 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.31%) Fidessa
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
8 5 (0.26%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.20%) Findur
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.20%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
9 4 (0.20%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 214 (10.92%) Power Platform
2 184 (9.39%) Azure
3 107 (5.46%) AWS
4 73 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
5 45 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (2.30%) GCP
6 36 (1.84%) Snowflake
7 32 (1.63%) SaaS
8 26 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
8 26 (1.33%) Entra ID
9 20 (1.02%) Amazon S3
9 20 (1.02%) Google Workspace
10 18 (0.92%) Serverless
11 17 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
12 16 (0.82%) Lucidchart
12 16 (0.82%) Power Automate
13 15 (0.77%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 13 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
15 12 (0.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.82%) VPN
2 15 (0.77%) Firewall
3 13 (0.66%) DNS
3 13 (0.66%) Network Security
4 12 (0.61%) TCP/IP
5 10 (0.51%) DHCP
6 7 (0.36%) DMZ
6 7 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (0.31%) Broadband
7 6 (0.31%) FIX Connectivity
8 5 (0.26%) LAN
9 4 (0.20%) FTP
9 4 (0.20%) Internet
9 4 (0.20%) WAN
10 3 (0.15%) Softphone
10 3 (0.15%) VoIP
11 2 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
11 2 (0.10%) HTTP
11 2 (0.10%) NAS
11 2 (0.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (10.26%) Power BI
2 92 (4.69%) Tableau
3 51 (2.60%) Metadata
4 47 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (1.22%) BigQuery
6 18 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 17 (0.87%) SQL Server
8 14 (0.71%) Power Query
9 13 (0.66%) Looker
10 12 (0.61%) Amazon Athena
11 11 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
11 11 (0.56%) Big Data
12 10 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.41%) Data Lake
13 8 (0.41%) Qlik Sense
14 7 (0.36%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 6 (0.31%) KNIME
16 5 (0.26%) NoSQL
16 5 (0.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 194 (9.90%) JIRA
2 16 (0.82%) Postman
3 7 (0.36%) Selenium
4 6 (0.31%) MSI
5 4 (0.20%) Charles Proxy
5 4 (0.20%) Git
5 4 (0.20%) GitLab
5 4 (0.20%) TestRail
5 4 (0.20%) Toad
5 4 (0.20%) Zephyr
6 3 (0.15%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
6 3 (0.15%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.15%) Fiddler
6 3 (0.15%) JUnit
7 2 (0.10%) Appium
7 2 (0.10%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.10%) ERwin
7 2 (0.10%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.10%) PowerDesigner
General
1 751 (38.32%) Finance
2 651 (33.21%) Social Skills
3 423 (21.58%) Analytical Skills
4 273 (13.93%) Banking
5 148 (7.55%) Public Sector
6 93 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
7 90 (4.59%) Front Office
8 75 (3.83%) Investment Banking
9 65 (3.32%) Marketing
10 62 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
11 57 (2.91%) Legal
12 51 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (2.45%) Retail
14 38 (1.94%) Financial Institution
15 37 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 33 (1.68%) Back Office
17 31 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
18 24 (1.22%) Telecoms
19 23 (1.17%) Local Government
20 21 (1.07%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.12%) XML
2 19 (0.97%) Middleware
3 16 (0.82%) REST
4 12 (0.61%) ADO
4 12 (0.61%) Pandas
5 11 (0.56%) JSON
5 11 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
6 9 (0.46%) FIX Protocol
7 8 (0.41%) .NET
7 8 (0.41%) NumPy
8 7 (0.36%) Apache NiFi
8 7 (0.36%) VML
9 6 (0.31%) Kafka
9 6 (0.31%) SOAP
10 5 (0.26%) PySpark
11 4 (0.20%) HTML
11 4 (0.20%) Playwright
11 4 (0.20%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.20%) Web Services
12 3 (0.15%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 109 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 79 (4.03%) Onboarding
3 50 (2.55%) Derivative
4 42 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
4 42 (2.14%) Data Structures
5 40 (2.04%) Fixed Income
6 39 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 36 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 34 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
9 31 (1.58%) Management Information System
10 24 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
10 24 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.12%) Credit Risk
12 20 (1.02%) PMI
13 19 (0.97%) Hedge funds
14 18 (0.92%) Equities
15 14 (0.71%) Market Risk
16 13 (0.66%) Reinsurance
16 13 (0.66%) Security Operations Centre
16 13 (0.66%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 83 (4.23%) Windows
2 23 (1.17%) Windows 10
3 19 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 18 (0.92%) Android
5 17 (0.87%) Unix
6 14 (0.71%) Linux
7 11 (0.56%) Windows Server
8 10 (0.51%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.051%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.051%) VMS
9 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 456 (23.27%) Agile
2 422 (21.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 313 (15.97%) Business Analysis
4 303 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
5 278 (14.18%) User Stories
6 276 (14.08%) Requirements Gathering
7 242 (12.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 237 (12.09%) Workshop Facilitation
9 236 (12.04%) Business Intelligence
10 230 (11.73%) User Acceptance Testing
11 216 (11.02%) Data Analysis
12 207 (10.56%) Migration
13 201 (10.26%) Validation
14 185 (9.44%) Decision-Making
15 179 (9.13%) Data Modelling
16 178 (9.08%) Analytics
17 167 (8.52%) Acceptance Criteria
18 139 (7.09%) Continuous Improvement
19 127 (6.48%) Data Governance
20 124 (6.33%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 365 (18.62%) SQL
2 144 (7.35%) Python
3 24 (1.22%) PowerShell
4 21 (1.07%) R
5 20 (1.02%) Java
6 17 (0.87%) VBA
7 15 (0.77%) JavaScript
8 13 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
9 12 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 10 (0.51%) C#
11 8 (0.41%) Korn
12 7 (0.36%) Bash
13 5 (0.26%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.20%) C++
14 4 (0.20%) Groovy
15 3 (0.15%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.10%) Perl
16 2 (0.10%) PHP
16 2 (0.10%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 238 (12.14%) Security Cleared
2 208 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 121 (6.17%) Degree
4 42 (2.14%) CBAP
5 29 (1.48%) IIBA
6 27 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 26 (1.33%) PMI Certification
8 16 (0.82%) CISSP
9 14 (0.71%) DV Cleared
10 12 (0.61%) CompTIA Security+
11 11 (0.56%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.51%) CISM
12 10 (0.51%) ISEB
12 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
13 9 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
13 9 (0.46%) CSPO
13 9 (0.46%) PMP
14 8 (0.41%) CISA
14 8 (0.41%) CRISC
14 8 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (9.13%) Data Quality
2 121 (6.17%) QA
3 52 (2.65%) PMO
4 46 (2.35%) GDPR
5 39 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.53%) NIST
7 25 (1.28%) GRC
8 23 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
9 22 (1.12%) SLA
10 20 (1.02%) IFRS
11 19 (0.97%) Accessibility
12 18 (0.92%) EMIR
13 16 (0.82%) GAAP
13 16 (0.82%) MiFID
14 13 (0.66%) ISO 20022
14 13 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 10 (0.51%) COBIT
16 9 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 8 (0.41%) PSD2
18 6 (0.31%) ITGC
System Software
1 42 (2.14%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.15%) Docker
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.051%) RACF
6 1 (0.051%) Snort
6 1 (0.051%) Squid
6 1 (0.051%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.051%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.051%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.051%) vSphere
6 1 (0.051%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (0.61%) SCCM
3 6 (0.31%) Kubernetes
4 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
4 5 (0.26%) WSUS
5 4 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.15%) Control-M
6 3 (0.15%) Nessus
6 3 (0.15%) Terraform
7 2 (0.10%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.051%) CASB
8 1 (0.051%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.051%) Grafana
8 1 (0.051%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.051%) Kibana
8 1 (0.051%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.051%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.051%) Suricata
8 1 (0.051%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.051%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 251 (12.81%) Microsoft
2 111 (5.66%) Salesforce
3 82 (4.18%) SAP
4 79 (4.03%) Oracle
5 75 (3.83%) ServiceNow
6 44 (2.24%) Databricks
7 36 (1.84%) Google
8 34 (1.73%) Splunk
9 33 (1.68%) Workday
10 30 (1.53%) Bloomberg
11 28 (1.43%) Murex
12 21 (1.07%) Adobe
13 17 (0.87%) CrowdStrike
14 14 (0.71%) Qualys
14 14 (0.71%) Reuters
15 13 (0.66%) Citrix
15 13 (0.66%) ION Trading
16 11 (0.56%) Avaloq
16 11 (0.56%) Charles River
16 11 (0.56%) Guidewire