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 17 March 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,881 1,612 2,291
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.48% 12.52% 12.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.41% 13.36% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,285 1,120 1,645
10th Percentile £313 £287 £281
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 34 27
10th Percentile £21.00 £22.27 £18.97
25th Percentile £22.30 £26.06 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.47 £29.94 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.92% +33.06% -10.00%
75th Percentile £32.59 £47.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £49.13 £79.03 £48.25
England median hourly rate £17.87 £24.62 £16.30
% change year-on-year -27.42% +51.06% -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 15,163 12,064 16,981
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 93.69% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,171 8,131 12,273
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £449
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 £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 144 335
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.06 £15.97
25th Percentile £22.21 £24.66 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.45 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +24.37% -18.57%
75th Percentile £61.25 £53.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.13 £64.81
England median hourly rate £37.44 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +6.97% +7.69% -23.53%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 0 294 £500 -4.76% 119
South London -9 31 £463 -2.63% 8
West London -16 28 £438 +22.81% 28
East London +3 18 £495 - 15
North London -5 2 £500 +3.90% 6
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 March 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.

1 463 (24.61%) Agile
2 425 (22.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 363 (19.30%) SQL
4 310 (16.48%) Business Analysis
5 300 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
6 272 (14.46%) Requirements Gathering
7 265 (14.09%) User Stories
8 254 (13.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 248 (13.18%) Microsoft
10 246 (13.08%) Security Cleared
11 228 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
12 227 (12.07%) Workshop Facilitation
13 217 (11.54%) SC Cleared
14 216 (11.48%) User Acceptance Testing
15 214 (11.38%) Power Platform
16 210 (11.16%) Data Analysis
17 206 (10.95%) Migration
18 200 (10.63%) Power BI
19 199 (10.58%) JIRA
20 196 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
21 188 (9.99%) Decision-Making
22 181 (9.62%) Azure
23 179 (9.52%) Validation
24 177 (9.41%) Analytics
25 175 (9.30%) Data Quality
26 162 (8.61%) Data Modelling
27 159 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
28 156 (8.29%) Acceptance Criteria
29 136 (7.23%) Python
30 128 (6.80%) Degree

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
1 115 (6.11%) Confluence
2 40 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 17 (0.90%) CMS
4 9 (0.48%) SAS
5 8 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 3 (0.16%) Apache
6 3 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.053%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.053%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.053%) Kentico
8 1 (0.053%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.053%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.053%) WebLogic
Applications
1 196 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (4.36%) MS Visio
3 80 (4.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
5 30 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.21%) Notion
8 2 (0.11%) Adobe Premiere
8 2 (0.11%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.053%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.053%) Sketch
9 1 (0.053%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (1.17%) Loan IQ
2 21 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
3 19 (1.01%) Endur
4 18 (0.96%) Aladdin
5 17 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
6 11 (0.58%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.48%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.37%) Actimize
8 7 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.37%) SAP HR
9 6 (0.32%) Fidessa
9 6 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
10 5 (0.27%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 5 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.21%) ION MarketView
11 4 (0.21%) SAP CO
11 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 214 (11.38%) Power Platform
2 181 (9.62%) Azure
3 106 (5.64%) AWS
4 71 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
6 44 (2.34%) GCP
7 38 (2.02%) Snowflake
8 32 (1.70%) SaaS
9 31 (1.65%) Entra ID
10 22 (1.17%) Azure Sentinel
11 21 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (1.01%) Power Automate
13 16 (0.85%) Amazon S3
14 15 (0.80%) Google Workspace
15 14 (0.74%) Serverless
16 13 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
17 12 (0.64%) Lucidchart
17 12 (0.64%) PowerApps
18 11 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
19 10 (0.53%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 14 (0.74%) Firewall
1 14 (0.74%) VPN
2 13 (0.69%) DNS
2 13 (0.69%) Network Security
3 10 (0.53%) DHCP
4 9 (0.48%) TCP/IP
5 7 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
6 6 (0.32%) Broadband
6 6 (0.32%) FIX Connectivity
6 6 (0.32%) LAN
7 5 (0.27%) DMZ
7 5 (0.27%) WAN
8 4 (0.21%) FTP
8 4 (0.21%) Internet
9 3 (0.16%) Softphone
9 3 (0.16%) VoIP
10 2 (0.11%) Cisco IPT
10 2 (0.11%) NAS
10 2 (0.11%) SSL
10 2 (0.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 200 (10.63%) Power BI
2 92 (4.89%) Tableau
3 47 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (2.18%) Metadata
5 26 (1.38%) BigQuery
6 19 (1.01%) SQL Server
7 17 (0.90%) Relational Database
8 14 (0.74%) Looker
8 14 (0.74%) Power Query
9 12 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (0.53%) Big Data
10 10 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.43%) KNIME
12 7 (0.37%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.37%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 6 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.32%) Snowflake Schema
14 5 (0.27%) NoSQL
14 5 (0.27%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 199 (10.58%) JIRA
2 10 (0.53%) Postman
3 7 (0.37%) Selenium
4 6 (0.32%) MSI
5 5 (0.27%) Git
5 5 (0.27%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.21%) Charles Proxy
6 4 (0.21%) TestRail
6 4 (0.21%) Toad
7 3 (0.16%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.16%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.16%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.16%) GitLab
7 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (0.16%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.11%) ERwin
8 2 (0.11%) JUnit
8 2 (0.11%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 705 (37.48%) Finance
2 645 (34.29%) Social Skills
3 420 (22.33%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (14.41%) Banking
5 152 (8.08%) Public Sector
6 85 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
7 80 (4.25%) Front Office
8 74 (3.93%) Investment Banking
9 61 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
10 54 (2.87%) Legal
11 50 (2.66%) Marketing
12 48 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
13 41 (2.18%) Retail
14 36 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (1.86%) Financial Institution
16 32 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 30 (1.59%) Back Office
18 28 (1.49%) Telecoms
19 22 (1.17%) Local Government
20 21 (1.12%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (1.38%) XML
2 23 (1.22%) REST
3 13 (0.69%) Middleware
4 12 (0.64%) ADO
4 12 (0.64%) SOAP
5 11 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
5 11 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
6 10 (0.53%) JSON
7 8 (0.43%) .NET
7 8 (0.43%) Pandas
8 7 (0.37%) Apache NiFi
9 6 (0.32%) Web Services
10 5 (0.27%) HTML
10 5 (0.27%) Kafka
10 5 (0.27%) NumPy
10 5 (0.27%) Playwright
11 4 (0.21%) OAuth
11 4 (0.21%) VML
12 3 (0.16%) CSS
12 3 (0.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 99 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 77 (4.09%) Onboarding
3 41 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
3 41 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
3 41 (2.18%) Derivative
4 38 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 37 (1.97%) Data Structures
6 32 (1.70%) Fixed Income
6 32 (1.70%) Management Information System
7 30 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
8 25 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
8 25 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.12%) PMI
10 20 (1.06%) Credit Risk
11 18 (0.96%) Equities
11 18 (0.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 17 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
13 16 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
14 15 (0.80%) CMDB
14 15 (0.80%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 78 (4.15%) Windows
2 24 (1.28%) Windows 10
3 20 (1.06%) Linux
4 18 (0.96%) Apple iOS
4 18 (0.96%) Unix
5 17 (0.90%) Android
6 11 (0.58%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.48%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.053%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.053%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.053%) VMS
8 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (24.61%) Agile
2 425 (22.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 310 (16.48%) Business Analysis
4 300 (15.95%) Problem-Solving
5 272 (14.46%) Requirements Gathering
6 265 (14.09%) User Stories
7 254 (13.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 228 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
9 227 (12.07%) Workshop Facilitation
10 216 (11.48%) User Acceptance Testing
11 210 (11.16%) Data Analysis
12 206 (10.95%) Migration
13 188 (9.99%) Decision-Making
14 179 (9.52%) Validation
15 177 (9.41%) Analytics
16 162 (8.61%) Data Modelling
17 159 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
18 156 (8.29%) Acceptance Criteria
19 121 (6.43%) Process Improvement
20 119 (6.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 363 (19.30%) SQL
2 136 (7.23%) Python
3 22 (1.17%) Java
3 22 (1.17%) PowerShell
3 22 (1.17%) R
4 18 (0.96%) JavaScript
5 16 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
6 14 (0.74%) VBA
7 12 (0.64%) C#
8 10 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (0.43%) Bash
10 7 (0.37%) Korn
11 5 (0.27%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.21%) C++
12 4 (0.21%) Groovy
13 2 (0.11%) Google Apps Script
13 2 (0.11%) Perl
13 2 (0.11%) PHP
13 2 (0.11%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 246 (13.08%) Security Cleared
2 217 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 128 (6.80%) Degree
4 46 (2.45%) CBAP
5 29 (1.54%) PMI Certification
6 27 (1.44%) IIBA
7 26 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (0.74%) CISSP
8 14 (0.74%) ISEB
9 12 (0.64%) CISM
9 12 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 12 (0.64%) PMP
10 11 (0.58%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.58%) ISTQB
11 10 (0.53%) CompTIA Security+
12 8 (0.43%) CFA
12 8 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
14 6 (0.32%) CSPO
15 5 (0.27%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 175 (9.30%) Data Quality
2 118 (6.27%) QA
3 48 (2.55%) PMO
4 43 (2.29%) GDPR
5 42 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (1.81%) GRC
6 34 (1.81%) NIST
7 27 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
8 20 (1.06%) Accessibility
9 19 (1.01%) EMIR
10 18 (0.96%) MiFID
11 16 (0.85%) SLA
12 14 (0.74%) IFRS
13 13 (0.69%) ISO 20022
13 13 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.53%) GAAP
15 9 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 7 (0.37%) COBIT
16 7 (0.37%) PSD2
16 7 (0.37%) SEPA
System Software
1 43 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.16%) Docker
4 3 (0.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.11%) Snort
5 2 (0.11%) Squid
6 1 (0.053%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.053%) RACF
6 1 (0.053%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.053%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.053%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.053%) vSphere
6 1 (0.053%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 19 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (0.48%) SCCM
3 6 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.21%) Control-M
4 4 (0.21%) HP ALM
4 4 (0.21%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.21%) Nessus
5 3 (0.16%) Ansible
6 2 (0.11%) Nexpose
6 2 (0.11%) Suricata
6 2 (0.11%) Terraform
6 2 (0.11%) WSUS
7 1 (0.053%) BladeLogic
7 1 (0.053%) CASB
7 1 (0.053%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.053%) Grafana
7 1 (0.053%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.053%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.053%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 248 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 93 (4.94%) Salesforce
3 82 (4.36%) Oracle
4 80 (4.25%) SAP
5 72 (3.83%) ServiceNow
6 45 (2.39%) Splunk
7 35 (1.86%) Google
8 34 (1.81%) Workday
9 33 (1.75%) Databricks
10 30 (1.59%) Murex
11 29 (1.54%) Bloomberg
12 24 (1.28%) Adobe
13 17 (0.90%) CrowdStrike
14 16 (0.85%) Qualys
15 12 (0.64%) Carbon Black
15 12 (0.64%) Zscaler
16 11 (0.58%) Charles River
16 11 (0.58%) Guidewire
16 11 (0.58%) Informatica
16 11 (0.58%) Reuters