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 25 July 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 2,058 1,873 2,016
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.31% 13.79% 12.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.08% 14.82% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 1,238 1,459
10th Percentile £289 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -4.03%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £750 £725
England median daily rate £460 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 38 38
10th Percentile £24.75 £22.50 £20.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £23.00 £21.44
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.67 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.68% -29.20% +43.56%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.66 £58.75
90th Percentile £64.75 £58.85 £85.13
England median hourly rate £25.00 £22.14 £17.50
% change year-on-year +12.92% +26.51% -8.82%

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 18,568 12,640 15,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 93.08% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,148 8,550 11,176
10th Percentile £363 £331 £339
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 332 198 243
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.75 £22.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -9.09% -15.84%
75th Percentile £59.18 £49.94 £52.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £43.00
% change year-on-year +70.13% -38.49% -2.39%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -7 309 £500 - 90
West London +7 61 £388 -7.74% 27
South London +14 36 £463 +105.56% 9
East London +2 8 £375 -25.00% 23
North London -1 5 £400 -14.44% 9
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 July 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.

1 482 (23.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 463 (22.50%) Agile
3 392 (19.05%) SQL
4 346 (16.81%) Business Analysis
5 304 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
6 302 (14.67%) User Stories
7 290 (14.09%) User Acceptance Testing
8 286 (13.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 284 (13.80%) Requirements Gathering
10 277 (13.46%) Microsoft
11 268 (13.02%) Business Intelligence
12 261 (12.68%) Data Analysis
13 252 (12.24%) Validation
14 241 (11.71%) Power Platform
15 231 (11.22%) Workshop Facilitation
16 230 (11.18%) Power BI
17 224 (10.88%) Analytics
18 216 (10.50%) Azure
19 207 (10.06%) Data Quality
20 204 (9.91%) Acceptance Criteria
21 201 (9.77%) Data Modelling
22 200 (9.72%) Decision-Making
23 199 (9.67%) JIRA
24 198 (9.62%) Migration
25 193 (9.38%) Security Cleared
26 176 (8.55%) AI
27 175 (8.50%) Microsoft Excel
28 161 (7.82%) Python
29 155 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
29 155 (7.53%) SC Cleared

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 (4.66%) Confluence
2 52 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.90%) CMS
4 6 (0.29%) Apache
4 6 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (0.29%) SAS
5 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.15%) Kentico
7 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.097%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.097%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.097%) WordPress
9 1 (0.049%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.049%) Appian
9 1 (0.049%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.049%) JBoss
9 1 (0.049%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 175 (8.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (3.30%) MS Visio
3 48 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
5 20 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.39%) Revit
9 4 (0.19%) Notion
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.049%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.049%) SPSS
10 1 (0.049%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.87%) Workday HCM
3 15 (0.73%) Aladdin
4 12 (0.58%) Loan IQ
5 11 (0.53%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.44%) Actimize
6 9 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.39%) Endur
7 8 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.34%) iTrent
8 7 (0.34%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.29%) HFM
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.29%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.24%) Findur
10 5 (0.24%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 241 (11.71%) Power Platform
2 216 (10.50%) Azure
3 111 (5.39%) AWS
4 80 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
5 54 (2.62%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (2.38%) SaaS
7 48 (2.33%) Snowflake
8 45 (2.19%) Entra ID
9 42 (2.04%) GCP
10 32 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
11 24 (1.17%) Microsoft Purview
12 20 (0.97%) SuccessFactors
13 19 (0.92%) OneDrive
13 19 (0.92%) Power Automate
14 16 (0.78%) Google Workspace
15 15 (0.73%) Amazon S3
16 14 (0.68%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (0.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 14 (0.68%) Serverless
17 13 (0.63%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 20 (0.97%) TCP/IP
2 18 (0.87%) VPN
3 14 (0.68%) Firewall
4 13 (0.63%) DNS
5 12 (0.58%) Network Security
6 11 (0.53%) DHCP
7 7 (0.34%) VoIP
7 7 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.29%) Wireless
9 5 (0.24%) DMZ
10 4 (0.19%) Internet
10 4 (0.19%) Intranet
11 3 (0.15%) HTTP
11 3 (0.15%) IP Telephony
11 3 (0.15%) WAN
11 3 (0.15%) WinSCP
12 2 (0.097%) FTP
12 2 (0.097%) VLAN
12 2 (0.097%) Wireless Security
12 2 (0.097%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 230 (11.18%) Power BI
2 92 (4.47%) Tableau
3 62 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (2.67%) Metadata
5 35 (1.70%) Relational Database
6 19 (0.92%) BigQuery
6 19 (0.92%) Looker
7 18 (0.87%) Data Lake
8 17 (0.83%) Power Query
9 11 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
9 11 (0.53%) SQL Server
10 10 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
11 9 (0.44%) Big Data
12 7 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
13 6 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
13 6 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (0.24%) Data Hub
14 5 (0.24%) MongoDB
15 4 (0.19%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 199 (9.67%) JIRA
2 24 (1.17%) Postman
3 10 (0.49%) Selenium
4 8 (0.39%) Git
4 8 (0.39%) Jenkins
5 6 (0.29%) Zephyr
6 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.24%) Cypress.io
6 5 (0.24%) GitLab
6 5 (0.24%) TestRail
7 4 (0.19%) Appium
7 4 (0.19%) JUnit
8 3 (0.15%) Gemini Tracker
8 3 (0.15%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.097%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.097%) Snyk
9 2 (0.097%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.097%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.097%) Toad
General
1 836 (40.62%) Finance
2 641 (31.15%) Social Skills
3 475 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 289 (14.04%) Banking
5 135 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 110 (5.34%) Front Office
7 96 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
8 89 (4.32%) Marketing
9 84 (4.08%) Retail
10 81 (3.94%) Legal
11 78 (3.79%) Investment Banking
12 54 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
13 48 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
14 47 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 39 (1.90%) Financial Institution
16 35 (1.70%) Back Office
17 32 (1.55%) Local Government
18 20 (0.97%) Manufacturing
19 19 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
19 19 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
2 26 (1.26%) JSON
3 20 (0.97%) XML
4 15 (0.73%) Pandas
5 14 (0.68%) Middleware
6 12 (0.58%) Kafka
7 10 (0.49%) ADO
7 10 (0.49%) REST
7 10 (0.49%) SailPoint
8 8 (0.39%) .NET
8 8 (0.39%) NumPy
9 7 (0.34%) YAML
10 6 (0.29%) SOAP
11 5 (0.24%) Playwright
12 4 (0.19%) Microsoft Graph
12 4 (0.19%) PySpark
12 4 (0.19%) VML
13 3 (0.15%) FIX Protocol
13 3 (0.15%) LAMP
13 3 (0.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 127 (6.17%) Product Ownership
2 99 (4.81%) Onboarding
3 63 (3.06%) Derivative
4 50 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 44 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (2.09%) Management Information System
7 42 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 42 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 41 (1.99%) Fixed Income
9 40 (1.94%) Data Structures
10 27 (1.31%) Hedge funds
11 24 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
12 22 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (0.97%) Credit Risk
13 20 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
14 19 (0.92%) Market Risk
15 18 (0.87%) Reference Data
15 18 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
16 17 (0.83%) CMDB
17 16 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 77 (3.74%) Windows
2 17 (0.83%) Android
2 17 (0.83%) Linux
2 17 (0.83%) Mac OS
3 15 (0.73%) Apple iOS
4 14 (0.68%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.39%) Unix
6 7 (0.34%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.049%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (23.42%) Stakeholder Management
2 463 (22.50%) Agile
3 346 (16.81%) Business Analysis
4 304 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
5 302 (14.67%) User Stories
6 290 (14.09%) User Acceptance Testing
7 286 (13.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 284 (13.80%) Requirements Gathering
9 268 (13.02%) Business Intelligence
10 261 (12.68%) Data Analysis
11 252 (12.24%) Validation
12 231 (11.22%) Workshop Facilitation
13 224 (10.88%) Analytics
14 204 (9.91%) Acceptance Criteria
15 201 (9.77%) Data Modelling
16 200 (9.72%) Decision-Making
17 198 (9.62%) Migration
18 176 (8.55%) AI
19 155 (7.53%) Continuous Improvement
20 151 (7.34%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 392 (19.05%) SQL
2 161 (7.82%) Python
3 29 (1.41%) Java
4 25 (1.21%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.07%) R
6 19 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 16 (0.78%) VBA
8 12 (0.58%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.44%) Korn
10 7 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (0.34%) Scala
11 6 (0.29%) C#
11 6 (0.29%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.24%) C
13 4 (0.19%) C++
13 4 (0.19%) Groovy
13 4 (0.19%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.15%) Bash
14 3 (0.15%) JavaScript
14 3 (0.15%) Perl
Qualifications
1 193 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 155 (7.53%) SC Cleared
3 135 (6.56%) Degree
4 28 (1.36%) CISSP
4 28 (1.36%) DV Cleared
5 20 (0.97%) PMI Certification
6 16 (0.78%) CBAP
6 16 (0.78%) IIBA
7 15 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (0.73%) CompTIA Security+
8 13 (0.63%) CompTIA CySA+
8 13 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.58%) PMP
10 11 (0.53%) ACCA
10 11 (0.53%) CIMA
10 11 (0.53%) CISM
11 10 (0.49%) GIAC
12 9 (0.44%) CEH
12 9 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.39%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (10.06%) Data Quality
2 103 (5.00%) QA
3 62 (3.01%) PMO
4 53 (2.58%) NIST
5 46 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (2.09%) GDPR
7 29 (1.41%) SLA
8 22 (1.07%) GRC
9 19 (0.92%) IFRS
10 16 (0.78%) Accessibility
10 16 (0.78%) COBIT
10 16 (0.78%) EMIR
10 16 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 15 (0.73%) ISO 20022
12 14 (0.68%) MiFID
13 13 (0.63%) GAAP
14 9 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.39%) SEPA
16 7 (0.34%) PSD2
16 7 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (2.48%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (0.19%) Docker
5 3 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.049%) RACF
6 1 (0.049%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.049%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.049%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.049%) vSphere
6 1 (0.049%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (0.68%) SCCM
3 13 (0.63%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.29%) WSUS
5 5 (0.24%) Terraform
6 3 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.15%) Nessus
6 3 (0.15%) QRadar
6 3 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.097%) Control-M
7 2 (0.097%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.097%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.097%) Nexpose
7 2 (0.097%) Puppet
8 1 (0.049%) CASB
8 1 (0.049%) Grafana
8 1 (0.049%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.049%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.049%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.049%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 277 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 113 (5.49%) Salesforce
2 113 (5.49%) SAP
3 93 (4.52%) Oracle
4 89 (4.32%) ServiceNow
5 70 (3.40%) Databricks
6 41 (1.99%) Google
7 38 (1.85%) Workday
8 32 (1.55%) Bloomberg
9 30 (1.46%) Murex
10 20 (0.97%) Citrix
10 20 (0.97%) Splunk
11 19 (0.92%) CrowdStrike
12 18 (0.87%) Adobe
13 17 (0.83%) Alteryx
14 16 (0.78%) CyberArk
15 15 (0.73%) ION Trading
16 14 (0.68%) Reuters
17 11 (0.53%) Guidewire
17 11 (0.53%) MuleSoft