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 30 April 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -6 0 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,978 1,590 2,149
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.18% 12.67% 12.04%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.04% 13.55% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,319 1,090 1,536
10th Percentile £300 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £600 £630 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
England median daily rate £450 £475 £482
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.40% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 25 31
10th Percentile £21.00 £22.27 -
25th Percentile £24.31 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £28.80 £29.07 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +26.39% -8.00%
75th Percentile £37.00 £39.00 £36.39
90th Percentile £64.63 £59.45 £44.75
England median hourly rate £20.71 £22.14 £16.30
% change year-on-year -6.48% +35.83% -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 16,422 11,735 16,636
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.81% 93.50% 93.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,940 8,042 12,035
10th Percentile £350 £343 £325
25th Percentile £425 £431 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £755 £800 £799
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 146 337
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.05 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.83 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.68% +26.64% -21.43%
75th Percentile £63.16 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.38 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £31.64 £35.96
% change year-on-year +48.55% -12.01% -20.09%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 +2 320 £500 -3.85% 66
West London -6 46 £400 +2.04% 33
South London +1 38 £463 -2.63% 16
East London +4 20 £473 -4.55% 19
North London -5 2 £339 -31.57% 3
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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.

1 453 (22.90%) Agile
2 403 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 365 (18.45%) SQL
4 312 (15.77%) Business Analysis
5 304 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
6 281 (14.21%) User Stories
7 263 (13.30%) Requirements Gathering
8 243 (12.29%) Microsoft
9 241 (12.18%) Business Intelligence
10 235 (11.88%) User Acceptance Testing
11 233 (11.78%) Workshop Facilitation
12 231 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 227 (11.48%) Security Cleared
14 217 (10.97%) Data Analysis
14 217 (10.97%) Power Platform
15 213 (10.77%) Validation
16 208 (10.52%) Migration
17 204 (10.31%) Power BI
18 199 (10.06%) JIRA
19 196 (9.91%) Microsoft Excel
19 196 (9.91%) SC Cleared
20 188 (9.50%) Data Quality
21 186 (9.40%) Decision-Making
22 185 (9.35%) Azure
23 184 (9.30%) Data Modelling
24 179 (9.05%) Analytics
25 173 (8.75%) Acceptance Criteria
26 147 (7.43%) Python
27 136 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
28 130 (6.57%) 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
1 110 (5.56%) Confluence
2 38 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.16%) CMS
4 11 (0.56%) SAS
5 7 (0.35%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.20%) Apache
6 4 (0.20%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
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%) WebSphere
Applications
1 196 (9.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 82 (4.15%) MS Visio
3 75 (3.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 54 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
5 28 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.25%) Notion
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.10%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.10%) Revit
10 1 (0.051%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.051%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 25 (1.26%) Loan IQ
1 25 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.01%) Aladdin
2 20 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.81%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.61%) Workday HCM
5 11 (0.56%) Endur
6 8 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 7 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (0.35%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.30%) Actimize
8 6 (0.30%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.25%) Integrated Workplace Management System
9 5 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.25%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.20%) Findur
10 4 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 217 (10.97%) Power Platform
2 185 (9.35%) Azure
3 104 (5.26%) AWS
4 69 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (2.07%) GCP
7 37 (1.87%) Snowflake
8 34 (1.72%) SaaS
9 30 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (1.11%) Entra ID
11 20 (1.01%) Google Workspace
12 16 (0.81%) Amazon S3
13 15 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
13 15 (0.76%) Lucidchart
13 15 (0.76%) Power Automate
13 15 (0.76%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 15 (0.76%) Serverless
14 14 (0.71%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
15 12 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 15 (0.76%) VPN
2 14 (0.71%) Firewall
3 12 (0.61%) Network Security
3 12 (0.61%) TCP/IP
4 11 (0.56%) DNS
5 10 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
6 9 (0.46%) DHCP
7 8 (0.40%) DMZ
8 6 (0.30%) Broadband
8 6 (0.30%) FIX Connectivity
9 4 (0.20%) FTP
9 4 (0.20%) Internet
9 4 (0.20%) LAN
9 4 (0.20%) Wireless
10 3 (0.15%) VoIP
10 3 (0.15%) WAN
11 2 (0.10%) 802.11
11 2 (0.10%) Cisco IPT
11 2 (0.10%) Wireless Security
11 2 (0.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 204 (10.31%) Power BI
2 88 (4.45%) Tableau
3 52 (2.63%) Metadata
4 44 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 19 (0.96%) BigQuery
7 17 (0.86%) SQL Server
8 15 (0.76%) Looker
8 15 (0.76%) Power Query
9 12 (0.61%) Big Data
10 11 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (0.56%) Qlik Sense
11 10 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (0.46%) Data Lake
13 8 (0.40%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
14 7 (0.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 6 (0.30%) KNIME
16 5 (0.25%) NoSQL
16 5 (0.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 199 (10.06%) JIRA
2 14 (0.71%) Postman
3 8 (0.40%) Selenium
4 6 (0.30%) MSI
5 5 (0.25%) Git
5 5 (0.25%) Zephyr
6 4 (0.20%) GitLab
6 4 (0.20%) JUnit
6 4 (0.20%) TestRail
7 3 (0.15%) Appium
7 3 (0.15%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.15%) Charles Proxy
7 3 (0.15%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.15%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.15%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.15%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.15%) Toad
8 2 (0.10%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.051%) Oracle Forms
General
1 765 (38.68%) Finance
2 648 (32.76%) Social Skills
3 426 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
4 274 (13.85%) Banking
5 141 (7.13%) Public Sector
6 96 (4.85%) Front Office
7 94 (4.75%) Documentation Skills
8 76 (3.84%) Investment Banking
9 68 (3.44%) Marketing
10 60 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
11 58 (2.93%) Legal
12 53 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
13 52 (2.63%) Retail
14 41 (2.07%) Financial Institution
15 36 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 30 (1.52%) Back Office
16 30 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
17 27 (1.37%) Local Government
18 24 (1.21%) Telecoms
19 22 (1.11%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.01%) Middleware
1 20 (1.01%) XML
2 16 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (0.71%) REST
4 13 (0.66%) Pandas
5 11 (0.56%) ADO
6 10 (0.51%) JSON
7 9 (0.46%) FIX Protocol
7 9 (0.46%) NumPy
8 8 (0.40%) .NET
8 8 (0.40%) Kafka
8 8 (0.40%) VML
9 7 (0.35%) SOAP
10 6 (0.30%) 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
12 3 (0.15%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 112 (5.66%) Product Ownership
2 78 (3.94%) Onboarding
3 54 (2.73%) Derivative
4 45 (2.28%) Data Structures
5 43 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 40 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 40 (2.02%) Fixed Income
7 35 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 35 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 32 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 24 (1.21%) Credit Risk
10 23 (1.16%) Hedge funds
10 23 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
12 17 (0.86%) Equities
12 17 (0.86%) PMI
13 16 (0.81%) Market Risk
14 14 (0.71%) Security Posture
15 13 (0.66%) CMDB
15 13 (0.66%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 73 (3.69%) Windows
2 21 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 20 (1.01%) Android
3 20 (1.01%) Windows 10
4 15 (0.76%) Unix
5 13 (0.66%) Linux
6 11 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.051%) VMS
8 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 453 (22.90%) Agile
2 403 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 312 (15.77%) Business Analysis
4 304 (15.37%) Problem-Solving
5 281 (14.21%) User Stories
6 263 (13.30%) Requirements Gathering
7 241 (12.18%) Business Intelligence
8 235 (11.88%) User Acceptance Testing
9 233 (11.78%) Workshop Facilitation
10 231 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 217 (10.97%) Data Analysis
12 213 (10.77%) Validation
13 208 (10.52%) Migration
14 186 (9.40%) Decision-Making
15 184 (9.30%) Data Modelling
16 179 (9.05%) Analytics
17 173 (8.75%) Acceptance Criteria
18 136 (6.88%) Continuous Improvement
19 130 (6.57%) Data Governance
20 124 (6.27%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 365 (18.45%) SQL
2 147 (7.43%) Python
3 24 (1.21%) R
4 21 (1.06%) PowerShell
5 20 (1.01%) Java
6 17 (0.86%) VBA
7 15 (0.76%) JavaScript
8 13 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (0.51%) C#
9 10 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
10 9 (0.46%) Korn
11 6 (0.30%) Bash
12 5 (0.25%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.20%) C++
13 4 (0.20%) Groovy
14 3 (0.15%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.10%) Perl
15 2 (0.10%) PHP
15 2 (0.10%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 227 (11.48%) Security Cleared
2 196 (9.91%) SC Cleared
3 122 (6.17%) Degree
4 40 (2.02%) CBAP
5 28 (1.42%) IIBA
6 25 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 24 (1.21%) PMI Certification
8 15 (0.76%) CISSP
9 13 (0.66%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.56%) ISTQB
11 10 (0.51%) CISM
11 10 (0.51%) CSPO
11 10 (0.51%) PMP
12 9 (0.46%) CompTIA Security+
12 9 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (0.40%) CISA
13 8 (0.40%) CRISC
13 8 (0.40%) ISEB
14 7 (0.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (9.50%) Data Quality
2 127 (6.42%) QA
3 52 (2.63%) PMO
4 46 (2.33%) GDPR
5 35 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 30 (1.52%) NIST
7 23 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
7 23 (1.16%) GRC
8 22 (1.11%) IFRS
8 22 (1.11%) SLA
9 20 (1.01%) EMIR
10 18 (0.91%) Accessibility
11 16 (0.81%) GAAP
12 14 (0.71%) MiFID
13 13 (0.66%) COBIT
13 13 (0.66%) ISO 20022
13 13 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.46%) PSD2
15 6 (0.30%) ITGC
System Software
1 39 (1.97%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
3 5 (0.25%) 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 17 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (0.61%) SCCM
3 6 (0.30%) Kubernetes
3 6 (0.30%) WSUS
4 5 (0.25%) HP ALM
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%) Grafana
8 1 (0.051%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.051%) Kibana
8 1 (0.051%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.051%) Nexpose
8 1 (0.051%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.051%) Suricata
8 1 (0.051%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.051%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 243 (12.29%) Microsoft
2 119 (6.02%) Salesforce
3 93 (4.70%) SAP
4 80 (4.04%) Oracle
5 77 (3.89%) ServiceNow
6 46 (2.33%) Databricks
7 35 (1.77%) Google
8 34 (1.72%) Workday
9 32 (1.62%) Splunk
10 31 (1.57%) Bloomberg
11 29 (1.47%) Murex
12 19 (0.96%) Adobe
13 16 (0.81%) CrowdStrike
14 15 (0.76%) Reuters
15 14 (0.71%) Citrix
15 14 (0.71%) Qualys
16 13 (0.66%) Charles River
16 13 (0.66%) ION Trading
17 11 (0.56%) Guidewire
17 11 (0.56%) Zscaler