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 6 June 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 10 10
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,916 1,604 2,103
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.32% 13.21% 12.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.10% 14.13% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,243 1,062 1,514
10th Percentile £290 £306 £310
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -3.13% -0.95%
75th Percentile £598 £638 £625
90th Percentile £705 £750 £711
England median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 35 34
10th Percentile £19.37 £22.27 £20.50
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.00 £20.69
Median hourly rate £28.80 £26.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.66% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £37.00 £33.58 £52.31
90th Percentile £64.88 £40.67 £75.88
England median hourly rate £22.50 £22.14 £16.30
% change year-on-year +1.63% +35.83% -14.21%

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 17,264 11,355 16,403
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 93.54% 93.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,404 7,682 11,823
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £434 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £762 £800 £800
England median daily rate £519 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.78% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 159 325
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.24 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.00 £32.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +15.07% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.25 £46.86
90th Percentile £76.75 £63.35 £67.60
England median hourly rate £45.78 £29.33 £38.00
% change year-on-year +56.09% -22.82% -15.56%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -3 307 £500 -4.76% 138
West London -5 53 £388 -3.13% 26
South London +5 36 £463 -2.63% 15
East London -2 12 £413 -17.50% 14
North London -4 2 £178 -67.43% 5
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 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.

1 444 (23.17%) Agile
2 397 (20.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 344 (17.95%) SQL
4 306 (15.97%) Business Analysis
5 294 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
6 280 (14.61%) User Stories
7 252 (13.15%) User Acceptance Testing
8 251 (13.10%) Requirements Gathering
9 246 (12.84%) Microsoft
10 244 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 236 (12.32%) Business Intelligence
12 218 (11.38%) Data Analysis
13 216 (11.27%) Workshop Facilitation
14 214 (11.17%) Power Platform
15 211 (11.01%) Validation
16 206 (10.75%) Security Cleared
17 205 (10.70%) Power BI
18 195 (10.18%) Azure
19 192 (10.02%) Acceptance Criteria
19 192 (10.02%) JIRA
20 186 (9.71%) Data Quality
20 186 (9.71%) Migration
21 185 (9.66%) Analytics
21 185 (9.66%) Decision-Making
22 181 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
23 180 (9.39%) Data Modelling
24 177 (9.24%) SC Cleared
25 141 (7.36%) Python
26 139 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
27 137 (7.15%) AI

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 (5.01%) Confluence
2 31 (1.62%) CMS
3 30 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 8 (0.42%) SAS
5 6 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.26%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.21%) Apache
8 3 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.16%) Kentico
9 2 (0.10%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.052%) Appian
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.052%) WordPress
Applications
1 181 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (3.81%) MS Visio
3 58 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 52 (2.71%) Microsoft Office
5 24 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.26%) AutoCAD
7 5 (0.26%) Revit
8 3 (0.16%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.10%) Notion
10 1 (0.052%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.052%) SPSS
10 1 (0.052%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.15%) Aladdin
3 19 (0.99%) Loan IQ
4 17 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.68%) Workday HCM
6 12 (0.63%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.47%) Endur
8 7 (0.37%) Actimize
8 7 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.26%) Findur
10 5 (0.26%) Integrated Workplace Management System
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.26%) SAP ERP
10 5 (0.26%) SAP FI
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 4 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 214 (11.17%) Power Platform
2 195 (10.18%) Azure
3 99 (5.17%) AWS
4 63 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
5 51 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (2.14%) Snowflake
7 37 (1.93%) SaaS
8 29 (1.51%) GCP
9 26 (1.36%) Entra ID
10 25 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (1.04%) Google Workspace
12 19 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
13 17 (0.89%) Amazon S3
14 15 (0.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 15 (0.78%) Serverless
15 14 (0.73%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
16 13 (0.68%) Lucidchart
17 12 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 12 (0.63%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 16 (0.84%) VPN
2 15 (0.78%) TCP/IP
3 14 (0.73%) Firewall
4 11 (0.57%) DNS
5 10 (0.52%) DHCP
5 10 (0.52%) Network Security
6 8 (0.42%) DMZ
7 6 (0.31%) FIX Connectivity
7 6 (0.31%) VoIP
8 5 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.21%) Broadband
10 3 (0.16%) FTP
10 3 (0.16%) Internet
10 3 (0.16%) WAN
10 3 (0.16%) Wireless
11 2 (0.10%) 802.11
11 2 (0.10%) Intranet
11 2 (0.10%) IP Telephony
11 2 (0.10%) LAN
11 2 (0.10%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (10.70%) Power BI
2 90 (4.70%) Tableau
3 44 (2.30%) Metadata
4 43 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
5 28 (1.46%) Relational Database
6 18 (0.94%) Power Query
7 15 (0.78%) BigQuery
7 15 (0.78%) Looker
8 14 (0.73%) Big Data
9 12 (0.63%) Data Lake
10 11 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (0.57%) SQL Server
11 10 (0.52%) Qlik Sense
12 6 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (0.31%) KNIME
12 6 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
13 5 (0.26%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.26%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.21%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 192 (10.02%) JIRA
2 21 (1.10%) Postman
3 7 (0.37%) Selenium
4 6 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.31%) MSI
5 5 (0.26%) Git
6 4 (0.21%) Appium
6 4 (0.21%) GitLab
6 4 (0.21%) JUnit
6 4 (0.21%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.16%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.16%) Cypress.io
7 3 (0.16%) TestRail
7 3 (0.16%) Toad
8 2 (0.10%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.10%) Gemini Tracker
8 2 (0.10%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.10%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.052%) Xcode
General
1 757 (39.51%) Finance
2 601 (31.37%) Social Skills
3 426 (22.23%) Analytical Skills
4 271 (14.14%) Banking
5 123 (6.42%) Public Sector
6 109 (5.69%) Front Office
7 92 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
8 82 (4.28%) Investment Banking
9 73 (3.81%) Marketing
10 68 (3.55%) Legal
11 58 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
12 56 (2.92%) Retail
13 52 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
14 37 (1.93%) Back Office
14 37 (1.93%) Financial Institution
15 34 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (1.30%) Local Government
17 23 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
18 19 (0.99%) Manufacturing
19 18 (0.94%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.10%) XML
2 20 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
3 17 (0.89%) Middleware
4 15 (0.78%) Pandas
5 12 (0.63%) ADO
6 11 (0.57%) JSON
6 11 (0.57%) REST
7 10 (0.52%) .NET
8 8 (0.42%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (0.42%) NumPy
8 8 (0.42%) VML
9 7 (0.37%) Kafka
10 6 (0.31%) PySpark
10 6 (0.31%) SOAP
11 4 (0.21%) Playwright
11 4 (0.21%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.21%) Web Services
11 4 (0.21%) YAML
12 3 (0.16%) GeoJSON
12 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 117 (6.11%) Product Ownership
2 73 (3.81%) Onboarding
3 57 (2.97%) Derivative
4 44 (2.30%) Fixed Income
5 43 (2.24%) Analytical Mindset
5 43 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 40 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
6 40 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
7 34 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 31 (1.62%) Data Structures
9 27 (1.41%) Hedge funds
10 24 (1.25%) Credit Risk
11 22 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
13 18 (0.94%) CMDB
13 18 (0.94%) Market Risk
14 16 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
15 15 (0.78%) Security Posture
16 14 (0.73%) Equities
17 13 (0.68%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 72 (3.76%) Windows
2 21 (1.10%) Android
3 19 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 15 (0.78%) Mac OS
4 15 (0.78%) Windows 10
5 14 (0.73%) Unix
6 12 (0.63%) Linux
7 6 (0.31%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.052%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.052%) VMS
8 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (23.17%) Agile
2 397 (20.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 306 (15.97%) Business Analysis
4 294 (15.34%) Problem-Solving
5 280 (14.61%) User Stories
6 252 (13.15%) User Acceptance Testing
7 251 (13.10%) Requirements Gathering
8 244 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 236 (12.32%) Business Intelligence
10 218 (11.38%) Data Analysis
11 216 (11.27%) Workshop Facilitation
12 211 (11.01%) Validation
13 192 (10.02%) Acceptance Criteria
14 186 (9.71%) Migration
15 185 (9.66%) Analytics
15 185 (9.66%) Decision-Making
16 180 (9.39%) Data Modelling
17 139 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
18 137 (7.15%) AI
19 128 (6.68%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 344 (17.95%) SQL
2 141 (7.36%) Python
3 24 (1.25%) R
4 20 (1.04%) PowerShell
5 19 (0.99%) Java
6 15 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 14 (0.73%) VBA
8 10 (0.52%) C#
8 10 (0.52%) Korn
9 9 (0.47%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.31%) JavaScript
12 5 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.21%) Bash
13 4 (0.21%) Groovy
14 3 (0.16%) C
14 3 (0.16%) C++
14 3 (0.16%) T-SQL
15 2 (0.10%) Perl
15 2 (0.10%) PHP
Qualifications
1 206 (10.75%) Security Cleared
2 177 (9.24%) SC Cleared
3 128 (6.68%) Degree
4 29 (1.51%) CBAP
5 25 (1.30%) IIBA
6 21 (1.10%) CISSP
7 20 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (0.99%) PMI Certification
9 12 (0.63%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.57%) CISM
10 11 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
11 10 (0.52%) ACCA
12 9 (0.47%) CIMA
12 9 (0.47%) CISA
12 9 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (0.47%) ISEB
12 9 (0.47%) ISTQB
13 8 (0.42%) GIAC
13 8 (0.42%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (9.71%) Data Quality
2 111 (5.79%) QA
3 57 (2.97%) PMO
4 42 (2.19%) GDPR
5 37 (1.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 36 (1.88%) NIST
7 24 (1.25%) IFRS
7 24 (1.25%) SLA
8 20 (1.04%) GRC
9 18 (0.94%) Actionable Recommendations
10 17 (0.89%) Accessibility
10 17 (0.89%) EMIR
10 17 (0.89%) GAAP
11 16 (0.84%) COBIT
11 16 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.73%) ISO 20022
13 12 (0.63%) MiFID
14 6 (0.31%) ITGC
14 6 (0.31%) PSD2
14 6 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (1.98%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.16%) Docker
5 2 (0.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.052%) RACF
6 1 (0.052%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.052%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.052%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.052%) vSphere
6 1 (0.052%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (0.68%) SCCM
3 7 (0.37%) Kubernetes
4 6 (0.31%) WSUS
5 4 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.21%) Terraform
6 3 (0.16%) Control-M
6 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.16%) Nessus
7 2 (0.10%) Nexpose
7 2 (0.10%) Puppet
7 2 (0.10%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.052%) CASB
8 1 (0.052%) Grafana
8 1 (0.052%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.052%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.052%) Kibana
8 1 (0.052%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.052%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.052%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 246 (12.84%) Microsoft
2 119 (6.21%) Salesforce
3 98 (5.11%) SAP
4 84 (4.38%) ServiceNow
5 83 (4.33%) Oracle
6 54 (2.82%) Databricks
7 34 (1.77%) Workday
8 33 (1.72%) Bloomberg
9 32 (1.67%) Google
10 31 (1.62%) Murex
11 19 (0.99%) Citrix
11 19 (0.99%) Splunk
12 16 (0.84%) CrowdStrike
13 15 (0.78%) ION Trading
14 13 (0.68%) Adobe
14 13 (0.68%) Reuters
15 12 (0.63%) Charles River
16 11 (0.57%) MuleSoft
16 11 (0.57%) Qualys
17 10 (0.52%) Alteryx