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 27 September 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 10 14
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -7
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 2,041 1,861 1,915
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.09% 13.84% 11.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.82% 14.91% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,264 1,219 1,373
10th Percentile £300 £306 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.66%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
England median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 42 29
10th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £24.60
25th Percentile £26.32 £23.08 £33.50
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.08 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% -40.99% +63.46%
75th Percentile £57.50 £34.14 £68.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £58.98 £109.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £21.27 £20.50
% change year-on-year +29.29% +3.76% +7.89%

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 18,864 12,478 15,318
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 92.79% 93.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,207 8,342 10,099
10th Percentile £360 £331 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £658 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 200 181
10th Percentile £17.03 £17.00 £17.50
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.75 £23.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £28.14 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.16% -19.61% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £48.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.06 £76.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% -

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 27 September 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 -11 297 £465 -6.95% 260
West London +9 56 £400 -5.88% 37
South London -14 11 £500 +17.65% 8
East London -9 7 £425 +123.43% 12
North London 0 6 £400 -20.00% 1
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 September 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.

1 597 (29.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 451 (22.10%) Agile
3 433 (21.22%) SQL
4 396 (19.40%) Business Analysis
5 366 (17.93%) Requirements Gathering
6 343 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
7 324 (15.87%) User Stories
8 309 (15.14%) Microsoft
9 297 (14.55%) User Acceptance Testing
10 293 (14.36%) Workshop Facilitation
11 291 (14.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 286 (14.01%) Data Analysis
13 277 (13.57%) Validation
14 272 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
15 262 (12.84%) Analytics
16 250 (12.25%) Power Platform
17 241 (11.81%) AI
18 235 (11.51%) Decision-Making
19 233 (11.42%) Power BI
20 231 (11.32%) Data Quality
21 219 (10.73%) Azure
22 212 (10.39%) Acceptance Criteria
23 201 (9.85%) Data Modelling
23 201 (9.85%) Migration
24 189 (9.26%) JIRA
25 175 (8.57%) Security Cleared
26 171 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
26 171 (8.38%) Data Governance
26 171 (8.38%) Python
27 166 (8.13%) Microsoft Excel

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 94 (4.61%) Confluence
2 50 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.57%) CMS
4 10 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.29%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.24%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.20%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.20%) SAS
8 3 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.15%) Apache
8 3 (0.15%) Kentico
8 3 (0.15%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.098%) Appian
9 2 (0.098%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.098%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.098%) WordPress
10 1 (0.049%) Apache Superset
10 1 (0.049%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.049%) JBoss
10 1 (0.049%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 166 (8.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (2.69%) MS Visio
3 45 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (0.49%) AutoCAD
5 10 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.39%) Revit
7 4 (0.20%) Notion
8 3 (0.15%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.098%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.049%) SPSS
10 1 (0.049%) Trello
10 1 (0.049%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 32 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 15 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
3 12 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
3 12 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
4 11 (0.54%) Endur
4 11 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.44%) iTrent
5 9 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 8 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
7 7 (0.34%) HFM
8 6 (0.29%) Front Arena
8 6 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.29%) Summit
9 4 (0.20%) Actimize
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.15%) PeopleSoft HCM
Cloud Services
1 250 (12.25%) Power Platform
2 219 (10.73%) Azure
3 110 (5.39%) AWS
4 85 (4.16%) Microsoft 365
5 71 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (3.04%) SaaS
7 52 (2.55%) Entra ID
8 51 (2.50%) Snowflake
9 45 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
10 37 (1.81%) GCP
11 24 (1.18%) OneDrive
12 23 (1.13%) Microsoft Purview
13 22 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
14 21 (1.03%) Power Automate
15 20 (0.98%) SuccessFactors
16 18 (0.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 16 (0.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
18 15 (0.73%) GitHub
18 15 (0.73%) PowerApps
19 14 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 21 (1.03%) TCP/IP
1 21 (1.03%) VPN
2 16 (0.78%) DNS
2 16 (0.78%) Network Security
3 13 (0.64%) DHCP
3 13 (0.64%) Firewall
3 13 (0.64%) PSTN
4 12 (0.59%) VoIP
5 11 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (0.39%) Wireless
7 7 (0.34%) IP Telephony
8 4 (0.20%) HTTP
8 4 (0.20%) Internet
8 4 (0.20%) Intranet
9 3 (0.15%) DMZ
9 3 (0.15%) WinSCP
10 2 (0.098%) SSL
10 2 (0.098%) WAN
10 2 (0.098%) Wireless Security
10 2 (0.098%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (11.42%) Power BI
2 89 (4.36%) Tableau
3 61 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (2.69%) Metadata
5 27 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 23 (1.13%) Power Query
7 21 (1.03%) Looker
8 20 (0.98%) Data Lake
9 16 (0.78%) BigQuery
10 12 (0.59%) SQL Server
11 10 (0.49%) Big Data
11 10 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
11 10 (0.49%) Qlik Sense
12 8 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
12 8 (0.39%) MongoDB
13 6 (0.29%) Amazon QuickSight
13 6 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 6 (0.29%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
14 5 (0.24%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 189 (9.26%) JIRA
2 18 (0.88%) Postman
3 13 (0.64%) Git
4 10 (0.49%) Selenium
5 7 (0.34%) Cypress.io
6 6 (0.29%) Jenkins
7 5 (0.24%) TestRail
8 4 (0.20%) GitLab
8 4 (0.20%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (0.20%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.15%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.15%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.098%) Appium
10 2 (0.098%) Burp Suite
10 2 (0.098%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.098%) Gemini Tracker
10 2 (0.098%) MSI
10 2 (0.098%) Snyk
10 2 (0.098%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.098%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 821 (40.23%) Finance
2 675 (33.07%) Social Skills
3 476 (23.32%) Analytical Skills
4 306 (14.99%) Banking
5 131 (6.42%) Public Sector
6 110 (5.39%) Front Office
7 106 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
8 105 (5.14%) Retail
9 99 (4.85%) Legal
10 88 (4.31%) Marketing
11 74 (3.63%) Investment Banking
12 53 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
13 47 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 41 (2.01%) Local Government
15 40 (1.96%) Financial Institution
16 33 (1.62%) Back Office
16 33 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
17 29 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
18 26 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
19 24 (1.18%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
2 26 (1.27%) JSON
3 18 (0.88%) Middleware
4 17 (0.83%) XML
5 12 (0.59%) Pandas
6 10 (0.49%) Playwright
7 9 (0.44%) .NET
7 9 (0.44%) Kafka
7 9 (0.44%) SailPoint
8 8 (0.39%) ADO
8 8 (0.39%) REST
9 7 (0.34%) NumPy
10 6 (0.29%) FIDO
10 6 (0.29%) PySpark
10 6 (0.29%) Terraform
10 6 (0.29%) WebAuthn
10 6 (0.29%) YAML
11 4 (0.20%) Gherkin
11 4 (0.20%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (0.20%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 141 (6.91%) Product Ownership
2 119 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 60 (2.94%) Derivative
3 60 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 51 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 42 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 39 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 35 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
8 30 (1.47%) Fixed Income
9 29 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
10 28 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
11 22 (1.08%) Reference Data
12 21 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (0.93%) CMDB
13 19 (0.93%) Credit Risk
13 19 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
14 18 (0.88%) Market Risk
15 17 (0.83%) Hedge funds
16 16 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 78 (3.82%) Windows
2 19 (0.93%) Mac OS
3 17 (0.83%) Linux
3 17 (0.83%) Windows 10
4 12 (0.59%) Android
5 11 (0.54%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.20%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 597 (29.25%) Stakeholder Management
2 451 (22.10%) Agile
3 396 (19.40%) Business Analysis
4 366 (17.93%) Requirements Gathering
5 343 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
6 324 (15.87%) User Stories
7 297 (14.55%) User Acceptance Testing
8 293 (14.36%) Workshop Facilitation
9 291 (14.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 286 (14.01%) Data Analysis
11 277 (13.57%) Validation
12 272 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
13 262 (12.84%) Analytics
14 241 (11.81%) AI
15 235 (11.51%) Decision-Making
16 212 (10.39%) Acceptance Criteria
17 201 (9.85%) Data Modelling
17 201 (9.85%) Migration
18 171 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
18 171 (8.38%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 433 (21.22%) SQL
2 171 (8.38%) Python
3 34 (1.67%) R
4 31 (1.52%) PowerShell
5 29 (1.42%) Java
6 23 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 21 (1.03%) Korn
8 16 (0.78%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
10 10 (0.49%) C#
11 9 (0.44%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.44%) VBA
12 8 (0.39%) C++
13 7 (0.34%) Scala
14 6 (0.29%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.24%) Bash
15 5 (0.24%) C
16 3 (0.15%) JavaScript
16 3 (0.15%) VBScript
17 2 (0.098%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 175 (8.57%) Security Cleared
2 156 (7.64%) Degree
3 138 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 31 (1.52%) DV Cleared
5 29 (1.42%) CISSP
6 22 (1.08%) PMI Certification
7 20 (0.98%) ACCA
8 19 (0.93%) CIMA
9 18 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (0.88%) IIBA
10 17 (0.83%) CBAP
11 15 (0.73%) PMP
12 14 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
13 13 (0.64%) CompTIA CySA+
13 13 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.59%) CISM
15 11 (0.54%) FFIEC
15 11 (0.54%) GIAC
16 9 (0.44%) Azure Certification
16 9 (0.44%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (11.32%) Data Quality
2 110 (5.39%) QA
3 53 (2.60%) NIST
4 52 (2.55%) PMO
5 44 (2.16%) GDPR
6 38 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.22%) SLA
8 22 (1.08%) GRC
8 22 (1.08%) IFRS
9 20 (0.98%) COBIT
10 15 (0.73%) Accessibility
10 15 (0.73%) ISO 20022
10 15 (0.73%) MiFID
11 14 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 13 (0.64%) EMIR
13 7 (0.34%) Basel III
13 7 (0.34%) ISO 15022
13 7 (0.34%) SEPA
14 6 (0.29%) GAAP
System Software
1 53 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 9 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
2 9 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.15%) Docker
4 2 (0.098%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.049%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 25 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (0.83%) SCCM
3 11 (0.54%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (0.15%) QRadar
6 3 (0.15%) WSUS
7 2 (0.098%) HP Fortify
7 2 (0.098%) Nessus
7 2 (0.098%) Nexpose
7 2 (0.098%) Puppet
8 1 (0.049%) Grafana
8 1 (0.049%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.049%) Kibana
Vendors
1 309 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 99 (4.85%) SAP
3 98 (4.80%) Salesforce
4 96 (4.70%) ServiceNow
5 85 (4.16%) Oracle
6 63 (3.09%) Databricks
7 39 (1.91%) Google
8 35 (1.71%) Murex
9 29 (1.42%) Bloomberg
10 23 (1.13%) Alteryx
10 23 (1.13%) Workday
11 22 (1.08%) Adobe
11 22 (1.08%) Splunk
12 19 (0.93%) CyberArk
13 15 (0.73%) IBM
14 14 (0.69%) CrowdStrike
15 12 (0.59%) Cisco
15 12 (0.59%) Citrix
16 11 (0.54%) Guidewire
16 11 (0.54%) ION Trading