Analyst Contracts in London

Analyst
England > London

The median Analyst daily rate in London is £510, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 10 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,620 2,130 3,479
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 13.06% 12.20% 13.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.00% 13.06% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,106 1,522 2,553
10th Percentile £300 £310 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £640
90th Percentile £750 £725 £750
England median daily rate £475 £475 £485
% change year-on-year - -2.06% +4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 30 42
10th Percentile £22.27 £20.45 £18.83
25th Percentile £24.33 £20.50 £21.06
Median hourly rate £29.07 £23.00 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.39% -10.68% +5.10%
75th Percentile £34.34 £39.13 £42.25
90th Percentile £54.35 £54.15 £64.88
England median hourly rate £22.06 £16.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +37.88% -15.79% +22.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 11,570 16,310 24,682
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 93.40% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,922 11,789 17,932
10th Percentile £343 £325 £363
25th Percentile £427 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £676 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £524 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.26% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 317 280
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.42 £20.02 £22.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -21.99% +0.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £44.75 £62.95
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.01 £80.23
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +95.65%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in London

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in London.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in London

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in London

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in London.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in London

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 2025. 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 -2 302 £525 - 96
West London +5 29 £395 -19.80% 35
South London -4 21 £475 +8.57% 24
East London +12 10 £500 +8.70% 14
North London 0 9 £550 +49.15% 3
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 620 (38.27%) Finance
2 545 (33.64%) Social Skills
3 378 (23.33%) Agile
4 362 (22.35%) SQL
5 339 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
6 302 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
7 291 (17.96%) Business Analysis
8 256 (15.80%) Python
9 245 (15.12%) Banking
10 239 (14.75%) Data Analysis
11 220 (13.58%) Microsoft
12 219 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 197 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
14 170 (10.49%) Analytics
15 168 (10.37%) Requirements Gathering
16 164 (10.12%) Power Platform
17 157 (9.69%) Power BI
18 153 (9.44%) Microsoft Excel
19 151 (9.32%) Front Office
19 151 (9.32%) Asset Management
20 149 (9.20%) Degree
21 146 (9.01%) Project Management
22 143 (8.83%) Migration
23 142 (8.77%) User Acceptance Testing
24 141 (8.70%) Azure
25 136 (8.40%) User Stories
26 132 (8.15%) Decision-Making
27 127 (7.84%) Security Cleared
28 124 (7.65%) JIRA
29 120 (7.41%) Process Improvement

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 78 (4.81%) Confluence
2 51 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 14 (0.86%) SAS
4 13 (0.80%) CMS
4 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.19%) Apache
6 3 (0.19%) Drupal
6 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (0.12%) IIS
7 2 (0.12%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.062%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.062%) MS Project Server
8 1 (0.062%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.062%) Smallworld
Applications
1 153 (9.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (4.75%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (3.83%) MS Visio
4 55 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (1.11%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.19%) Trello
8 2 (0.12%) Notepad++
9 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.062%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.062%) EViews
9 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 54 (3.33%) Aladdin
2 26 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 23 (1.42%) Endur
4 18 (1.11%) thinkFolio
5 17 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
6 10 (0.62%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (0.31%) SAP CO
8 5 (0.31%) SAP FI
8 5 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
8 5 (0.31%) Unit4 Business World
9 4 (0.25%) CA PPM
9 4 (0.25%) Fidessa
9 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.25%) Shopify
9 4 (0.25%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.19%) Exchequer
10 3 (0.19%) ION Anvil
10 3 (0.19%) iTrent
10 3 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 164 (10.12%) Power Platform
2 141 (8.70%) Azure
3 68 (4.20%) AWS
4 57 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (2.04%) GCP
6 29 (1.79%) SaaS
7 25 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (1.30%) Snowflake
9 20 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (0.93%) Entra ID
10 15 (0.93%) Lucidchart
11 14 (0.86%) dbt
12 12 (0.74%) OneDrive
13 11 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (0.68%) Collibra
14 10 (0.62%) GitHub
14 10 (0.62%) OCI
15 9 (0.56%) Amazon S3
15 9 (0.56%) Google Workspace
16 7 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.48%) Firewall
2 15 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 14 (0.86%) Network Security
4 13 (0.80%) DNS
5 11 (0.68%) VPN
6 9 (0.56%) DHCP
6 9 (0.56%) HTTP
7 8 (0.49%) LAN
8 7 (0.43%) Remote Desktop
8 7 (0.43%) SMTP
9 5 (0.31%) NAS
9 5 (0.31%) WAN
10 4 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (0.25%) WebEx
10 4 (0.25%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.19%) Internet
11 3 (0.19%) Intranet
11 3 (0.19%) VoWiFi
11 3 (0.19%) Wireless
11 3 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (9.69%) Power BI
2 78 (4.81%) Tableau
3 56 (3.46%) SQL Server
4 52 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (1.54%) Data Lake
6 17 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 16 (0.99%) Metadata
8 15 (0.93%) BigQuery
9 14 (0.86%) Power Query
10 13 (0.80%) MS Access
11 10 (0.62%) Big Data
11 10 (0.62%) Data Mining
11 10 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (0.56%) Looker
12 9 (0.56%) Relational Database
13 8 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
14 7 (0.43%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
15 6 (0.37%) QlikView
15 6 (0.37%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 124 (7.65%) JIRA
2 16 (0.99%) Git
3 12 (0.74%) JMeter
4 11 (0.68%) Postman
4 11 (0.68%) Selenium
5 9 (0.56%) LoadRunner
6 8 (0.49%) QARun
6 8 (0.49%) WinRunner
7 6 (0.37%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.37%) SoapUI
8 5 (0.31%) HP UFT
9 4 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.25%) MagicDraw
9 4 (0.25%) TestComplete
9 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.25%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.19%) JUnit
10 3 (0.19%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.12%) Ant
11 2 (0.12%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 620 (38.27%) Finance
2 545 (33.64%) Social Skills
3 339 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
4 245 (15.12%) Banking
5 151 (9.32%) Front Office
6 74 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 66 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
8 65 (4.01%) Investment Banking
9 53 (3.27%) Retail
10 48 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 44 (2.72%) Marketing
12 40 (2.47%) Back Office
13 39 (2.41%) Legal
14 32 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
15 29 (1.79%) Local Government
16 27 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
16 27 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
17 22 (1.36%) Financial Institution
18 21 (1.30%) Law
19 12 (0.74%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.36%) XML
2 15 (0.93%) FIX Protocol
3 12 (0.74%) JSON
3 12 (0.74%) SailPoint
4 10 (0.62%) FpML
4 10 (0.62%) Kafka
4 10 (0.62%) Web Services
5 9 (0.56%) .NET
5 9 (0.56%) ADO
6 5 (0.31%) Middleware
6 5 (0.31%) Playwright
6 5 (0.31%) REST
7 4 (0.25%) PySpark
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (0.19%) Plotly
8 3 (0.19%) React
8 3 (0.19%) SOAP
8 3 (0.19%) VML
9 2 (0.12%) OAuth
9 2 (0.12%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.37%) Fixed Income
2 84 (5.19%) Derivative
3 70 (4.32%) Hedge funds
3 70 (4.32%) Onboarding
4 61 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 51 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 49 (3.02%) Management Information System
7 45 (2.78%) Equities
8 35 (2.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 26 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.54%) Data Structures
11 23 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 23 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.30%) Market Risk
13 20 (1.23%) Reference Data
14 19 (1.17%) Security Posture
15 17 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
16 15 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
17 14 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
18 13 (0.80%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 98 (6.05%) Windows
2 28 (1.73%) Linux
3 27 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 25 (1.54%) Unix
5 19 (1.17%) Windows 10
6 18 (1.11%) Windows Server
7 10 (0.62%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.37%) Android
9 5 (0.31%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.19%) CentOS
10 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.12%) Rocky
11 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.062%) Debian
12 1 (0.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.062%) Solaris
12 1 (0.062%) SUSE
12 1 (0.062%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.062%) VMS
12 1 (0.062%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (23.33%) Agile
2 302 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
3 291 (17.96%) Business Analysis
4 239 (14.75%) Data Analysis
5 219 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 197 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
7 170 (10.49%) Analytics
8 168 (10.37%) Requirements Gathering
9 151 (9.32%) Asset Management
10 146 (9.01%) Project Management
11 143 (8.83%) Migration
12 142 (8.77%) User Acceptance Testing
13 136 (8.40%) User Stories
14 132 (8.15%) Decision-Making
15 120 (7.41%) Process Improvement
16 111 (6.85%) Data Modelling
17 107 (6.60%) Workshop Facilitation
18 101 (6.23%) Risk Management
19 99 (6.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 97 (5.99%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 362 (22.35%) SQL
2 256 (15.80%) Python
3 33 (2.04%) Java
4 30 (1.85%) PowerShell
5 26 (1.60%) R
5 26 (1.60%) VBA
6 22 (1.36%) Bash
7 12 (0.74%) PL/SQL
7 12 (0.74%) VB
8 11 (0.68%) C#
9 10 (0.62%) JavaScript
10 9 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (0.49%) C++
12 7 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.31%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.19%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.19%) Perl
14 3 (0.19%) RPG
15 2 (0.12%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.12%) C
Qualifications
1 149 (9.20%) Degree
2 127 (7.84%) Security Cleared
3 113 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 21 (1.30%) CBAP
5 20 (1.23%) CISSP
5 20 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
6 19 (1.17%) Master's Degree
7 13 (0.80%) DV Cleared
8 12 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (0.68%) CISM
9 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (0.68%) PMI Certification
10 9 (0.56%) CEH
10 9 (0.56%) CISA
10 9 (0.56%) GCIH
11 8 (0.49%) ACCA
12 7 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (0.43%) IIBA
12 7 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.37%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (5.31%) QA
2 79 (4.88%) Data Quality
3 47 (2.90%) GDPR
3 47 (2.90%) PMO
4 25 (1.54%) MiFID
5 24 (1.48%) EMIR
6 23 (1.42%) SLA
7 22 (1.36%) NIST
8 16 (0.99%) SEPA
9 15 (0.93%) Accessibility
9 15 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 12 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
10 12 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.68%) GRC
12 8 (0.49%) Dodd-Frank
12 8 (0.49%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.43%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.43%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.43%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 67 (4.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.12%) Hyper-V
2 2 (0.12%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.062%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.062%) Docker
3 1 (0.062%) IAG
3 1 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (0.49%) SCCM
3 4 (0.25%) ZABBIX
4 3 (0.19%) Cisco UCCX
4 3 (0.19%) Rundeck
4 3 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.19%) Terraform
5 2 (0.12%) AirWatch
5 2 (0.12%) Control-M
5 2 (0.12%) CSIRT
5 2 (0.12%) Grafana
5 2 (0.12%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.12%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 2 (0.12%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.062%) CEMLI
6 1 (0.062%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.062%) QRadar
6 1 (0.062%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 220 (13.58%) Microsoft
2 86 (5.31%) Oracle
3 65 (4.01%) SAP
4 58 (3.58%) Salesforce
5 48 (2.96%) ServiceNow
6 43 (2.65%) BISAM
7 31 (1.91%) Google
8 24 (1.48%) Charles River
9 22 (1.36%) Databricks
10 21 (1.30%) Bloomberg
11 20 (1.23%) Calypso
11 20 (1.23%) SimCorp
12 19 (1.17%) Splunk
13 17 (1.05%) Workday
14 16 (0.99%) Citrix
15 15 (0.93%) OpenLink
16 14 (0.86%) Murex
17 13 (0.80%) Informatica
18 12 (0.74%) Adobe
19 11 (0.68%) IBM