Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in London

Analytical Skills
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,882 1,591 1,372
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.37% 11.87% 8.44%
As % of the General category 15.40% 17.21% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,022 894
10th Percentile £350 £313 £319
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £751 £775 £765
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 34 23
10th Percentile £19.20 £11.96 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.05 £22.03
Median hourly rate £36.00 £34.48 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -18.87% -10.99%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £72.08 £56.25 £65.03
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £21.75
% change year-on-year +10.77% +49.43% -51.05%

All General Skills
London

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 12,223 9,242 10,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.88% 68.94% 62.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,797 6,135 7,055
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £508 £538
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.67% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 186 143
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.30
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.54 £23.80
Median hourly rate £28.00 £29.54 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% -16.80% +2.54%
75th Percentile £43.75 £47.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.50 £67.60
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in London

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in London over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in London

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in London over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in London

Analytical Skills
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 Analytical Skills within the London region over the 6 months to 21 August 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 -10 223 £525 -4.55% 251
West London +2 78 £520 +25.68% 67
South London +6 33 £550 -12.00% 16
East London -1 12 £425 +30.77% 44
North London 0 4 £500 - 3
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
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 88 (4.68%) Confluence
2 44 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 37 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.43%) CMS
5 21 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.96%) Apache
7 9 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.43%) JBoss
8 8 (0.43%) SAS
8 8 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.37%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.27%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.27%) Appian
11 5 (0.27%) IIS
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.16%) Camunda
Applications
1 174 (9.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.07%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.64%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.27%) CPLEX
9 4 (0.21%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.053%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 25 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.74%) Aladdin
5 12 (0.64%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.53%) Finacle
7 9 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.48%) Shopify
8 8 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.37%) Loan IQ
10 6 (0.32%) iTrent
11 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
11 5 (0.27%) Magento
12 4 (0.21%) Findur
12 4 (0.21%) HFM
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
12 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
12 4 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 379 (20.14%) Azure
2 253 (13.44%) AWS
3 219 (11.64%) Power Platform
4 99 (5.26%) GCP
5 85 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
6 81 (4.30%) SaaS
7 71 (3.77%) GitHub
8 65 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
9 64 (3.40%) Entra ID
10 56 (2.98%) Snowflake
11 43 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
12 37 (1.97%) dbt
13 36 (1.91%) Serverless
14 32 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (1.54%) Amazon S3
16 28 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
16 28 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 26 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
18 23 (1.22%) PaaS
19 20 (1.06%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 51 (2.71%) Firewall
2 39 (2.07%) DNS
3 29 (1.54%) Network Security
3 29 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.54%) VPN
4 23 (1.22%) DHCP
5 19 (1.01%) WAN
6 15 (0.80%) HTTP
6 15 (0.80%) SSL
7 14 (0.74%) BGP
7 14 (0.74%) SAN
8 13 (0.69%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.69%) VLAN
9 11 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (0.53%) 5G
10 10 (0.53%) MPLS
10 10 (0.53%) Radio Access Network
11 9 (0.48%) 4G
12 8 (0.43%) Multicast
12 8 (0.43%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (10.52%) Power BI
2 104 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
3 103 (5.47%) SQL Server
4 81 (4.30%) Relational Database
5 76 (4.04%) Tableau
6 73 (3.88%) Metadata
7 57 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (1.91%) Data Lake
9 35 (1.86%) NoSQL
10 32 (1.70%) Big Data
11 28 (1.49%) Oracle Database
12 26 (1.38%) MongoDB
13 24 (1.28%) RDBMS
14 22 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (1.12%) Power Query
16 20 (1.06%) Delta Lake
17 18 (0.96%) BigQuery
17 18 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
18 16 (0.85%) Hadoop
18 16 (0.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 190 (10.10%) JIRA
2 86 (4.57%) Git
3 47 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.65%) Selenium
5 22 (1.17%) JMeter
6 20 (1.06%) GitLab
7 15 (0.80%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.80%) Postman
8 14 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 14 (0.74%) LoadRunner
9 13 (0.69%) ERwin
10 11 (0.58%) Maven
10 11 (0.58%) REST Assured
11 10 (0.53%) Gatling
11 10 (0.53%) JUnit
11 10 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.48%) ER Studio
12 9 (0.48%) Gradle
12 9 (0.48%) Zephyr
13 7 (0.37%) Chocolatey
General
1 943 (50.11%) Social Skills
2 751 (39.90%) Finance
3 288 (15.30%) Banking
4 150 (7.97%) Public Sector
5 102 (5.42%) Front Office
6 99 (5.26%) Marketing
7 89 (4.73%) Organisational Skills
8 84 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
9 75 (3.99%) Legal
10 73 (3.88%) Retail
11 61 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
12 60 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
13 56 (2.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 56 (2.98%) Investment Banking
14 55 (2.92%) Telecoms
15 42 (2.23%) Financial Institution
16 34 (1.81%) Local Government
17 27 (1.43%) Back Office
18 21 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
19 18 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 464 (24.65%) Analyst
2 235 (12.49%) Business Analyst
3 206 (10.95%) Senior
4 177 (9.40%) Developer
5 139 (7.39%) Architect
6 134 (7.12%) Lead
7 95 (5.05%) Data Analyst
7 95 (5.05%) Data Engineer
8 79 (4.20%) Consultant
9 62 (3.29%) Data Scientist
10 54 (2.87%) Project Manager
11 51 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
12 43 (2.28%) Senior Developer
13 34 (1.81%) Support Engineer
14 33 (1.75%) Solutions Architect
15 32 (1.70%) Senior Manager
16 31 (1.65%) Technical Analyst
16 31 (1.65%) Technical Business Analyst
17 29 (1.54%) Financial Analyst
17 29 (1.54%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (6.27%) REST
2 82 (4.36%) .NET
3 64 (3.40%) Terraform
4 56 (2.98%) Kafka
5 53 (2.82%) RESTful
6 46 (2.44%) JSON
7 45 (2.39%) XML
8 44 (2.34%) SOAP
9 43 (2.28%) Web Services
10 41 (2.18%) Middleware
11 38 (2.02%) HTML
12 37 (1.97%) PySpark
13 32 (1.70%) Spring
14 31 (1.65%) CSS
15 30 (1.59%) React
16 29 (1.54%) Pandas
17 26 (1.38%) Spring Boot
18 22 (1.17%) AngularJS
18 22 (1.17%) OAuth
19 21 (1.12%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 171 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 136 (7.23%) Product Ownership
3 116 (6.16%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.88%) Data Structures
5 69 (3.67%) Cloud Native
6 67 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
7 61 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
8 60 (3.19%) Management Information System
9 44 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
11 35 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 35 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
12 32 (1.70%) Data Centre
12 32 (1.70%) Derivative
13 31 (1.65%) Fixed Income
14 29 (1.54%) AI Agents
15 28 (1.49%) Equities
16 26 (1.38%) Algorithms
17 25 (1.33%) Reference Data
18 24 (1.28%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 128 (6.80%) Windows
2 124 (6.59%) Linux
3 46 (2.44%) Unix
4 24 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 17 (0.90%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.58%) Android
9 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) Solaris
11 5 (0.27%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) SUSE
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.053%) VMS
14 1 (0.053%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 965 (51.28%) Problem-Solving
2 578 (30.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 568 (30.18%) Agile
4 378 (20.09%) Continuous Improvement
5 366 (19.45%) Analytics
6 343 (18.23%) AI
7 321 (17.06%) Decision-Making
8 255 (13.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 249 (13.23%) Data Modelling
10 240 (12.75%) DevOps
10 240 (12.75%) Validation
11 232 (12.33%) Business Intelligence
12 227 (12.06%) CI/CD
13 213 (11.32%) Migration
14 186 (9.88%) User Acceptance Testing
15 185 (9.83%) Data Analysis
16 164 (8.71%) Roadmaps
17 162 (8.61%) User Stories
18 161 (8.55%) Data Pipeline
19 153 (8.13%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 533 (28.32%) SQL
2 414 (22.00%) Python
3 132 (7.01%) Java
4 98 (5.21%) C#
5 91 (4.84%) JavaScript
6 77 (4.09%) PowerShell
7 45 (2.39%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.23%) Bash
9 36 (1.91%) C++
10 33 (1.75%) R
11 30 (1.59%) PL/SQL
12 27 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 25 (1.33%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.80%) Scala
15 12 (0.64%) Perl
16 11 (0.58%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.48%) Go
17 9 (0.48%) Korn
17 9 (0.48%) Ruby
17 9 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 260 (13.82%) Security Cleared
2 239 (12.70%) Degree
3 200 (10.63%) SC Cleared
4 76 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.97%) CISSP
6 33 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (1.43%) PMP
8 26 (1.38%) CISM
8 26 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (1.33%) PMI Certification
10 22 (1.17%) Azure Certification
11 20 (1.06%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.85%) ACCA
13 16 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (0.80%) CCNP
14 15 (0.80%) CIMA
15 12 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (12.49%) Data Quality
2 143 (7.60%) QA
3 89 (4.73%) PMO
4 53 (2.82%) GDPR
5 52 (2.76%) SLA
6 45 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (2.28%) NIST
8 32 (1.70%) Accessibility
9 27 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (1.17%) GRC
10 22 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (1.06%) COBIT
12 17 (0.90%) IFRS
13 11 (0.58%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.32%) GAAP
15 6 (0.32%) MiFID
15 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 81 (4.30%) Active Directory
2 73 (3.88%) Docker
3 22 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.48%) IAG
6 6 (0.32%) Firmware
6 6 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.16%) Postfix
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.053%) NFS
10 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.053%) RACF
Systems Management
1 72 (3.83%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.34%) Ansible
3 34 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (1.70%) Grafana
5 17 (0.90%) SCCM
6 16 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.74%) Control-M
8 12 (0.64%) Kibana
9 11 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.37%) Puppet
10 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.21%) Istio
12 4 (0.21%) systemd
13 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.16%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
14 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 315 (16.74%) Microsoft
2 166 (8.82%) Oracle
3 101 (5.37%) SAP
4 100 (5.31%) ServiceNow
5 73 (3.88%) Google
6 70 (3.72%) Databricks
7 62 (3.29%) Salesforce
8 39 (2.07%) Splunk
9 36 (1.91%) IBM
10 34 (1.81%) Dynatrace
11 33 (1.75%) Cisco
12 30 (1.59%) VMware
13 23 (1.22%) Adobe
13 23 (1.22%) Workday
14 22 (1.17%) CyberArk
15 20 (1.06%) Alteryx
16 19 (1.01%) Informatica
17 17 (0.90%) Apple
18 16 (0.85%) Sitecore
19 14 (0.74%) Red Hat