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 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,605 1,473 1,427
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.69% 12.11% 8.16%
As % of the General category 14.50% 17.90% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 998 936 978
10th Percentile £350 £318 £320
25th Percentile £425 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £699
90th Percentile £750 £825 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 33 44
10th Percentile £20.50 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.32 £16.95
Median hourly rate £39.00 £38.11 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% +65.70% -35.21%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.15 £58.25 £53.13
England median hourly rate £36.53 £31.35 £18.50
% change year-on-year +16.53% +69.43% -55.69%

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 11,068 8,231 10,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.91% 67.65% 62.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,136 5,494 7,838
10th Percentile £350 £349 £336
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £557 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -3.06% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £515 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 149 239
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.90
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -5.39%
75th Percentile £46.88 £50.50 £47.00
90th Percentile £68.50 £63.35 £65.01
England median hourly rate £30.81 £27.76 £30.44
% change year-on-year +10.99% -8.79% -4.89%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -10 203 £525 -4.55% 96
West London +1 71 £520 +30.00% 33
South London +2 33 £500 -20.00% 6
East London -8 10 £400 -6.98% 15
North London - 1 - - 6
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 78 (4.86%) Confluence
2 31 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.37%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.06%) Apache
6 14 (0.87%) CMS
7 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.44%) SAS
9 6 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.25%) IIS
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.19%) Camunda
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
14 1 (0.062%) Appian
14 1 (0.062%) nginx
14 1 (0.062%) Oracle Application Server
14 1 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 1 (0.062%) Traefik
Applications
1 154 (9.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (3.12%) Microsoft Office
4 44 (2.74%) MS Visio
5 21 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.62%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.062%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.062%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 19 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (0.69%) Aladdin
2 11 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.50%) Shopify
6 7 (0.44%) Fidessa
6 7 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
6 7 (0.44%) Summit
7 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
8 5 (0.31%) BASE24
8 5 (0.31%) Finacle
8 5 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.25%) HFM
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 329 (20.50%) Azure
2 227 (14.14%) AWS
3 200 (12.46%) Power Platform
4 81 (5.05%) SaaS
5 80 (4.98%) GCP
6 68 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (3.68%) GitHub
8 57 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
9 42 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
10 37 (2.31%) Snowflake
11 36 (2.24%) Amazon S3
12 33 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
12 33 (2.06%) Serverless
13 31 (1.93%) Entra ID
14 29 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (1.81%) dbt
15 25 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (1.43%) PaaS
17 22 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 22 (1.37%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.49%) Firewall
2 22 (1.37%) DNS
3 20 (1.25%) Network Security
3 20 (1.25%) VPN
4 17 (1.06%) WAN
5 16 (1.00%) DHCP
6 14 (0.87%) SD-WAN
7 13 (0.81%) SAN
8 11 (0.69%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.62%) BGP
10 8 (0.50%) OSPF
10 8 (0.50%) VLAN
10 8 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (0.44%) HTTP
11 7 (0.44%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.37%) 5G
12 6 (0.37%) LAN
12 6 (0.37%) MPLS
12 6 (0.37%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (10.90%) Power BI
2 93 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (4.86%) Tableau
4 77 (4.80%) SQL Server
5 55 (3.43%) Metadata
6 51 (3.18%) Relational Database
7 36 (2.24%) Data Lake
7 36 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (1.81%) NoSQL
9 25 (1.56%) Big Data
10 23 (1.43%) BigQuery
10 23 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (1.31%) Power Query
11 21 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
12 19 (1.18%) MongoDB
13 16 (1.00%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.93%) Oracle Database
14 15 (0.93%) Star Schema
15 13 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 161 (10.03%) JIRA
2 62 (3.86%) Git
3 22 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.31%) Selenium
5 12 (0.75%) Cucumber
6 11 (0.69%) MLflow
6 11 (0.69%) Postman
6 11 (0.69%) REST Assured
7 10 (0.62%) ERwin
7 10 (0.62%) GitLab
8 9 (0.56%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.50%) JUnit
9 8 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.44%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.37%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.37%) JMeter
11 6 (0.37%) WebDriver
12 5 (0.31%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
12 5 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 714 (44.49%) Social Skills
2 629 (39.19%) Finance
3 241 (15.02%) Banking
4 130 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 94 (5.86%) Marketing
6 77 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
7 76 (4.74%) Legal
8 70 (4.36%) Front Office
9 60 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
10 57 (3.55%) Presentation Skills
11 56 (3.49%) Investment Banking
12 46 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
13 42 (2.62%) Retail
14 41 (2.55%) Financial Institution
15 40 (2.49%) Telecoms
16 37 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (1.12%) Back Office
18 15 (0.93%) Billing
18 15 (0.93%) Publishing
19 14 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 418 (26.04%) Analyst
2 212 (13.21%) Business Analyst
3 156 (9.72%) Senior
4 140 (8.72%) Developer
5 110 (6.85%) Lead
6 104 (6.48%) Architect
7 100 (6.23%) Data Engineer
8 97 (6.04%) Data Analyst
9 90 (5.61%) Consultant
10 57 (3.55%) Data Scientist
11 48 (2.99%) Project Manager
12 42 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (1.99%) Financial Analyst
14 32 (1.99%) Senior Business Analyst
15 29 (1.81%) Senior Developer
16 23 (1.43%) Salesforce Analyst
17 22 (1.37%) Senior Manager
17 22 (1.37%) Tester
18 21 (1.31%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (4.17%) REST
2 55 (3.43%) .NET
3 46 (2.87%) Kafka
4 39 (2.43%) Pandas
5 36 (2.24%) Middleware
6 31 (1.93%) JSON
6 31 (1.93%) RESTful
7 30 (1.87%) HTML
7 30 (1.87%) XML
8 28 (1.74%) CSS
9 27 (1.68%) scikit-learn
10 25 (1.56%) PySpark
11 23 (1.43%) SOAP
12 22 (1.37%) NumPy
13 21 (1.31%) PyTorch
14 20 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
14 20 (1.25%) React
14 20 (1.25%) Web Services
15 19 (1.18%) SAML
16 18 (1.12%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 149 (9.28%) Analytical Mindset
2 97 (6.04%) Product Ownership
3 59 (3.68%) Onboarding
4 58 (3.61%) Data Structures
4 58 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
5 44 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
6 38 (2.37%) Cloud Native
6 38 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 35 (2.18%) Algorithms
7 35 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
8 34 (2.12%) Data Centre
9 33 (2.06%) Fixed Income
10 31 (1.93%) Derivative
11 30 (1.87%) Equities
11 30 (1.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 29 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
13 24 (1.50%) Virtual Team
14 22 (1.37%) Credit Risk
15 19 (1.18%) Security Posture
16 17 (1.06%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 83 (5.17%) Windows
2 58 (3.61%) Linux
3 28 (1.74%) Unix
4 12 (0.75%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.56%) Android
6 9 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.31%) Solaris
9 4 (0.25%) AIX
9 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.062%) SUSE
10 1 (0.062%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 769 (47.91%) Problem-Solving
2 435 (27.10%) Agile
3 339 (21.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 309 (19.25%) Analytics
5 276 (17.20%) Decision-Making
6 272 (16.95%) AI
7 269 (16.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 249 (15.51%) Data Modelling
9 197 (12.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 195 (12.15%) Business Intelligence
11 193 (12.02%) Validation
12 177 (11.03%) DevOps
13 173 (10.78%) Data Analysis
14 168 (10.47%) Migration
15 162 (10.09%) CI/CD
16 140 (8.72%) Data Governance
17 137 (8.54%) Roadmaps
18 135 (8.41%) ETL
18 135 (8.41%) Visualisation
19 133 (8.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 456 (28.41%) SQL
2 365 (22.74%) Python
3 93 (5.79%) Java
4 85 (5.30%) C#
5 54 (3.36%) JavaScript
6 47 (2.93%) PowerShell
7 42 (2.62%) TypeScript
8 35 (2.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 33 (2.06%) C++
10 29 (1.81%) R
11 24 (1.50%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.37%) Bash
13 21 (1.31%) T-SQL
14 20 (1.25%) Scala
15 11 (0.69%) C
16 9 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.44%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.44%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.44%) VBA
18 6 (0.37%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 199 (12.40%) Security Cleared
2 198 (12.34%) Degree
3 136 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 58 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (2.68%) Master's Degree
6 40 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 34 (2.12%) CISSP
8 30 (1.87%) PMI Certification
9 28 (1.74%) PMP
10 23 (1.43%) CISM
11 17 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.00%) CISA
13 15 (0.93%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.87%) CRISC
15 13 (0.81%) ACCA
15 13 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.75%) CIMA
16 12 (0.75%) DV Cleared
17 11 (0.69%) Azure Certification
18 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (13.40%) Data Quality
2 120 (7.48%) QA
3 77 (4.80%) GDPR
4 72 (4.49%) PMO
5 50 (3.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 50 (3.12%) NIST
6 36 (2.24%) SLA
7 27 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 25 (1.56%) Accessibility
8 25 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 24 (1.50%) COBIT
10 23 (1.43%) GRC
10 23 (1.43%) PCI DSS
11 16 (1.00%) IFRS
12 13 (0.81%) ISO 20022
13 9 (0.56%) MiFID
13 9 (0.56%) Solvency II
14 6 (0.37%) GAAP
14 6 (0.37%) NCSC
14 6 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 55 (3.43%) Docker
2 41 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.25%) Firmware
5 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.19%) IAG
6 3 (0.19%) Postfix
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.062%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.062%) RACF
8 1 (0.062%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.062%) vSphere
8 1 (0.062%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (3.36%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.49%) Terraform
3 19 (1.18%) Ansible
3 19 (1.18%) Grafana
3 19 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.81%) SCCM
5 11 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.50%) Kibana
7 7 (0.44%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.19%) Control-M
10 3 (0.19%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 2 (0.12%) SCOM
11 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.062%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.062%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.062%) vMotion
Vendors
1 241 (15.02%) Microsoft
2 124 (7.73%) Oracle
3 86 (5.36%) SAP
4 82 (5.11%) Salesforce
5 73 (4.55%) Databricks
6 72 (4.49%) ServiceNow
7 60 (3.74%) Google
8 21 (1.31%) Workday
9 20 (1.25%) Adobe
9 20 (1.25%) Informatica
10 18 (1.12%) Splunk
11 17 (1.06%) Bloomberg
11 17 (1.06%) Cisco
11 17 (1.06%) Dynatrace
12 16 (1.00%) VMware
13 15 (0.93%) Murex
14 14 (0.87%) IBM
14 14 (0.87%) Tenable
15 13 (0.81%) Alteryx
16 12 (0.75%) Palo Alto