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 15 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 15 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,635 1,418 1,483
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.97% 10.88% 8.13%
As % of the General category 15.92% 16.38% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,010 883 1,009
10th Percentile £350 £318 £320
25th Percentile £413 £416 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £708 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.09% -2.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 35 50
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.03 £26.29 £16.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £39.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.13% +71.74% -23.33%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.00 £41.81
90th Percentile £56.70 £80.75 £49.42
England median hourly rate £30.37 £29.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +4.71% +48.72% -40.35%

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 10,272 8,659 11,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.67% 66.41% 63.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,690 5,753 8,264
10th Percentile £350 £336 £332
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.57% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £694
90th Percentile £782 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 125 262
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.18 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.75 £18.45
Median hourly rate £29.02 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.09% +16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £49.69 £55.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.40 £72.20
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.78 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.78% +18.38% -23.53%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -1 237 £525 -2.78% 207
South London -3 33 £513 -12.24% 8
West London -6 33 £500 +25.00% 43
East London +5 8 £400 -32.23% 24
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 81 (4.95%) Confluence
2 30 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 21 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
5 19 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (0.98%) Apache
7 14 (0.86%) CMS
8 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.24%) SAS
10 3 (0.18%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.061%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.061%) nginx
12 1 (0.061%) Traefik
Applications
1 164 (10.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.57%) MS Visio
5 32 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.37%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.31%) Trello
9 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.061%) Notion
11 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.061%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.80%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
4 8 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.49%) SAP HR
4 8 (0.49%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.43%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.43%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.37%) Shopify
7 5 (0.31%) BASE24
7 5 (0.31%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.24%) Endur
8 4 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
8 4 (0.24%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 332 (20.31%) Azure
2 220 (13.46%) AWS
3 205 (12.54%) Power Platform
4 89 (5.44%) GCP
5 82 (5.02%) SaaS
6 76 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (4.10%) Microsoft 365
8 50 (3.06%) GitHub
9 45 (2.75%) Serverless
10 43 (2.63%) Snowflake
11 42 (2.57%) IaaS
12 41 (2.51%) Entra ID
13 38 (2.32%) Azure Data Factory
14 36 (2.20%) Amazon S3
15 33 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
16 27 (1.65%) dbt
17 24 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
18 23 (1.41%) PaaS
19 19 (1.16%) Amazon ECS
19 19 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.39%) Firewall
2 33 (2.02%) Network Security
3 25 (1.53%) DNS
4 20 (1.22%) WAN
5 18 (1.10%) VPN
6 14 (0.86%) DHCP
6 14 (0.86%) SD-WAN
7 12 (0.73%) SAN
8 11 (0.67%) LAN
9 10 (0.61%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.61%) VLAN
10 9 (0.55%) HTTP
10 9 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.49%) Internet
11 8 (0.49%) SMS
11 8 (0.49%) SSL
12 7 (0.43%) BGP
13 6 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.37%) IOS XR
13 6 (0.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (11.31%) Power BI
2 83 (5.08%) Tableau
3 81 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
4 59 (3.61%) SQL Server
5 50 (3.06%) Metadata
6 36 (2.20%) Relational Database
7 27 (1.65%) Data Lake
8 26 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
9 25 (1.53%) Big Data
10 23 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
11 22 (1.35%) NoSQL
12 20 (1.22%) BigQuery
13 18 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 16 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
14 16 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
15 15 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
16 14 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (0.86%) MongoDB
17 12 (0.73%) Hadoop
17 12 (0.73%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 162 (9.91%) JIRA
2 71 (4.34%) Git
3 24 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.10%) Selenium
5 14 (0.86%) GitLab
6 13 (0.80%) JUnit
7 11 (0.67%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.61%) MLflow
8 10 (0.61%) REST Assured
9 9 (0.55%) Postman
10 8 (0.49%) Appium
11 6 (0.37%) Browser DevTools
11 6 (0.37%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.37%) JMeter
11 6 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.31%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.31%) Chocolatey
12 5 (0.31%) ERwin
12 5 (0.31%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.31%) WebDriver
General
1 808 (49.42%) Social Skills
2 593 (36.27%) Finance
3 219 (13.39%) Banking
4 143 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 105 (6.42%) Marketing
6 82 (5.02%) Legal
7 71 (4.34%) Documentation Skills
8 64 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
9 52 (3.18%) Front Office
10 51 (3.12%) Investment Banking
11 50 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
12 46 (2.81%) Retail
13 44 (2.69%) Financial Institution
14 42 (2.57%) Influencing Skills
15 32 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 32 (1.96%) Telecoms
16 29 (1.77%) Publishing
17 27 (1.65%) Back Office
18 21 (1.28%) Law
19 15 (0.92%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 420 (25.69%) Analyst
2 223 (13.64%) Business Analyst
3 174 (10.64%) Senior
4 158 (9.66%) Developer
5 127 (7.77%) Architect
6 110 (6.73%) Lead
7 91 (5.57%) Consultant
8 89 (5.44%) Data Analyst
9 81 (4.95%) Data Engineer
10 65 (3.98%) Project Manager
11 55 (3.36%) Senior Analyst
12 46 (2.81%) Data Scientist
13 41 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
14 34 (2.08%) Product Manager
15 32 (1.96%) Senior Business Analyst
16 30 (1.83%) Senior Developer
17 26 (1.59%) Security Analyst
18 25 (1.53%) Senior Manager
19 23 (1.41%) Quantitative Developer
20 22 (1.35%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (6.06%) REST
2 53 (3.24%) JSON
3 50 (3.06%) Kafka
4 47 (2.87%) .NET
5 37 (2.26%) Middleware
5 37 (2.26%) Pandas
6 33 (2.02%) scikit-learn
7 32 (1.96%) RESTful
7 32 (1.96%) SOAP
8 31 (1.90%) XML
9 28 (1.71%) HTML
10 27 (1.65%) CSS
11 26 (1.59%) NumPy
12 24 (1.47%) Node.js
13 23 (1.41%) OAuth
13 23 (1.41%) PyTorch
14 22 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
14 22 (1.35%) React
15 21 (1.28%) AngularJS
15 21 (1.28%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 158 (9.66%) Analytical Mindset
2 78 (4.77%) Product Ownership
3 73 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
4 59 (3.61%) Data Structures
5 56 (3.43%) Onboarding
6 44 (2.69%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.45%) Algorithms
8 37 (2.26%) Derivative
8 37 (2.26%) Fixed Income
9 36 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (2.02%) Data Centre
11 30 (1.83%) Equities
11 30 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 30 (1.83%) PKI
12 28 (1.71%) Cloud Native
13 24 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
14 23 (1.41%) Security Posture
15 22 (1.35%) Virtual Team
16 20 (1.22%) CMDB
16 20 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 80 (4.89%) Windows
2 54 (3.30%) Linux
3 23 (1.41%) Unix
4 14 (0.86%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.67%) Android
7 7 (0.43%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.12%) VMS
10 1 (0.061%) AIX
10 1 (0.061%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.061%) Solaris
10 1 (0.061%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 818 (50.03%) Problem-Solving
2 493 (30.15%) Agile
3 325 (19.88%) Analytics
3 325 (19.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 281 (17.19%) Decision-Making
5 246 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 226 (13.82%) Data Modelling
7 222 (13.58%) AI
8 214 (13.09%) Business Intelligence
9 209 (12.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 179 (10.95%) CI/CD
11 178 (10.89%) DevOps
12 174 (10.64%) Validation
13 160 (9.79%) Data Analysis
14 159 (9.72%) Migration
15 157 (9.60%) Roadmaps
16 147 (8.99%) Data Governance
16 147 (8.99%) Visualisation
17 145 (8.87%) Actionable Insight
18 144 (8.81%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 428 (26.18%) SQL
2 350 (21.41%) Python
3 87 (5.32%) Java
4 83 (5.08%) PowerShell
5 69 (4.22%) C#
6 60 (3.67%) JavaScript
7 38 (2.32%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.96%) Bash
9 29 (1.77%) C++
10 24 (1.47%) R
11 22 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 16 (0.98%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (0.86%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.80%) Scala
15 11 (0.67%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.55%) C
17 7 (0.43%) Bicep
18 6 (0.37%) VBA
19 5 (0.31%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 250 (15.29%) Security Cleared
2 236 (14.43%) Degree
3 180 (11.01%) SC Cleared
4 70 (4.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (3.79%) Master's Degree
6 46 (2.81%) PMI Certification
7 37 (2.26%) PMP
8 29 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (1.77%) CISSP
9 22 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (1.28%) DV Cleared
11 17 (1.04%) Azure Certification
11 17 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (0.92%) CISM
13 14 (0.86%) AWS Certification
13 14 (0.86%) ISTQB
14 13 (0.80%) CCNP
14 13 (0.80%) CIMA
14 13 (0.80%) CISA
15 12 (0.73%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (12.05%) Data Quality
2 138 (8.44%) QA
3 86 (5.26%) GDPR
4 54 (3.30%) PMO
5 45 (2.75%) Accessibility
6 39 (2.39%) NIST
7 38 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 27 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
9 26 (1.59%) GRC
10 25 (1.53%) PCI DSS
11 24 (1.47%) SLA
12 21 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 17 (1.04%) COBIT
14 12 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 11 (0.67%) MiFID
15 11 (0.67%) Solvency II
16 10 (0.61%) ISO 20022
17 9 (0.55%) WCAG
18 8 (0.49%) HIPAA
18 8 (0.49%) IFRS
System Software
1 67 (4.10%) Docker
2 54 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.31%) Firmware
5 4 (0.24%) HDFS
5 4 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.18%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.12%) Snort
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.12%) vSphere
7 2 (0.12%) zsh
8 1 (0.061%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.061%) IAG
8 1 (0.061%) Postfix
8 1 (0.061%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.061%) Xen
8 1 (0.061%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 65 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 45 (2.75%) Terraform
3 28 (1.71%) Ansible
4 24 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.86%) SCCM
6 12 (0.73%) Grafana
7 11 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.49%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.31%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.18%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.18%) Nessus
10 3 (0.18%) SCOM
11 2 (0.12%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.12%) Suricata
11 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.061%) Istio
12 1 (0.061%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.061%) vRealize
Vendors
1 269 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.69%) Oracle
3 89 (5.44%) SAP
4 87 (5.32%) Salesforce
5 73 (4.46%) Google
6 67 (4.10%) ServiceNow
7 64 (3.91%) Databricks
8 27 (1.65%) Splunk
9 26 (1.59%) Bloomberg
10 24 (1.47%) Cisco
11 21 (1.28%) Murex
11 21 (1.28%) VMware
11 21 (1.28%) Workday
12 19 (1.16%) Adobe
12 19 (1.16%) Informatica
13 15 (0.92%) Palo Alto
14 13 (0.80%) IBM
14 13 (0.80%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.73%) Juniper
16 11 (0.67%) Remedy