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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,888 1,588 1,366
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.35% 11.75% 8.44%
As % of the General category 15.39% 17.10% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,146 1,013 899
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £771
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 30 23
10th Percentile £19.03 £11.96 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.88 £24.63 £22.03
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.48 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.11% -18.87% -10.53%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £73.15 £57.00 £65.03
England median hourly rate £37.75 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.15% +44.44% -48.70%

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 12,268 9,289 10,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.76% 68.72% 62.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,815 6,167 7,105
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 £510 £538
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 187 145
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.08 £24.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -15.49% +1.43%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.63 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £67.20
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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -10 229 £525 -4.55% 245
West London +3 76 £520 +26.06% 74
South London +8 33 £537 -14.08% 28
East London -2 11 £413 +26.92% 43
North London 0 3 £450 - 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 84 (4.45%) Confluence
2 42 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 28 (1.48%) CMS
5 21 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
6 20 (1.06%) Apache
7 9 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.37%) JBoss
9 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.37%) SAS
9 7 (0.37%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.26%) Appian
11 5 (0.26%) IIS
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.16%) Camunda
Applications
1 166 (8.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (2.01%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.64%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.26%) 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 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.11%) 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 (0.42%) Loan IQ
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.32%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.26%) iTrent
10 5 (0.26%) Magento
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.21%) Findur
11 4 (0.21%) HFM
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 4 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 379 (20.07%) Azure
2 257 (13.61%) AWS
3 221 (11.71%) Power Platform
4 98 (5.19%) GCP
5 80 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
5 80 (4.24%) SaaS
6 71 (3.76%) GitHub
7 66 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
8 65 (3.44%) Entra ID
9 55 (2.91%) Snowflake
10 44 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
11 35 (1.85%) dbt
11 35 (1.85%) Serverless
12 32 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
13 30 (1.59%) Amazon S3
13 30 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (1.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 25 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
16 24 (1.27%) PaaS
17 21 (1.11%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.75%) Firewall
2 41 (2.17%) DNS
3 31 (1.64%) VPN
4 29 (1.54%) Network Security
5 28 (1.48%) TCP/IP
6 25 (1.32%) DHCP
7 18 (0.95%) WAN
8 15 (0.79%) HTTP
8 15 (0.79%) SSL
9 14 (0.74%) SAN
9 14 (0.74%) VLAN
10 13 (0.69%) BGP
11 12 (0.64%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.48%) MPLS
13 8 (0.42%) 4G
13 8 (0.42%) 5G
13 8 (0.42%) Ethernet VPN
13 8 (0.42%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 201 (10.65%) Power BI
2 103 (5.46%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (5.30%) SQL Server
4 78 (4.13%) Relational Database
4 78 (4.13%) Tableau
5 74 (3.92%) Metadata
6 55 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (1.96%) Data Lake
8 36 (1.91%) NoSQL
9 31 (1.64%) Big Data
10 28 (1.48%) Oracle Database
11 27 (1.43%) MongoDB
12 24 (1.27%) RDBMS
13 20 (1.06%) Power Query
13 20 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (0.95%) Delta Lake
14 18 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
15 17 (0.90%) BigQuery
15 17 (0.90%) Star Schema
16 15 (0.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 188 (9.96%) JIRA
2 81 (4.29%) Git
3 45 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.43%) Selenium
5 22 (1.17%) JMeter
6 18 (0.95%) GitLab
7 14 (0.74%) ERwin
7 14 (0.74%) LoadRunner
7 14 (0.74%) Postman
8 13 (0.69%) JUnit
9 12 (0.64%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.64%) Maven
10 11 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.58%) SonarQube
11 10 (0.53%) Gatling
11 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
12 9 (0.48%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.48%) ER Studio
12 9 (0.48%) Gradle
12 9 (0.48%) Zephyr
General
1 942 (49.89%) Social Skills
2 750 (39.72%) Finance
3 287 (15.20%) Banking
4 154 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 100 (5.30%) Marketing
6 99 (5.24%) Front Office
7 90 (4.77%) Organisational Skills
8 86 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
9 74 (3.92%) Legal
10 71 (3.76%) Retail
11 63 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
12 58 (3.07%) Investment Banking
12 58 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
13 55 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 53 (2.81%) Telecoms
15 41 (2.17%) Financial Institution
16 30 (1.59%) Local Government
17 27 (1.43%) Back Office
18 20 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
19 19 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 467 (24.74%) Analyst
2 241 (12.76%) Business Analyst
3 213 (11.28%) Senior
4 176 (9.32%) Developer
5 136 (7.20%) Lead
6 130 (6.89%) Architect
7 101 (5.35%) Data Engineer
8 97 (5.14%) Data Analyst
9 84 (4.45%) Consultant
10 64 (3.39%) Data Scientist
11 61 (3.23%) Project Manager
12 51 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
13 44 (2.33%) Senior Developer
14 34 (1.80%) Senior Manager
15 32 (1.69%) Solutions Architect
15 32 (1.69%) Support Engineer
16 31 (1.64%) Java Developer
16 31 (1.64%) Technical Business Analyst
17 30 (1.59%) Technical Analyst
18 29 (1.54%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (5.99%) REST
2 78 (4.13%) .NET
3 61 (3.23%) Kafka
4 55 (2.91%) RESTful
5 46 (2.44%) JSON
6 44 (2.33%) SOAP
6 44 (2.33%) XML
7 42 (2.22%) Web Services
8 40 (2.12%) Middleware
9 39 (2.07%) HTML
10 34 (1.80%) Spring
11 33 (1.75%) CSS
11 33 (1.75%) Pandas
11 33 (1.75%) PySpark
12 32 (1.69%) React
13 27 (1.43%) Spring Boot
14 24 (1.27%) AngularJS
15 22 (1.17%) OAuth
15 22 (1.17%) PyTorch
16 21 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 176 (9.32%) Analytical Mindset
2 133 (7.04%) Product Ownership
3 112 (5.93%) Onboarding
4 76 (4.03%) Data Structures
5 67 (3.55%) Self-Motivation
6 65 (3.44%) Cloud Native
7 58 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
8 57 (3.02%) Management Information System
9 42 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
10 38 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
11 37 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 37 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
12 32 (1.69%) Data Centre
12 32 (1.69%) Fixed Income
13 31 (1.64%) Derivative
14 29 (1.54%) AI Agents
15 28 (1.48%) Algorithms
15 28 (1.48%) Equities
16 25 (1.32%) CMDB
17 24 (1.27%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 131 (6.94%) Windows
2 121 (6.41%) Linux
3 45 (2.38%) Unix
4 24 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.90%) Mac OS
5 17 (0.90%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 15 (0.79%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.58%) Android
9 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) Solaris
11 5 (0.26%) 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
1 954 (50.53%) Problem-Solving
2 567 (30.03%) Agile
3 559 (29.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 371 (19.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 358 (18.96%) Analytics
6 339 (17.96%) AI
7 320 (16.95%) Decision-Making
8 257 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 255 (13.51%) Data Modelling
10 243 (12.87%) Validation
11 238 (12.61%) DevOps
12 231 (12.24%) Business Intelligence
13 217 (11.49%) CI/CD
14 215 (11.39%) Migration
15 182 (9.64%) Data Analysis
16 178 (9.43%) User Acceptance Testing
17 167 (8.85%) Data Pipeline
18 163 (8.63%) Roadmaps
18 163 (8.63%) User Stories
19 155 (8.21%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 525 (27.81%) SQL
2 409 (21.66%) Python
3 136 (7.20%) Java
4 93 (4.93%) C#
4 93 (4.93%) JavaScript
5 77 (4.08%) PowerShell
6 47 (2.49%) TypeScript
7 41 (2.17%) Bash
8 35 (1.85%) C++
9 29 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 29 (1.54%) PL/SQL
9 29 (1.54%) R
10 23 (1.22%) T-SQL
11 15 (0.79%) Scala
12 11 (0.58%) Perl
12 11 (0.58%) Shell Script
13 10 (0.53%) Go
13 10 (0.53%) VBA
14 9 (0.48%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 253 (13.40%) Security Cleared
2 237 (12.55%) Degree
3 192 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 79 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.12%) CISSP
6 34 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (1.48%) CISM
7 28 (1.48%) PMP
8 27 (1.43%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.38%) PMI Certification
10 25 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.22%) Azure Certification
12 20 (1.06%) DV Cleared
12 20 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.85%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.79%) ACCA
14 15 (0.79%) CCNP
14 15 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (0.74%) CIMA
16 13 (0.69%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (12.34%) Data Quality
2 142 (7.52%) QA
3 88 (4.66%) PMO
4 58 (3.07%) GDPR
5 50 (2.65%) SLA
6 47 (2.49%) NIST
7 46 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (1.85%) Accessibility
9 28 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 24 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (1.17%) COBIT
12 21 (1.11%) GRC
13 16 (0.85%) IFRS
14 11 (0.58%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.48%) PCI DSS
16 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (0.37%) WCAG
18 6 (0.32%) GAAP
18 6 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 82 (4.34%) Active Directory
2 72 (3.81%) Docker
3 21 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.48%) IAG
6 6 (0.32%) Firmware
6 6 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.26%) 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 75 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 65 (3.44%) Terraform
3 44 (2.33%) Ansible
4 35 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (1.69%) Grafana
6 18 (0.95%) SCCM
7 16 (0.85%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.74%) Control-M
8 14 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.64%) Kibana
10 6 (0.32%) Puppet
10 6 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.26%) Istio
12 4 (0.21%) Failover Clustering
12 4 (0.21%) systemd
13 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.16%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 309 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 165 (8.74%) Oracle
3 103 (5.46%) SAP
4 102 (5.40%) ServiceNow
5 71 (3.76%) Google
6 68 (3.60%) Databricks
7 63 (3.34%) Salesforce
8 40 (2.12%) Splunk
9 36 (1.91%) IBM
10 33 (1.75%) Dynatrace
11 31 (1.64%) Cisco
11 31 (1.64%) VMware
12 23 (1.22%) Adobe
13 22 (1.17%) CyberArk
13 22 (1.17%) Workday
14 19 (1.01%) Alteryx
15 18 (0.95%) Informatica
16 17 (0.90%) Apple
17 16 (0.85%) Sitecore
18 13 (0.69%) Red Hat