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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,930 1,488 1,422
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.53% 11.02% 8.79%
As % of the General category 15.42% 16.06% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 923 869
10th Percentile £338 £313 £320
25th Percentile £425 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £771
England median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.15% -3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 32 24
10th Percentile £19.37 £18.25 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.00 £25.12 £22.75
Median hourly rate £28.55 £34.48 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% -9.86% -22.73%
75th Percentile £50.00 £54.38 £54.06
90th Percentile £60.35 £69.00 £72.88
England median hourly rate £29.50 £32.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year -9.23% +27.45% -41.86%

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 12,515 9,264 10,088
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.77% 68.62% 62.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,978 6,096 6,567
10th Percentile £350 £327 £330
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 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 178 119
10th Percentile £16.09 £17.05 £17.90
25th Percentile £20.38 £24.53 £25.87
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £36.80
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -14.42% +23.70%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.38 £54.38
90th Percentile £70.03 £66.90 £71.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £25.11 £36.08
% change year-on-year +15.76% -30.40% +22.31%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 -12 222 £550 - 430
West London +8 92 £556 +34.04% 140
South London -1 26 £537 -20.44% 29
East London +1 12 £500 +45.99% 26
North London +4 5 £525 - 2
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 95 (4.92%) Confluence
2 47 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 45 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.40%) CMS
6 24 (1.24%) Apache
7 20 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.41%) JBoss
9 8 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
9 8 (0.41%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.36%) SAS
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%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 185 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.66%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.36%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.26%) Trello
9 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.10%) Notion
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.10%) Productboard
11 1 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.052%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 26 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (0.93%) Aladdin
5 15 (0.78%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.52%) Finacle
7 8 (0.41%) iTrent
7 8 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
7 8 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.41%) Shopify
8 6 (0.31%) Magento
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.26%) SAP GRC
9 5 (0.26%) Summit
10 4 (0.21%) Front Arena
10 4 (0.21%) Loan IQ
10 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 387 (20.05%) Azure
2 270 (13.99%) AWS
3 247 (12.80%) Power Platform
4 110 (5.70%) GCP
5 91 (4.72%) GitHub
6 82 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
7 77 (3.99%) SaaS
8 74 (3.83%) Snowflake
9 71 (3.68%) Entra ID
9 71 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
10 44 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (2.23%) Serverless
12 39 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
13 38 (1.97%) dbt
14 32 (1.66%) Amazon S3
15 31 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
16 29 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 23 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.02%) Firewall
2 35 (1.81%) TCP/IP
3 34 (1.76%) Network Security
4 33 (1.71%) DNS
5 32 (1.66%) VPN
6 20 (1.04%) DHCP
7 16 (0.83%) SSL
8 15 (0.78%) BGP
8 15 (0.78%) WAN
9 13 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
9 13 (0.67%) VLAN
10 12 (0.62%) 5G
10 12 (0.62%) HTTP
11 11 (0.57%) Kerberos
11 11 (0.57%) MPLS
11 11 (0.57%) SAN
12 9 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.47%) Wireless
12 9 (0.47%) Wireshark
13 8 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 216 (11.19%) Power BI
2 105 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
3 99 (5.13%) SQL Server
4 80 (4.15%) Tableau
5 78 (4.04%) Relational Database
6 67 (3.47%) Metadata
6 67 (3.47%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (1.97%) NoSQL
8 37 (1.92%) Data Lake
9 36 (1.87%) MongoDB
10 32 (1.66%) Oracle Database
11 26 (1.35%) Delta Lake
12 25 (1.30%) BigQuery
13 24 (1.24%) Big Data
14 23 (1.19%) Power Query
15 21 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 20 (1.04%) RDBMS
17 19 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
18 18 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
19 15 (0.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 195 (10.10%) JIRA
2 126 (6.53%) Git
3 63 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.92%) GitLab
5 26 (1.35%) Selenium
6 21 (1.09%) JMeter
7 16 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 15 (0.78%) Maven
9 14 (0.73%) Gradle
10 13 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.67%) LoadRunner
10 13 (0.67%) Postman
11 11 (0.57%) ERwin
11 11 (0.57%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.52%) Gatling
13 9 (0.47%) JUnit
13 9 (0.47%) REST Assured
13 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.41%) ER Studio
14 8 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 995 (51.55%) Social Skills
2 796 (41.24%) Finance
3 311 (16.11%) Banking
4 175 (9.07%) Public Sector
5 99 (5.13%) Front Office
6 95 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
7 86 (4.46%) Legal
7 86 (4.46%) Marketing
8 84 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
9 77 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
9 77 (3.99%) Retail
10 62 (3.21%) Investment Banking
10 62 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
11 61 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 55 (2.85%) Local Government
13 48 (2.49%) Telecoms
14 38 (1.97%) Back Office
15 36 (1.87%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.50%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 481 (24.92%) Analyst
2 233 (12.07%) Senior
3 219 (11.35%) Business Analyst
4 181 (9.38%) Developer
5 130 (6.74%) Lead
6 117 (6.06%) Architect
7 101 (5.23%) Data Analyst
8 95 (4.92%) Data Engineer
9 84 (4.35%) Consultant
10 58 (3.01%) Data Scientist
11 51 (2.64%) Project Manager
11 51 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
12 50 (2.59%) Senior Developer
13 32 (1.66%) Technical Analyst
14 31 (1.61%) Java Developer
15 30 (1.55%) Senior Manager
15 30 (1.55%) Support Engineer
16 29 (1.50%) Technical Business Analyst
17 28 (1.45%) Financial Analyst
17 28 (1.45%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (6.17%) REST
2 94 (4.87%) .NET
3 86 (4.46%) Terraform
4 65 (3.37%) Kafka
5 63 (3.26%) RESTful
6 49 (2.54%) Web Services
7 43 (2.23%) SOAP
8 42 (2.18%) JSON
8 42 (2.18%) Middleware
8 42 (2.18%) XML
9 41 (2.12%) HTML
10 40 (2.07%) PySpark
11 37 (1.92%) Spring
12 34 (1.76%) CSS
13 33 (1.71%) React
14 32 (1.66%) Spring Boot
15 25 (1.30%) Pandas
16 22 (1.14%) .NET Core
16 22 (1.14%) AngularJS
17 21 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 146 (7.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 142 (7.36%) Product Ownership
3 119 (6.17%) Onboarding
4 83 (4.30%) Cloud Native
5 72 (3.73%) Data Structures
5 72 (3.73%) Management Information System
6 66 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
7 54 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
8 49 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
9 42 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
10 38 (1.97%) AI Agents
11 35 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
12 32 (1.66%) Derivative
13 30 (1.55%) Fixed Income
14 29 (1.50%) Algorithms
15 27 (1.40%) Equities
16 26 (1.35%) Credit Risk
16 26 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 22 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
18 21 (1.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 131 (6.79%) Linux
2 122 (6.32%) Windows
3 54 (2.80%) Unix
4 25 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.14%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.83%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.73%) Android
9 7 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.31%) Solaris
11 5 (0.26%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.10%) SUSE
13 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.052%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.052%) VMS
14 1 (0.052%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,011 (52.38%) Problem-Solving
2 702 (36.37%) Stakeholder Management
3 556 (28.81%) Agile
4 411 (21.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 385 (19.95%) Analytics
6 383 (19.84%) AI
7 360 (18.65%) Decision-Making
8 280 (14.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 267 (13.83%) CI/CD
9 267 (13.83%) Validation
10 253 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
11 252 (13.06%) DevOps
12 233 (12.07%) Data Modelling
13 225 (11.66%) Migration
14 198 (10.26%) User Acceptance Testing
15 189 (9.79%) Roadmaps
16 179 (9.27%) Data Analysis
17 177 (9.17%) Requirements Gathering
18 176 (9.12%) Business Analysis
19 175 (9.07%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 562 (29.12%) SQL
2 422 (21.87%) Python
3 124 (6.42%) Java
4 106 (5.49%) C#
5 98 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 73 (3.78%) PowerShell
7 55 (2.85%) Bash
8 40 (2.07%) TypeScript
9 32 (1.66%) R
10 30 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 28 (1.45%) C++
11 28 (1.45%) T-SQL
12 27 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 25 (1.30%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.83%) Korn
14 16 (0.83%) Perl
15 15 (0.78%) Scala
16 13 (0.67%) Go
17 8 (0.41%) C
18 7 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 267 (13.83%) Security Cleared
2 253 (13.11%) Degree
3 215 (11.14%) SC Cleared
4 65 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (1.92%) PMI Certification
7 36 (1.87%) PMP
8 33 (1.71%) CISSP
8 33 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 23 (1.19%) ACCA
10 23 (1.19%) CIMA
11 22 (1.14%) CISM
11 22 (1.14%) DV Cleared
12 20 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (0.88%) AWS Certification
14 17 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 16 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
16 15 (0.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (13.16%) Data Quality
2 151 (7.82%) QA
3 78 (4.04%) PMO
4 57 (2.95%) GDPR
5 46 (2.38%) SLA
6 42 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
8 33 (1.71%) NIST
9 28 (1.45%) GRC
10 27 (1.40%) Accessibility
11 18 (0.93%) IFRS
12 15 (0.78%) COBIT
13 14 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.67%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.41%) Basel III
16 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.31%) ISO 15022
17 6 (0.31%) P3O
17 6 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 95 (4.92%) Docker
2 80 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.36%) IAG
5 7 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.26%) Firmware
8 4 (0.21%) vSphere
9 3 (0.16%) NFS
9 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.10%) Postfix
10 2 (0.10%) Squid
10 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.052%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 95 (4.92%) Kubernetes
2 42 (2.18%) Ansible
3 34 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (1.71%) Grafana
5 17 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.83%) SCCM
7 15 (0.78%) Kibana
8 14 (0.73%) Control-M
9 7 (0.36%) Puppet
9 7 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 5 (0.26%) Istio
10 5 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.21%) systemd
12 3 (0.16%) Argo
12 3 (0.16%) Cilium
12 3 (0.16%) SnapMirror
13 2 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 356 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 164 (8.50%) Oracle
3 96 (4.97%) Databricks
4 94 (4.87%) SAP
5 91 (4.72%) ServiceNow
6 74 (3.83%) Google
7 62 (3.21%) Salesforce
8 54 (2.80%) Splunk
9 36 (1.87%) IBM
10 35 (1.81%) Cisco
11 30 (1.55%) Dynatrace
11 30 (1.55%) VMware
12 23 (1.19%) CyberArk
13 20 (1.04%) Adobe
14 18 (0.93%) Workday
15 17 (0.88%) Alteryx
15 17 (0.88%) Red Hat
16 15 (0.78%) Informatica
16 15 (0.78%) UiPath
17 14 (0.73%) Zscaler