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

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,613 1,488 1,491
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.03% 11.86% 8.36%
As % of the General category 15.03% 17.54% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,010 937 1,015
10th Percentile £350 £313 £320
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £698
90th Percentile £738 £828 £845
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 35 46
10th Percentile £24.03 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £30.25 £26.29 £16.85
Median hourly rate £39.25 £40.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +76.09% -32.35%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £68.38 £65.00 £58.13
England median hourly rate £39.00 £28.15 £18.35
% change year-on-year +38.54% +53.41% -54.13%

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 10,729 8,483 11,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.09% 67.63% 63.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,939 5,725 8,027
10th Percentile £350 £347 £335
25th Percentile £425 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 137 246
10th Percentile £18.17 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £33.12 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +19.30% -10.71%
75th Percentile £48.75 £51.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.15 £27.76 £30.50
% change year-on-year +8.61% -8.98% -5.86%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -7 221 £525 -4.55% 241
West London +1 62 £520 +30.00% 41
South London +1 36 £500 -14.24% 14
East London +1 12 £400 +11.11% 27
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 87 (5.39%) Confluence
2 31 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.55%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.12%) Apache
6 13 (0.81%) CMS
6 13 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.50%) SAS
8 5 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.25%) IIS
10 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.12%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.062%) Appian
12 1 (0.062%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.062%) Traefik
Applications
1 160 (9.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (3.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 52 (3.22%) Microsoft Office
4 50 (3.10%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.62%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
10 1 (0.062%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.81%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.62%) Shopify
6 9 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.43%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.43%) Summit
8 6 (0.37%) Aladdin
8 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
8 6 (0.37%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.31%) BASE24
9 5 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 326 (20.21%) Azure
2 229 (14.20%) AWS
3 197 (12.21%) Power Platform
4 85 (5.27%) GCP
5 84 (5.21%) SaaS
6 78 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
8 56 (3.47%) GitHub
9 42 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 41 (2.54%) Serverless
11 40 (2.48%) Amazon S3
12 35 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (1.92%) Entra ID
13 31 (1.92%) Snowflake
14 29 (1.80%) dbt
15 28 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
16 24 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
17 23 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 22 (1.36%) IaaS
18 22 (1.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.60%) Firewall
2 26 (1.61%) Network Security
3 24 (1.49%) DNS
4 19 (1.18%) VPN
5 17 (1.05%) DHCP
6 15 (0.93%) WAN
7 14 (0.87%) SAN
8 11 (0.68%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.56%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.50%) Internet
10 8 (0.50%) VLAN
10 8 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.43%) BGP
11 7 (0.43%) HTTP
12 6 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.37%) IOS XR
12 6 (0.37%) LAN
12 6 (0.37%) NAS
12 6 (0.37%) OSPF
12 6 (0.37%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (10.97%) Power BI
2 89 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
3 73 (4.53%) SQL Server
4 70 (4.34%) Tableau
5 57 (3.53%) Metadata
6 43 (2.67%) Relational Database
7 32 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
8 31 (1.92%) Data Lake
9 28 (1.74%) NoSQL
10 27 (1.67%) Big Data
11 24 (1.49%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
14 17 (1.05%) Power Query
15 16 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.93%) MongoDB
16 15 (0.93%) RDBMS
16 15 (0.93%) Star Schema
17 14 (0.87%) Oracle Database
17 14 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 171 (10.60%) JIRA
2 66 (4.09%) Git
3 23 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.30%) Selenium
5 17 (1.05%) GitLab
6 13 (0.81%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.68%) MLflow
7 11 (0.68%) REST Assured
8 10 (0.62%) ERwin
8 10 (0.62%) Postman
9 8 (0.50%) Appium
9 8 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.50%) JMeter
9 8 (0.50%) JUnit
9 8 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.43%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.37%) Browser DevTools
11 6 (0.37%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.37%) WebDriver
12 5 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 734 (45.51%) Social Skills
2 617 (38.25%) Finance
3 234 (14.51%) Banking
4 141 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 92 (5.70%) Marketing
6 83 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
7 70 (4.34%) Legal
8 63 (3.91%) Front Office
8 63 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
9 58 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
10 48 (2.98%) Investment Banking
11 44 (2.73%) Retail
12 43 (2.67%) Financial Institution
12 43 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
13 38 (2.36%) Telecoms
14 32 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 22 (1.36%) Back Office
16 15 (0.93%) Law
16 15 (0.93%) Local Government
16 15 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 434 (26.91%) Analyst
2 231 (14.32%) Business Analyst
3 164 (10.17%) Senior
4 132 (8.18%) Developer
5 106 (6.57%) Lead
6 103 (6.39%) Architect
7 98 (6.08%) Data Engineer
8 86 (5.33%) Data Analyst
9 84 (5.21%) Consultant
10 53 (3.29%) Data Scientist
10 53 (3.29%) Project Manager
11 50 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
12 35 (2.17%) Senior Business Analyst
13 34 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
14 31 (1.92%) Financial Analyst
15 26 (1.61%) Product Manager
16 24 (1.49%) Quantitative Developer
16 24 (1.49%) Salesforce Analyst
16 24 (1.49%) Tester
17 23 (1.43%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (4.34%) REST
2 52 (3.22%) .NET
3 51 (3.16%) Kafka
4 39 (2.42%) Pandas
5 37 (2.29%) JSON
5 37 (2.29%) Middleware
6 32 (1.98%) RESTful
7 31 (1.92%) scikit-learn
7 31 (1.92%) XML
8 28 (1.74%) HTML
9 27 (1.67%) PySpark
10 26 (1.61%) CSS
11 25 (1.55%) NumPy
11 25 (1.55%) SOAP
12 24 (1.49%) PyTorch
13 21 (1.30%) Node.js
13 21 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
14 20 (1.24%) React
15 19 (1.18%) OAuth
15 19 (1.18%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 156 (9.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 97 (6.01%) Product Ownership
3 64 (3.97%) Data Structures
3 64 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
4 61 (3.78%) Onboarding
5 40 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 37 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 36 (2.23%) Algorithms
9 35 (2.17%) Cloud Native
10 33 (2.05%) Derivative
10 33 (2.05%) Fixed Income
11 30 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
12 28 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
13 26 (1.61%) Equities
13 26 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (1.49%) Virtual Team
15 23 (1.43%) Credit Risk
16 19 (1.18%) Market Risk
17 17 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 85 (5.27%) Windows
2 55 (3.41%) Linux
3 24 (1.49%) Unix
4 17 (1.05%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.87%) Android
5 14 (0.87%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.50%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.43%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.25%) AIX
9 2 (0.12%) Solaris
10 1 (0.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.062%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 765 (47.43%) Problem-Solving
2 463 (28.70%) Agile
3 322 (19.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 301 (18.66%) Analytics
5 281 (17.42%) Decision-Making
6 259 (16.06%) AI
7 254 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
8 252 (15.62%) Data Modelling
9 205 (12.71%) Business Intelligence
10 199 (12.34%) Validation
11 192 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 186 (11.53%) DevOps
13 176 (10.91%) CI/CD
14 165 (10.23%) Migration
15 158 (9.80%) Data Analysis
16 148 (9.18%) Roadmaps
17 146 (9.05%) Data Governance
18 144 (8.93%) Project Management
19 131 (8.12%) ETL
20 130 (8.06%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 441 (27.34%) SQL
2 359 (22.26%) Python
3 90 (5.58%) Java
4 81 (5.02%) C#
5 60 (3.72%) JavaScript
6 53 (3.29%) PowerShell
7 50 (3.10%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.98%) C++
9 31 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 29 (1.80%) R
11 28 (1.74%) Bash
12 23 (1.43%) PL/SQL
13 21 (1.30%) T-SQL
14 18 (1.12%) Scala
15 12 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.56%) C
16 9 (0.56%) VBA
17 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.37%) COBOL
18 6 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 222 (13.76%) Security Cleared
2 196 (12.15%) Degree
3 158 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 60 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (3.04%) Master's Degree
6 42 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (2.48%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.05%) PMP
9 32 (1.98%) CISSP
10 21 (1.30%) CISM
11 20 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.05%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.99%) CISA
14 15 (0.93%) DV Cleared
15 14 (0.87%) CRISC
16 13 (0.81%) CCNP
17 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
18 10 (0.62%) Azure Certification
19 9 (0.56%) ACCA
19 9 (0.56%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (12.83%) Data Quality
2 143 (8.87%) QA
3 77 (4.77%) GDPR
4 72 (4.46%) PMO
5 48 (2.98%) NIST
6 45 (2.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.86%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.80%) Actionable Recommendations
8 29 (1.80%) SLA
9 25 (1.55%) PCI DSS
10 23 (1.43%) GRC
10 23 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (1.36%) COBIT
12 12 (0.74%) IFRS
12 12 (0.74%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.68%) MiFID
14 9 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 9 (0.56%) PSD2
14 9 (0.56%) Solvency II
15 7 (0.43%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 61 (3.78%) Docker
2 43 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.25%) Firmware
5 4 (0.25%) IAG
6 3 (0.19%) Squid
6 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.12%) HDFS
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Postfix
8 1 (0.062%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.062%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.062%) RACF
8 1 (0.062%) Snort
8 1 (0.062%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.062%) vSphere
8 1 (0.062%) Xen
8 1 (0.062%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 64 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.48%) Terraform
3 21 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.24%) Ansible
4 20 (1.24%) Grafana
5 13 (0.81%) SCCM
6 10 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.50%) Kibana
7 8 (0.50%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.31%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.19%) Control-M
10 3 (0.19%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.19%) SCOM
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.062%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.062%) logstash
12 1 (0.062%) Suricata
Vendors
1 257 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 114 (7.07%) Oracle
3 90 (5.58%) SAP
4 85 (5.27%) Salesforce
5 69 (4.28%) Databricks
6 68 (4.22%) ServiceNow
7 66 (4.09%) Google
8 24 (1.49%) Adobe
9 23 (1.43%) Workday
10 21 (1.30%) Cisco
10 21 (1.30%) Splunk
11 20 (1.24%) Bloomberg
12 17 (1.05%) Informatica
12 17 (1.05%) Murex
12 17 (1.05%) Palo Alto
12 17 (1.05%) VMware
13 15 (0.93%) Dynatrace
14 13 (0.81%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.81%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.74%) IBM