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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,916 1,545 1,362
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.55% 11.69% 8.49%
As % of the General category 15.64% 16.93% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 990 863
10th Percentile £339 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £668
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 32 23
10th Percentile £19.72 £17.05 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.83 £21.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £34.74 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -16.29% -14.87%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.30 £59.63 £65.03
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £21.75
% change year-on-year +10.77% +49.43% -51.67%

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 12,252 9,127 10,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.06% 69.08% 62.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,803 6,037 6,825
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £450 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 186 129
10th Percentile £18.50 £16.17 £17.90
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.66 £24.18
Median hourly rate £28.40 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.63% -7.14% +9.65%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £65.23
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +25.25% -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 4 September 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 September 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 September 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 -11 222 £525 -4.55% 300
West London +5 82 £553 +33.53% 141
South London +5 34 £550 -12.00% 29
East London +2 14 £500 +53.85% 34
North London +4 4 £500 - 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 86 (4.49%) Confluence
2 46 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (1.57%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.36%) CMS
6 23 (1.20%) Apache
7 21 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.47%) SAS
10 8 (0.42%) JBoss
10 8 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.37%) IIS
11 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.26%) Appian
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.16%) Camunda
Applications
1 182 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (1.98%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.52%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.37%) CPLEX
9 5 (0.26%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.10%) Notion
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 25 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.73%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.68%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.52%) Finacle
6 10 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.47%) Shopify
8 8 (0.42%) iTrent
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.26%) Magento
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.26%) SAP GRC
10 5 (0.26%) Summit
11 4 (0.21%) Findur
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 386 (20.15%) Azure
2 279 (14.56%) AWS
3 237 (12.37%) Power Platform
4 101 (5.27%) GCP
5 86 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
6 78 (4.07%) SaaS
7 77 (4.02%) GitHub
8 71 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
9 68 (3.55%) Entra ID
10 67 (3.50%) Snowflake
11 46 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 42 (2.19%) Serverless
13 41 (2.14%) dbt
14 36 (1.88%) GitHub Actions
15 31 (1.62%) Amazon S3
15 31 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
16 30 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 26 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
18 21 (1.10%) PaaS
19 20 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.35%) Firewall
2 36 (1.88%) DNS
3 32 (1.67%) Network Security
4 31 (1.62%) TCP/IP
5 29 (1.51%) VPN
6 23 (1.20%) DHCP
7 18 (0.94%) WAN
8 17 (0.89%) SSL
9 14 (0.73%) HTTP
10 13 (0.68%) BGP
10 13 (0.68%) SAN
11 12 (0.63%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (0.57%) 5G
12 11 (0.57%) Kerberos
12 11 (0.57%) VLAN
12 11 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.47%) MPLS
13 9 (0.47%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.47%) Wireless
14 8 (0.42%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (11.17%) Power BI
2 109 (5.69%) Data Warehouse
3 102 (5.32%) SQL Server
4 81 (4.23%) Tableau
5 80 (4.18%) Relational Database
6 77 (4.02%) Metadata
7 64 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (1.88%) NoSQL
9 35 (1.83%) Data Lake
10 30 (1.57%) Big Data
11 29 (1.51%) MongoDB
12 28 (1.46%) Delta Lake
12 28 (1.46%) Oracle Database
13 23 (1.20%) Power Query
13 23 (1.20%) RDBMS
14 22 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (1.10%) BigQuery
16 16 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
16 16 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
17 15 (0.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 191 (9.97%) JIRA
2 101 (5.27%) Git
3 54 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.57%) Selenium
5 24 (1.25%) GitLab
6 22 (1.15%) JMeter
7 16 (0.84%) Postman
8 15 (0.78%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.73%) LoadRunner
10 13 (0.68%) ERwin
11 12 (0.63%) Maven
12 11 (0.57%) JUnit
12 11 (0.57%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.52%) Gatling
13 10 (0.52%) Gradle
13 10 (0.52%) REST Assured
14 9 (0.47%) ER Studio
15 8 (0.42%) TeamCity
15 8 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 989 (51.62%) Social Skills
2 754 (39.35%) Finance
3 288 (15.03%) Banking
4 164 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 101 (5.27%) Front Office
6 94 (4.91%) Marketing
7 87 (4.54%) Organisational Skills
8 86 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
9 76 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
9 76 (3.97%) Retail
10 72 (3.76%) Legal
11 63 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 59 (3.08%) Investment Banking
12 59 (3.08%) Telecoms
13 58 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
14 42 (2.19%) Local Government
15 37 (1.93%) Financial Institution
16 30 (1.57%) Back Office
17 22 (1.15%) Manufacturing
18 20 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 477 (24.90%) Analyst
2 228 (11.90%) Business Analyst
3 222 (11.59%) Senior
4 171 (8.92%) Developer
5 138 (7.20%) Architect
6 136 (7.10%) Lead
7 102 (5.32%) Data Engineer
8 100 (5.22%) Data Analyst
9 77 (4.02%) Consultant
10 62 (3.24%) Data Scientist
11 52 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
12 51 (2.66%) Project Manager
13 48 (2.51%) Senior Developer
14 34 (1.77%) Solutions Architect
15 32 (1.67%) Senior Manager
15 32 (1.67%) Support Engineer
16 31 (1.62%) Technical Analyst
17 30 (1.57%) Java Developer
17 30 (1.57%) Technical Business Analyst
18 29 (1.51%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (6.11%) REST
2 87 (4.54%) .NET
3 68 (3.55%) Terraform
4 59 (3.08%) Kafka
5 55 (2.87%) RESTful
6 46 (2.40%) JSON
7 45 (2.35%) Middleware
8 44 (2.30%) XML
9 43 (2.24%) Web Services
10 42 (2.19%) PySpark
10 42 (2.19%) SOAP
11 40 (2.09%) HTML
12 33 (1.72%) CSS
12 33 (1.72%) React
12 33 (1.72%) Spring
13 30 (1.57%) Pandas
14 28 (1.46%) Spring Boot
15 24 (1.25%) AngularJS
16 21 (1.10%) OAuth
16 21 (1.10%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 159 (8.30%) Analytical Mindset
2 142 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 120 (6.26%) Onboarding
4 82 (4.28%) Cloud Native
5 78 (4.07%) Data Structures
6 64 (3.34%) Management Information System
6 64 (3.34%) Self-Motivation
7 60 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
8 50 (2.61%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
10 34 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 33 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (1.62%) AI Agents
13 30 (1.57%) Derivative
14 29 (1.51%) Algorithms
14 29 (1.51%) Fixed Income
15 28 (1.46%) Equities
16 26 (1.36%) Data Centre
17 25 (1.30%) Reference Data
18 24 (1.25%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 131 (6.84%) Linux
2 124 (6.47%) Windows
3 49 (2.56%) Unix
4 24 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.04%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.89%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.73%) Android
9 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.31%) Solaris
11 5 (0.26%) AIX
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
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 999 (52.14%) Problem-Solving
2 620 (32.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 576 (30.06%) Agile
4 391 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 379 (19.78%) Analytics
6 360 (18.79%) AI
7 355 (18.53%) Decision-Making
8 280 (14.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 248 (12.94%) Business Intelligence
10 247 (12.89%) Data Modelling
11 246 (12.84%) DevOps
12 245 (12.79%) Validation
13 243 (12.68%) CI/CD
14 215 (11.22%) Migration
15 191 (9.97%) User Acceptance Testing
16 185 (9.66%) Data Analysis
17 176 (9.19%) Data Pipeline
18 170 (8.87%) Roadmaps
19 166 (8.66%) User Stories
20 165 (8.61%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 552 (28.81%) SQL
2 438 (22.86%) Python
3 131 (6.84%) Java
4 101 (5.27%) C#
5 95 (4.96%) JavaScript
6 75 (3.91%) PowerShell
7 48 (2.51%) TypeScript
8 47 (2.45%) Bash
9 35 (1.83%) R
10 34 (1.77%) C++
11 31 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 27 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 27 (1.41%) T-SQL
13 17 (0.89%) Scala
13 17 (0.89%) Shell Script
14 15 (0.78%) Perl
15 13 (0.68%) Korn
16 9 (0.47%) Go
16 9 (0.47%) Ruby
17 8 (0.42%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 270 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 242 (12.63%) Degree
3 214 (11.17%) SC Cleared
4 68 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (1.93%) CISSP
7 30 (1.57%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.41%) PMP
9 26 (1.36%) PMI Certification
10 25 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 24 (1.25%) CISM
12 20 (1.04%) DV Cleared
13 19 (0.99%) ACCA
13 19 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (0.94%) CIMA
14 18 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
15 17 (0.89%) ISTQB
15 17 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 13 (0.68%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (13.00%) Data Quality
2 155 (8.09%) QA
3 86 (4.49%) PMO
4 55 (2.87%) GDPR
5 52 (2.71%) SLA
6 47 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (2.19%) NIST
8 32 (1.67%) Accessibility
9 28 (1.46%) GRC
10 26 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 19 (0.99%) COBIT
11 19 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (0.89%) IFRS
13 12 (0.63%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.31%) ISO 15022
15 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.31%) WCAG
16 5 (0.26%) GAAP
System Software
1 82 (4.28%) Docker
2 76 (3.97%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.47%) IAG
6 6 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.10%) Firmware
9 2 (0.10%) Postfix
9 2 (0.10%) Squid
9 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.052%) NFS
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 83 (4.33%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.30%) Ansible
3 34 (1.77%) Grafana
4 31 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.89%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.84%) SCCM
7 14 (0.73%) Control-M
8 12 (0.63%) Kibana
9 8 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.37%) Puppet
10 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.26%) Istio
12 4 (0.21%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.21%) systemd
13 3 (0.16%) Cilium
13 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.10%) Argo
14 2 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 329 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 165 (8.61%) Oracle
3 100 (5.22%) SAP
3 100 (5.22%) ServiceNow
4 86 (4.49%) Databricks
5 74 (3.86%) Google
6 64 (3.34%) Salesforce
7 49 (2.56%) Splunk
8 36 (1.88%) IBM
9 33 (1.72%) Dynatrace
10 31 (1.62%) Cisco
11 29 (1.51%) VMware
12 25 (1.30%) Adobe
13 22 (1.15%) CyberArk
14 20 (1.04%) Alteryx
14 20 (1.04%) Informatica
14 20 (1.04%) Workday
15 16 (0.84%) Sitecore
16 15 (0.78%) Apple
16 15 (0.78%) Red Hat