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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,926 1,502 1,391
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.46% 11.23% 8.69%
As % of the General category 15.36% 16.27% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,183 942 862
10th Percentile £338 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £753
England median daily rate £500 £500 £516
% change year-on-year - -3.15% -3.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 29 22
10th Percentile £19.72 £20.90 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £27.39 £19.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.48 £34.04
Median % change year-on-year +1.51% +1.31% -32.60%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £62.55 £60.75 £64.00
England median hourly rate £32.00 £32.50 £23.75
% change year-on-year -1.54% +36.84% -47.22%

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 12,543 9,229 9,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.61% 69.01% 62.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,016 6,067 6,562
10th Percentile £350 £325 £331
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 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 181 117
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.80
25th Percentile £21.41 £24.61 £25.00
Median hourly rate £29.03 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.86% -10.00% +27.27%
75th Percentile £47.50 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £65.01
England median hourly rate £30.90 £25.08 £39.18
% change year-on-year +23.23% -35.99% +36.26%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -11 227 £525 -4.55% 515
West London +5 92 £553 +33.53% 180
South London 0 28 £536 -23.43% 37
East London +1 13 £525 +53.28% 39
North London +4 5 £525 - 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 92 (4.78%) Confluence
2 48 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 41 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.35%) CMS
6 23 (1.19%) Apache
7 21 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.42%) JBoss
10 8 (0.42%) SAS
10 8 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.31%) IIS
12 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.26%) Appian
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 185 (9.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 65 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
4 36 (1.87%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
6 20 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.36%) 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 26 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.88%) Aladdin
5 14 (0.73%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.52%) Finacle
7 9 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.47%) Shopify
8 8 (0.42%) iTrent
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.31%) Magento
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.26%) SAP GRC
10 5 (0.26%) Summit
11 4 (0.21%) Front Arena
11 4 (0.21%) HFM
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 393 (20.40%) Azure
2 281 (14.59%) AWS
3 251 (13.03%) Power Platform
4 111 (5.76%) GCP
5 86 (4.47%) GitHub
6 84 (4.36%) SaaS
7 81 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
8 73 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
9 71 (3.69%) Entra ID
10 69 (3.58%) Snowflake
11 44 (2.28%) Serverless
12 41 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
13 39 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (1.92%) dbt
15 36 (1.87%) Amazon S3
16 30 (1.56%) AWS Lambda
16 30 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
17 29 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
18 27 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 23 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.49%) Firewall
2 39 (2.02%) DNS
3 35 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.77%) Network Security
4 34 (1.77%) VPN
5 24 (1.25%) DHCP
6 17 (0.88%) WAN
7 16 (0.83%) SSL
8 15 (0.78%) BGP
9 13 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
9 13 (0.67%) SAN
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%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.47%) Wireless
12 9 (0.47%) Wireshark
13 8 (0.42%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (11.53%) Power BI
2 106 (5.50%) Data Warehouse
3 98 (5.09%) SQL Server
4 80 (4.15%) Tableau
5 74 (3.84%) Relational Database
6 69 (3.58%) Metadata
7 64 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.92%) NoSQL
9 35 (1.82%) Data Lake
10 33 (1.71%) MongoDB
11 29 (1.51%) Delta Lake
11 29 (1.51%) Oracle Database
12 25 (1.30%) Big Data
13 24 (1.25%) Power Query
14 23 (1.19%) BigQuery
15 22 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 21 (1.09%) RDBMS
17 20 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
18 19 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
19 16 (0.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 195 (10.12%) JIRA
2 112 (5.82%) Git
3 58 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.77%) GitLab
5 26 (1.35%) Selenium
6 21 (1.09%) JMeter
7 16 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 14 (0.73%) Postman
9 13 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.67%) LoadRunner
10 12 (0.62%) ERwin
10 12 (0.62%) Maven
11 11 (0.57%) Gradle
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 (0.42%) ER Studio
14 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 987 (51.25%) Social Skills
2 777 (40.34%) Finance
3 299 (15.52%) Banking
4 167 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 103 (5.35%) Front Office
6 93 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
7 90 (4.67%) Marketing
8 88 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
9 80 (4.15%) Legal
10 76 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
10 76 (3.95%) Retail
11 62 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 60 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (3.01%) Investment Banking
14 55 (2.86%) Telecoms
15 52 (2.70%) Local Government
16 35 (1.82%) Financial Institution
17 32 (1.66%) Back Office
18 27 (1.40%) Manufacturing
19 20 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 481 (24.97%) Analyst
2 230 (11.94%) Senior
3 224 (11.63%) Business Analyst
4 177 (9.19%) Developer
5 130 (6.75%) Lead
6 126 (6.54%) Architect
7 101 (5.24%) Data Engineer
8 100 (5.19%) Data Analyst
9 70 (3.63%) Consultant
10 59 (3.06%) Data Scientist
11 53 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
12 50 (2.60%) Project Manager
13 49 (2.54%) Senior Developer
14 32 (1.66%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (1.61%) Senior Manager
15 31 (1.61%) Technical Analyst
16 30 (1.56%) Financial Analyst
16 30 (1.56%) Java Developer
16 30 (1.56%) Support Engineer
16 30 (1.56%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (6.02%) REST
2 95 (4.93%) .NET
3 80 (4.15%) Terraform
4 63 (3.27%) Kafka
5 57 (2.96%) RESTful
6 47 (2.44%) Web Services
7 44 (2.28%) JSON
7 44 (2.28%) SOAP
8 42 (2.18%) XML
9 41 (2.13%) HTML
9 41 (2.13%) Middleware
10 40 (2.08%) PySpark
11 35 (1.82%) React
12 34 (1.77%) CSS
13 33 (1.71%) Spring
14 28 (1.45%) Spring Boot
15 23 (1.19%) OAuth
15 23 (1.19%) Pandas
16 22 (1.14%) AngularJS
17 21 (1.09%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 153 (7.94%) Analytical Mindset
2 143 (7.42%) Product Ownership
3 121 (6.28%) Onboarding
4 80 (4.15%) Cloud Native
5 75 (3.89%) Data Structures
6 68 (3.53%) Management Information System
7 60 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
8 56 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
9 54 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
10 41 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
11 35 (1.82%) AI Agents
12 33 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
13 30 (1.56%) Algorithms
13 30 (1.56%) Derivative
13 30 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 28 (1.45%) Equities
15 26 (1.35%) Fixed Income
16 23 (1.19%) Credit Risk
16 23 (1.19%) Reference Data
17 22 (1.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 131 (6.80%) Linux
2 128 (6.65%) Windows
3 50 (2.60%) Unix
4 24 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.14%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.83%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.83%) Mac OS
7 14 (0.73%) Android
8 7 (0.36%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.31%) Solaris
10 5 (0.26%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.10%) SUSE
12 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.052%) VMS
13 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (51.92%) Problem-Solving
2 670 (34.79%) Stakeholder Management
3 554 (28.76%) Agile
4 400 (20.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 384 (19.94%) Analytics
6 375 (19.47%) AI
7 358 (18.59%) Decision-Making
8 280 (14.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 265 (13.76%) Validation
10 257 (13.34%) Business Intelligence
11 253 (13.14%) CI/CD
12 252 (13.08%) DevOps
13 238 (12.36%) Data Modelling
14 223 (11.58%) Migration
15 188 (9.76%) User Acceptance Testing
16 182 (9.45%) Data Analysis
17 180 (9.35%) Roadmaps
18 179 (9.29%) Data Pipeline
19 164 (8.52%) Business Analysis
19 164 (8.52%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 555 (28.82%) SQL
2 436 (22.64%) Python
3 125 (6.49%) Java
4 107 (5.56%) C#
5 100 (5.19%) JavaScript
6 76 (3.95%) PowerShell
7 51 (2.65%) Bash
8 47 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 35 (1.82%) R
10 31 (1.61%) C++
10 31 (1.61%) PL/SQL
11 29 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 28 (1.45%) T-SQL
13 23 (1.19%) Shell Script
14 17 (0.88%) Scala
15 16 (0.83%) Korn
15 16 (0.83%) Perl
16 12 (0.62%) Go
17 9 (0.47%) VBA
18 8 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 262 (13.60%) Security Cleared
2 245 (12.72%) Degree
3 208 (10.80%) SC Cleared
4 62 (3.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (1.92%) CISSP
7 33 (1.71%) PMI Certification
7 33 (1.71%) PMP
8 31 (1.61%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.40%) Azure Certification
10 25 (1.30%) CISM
11 23 (1.19%) ACCA
12 22 (1.14%) CIMA
12 22 (1.14%) DV Cleared
13 21 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (0.83%) ISTQB
17 15 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 14 (0.73%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (13.03%) Data Quality
2 153 (7.94%) QA
3 82 (4.26%) PMO
4 56 (2.91%) GDPR
5 50 (2.60%) SLA
6 44 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (1.87%) NIST
8 29 (1.51%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
9 27 (1.40%) GRC
10 19 (0.99%) IFRS
11 16 (0.83%) COBIT
12 15 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.62%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.42%) Basel III
15 8 (0.42%) NCSC
16 6 (0.31%) P3O
16 6 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 88 (4.57%) Docker
2 79 (4.10%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.47%) IAG
6 7 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.26%) Firmware
9 4 (0.21%) NFS
9 4 (0.21%) vSphere
10 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.10%) Postfix
11 2 (0.10%) Squid
11 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.052%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 91 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.23%) Ansible
3 35 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (1.66%) Grafana
5 17 (0.88%) SCCM
6 15 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.67%) Kibana
8 12 (0.62%) Control-M
9 7 (0.36%) Puppet
9 7 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.26%) Istio
12 4 (0.21%) systemd
13 3 (0.16%) Cilium
13 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.16%) SnapMirror
14 2 (0.10%) SCOM
14 2 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 349 (18.12%) Microsoft
2 161 (8.36%) Oracle
3 96 (4.98%) SAP
4 94 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 93 (4.83%) Databricks
6 77 (4.00%) Google
7 62 (3.22%) Salesforce
8 52 (2.70%) Splunk
9 36 (1.87%) IBM
10 34 (1.77%) Cisco
10 34 (1.77%) Dynatrace
11 31 (1.61%) VMware
12 23 (1.19%) Adobe
13 21 (1.09%) CyberArk
14 19 (0.99%) Alteryx
15 17 (0.88%) Workday
16 16 (0.83%) Informatica
16 16 (0.83%) Red Hat
17 15 (0.78%) Sitecore
18 14 (0.73%) Zscaler