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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,885 1,573 1,370
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.40% 11.76% 8.42%
As % of the General category 15.45% 17.06% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,008 881
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £661 £675
90th Percentile £752 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 34 24
10th Percentile £19.55 £13.32 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.44 £22.75
Median hourly rate £36.00 £34.48 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -17.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.23 £56.25 £65.02
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +10.77% +51.16% -52.22%

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 12,203 9,220 10,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.84% 68.94% 62.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,769 6,125 6,999
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 £508 £538
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.58% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 184 138
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £18.09
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £24.18
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.49 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -12.53% +3.99%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.56 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.60 £66.60
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +37.42%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -11 222 £525 -4.55% 235
West London +2 78 £520 +26.06% 134
South London 0 33 £550 -12.00% 17
East London +1 12 £425 +30.77% 30
North London +1 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 (4.56%) Confluence
2 46 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.38%) CMS
6 22 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 18 (0.95%) Apache
8 9 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.42%) JBoss
9 8 (0.42%) SAS
9 8 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
9 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
12 5 (0.27%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.27%) Appian
12 5 (0.27%) IIS
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.16%) Camunda
Applications
1 177 (9.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.07%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.64%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.27%) 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 26 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.80%) 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%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.37%) iTrent
9 7 (0.37%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.27%) Magento
11 4 (0.21%) Findur
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.21%) SAP GRC
11 4 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 379 (20.11%) Azure
2 257 (13.63%) AWS
3 224 (11.88%) Power Platform
4 99 (5.25%) GCP
5 86 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
6 79 (4.19%) SaaS
7 72 (3.82%) GitHub
8 64 (3.40%) Entra ID
8 64 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
9 58 (3.08%) Snowflake
10 44 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
11 38 (2.02%) Serverless
12 37 (1.96%) dbt
13 33 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 28 (1.49%) Amazon S3
15 28 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
16 26 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
17 22 (1.17%) PaaS
18 19 (1.01%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.65%) Firewall
2 38 (2.02%) DNS
3 29 (1.54%) Network Security
3 29 (1.54%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.54%) VPN
4 22 (1.17%) DHCP
5 20 (1.06%) WAN
6 15 (0.80%) BGP
6 15 (0.80%) HTTP
6 15 (0.80%) SSL
7 13 (0.69%) SAN
7 13 (0.69%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.64%) VLAN
9 11 (0.58%) MPLS
10 10 (0.53%) 5G
10 10 (0.53%) Radio Access Network
10 10 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.48%) 4G
12 8 (0.42%) Multicast
12 8 (0.42%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 203 (10.77%) Power BI
2 105 (5.57%) Data Warehouse
3 103 (5.46%) SQL Server
4 80 (4.24%) Relational Database
5 79 (4.19%) Tableau
6 75 (3.98%) Metadata
7 56 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.96%) Data Lake
9 36 (1.91%) NoSQL
10 32 (1.70%) Big Data
11 28 (1.49%) Oracle Database
12 27 (1.43%) MongoDB
13 24 (1.27%) RDBMS
14 22 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (1.11%) Delta Lake
15 21 (1.11%) Power Query
16 20 (1.06%) BigQuery
17 18 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
18 16 (0.85%) Hadoop
18 16 (0.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 189 (10.03%) JIRA
2 88 (4.67%) Git
3 47 (2.49%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.64%) Selenium
5 22 (1.17%) JMeter
6 20 (1.06%) GitLab
7 15 (0.80%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.80%) Postman
8 14 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 14 (0.74%) ERwin
8 14 (0.74%) LoadRunner
9 11 (0.58%) REST Assured
10 10 (0.53%) ER Studio
10 10 (0.53%) Gatling
10 10 (0.53%) Maven
11 9 (0.48%) Gradle
11 9 (0.48%) JUnit
11 9 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.48%) Zephyr
12 7 (0.37%) NeoLoad
General
1 947 (50.24%) Social Skills
2 751 (39.84%) Finance
3 290 (15.38%) Banking
4 148 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 102 (5.41%) Front Office
6 96 (5.09%) Marketing
7 89 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
8 83 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
9 75 (3.98%) Retail
10 74 (3.93%) Legal
11 64 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
12 57 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 57 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
13 56 (2.97%) Investment Banking
13 56 (2.97%) Telecoms
14 40 (2.12%) Financial Institution
15 35 (1.86%) Local Government
16 27 (1.43%) Back Office
17 21 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 467 (24.77%) Analyst
2 231 (12.25%) Business Analyst
3 210 (11.14%) Senior
4 178 (9.44%) Developer
5 140 (7.43%) Architect
6 134 (7.11%) Lead
7 97 (5.15%) Data Engineer
8 96 (5.09%) Data Analyst
9 79 (4.19%) Consultant
10 62 (3.29%) Data Scientist
11 54 (2.86%) Project Manager
12 51 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
13 44 (2.33%) Senior Developer
14 34 (1.80%) Support Engineer
15 33 (1.75%) Solutions Architect
16 32 (1.70%) Senior Manager
17 30 (1.59%) Financial Analyst
17 30 (1.59%) Technical Analyst
17 30 (1.59%) Technical Business Analyst
18 28 (1.49%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (6.26%) REST
2 85 (4.51%) .NET
3 65 (3.45%) Terraform
4 58 (3.08%) Kafka
5 53 (2.81%) RESTful
6 48 (2.55%) JSON
7 46 (2.44%) XML
8 43 (2.28%) Middleware
8 43 (2.28%) SOAP
9 42 (2.23%) Web Services
10 39 (2.07%) HTML
11 38 (2.02%) PySpark
12 32 (1.70%) CSS
13 31 (1.64%) React
13 31 (1.64%) Spring
14 29 (1.54%) Pandas
15 25 (1.33%) Spring Boot
16 24 (1.27%) OAuth
17 22 (1.17%) AngularJS
18 21 (1.11%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 166 (8.81%) Analytical Mindset
2 139 (7.37%) Product Ownership
3 115 (6.10%) Onboarding
4 76 (4.03%) Data Structures
5 73 (3.87%) Cloud Native
6 66 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
7 60 (3.18%) Distributed Systems
8 59 (3.13%) Management Information System
9 45 (2.39%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
11 35 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 35 (1.86%) Legacy Systems
12 32 (1.70%) Data Centre
12 32 (1.70%) Derivative
13 31 (1.64%) Fixed Income
14 30 (1.59%) AI Agents
15 28 (1.49%) Equities
16 26 (1.38%) Algorithms
16 26 (1.38%) Reference Data
17 24 (1.27%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 126 (6.68%) Windows
2 124 (6.58%) Linux
3 46 (2.44%) Unix
4 24 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.85%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.69%) Android
9 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) Solaris
11 5 (0.27%) 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
1 973 (51.62%) Problem-Solving
2 583 (30.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 565 (29.97%) Agile
4 378 (20.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 372 (19.73%) Analytics
6 344 (18.25%) AI
7 325 (17.24%) Decision-Making
8 257 (13.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 251 (13.32%) Data Modelling
10 243 (12.89%) DevOps
10 243 (12.89%) Validation
11 237 (12.57%) Business Intelligence
12 231 (12.25%) CI/CD
13 213 (11.30%) Migration
14 189 (10.03%) User Acceptance Testing
15 184 (9.76%) Data Analysis
16 166 (8.81%) Roadmaps
17 165 (8.75%) Data Pipeline
18 162 (8.59%) User Stories
19 154 (8.17%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 540 (28.65%) SQL
2 419 (22.23%) Python
3 132 (7.00%) Java
4 100 (5.31%) C#
5 92 (4.88%) JavaScript
6 75 (3.98%) PowerShell
7 46 (2.44%) TypeScript
8 43 (2.28%) Bash
9 36 (1.91%) C++
10 34 (1.80%) R
11 31 (1.64%) PL/SQL
12 27 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 26 (1.38%) T-SQL
14 16 (0.85%) Scala
15 12 (0.64%) Perl
15 12 (0.64%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.48%) C
16 9 (0.48%) Go
16 9 (0.48%) Korn
16 9 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 259 (13.74%) Security Cleared
2 242 (12.84%) Degree
3 200 (10.61%) SC Cleared
4 73 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.96%) CISSP
6 34 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (1.43%) PMP
8 26 (1.38%) CISM
8 26 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (1.33%) PMI Certification
10 22 (1.17%) Azure Certification
11 20 (1.06%) DV Cleared
11 20 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 18 (0.95%) ACCA
12 18 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 17 (0.90%) CIMA
14 16 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (0.80%) CCNP
16 13 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (12.47%) Data Quality
2 147 (7.80%) QA
3 89 (4.72%) PMO
4 53 (2.81%) GDPR
5 52 (2.76%) SLA
6 46 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (2.33%) NIST
8 32 (1.70%) Accessibility
9 27 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 24 (1.27%) GRC
11 22 (1.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (1.06%) COBIT
13 18 (0.95%) IFRS
14 12 (0.64%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.32%) GAAP
16 6 (0.32%) ISO 15022
16 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 79 (4.19%) Active Directory
2 73 (3.87%) Docker
3 22 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.48%) IAG
6 6 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) Firmware
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) Postfix
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 74 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.33%) Ansible
3 31 (1.64%) Grafana
4 30 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (0.85%) SCCM
6 15 (0.80%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.74%) Control-M
8 12 (0.64%) Kibana
9 11 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.37%) Puppet
10 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.27%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.27%) Istio
12 4 (0.21%) systemd
13 3 (0.16%) Cilium
13 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.16%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 314 (16.66%) Microsoft
2 167 (8.86%) Oracle
3 103 (5.46%) SAP
4 98 (5.20%) ServiceNow
5 73 (3.87%) Databricks
6 72 (3.82%) Google
7 62 (3.29%) Salesforce
8 39 (2.07%) Splunk
9 37 (1.96%) IBM
10 33 (1.75%) Cisco
10 33 (1.75%) Dynatrace
11 29 (1.54%) VMware
12 23 (1.22%) Adobe
13 22 (1.17%) CyberArk
13 22 (1.17%) Workday
14 20 (1.06%) Alteryx
15 19 (1.01%) Informatica
16 16 (0.85%) Apple
16 16 (0.85%) Sitecore
17 14 (0.74%) Red Hat