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 15 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,578 1,419 1,683
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.25% 9.02% 8.32%
As % of the General category 16.47% 14.36% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 958 860 1,148
10th Percentile £314 £318 £323
25th Percentile £408 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £666 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 23 40
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £21.23
25th Percentile £25.49 £20.55 £27.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -38.46% +58.54%
75th Percentile £47.38 £48.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £63.00 £79.85 £65.47
England median hourly rate £33.94 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.54% -25.71% -12.50%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,581 9,884 13,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.29% 62.85% 64.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,254 6,344 9,524
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £691 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 113 176
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.60 £18.42
25th Percentile £20.98 £27.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £38.07 £36.57
Median % change year-on-year -27.76% +4.12% +21.88%
75th Percentile £46.31 £55.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.60 £76.00 £75.63
England median hourly rate £24.34 £31.97 £31.40
% change year-on-year -23.87% +1.82% +23.14%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 2025. 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 +4 257 £525 -8.70% 627
South London -1 26 £625 +11.86% 47
West London -6 26 £425 +3.03% 99
East London +1 9 £450 +2.27% 51
North London -1 1 - - 16
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 70 (4.44%) Confluence
2 37 (2.34%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.89%) CMS
7 9 (0.57%) Apache
8 5 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) Camunda
11 2 (0.13%) IIS
11 2 (0.13%) Luigi
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.063%) CICS
12 1 (0.063%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.063%) SAS
12 1 (0.063%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 138 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (2.03%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.38%) ProjectWise
8 5 (0.32%) Trello
9 4 (0.25%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.13%) Notion
11 2 (0.13%) Revit
12 1 (0.063%) Autodesk Smoke
12 1 (0.063%) GNU Octave
12 1 (0.063%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.063%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 22 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.76%) Endur
3 11 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.63%) SAP HR
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
6 8 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
7 6 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
7 6 (0.38%) Oracle BPM
7 6 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.38%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.32%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.32%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.25%) ION MarketView
9 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
9 4 (0.25%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 256 (16.22%) Azure
2 215 (13.62%) AWS
3 165 (10.46%) Power Platform
4 82 (5.20%) GCP
5 59 (3.74%) SaaS
6 55 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (2.60%) Entra ID
9 40 (2.53%) GitHub
10 37 (2.34%) IaaS
11 35 (2.22%) Snowflake
12 31 (1.96%) Amazon S3
13 28 (1.77%) Serverless
14 25 (1.58%) dbt
15 23 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (1.14%) PowerApps
18 16 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
19 15 (0.95%) Google Analytics
20 14 (0.89%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.66%) Firewall
2 32 (2.03%) DNS
3 30 (1.90%) Network Security
4 24 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 20 (1.27%) VPN
6 16 (1.01%) HTTP
6 16 (1.01%) LAN
6 16 (1.01%) WAN
7 11 (0.70%) Internet
7 11 (0.70%) SSL
8 10 (0.63%) DHCP
8 10 (0.63%) VLAN
8 10 (0.63%) VoIP
9 7 (0.44%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.38%) Wireless
11 5 (0.32%) BGP
11 5 (0.32%) CTI
11 5 (0.32%) SMTP
11 5 (0.32%) SSH
12 4 (0.25%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (9.76%) Power BI
2 76 (4.82%) Tableau
3 60 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (3.30%) SQL Server
5 51 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 37 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
7 35 (2.22%) Metadata
8 30 (1.90%) DB2
8 30 (1.90%) MongoDB
9 27 (1.71%) Big Data
10 25 (1.58%) Data Lake
11 23 (1.46%) NoSQL
12 21 (1.33%) Hadoop
13 20 (1.27%) BigQuery
14 17 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
15 16 (1.01%) Looker
15 16 (1.01%) Power Query
15 16 (1.01%) Star Schema
16 13 (0.82%) Oracle Database
16 13 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 132 (8.37%) JIRA
2 73 (4.63%) Git
3 29 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.77%) JUnit
5 13 (0.82%) Selenium
6 10 (0.63%) GitLab
7 9 (0.57%) Postman
8 7 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
8 7 (0.44%) Maven
9 6 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.38%) TestRail
9 6 (0.38%) webpack
10 5 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.32%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.32%) Gatling
10 5 (0.32%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.32%) Metasploit
10 5 (0.32%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 5 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 869 (55.07%) Social Skills
2 566 (35.87%) Finance
3 234 (14.83%) Banking
4 118 (7.48%) Public Sector
5 97 (6.15%) Marketing
6 93 (5.89%) Investment Banking
7 72 (4.56%) Legal
8 56 (3.55%) Front Office
9 53 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
10 52 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
11 49 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (3.04%) Back Office
13 47 (2.98%) Financial Institution
14 44 (2.79%) Retail
14 44 (2.79%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (1.33%) Publishing
17 19 (1.20%) Law
17 19 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 419 (26.55%) Analyst
2 201 (12.74%) Business Analyst
3 196 (12.42%) Developer
4 178 (11.28%) Senior
5 125 (7.92%) Architect
6 100 (6.34%) Lead
7 75 (4.75%) Data Analyst
8 72 (4.56%) Consultant
9 53 (3.36%) Data Engineer
9 53 (3.36%) Java Developer
10 52 (3.30%) Senior Developer
11 48 (3.04%) Senior Analyst
12 41 (2.60%) Project Manager
13 38 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (2.03%) Python Developer
15 30 (1.90%) Technical Analyst
16 26 (1.65%) Data Scientist
16 26 (1.65%) Security Analyst
17 23 (1.46%) Senior Java Developer
17 23 (1.46%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (6.72%) REST
2 53 (3.36%) Kafka
3 52 (3.30%) JSON
4 47 (2.98%) .NET
5 39 (2.47%) HTML
6 38 (2.41%) React
6 38 (2.41%) Spring
7 32 (2.03%) AngularJS
8 31 (1.96%) CSS
8 31 (1.96%) RESTful
9 27 (1.71%) SOAP
9 27 (1.71%) XML
10 22 (1.39%) Web Services
11 21 (1.33%) OAuth
12 20 (1.27%) Middleware
12 20 (1.27%) Pandas
13 17 (1.08%) JMS
13 17 (1.08%) SAML
14 16 (1.01%) scikit-learn
14 16 (1.01%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 146 (9.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 72 (4.56%) Product Ownership
2 72 (4.56%) Self-Motivation
3 62 (3.93%) Management Information System
4 55 (3.49%) Data Structures
5 50 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 46 (2.92%) Algorithms
7 35 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 33 (2.09%) Derivative
9 31 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.84%) Equities
10 29 (1.84%) Fixed Income
10 29 (1.84%) PKI
11 27 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 25 (1.58%) Reinsurance
12 25 (1.58%) Security Posture
13 24 (1.52%) Cloud Native
14 22 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
16 19 (1.20%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 98 (6.21%) Linux
2 79 (5.01%) Windows
3 41 (2.60%) Unix
4 9 (0.57%) Windows 10
4 9 (0.57%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.25%) Solaris
7 4 (0.25%) VMS
8 3 (0.19%) Android
8 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
9 2 (0.13%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.063%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.063%) VME
10 1 (0.063%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 860 (54.50%) Problem-Solving
2 472 (29.91%) Agile
3 282 (17.87%) Analytics
4 277 (17.55%) Stakeholder Management
5 234 (14.83%) Decision-Making
6 191 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 190 (12.04%) Business Intelligence
8 183 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 174 (11.03%) Data Analysis
10 165 (10.46%) CI/CD
11 162 (10.27%) Data Modelling
11 162 (10.27%) DevOps
12 143 (9.06%) Migration
13 137 (8.68%) Project Management
14 136 (8.62%) AI
15 134 (8.49%) Computer Science
16 130 (8.24%) Actionable Insight
16 130 (8.24%) Visualisation
17 125 (7.92%) Scrum
18 122 (7.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 389 (24.65%) SQL
2 336 (21.29%) Python
3 138 (8.75%) Java
4 94 (5.96%) JavaScript
5 75 (4.75%) PowerShell
6 52 (3.30%) C#
7 44 (2.79%) Bash
8 35 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 31 (1.96%) Shell Script
10 26 (1.65%) C++
11 16 (1.01%) Go
11 16 (1.01%) PL/SQL
11 16 (1.01%) R
12 14 (0.89%) VBA
13 12 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.57%) Scala
17 7 (0.44%) ABAP
17 7 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 242 (15.34%) Degree
2 214 (13.56%) Security Cleared
3 163 (10.33%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.34%) PMI Certification
6 34 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.58%) PMP
8 22 (1.39%) DV Cleared
9 21 (1.33%) CISSP
10 19 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.95%) CBAP
12 14 (0.89%) CIMA
12 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.82%) ACCA
13 13 (0.82%) OSCP
14 12 (0.76%) AWS Certification
14 12 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
15 11 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
16 10 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (8.43%) Data Quality
2 111 (7.03%) QA
3 48 (3.04%) GDPR
4 46 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 25 (1.58%) PMO
6 20 (1.27%) NIST
7 19 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.01%) SLA
9 12 (0.76%) WCAG
10 10 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 10 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.57%) GRC
12 8 (0.51%) COBIT
12 8 (0.51%) EMIR
12 8 (0.51%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.44%) MiFID
14 6 (0.38%) ISO 19650
15 5 (0.32%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 61 (3.87%) Active Directory
2 52 (3.30%) Docker
3 11 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.63%) zsh
5 6 (0.38%) HDFS
6 5 (0.32%) Firmware
7 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.19%) vSphere
9 2 (0.13%) ProxySG
9 2 (0.13%) Squid
10 1 (0.063%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.063%) KVM
10 1 (0.063%) Postfix
10 1 (0.063%) Snort
10 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.063%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 67 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.61%) Terraform
3 43 (2.72%) Ansible
4 17 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.01%) Grafana
5 16 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.76%) SCCM
8 7 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (0.44%) Nessus
9 5 (0.32%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.32%) Nmap
10 4 (0.25%) BladeLogic
10 4 (0.25%) SCOM
11 3 (0.19%) Argo
11 3 (0.19%) CA Spectrum
11 3 (0.19%) QRadar
12 2 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.13%) vRealize
12 2 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 244 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 95 (6.02%) Oracle
3 73 (4.63%) SAP
4 66 (4.18%) Google
5 56 (3.55%) ServiceNow
6 52 (3.30%) Salesforce
7 41 (2.60%) Databricks
8 34 (2.15%) Splunk
9 30 (1.90%) Cisco
10 21 (1.33%) Sybase
11 20 (1.27%) VMware
12 17 (1.08%) Bloomberg
13 16 (1.01%) Adobe
14 15 (0.95%) Workday
15 14 (0.89%) MuleSoft
16 13 (0.82%) CyberArk
16 13 (0.82%) Murex
17 12 (0.76%) Alteryx
17 12 (0.76%) Juniper
18 10 (0.63%) F5