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

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,545 1,375 1,502
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.13% 10.21% 8.12%
As % of the General category 15.82% 15.61% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 814 1,030
10th Percentile £340 £316 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £641 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 29 51
10th Percentile £18.25 £24.32 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.87 £28.21 £16.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +68.09% -24.19%
75th Percentile £47.13 £65.00 £44.00
90th Percentile £56.10 £80.75 £53.25
England median hourly rate £30.05 £27.13 £20.50
% change year-on-year +10.79% +32.32% -41.43%

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 9,767 8,809 11,756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 64.06% 65.39% 63.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,362 5,580 8,413
10th Percentile £350 £325 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £688
90th Percentile £785 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 109 255
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.60 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £26.25 £18.90
Median hourly rate £31.49 £38.11 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.37% +31.41% +1.75%
75th Percentile £49.69 £55.25 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.47 £73.71
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.40 £25.71
% change year-on-year -24.36% +18.24% -11.04%

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 16 February 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 16 February 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 16 February 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 +3 228 £525 - 107
West London -11 30 £500 +33.33% 44
South London -6 28 £506 -13.16% 18
East London +4 9 £400 -37.55% 34
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 80 (5.18%) Confluence
2 29 (1.88%) Apache Spark
2 29 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
5 13 (0.84%) Apache
6 12 (0.78%) CMS
7 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.26%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.13%) Camunda
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.065%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.065%) Appian
10 1 (0.065%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.065%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 167 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.72%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.32%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.065%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.065%) Notion
10 1 (0.065%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.065%) Revit
10 1 (0.065%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.84%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.52%) SAP HR
4 8 (0.52%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.39%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.39%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.39%) Shopify
7 5 (0.32%) BASE24
7 5 (0.32%) Endur
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 304 (19.68%) Azure
2 204 (13.20%) AWS
3 203 (13.14%) Power Platform
4 81 (5.24%) SaaS
5 80 (5.18%) GCP
6 67 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (2.78%) GitHub
9 42 (2.72%) Entra ID
9 42 (2.72%) IaaS
10 41 (2.65%) Snowflake
11 39 (2.52%) Serverless
12 33 (2.14%) Amazon S3
12 33 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
13 28 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
14 25 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
15 22 (1.42%) dbt
16 19 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
16 19 (1.23%) OCI
16 19 (1.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.07%) Firewall
2 31 (2.01%) Network Security
3 26 (1.68%) DNS
4 21 (1.36%) VPN
5 16 (1.04%) WAN
6 13 (0.84%) LAN
7 12 (0.78%) DHCP
8 10 (0.65%) Internet
8 10 (0.65%) VLAN
9 9 (0.58%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.52%) SMS
11 7 (0.45%) HTTP
11 7 (0.45%) SAN
11 7 (0.45%) SSL
11 7 (0.45%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.45%) VoIP
12 6 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.32%) CTI
13 5 (0.32%) DMZ
14 4 (0.26%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (12.04%) Power BI
2 83 (5.37%) Tableau
3 68 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (3.37%) SQL Server
5 40 (2.59%) Metadata
6 34 (2.20%) Relational Database
7 27 (1.75%) Data Lake
8 26 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
9 23 (1.49%) NoSQL
10 22 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
11 18 (1.17%) Big Data
11 18 (1.17%) BigQuery
11 18 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (1.10%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.10%) Oracle Reports
13 16 (1.04%) DB2
14 12 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
14 12 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
14 12 (0.78%) Looker
14 12 (0.78%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 151 (9.77%) JIRA
2 63 (4.08%) Git
3 21 (1.36%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.10%) GitLab
4 17 (1.10%) Selenium
5 10 (0.65%) JUnit
6 9 (0.58%) MLflow
7 8 (0.52%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.52%) Postman
7 8 (0.52%) REST Assured
8 6 (0.39%) Appium
8 6 (0.39%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.39%) JMeter
9 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.32%) Burp Suite
9 5 (0.32%) Metasploit
9 5 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.32%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.26%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.26%) sqlmap
General
1 790 (51.13%) Social Skills
2 554 (35.86%) Finance
3 205 (13.27%) Banking
4 121 (7.83%) Public Sector
5 99 (6.41%) Marketing
6 71 (4.60%) Legal
7 63 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
8 61 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
9 60 (3.88%) Investment Banking
10 51 (3.30%) Front Office
11 44 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
12 42 (2.72%) Retail
13 39 (2.52%) Financial Institution
13 39 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
14 35 (2.27%) Telecoms
15 34 (2.20%) Back Office
15 34 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 23 (1.49%) Publishing
17 22 (1.42%) Law
18 14 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 419 (27.12%) Analyst
2 215 (13.92%) Business Analyst
3 177 (11.46%) Senior
4 151 (9.77%) Developer
5 117 (7.57%) Architect
6 95 (6.15%) Data Analyst
7 94 (6.08%) Lead
8 81 (5.24%) Consultant
9 64 (4.14%) Data Engineer
10 54 (3.50%) Project Manager
10 54 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
11 40 (2.59%) Data Scientist
12 38 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
13 34 (2.20%) Senior Developer
14 33 (2.14%) Senior Business Analyst
15 30 (1.94%) Product Manager
16 25 (1.62%) Senior Manager
17 24 (1.55%) Operations Analyst
17 24 (1.55%) Python Developer
17 24 (1.55%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (5.70%) REST
2 52 (3.37%) JSON
3 44 (2.85%) Kafka
4 39 (2.52%) .NET
5 33 (2.14%) HTML
6 32 (2.07%) Middleware
7 30 (1.94%) CSS
7 30 (1.94%) Pandas
7 30 (1.94%) XML
8 27 (1.75%) RESTful
9 26 (1.68%) scikit-learn
9 26 (1.68%) SOAP
10 23 (1.49%) NumPy
10 23 (1.49%) React
11 22 (1.42%) Node.js
12 20 (1.29%) Spring
13 18 (1.17%) AngularJS
13 18 (1.17%) PyTorch
14 17 (1.10%) OAuth
14 17 (1.10%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.84%) Analytical Mindset
2 69 (4.47%) Product Ownership
3 67 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
4 53 (3.43%) Data Structures
5 49 (3.17%) Management Information System
6 47 (3.04%) Onboarding
7 43 (2.78%) Algorithms
8 34 (2.20%) Derivative
9 33 (2.14%) Fixed Income
10 31 (2.01%) Equities
11 30 (1.94%) PKI
12 28 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
13 26 (1.68%) Data Centre
14 25 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
14 25 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 22 (1.42%) Security Posture
16 21 (1.36%) Cloud Native
17 19 (1.23%) Mobile App
18 18 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 71 (4.60%) Windows
2 63 (4.08%) Linux
3 26 (1.68%) Unix
4 12 (0.78%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.71%) Android
5 11 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.39%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.26%) VMS
9 3 (0.19%) Solaris
10 1 (0.065%) AIX
10 1 (0.065%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.065%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 788 (51.00%) Problem-Solving
2 461 (29.84%) Agile
3 313 (20.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 307 (19.87%) Analytics
5 264 (17.09%) Decision-Making
6 217 (14.05%) Business Intelligence
7 211 (13.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 205 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 191 (12.36%) Data Modelling
10 182 (11.78%) AI
11 162 (10.49%) Validation
12 158 (10.23%) CI/CD
12 158 (10.23%) Data Analysis
13 152 (9.84%) DevOps
14 145 (9.39%) Roadmaps
14 145 (9.39%) Visualisation
15 142 (9.19%) Actionable Insight
16 133 (8.61%) Migration
17 132 (8.54%) Project Management
18 129 (8.35%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 400 (25.89%) SQL
2 328 (21.23%) Python
3 80 (5.18%) PowerShell
4 73 (4.72%) Java
5 69 (4.47%) JavaScript
6 64 (4.14%) C#
7 37 (2.39%) Bash
7 37 (2.39%) TypeScript
8 27 (1.75%) C++
9 21 (1.36%) R
10 19 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 17 (1.10%) Shell Script
12 15 (0.97%) PL/SQL
13 13 (0.84%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
14 12 (0.78%) Scala
15 8 (0.52%) C
16 7 (0.45%) Korn
16 7 (0.45%) VBA
17 6 (0.39%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 235 (15.21%) Degree
2 230 (14.89%) Security Cleared
3 169 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 63 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (4.01%) Master's Degree
6 45 (2.91%) PMI Certification
7 33 (2.14%) PMP
8 23 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 21 (1.36%) CISSP
10 15 (0.97%) Azure Certification
10 15 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (0.84%) AWS Certification
11 13 (0.84%) CIMA
11 13 (0.84%) OSCP
12 12 (0.78%) ACCA
12 12 (0.78%) ISTQB
13 11 (0.71%) CBAP
13 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.65%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (10.81%) Data Quality
2 132 (8.54%) QA
3 76 (4.92%) GDPR
4 46 (2.98%) Accessibility
4 46 (2.98%) PMO
5 30 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.75%) NIST
7 21 (1.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 21 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 20 (1.29%) GRC
9 19 (1.23%) SLA
10 15 (0.97%) COBIT
10 15 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 11 (0.71%) WCAG
13 10 (0.65%) EMIR
13 10 (0.65%) MiFID
13 10 (0.65%) Solvency II
14 9 (0.58%) ISO 20022
15 7 (0.45%) IFRS
System Software
1 62 (4.01%) Docker
2 50 (3.24%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.39%) zsh
5 5 (0.32%) HDFS
5 5 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.26%) vSphere
7 3 (0.19%) ProxySG
7 3 (0.19%) Squid
7 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.13%) Snort
9 1 (0.065%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.065%) Firmware
9 1 (0.065%) IAG
9 1 (0.065%) NFS
9 1 (0.065%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.065%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.065%) Xen
9 1 (0.065%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (3.88%) Kubernetes
2 41 (2.65%) Terraform
3 30 (1.94%) Ansible
4 17 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.78%) SCCM
6 8 (0.52%) Grafana
7 7 (0.45%) Nessus
8 5 (0.32%) Nmap
8 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.32%) SCOM
8 5 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.13%) Nexpose
10 2 (0.13%) Suricata
10 2 (0.13%) vRealize
11 1 (0.065%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.065%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.065%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.065%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 260 (16.83%) Microsoft
2 86 (5.57%) Oracle
3 84 (5.44%) Salesforce
4 81 (5.24%) SAP
5 68 (4.40%) Google
6 67 (4.34%) Databricks
7 51 (3.30%) ServiceNow
8 29 (1.88%) Splunk
9 24 (1.55%) Cisco
10 23 (1.49%) Bloomberg
11 22 (1.42%) VMware
12 20 (1.29%) Adobe
13 18 (1.17%) Murex
14 17 (1.10%) Palo Alto
15 16 (1.04%) Workday
16 15 (0.97%) Remedy
17 14 (0.91%) Informatica
18 13 (0.84%) Juniper
19 11 (0.71%) IBM
19 11 (0.71%) Sybase