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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,631 1,493 1,423
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.62% 12.07% 8.07%
As % of the General category 14.37% 17.73% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 950 983
10th Percentile £350 £318 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £695 £688
90th Percentile £750 £814 £825
England median daily rate £500 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 34 42
10th Percentile £19.16 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.88 £26.59 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £42.75 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +85.87% -42.86%
75th Percentile £51.25 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.15 £68.13 £64.00
England median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% +66.67% -51.25%

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 11,352 8,419 11,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.02% 68.07% 62.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,291 5,629 7,877
10th Percentile £350 £338 £335
25th Percentile £433 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £520 £520 £533
% change year-on-year - -2.35% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 155 238
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.10 £15.85
25th Percentile £22.46 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.48 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +14.32% -1.92%
75th Percentile £47.13 £51.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £69.50 £65.34 £66.60
England median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £31.97
% change year-on-year +16.07% -12.42% +6.57%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -10 208 £525 -4.55% 113
West London +3 76 £520 +30.00% 45
South London 0 32 £488 -22.00% 10
East London -4 9 £400 -7.03% 27
North London - 1 - - 7
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 76 (4.66%) Confluence
2 30 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.04%) Apache
6 14 (0.86%) CMS
6 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.43%) SAS
8 6 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.25%) IIS
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.18%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
13 1 (0.061%) Appian
13 1 (0.061%) nginx
13 1 (0.061%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.061%) Traefik
13 1 (0.061%) WebLogic
Applications
1 154 (9.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 51 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (2.51%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.61%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.061%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 12 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 7 (0.43%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.43%) Finacle
6 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.37%) Shopify
6 6 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
6 6 (0.37%) Summit
7 5 (0.31%) Magento
7 5 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.25%) HFM
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 333 (20.42%) Azure
2 228 (13.98%) AWS
3 206 (12.63%) Power Platform
4 84 (5.15%) GCP
5 77 (4.72%) SaaS
6 67 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
8 58 (3.56%) GitHub
9 41 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
10 37 (2.27%) Entra ID
11 34 (2.08%) Amazon S3
11 34 (2.08%) Snowflake
12 33 (2.02%) Serverless
13 29 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
14 28 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
16 25 (1.53%) dbt
17 23 (1.41%) PaaS
18 21 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 20 (1.23%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.58%) Firewall
2 25 (1.53%) DNS
3 22 (1.35%) Network Security
4 20 (1.23%) VPN
5 18 (1.10%) DHCP
5 18 (1.10%) WAN
6 15 (0.92%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.92%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.80%) SAN
8 11 (0.67%) BGP
9 10 (0.61%) VLAN
10 9 (0.55%) OSPF
11 8 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.49%) HTTP
11 8 (0.49%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.43%) Internet
12 7 (0.43%) MPLS
12 7 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.37%) LAN
13 6 (0.37%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (11.16%) Power BI
2 92 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (4.78%) SQL Server
4 77 (4.72%) Tableau
5 59 (3.62%) Relational Database
6 53 (3.25%) Metadata
7 38 (2.33%) Data Lake
8 37 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
9 30 (1.84%) NoSQL
10 26 (1.59%) Big Data
11 23 (1.41%) MongoDB
12 22 (1.35%) BigQuery
12 22 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 21 (1.29%) Power Query
14 20 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
15 19 (1.16%) RDBMS
16 17 (1.04%) Oracle Database
16 17 (1.04%) Star Schema
17 15 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
18 13 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 161 (9.87%) JIRA
2 60 (3.68%) Git
3 27 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.29%) Selenium
5 12 (0.74%) Postman
5 12 (0.74%) REST Assured
6 11 (0.67%) Cucumber
6 11 (0.67%) Cypress.io
6 11 (0.67%) GitLab
7 10 (0.61%) ERwin
7 10 (0.61%) MLflow
8 8 (0.49%) JUnit
8 8 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.43%) JMeter
10 6 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.37%) Chocolatey
10 6 (0.37%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.37%) WebDriver
11 5 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
11 5 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 739 (45.31%) Social Skills
2 632 (38.75%) Finance
3 232 (14.22%) Banking
4 136 (8.34%) Public Sector
5 89 (5.46%) Marketing
6 79 (4.84%) Legal
7 76 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
8 71 (4.35%) Front Office
9 67 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
10 62 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (3.07%) Investment Banking
12 46 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 46 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
12 46 (2.82%) Telecoms
13 43 (2.64%) Retail
14 39 (2.39%) Financial Institution
15 23 (1.41%) Back Office
16 19 (1.16%) Law
17 17 (1.04%) Local Government
17 17 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 433 (26.55%) Analyst
2 217 (13.30%) Business Analyst
3 155 (9.50%) Senior
4 142 (8.71%) Developer
5 114 (6.99%) Lead
6 110 (6.74%) Architect
7 101 (6.19%) Data Analyst
8 95 (5.82%) Data Engineer
9 89 (5.46%) Consultant
10 59 (3.62%) Data Scientist
11 47 (2.88%) Project Manager
12 39 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
13 37 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (2.02%) Senior Developer
15 30 (1.84%) Financial Analyst
16 29 (1.78%) Senior Business Analyst
17 23 (1.41%) Technical Analyst
17 23 (1.41%) Tester
18 22 (1.35%) Support Engineer
19 21 (1.29%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (4.60%) REST
2 58 (3.56%) .NET
3 47 (2.88%) Kafka
4 37 (2.27%) Pandas
5 36 (2.21%) JSON
6 34 (2.08%) Middleware
6 34 (2.08%) RESTful
6 34 (2.08%) XML
7 29 (1.78%) HTML
7 29 (1.78%) SOAP
8 28 (1.72%) CSS
9 27 (1.66%) scikit-learn
10 25 (1.53%) PySpark
11 24 (1.47%) Web Services
12 21 (1.29%) NumPy
12 21 (1.29%) PyTorch
12 21 (1.29%) React
13 20 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
14 19 (1.16%) SAML
15 18 (1.10%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 148 (9.07%) Analytical Mindset
2 101 (6.19%) Product Ownership
3 65 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 64 (3.92%) Data Structures
4 64 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
5 46 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (2.64%) Cloud Native
6 43 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (2.39%) Management Information System
8 38 (2.33%) Algorithms
9 34 (2.08%) Data Centre
9 34 (2.08%) Fixed Income
10 33 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 31 (1.90%) Derivative
12 30 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
13 29 (1.78%) Equities
14 23 (1.41%) Virtual Team
15 22 (1.35%) Credit Risk
16 21 (1.29%) Security Posture
17 20 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 96 (5.89%) Windows
2 64 (3.92%) Linux
3 31 (1.90%) Unix
4 14 (0.86%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.55%) Android
7 9 (0.55%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.31%) Solaris
9 4 (0.25%) AIX
9 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.061%) SUSE
10 1 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 778 (47.70%) Problem-Solving
2 432 (26.49%) Agile
3 375 (22.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 302 (18.52%) Analytics
5 285 (17.47%) Continuous Improvement
6 279 (17.11%) AI
7 276 (16.92%) Decision-Making
8 246 (15.08%) Data Modelling
9 206 (12.63%) Validation
10 201 (12.32%) Business Intelligence
11 200 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 180 (11.04%) DevOps
13 179 (10.97%) Data Analysis
14 178 (10.91%) Migration
15 166 (10.18%) CI/CD
16 145 (8.89%) User Acceptance Testing
17 138 (8.46%) Data Pipeline
18 137 (8.40%) ETL
19 136 (8.34%) Roadmaps
19 136 (8.34%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 465 (28.51%) SQL
2 373 (22.87%) Python
3 100 (6.13%) Java
4 89 (5.46%) C#
5 55 (3.37%) JavaScript
6 53 (3.25%) PowerShell
7 44 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 35 (2.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 30 (1.84%) C++
9 30 (1.84%) R
10 25 (1.53%) PL/SQL
11 21 (1.29%) T-SQL
12 20 (1.23%) Bash
12 20 (1.23%) Scala
13 9 (0.55%) VBA
14 8 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.43%) C
15 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.31%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 200 (12.26%) Degree
2 195 (11.96%) Security Cleared
3 137 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 60 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.51%) Master's Degree
6 38 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 37 (2.27%) CISSP
8 27 (1.66%) PMP
9 26 (1.59%) CISM
9 26 (1.59%) PMI Certification
10 21 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (0.98%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.98%) CISA
11 16 (0.98%) CRISC
12 15 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
12 15 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.80%) ACCA
13 13 (0.80%) DV Cleared
13 13 (0.80%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.74%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (12.94%) Data Quality
2 120 (7.36%) QA
3 75 (4.60%) GDPR
3 75 (4.60%) PMO
4 50 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (3.00%) NIST
6 39 (2.39%) SLA
7 28 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
8 27 (1.66%) COBIT
9 25 (1.53%) Accessibility
10 24 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (1.29%) GRC
12 20 (1.23%) PCI DSS
13 17 (1.04%) IFRS
14 14 (0.86%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.55%) Solvency II
16 7 (0.43%) GAAP
17 6 (0.37%) MiFID
17 6 (0.37%) NCSC
17 6 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 56 (3.43%) Docker
2 52 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.25%) Firmware
7 3 (0.18%) IAG
7 3 (0.18%) Postfix
7 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.12%) NFS
8 2 (0.12%) Squid
9 1 (0.061%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.061%) RACF
9 1 (0.061%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.061%) vSphere
9 1 (0.061%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (3.31%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.64%) Terraform
3 22 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.23%) Ansible
4 20 (1.23%) Grafana
5 12 (0.74%) SCCM
6 10 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.49%) Kibana
8 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.18%) Control-M
10 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.12%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.061%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.061%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.061%) QRadar
Vendors
1 251 (15.39%) Microsoft
2 135 (8.28%) Oracle
3 93 (5.70%) SAP
4 83 (5.09%) Salesforce
5 71 (4.35%) ServiceNow
6 68 (4.17%) Databricks
7 62 (3.80%) Google
8 23 (1.41%) Workday
9 21 (1.29%) Splunk
10 20 (1.23%) Informatica
11 19 (1.16%) Adobe
11 19 (1.16%) Cisco
12 18 (1.10%) Dynatrace
13 17 (1.04%) IBM
14 16 (0.98%) VMware
15 15 (0.92%) Bloomberg
15 15 (0.92%) Murex
16 14 (0.86%) Tenable
17 13 (0.80%) Alteryx
18 11 (0.67%) Palo Alto