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 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,632 1,492 1,483
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.19% 11.87% 8.33%
As % of the General category 15.22% 17.57% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,026 941 1,012
10th Percentile £350 £313 £320
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £719 £696
90th Percentile £750 £834 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 35 46
10th Percentile £24.03 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £32.25 £26.29 £16.85
Median hourly rate £39.00 £40.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +76.09% -32.35%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £41.81
90th Percentile £67.45 £65.00 £58.13
England median hourly rate £39.00 £28.15 £18.35
% change year-on-year +38.54% +53.41% -54.13%

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 10,726 8,491 11,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.38% 67.55% 63.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,980 5,735 8,013
10th Percentile £347 £340 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £813
England median daily rate £505 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.90% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 137 245
10th Percentile £18.37 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +19.30% -10.94%
75th Percentile £49.38 £51.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £65.02
England median hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £30.14
% change year-on-year +10.91% -8.76% -9.72%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -5 233 £525 -4.55% 288
West London -1 59 £520 +30.00% 41
South London +1 34 £500 -14.24% 16
East London +1 11 £400 -11.11% 23
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 88 (5.39%) Confluence
2 30 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.04%) Apache
6 15 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.67%) CMS
8 9 (0.55%) SAS
9 5 (0.31%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.25%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.12%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.061%) Appian
13 1 (0.061%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.061%) Traefik
Applications
1 158 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
4 49 (3.00%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.61%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
10 1 (0.061%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 13 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.61%) Shopify
6 9 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.43%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.43%) Summit
9 6 (0.37%) Aladdin
9 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
9 6 (0.37%) Workday HCM
10 5 (0.31%) BASE24
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 328 (20.10%) Azure
2 226 (13.85%) AWS
3 197 (12.07%) Power Platform
4 90 (5.51%) GCP
5 87 (5.33%) SaaS
6 77 (4.72%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (3.37%) GitHub
9 42 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 39 (2.39%) Amazon S3
10 39 (2.39%) Serverless
11 35 (2.14%) Entra ID
12 33 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
13 31 (1.90%) Snowflake
14 28 (1.72%) dbt
14 28 (1.72%) IaaS
15 27 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
16 23 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 23 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
17 22 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.57%) Firewall
2 26 (1.59%) DNS
3 25 (1.53%) Network Security
4 18 (1.10%) DHCP
4 18 (1.10%) VPN
5 15 (0.92%) SAN
5 15 (0.92%) WAN
6 11 (0.67%) SD-WAN
7 8 (0.49%) Internet
7 8 (0.49%) TCP/IP
7 8 (0.49%) VLAN
7 8 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (0.43%) BGP
8 7 (0.43%) HTTP
9 6 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (0.37%) IOS XR
9 6 (0.37%) LAN
9 6 (0.37%) NAS
9 6 (0.37%) OSPF
9 6 (0.37%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (10.78%) Power BI
2 87 (5.33%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (4.35%) Tableau
4 68 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 57 (3.49%) Metadata
6 41 (2.51%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.78%) Data Lake
7 29 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (1.65%) Big Data
8 27 (1.65%) NoSQL
9 24 (1.47%) BigQuery
10 22 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
11 21 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (1.04%) Power Query
13 16 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.92%) Star Schema
15 14 (0.86%) MongoDB
15 14 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (0.86%) RDBMS
16 13 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 174 (10.66%) JIRA
2 66 (4.04%) Git
3 23 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.29%) Selenium
5 16 (0.98%) GitLab
6 12 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.67%) MLflow
8 10 (0.61%) ERwin
8 10 (0.61%) Postman
8 10 (0.61%) REST Assured
9 8 (0.49%) Appium
9 8 (0.49%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.49%) JMeter
9 8 (0.49%) JUnit
9 8 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.43%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (0.43%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.37%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.37%) WebDriver
12 5 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 739 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 618 (37.87%) Finance
3 233 (14.28%) Banking
4 143 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 94 (5.76%) Marketing
6 87 (5.33%) Documentation Skills
7 72 (4.41%) Legal
8 65 (3.98%) Front Office
9 62 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
10 55 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
11 48 (2.94%) Investment Banking
12 44 (2.70%) Financial Institution
12 44 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
13 42 (2.57%) Retail
14 39 (2.39%) Telecoms
15 33 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 23 (1.41%) Back Office
17 16 (0.98%) Law
18 15 (0.92%) Local Government
18 15 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 433 (26.53%) Analyst
2 233 (14.28%) Business Analyst
3 167 (10.23%) Senior
4 136 (8.33%) Developer
5 111 (6.80%) Architect
6 106 (6.50%) Lead
7 95 (5.82%) Data Engineer
8 87 (5.33%) Data Analyst
9 86 (5.27%) Consultant
10 58 (3.55%) Data Scientist
11 57 (3.49%) Project Manager
12 52 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (2.14%) Senior Business Analyst
13 35 (2.14%) Solutions Architect
14 30 (1.84%) Financial Analyst
15 25 (1.53%) Product Manager
15 25 (1.53%) Quantitative Developer
16 24 (1.47%) Salesforce Analyst
17 23 (1.41%) Senior Manager
17 23 (1.41%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (4.66%) REST
2 50 (3.06%) .NET
3 48 (2.94%) Kafka
4 44 (2.70%) JSON
5 40 (2.45%) Pandas
6 37 (2.27%) Middleware
7 32 (1.96%) scikit-learn
7 32 (1.96%) XML
8 31 (1.90%) RESTful
9 27 (1.65%) HTML
10 26 (1.59%) NumPy
10 26 (1.59%) PySpark
10 26 (1.59%) SOAP
11 25 (1.53%) CSS
12 24 (1.47%) PyTorch
13 21 (1.29%) Node.js
13 21 (1.29%) OAuth
14 20 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
14 20 (1.23%) SAML
15 19 (1.16%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 156 (9.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 99 (6.07%) Product Ownership
3 69 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
4 64 (3.92%) Data Structures
5 61 (3.74%) Onboarding
6 40 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.33%) Management Information System
8 37 (2.27%) Algorithms
9 36 (2.21%) Data Centre
10 35 (2.14%) Derivative
11 34 (2.08%) Cloud Native
11 34 (2.08%) Fixed Income
12 29 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
12 29 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 27 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
13 27 (1.65%) Equities
14 23 (1.41%) Credit Risk
14 23 (1.41%) Virtual Team
15 19 (1.16%) Security Posture
16 18 (1.10%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 81 (4.96%) Windows
2 53 (3.25%) Linux
3 26 (1.59%) Unix
4 16 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.86%) Android
6 13 (0.80%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.49%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.061%) VMS
11 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 778 (47.67%) Problem-Solving
2 470 (28.80%) Agile
3 326 (19.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 306 (18.75%) Analytics
5 278 (17.03%) Decision-Making
6 263 (16.12%) AI
7 254 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 246 (15.07%) Data Modelling
9 205 (12.56%) Business Intelligence
10 201 (12.32%) Validation
11 195 (11.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 184 (11.27%) DevOps
13 171 (10.48%) CI/CD
14 169 (10.36%) Migration
15 159 (9.74%) Data Analysis
16 151 (9.25%) Roadmaps
17 149 (9.13%) Data Governance
18 145 (8.88%) Project Management
19 131 (8.03%) Visualisation
20 129 (7.90%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 440 (26.96%) SQL
2 361 (22.12%) Python
3 93 (5.70%) Java
4 78 (4.78%) C#
5 62 (3.80%) PowerShell
6 58 (3.55%) JavaScript
7 49 (3.00%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.96%) C++
9 31 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 30 (1.84%) R
11 28 (1.72%) Bash
12 21 (1.29%) PL/SQL
13 18 (1.10%) Scala
13 18 (1.10%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.55%) C
15 9 (0.55%) VBA
16 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.37%) COBOL
17 6 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 229 (14.03%) Security Cleared
2 204 (12.50%) Degree
3 164 (10.05%) SC Cleared
4 61 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 42 (2.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (2.45%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.02%) CISSP
8 33 (2.02%) PMP
9 21 (1.29%) CISM
10 20 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (1.04%) ISTQB
12 16 (0.98%) CISA
13 15 (0.92%) DV Cleared
14 14 (0.86%) CRISC
14 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.80%) CCNP
16 11 (0.67%) Azure Certification
17 8 (0.49%) ACCA
17 8 (0.49%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (12.44%) Data Quality
2 143 (8.76%) QA
3 78 (4.78%) GDPR
4 70 (4.29%) PMO
5 46 (2.82%) NIST
6 42 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.90%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.78%) SLA
9 28 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
10 25 (1.53%) PCI DSS
11 23 (1.41%) GRC
12 22 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 21 (1.29%) COBIT
14 11 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 11 (0.67%) IFRS
14 11 (0.67%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.61%) MiFID
16 9 (0.55%) PSD2
16 9 (0.55%) Solvency II
17 7 (0.43%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 60 (3.68%) Docker
2 45 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.31%) Firmware
5 4 (0.25%) IAG
5 4 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.18%) Squid
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.12%) HDFS
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Postfix
7 2 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.061%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.061%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.061%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.061%) RACF
8 1 (0.061%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.061%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 63 (3.86%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.45%) Terraform
3 23 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.23%) Grafana
5 19 (1.16%) Ansible
6 12 (0.74%) SCCM
7 10 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.49%) Kibana
8 8 (0.49%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
9 6 (0.37%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.18%) SCOM
11 2 (0.12%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.061%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.061%) Suricata
12 1 (0.061%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 260 (15.93%) Microsoft
2 109 (6.68%) Oracle
3 91 (5.58%) SAP
4 87 (5.33%) Salesforce
5 74 (4.53%) Google
6 67 (4.11%) ServiceNow
7 66 (4.04%) Databricks
8 25 (1.53%) Adobe
9 22 (1.35%) Cisco
9 22 (1.35%) Workday
10 21 (1.29%) Bloomberg
10 21 (1.29%) Splunk
11 19 (1.16%) Informatica
12 18 (1.10%) Murex
13 17 (1.04%) Palo Alto
13 17 (1.04%) VMware
14 15 (0.92%) Dynatrace
15 13 (0.80%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.80%) IBM
15 13 (0.80%) OpenAI