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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,915 1,505 1,427
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.42% 11.17% 8.75%
As % of the General category 15.30% 16.22% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,177 941 882
10th Percentile £338 £313 £314
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £770 £763
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 29 22
10th Percentile £19.55 £17.90 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.15 £19.25
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.27 £34.04
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +0.69% -32.60%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £62.85 £57.00 £64.00
England median hourly rate £31.50 £32.16 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.04% +28.62% -44.44%

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 12,515 9,279 10,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.57% 68.88% 62.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,999 6,117 6,650
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
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 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 268 180 121
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £20.97 £24.61 £25.23
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -11.28% +29.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £48.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £65.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £30.50 £25.15 £38.85
% change year-on-year +21.27% -35.26% +41.27%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -12 227 £525 -4.55% 534
West London +4 92 £553 +33.13% 155
South London -2 25 £544 -22.36% 39
East London +1 13 £525 +53.28% 35
North London +4 5 £525 - 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 94 (4.91%) Confluence
2 47 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 42 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (1.57%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.36%) CMS
6 25 (1.31%) Apache
7 20 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.42%) JBoss
10 8 (0.42%) SAS
10 8 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.31%) IIS
12 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.26%) Appian
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 182 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (3.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 37 (1.93%) MS Visio
4 25 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
6 7 (0.37%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.26%) Trello
8 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.10%) Notion
9 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 26 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.89%) Aladdin
5 14 (0.73%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.52%) Finacle
7 9 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.47%) Shopify
8 8 (0.42%) iTrent
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.31%) Magento
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.26%) SAP GRC
10 5 (0.26%) Summit
11 4 (0.21%) Front Arena
11 4 (0.21%) HFM
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 386 (20.16%) Azure
2 275 (14.36%) AWS
3 249 (13.00%) Power Platform
4 109 (5.69%) GCP
5 86 (4.49%) GitHub
6 82 (4.28%) SaaS
7 81 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
8 70 (3.66%) Entra ID
8 70 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
8 70 (3.66%) Snowflake
9 42 (2.19%) Serverless
10 41 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 40 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (1.93%) dbt
13 35 (1.83%) Amazon S3
14 30 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
15 29 (1.51%) Microsoft Copilot
16 28 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
17 27 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 23 (1.20%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.25%) Firewall
2 36 (1.88%) DNS
3 35 (1.83%) TCP/IP
4 33 (1.72%) Network Security
4 33 (1.72%) VPN
5 22 (1.15%) DHCP
6 17 (0.89%) WAN
7 16 (0.84%) SSL
8 15 (0.78%) BGP
9 13 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
10 12 (0.63%) 5G
10 12 (0.63%) HTTP
10 12 (0.63%) SAN
10 12 (0.63%) VLAN
11 11 (0.57%) Kerberos
11 11 (0.57%) MPLS
12 10 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.47%) Wireless
13 9 (0.47%) Wireshark
14 8 (0.42%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (11.49%) Power BI
2 108 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
3 97 (5.07%) SQL Server
4 80 (4.18%) Tableau
5 73 (3.81%) Relational Database
6 68 (3.55%) Metadata
7 64 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.93%) Data Lake
8 37 (1.93%) NoSQL
9 34 (1.78%) MongoDB
10 30 (1.57%) Oracle Database
11 28 (1.46%) Delta Lake
12 25 (1.31%) Big Data
13 23 (1.20%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.20%) Power Query
14 22 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 20 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
15 20 (1.04%) RDBMS
16 18 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.78%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 196 (10.23%) JIRA
2 115 (6.01%) Git
3 59 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.78%) GitLab
5 26 (1.36%) Selenium
6 21 (1.10%) JMeter
7 16 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 14 (0.73%) Postman
9 13 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.68%) LoadRunner
10 12 (0.63%) ERwin
10 12 (0.63%) Maven
11 11 (0.57%) Gradle
11 11 (0.57%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.52%) Gatling
13 9 (0.47%) JUnit
13 9 (0.47%) REST Assured
13 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.42%) ER Studio
14 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 983 (51.33%) Social Skills
2 777 (40.57%) Finance
3 300 (15.67%) Banking
4 164 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 100 (5.22%) Front Office
6 92 (4.80%) Organisational Skills
7 89 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
8 83 (4.33%) Marketing
9 80 (4.18%) Legal
10 78 (4.07%) Influencing Skills
11 76 (3.97%) Retail
12 60 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 59 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
14 56 (2.92%) Investment Banking
15 52 (2.72%) Local Government
15 52 (2.72%) Telecoms
16 36 (1.88%) Financial Institution
17 32 (1.67%) Back Office
18 27 (1.41%) Manufacturing
19 20 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 476 (24.86%) Analyst
2 229 (11.96%) Senior
3 222 (11.59%) Business Analyst
4 175 (9.14%) Developer
5 130 (6.79%) Lead
6 126 (6.58%) Architect
7 99 (5.17%) Data Analyst
8 98 (5.12%) Data Engineer
9 72 (3.76%) Consultant
10 58 (3.03%) Data Scientist
11 52 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
12 51 (2.66%) Project Manager
13 48 (2.51%) Senior Developer
14 32 (1.67%) Technical Analyst
15 31 (1.62%) Senior Manager
15 31 (1.62%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (1.62%) Technical Business Analyst
16 30 (1.57%) Financial Analyst
16 30 (1.57%) Support Engineer
17 28 (1.46%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (6.06%) REST
2 95 (4.96%) .NET
3 83 (4.33%) Terraform
4 64 (3.34%) Kafka
5 58 (3.03%) RESTful
6 48 (2.51%) Web Services
7 45 (2.35%) SOAP
8 42 (2.19%) JSON
8 42 (2.19%) XML
9 41 (2.14%) Middleware
9 41 (2.14%) PySpark
10 39 (2.04%) HTML
11 35 (1.83%) React
12 32 (1.67%) CSS
12 32 (1.67%) Spring
13 28 (1.46%) Spring Boot
14 23 (1.20%) OAuth
14 23 (1.20%) Pandas
15 22 (1.15%) AngularJS
16 21 (1.10%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 151 (7.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 145 (7.57%) Product Ownership
3 121 (6.32%) Onboarding
4 82 (4.28%) Cloud Native
5 73 (3.81%) Data Structures
6 68 (3.55%) Management Information System
7 61 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
8 54 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
9 52 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
10 42 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
11 35 (1.83%) AI Agents
12 33 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
13 30 (1.57%) Derivative
14 28 (1.46%) Algorithms
14 28 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 27 (1.41%) Fixed Income
16 26 (1.36%) Equities
17 24 (1.25%) Credit Risk
18 23 (1.20%) Reference Data
19 21 (1.10%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 133 (6.95%) Linux
2 128 (6.68%) Windows
3 53 (2.77%) Unix
4 25 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.15%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.84%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.73%) Android
9 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.31%) Solaris
11 5 (0.26%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.10%) SUSE
13 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.052%) VMS
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,000 (52.22%) Problem-Solving
2 681 (35.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 546 (28.51%) Agile
4 400 (20.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 378 (19.74%) Analytics
6 376 (19.63%) AI
7 358 (18.69%) Decision-Making
8 275 (14.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 264 (13.79%) Validation
10 254 (13.26%) CI/CD
11 253 (13.21%) DevOps
12 252 (13.16%) Business Intelligence
13 237 (12.38%) Data Modelling
14 225 (11.75%) Migration
15 190 (9.92%) User Acceptance Testing
16 182 (9.50%) Roadmaps
17 178 (9.30%) Data Analysis
17 178 (9.30%) Data Pipeline
18 164 (8.56%) Business Analysis
19 162 (8.46%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 551 (28.77%) SQL
2 427 (22.30%) Python
3 121 (6.32%) Java
4 107 (5.59%) C#
5 97 (5.07%) JavaScript
6 75 (3.92%) PowerShell
7 53 (2.77%) Bash
8 46 (2.40%) TypeScript
9 35 (1.83%) R
10 31 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 30 (1.57%) C++
12 28 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 28 (1.46%) T-SQL
13 23 (1.20%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.84%) Korn
14 16 (0.84%) Perl
14 16 (0.84%) Scala
15 13 (0.68%) Go
16 9 (0.47%) VBA
17 8 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 261 (13.63%) Security Cleared
2 248 (12.95%) Degree
3 208 (10.86%) SC Cleared
4 63 (3.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (1.88%) CISSP
7 35 (1.83%) PMI Certification
8 34 (1.78%) PMP
9 31 (1.62%) Master's Degree
10 26 (1.36%) Azure Certification
11 24 (1.25%) CISM
12 23 (1.20%) ACCA
12 23 (1.20%) CIMA
13 22 (1.15%) DV Cleared
14 20 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
15 19 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
17 16 (0.84%) ISTQB
17 16 (0.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 15 (0.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (13.05%) Data Quality
2 149 (7.78%) QA
3 79 (4.13%) PMO
4 52 (2.72%) GDPR
5 49 (2.56%) SLA
6 43 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (1.88%) NIST
8 31 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
9 28 (1.46%) Accessibility
10 27 (1.41%) GRC
11 19 (0.99%) IFRS
12 16 (0.84%) COBIT
13 15 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.68%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.42%) Basel III
16 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.31%) ISO 15022
17 6 (0.31%) P3O
17 6 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 90 (4.70%) Docker
2 78 (4.07%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.47%) IAG
6 7 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.26%) Firmware
9 4 (0.21%) NFS
9 4 (0.21%) vSphere
10 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.10%) Postfix
11 2 (0.10%) Squid
11 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.052%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 93 (4.86%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.25%) Ansible
3 34 (1.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (1.72%) Grafana
5 16 (0.84%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.84%) SCCM
6 13 (0.68%) Control-M
6 13 (0.68%) Kibana
7 7 (0.37%) Puppet
7 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
9 5 (0.26%) Istio
10 4 (0.21%) systemd
11 3 (0.16%) Cilium
11 3 (0.16%) SnapMirror
12 2 (0.10%) Argo
12 2 (0.10%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 347 (18.12%) Microsoft
2 162 (8.46%) Oracle
3 95 (4.96%) SAP
3 95 (4.96%) ServiceNow
4 91 (4.75%) Databricks
5 74 (3.86%) Google
6 62 (3.24%) Salesforce
7 53 (2.77%) Splunk
8 36 (1.88%) IBM
9 34 (1.78%) Cisco
10 32 (1.67%) Dynatrace
11 30 (1.57%) VMware
12 21 (1.10%) CyberArk
13 20 (1.04%) Adobe
14 19 (0.99%) Alteryx
15 17 (0.89%) Red Hat
15 17 (0.89%) Workday
16 15 (0.78%) Informatica
16 15 (0.78%) Sitecore
17 14 (0.73%) Zscaler