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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,862 1,600 1,359
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.31% 11.75% 8.35%
As % of the General category 15.37% 17.19% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 1,029 897
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 30 21
10th Percentile £19.48 £11.96 £17.25
25th Percentile £27.14 £24.63 £26.56
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.48 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.11% -18.87% -10.53%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.19 £53.75
90th Percentile £72.08 £59.25 £65.03
England median hourly rate £38.72 £32.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year +19.14% +46.07% -48.77%

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 12,116 9,307 10,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.56% 68.33% 62.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,720 6,206 7,185
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
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 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £510 £538
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 183 141
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.98 £24.18
Median hourly rate £29.04 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £50.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.65 £69.50
England median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +35.11% -34.02% +30.32%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 -10 237 £525 -4.55% 288
West London +1 77 £520 +26.06% 67
South London +5 38 £524 -16.20% 21
East London -2 9 £400 +23.00% 39
North London 0 3 £450 - 5
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 (4.30%) Confluence
2 34 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
2 34 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.56%) CMS
4 28 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.07%) Apache
6 19 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.43%) Jupyter
7 8 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
8 7 (0.38%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.32%) SAS
10 5 (0.27%) IIS
10 5 (0.27%) JBoss
11 4 (0.21%) Appian
12 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.16%) Camunda
13 2 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 163 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (2.04%) MS Visio
5 28 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.64%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.21%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.21%) Trello
9 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.11%) Notion
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.054%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.054%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
1 22 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
3 15 (0.81%) Aladdin
4 10 (0.54%) Finacle
4 10 (0.54%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.48%) Shopify
6 8 (0.43%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.38%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.27%) iTrent
8 5 (0.27%) Magento
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.21%) Findur
9 4 (0.21%) HFM
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 370 (19.87%) Azure
2 259 (13.91%) AWS
3 236 (12.67%) Power Platform
4 99 (5.32%) GCP
5 80 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
6 74 (3.97%) SaaS
7 68 (3.65%) GitHub
8 64 (3.44%) Microsoft 365
9 57 (3.06%) Entra ID
10 55 (2.95%) Snowflake
11 47 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
12 37 (1.99%) Serverless
13 33 (1.77%) dbt
14 32 (1.72%) Amazon S3
14 32 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
15 30 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
16 28 (1.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 26 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
18 23 (1.24%) PaaS
19 21 (1.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.58%) Firewall
2 39 (2.09%) DNS
3 28 (1.50%) VPN
4 27 (1.45%) Network Security
5 25 (1.34%) DHCP
5 25 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 16 (0.86%) WAN
7 15 (0.81%) VLAN
8 13 (0.70%) HTTP
8 13 (0.70%) SAN
9 12 (0.64%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.59%) SSL
11 10 (0.54%) BGP
11 10 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.43%) 4G
12 8 (0.43%) 5G
13 7 (0.38%) MPLS
13 7 (0.38%) Multicast
13 7 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
13 7 (0.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (11.44%) Power BI
2 111 (5.96%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (5.42%) SQL Server
4 78 (4.19%) Tableau
5 76 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 73 (3.92%) Metadata
7 51 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (2.15%) Data Lake
9 36 (1.93%) NoSQL
10 29 (1.56%) Big Data
10 29 (1.56%) MongoDB
11 24 (1.29%) Oracle Database
11 24 (1.29%) RDBMS
12 23 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (1.18%) BigQuery
14 19 (1.02%) Power Query
15 18 (0.97%) Delta Lake
16 17 (0.91%) Star Schema
17 16 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
17 16 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 183 (9.83%) JIRA
2 78 (4.19%) Git
3 41 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.29%) Selenium
5 16 (0.86%) ERwin
5 16 (0.86%) GitLab
6 14 (0.75%) JMeter
7 12 (0.64%) JUnit
8 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.59%) Cypress.io
8 11 (0.59%) Maven
9 10 (0.54%) REST Assured
10 9 (0.48%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.48%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.48%) Postman
10 9 (0.48%) Zephyr
11 8 (0.43%) Chocolatey
11 8 (0.43%) Gatling
11 8 (0.43%) Gradle
11 8 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
General
1 911 (48.93%) Social Skills
2 747 (40.12%) Finance
3 277 (14.88%) Banking
4 157 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 101 (5.42%) Marketing
6 95 (5.10%) Front Office
7 86 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
8 81 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
9 76 (4.08%) Legal
10 65 (3.49%) Retail
11 57 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
11 57 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
12 56 (3.01%) Investment Banking
13 52 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 46 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 43 (2.31%) Financial Institution
16 27 (1.45%) Back Office
17 25 (1.34%) Local Government
18 22 (1.18%) Publishing
19 19 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 480 (25.78%) Analyst
2 241 (12.94%) Business Analyst
3 208 (11.17%) Senior
4 169 (9.08%) Developer
5 131 (7.04%) Lead
6 127 (6.82%) Architect
7 108 (5.80%) Data Engineer
8 106 (5.69%) Data Analyst
9 88 (4.73%) Consultant
10 69 (3.71%) Data Scientist
11 60 (3.22%) Project Manager
12 51 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
13 43 (2.31%) Senior Developer
14 31 (1.66%) Senior Manager
15 30 (1.61%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (1.61%) Technical Business Analyst
16 28 (1.50%) Senior Business Analyst
16 28 (1.50%) Support Engineer
16 28 (1.50%) Technical Analyst
17 27 (1.45%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (5.80%) REST
2 67 (3.60%) .NET
3 50 (2.69%) Kafka
4 48 (2.58%) RESTful
5 46 (2.47%) JSON
6 40 (2.15%) XML
7 39 (2.09%) Pandas
7 39 (2.09%) SOAP
8 37 (1.99%) HTML
9 36 (1.93%) Web Services
10 34 (1.83%) CSS
11 32 (1.72%) Middleware
11 32 (1.72%) PySpark
12 31 (1.66%) React
13 27 (1.45%) scikit-learn
13 27 (1.45%) Spring
14 24 (1.29%) AngularJS
14 24 (1.29%) PyTorch
15 23 (1.24%) Spring Boot
16 22 (1.18%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 168 (9.02%) Analytical Mindset
2 132 (7.09%) Product Ownership
3 106 (5.69%) Onboarding
4 80 (4.30%) Data Structures
5 72 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
7 53 (2.85%) Cloud Native
7 53 (2.85%) Management Information System
8 39 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 35 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.83%) Fixed Income
12 31 (1.66%) Algorithms
12 31 (1.66%) Data Centre
12 31 (1.66%) Derivative
13 28 (1.50%) AI Agents
13 28 (1.50%) Equities
14 24 (1.29%) CMDB
15 22 (1.18%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 124 (6.66%) Windows
2 97 (5.21%) Linux
3 32 (1.72%) Unix
4 23 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.86%) Mac OS
6 14 (0.75%) Windows 10
7 13 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.59%) Android
10 7 (0.38%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.32%) Solaris
12 5 (0.27%) AIX
13 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) SUSE
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.054%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.054%) VMS
15 1 (0.054%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 916 (49.19%) Problem-Solving
2 558 (29.97%) Agile
3 523 (28.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 362 (19.44%) Analytics
5 359 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 339 (18.21%) AI
7 329 (17.67%) Decision-Making
8 266 (14.29%) Data Modelling
9 257 (13.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 248 (13.32%) Business Intelligence
11 236 (12.67%) Validation
12 228 (12.24%) DevOps
13 204 (10.96%) CI/CD
14 201 (10.79%) Migration
15 183 (9.83%) Data Analysis
16 174 (9.34%) Data Pipeline
17 168 (9.02%) User Acceptance Testing
18 163 (8.75%) Roadmaps
19 158 (8.49%) Data Governance
19 158 (8.49%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 535 (28.73%) SQL
2 403 (21.64%) Python
3 121 (6.50%) Java
4 87 (4.67%) C#
5 85 (4.56%) JavaScript
6 72 (3.87%) PowerShell
7 47 (2.52%) TypeScript
8 34 (1.83%) Bash
9 33 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 32 (1.72%) R
11 30 (1.61%) C++
12 26 (1.40%) T-SQL
13 25 (1.34%) PL/SQL
14 15 (0.81%) Scala
15 10 (0.54%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.54%) VBA
16 9 (0.48%) Ruby
17 8 (0.43%) Go
17 8 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 238 (12.78%) Security Cleared
2 231 (12.41%) Degree
3 180 (9.67%) SC Cleared
4 75 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.09%) CISSP
6 34 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 32 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.45%) PMP
9 26 (1.40%) CISM
10 25 (1.34%) PMI Certification
11 23 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (1.13%) Azure Certification
13 18 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.91%) DV Cleared
15 15 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.75%) CCNP
16 14 (0.75%) CRISC
17 13 (0.70%) ACCA
17 13 (0.70%) CISA
18 12 (0.64%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (13.53%) Data Quality
2 140 (7.52%) QA
3 93 (4.99%) PMO
4 64 (3.44%) GDPR
5 50 (2.69%) SLA
6 48 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (2.58%) NIST
7 33 (1.77%) Accessibility
8 30 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (1.24%) COBIT
11 22 (1.18%) GRC
12 14 (0.75%) IFRS
13 11 (0.59%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.32%) GAAP
15 6 (0.32%) MiFID
15 6 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 76 (4.08%) Active Directory
2 68 (3.65%) Docker
3 16 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.48%) IAG
6 6 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.27%) Firmware
8 4 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.16%) Postfix
9 3 (0.16%) vSphere
10 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.11%) Squid
10 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.054%) NFS
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.054%) RACF
11 1 (0.054%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 67 (3.60%) Kubernetes
2 59 (3.17%) Terraform
3 37 (1.99%) Ansible
4 32 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (1.34%) Grafana
6 16 (0.86%) SCCM
7 11 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.54%) Control-M
9 9 (0.48%) Kibana
10 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.21%) Puppet
11 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (0.21%) systemd
12 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.16%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
13 2 (0.11%) SCOM
13 2 (0.11%) Tivoli
13 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 300 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 155 (8.32%) Oracle
3 96 (5.16%) ServiceNow
4 94 (5.05%) SAP
5 73 (3.92%) Google
6 69 (3.71%) Databricks
7 67 (3.60%) Salesforce
8 36 (1.93%) Splunk
9 31 (1.66%) Dynatrace
10 28 (1.50%) IBM
11 27 (1.45%) VMware
12 26 (1.40%) Cisco
13 23 (1.24%) Adobe
14 22 (1.18%) CyberArk
15 21 (1.13%) Workday
16 19 (1.02%) Informatica
17 18 (0.97%) Alteryx
18 16 (0.86%) Apple
18 16 (0.86%) Sitecore
19 15 (0.81%) Tenable