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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,687 1,471 1,487
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.76% 11.64% 8.28%
As % of the General category 15.89% 17.35% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,048 921 1,023
10th Percentile £350 £306 £325
25th Percentile £415 £413 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 37 51
10th Percentile £22.75 £17.98 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.25 £16.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £39.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +68.09% -26.38%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.25 £39.88
90th Percentile £53.79 £70.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £35.55 £27.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +29.27% +48.65% -50.34%

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 10,620 8,480 11,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.42% 67.08% 63.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,913 5,740 8,080
10th Percentile £350 £331 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £706 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 137 252
10th Percentile £17.85 £16.39 £15.55
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -8.23%
75th Percentile £47.69 £53.75 £48.83
90th Percentile £70.00 £67.50 £69.43
England median hourly rate £27.88 £29.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -3.86% +5.45% -21.43%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -4 248 £525 -2.78% 251
West London -6 44 £500 +25.00% 50
South London 0 35 £500 -14.38% 12
East London +4 11 £400 -6.16% 26
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 86 (5.10%) Confluence
2 27 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 16 (0.95%) Apache
6 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 14 (0.83%) CMS
8 8 (0.47%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.36%) SAS
10 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.18%) IIS
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 (0.059%) GeoServer
13 1 (0.059%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.059%) Traefik
Applications
1 170 (10.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 53 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
4 49 (2.90%) MS Visio
5 31 (1.84%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.53%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.18%) Trello
9 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.059%) Notion
10 1 (0.059%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
3 10 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.53%) Shopify
5 8 (0.47%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.41%) Fidessa
6 7 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 7 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.41%) Summit
7 5 (0.30%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.30%) BASE24
7 5 (0.30%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 335 (19.86%) Azure
2 237 (14.05%) AWS
3 205 (12.15%) Power Platform
4 94 (5.57%) GCP
5 90 (5.33%) SaaS
6 75 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
8 53 (3.14%) GitHub
9 48 (2.85%) Serverless
10 43 (2.55%) IaaS
11 42 (2.49%) Amazon S3
11 42 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
12 40 (2.37%) Snowflake
13 38 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (2.07%) Entra ID
15 30 (1.78%) dbt
16 27 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
17 23 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 23 (1.36%) PaaS
18 21 (1.24%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.55%) Firewall
2 29 (1.72%) Network Security
3 28 (1.66%) DNS
4 18 (1.07%) VPN
5 17 (1.01%) DHCP
5 17 (1.01%) WAN
6 15 (0.89%) SAN
7 11 (0.65%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.59%) HTTP
9 9 (0.53%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.53%) VLAN
9 9 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.47%) Internet
10 8 (0.47%) LAN
11 7 (0.41%) BGP
12 6 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.36%) IOS XR
12 6 (0.36%) NAS
12 6 (0.36%) OSPF
12 6 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (11.03%) Power BI
2 91 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
3 81 (4.80%) Tableau
4 65 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 60 (3.56%) Metadata
6 40 (2.37%) Relational Database
7 28 (1.66%) Data Lake
8 27 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
9 24 (1.42%) BigQuery
10 23 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
11 21 (1.24%) Big Data
11 21 (1.24%) NoSQL
12 17 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
12 17 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (0.95%) Power Query
14 15 (0.89%) Star Schema
15 14 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
16 13 (0.77%) Looker
Development Applications
1 169 (10.02%) JIRA
2 65 (3.85%) Git
3 22 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.19%) Selenium
5 14 (0.83%) GitLab
6 12 (0.71%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.65%) JUnit
7 11 (0.65%) MLflow
8 10 (0.59%) Postman
8 10 (0.59%) REST Assured
9 8 (0.47%) Appium
9 8 (0.47%) ERwin
10 7 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (0.41%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.41%) JMeter
11 6 (0.36%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
12 5 (0.30%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 790 (46.83%) Social Skills
2 624 (36.99%) Finance
3 233 (13.81%) Banking
4 147 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 107 (6.34%) Marketing
6 80 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
7 79 (4.68%) Legal
8 67 (3.97%) Front Office
8 67 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
9 55 (3.26%) Investment Banking
10 52 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (2.90%) Retail
12 47 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
13 46 (2.73%) Financial Institution
14 37 (2.19%) Telecoms
15 36 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 29 (1.72%) Back Office
17 22 (1.30%) Publishing
18 20 (1.19%) Law
19 14 (0.83%) Billing
Job Titles
1 429 (25.43%) Analyst
2 237 (14.05%) Business Analyst
3 176 (10.43%) Senior
4 153 (9.07%) Developer
5 131 (7.77%) Architect
6 108 (6.40%) Lead
7 94 (5.57%) Consultant
8 92 (5.45%) Data Analyst
9 89 (5.28%) Data Engineer
10 60 (3.56%) Project Manager
11 57 (3.38%) Data Scientist
12 53 (3.14%) Senior Analyst
13 41 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
14 38 (2.25%) Senior Business Analyst
15 29 (1.72%) Product Manager
15 29 (1.72%) Senior Developer
16 25 (1.48%) Financial Analyst
17 24 (1.42%) Quantitative Developer
17 24 (1.42%) Salesforce Analyst
18 23 (1.36%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (5.51%) REST
2 54 (3.20%) JSON
3 48 (2.85%) Kafka
4 45 (2.67%) .NET
4 45 (2.67%) Pandas
5 39 (2.31%) Middleware
6 37 (2.19%) scikit-learn
7 32 (1.90%) NumPy
8 31 (1.84%) XML
9 30 (1.78%) RESTful
10 27 (1.60%) SOAP
11 25 (1.48%) Node.js
12 23 (1.36%) HTML
12 23 (1.36%) PySpark
13 22 (1.30%) AngularJS
13 22 (1.30%) CSS
13 22 (1.30%) PyTorch
14 21 (1.24%) React
14 21 (1.24%) Web Services
15 20 (1.19%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 156 (9.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 87 (5.16%) Product Ownership
3 85 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
4 67 (3.97%) Data Structures
5 61 (3.62%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.55%) Algorithms
7 38 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 37 (2.19%) Derivative
8 37 (2.19%) Fixed Income
9 35 (2.07%) Data Centre
9 35 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (1.96%) Cloud Native
11 31 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 29 (1.72%) Equities
13 28 (1.66%) PKI
14 27 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
15 26 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
16 22 (1.30%) Virtual Team
17 21 (1.24%) Credit Risk
18 18 (1.07%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 76 (4.51%) Windows
2 53 (3.14%) Linux
3 26 (1.54%) Unix
4 15 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.65%) Android
7 7 (0.41%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.059%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.059%) VMS
11 1 (0.059%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 818 (48.49%) Problem-Solving
2 504 (29.88%) Agile
3 343 (20.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 335 (19.86%) Analytics
5 290 (17.19%) Decision-Making
6 255 (15.12%) Data Modelling
7 254 (15.06%) AI
8 253 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 216 (12.80%) Business Intelligence
10 203 (12.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 191 (11.32%) Validation
12 184 (10.91%) DevOps
13 174 (10.31%) Migration
14 172 (10.20%) CI/CD
15 167 (9.90%) Data Analysis
16 156 (9.25%) Data Governance
17 155 (9.19%) Roadmaps
18 153 (9.07%) Project Management
19 150 (8.89%) Visualisation
20 140 (8.30%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 447 (26.50%) SQL
2 367 (21.75%) Python
3 89 (5.28%) Java
4 76 (4.51%) C#
5 74 (4.39%) PowerShell
6 55 (3.26%) JavaScript
7 45 (2.67%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.90%) C++
9 30 (1.78%) Bash
10 28 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 28 (1.66%) R
11 20 (1.19%) PL/SQL
12 19 (1.13%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.83%) Scala
14 12 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.53%) C
16 8 (0.47%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.47%) VBA
17 7 (0.41%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.30%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 253 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 221 (13.10%) Degree
3 186 (11.03%) SC Cleared
4 65 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.44%) Master's Degree
6 43 (2.55%) PMI Certification
7 36 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (2.02%) PMP
9 29 (1.72%) CISSP
10 20 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.07%) CISM
12 17 (1.01%) DV Cleared
13 16 (0.95%) CISA
13 16 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.83%) Azure Certification
14 14 (0.83%) CRISC
14 14 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.77%) CCNP
16 11 (0.65%) AWS Certification
17 10 (0.59%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (12.39%) Data Quality
2 143 (8.48%) QA
3 79 (4.68%) GDPR
4 67 (3.97%) PMO
5 43 (2.55%) NIST
6 40 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 39 (2.31%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.72%) SLA
9 27 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
10 24 (1.42%) GRC
10 24 (1.42%) PCI DSS
11 21 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (1.19%) COBIT
13 12 (0.71%) MiFID
14 11 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 11 (0.65%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.53%) IFRS
15 9 (0.53%) PSD2
15 9 (0.53%) Solvency II
15 9 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 58 (3.44%) Docker
2 44 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Firmware
5 4 (0.24%) IAG
5 4 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.18%) ProxySG
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.12%) HDFS
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.059%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.059%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.059%) Postfix
8 1 (0.059%) RACF
8 1 (0.059%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.059%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.059%) Xen
8 1 (0.059%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 61 (3.62%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.55%) Terraform
3 23 (1.36%) Ansible
3 23 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.77%) Grafana
4 13 (0.77%) SCCM
5 10 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (0.41%) HP ALM
6 7 (0.41%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.30%) FortiGate
8 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.18%) SCOM
9 2 (0.12%) Control-M
9 2 (0.12%) Istio
9 2 (0.12%) Kibana
9 2 (0.12%) Nessus
9 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.059%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.059%) CEMLI
10 1 (0.059%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 264 (15.65%) Microsoft
2 107 (6.34%) Oracle
3 95 (5.63%) Salesforce
4 91 (5.39%) SAP
5 77 (4.56%) Google
6 66 (3.91%) Databricks
6 66 (3.91%) ServiceNow
7 25 (1.48%) Bloomberg
8 24 (1.42%) Adobe
9 23 (1.36%) Workday
10 21 (1.24%) VMware
11 19 (1.13%) Cisco
11 19 (1.13%) Informatica
11 19 (1.13%) Murex
12 17 (1.01%) Splunk
13 16 (0.95%) Palo Alto
14 14 (0.83%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.77%) Dynatrace
16 12 (0.71%) IBM
16 12 (0.71%) MuleSoft