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 19 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,576 1,415 1,667
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.19% 9.07% 8.37%
As % of the General category 16.37% 14.41% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 855 1,134
10th Percentile £313 £314 £319
25th Percentile £406 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £526
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.24% -4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 23 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £21.18
25th Percentile £25.49 £20.55 £28.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -39.70% +61.79%
75th Percentile £47.38 £48.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £63.00 £79.85 £66.20
England median hourly rate £34.00 £26.06 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.46% -25.54% -12.50%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,628 9,817 12,978
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.33% 62.94% 65.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,293 6,293 9,393
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £695 £700
90th Percentile £787 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 112 171
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.55 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £27.38 £21.38
Median hourly rate £27.25 £37.79 £35.63
Median % change year-on-year -27.88% +6.05% +15.87%
75th Percentile £45.44 £54.06 £59.38
90th Percentile £70.20 £76.13 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.00 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -21.88% -1.54% +26.41%

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025.

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 19 November 2025. 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 +4 257 £515 -10.43% 646
South London -2 26 £625 +11.86% 44
West London -4 25 £425 +6.25% 68
East London +4 10 £400 -9.09% 54
North London -3 1 - - 11
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 71 (4.51%) Confluence
2 39 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.89%) CMS
7 9 (0.57%) Apache
8 5 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) Camunda
11 2 (0.13%) IIS
11 2 (0.13%) Luigi
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.063%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.063%) SAP Portal
12 1 (0.063%) SAS
Applications
1 142 (9.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (2.16%) MS Visio
5 21 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.38%) ProjectWise
8 4 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.25%) Trello
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.13%) Notion
10 2 (0.13%) Revit
11 1 (0.063%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.063%) GNU Octave
11 1 (0.063%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.063%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 20 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.76%) Endur
3 11 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.63%) SAP HR
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
6 8 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
6 8 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
7 6 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
7 6 (0.38%) Oracle BPM
7 6 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.38%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.32%) NetSuite
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.32%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.32%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.25%) ION MarketView
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 255 (16.18%) Azure
2 212 (13.45%) AWS
3 168 (10.66%) Power Platform
4 82 (5.20%) GCP
5 59 (3.74%) SaaS
6 53 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (2.66%) Entra ID
9 39 (2.47%) GitHub
10 37 (2.35%) IaaS
11 36 (2.28%) Snowflake
12 31 (1.97%) Amazon S3
13 28 (1.78%) Serverless
14 25 (1.59%) dbt
15 21 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
17 18 (1.14%) PowerApps
18 16 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
19 15 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
19 15 (0.95%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.73%) Firewall
2 31 (1.97%) DNS
3 30 (1.90%) Network Security
4 24 (1.52%) TCP/IP
5 20 (1.27%) VPN
6 17 (1.08%) LAN
6 17 (1.08%) WAN
7 15 (0.95%) HTTP
8 11 (0.70%) Internet
8 11 (0.70%) SSL
9 10 (0.63%) DHCP
9 10 (0.63%) VLAN
9 10 (0.63%) VoIP
10 7 (0.44%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.38%) Wireless
12 5 (0.32%) BGP
12 5 (0.32%) CTI
12 5 (0.32%) SMTP
12 5 (0.32%) SSH
12 5 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (9.96%) Power BI
2 75 (4.76%) Tableau
3 60 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (3.30%) SQL Server
5 49 (3.11%) Relational Database
6 37 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (2.16%) Metadata
8 29 (1.84%) DB2
8 29 (1.84%) MongoDB
9 28 (1.78%) Big Data
10 25 (1.59%) Data Lake
11 23 (1.46%) NoSQL
12 22 (1.40%) Hadoop
13 20 (1.27%) BigQuery
14 16 (1.02%) Looker
14 16 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
14 16 (1.02%) Power Query
14 16 (1.02%) Star Schema
15 13 (0.82%) Oracle Database
15 13 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 134 (8.50%) JIRA
2 73 (4.63%) Git
3 28 (1.78%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.65%) JUnit
5 12 (0.76%) GitLab
5 12 (0.76%) Selenium
6 9 (0.57%) Postman
7 8 (0.51%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.44%) Maven
9 6 (0.38%) Browser DevTools
9 6 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.38%) TestRail
10 5 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.32%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.32%) Gatling
10 5 (0.32%) JMeter
10 5 (0.32%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.32%) Metasploit
10 5 (0.32%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 5 (0.32%) webpack
General
1 868 (55.08%) Social Skills
2 564 (35.79%) Finance
3 230 (14.59%) Banking
4 120 (7.61%) Public Sector
5 97 (6.15%) Marketing
6 91 (5.77%) Investment Banking
7 69 (4.38%) Legal
8 54 (3.43%) Front Office
9 52 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
9 52 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
10 51 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
11 49 (3.11%) Presentation Skills
12 47 (2.98%) Back Office
12 47 (2.98%) Financial Institution
13 45 (2.86%) Retail
13 45 (2.86%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 21 (1.33%) Publishing
16 19 (1.21%) Law
17 18 (1.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 422 (26.78%) Analyst
2 205 (13.01%) Business Analyst
3 193 (12.25%) Developer
4 177 (11.23%) Senior
5 124 (7.87%) Architect
6 98 (6.22%) Lead
7 74 (4.70%) Data Analyst
8 70 (4.44%) Consultant
9 55 (3.49%) Data Engineer
10 51 (3.24%) Java Developer
10 51 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
11 50 (3.17%) Senior Developer
12 41 (2.60%) Project Manager
13 37 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (2.03%) Python Developer
15 31 (1.97%) Technical Analyst
16 26 (1.65%) Data Scientist
16 26 (1.65%) Security Analyst
17 25 (1.59%) Senior Business Analyst
18 22 (1.40%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (6.73%) REST
2 51 (3.24%) JSON
3 50 (3.17%) Kafka
4 46 (2.92%) .NET
5 38 (2.41%) HTML
6 37 (2.35%) React
6 37 (2.35%) Spring
7 30 (1.90%) AngularJS
7 30 (1.90%) CSS
7 30 (1.90%) RESTful
8 28 (1.78%) XML
9 27 (1.71%) SOAP
10 22 (1.40%) Web Services
11 21 (1.33%) OAuth
12 20 (1.27%) Middleware
12 20 (1.27%) Pandas
13 17 (1.08%) SAML
14 16 (1.02%) JMS
14 16 (1.02%) scikit-learn
14 16 (1.02%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 148 (9.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 74 (4.70%) Product Ownership
3 72 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
4 61 (3.87%) Management Information System
5 54 (3.43%) Data Structures
6 49 (3.11%) Onboarding
7 46 (2.92%) Algorithms
8 34 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 32 (2.03%) Derivative
10 30 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
11 29 (1.84%) PKI
12 28 (1.78%) Fixed Income
13 27 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
14 26 (1.65%) Equities
15 25 (1.59%) Cloud Native
15 25 (1.59%) Reinsurance
15 25 (1.59%) Security Posture
16 21 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
17 20 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
18 18 (1.14%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 98 (6.22%) Linux
2 80 (5.08%) Windows
3 41 (2.60%) Unix
4 9 (0.57%) Windows 10
4 9 (0.57%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.32%) Android
5 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.25%) Solaris
6 4 (0.25%) VMS
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.13%) AIX
8 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.063%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.063%) VME
9 1 (0.063%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (54.82%) Problem-Solving
2 471 (29.89%) Agile
3 282 (17.89%) Analytics
4 275 (17.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 237 (15.04%) Decision-Making
6 195 (12.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 191 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
8 188 (11.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 172 (10.91%) Data Analysis
10 166 (10.53%) CI/CD
11 162 (10.28%) Data Modelling
12 161 (10.22%) DevOps
13 141 (8.95%) Migration
14 140 (8.88%) Project Management
15 138 (8.76%) AI
16 133 (8.44%) Visualisation
17 132 (8.38%) Computer Science
18 130 (8.25%) Actionable Insight
19 124 (7.87%) Scrum
20 122 (7.74%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 391 (24.81%) SQL
2 337 (21.38%) Python
3 137 (8.69%) Java
4 95 (6.03%) JavaScript
5 75 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 52 (3.30%) C#
7 44 (2.79%) Bash
8 37 (2.35%) TypeScript
9 30 (1.90%) Shell Script
10 27 (1.71%) C++
11 17 (1.08%) Go
11 17 (1.08%) R
12 16 (1.02%) PL/SQL
13 15 (0.95%) VBA
14 12 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.70%) T-SQL
16 10 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
17 9 (0.57%) Scala
18 7 (0.44%) ABAP
18 7 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 238 (15.10%) Degree
2 213 (13.52%) Security Cleared
3 162 (10.28%) SC Cleared
4 73 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (2.28%) PMI Certification
6 34 (2.16%) Master's Degree
7 23 (1.46%) PMP
8 22 (1.40%) DV Cleared
9 21 (1.33%) CISSP
10 19 (1.21%) Azure Certification
11 14 (0.89%) CBAP
11 14 (0.89%) CIMA
11 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.82%) ACCA
12 13 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.82%) OSCP
13 12 (0.76%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
14 10 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (8.44%) Data Quality
2 117 (7.42%) QA
3 47 (2.98%) GDPR
4 46 (2.92%) Accessibility
5 26 (1.65%) PMO
6 20 (1.27%) NIST
7 19 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.02%) SLA
9 11 (0.70%) WCAG
10 10 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 9 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.57%) GRC
11 9 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.51%) COBIT
12 8 (0.51%) EMIR
13 7 (0.44%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.38%) ISO 19650
14 6 (0.38%) MiFID
15 5 (0.32%) PSD2
15 5 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 62 (3.93%) Active Directory
2 53 (3.36%) Docker
3 13 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.63%) zsh
5 7 (0.44%) HDFS
6 5 (0.32%) Firmware
7 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.19%) vSphere
9 2 (0.13%) ProxySG
9 2 (0.13%) Squid
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.063%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.063%) KVM
10 1 (0.063%) Postfix
10 1 (0.063%) Snort
10 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 67 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.62%) Terraform
3 43 (2.73%) Ansible
4 18 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.02%) Grafana
5 16 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.76%) SCCM
8 7 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
8 7 (0.44%) Nessus
9 5 (0.32%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.32%) Nmap
10 4 (0.25%) BladeLogic
10 4 (0.25%) SCOM
11 3 (0.19%) Argo
11 3 (0.19%) CA Spectrum
11 3 (0.19%) QRadar
12 2 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 2 (0.13%) Packer
12 2 (0.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 246 (15.61%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.90%) Oracle
3 72 (4.57%) SAP
4 64 (4.06%) Google
5 57 (3.62%) ServiceNow
6 52 (3.30%) Salesforce
7 42 (2.66%) Databricks
8 34 (2.16%) Splunk
9 31 (1.97%) Cisco
10 22 (1.40%) VMware
11 20 (1.27%) Sybase
12 18 (1.14%) Bloomberg
13 15 (0.95%) Adobe
13 15 (0.95%) Workday
14 14 (0.89%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.82%) CyberArk
16 12 (0.76%) Alteryx
16 12 (0.76%) Juniper
16 12 (0.76%) Murex
17 11 (0.70%) Palo Alto