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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,686 1,442 1,482
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.86% 11.37% 8.26%
As % of the General category 15.97% 16.95% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,044 904 1,019
10th Percentile £350 £307 £325
25th Percentile £415 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £707 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 36 51
10th Percentile £19.84 £22.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.83 £26.30 £16.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +70.21% -26.38%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.25 £39.88
90th Percentile £54.45 £71.25 £55.00
England median hourly rate £36.53 £27.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year +31.62% +46.05% -45.71%

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 10,558 8,507 11,348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.74% 67.07% 63.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,883 5,744 8,075
10th Percentile £350 £337 £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 178 140 251
10th Percentile £17.50 £16.66 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £47.69 £53.75 £48.92
90th Percentile £70.75 £67.63 £69.50
England median hourly rate £27.00 £29.07 £26.87
% change year-on-year -7.12% +8.21% -23.24%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -2 250 £525 -2.33% 251
West London -6 42 £500 +25.00% 50
South London -2 35 £500 -14.38% 12
East London +7 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 85 (5.04%) Confluence
2 27 (1.60%) Apache Spark
2 27 (1.60%) SharePoint
3 23 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (0.95%) Apache
5 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 13 (0.77%) CMS
7 8 (0.47%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.36%) SAS
9 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.18%) IIS
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.12%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.059%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.059%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.059%) Traefik
Applications
1 170 (10.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 53 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
4 48 (2.85%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.47%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.24%) Trello
9 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.059%) Notion
11 1 (0.059%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 18 (1.07%) 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 8 (0.47%) Shopify
4 8 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.42%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.36%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.36%) Summit
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
1 336 (19.93%) Azure
2 238 (14.12%) AWS
3 208 (12.34%) Power Platform
4 92 (5.46%) GCP
5 88 (5.22%) SaaS
6 76 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
8 53 (3.14%) GitHub
9 51 (3.02%) Serverless
10 43 (2.55%) Amazon S3
10 43 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 43 (2.55%) IaaS
11 40 (2.37%) Snowflake
12 39 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
13 36 (2.14%) Entra ID
14 30 (1.78%) dbt
15 27 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
16 24 (1.42%) PaaS
17 23 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 22 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.67%) Firewall
2 30 (1.78%) Network Security
3 28 (1.66%) DNS
4 19 (1.13%) VPN
5 18 (1.07%) WAN
6 16 (0.95%) DHCP
7 14 (0.83%) SAN
8 11 (0.65%) SD-WAN
9 10 (0.59%) HTTP
9 10 (0.59%) VLAN
9 10 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.53%) LAN
10 9 (0.53%) TCP/IP
11 8 (0.47%) Internet
12 7 (0.42%) BGP
13 6 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.36%) IOS XR
13 6 (0.36%) NX-OS
13 6 (0.36%) OSPF
13 6 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 188 (11.15%) Power BI
2 89 (5.28%) Data Warehouse
3 84 (4.98%) Tableau
4 65 (3.86%) SQL Server
5 55 (3.26%) Metadata
6 39 (2.31%) Relational Database
7 28 (1.66%) Data Lake
8 27 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
9 23 (1.36%) NoSQL
10 22 (1.30%) Big Data
10 22 (1.30%) BigQuery
10 22 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
11 17 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (0.95%) Power Query
12 16 (0.95%) Star Schema
13 14 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
14 13 (0.77%) Looker
Development Applications
1 168 (9.96%) JIRA
2 65 (3.86%) Git
3 21 (1.25%) 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
10 7 (0.42%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (0.42%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.36%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.36%) ERwin
11 6 (0.36%) JMeter
12 5 (0.30%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 808 (47.92%) Social Skills
2 613 (36.36%) Finance
3 229 (13.58%) Banking
4 143 (8.48%) Public Sector
5 106 (6.29%) Marketing
6 80 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
7 79 (4.69%) Legal
8 65 (3.86%) Front Office
9 64 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
10 54 (3.20%) Investment Banking
11 53 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (2.85%) Retail
13 46 (2.73%) Financial Institution
14 45 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
15 36 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 35 (2.08%) Telecoms
17 30 (1.78%) Back Office
18 25 (1.48%) Publishing
19 21 (1.25%) Law
20 15 (0.89%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 435 (25.80%) Analyst
2 235 (13.94%) Business Analyst
3 181 (10.74%) Senior
4 152 (9.02%) Developer
5 129 (7.65%) Architect
6 111 (6.58%) Lead
7 94 (5.58%) Consultant
8 93 (5.52%) Data Analyst
9 89 (5.28%) Data Engineer
10 61 (3.62%) Project Manager
11 57 (3.38%) Senior Analyst
12 55 (3.26%) Data Scientist
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 26 (1.54%) Security Analyst
17 24 (1.42%) Financial Analyst
17 24 (1.42%) Quantitative Developer
17 24 (1.42%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (5.58%) REST
2 52 (3.08%) JSON
3 48 (2.85%) Kafka
4 45 (2.67%) .NET
4 45 (2.67%) Pandas
5 40 (2.37%) Middleware
6 38 (2.25%) scikit-learn
7 32 (1.90%) NumPy
7 32 (1.90%) XML
8 29 (1.72%) RESTful
9 27 (1.60%) SOAP
10 25 (1.48%) Node.js
10 25 (1.48%) PyTorch
11 23 (1.36%) HTML
11 23 (1.36%) PySpark
12 22 (1.30%) AngularJS
12 22 (1.30%) CSS
13 21 (1.25%) Web Services
14 20 (1.19%) OAuth
14 20 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 156 (9.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 88 (5.22%) Product Ownership
3 86 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
4 67 (3.97%) Data Structures
5 58 (3.44%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.55%) Algorithms
7 39 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 37 (2.19%) Fixed Income
9 36 (2.14%) Derivative
9 36 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
10 35 (2.08%) Data Centre
11 33 (1.96%) Cloud Native
12 31 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 30 (1.78%) Equities
14 28 (1.66%) PKI
15 27 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
16 26 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
17 22 (1.30%) Virtual Team
18 19 (1.13%) Credit Risk
18 19 (1.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 78 (4.63%) Windows
2 52 (3.08%) Linux
3 25 (1.48%) Unix
4 15 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.65%) Android
7 7 (0.42%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.12%) VMS
10 1 (0.059%) AIX
10 1 (0.059%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.059%) Solaris
10 1 (0.059%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (48.93%) Problem-Solving
2 507 (30.07%) Agile
3 345 (20.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 331 (19.63%) Analytics
5 287 (17.02%) Decision-Making
6 260 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 250 (14.83%) AI
8 248 (14.71%) Data Modelling
9 217 (12.87%) Business Intelligence
10 204 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 189 (11.21%) Validation
12 183 (10.85%) DevOps
13 174 (10.32%) CI/CD
14 173 (10.26%) Migration
15 166 (9.85%) Data Analysis
16 154 (9.13%) Roadmaps
17 153 (9.07%) Project Management
17 153 (9.07%) Visualisation
18 151 (8.96%) Data Governance
19 141 (8.36%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 446 (26.45%) SQL
2 368 (21.83%) Python
3 87 (5.16%) Java
4 77 (4.57%) PowerShell
5 74 (4.39%) C#
6 54 (3.20%) JavaScript
7 43 (2.55%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.84%) Bash
8 31 (1.84%) C++
9 28 (1.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 27 (1.60%) R
11 19 (1.13%) PL/SQL
11 19 (1.13%) T-SQL
12 13 (0.77%) Scala
13 12 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.53%) C
15 8 (0.47%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.47%) VBA
16 7 (0.42%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.36%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 254 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 222 (13.17%) Degree
3 189 (11.21%) SC Cleared
4 66 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.44%) Master's Degree
6 45 (2.67%) PMI Certification
7 36 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 36 (2.14%) PMP
8 28 (1.66%) CISSP
9 21 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.13%) DV Cleared
11 18 (1.07%) CISM
12 16 (0.95%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.89%) Azure Certification
13 15 (0.89%) CISA
13 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (0.83%) CCNP
15 13 (0.77%) CRISC
16 11 (0.65%) ACCA
16 11 (0.65%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (12.10%) Data Quality
2 143 (8.48%) QA
3 80 (4.74%) GDPR
4 65 (3.86%) PMO
5 42 (2.49%) NIST
6 41 (2.43%) Accessibility
7 39 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 28 (1.66%) SLA
9 27 (1.60%) Actionable Recommendations
10 24 (1.42%) GRC
10 24 (1.42%) PCI DSS
11 20 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 19 (1.13%) COBIT
13 12 (0.71%) MiFID
14 11 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 10 (0.59%) ISO 20022
16 9 (0.53%) IFRS
16 9 (0.53%) PSD2
16 9 (0.53%) Solvency II
16 9 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (3.50%) Docker
2 45 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Firmware
5 4 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.18%) IAG
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%) Postfix
8 1 (0.059%) RACF
8 1 (0.059%) Squid
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 62 (3.68%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.61%) Terraform
3 23 (1.36%) Ansible
3 23 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.77%) SCCM
5 12 (0.71%) Grafana
6 10 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.42%) HP ALM
8 6 (0.36%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.30%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.24%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.18%) SCOM
12 2 (0.12%) Control-M
12 2 (0.12%) Nessus
12 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.059%) EMC NetWorker
13 1 (0.059%) Nmap
13 1 (0.059%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.059%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 1 (0.059%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 267 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 103 (6.11%) Oracle
3 95 (5.63%) Salesforce
4 89 (5.28%) SAP
5 77 (4.57%) Google
6 66 (3.91%) ServiceNow
7 65 (3.86%) Databricks
8 26 (1.54%) Bloomberg
9 25 (1.48%) Splunk
10 23 (1.36%) Adobe
11 22 (1.30%) Workday
12 21 (1.25%) VMware
13 19 (1.13%) Informatica
13 19 (1.13%) Murex
14 18 (1.07%) Cisco
15 15 (0.89%) Palo Alto
16 14 (0.83%) OpenAI
17 13 (0.77%) Dynatrace
18 12 (0.71%) IBM
18 12 (0.71%) MuleSoft