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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,630 1,485 1,422
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.62% 12.04% 8.07%
As % of the General category 14.37% 17.70% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,004 942 982
10th Percentile £350 £318 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £824 £825
England median daily rate £500 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -3.57% -1.24% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 34 42
10th Percentile £19.14 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.57 £26.59 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £42.75 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +85.87% -42.86%
75th Percentile £51.87 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.23 £68.13 £64.00
England median hourly rate £35.25 £32.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +8.46% +66.67% -51.55%

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 11,347 8,392 11,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.03% 68.06% 62.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,294 5,600 7,873
10th Percentile £350 £337 £335
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £520 £520 £533
% change year-on-year - -2.35% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 153 238
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.97 £15.85
25th Percentile £22.48 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £32.81 £34.48 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -4.84% +14.32% +0.53%
75th Percentile £46.69 £51.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £68.63 £65.00 £66.60
England median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £31.97
% change year-on-year +16.07% -12.42% +6.57%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 16 June 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 -9 207 £525 -4.55% 224
West London +2 75 £516 +29.06% 48
South London +2 32 £488 -22.00% 12
East London -5 9 £400 -7.03% 35
North London - 1 - - 9
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 76 (4.66%) Confluence
2 30 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.04%) Apache
6 14 (0.86%) CMS
6 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.43%) SAS
8 6 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.25%) IIS
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.18%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
13 1 (0.061%) Appian
13 1 (0.061%) nginx
13 1 (0.061%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.061%) Traefik
13 1 (0.061%) WebLogic
Applications
1 155 (9.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 51 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (2.52%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.61%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.061%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 12 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.55%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 7 (0.43%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.43%) Finacle
6 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.37%) Shopify
6 6 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
6 6 (0.37%) Summit
7 5 (0.31%) Magento
7 5 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.25%) HFM
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 332 (20.37%) Azure
2 226 (13.87%) AWS
3 208 (12.76%) Power Platform
4 82 (5.03%) GCP
5 77 (4.72%) SaaS
6 69 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
8 60 (3.68%) GitHub
9 42 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
10 37 (2.27%) Entra ID
11 34 (2.09%) Amazon S3
11 34 (2.09%) Snowflake
12 33 (2.02%) Serverless
13 29 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
14 28 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (1.53%) dbt
16 23 (1.41%) PaaS
17 21 (1.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 20 (1.23%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.52%) Firewall
2 24 (1.47%) DNS
3 22 (1.35%) Network Security
4 20 (1.23%) VPN
5 18 (1.10%) DHCP
6 17 (1.04%) WAN
7 15 (0.92%) TCP/IP
8 14 (0.86%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.80%) SAN
10 11 (0.67%) BGP
11 10 (0.61%) VLAN
12 9 (0.55%) OSPF
13 8 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
13 8 (0.49%) HTTP
13 8 (0.49%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.43%) Internet
14 7 (0.43%) MPLS
14 7 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (0.37%) 5G
15 6 (0.37%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (11.29%) Power BI
2 92 (5.64%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (4.79%) SQL Server
4 77 (4.72%) Tableau
5 59 (3.62%) Relational Database
6 54 (3.31%) Metadata
7 38 (2.33%) Data Lake
8 37 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (1.78%) NoSQL
10 26 (1.60%) Big Data
11 22 (1.35%) BigQuery
11 22 (1.35%) MongoDB
11 22 (1.35%) Power Query
11 22 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 20 (1.23%) Snowflake Schema
13 19 (1.17%) RDBMS
14 17 (1.04%) Oracle Database
14 17 (1.04%) Star Schema
15 15 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 163 (10.00%) JIRA
2 61 (3.74%) Git
3 26 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.29%) Selenium
5 12 (0.74%) REST Assured
6 11 (0.67%) Cucumber
6 11 (0.67%) Cypress.io
6 11 (0.67%) GitLab
6 11 (0.67%) Postman
7 10 (0.61%) ERwin
7 10 (0.61%) MLflow
8 8 (0.49%) JUnit
8 8 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
9 6 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.37%) Chocolatey
9 6 (0.37%) JMeter
9 6 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.37%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 735 (45.09%) Social Skills
2 633 (38.83%) Finance
3 233 (14.29%) Banking
4 135 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 89 (5.46%) Marketing
6 79 (4.85%) Legal
7 76 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
8 71 (4.36%) Front Office
9 67 (4.11%) Organisational Skills
10 60 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (3.13%) Investment Banking
12 45 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 45 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (2.76%) Telecoms
13 43 (2.64%) Retail
14 39 (2.39%) Financial Institution
15 22 (1.35%) Back Office
16 19 (1.17%) Law
17 17 (1.04%) Publishing
18 16 (0.98%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 435 (26.69%) Analyst
2 218 (13.37%) Business Analyst
3 155 (9.51%) Senior
4 142 (8.71%) Developer
5 114 (6.99%) Lead
6 107 (6.56%) Architect
7 101 (6.20%) Data Analyst
8 95 (5.83%) Data Engineer
9 90 (5.52%) Consultant
10 57 (3.50%) Data Scientist
11 46 (2.82%) Project Manager
12 39 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
13 37 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (1.96%) Senior Developer
15 30 (1.84%) Financial Analyst
16 29 (1.78%) Senior Business Analyst
17 23 (1.41%) Technical Analyst
18 22 (1.35%) Support Engineer
18 22 (1.35%) Tester
19 21 (1.29%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (4.66%) REST
2 58 (3.56%) .NET
3 47 (2.88%) Kafka
4 37 (2.27%) Pandas
5 36 (2.21%) JSON
6 34 (2.09%) Middleware
6 34 (2.09%) RESTful
6 34 (2.09%) XML
7 30 (1.84%) HTML
8 29 (1.78%) SOAP
9 28 (1.72%) CSS
10 27 (1.66%) scikit-learn
11 25 (1.53%) PySpark
12 24 (1.47%) Web Services
13 21 (1.29%) NumPy
13 21 (1.29%) React
14 20 (1.23%) PyTorch
15 19 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
15 19 (1.17%) SAML
16 18 (1.10%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 147 (9.02%) Analytical Mindset
2 102 (6.26%) Product Ownership
3 65 (3.99%) Onboarding
4 64 (3.93%) Data Structures
4 64 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
5 46 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 43 (2.64%) Cloud Native
6 43 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
7 39 (2.39%) Algorithms
7 39 (2.39%) Management Information System
8 33 (2.02%) Data Centre
8 33 (2.02%) Fixed Income
9 32 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 30 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
10 30 (1.84%) Derivative
11 28 (1.72%) Equities
12 23 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 22 (1.35%) Credit Risk
14 20 (1.23%) Security Posture
15 19 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 95 (5.83%) Windows
2 64 (3.93%) Linux
3 31 (1.90%) Unix
4 15 (0.92%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.61%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.55%) Android
8 5 (0.31%) Solaris
9 4 (0.25%) AIX
9 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.061%) SUSE
10 1 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 780 (47.85%) Problem-Solving
2 431 (26.44%) Agile
3 374 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 301 (18.47%) Analytics
5 285 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 279 (17.12%) AI
7 278 (17.06%) Decision-Making
8 246 (15.09%) Data Modelling
9 205 (12.58%) Validation
10 202 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
11 199 (12.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 180 (11.04%) DevOps
13 178 (10.92%) Data Analysis
14 176 (10.80%) Migration
15 165 (10.12%) CI/CD
16 143 (8.77%) User Acceptance Testing
17 138 (8.47%) Data Pipeline
18 136 (8.34%) ETL
18 136 (8.34%) User Stories
19 135 (8.28%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 465 (28.53%) SQL
2 374 (22.94%) Python
3 99 (6.07%) Java
4 87 (5.34%) C#
5 54 (3.31%) JavaScript
6 53 (3.25%) PowerShell
7 43 (2.64%) TypeScript
8 36 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 30 (1.84%) C++
9 30 (1.84%) R
10 25 (1.53%) PL/SQL
11 21 (1.29%) T-SQL
12 20 (1.23%) Bash
12 20 (1.23%) Scala
13 9 (0.55%) VBA
14 8 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
15 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
15 7 (0.43%) C
15 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.31%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 198 (12.15%) Degree
2 196 (12.02%) Security Cleared
3 137 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 59 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
5 40 (2.45%) Master's Degree
6 36 (2.21%) CISSP
7 27 (1.66%) PMP
8 26 (1.60%) PMI Certification
9 25 (1.53%) CISM
10 20 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (0.98%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.98%) CISA
12 15 (0.92%) CRISC
12 15 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
12 15 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.80%) ACCA
13 13 (0.80%) DV Cleared
13 13 (0.80%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.74%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (13.01%) Data Quality
2 120 (7.36%) QA
3 75 (4.60%) GDPR
3 75 (4.60%) PMO
4 51 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (3.01%) NIST
6 39 (2.39%) SLA
7 27 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
7 27 (1.66%) COBIT
8 24 (1.47%) Accessibility
8 24 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (1.29%) GRC
10 20 (1.23%) PCI DSS
11 17 (1.04%) IFRS
12 14 (0.86%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.49%) Solvency II
14 7 (0.43%) GAAP
15 6 (0.37%) MiFID
15 6 (0.37%) NCSC
15 6 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 56 (3.44%) Docker
2 52 (3.19%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.25%) Firmware
7 3 (0.18%) IAG
7 3 (0.18%) Postfix
8 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.12%) NFS
8 2 (0.12%) Squid
8 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.061%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.061%) RACF
9 1 (0.061%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.061%) vSphere
9 1 (0.061%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (3.37%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.64%) Terraform
3 23 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.23%) Ansible
4 20 (1.23%) Grafana
5 12 (0.74%) SCCM
6 10 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.49%) Kibana
8 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.18%) Control-M
10 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.12%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.061%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.061%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.061%) QRadar
Vendors
1 252 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 134 (8.22%) Oracle
3 93 (5.71%) SAP
4 84 (5.15%) Salesforce
5 72 (4.42%) ServiceNow
6 68 (4.17%) Databricks
7 62 (3.80%) Google
8 23 (1.41%) Workday
9 21 (1.29%) Splunk
10 20 (1.23%) Informatica
11 19 (1.17%) Adobe
12 18 (1.10%) Cisco
12 18 (1.10%) Dynatrace
13 17 (1.04%) IBM
14 15 (0.92%) Bloomberg
14 15 (0.92%) Murex
14 15 (0.92%) VMware
15 14 (0.86%) Tenable
16 13 (0.80%) Alteryx
17 12 (0.74%) Apple