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

6 months to
20 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 1,638 1,492 1,435
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.61% 11.93% 8.08%
As % of the General category 14.30% 17.52% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,008 950 984
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £800
England median daily rate £500 £512 £525
% change year-on-year -2.34% -2.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 34 42
10th Percentile £19.11 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.59 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £42.75 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +85.87% -46.51%
75th Percentile £50.62 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £68.13 £64.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £32.50 £19.25
% change year-on-year +9.23% +68.83% -52.47%

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 11,451 8,518 11,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.16% 68.11% 62.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,347 5,698 7,919
10th Percentile £350 £331 £331
25th Percentile £435 £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 £819 £825
England median daily rate £520 £520 £534
% change year-on-year - -2.62% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 158 240
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.95
25th Percentile £22.46 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.49 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% +14.36% -5.51%
75th Percentile £45.25 £52.12 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.17 £66.20
England median hourly rate £33.00 £28.18 £31.97
% change year-on-year +17.10% -11.85% +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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -9 204 £550 - 108
West London +3 79 £516 +29.06% 39
South London +2 32 £488 -22.00% 9
East London -3 9 £400 -7.03% 23
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 75 (4.58%) Confluence
2 32 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.40%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.10%) Apache
6 14 (0.85%) CMS
7 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.43%) SAS
9 6 (0.37%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
10 5 (0.31%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.24%) IIS
11 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.18%) Camunda
13 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
14 1 (0.061%) Appian
14 1 (0.061%) nginx
14 1 (0.061%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.061%) Traefik
14 1 (0.061%) WebLogic
Applications
1 152 (9.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 52 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
4 39 (2.38%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.22%) 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%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.061%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.73%) Aladdin
3 12 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.61%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 8 (0.49%) Finacle
7 7 (0.43%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
8 6 (0.37%) Summit
9 5 (0.31%) Magento
9 5 (0.31%) Shopify
10 4 (0.24%) HFM
10 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 331 (20.21%) Azure
2 235 (14.35%) AWS
3 206 (12.58%) Power Platform
4 87 (5.31%) GCP
5 78 (4.76%) SaaS
6 67 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (3.72%) GitHub
8 59 (3.60%) Microsoft 365
9 40 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
10 36 (2.20%) Amazon S3
11 35 (2.14%) Entra ID
11 35 (2.14%) Serverless
12 34 (2.08%) Snowflake
13 30 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
14 28 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
15 27 (1.65%) dbt
15 27 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (1.40%) PaaS
17 21 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 20 (1.22%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.50%) Firewall
2 23 (1.40%) DNS
2 23 (1.40%) Network Security
3 18 (1.10%) WAN
4 17 (1.04%) VPN
5 16 (0.98%) DHCP
6 15 (0.92%) SD-WAN
6 15 (0.92%) TCP/IP
7 13 (0.79%) SAN
8 11 (0.67%) BGP
9 10 (0.61%) VLAN
10 9 (0.55%) OSPF
11 8 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.49%) HTTP
11 8 (0.49%) Internet
11 8 (0.49%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.43%) MPLS
12 7 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
13 6 (0.37%) 5G
13 6 (0.37%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (11.11%) Power BI
2 93 (5.68%) Data Warehouse
3 80 (4.88%) SQL Server
4 79 (4.82%) Tableau
5 61 (3.72%) Relational Database
6 54 (3.30%) Metadata
7 39 (2.38%) Data Lake
8 38 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
9 32 (1.95%) NoSQL
10 26 (1.59%) Big Data
11 24 (1.47%) MongoDB
12 22 (1.34%) BigQuery
12 22 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 20 (1.22%) RDBMS
13 20 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
14 19 (1.16%) Power Query
15 17 (1.04%) Oracle Database
15 17 (1.04%) Star Schema
16 16 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
17 13 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 161 (9.83%) JIRA
2 61 (3.72%) Git
3 27 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.28%) Selenium
5 12 (0.73%) Postman
5 12 (0.73%) REST Assured
6 11 (0.67%) Cucumber
6 11 (0.67%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.61%) ERwin
7 10 (0.61%) GitLab
7 10 (0.61%) MLflow
8 8 (0.49%) JUnit
8 8 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.43%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.43%) JMeter
10 6 (0.37%) Chocolatey
10 6 (0.37%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.37%) WebDriver
11 5 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
11 5 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 752 (45.91%) Social Skills
2 642 (39.19%) Finance
3 233 (14.22%) Banking
4 135 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 88 (5.37%) Marketing
6 80 (4.88%) Legal
7 74 (4.52%) Front Office
8 73 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
9 66 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
10 61 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
11 51 (3.11%) Investment Banking
12 49 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 47 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
14 46 (2.81%) Retail
14 46 (2.81%) Telecoms
15 38 (2.32%) Financial Institution
16 23 (1.40%) Back Office
17 20 (1.22%) Law
18 17 (1.04%) Local Government
18 17 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 426 (26.01%) Analyst
2 211 (12.88%) Business Analyst
3 156 (9.52%) Senior
4 146 (8.91%) Developer
5 113 (6.90%) Lead
6 111 (6.78%) Architect
7 99 (6.04%) Data Engineer
8 98 (5.98%) Data Analyst
9 91 (5.56%) Consultant
10 61 (3.72%) Data Scientist
11 50 (3.05%) Project Manager
12 39 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
13 36 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (2.01%) Senior Developer
15 30 (1.83%) Financial Analyst
16 28 (1.71%) Senior Business Analyst
17 23 (1.40%) Tester
18 22 (1.34%) Product Owner
18 22 (1.34%) Support Engineer
19 21 (1.28%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (4.58%) REST
2 58 (3.54%) .NET
3 48 (2.93%) Kafka
4 39 (2.38%) Pandas
5 36 (2.20%) JSON
6 34 (2.08%) RESTful
6 34 (2.08%) XML
7 33 (2.01%) Middleware
8 30 (1.83%) scikit-learn
9 29 (1.77%) HTML
9 29 (1.77%) SOAP
10 28 (1.71%) CSS
11 26 (1.59%) PySpark
12 24 (1.47%) Web Services
13 23 (1.40%) NumPy
14 22 (1.34%) PyTorch
15 21 (1.28%) React
16 20 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
17 19 (1.16%) AngularJS
17 19 (1.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 153 (9.34%) Analytical Mindset
2 99 (6.04%) Product Ownership
3 66 (4.03%) Onboarding
4 65 (3.97%) Data Structures
5 64 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
6 44 (2.69%) Cloud Native
7 43 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
8 42 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (2.38%) Algorithms
10 38 (2.32%) Management Information System
11 34 (2.08%) Data Centre
12 33 (2.01%) Fixed Income
13 31 (1.89%) Data Protection Act
13 31 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 30 (1.83%) Derivative
15 27 (1.65%) Equities
16 21 (1.28%) Credit Risk
16 21 (1.28%) Security Posture
16 21 (1.28%) Virtual Team
17 20 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 95 (5.80%) Windows
2 66 (4.03%) Linux
3 32 (1.95%) Unix
4 14 (0.85%) 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 6 (0.37%) Solaris
9 5 (0.31%) AIX
9 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.12%) SUSE
11 1 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (48.41%) Problem-Solving
2 439 (26.80%) Agile
3 377 (23.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 307 (18.74%) Analytics
5 289 (17.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 285 (17.40%) AI
7 280 (17.09%) Decision-Making
8 244 (14.90%) Data Modelling
9 207 (12.64%) Validation
10 202 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 200 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
12 181 (11.05%) DevOps
13 175 (10.68%) Data Analysis
14 174 (10.62%) CI/CD
14 174 (10.62%) Migration
15 146 (8.91%) Data Pipeline
16 140 (8.55%) Data Science
16 140 (8.55%) User Acceptance Testing
17 138 (8.42%) ETL
18 137 (8.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 473 (28.88%) SQL
2 380 (23.20%) Python
3 102 (6.23%) Java
4 89 (5.43%) C#
5 56 (3.42%) JavaScript
6 51 (3.11%) PowerShell
7 44 (2.69%) TypeScript
8 35 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 31 (1.89%) R
10 30 (1.83%) C++
11 24 (1.47%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.34%) T-SQL
13 21 (1.28%) Scala
14 19 (1.16%) Bash
15 9 (0.55%) VBA
16 8 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.49%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.43%) C
18 6 (0.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 200 (12.21%) Degree
2 194 (11.84%) Security Cleared
3 137 (8.36%) SC Cleared
4 60 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 39 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 37 (2.26%) CISSP
7 27 (1.65%) PMP
8 26 (1.59%) CISM
9 25 (1.53%) PMI Certification
10 20 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (0.98%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.98%) CISA
11 16 (0.98%) CRISC
12 15 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
12 15 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.79%) ACCA
13 13 (0.79%) DV Cleared
13 13 (0.79%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.73%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (13.13%) Data Quality
2 121 (7.39%) QA
3 75 (4.58%) GDPR
4 73 (4.46%) PMO
5 50 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (2.99%) NIST
7 40 (2.44%) SLA
8 28 (1.71%) Actionable Recommendations
9 27 (1.65%) COBIT
10 26 (1.59%) Accessibility
11 24 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (1.28%) GRC
13 20 (1.22%) PCI DSS
14 17 (1.04%) IFRS
15 13 (0.79%) ISO 20022
16 9 (0.55%) Solvency II
17 7 (0.43%) GAAP
18 6 (0.37%) NCSC
18 6 (0.37%) PSD2
19 5 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 58 (3.54%) Docker
2 50 (3.05%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.24%) Firmware
6 4 (0.24%) IAG
7 3 (0.18%) Postfix
7 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.12%) NFS
8 2 (0.12%) Squid
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 57 (3.48%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.69%) Terraform
3 21 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.22%) Ansible
4 20 (1.22%) Grafana
5 11 (0.67%) 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 (0.24%) 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%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.061%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.061%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.061%) Opsview
12 1 (0.061%) QRadar
Vendors
1 243 (14.84%) Microsoft
2 135 (8.24%) Oracle
3 90 (5.49%) SAP
4 81 (4.95%) Salesforce
5 72 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 66 (4.03%) Databricks
7 62 (3.79%) Google
8 23 (1.40%) Workday
9 21 (1.28%) Informatica
9 21 (1.28%) Splunk
10 19 (1.16%) Dynatrace
11 18 (1.10%) Cisco
12 17 (1.04%) Adobe
12 17 (1.04%) IBM
13 16 (0.98%) VMware
14 15 (0.92%) Murex
15 14 (0.85%) Bloomberg
15 14 (0.85%) Tenable
16 13 (0.79%) Alteryx
17 12 (0.73%) Apple