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 12 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,934 1,547 1,386
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.51% 11.47% 8.51%
As % of the General category 15.51% 16.57% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,172 975 865
10th Percentile £341 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £668
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 33 22
10th Percentile £19.72 £17.60 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £27.39 £19.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £34.48 £37.29
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -7.52% -25.80%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.30 £59.25 £65.03
England median hourly rate £35.28 £32.41 £22.00
% change year-on-year +8.86% +47.30% -51.11%

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 12,470 9,334 10,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.35% 69.19% 62.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,931 6,154 6,788
10th Percentile £350 £325 £331
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 189 123
10th Percentile £16.93 £16.90 £18.03
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.66 £24.75
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -7.14% +10.38%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.81
England median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.85
% change year-on-year +23.88% -35.26% +41.27%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -9 229 £525 -4.55% 353
West London +7 87 £520 +26.06% 139
South London +3 29 £537 -14.08% 27
East London +2 14 £500 +53.85% 41
North London +2 5 £525 - 4
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 88 (4.55%) Confluence
2 49 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.28%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.34%) CMS
6 24 (1.24%) Apache
7 21 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.47%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.47%) SAS
10 8 (0.41%) JBoss
10 8 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
10 8 (0.41%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.36%) IIS
12 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.26%) Appian
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 185 (9.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 69 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (1.91%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.47%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.36%) CPLEX
9 5 (0.26%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.10%) Notion
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 27 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.78%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.67%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.52%) Finacle
6 10 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.52%) Shopify
7 8 (0.41%) iTrent
8 7 (0.36%) Summit
9 6 (0.31%) Magento
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.26%) SAP GRC
11 4 (0.21%) Findur
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 389 (20.11%) Azure
2 277 (14.32%) AWS
3 243 (12.56%) Power Platform
4 101 (5.22%) GCP
5 87 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
5 87 (4.50%) GitHub
6 83 (4.29%) SaaS
7 73 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
8 68 (3.52%) Entra ID
9 66 (3.41%) Snowflake
10 44 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
11 42 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (2.17%) Serverless
12 38 (1.96%) dbt
13 31 (1.60%) Amazon S3
13 31 (1.60%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 30 (1.55%) AWS Lambda
15 29 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
16 26 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
17 22 (1.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.33%) Firewall
2 36 (1.86%) DNS
3 32 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.50%) Network Security
4 29 (1.50%) VPN
5 23 (1.19%) DHCP
6 17 (0.88%) WAN
7 16 (0.83%) SSL
8 14 (0.72%) BGP
9 13 (0.67%) HTTP
9 13 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
9 13 (0.67%) SAN
10 12 (0.62%) 5G
10 12 (0.62%) VLAN
11 11 (0.57%) Kerberos
11 11 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.52%) MPLS
13 9 (0.47%) Wireshark
14 8 (0.41%) Multicast
14 8 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 215 (11.12%) Power BI
2 106 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
3 103 (5.33%) SQL Server
4 79 (4.08%) Relational Database
4 79 (4.08%) Tableau
5 73 (3.77%) Metadata
6 64 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
7 37 (1.91%) Data Lake
7 37 (1.91%) NoSQL
8 31 (1.60%) MongoDB
9 30 (1.55%) Delta Lake
10 29 (1.50%) Oracle Database
11 28 (1.45%) Big Data
12 24 (1.24%) Power Query
13 23 (1.19%) RDBMS
14 21 (1.09%) BigQuery
14 21 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
15 16 (0.83%) Hadoop
15 16 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 193 (9.98%) JIRA
2 108 (5.58%) Git
3 56 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.55%) GitLab
4 30 (1.55%) Selenium
5 22 (1.14%) JMeter
6 15 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 15 (0.78%) Cypress.io
6 15 (0.78%) Postman
7 14 (0.72%) LoadRunner
8 13 (0.67%) ERwin
9 12 (0.62%) Maven
10 11 (0.57%) Gradle
10 11 (0.57%) SonarQube
11 10 (0.52%) Gatling
11 10 (0.52%) JUnit
11 10 (0.52%) REST Assured
12 9 (0.47%) ER Studio
12 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
13 8 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 999 (51.65%) Social Skills
2 772 (39.92%) Finance
3 293 (15.15%) Banking
4 169 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 103 (5.33%) Front Office
6 92 (4.76%) Marketing
7 91 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
8 87 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
9 77 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
9 77 (3.98%) Retail
10 74 (3.83%) Legal
11 64 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 60 (3.10%) Investment Banking
13 59 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
14 54 (2.79%) Telecoms
15 45 (2.33%) Local Government
16 35 (1.81%) Financial Institution
17 32 (1.65%) Back Office
18 27 (1.40%) Manufacturing
19 22 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 481 (24.87%) Analyst
2 231 (11.94%) Senior
3 227 (11.74%) Business Analyst
4 173 (8.95%) Developer
5 134 (6.93%) Architect
6 131 (6.77%) Lead
7 103 (5.33%) Data Engineer
8 100 (5.17%) Data Analyst
9 73 (3.77%) Consultant
10 62 (3.21%) Data Scientist
11 53 (2.74%) Senior Analyst
12 51 (2.64%) Project Manager
13 49 (2.53%) Senior Developer
14 33 (1.71%) Senior Manager
15 32 (1.65%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (1.60%) Java Developer
16 31 (1.60%) Support Engineer
16 31 (1.60%) Technical Analyst
17 30 (1.55%) Technical Business Analyst
18 29 (1.50%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (6.05%) REST
2 92 (4.76%) .NET
3 75 (3.88%) Terraform
4 60 (3.10%) Kafka
5 57 (2.95%) RESTful
6 46 (2.38%) JSON
7 44 (2.28%) XML
8 43 (2.22%) Web Services
9 42 (2.17%) HTML
10 41 (2.12%) Middleware
10 41 (2.12%) PySpark
10 41 (2.12%) SOAP
11 35 (1.81%) CSS
12 34 (1.76%) React
13 33 (1.71%) Spring
14 28 (1.45%) Spring Boot
15 27 (1.40%) Pandas
16 22 (1.14%) AngularJS
16 22 (1.14%) OAuth
17 20 (1.03%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 156 (8.07%) Analytical Mindset
2 141 (7.29%) Product Ownership
3 118 (6.10%) Onboarding
4 85 (4.40%) Cloud Native
5 77 (3.98%) Data Structures
6 69 (3.57%) Management Information System
7 65 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
8 60 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
9 57 (2.95%) Enterprise Software
10 40 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
12 33 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 32 (1.65%) AI Agents
14 31 (1.60%) Derivative
15 29 (1.50%) Algorithms
15 29 (1.50%) Equities
15 29 (1.50%) Fixed Income
16 25 (1.29%) Reference Data
17 22 (1.14%) Data Centre
18 21 (1.09%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 129 (6.67%) Linux
2 122 (6.31%) Windows
3 48 (2.48%) Unix
4 23 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.03%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.88%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.72%) Android
9 7 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.31%) Solaris
11 5 (0.26%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.10%) SUSE
13 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.052%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.052%) VMS
14 1 (0.052%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,006 (52.02%) Problem-Solving
2 652 (33.71%) Stakeholder Management
3 574 (29.68%) Agile
4 397 (20.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 381 (19.70%) Analytics
6 372 (19.23%) AI
7 362 (18.72%) Decision-Making
8 280 (14.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 256 (13.24%) DevOps
10 253 (13.08%) Validation
11 250 (12.93%) CI/CD
12 249 (12.87%) Business Intelligence
13 240 (12.41%) Data Modelling
14 220 (11.38%) Migration
15 195 (10.08%) User Acceptance Testing
16 185 (9.57%) Data Analysis
17 177 (9.15%) Data Pipeline
17 177 (9.15%) Roadmaps
18 163 (8.43%) User Stories
19 162 (8.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 555 (28.70%) SQL
2 439 (22.70%) Python
3 131 (6.77%) Java
4 106 (5.48%) C#
5 98 (5.07%) JavaScript
6 75 (3.88%) PowerShell
7 48 (2.48%) Bash
7 48 (2.48%) TypeScript
8 36 (1.86%) R
9 33 (1.71%) C++
10 32 (1.65%) PL/SQL
11 29 (1.50%) T-SQL
12 28 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 20 (1.03%) Shell Script
14 17 (0.88%) Scala
15 16 (0.83%) Korn
16 15 (0.78%) Perl
17 10 (0.52%) Go
18 8 (0.41%) C
18 8 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 268 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 243 (12.56%) Degree
3 213 (11.01%) SC Cleared
4 65 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (1.86%) CISSP
7 30 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 30 (1.55%) PMP
8 29 (1.50%) PMI Certification
9 26 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 23 (1.19%) CISM
11 22 (1.14%) DV Cleared
12 21 (1.09%) ACCA
13 20 (1.03%) CIMA
13 20 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
15 18 (0.93%) ISTQB
16 17 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
17 14 (0.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 14 (0.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (12.82%) Data Quality
2 160 (8.27%) QA
3 87 (4.50%) PMO
4 52 (2.69%) GDPR
5 50 (2.59%) SLA
6 43 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (1.91%) NIST
8 32 (1.65%) Accessibility
9 27 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 26 (1.34%) GRC
11 19 (0.98%) COBIT
12 18 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 17 (0.88%) IFRS
14 12 (0.62%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.31%) ISO 15022
16 6 (0.31%) P3O
16 6 (0.31%) WCAG
17 5 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 87 (4.50%) Docker
2 74 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.47%) IAG
6 6 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.10%) Firmware
9 2 (0.10%) Postfix
9 2 (0.10%) Squid
9 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.052%) NFS
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.052%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 88 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.28%) Ansible
3 32 (1.65%) Grafana
4 30 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (0.83%) SCCM
6 15 (0.78%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.67%) Control-M
8 12 (0.62%) Kibana
9 7 (0.36%) Puppet
9 7 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 5 (0.26%) Istio
11 4 (0.21%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.21%) systemd
12 3 (0.16%) Cilium
12 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.10%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 338 (17.48%) Microsoft
2 167 (8.63%) Oracle
3 102 (5.27%) SAP
4 95 (4.91%) ServiceNow
5 90 (4.65%) Databricks
6 72 (3.72%) Google
7 64 (3.31%) Salesforce
8 52 (2.69%) Splunk
9 35 (1.81%) IBM
10 33 (1.71%) Dynatrace
11 32 (1.65%) Cisco
12 28 (1.45%) VMware
13 25 (1.29%) Adobe
14 21 (1.09%) CyberArk
15 20 (1.03%) Alteryx
16 19 (0.98%) Workday
17 18 (0.93%) Informatica
18 16 (0.83%) Sitecore
19 15 (0.78%) Red Hat
20 13 (0.67%) Apple