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 21 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 16 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,570 1,393 1,495
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.02% 10.31% 8.10%
As % of the General category 15.74% 15.73% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 828 1,027
10th Percentile £343 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £638 £692 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £843
England median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 29 50
10th Percentile £18.25 £24.32 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.03 £28.21 £16.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% +71.74% -20.69%
75th Percentile £47.50 £65.00 £41.81
90th Percentile £56.50 £80.75 £53.30
England median hourly rate £30.13 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +9.55% +37.50% -42.86%

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 9,976 8,855 11,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.70% 65.55% 63.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,495 5,656 8,377
10th Percentile £350 £326 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.35% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 115 257
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.57 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.52 £26.88 £18.79
Median hourly rate £28.78 £39.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -26.22% +31.22% +4.28%
75th Percentile £49.69 £55.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.61 £73.69
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.78 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.28% +18.38% -12.61%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +1 233 £525 -0.76% 151
West London -13 29 £500 +33.33% 30
South London -6 28 £506 -13.16% 7
East London +10 8 £400 -32.23% 25
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 79 (5.03%) Confluence
2 30 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.78%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.96%) Apache
7 11 (0.70%) CMS
8 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.25%) SAS
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.13%) Camunda
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.064%) Appian
11 1 (0.064%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.064%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.064%) Traefik
Applications
1 166 (10.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (2.61%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.91%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.32%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.064%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.064%) Notion
10 1 (0.064%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.064%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.064%) Revit
10 1 (0.064%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.83%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.51%) SAP HR
5 7 (0.45%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
5 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.38%) Shopify
7 5 (0.32%) BASE24
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 318 (20.25%) Azure
2 216 (13.76%) AWS
3 204 (12.99%) Power Platform
4 83 (5.29%) GCP
4 83 (5.29%) SaaS
5 70 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
7 46 (2.93%) GitHub
8 44 (2.80%) Entra ID
9 43 (2.74%) IaaS
9 43 (2.74%) Serverless
10 42 (2.68%) Snowflake
11 35 (2.23%) Amazon S3
12 34 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
13 31 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
14 25 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
15 22 (1.40%) dbt
16 20 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
16 20 (1.27%) PaaS
17 19 (1.21%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.17%) Firewall
2 29 (1.85%) Network Security
3 25 (1.59%) DNS
4 20 (1.27%) VPN
5 14 (0.89%) WAN
6 13 (0.83%) DHCP
7 11 (0.70%) LAN
7 11 (0.70%) VLAN
8 9 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.51%) Internet
9 8 (0.51%) SAN
9 8 (0.51%) SMS
9 8 (0.51%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.45%) HTTP
10 7 (0.45%) SSL
10 7 (0.45%) VoIP
10 7 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.32%) CTI
11 5 (0.32%) DMZ
12 4 (0.25%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (11.78%) Power BI
2 80 (5.10%) Tableau
3 70 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (3.31%) SQL Server
5 42 (2.68%) Metadata
6 32 (2.04%) Relational Database
7 27 (1.72%) Data Lake
8 24 (1.53%) NoSQL
8 24 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
9 21 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
10 19 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 18 (1.15%) BigQuery
12 17 (1.08%) Big Data
12 17 (1.08%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
13 15 (0.96%) DB2
14 14 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
15 13 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
16 12 (0.76%) Looker
Development Applications
1 155 (9.87%) JIRA
2 64 (4.08%) Git
3 22 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.08%) GitLab
4 17 (1.08%) Selenium
5 12 (0.76%) JUnit
6 11 (0.70%) Cucumber
7 10 (0.64%) MLflow
8 9 (0.57%) Postman
9 8 (0.51%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.38%) Appium
10 6 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.38%) JMeter
11 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.32%) Burp Suite
11 5 (0.32%) Metasploit
11 5 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (0.32%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.32%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.25%) sqlmap
General
1 807 (51.40%) Social Skills
2 559 (35.61%) Finance
3 207 (13.18%) Banking
4 125 (7.96%) Public Sector
5 100 (6.37%) Marketing
6 72 (4.59%) Legal
7 65 (4.14%) Documentation Skills
8 62 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
9 56 (3.57%) Investment Banking
10 50 (3.18%) Front Office
11 47 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
12 45 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
13 43 (2.74%) Retail
14 40 (2.55%) Financial Institution
15 34 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 33 (2.10%) Telecoms
17 30 (1.91%) Back Office
18 23 (1.46%) Publishing
19 20 (1.27%) Law
20 15 (0.96%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 423 (26.94%) Analyst
2 218 (13.89%) Business Analyst
3 178 (11.34%) Senior
4 150 (9.55%) Developer
5 115 (7.32%) Architect
6 97 (6.18%) Lead
7 93 (5.92%) Data Analyst
8 85 (5.41%) Consultant
9 69 (4.39%) Data Engineer
10 62 (3.95%) Project Manager
11 55 (3.50%) Senior Analyst
12 40 (2.55%) Data Scientist
13 39 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (2.10%) Senior Developer
15 31 (1.97%) Senior Business Analyst
16 30 (1.91%) Product Manager
17 27 (1.72%) Senior Manager
18 24 (1.53%) Tester
19 23 (1.46%) Security Analyst
19 23 (1.46%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (5.73%) REST
2 52 (3.31%) JSON
3 49 (3.12%) Kafka
4 42 (2.68%) .NET
5 35 (2.23%) Middleware
6 32 (2.04%) Pandas
7 31 (1.97%) HTML
7 31 (1.97%) RESTful
8 30 (1.91%) CSS
9 29 (1.85%) XML
10 27 (1.72%) scikit-learn
10 27 (1.72%) SOAP
11 24 (1.53%) NumPy
11 24 (1.53%) React
12 23 (1.46%) Node.js
13 20 (1.27%) AngularJS
13 20 (1.27%) Spring
14 19 (1.21%) OAuth
14 19 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
14 19 (1.21%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 154 (9.81%) Analytical Mindset
2 72 (4.59%) Product Ownership
3 67 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
4 56 (3.57%) Data Structures
5 50 (3.18%) Management Information System
6 48 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 43 (2.74%) Algorithms
8 36 (2.29%) Derivative
9 35 (2.23%) Fixed Income
10 31 (1.97%) Equities
10 31 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.91%) PKI
12 29 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
13 28 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 26 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
14 26 (1.66%) Security Posture
15 24 (1.53%) Data Centre
16 21 (1.34%) Cloud Native
17 19 (1.21%) Mobile App
18 18 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 73 (4.65%) Windows
2 60 (3.82%) Linux
3 25 (1.59%) Unix
4 12 (0.76%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.70%) Android
5 11 (0.70%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.25%) VMS
9 3 (0.19%) Solaris
10 1 (0.064%) AIX
10 1 (0.064%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.064%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 794 (50.57%) Problem-Solving
2 472 (30.06%) Agile
3 318 (20.25%) Stakeholder Management
4 309 (19.68%) Analytics
5 272 (17.32%) Decision-Making
6 222 (14.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 214 (13.63%) Business Intelligence
8 204 (12.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 194 (12.36%) AI
10 193 (12.29%) Data Modelling
11 173 (11.02%) Validation
12 164 (10.45%) CI/CD
12 164 (10.45%) DevOps
13 157 (10.00%) Data Analysis
14 149 (9.49%) Roadmaps
15 145 (9.24%) Visualisation
16 143 (9.11%) Actionable Insight
17 142 (9.04%) Migration
18 136 (8.66%) Project Management
19 131 (8.34%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 403 (25.67%) SQL
2 335 (21.34%) Python
3 80 (5.10%) PowerShell
4 77 (4.90%) Java
5 72 (4.59%) JavaScript
6 66 (4.20%) C#
7 39 (2.48%) TypeScript
8 36 (2.29%) Bash
9 26 (1.66%) C++
10 22 (1.40%) R
11 19 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 16 (1.02%) Shell Script
13 15 (0.96%) PL/SQL
14 13 (0.83%) T-SQL
15 12 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
15 12 (0.76%) Scala
16 8 (0.51%) C
17 6 (0.38%) Bicep
17 6 (0.38%) Korn
17 6 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 234 (14.90%) Degree
2 230 (14.65%) Security Cleared
3 168 (10.70%) SC Cleared
4 64 (4.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (4.01%) Master's Degree
6 47 (2.99%) PMI Certification
7 35 (2.23%) PMP
8 26 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.53%) CISSP
10 21 (1.34%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.02%) Azure Certification
12 15 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (0.89%) AWS Certification
14 13 (0.83%) CIMA
15 12 (0.76%) ACCA
15 12 (0.76%) CISM
15 12 (0.76%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (0.70%) CBAP
16 11 (0.70%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (10.89%) Data Quality
2 134 (8.54%) QA
3 81 (5.16%) GDPR
4 49 (3.12%) PMO
5 46 (2.93%) Accessibility
6 32 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.97%) NIST
8 24 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
8 24 (1.53%) PCI DSS
9 21 (1.34%) GRC
10 20 (1.27%) SLA
11 17 (1.08%) COBIT
11 17 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.70%) WCAG
14 10 (0.64%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.64%) MiFID
14 10 (0.64%) Solvency II
15 9 (0.57%) EMIR
16 8 (0.51%) PSD2
System Software
1 65 (4.14%) Docker
2 50 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 15 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.32%) HDFS
6 4 (0.25%) vSphere
6 4 (0.25%) zsh
7 3 (0.19%) ProxySG
7 3 (0.19%) Squid
7 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.13%) Snort
9 1 (0.064%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.064%) Firmware
9 1 (0.064%) KVM
9 1 (0.064%) NFS
9 1 (0.064%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.064%) Xen
9 1 (0.064%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 65 (4.14%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.80%) Terraform
3 30 (1.91%) Ansible
4 17 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.76%) SCCM
6 10 (0.64%) Grafana
7 8 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.45%) Nessus
9 5 (0.32%) Nmap
9 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.25%) SCOM
11 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.13%) Nexpose
12 2 (0.13%) Suricata
12 2 (0.13%) vRealize
13 1 (0.064%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.064%) Istio
13 1 (0.064%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.064%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 260 (16.56%) Microsoft
2 89 (5.67%) Oracle
3 84 (5.35%) Salesforce
4 83 (5.29%) SAP
5 69 (4.39%) Databricks
6 68 (4.33%) Google
7 53 (3.38%) ServiceNow
8 29 (1.85%) Splunk
9 26 (1.66%) Bloomberg
10 24 (1.53%) Cisco
10 24 (1.53%) VMware
11 20 (1.27%) Adobe
11 20 (1.27%) Murex
12 16 (1.02%) Palo Alto
13 15 (0.96%) Informatica
13 15 (0.96%) Workday
14 13 (0.83%) Juniper
15 12 (0.76%) OpenAI
15 12 (0.76%) Remedy
16 11 (0.70%) MuleSoft