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 26 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,887 1,574 1,370
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.40% 11.77% 8.43%
As % of the General category 15.45% 17.06% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,010 881
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £755 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 34 24
10th Percentile £19.55 £13.32 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.44 £22.75
Median hourly rate £36.00 £34.48 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -17.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.23 £56.25 £65.02
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +10.77% +51.16% -52.22%

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 12,216 9,226 10,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.85% 68.98% 62.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,771 6,134 6,995
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
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 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £505 £538
% change year-on-year +3.96% -6.05% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 184 138
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £18.09
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £24.18
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.49 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.83% -12.53% +3.99%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.56 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.60 £66.60
England median hourly rate £31.93 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +26.94% -34.02% +35.80%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -11 222 £525 -4.55% 238
West London +4 80 £520 +26.06% 132
South London +2 33 £550 -12.00% 8
East London 0 12 £425 +30.77% 30
North London +1 4 £500 - 3
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 86 (4.56%) Confluence
2 46 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.48%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.38%) CMS
6 22 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 18 (0.95%) Apache
8 9 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.42%) JBoss
9 8 (0.42%) SAS
9 8 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
9 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
11 6 (0.32%) IIS
12 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.26%) Appian
12 5 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.16%) Camunda
Applications
1 179 (9.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.12%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.64%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.26%) CPLEX
9 4 (0.21%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.053%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 26 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.79%) Aladdin
5 12 (0.64%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.53%) Finacle
7 9 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.48%) Shopify
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.37%) iTrent
9 7 (0.37%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.26%) Magento
11 4 (0.21%) Findur
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.21%) SAP GRC
11 4 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 381 (20.19%) Azure
2 256 (13.57%) AWS
3 226 (11.98%) Power Platform
4 98 (5.19%) GCP
5 86 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
6 78 (4.13%) SaaS
7 72 (3.82%) GitHub
8 66 (3.50%) Entra ID
9 64 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
10 58 (3.07%) Snowflake
11 44 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 37 (1.96%) dbt
12 37 (1.96%) Serverless
13 33 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 28 (1.48%) Amazon S3
16 27 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
18 22 (1.17%) PaaS
19 19 (1.01%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.60%) Firewall
2 38 (2.01%) DNS
3 30 (1.59%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.54%) Network Security
4 29 (1.54%) VPN
5 22 (1.17%) DHCP
6 20 (1.06%) WAN
7 15 (0.79%) HTTP
7 15 (0.79%) SSL
8 14 (0.74%) BGP
9 13 (0.69%) SAN
10 12 (0.64%) SD-WAN
10 12 (0.64%) VLAN
11 11 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.53%) 5G
12 10 (0.53%) MPLS
12 10 (0.53%) Radio Access Network
13 9 (0.48%) 4G
13 9 (0.48%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 205 (10.86%) Power BI
2 105 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 102 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 81 (4.29%) Tableau
5 80 (4.24%) Relational Database
6 75 (3.97%) Metadata
7 56 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.96%) Data Lake
9 35 (1.85%) NoSQL
10 32 (1.70%) Big Data
11 28 (1.48%) Oracle Database
12 27 (1.43%) MongoDB
13 24 (1.27%) RDBMS
14 22 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (1.11%) Delta Lake
15 21 (1.11%) Power Query
16 19 (1.01%) BigQuery
17 18 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
18 16 (0.85%) Hadoop
18 16 (0.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 189 (10.02%) JIRA
2 88 (4.66%) Git
3 49 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.64%) Selenium
5 22 (1.17%) JMeter
6 20 (1.06%) GitLab
7 15 (0.79%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.79%) Postman
8 14 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 14 (0.74%) ERwin
8 14 (0.74%) LoadRunner
9 11 (0.58%) REST Assured
10 10 (0.53%) ER Studio
10 10 (0.53%) Gatling
10 10 (0.53%) Maven
11 9 (0.48%) Gradle
11 9 (0.48%) JUnit
11 9 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 9 (0.48%) Zephyr
12 8 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 951 (50.40%) Social Skills
2 751 (39.80%) Finance
3 290 (15.37%) Banking
4 150 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 102 (5.41%) Front Office
6 96 (5.09%) Marketing
7 89 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
8 83 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
9 74 (3.92%) Legal
10 73 (3.87%) Retail
11 67 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
12 57 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 57 (3.02%) Investment Banking
12 57 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
12 57 (3.02%) Telecoms
13 40 (2.12%) Financial Institution
14 36 (1.91%) Local Government
15 27 (1.43%) Back Office
16 21 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
17 20 (1.06%) Law
Job Titles
1 467 (24.75%) Analyst
2 230 (12.19%) Business Analyst
3 210 (11.13%) Senior
4 177 (9.38%) Developer
5 138 (7.31%) Architect
6 134 (7.10%) Lead
7 98 (5.19%) Data Analyst
8 97 (5.14%) Data Engineer
9 77 (4.08%) Consultant
10 62 (3.29%) Data Scientist
11 53 (2.81%) Project Manager
12 51 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
13 44 (2.33%) Senior Developer
14 34 (1.80%) Support Engineer
15 33 (1.75%) Solutions Architect
16 32 (1.70%) Senior Manager
17 30 (1.59%) Financial Analyst
17 30 (1.59%) Technical Analyst
17 30 (1.59%) Technical Business Analyst
18 28 (1.48%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (6.20%) REST
2 84 (4.45%) .NET
3 65 (3.44%) Terraform
4 58 (3.07%) Kafka
5 52 (2.76%) RESTful
6 46 (2.44%) JSON
7 44 (2.33%) Middleware
7 44 (2.33%) XML
8 42 (2.23%) SOAP
8 42 (2.23%) Web Services
9 39 (2.07%) HTML
10 38 (2.01%) PySpark
11 32 (1.70%) CSS
12 31 (1.64%) React
12 31 (1.64%) Spring
13 29 (1.54%) Pandas
14 25 (1.32%) Spring Boot
15 24 (1.27%) OAuth
16 21 (1.11%) AngularJS
16 21 (1.11%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 166 (8.80%) Analytical Mindset
2 138 (7.31%) Product Ownership
3 116 (6.15%) Onboarding
4 78 (4.13%) Data Structures
5 73 (3.87%) Cloud Native
6 66 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
7 61 (3.23%) Management Information System
8 59 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
9 44 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
11 36 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 36 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
12 32 (1.70%) Derivative
13 31 (1.64%) Data Centre
13 31 (1.64%) Fixed Income
14 30 (1.59%) AI Agents
15 28 (1.48%) Equities
16 26 (1.38%) Algorithms
16 26 (1.38%) Reference Data
17 24 (1.27%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 127 (6.73%) Windows
2 126 (6.68%) Linux
3 46 (2.44%) Unix
4 24 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.01%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.85%) Mac OS
8 13 (0.69%) Android
9 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) Solaris
11 5 (0.26%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) SUSE
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.053%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.053%) VMS
14 1 (0.053%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 973 (51.56%) Problem-Solving
2 585 (31.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 562 (29.78%) Agile
4 375 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
5 369 (19.55%) Analytics
6 343 (18.18%) AI
7 326 (17.28%) Decision-Making
8 259 (13.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 248 (13.14%) Data Modelling
10 240 (12.72%) DevOps
10 240 (12.72%) Validation
11 239 (12.67%) Business Intelligence
12 230 (12.19%) CI/CD
13 211 (11.18%) Migration
14 188 (9.96%) User Acceptance Testing
15 184 (9.75%) Data Analysis
16 166 (8.80%) Data Pipeline
17 165 (8.74%) Roadmaps
18 163 (8.64%) User Stories
19 153 (8.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 537 (28.46%) SQL
2 422 (22.36%) Python
3 131 (6.94%) Java
4 100 (5.30%) C#
5 92 (4.88%) JavaScript
6 75 (3.97%) PowerShell
7 46 (2.44%) TypeScript
8 44 (2.33%) Bash
9 36 (1.91%) R
10 35 (1.85%) C++
11 31 (1.64%) PL/SQL
12 27 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 25 (1.32%) T-SQL
14 16 (0.85%) Scala
15 13 (0.69%) Perl
15 13 (0.69%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.53%) Korn
17 9 (0.48%) C
17 9 (0.48%) Go
17 9 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 259 (13.73%) Security Cleared
2 243 (12.88%) Degree
3 200 (10.60%) SC Cleared
4 73 (3.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.96%) CISSP
6 33 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (1.43%) PMP
8 26 (1.38%) CISM
8 26 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.32%) PMI Certification
10 24 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (1.17%) Azure Certification
12 20 (1.06%) DV Cleared
12 20 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (0.95%) ACCA
13 18 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 17 (0.90%) CIMA
15 16 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.74%) CCNP
17 13 (0.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 237 (12.56%) Data Quality
2 148 (7.84%) QA
3 89 (4.72%) PMO
4 54 (2.86%) GDPR
5 52 (2.76%) SLA
6 46 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (2.28%) NIST
8 32 (1.70%) Accessibility
9 27 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 25 (1.32%) GRC
11 21 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 19 (1.01%) COBIT
13 17 (0.90%) IFRS
14 12 (0.64%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.32%) ISO 15022
16 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.32%) WCAG
17 5 (0.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 80 (4.24%) Active Directory
2 73 (3.87%) Docker
3 22 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.48%) IAG
6 6 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) Firmware
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) Postfix
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.053%) NFS
10 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.053%) RACF
Systems Management
1 74 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.28%) Ansible
3 32 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (1.64%) Grafana
5 17 (0.90%) SCCM
6 15 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.74%) Control-M
8 12 (0.64%) Kibana
9 11 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.37%) Puppet
10 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.26%) Istio
12 4 (0.21%) systemd
13 3 (0.16%) Cilium
13 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.16%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 316 (16.75%) Microsoft
2 165 (8.74%) Oracle
3 103 (5.46%) SAP
4 99 (5.25%) ServiceNow
5 73 (3.87%) Databricks
6 71 (3.76%) Google
7 63 (3.34%) Salesforce
8 39 (2.07%) Splunk
9 37 (1.96%) IBM
10 33 (1.75%) Dynatrace
11 32 (1.70%) Cisco
12 29 (1.54%) VMware
13 23 (1.22%) Adobe
14 22 (1.17%) CyberArk
15 21 (1.11%) Workday
16 20 (1.06%) Alteryx
17 19 (1.01%) Informatica
18 16 (0.85%) Apple
18 16 (0.85%) Sitecore
19 14 (0.74%) Red Hat