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 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,763 1,603 1,409
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.95% 11.87% 7.98%
As % of the General category 14.81% 17.45% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,076 1,011 951
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 36 37
10th Percentile £19.16 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.30 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £37.81 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +93.87% -55.68%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.15 £66.88 £59.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £32.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.67% -51.25%

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 11,907 9,185 10,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.44% 68.03% 62.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,622 6,119 7,804
10th Percentile £350 £330 £335
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £700
90th Percentile £788 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £515 £533
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.38% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 175 224
10th Percentile £18.80 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.46 £24.66 £18.99
Median hourly rate £32.00 £32.89 £30.33
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +8.44% -9.88%
75th Percentile £45.06 £50.97 £48.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £63.75 £68.53
England median hourly rate £33.06 £27.13 £33.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% -17.80% +10.00%

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 9 July 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 9 July 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 9 July 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 -9 232 £550 - 223
West London +2 80 £520 +30.00% 190
South London +2 31 £475 -24.00% 20
East London -6 9 £400 -7.09% 31
North London - 3 £450 - 6
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 77 (4.37%) Confluence
2 32 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (1.82%) Apache Spark
3 31 (1.76%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.08%) Apache
5 16 (0.91%) CMS
5 16 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.40%) SAS
6 7 (0.40%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.28%) IIS
8 5 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.23%) Appian
10 3 (0.17%) Camunda
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.057%) nginx
12 1 (0.057%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.057%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.057%) Traefik
Applications
1 158 (8.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.50%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.96%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.62%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) Notion
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.057%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.057%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.85%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.57%) Finacle
5 10 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.51%) Fidessa
6 9 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
9 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
9 6 (0.34%) Summit
10 5 (0.28%) iTrent
10 5 (0.28%) Magento
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.28%) Shopify
11 4 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 355 (20.14%) Azure
2 249 (14.12%) AWS
3 218 (12.37%) Power Platform
4 90 (5.10%) GCP
5 79 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
6 76 (4.31%) SaaS
7 69 (3.91%) Microsoft 365
8 67 (3.80%) GitHub
9 46 (2.61%) Entra ID
10 42 (2.38%) Snowflake
11 41 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 32 (1.82%) Amazon S3
13 31 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
13 31 (1.76%) Serverless
14 29 (1.64%) dbt
15 28 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 25 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
16 25 (1.42%) PaaS
17 22 (1.25%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.38%) Firewall
2 26 (1.47%) DNS
2 26 (1.47%) Network Security
3 22 (1.25%) VPN
4 19 (1.08%) WAN
5 17 (0.96%) TCP/IP
6 16 (0.91%) DHCP
7 14 (0.79%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.74%) SAN
9 11 (0.62%) BGP
10 10 (0.57%) VLAN
11 9 (0.51%) 5G
11 9 (0.51%) OSPF
12 8 (0.45%) 4G
12 8 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.45%) HTTP
12 8 (0.45%) Internet
12 8 (0.45%) LAN
12 8 (0.45%) VXLAN
12 8 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (10.95%) Power BI
2 100 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
3 90 (5.10%) SQL Server
4 76 (4.31%) Tableau
5 68 (3.86%) Relational Database
6 61 (3.46%) Metadata
7 41 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (2.27%) Data Lake
9 32 (1.82%) NoSQL
10 26 (1.47%) Big Data
10 26 (1.47%) MongoDB
11 24 (1.36%) RDBMS
12 23 (1.30%) Oracle Database
13 22 (1.25%) BigQuery
13 22 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (1.08%) Power Query
14 19 (1.08%) Star Schema
15 18 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
16 14 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
16 14 (0.79%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 168 (9.53%) JIRA
2 74 (4.20%) Git
3 34 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.47%) Selenium
5 15 (0.85%) REST Assured
6 14 (0.79%) Postman
7 13 (0.74%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.68%) GitLab
9 11 (0.62%) ERwin
9 11 (0.62%) JUnit
10 10 (0.57%) MLflow
11 9 (0.51%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.51%) JMeter
12 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.40%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.40%) WebDriver
14 6 (0.34%) Maven
14 6 (0.34%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 830 (47.08%) Social Skills
2 696 (39.48%) Finance
3 253 (14.35%) Banking
4 147 (8.34%) Public Sector
5 88 (4.99%) Marketing
6 84 (4.76%) Front Office
7 83 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
8 78 (4.42%) Legal
9 74 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
10 60 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (3.12%) Investment Banking
12 54 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (2.72%) Telecoms
14 47 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 47 (2.67%) Retail
15 43 (2.44%) Financial Institution
16 28 (1.59%) Back Office
17 20 (1.13%) Law
18 19 (1.08%) Local Government
18 19 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 461 (26.15%) Analyst
2 231 (13.10%) Business Analyst
3 173 (9.81%) Senior
4 155 (8.79%) Developer
5 124 (7.03%) Architect
6 119 (6.75%) Lead
7 108 (6.13%) Data Engineer
8 99 (5.62%) Data Analyst
9 92 (5.22%) Consultant
10 67 (3.80%) Data Scientist
11 55 (3.12%) Project Manager
12 41 (2.33%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (1.93%) Senior Developer
14 33 (1.87%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (1.70%) Financial Analyst
16 28 (1.59%) Product Owner
17 27 (1.53%) Support Engineer
18 26 (1.47%) Senior Business Analyst
18 26 (1.47%) Technical Business Analyst
19 25 (1.42%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (5.50%) REST
2 64 (3.63%) .NET
3 49 (2.78%) Kafka
4 44 (2.50%) JSON
5 42 (2.38%) XML
6 41 (2.33%) Pandas
7 38 (2.16%) RESTful
8 36 (2.04%) SOAP
9 35 (1.99%) Middleware
10 31 (1.76%) HTML
10 31 (1.76%) scikit-learn
11 30 (1.70%) Web Services
12 26 (1.47%) CSS
12 26 (1.47%) PySpark
13 24 (1.36%) NumPy
13 24 (1.36%) PyTorch
14 23 (1.30%) React
15 21 (1.19%) Spring
16 20 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
16 20 (1.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 164 (9.30%) Analytical Mindset
2 110 (6.24%) Product Ownership
3 83 (4.71%) Onboarding
4 74 (4.20%) Data Structures
5 70 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
6 48 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
7 47 (2.67%) Cloud Native
8 44 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
9 41 (2.33%) Algorithms
10 40 (2.27%) Management Information System
11 36 (2.04%) Data Centre
12 35 (1.99%) Fixed Income
12 35 (1.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 33 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
13 33 (1.87%) Derivative
14 30 (1.70%) Equities
15 24 (1.36%) Security Posture
16 22 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
16 22 (1.25%) Virtual Team
17 21 (1.19%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 108 (6.13%) Windows
2 74 (4.20%) Linux
3 35 (1.99%) Unix
4 19 (1.08%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.74%) Android
5 13 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 12 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.68%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.34%) Solaris
8 5 (0.28%) AIX
9 2 (0.11%) SUSE
10 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.057%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 849 (48.16%) Problem-Solving
2 481 (27.28%) Agile
3 438 (24.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 330 (18.72%) Analytics
5 324 (18.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 310 (17.58%) AI
7 299 (16.96%) Decision-Making
8 261 (14.80%) Data Modelling
9 232 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 230 (13.05%) Validation
11 217 (12.31%) Business Intelligence
12 209 (11.85%) DevOps
13 201 (11.40%) CI/CD
14 193 (10.95%) Migration
15 185 (10.49%) Data Analysis
16 162 (9.19%) Data Pipeline
17 156 (8.85%) User Acceptance Testing
18 152 (8.62%) Roadmaps
19 147 (8.34%) Data Science
20 146 (8.28%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 506 (28.70%) SQL
2 393 (22.29%) Python
3 112 (6.35%) Java
4 87 (4.93%) C#
5 65 (3.69%) JavaScript
6 59 (3.35%) PowerShell
7 45 (2.55%) TypeScript
8 35 (1.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 31 (1.76%) C++
10 29 (1.64%) R
11 27 (1.53%) PL/SQL
12 26 (1.47%) T-SQL
13 24 (1.36%) Bash
14 22 (1.25%) Scala
15 10 (0.57%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.57%) C
15 10 (0.57%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.57%) VBA
16 8 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 216 (12.25%) Degree
2 212 (12.02%) Security Cleared
3 154 (8.74%) SC Cleared
4 67 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (2.10%) Master's Degree
7 35 (1.99%) CISSP
8 27 (1.53%) PMP
9 26 (1.47%) PMI Certification
10 22 (1.25%) CISM
11 21 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.96%) Azure Certification
13 15 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (0.79%) CISA
15 13 (0.74%) DV Cleared
16 12 (0.68%) ACCA
16 12 (0.68%) ISTQB
17 11 (0.62%) CCNP
17 11 (0.62%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (12.93%) Data Quality
2 138 (7.83%) QA
3 86 (4.88%) PMO
4 71 (4.03%) GDPR
5 48 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.72%) NIST
6 43 (2.44%) SLA
7 33 (1.87%) Accessibility
8 25 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (1.36%) COBIT
10 23 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 19 (1.08%) GRC
11 19 (1.08%) PCI DSS
12 17 (0.96%) IFRS
13 13 (0.74%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.45%) Solvency II
15 7 (0.40%) GAAP
16 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.34%) GxP
17 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 63 (3.57%) Docker
2 60 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.34%) IAG
5 6 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.23%) Firmware
7 3 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 2 (0.11%) Squid
8 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.057%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.057%) RACF
9 1 (0.057%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.057%) vSphere
9 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 63 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 53 (3.01%) Terraform
3 26 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.30%) Ansible
5 22 (1.25%) Grafana
6 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.57%) SCCM
8 8 (0.45%) Kibana
9 7 (0.40%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.34%) Control-M
11 5 (0.28%) FortiGate
11 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.11%) Istio
13 2 (0.11%) Nessus
13 2 (0.11%) Tivoli
14 1 (0.057%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.057%) Nagios
14 1 (0.057%) NetBackup
14 1 (0.057%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 272 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 154 (8.74%) Oracle
3 94 (5.33%) SAP
4 84 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 79 (4.48%) Salesforce
6 66 (3.74%) Databricks
7 62 (3.52%) Google
8 30 (1.70%) Splunk
9 26 (1.47%) Workday
10 23 (1.30%) Dynatrace
10 23 (1.30%) IBM
11 20 (1.13%) Informatica
12 19 (1.08%) Alteryx
12 19 (1.08%) Cisco
13 17 (0.96%) Adobe
13 17 (0.96%) CyberArk
13 17 (0.96%) Murex
14 16 (0.91%) Apple
14 16 (0.91%) VMware
15 14 (0.79%) Bloomberg