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 23 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 15 19
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,645 1,425 1,482
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.92% 11.09% 8.18%
As % of the General category 15.92% 16.62% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,012 884 1,006
10th Percentile £350 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £414 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -1.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 37 51
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.03 £26.25 £16.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £40.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% +72.34% -25.30%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £56.80 £80.75 £52.50
England median hourly rate £30.08 £29.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year +3.71% +48.72% -42.65%

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 10,330 8,576 11,502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.31% 66.77% 63.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,725 5,738 8,209
10th Percentile £350 £333 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £700
90th Percentile £785 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 133 255
10th Percentile £17.50 £19.36 £15.70
25th Percentile £20.36 £24.75 £18.52
Median hourly rate £29.02 £35.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.09% +14.75% -6.15%
75th Percentile £49.06 £55.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.22 £73.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.90 £26.00
% change year-on-year -18.61% +18.86% -25.71%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 -4 244 £525 -2.33% 262
West London -8 35 £500 +25.00% 45
South London -4 32 £500 -14.38% 11
East London +2 8 £400 -26.02% 26
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 81 (4.92%) Confluence
2 29 (1.76%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.58%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.91%) Apache
7 14 (0.85%) CMS
8 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.30%) SAS
9 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.18%) Camunda
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.12%) IIS
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.061%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.061%) Traefik
Applications
1 166 (10.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (2.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.55%) MS Visio
5 32 (1.95%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.43%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.30%) Trello
9 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
11 1 (0.061%) Notion
11 1 (0.061%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.79%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 9 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
5 9 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.49%) Workday HCM
7 7 (0.43%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.43%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
7 7 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.43%) Shopify
8 6 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.36%) Summit
9 5 (0.30%) BASE24
9 5 (0.30%) Endur
9 5 (0.30%) Loan IQ
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 330 (20.06%) Azure
2 222 (13.50%) AWS
3 203 (12.34%) Power Platform
4 86 (5.23%) GCP
5 79 (4.80%) SaaS
6 77 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
7 65 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
8 52 (3.16%) GitHub
9 46 (2.80%) Serverless
10 42 (2.55%) IaaS
10 42 (2.55%) Snowflake
11 41 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
12 37 (2.25%) Amazon S3
12 37 (2.25%) Entra ID
13 34 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (1.58%) dbt
15 24 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
16 23 (1.40%) PaaS
17 21 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
18 20 (1.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.37%) Firewall
2 33 (2.01%) Network Security
3 25 (1.52%) DNS
4 20 (1.22%) WAN
5 18 (1.09%) VPN
6 14 (0.85%) DHCP
6 14 (0.85%) SD-WAN
7 12 (0.73%) SAN
8 11 (0.67%) LAN
9 10 (0.61%) HTTP
9 10 (0.61%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.61%) VLAN
10 9 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.49%) Internet
11 8 (0.49%) SMS
11 8 (0.49%) SSL
12 7 (0.43%) BGP
13 6 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.36%) IOS XR
13 6 (0.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (11.12%) Power BI
2 82 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
2 82 (4.98%) Tableau
3 65 (3.95%) SQL Server
4 53 (3.22%) Metadata
5 39 (2.37%) Relational Database
6 27 (1.64%) Data Lake
7 24 (1.46%) Big Data
7 24 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
7 24 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
8 22 (1.34%) NoSQL
9 18 (1.09%) BigQuery
10 17 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
10 17 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
10 17 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 14 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
12 13 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
12 13 (0.79%) Hadoop
12 13 (0.79%) Power Query
13 12 (0.73%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 162 (9.85%) JIRA
2 68 (4.13%) Git
3 24 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.22%) Selenium
5 13 (0.79%) GitLab
5 13 (0.79%) JUnit
6 12 (0.73%) Cucumber
6 12 (0.73%) MLflow
7 10 (0.61%) REST Assured
8 9 (0.55%) Postman
9 8 (0.49%) Appium
10 7 (0.43%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.36%) Browser DevTools
11 6 (0.36%) JMeter
11 6 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.30%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.30%) Chocolatey
12 5 (0.30%) ERwin
12 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 806 (49.00%) Social Skills
2 599 (36.41%) Finance
3 217 (13.19%) Banking
4 147 (8.94%) Public Sector
5 100 (6.08%) Marketing
6 78 (4.74%) Legal
7 74 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
8 64 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
9 53 (3.22%) Front Office
10 52 (3.16%) Investment Banking
10 52 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
11 46 (2.80%) Retail
12 43 (2.61%) Financial Institution
13 42 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
14 34 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 30 (1.82%) Publishing
15 30 (1.82%) Telecoms
16 29 (1.76%) Back Office
17 22 (1.34%) Law
18 15 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 424 (25.78%) Analyst
2 230 (13.98%) Business Analyst
3 180 (10.94%) Senior
4 155 (9.42%) Developer
5 125 (7.60%) Architect
6 111 (6.75%) Lead
7 95 (5.78%) Consultant
8 89 (5.41%) Data Analyst
9 80 (4.86%) Data Engineer
10 65 (3.95%) Project Manager
11 56 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
12 49 (2.98%) Data Scientist
13 37 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (2.01%) Senior Business Analyst
15 31 (1.88%) Product Manager
16 30 (1.82%) Senior Developer
17 27 (1.64%) Security Analyst
18 26 (1.58%) Senior Manager
19 23 (1.40%) Quantitative Developer
20 22 (1.34%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (5.84%) REST
2 51 (3.10%) JSON
3 49 (2.98%) Kafka
4 45 (2.74%) .NET
5 39 (2.37%) Middleware
5 39 (2.37%) Pandas
6 35 (2.13%) scikit-learn
7 33 (2.01%) XML
8 29 (1.76%) RESTful
8 29 (1.76%) SOAP
9 28 (1.70%) NumPy
10 24 (1.46%) Node.js
11 23 (1.40%) HTML
11 23 (1.40%) PyTorch
12 22 (1.34%) CSS
13 21 (1.28%) AngularJS
13 21 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
13 21 (1.28%) TensorFlow
14 20 (1.22%) PySpark
14 20 (1.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 158 (9.60%) Analytical Mindset
2 81 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 80 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
4 58 (3.53%) Data Structures
5 57 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.61%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.43%) Algorithms
8 37 (2.25%) Fixed Income
8 37 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (2.19%) Derivative
10 34 (2.07%) Data Centre
11 31 (1.88%) Cloud Native
12 30 (1.82%) Equities
12 30 (1.82%) PKI
13 29 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 24 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
15 23 (1.40%) Security Posture
16 22 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
16 22 (1.34%) Virtual Team
17 20 (1.22%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 80 (4.86%) Windows
2 55 (3.34%) Linux
3 26 (1.58%) Unix
4 15 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.67%) Android
7 7 (0.43%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.12%) VMS
10 1 (0.061%) AIX
10 1 (0.061%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.061%) Solaris
10 1 (0.061%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 819 (49.79%) Problem-Solving
2 496 (30.15%) Agile
3 327 (19.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 320 (19.45%) Analytics
5 279 (16.96%) Decision-Making
6 246 (14.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 230 (13.98%) AI
8 226 (13.74%) Data Modelling
9 212 (12.89%) Business Intelligence
10 208 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 179 (10.88%) DevOps
12 177 (10.76%) CI/CD
12 177 (10.76%) Validation
13 163 (9.91%) Data Analysis
14 157 (9.54%) Migration
14 157 (9.54%) Roadmaps
15 149 (9.06%) Project Management
16 147 (8.94%) Visualisation
17 145 (8.81%) Data Governance
18 143 (8.69%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 434 (26.38%) SQL
2 352 (21.40%) Python
3 89 (5.41%) Java
4 83 (5.05%) PowerShell
5 72 (4.38%) C#
6 51 (3.10%) JavaScript
7 38 (2.31%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.88%) Bash
8 31 (1.88%) C++
9 24 (1.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 24 (1.46%) R
10 18 (1.09%) PL/SQL
11 17 (1.03%) T-SQL
12 14 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
13 13 (0.79%) Scala
14 11 (0.67%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.55%) C
16 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.36%) Bicep
17 6 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 255 (15.50%) Security Cleared
2 231 (14.04%) Degree
3 186 (11.31%) SC Cleared
4 66 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 62 (3.77%) Master's Degree
6 46 (2.80%) PMI Certification
7 38 (2.31%) PMP
8 32 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 28 (1.70%) CISSP
10 22 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (1.28%) DV Cleared
12 15 (0.91%) CISM
12 15 (0.91%) ISTQB
12 15 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (0.85%) Azure Certification
13 14 (0.85%) CISA
14 13 (0.79%) CCNP
14 13 (0.79%) CIMA
15 12 (0.73%) ACCA
15 12 (0.73%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 197 (11.98%) Data Quality
2 141 (8.57%) QA
3 83 (5.05%) GDPR
4 58 (3.53%) PMO
5 45 (2.74%) Accessibility
6 43 (2.61%) NIST
7 41 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 27 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
8 27 (1.64%) GRC
9 25 (1.52%) PCI DSS
10 24 (1.46%) SLA
11 22 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 19 (1.16%) COBIT
13 11 (0.67%) MiFID
13 11 (0.67%) Solvency II
14 10 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (0.61%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.55%) WCAG
16 8 (0.49%) HIPAA
16 8 (0.49%) IFRS
System Software
1 64 (3.89%) Docker
2 49 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Firmware
5 4 (0.24%) HDFS
5 4 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.18%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.12%) Snort
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.061%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.061%) IAG
8 1 (0.061%) Postfix
8 1 (0.061%) RACF
8 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.061%) Xen
8 1 (0.061%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.061%) zsh
Systems Management
1 61 (3.71%) Kubernetes
2 45 (2.74%) Terraform
3 28 (1.70%) Ansible
4 24 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.85%) SCCM
6 12 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.61%) Grafana
8 6 (0.36%) HP ALM
8 6 (0.36%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.24%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.18%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.18%) Nessus
10 3 (0.18%) SCOM
11 2 (0.12%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.12%) Suricata
11 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.061%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.061%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.061%) vMotion
Vendors
1 268 (16.29%) Microsoft
2 101 (6.14%) Oracle
3 91 (5.53%) Salesforce
4 87 (5.29%) SAP
5 70 (4.26%) Google
6 68 (4.13%) ServiceNow
7 64 (3.89%) Databricks
8 27 (1.64%) Splunk
9 26 (1.58%) Bloomberg
10 24 (1.46%) Cisco
11 23 (1.40%) Workday
12 21 (1.28%) VMware
13 20 (1.22%) Adobe
13 20 (1.22%) Informatica
13 20 (1.22%) Murex
14 15 (0.91%) Palo Alto
15 13 (0.79%) OpenAI
16 12 (0.73%) IBM
16 12 (0.73%) Juniper
17 11 (0.67%) HP