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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,828 1,603 1,348
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.21% 11.79% 8.21%
As % of the General category 15.19% 17.27% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,032 895
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £790 £778
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 29 23
10th Percentile £19.03 £11.96 £17.30
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.01 £27.03
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.48 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.11% -16.92% -5.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £51.25
90th Percentile £73.00 £59.75 £65.03
England median hourly rate £38.72 £32.50 £22.54
% change year-on-year +19.14% +44.19% -43.65%

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 12,031 9,283 10,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.60% 68.27% 62.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,670 6,190 7,275
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 £510 £538
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 178 156
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £22.26
Median hourly rate £28.80 £30.40 £33.63
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% -9.58% -3.93%
75th Percentile £43.75 £50.50 £50.44
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.40 £68.38
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +35.15% -34.02% +27.07%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -7 231 £538 -2.27% 138
West London +2 77 £520 +29.84% 57
South London +1 38 £524 -16.20% 22
East London -3 9 £400 +16.72% 29
North London - 3 £450 - 2
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 76 (4.16%) Confluence
2 33 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (1.59%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.42%) CMS
6 19 (1.04%) Apache
7 16 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.38%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.33%) SAS
9 6 (0.33%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.27%) IIS
10 5 (0.27%) JBoss
11 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.16%) Camunda
13 2 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 156 (8.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (2.02%) MS Visio
5 27 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.66%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.16%) Trello
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.11%) Notion
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.055%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.82%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.55%) Finacle
5 10 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.44%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 8 (0.44%) Shopify
7 6 (0.33%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.27%) iTrent
8 5 (0.27%) Magento
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.22%) Findur
9 4 (0.22%) HFM
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 361 (19.75%) Azure
2 259 (14.17%) AWS
3 227 (12.42%) Power Platform
4 99 (5.42%) GCP
5 74 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (3.99%) SaaS
7 67 (3.67%) GitHub
8 65 (3.56%) Microsoft 365
9 54 (2.95%) Entra ID
10 48 (2.63%) Snowflake
11 45 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
12 33 (1.81%) Amazon S3
13 32 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
13 32 (1.75%) Serverless
14 31 (1.70%) dbt
15 30 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
16 27 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 24 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
18 22 (1.20%) PaaS
19 21 (1.15%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.57%) Firewall
2 36 (1.97%) DNS
3 27 (1.48%) Network Security
3 27 (1.48%) VPN
4 24 (1.31%) DHCP
4 24 (1.31%) TCP/IP
5 17 (0.93%) WAN
6 14 (0.77%) VLAN
7 13 (0.71%) HTTP
7 13 (0.71%) SAN
8 12 (0.66%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.60%) BGP
10 10 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.49%) 5G
11 9 (0.49%) SSL
12 8 (0.44%) 4G
12 8 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.44%) OSPF
12 8 (0.44%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.38%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 206 (11.27%) Power BI
2 108 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (5.53%) SQL Server
4 77 (4.21%) Tableau
5 75 (4.10%) Relational Database
6 68 (3.72%) Metadata
7 50 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (2.19%) Data Lake
9 33 (1.81%) NoSQL
10 29 (1.59%) Big Data
11 27 (1.48%) MongoDB
12 23 (1.26%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.26%) Oracle Database
12 23 (1.26%) RDBMS
13 22 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (0.98%) Delta Lake
14 18 (0.98%) Power Query
15 17 (0.93%) Star Schema
16 16 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
16 16 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 175 (9.57%) JIRA
2 70 (3.83%) Git
3 38 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.26%) Selenium
5 15 (0.82%) ERwin
6 14 (0.77%) GitLab
7 11 (0.60%) JMeter
7 11 (0.60%) JUnit
8 10 (0.55%) Bitbucket
8 10 (0.55%) Cypress.io
8 10 (0.55%) Maven
8 10 (0.55%) REST Assured
9 9 (0.49%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.49%) Postman
9 9 (0.49%) Zephyr
10 8 (0.44%) Chocolatey
10 8 (0.44%) ER Studio
10 8 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.38%) Gatling
11 7 (0.38%) MLflow
General
1 889 (48.63%) Social Skills
2 721 (39.44%) Finance
3 266 (14.55%) Banking
4 152 (8.32%) Public Sector
5 97 (5.31%) Marketing
6 92 (5.03%) Front Office
7 85 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
8 83 (4.54%) Documentation Skills
9 76 (4.16%) Legal
10 60 (3.28%) Retail
11 56 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
11 56 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
12 54 (2.95%) Investment Banking
13 51 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 46 (2.52%) Telecoms
15 40 (2.19%) Financial Institution
16 28 (1.53%) Back Office
17 23 (1.26%) Local Government
18 21 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
18 21 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 473 (25.88%) Analyst
2 235 (12.86%) Business Analyst
3 196 (10.72%) Senior
4 165 (9.03%) Developer
5 129 (7.06%) Lead
6 126 (6.89%) Architect
7 108 (5.91%) Data Engineer
8 104 (5.69%) Data Analyst
9 88 (4.81%) Consultant
10 69 (3.77%) Data Scientist
11 61 (3.34%) Project Manager
12 49 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
13 40 (2.19%) Senior Developer
14 30 (1.64%) Technical Business Analyst
15 29 (1.59%) Solutions Architect
16 28 (1.53%) Financial Analyst
16 28 (1.53%) Senior Manager
16 28 (1.53%) Technical Analyst
17 27 (1.48%) Support Engineer
18 26 (1.42%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 104 (5.69%) REST
2 67 (3.67%) .NET
3 50 (2.74%) Kafka
4 45 (2.46%) RESTful
5 44 (2.41%) JSON
6 40 (2.19%) SOAP
6 40 (2.19%) XML
7 39 (2.13%) HTML
7 39 (2.13%) Pandas
8 36 (1.97%) Web Services
9 35 (1.91%) CSS
10 32 (1.75%) PySpark
11 31 (1.70%) Middleware
12 29 (1.59%) React
13 27 (1.48%) scikit-learn
13 27 (1.48%) Spring
14 24 (1.31%) AngularJS
14 24 (1.31%) Spring Boot
15 23 (1.26%) PyTorch
16 22 (1.20%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 162 (8.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 128 (7.00%) Product Ownership
3 99 (5.42%) Onboarding
4 81 (4.43%) Data Structures
5 74 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
6 53 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
7 51 (2.79%) Management Information System
8 50 (2.74%) Cloud Native
9 41 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
10 36 (1.97%) Fixed Income
11 34 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 33 (1.81%) Algorithms
12 33 (1.81%) Data Centre
12 33 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
13 32 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
14 29 (1.59%) Equities
15 28 (1.53%) Derivative
16 25 (1.37%) AI Agents
17 24 (1.31%) CMDB
18 23 (1.26%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 122 (6.67%) Windows
2 92 (5.03%) Linux
3 32 (1.75%) Unix
4 22 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.88%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (0.66%) Windows 10
8 11 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.55%) Android
10 6 (0.33%) Solaris
10 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.27%) AIX
12 2 (0.11%) SUSE
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.055%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.055%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 886 (48.47%) Problem-Solving
2 537 (29.38%) Agile
3 497 (27.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 353 (19.31%) Analytics
5 352 (19.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 330 (18.05%) AI
7 322 (17.61%) Decision-Making
8 268 (14.66%) Data Modelling
9 246 (13.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 240 (13.13%) Business Intelligence
11 234 (12.80%) Validation
12 217 (11.87%) DevOps
13 198 (10.83%) CI/CD
13 198 (10.83%) Migration
14 179 (9.79%) Data Analysis
15 173 (9.46%) Data Pipeline
16 166 (9.08%) User Acceptance Testing
17 160 (8.75%) Roadmaps
18 153 (8.37%) Data Governance
19 152 (8.32%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 518 (28.34%) SQL
2 399 (21.83%) Python
3 116 (6.35%) Java
4 86 (4.70%) C#
5 81 (4.43%) JavaScript
6 69 (3.77%) PowerShell
7 43 (2.35%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.75%) Bash
8 32 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 31 (1.70%) R
10 29 (1.59%) C++
11 27 (1.48%) T-SQL
12 25 (1.37%) PL/SQL
13 15 (0.82%) Scala
14 11 (0.60%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.55%) VBA
16 9 (0.49%) Ruby
17 8 (0.44%) C
17 8 (0.44%) Go
17 8 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 227 (12.42%) Security Cleared
2 226 (12.36%) Degree
3 170 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 71 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.97%) CISSP
6 34 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
7 32 (1.75%) Master's Degree
8 28 (1.53%) PMP
9 26 (1.42%) PMI Certification
10 23 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.26%) CISM
11 19 (1.04%) Azure Certification
12 16 (0.88%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (0.77%) CCNP
15 13 (0.71%) CISA
16 12 (0.66%) ACCA
17 11 (0.60%) CIMA
17 11 (0.60%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (13.62%) Data Quality
2 136 (7.44%) QA
3 91 (4.98%) PMO
4 64 (3.50%) GDPR
5 48 (2.63%) SLA
6 44 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (2.41%) NIST
7 35 (1.91%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 22 (1.20%) COBIT
11 20 (1.09%) GRC
12 14 (0.77%) IFRS
13 11 (0.60%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.55%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.33%) GAAP
15 6 (0.33%) GxP
16 5 (0.27%) MiFID
System Software
1 73 (3.99%) Active Directory
2 66 (3.61%) Docker
3 14 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
3 14 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.49%) IAG
5 6 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.27%) Firmware
7 4 (0.22%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.16%) Postfix
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.055%) NFS
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.055%) RACF
10 1 (0.055%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 67 (3.67%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.17%) Terraform
3 37 (2.02%) Ansible
4 31 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (1.37%) Grafana
6 15 (0.82%) SCCM
7 11 (0.60%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.49%) Control-M
8 9 (0.49%) Kibana
9 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.22%) Puppet
10 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.16%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.16%) systemd
12 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.11%) Istio
12 2 (0.11%) Nessus
12 2 (0.11%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 286 (15.65%) Microsoft
2 154 (8.42%) Oracle
3 95 (5.20%) SAP
4 93 (5.09%) ServiceNow
5 72 (3.94%) Salesforce
6 70 (3.83%) Google
7 69 (3.77%) Databricks
8 36 (1.97%) Splunk
9 31 (1.70%) Dynatrace
10 27 (1.48%) IBM
11 26 (1.42%) Cisco
11 26 (1.42%) VMware
12 24 (1.31%) Workday
13 22 (1.20%) CyberArk
14 21 (1.15%) Adobe
15 19 (1.04%) Informatica
16 18 (0.98%) Alteryx
17 16 (0.88%) Apple
18 15 (0.82%) Tenable
19 14 (0.77%) Sitecore