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 1 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,925 1,481 1,406
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.46% 11.00% 8.73%
As % of the General category 15.34% 15.98% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,181 924 858
10th Percentile £338 £313 £320
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £761 £765
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 30 22
10th Percentile £19.72 £18.08 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.05 £19.25
Median hourly rate £31.50 £34.38 £34.04
Median % change year-on-year -8.36% +1.00% -31.93%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.19 £52.50
90th Percentile £62.55 £57.30 £64.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £32.31 £24.59
% change year-on-year -10.24% +31.39% -45.36%

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 12,549 9,269 10,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.69% 68.83% 62.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,007 6,097 6,541
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
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 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.19% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 282 176 117
10th Percentile £16.05 £17.04 £17.80
25th Percentile £20.14 £24.58 £25.75
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -11.28% +24.02%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £72.58 £64.25 £65.42
England median hourly rate £29.50 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +17.30% -32.93% +29.87%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 £550 - 427
West London +7 91 £556 +34.04% 158
South London -2 24 £544 -19.48% 33
East London +2 13 £463 +35.04% 24
North London +4 5 £525 - 1
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 95 (4.94%) Confluence
2 47 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 44 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (1.51%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.35%) CMS
6 24 (1.25%) Apache
7 20 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.42%) JBoss
10 8 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.36%) SAS
12 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.26%) Appian
12 5 (0.26%) IIS
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 180 (9.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (1.71%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.36%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.26%) Trello
9 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.10%) Notion
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.10%) Productboard
11 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 27 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 21 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (0.94%) Aladdin
5 14 (0.73%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.52%) Finacle
7 8 (0.42%) iTrent
7 8 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
7 8 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.42%) Shopify
8 6 (0.31%) Magento
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.26%) SAP GRC
9 5 (0.26%) Summit
10 4 (0.21%) Front Arena
10 4 (0.21%) HFM
10 4 (0.21%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 385 (20.00%) Azure
2 274 (14.23%) AWS
3 249 (12.94%) Power Platform
4 110 (5.71%) GCP
5 89 (4.62%) GitHub
6 84 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
7 80 (4.16%) SaaS
8 72 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
8 72 (3.74%) Snowflake
9 71 (3.69%) Entra ID
10 43 (2.23%) GitHub Actions
11 42 (2.18%) Serverless
12 40 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
12 40 (2.08%) dbt
13 35 (1.82%) Amazon S3
14 31 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
15 30 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
16 28 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
17 26 (1.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 24 (1.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.34%) Firewall
2 35 (1.82%) DNS
2 35 (1.82%) Network Security
2 35 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 33 (1.71%) VPN
4 22 (1.14%) DHCP
5 17 (0.88%) WAN
6 16 (0.83%) SSL
7 15 (0.78%) BGP
8 13 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
8 13 (0.68%) VLAN
9 12 (0.62%) 5G
9 12 (0.62%) HTTP
10 11 (0.57%) Kerberos
10 11 (0.57%) MPLS
10 11 (0.57%) SAN
11 10 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.47%) Wireless
12 9 (0.47%) Wireshark
13 8 (0.42%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (11.32%) Power BI
2 107 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (4.94%) SQL Server
4 80 (4.16%) Tableau
5 73 (3.79%) Relational Database
6 65 (3.38%) Metadata
6 65 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (1.97%) NoSQL
8 37 (1.92%) Data Lake
9 35 (1.82%) MongoDB
10 31 (1.61%) Oracle Database
11 26 (1.35%) Delta Lake
12 25 (1.30%) BigQuery
13 24 (1.25%) Big Data
14 22 (1.14%) Power Query
14 22 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (1.09%) Amazon Athena
16 20 (1.04%) RDBMS
17 18 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
18 15 (0.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 193 (10.03%) JIRA
2 119 (6.18%) Git
3 62 (3.22%) Jenkins
4 36 (1.87%) GitLab
5 27 (1.40%) Selenium
6 21 (1.09%) JMeter
7 16 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 14 (0.73%) Postman
9 13 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.68%) LoadRunner
10 12 (0.62%) ERwin
10 12 (0.62%) Maven
11 11 (0.57%) Gradle
11 11 (0.57%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.52%) Gatling
13 9 (0.47%) JUnit
13 9 (0.47%) REST Assured
13 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.42%) ER Studio
14 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 994 (51.64%) Social Skills
2 785 (40.78%) Finance
3 301 (15.64%) Banking
4 173 (8.99%) Public Sector
5 97 (5.04%) Front Office
6 93 (4.83%) Organisational Skills
7 89 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
8 85 (4.42%) Marketing
9 81 (4.21%) Legal
10 76 (3.95%) Retail
11 75 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
12 61 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
13 60 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 59 (3.06%) Investment Banking
15 53 (2.75%) Local Government
16 50 (2.60%) Telecoms
17 37 (1.92%) Back Office
18 34 (1.77%) Financial Institution
19 29 (1.51%) Manufacturing
20 20 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 484 (25.14%) Analyst
2 232 (12.05%) Senior
3 225 (11.69%) Business Analyst
4 175 (9.09%) Developer
5 128 (6.65%) Lead
6 121 (6.29%) Architect
7 102 (5.30%) Data Analyst
8 97 (5.04%) Data Engineer
9 78 (4.05%) Consultant
10 59 (3.06%) Data Scientist
11 51 (2.65%) Project Manager
11 51 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
12 48 (2.49%) Senior Developer
13 33 (1.71%) Technical Analyst
14 30 (1.56%) Financial Analyst
14 30 (1.56%) Senior Manager
14 30 (1.56%) Support Engineer
14 30 (1.56%) Technical Business Analyst
15 28 (1.45%) IT Support
15 28 (1.45%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (5.92%) REST
2 93 (4.83%) .NET
3 85 (4.42%) Terraform
4 66 (3.43%) Kafka
5 60 (3.12%) RESTful
6 47 (2.44%) Web Services
7 44 (2.29%) SOAP
8 42 (2.18%) JSON
8 42 (2.18%) XML
9 41 (2.13%) Middleware
9 41 (2.13%) PySpark
10 39 (2.03%) HTML
11 33 (1.71%) Spring
12 32 (1.66%) CSS
12 32 (1.66%) React
13 28 (1.45%) Spring Boot
14 23 (1.19%) Pandas
15 22 (1.14%) OAuth
16 21 (1.09%) .NET Core
16 21 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 145 (7.53%) Analytical Mindset
1 145 (7.53%) Product Ownership
2 118 (6.13%) Onboarding
3 82 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 72 (3.74%) Data Structures
4 72 (3.74%) Management Information System
5 65 (3.38%) Enterprise Software
6 53 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
7 49 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
8 43 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
9 38 (1.97%) AI Agents
10 35 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
11 31 (1.61%) Derivative
12 29 (1.51%) Fixed Income
13 28 (1.45%) Algorithms
14 27 (1.40%) Equities
14 27 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 24 (1.25%) Credit Risk
16 23 (1.19%) Reference Data
17 22 (1.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 135 (7.01%) Linux
2 126 (6.55%) Windows
3 55 (2.86%) Unix
4 25 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.25%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.14%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.83%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.73%) Android
9 7 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.31%) Solaris
11 5 (0.26%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.10%) SUSE
13 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.052%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.052%) VMS
14 1 (0.052%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,004 (52.16%) Problem-Solving
2 699 (36.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 553 (28.73%) Agile
4 401 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 378 (19.64%) AI
6 377 (19.58%) Analytics
7 359 (18.65%) Decision-Making
8 276 (14.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 265 (13.77%) Validation
10 260 (13.51%) CI/CD
11 255 (13.25%) Business Intelligence
12 254 (13.19%) DevOps
13 233 (12.10%) Data Modelling
14 230 (11.95%) Migration
15 195 (10.13%) User Acceptance Testing
16 189 (9.82%) Roadmaps
17 179 (9.30%) Data Analysis
18 172 (8.94%) Business Analysis
18 172 (8.94%) Data Pipeline
19 169 (8.78%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 556 (28.88%) SQL
2 423 (21.97%) Python
3 121 (6.29%) Java
4 106 (5.51%) C#
5 97 (5.04%) JavaScript
6 73 (3.79%) PowerShell
7 56 (2.91%) Bash
8 41 (2.13%) TypeScript
9 33 (1.71%) R
10 30 (1.56%) PL/SQL
11 29 (1.51%) C++
12 27 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 27 (1.40%) T-SQL
13 25 (1.30%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.83%) Korn
14 16 (0.83%) Perl
15 15 (0.78%) Scala
16 13 (0.68%) Go
17 8 (0.42%) C
18 6 (0.31%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 268 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 252 (13.09%) Degree
3 214 (11.12%) SC Cleared
4 66 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (1.87%) PMI Certification
7 34 (1.77%) PMP
8 33 (1.71%) CISSP
8 33 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.35%) Azure Certification
10 23 (1.19%) ACCA
10 23 (1.19%) CIMA
11 22 (1.14%) CISM
11 22 (1.14%) DV Cleared
12 20 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
13 17 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 16 (0.83%) ISTQB
14 16 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (0.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (13.14%) Data Quality
2 153 (7.95%) QA
3 77 (4.00%) PMO
4 54 (2.81%) GDPR
5 48 (2.49%) SLA
6 42 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.77%) NIST
8 32 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
9 27 (1.40%) Accessibility
9 27 (1.40%) GRC
10 18 (0.94%) IFRS
11 15 (0.78%) COBIT
12 14 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.68%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.42%) Basel III
15 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.31%) ISO 15022
16 6 (0.31%) P3O
16 6 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 92 (4.78%) Docker
2 80 (4.16%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.36%) IAG
5 7 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.26%) Firmware
8 4 (0.21%) vSphere
9 3 (0.16%) NFS
9 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.10%) Postfix
10 2 (0.10%) Squid
10 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.052%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 94 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 42 (2.18%) Ansible
3 35 (1.82%) Grafana
4 34 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.83%) SCCM
7 15 (0.78%) Kibana
8 14 (0.73%) Control-M
9 7 (0.36%) Puppet
9 7 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 5 (0.26%) Istio
10 5 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.21%) systemd
12 3 (0.16%) Argo
12 3 (0.16%) Cilium
12 3 (0.16%) SnapMirror
13 2 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 355 (18.44%) Microsoft
2 163 (8.47%) Oracle
3 95 (4.94%) SAP
4 92 (4.78%) Databricks
5 91 (4.73%) ServiceNow
6 74 (3.84%) Google
7 62 (3.22%) Salesforce
8 55 (2.86%) Splunk
9 36 (1.87%) Cisco
9 36 (1.87%) IBM
10 31 (1.61%) Dynatrace
11 30 (1.56%) VMware
12 23 (1.19%) CyberArk
13 19 (0.99%) Adobe
14 17 (0.88%) Alteryx
14 17 (0.88%) Red Hat
14 17 (0.88%) Workday
15 15 (0.78%) Informatica
16 14 (0.73%) Murex
16 14 (0.73%) Zscaler