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 28 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,574 1,492 1,635
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.08% 9.38% 8.32%
As % of the General category 16.32% 14.79% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 956 900 1,103
10th Percentile £313 £313 £316
25th Percentile £404 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £667 £675
90th Percentile £766 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 29 37
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £21.15
25th Percentile £29.85 £23.59 £27.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.59 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.42% -38.20% +45.59%
75th Percentile £47.56 £53.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.75 £65.04
England median hourly rate £34.27 £25.00 £33.75
% change year-on-year +37.08% -25.93% -15.63%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,643 10,089 12,761
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.88% 63.41% 64.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,297 6,466 9,210
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £700
90th Percentile £777 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 118 167
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.43 £18.43
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.06 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.75 £37.79 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% +7.96% +4.48%
75th Percentile £46.50 £54.69 £58.13
90th Percentile £70.20 £78.51 £75.50
England median hourly rate £24.21 £31.31 £32.75
% change year-on-year -22.69% -4.40% +28.33%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 +4 253 £513 -10.28% 137
South London -2 26 £600 +7.38% 36
West London -7 22 £420 -1.18% 52
East London +3 9 £394 -10.51% 50
North London -2 1 - - 10
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 72 (4.57%) Confluence
2 42 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.03%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.89%) CMS
7 10 (0.64%) Apache
8 5 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) Camunda
11 2 (0.13%) IIS
11 2 (0.13%) Luigi
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.064%) CICS
12 1 (0.064%) JBoss
Applications
1 144 (9.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 35 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.38%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.38%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) Revit
10 1 (0.064%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.064%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.064%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.064%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 21 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.76%) Endur
2 12 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
3 10 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.51%) SAP HR
5 7 (0.44%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
6 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.38%) Workday HCM
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.32%) Teamcenter
8 4 (0.25%) ION MarketView
9 3 (0.19%) IntelliMatch
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
9 3 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 257 (16.33%) Azure
2 217 (13.79%) AWS
3 173 (10.99%) Power Platform
4 79 (5.02%) GCP
5 63 (4.00%) SaaS
6 54 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
7 40 (2.54%) Entra ID
8 39 (2.48%) GitHub
9 38 (2.41%) IaaS
10 36 (2.29%) Snowflake
11 33 (2.10%) Amazon S3
12 32 (2.03%) Serverless
13 26 (1.65%) dbt
14 25 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
15 21 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
16 18 (1.14%) PowerApps
17 17 (1.08%) Google Analytics
18 16 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.54%) Firewall
2 33 (2.10%) Network Security
3 31 (1.97%) DNS
4 22 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.33%) VPN
6 17 (1.08%) LAN
6 17 (1.08%) WAN
7 15 (0.95%) HTTP
8 12 (0.76%) SSL
9 10 (0.64%) DHCP
9 10 (0.64%) VoIP
10 9 (0.57%) Internet
10 9 (0.57%) VLAN
11 8 (0.51%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.38%) BGP
12 6 (0.38%) Wireless
13 5 (0.32%) CTI
13 5 (0.32%) DMZ
13 5 (0.32%) SMTP
13 5 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (10.29%) Power BI
2 73 (4.64%) Tableau
3 64 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (3.18%) Relational Database
4 50 (3.18%) SQL Server
5 39 (2.48%) Metadata
6 36 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (1.84%) DB2
7 29 (1.84%) MongoDB
8 27 (1.72%) Big Data
9 26 (1.65%) NoSQL
10 25 (1.59%) Data Lake
11 22 (1.40%) Hadoop
12 17 (1.08%) BigQuery
13 16 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
13 16 (1.02%) Star Schema
14 15 (0.95%) Power Query
15 13 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (0.83%) Looker
15 13 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 135 (8.58%) JIRA
2 65 (4.13%) Git
3 25 (1.59%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.40%) JUnit
5 16 (1.02%) GitLab
6 11 (0.70%) Selenium
7 8 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.51%) Postman
8 6 (0.38%) Browser DevTools
8 6 (0.38%) JMeter
9 5 (0.32%) Burp Suite
9 5 (0.32%) Eclipse
9 5 (0.32%) Metasploit
9 5 (0.32%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 5 (0.32%) webpack
10 4 (0.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.25%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.25%) sqlmap
10 4 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 862 (54.76%) Social Skills
2 569 (36.15%) Finance
3 216 (13.72%) Banking
4 129 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 96 (6.10%) Marketing
6 81 (5.15%) Investment Banking
7 69 (4.38%) Legal
8 54 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
9 53 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
9 53 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (3.18%) Front Office
10 50 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
11 46 (2.92%) Back Office
11 46 (2.92%) Financial Institution
12 45 (2.86%) Retail
13 41 (2.60%) Telecoms
14 24 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (1.46%) Publishing
16 20 (1.27%) Law
17 18 (1.14%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 418 (26.56%) Analyst
2 200 (12.71%) Business Analyst
3 188 (11.94%) Senior
4 187 (11.88%) Developer
5 125 (7.94%) Architect
6 95 (6.04%) Lead
7 77 (4.89%) Data Analyst
8 73 (4.64%) Consultant
9 58 (3.68%) Data Engineer
10 53 (3.37%) Senior Analyst
11 51 (3.24%) Senior Developer
12 48 (3.05%) Project Manager
13 46 (2.92%) Java Developer
14 38 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
15 33 (2.10%) Python Developer
16 32 (2.03%) Technical Analyst
17 28 (1.78%) Data Scientist
17 28 (1.78%) Security Analyst
18 25 (1.59%) Senior Business Analyst
19 23 (1.46%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (6.54%) REST
2 55 (3.49%) Kafka
3 51 (3.24%) JSON
4 42 (2.67%) .NET
5 38 (2.41%) Spring
6 37 (2.35%) HTML
7 36 (2.29%) React
8 29 (1.84%) CSS
8 29 (1.84%) RESTful
8 29 (1.84%) XML
9 27 (1.72%) AngularJS
10 25 (1.59%) SOAP
11 23 (1.46%) Pandas
12 22 (1.40%) Middleware
13 19 (1.21%) OAuth
14 18 (1.14%) PySpark
14 18 (1.14%) scikit-learn
15 17 (1.08%) JMS
15 17 (1.08%) NumPy
16 16 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 149 (9.47%) Analytical Mindset
2 72 (4.57%) Product Ownership
3 70 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
4 65 (4.13%) Management Information System
5 59 (3.75%) Data Structures
6 53 (3.37%) Onboarding
7 47 (2.99%) Algorithms
8 34 (2.16%) Derivative
9 32 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
9 32 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 29 (1.84%) Fixed Income
10 29 (1.84%) PKI
11 27 (1.72%) Equities
12 26 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
13 25 (1.59%) Cloud Native
14 24 (1.52%) Security Posture
15 23 (1.46%) Reinsurance
16 22 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
17 20 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
18 16 (1.02%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 92 (5.84%) Linux
2 77 (4.89%) Windows
3 33 (2.10%) Unix
4 9 (0.57%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.44%) Android
5 7 (0.44%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.44%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.32%) VMS
8 4 (0.25%) Solaris
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.13%) AIX
10 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.064%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.064%) VME
11 1 (0.064%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (54.96%) Problem-Solving
2 481 (30.56%) Agile
3 289 (18.36%) Analytics
4 280 (17.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 247 (15.69%) Decision-Making
6 199 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 198 (12.58%) Business Intelligence
8 184 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 174 (11.05%) Data Modelling
10 167 (10.61%) Data Analysis
11 161 (10.23%) CI/CD
12 156 (9.91%) DevOps
13 146 (9.28%) Project Management
14 145 (9.21%) Migration
15 144 (9.15%) AI
16 133 (8.45%) Validation
17 131 (8.32%) Scrum
18 130 (8.26%) Visualisation
19 129 (8.20%) Computer Science
20 125 (7.94%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 389 (24.71%) SQL
2 350 (22.24%) Python
3 127 (8.07%) Java
4 89 (5.65%) JavaScript
5 74 (4.70%) PowerShell
6 50 (3.18%) C#
7 43 (2.73%) Bash
8 36 (2.29%) TypeScript
9 29 (1.84%) C++
10 24 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.33%) R
12 17 (1.08%) Go
13 14 (0.89%) VBA
14 13 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (0.83%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 10 (0.64%) Scala
17 9 (0.57%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.44%) Korn
19 6 (0.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 242 (15.37%) Degree
2 227 (14.42%) Security Cleared
3 175 (11.12%) SC Cleared
4 75 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.54%) Master's Degree
5 40 (2.54%) PMI Certification
6 28 (1.78%) PMP
7 23 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.40%) CISSP
9 18 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 15 (0.95%) CBAP
10 15 (0.95%) CIMA
11 14 (0.89%) ACCA
11 14 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.83%) OSCP
13 12 (0.76%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.70%) CCNP
15 10 (0.64%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (8.89%) Data Quality
2 117 (7.43%) QA
3 50 (3.18%) GDPR
4 47 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 30 (1.91%) PMO
6 19 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.21%) NIST
7 16 (1.02%) SLA
8 11 (0.70%) WCAG
9 10 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (0.64%) GRC
9 10 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.57%) COBIT
10 9 (0.57%) EMIR
11 7 (0.44%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.44%) MiFID
12 6 (0.38%) ISO 19650
12 6 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.32%) PSD2
System Software
1 60 (3.81%) Active Directory
2 56 (3.56%) Docker
3 13 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.57%) zsh
5 7 (0.44%) HDFS
6 5 (0.32%) Firmware
7 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.19%) ProxySG
8 3 (0.19%) Squid
8 3 (0.19%) vSphere
9 2 (0.13%) Snort
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.064%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.064%) IAG
10 1 (0.064%) KVM
10 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.064%) Xen
Systems Management
1 75 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.68%) Terraform
3 43 (2.73%) Ansible
4 17 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.02%) Grafana
6 14 (0.89%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.76%) SCCM
7 12 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.51%) Nessus
9 5 (0.32%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
9 5 (0.32%) Nmap
10 4 (0.25%) BladeLogic
10 4 (0.25%) SCOM
11 3 (0.19%) Argo
11 3 (0.19%) CA Spectrum
12 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.13%) QRadar
12 2 (0.13%) Suricata
12 2 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 257 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 91 (5.78%) Oracle
3 74 (4.70%) SAP
4 66 (4.19%) Google
5 57 (3.62%) ServiceNow
6 52 (3.30%) Salesforce
7 45 (2.86%) Databricks
8 36 (2.29%) Splunk
9 31 (1.97%) Cisco
10 21 (1.33%) VMware
11 20 (1.27%) Sybase
12 18 (1.14%) Bloomberg
13 15 (0.95%) Adobe
13 15 (0.95%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.83%) Juniper
14 13 (0.83%) Murex
14 13 (0.83%) Palo Alto
14 13 (0.83%) Workday
15 12 (0.76%) Alteryx
15 12 (0.76%) CyberArk