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 26 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 16 19
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,573 1,414 1,477
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.93% 10.50% 8.16%
As % of the General category 15.60% 16.01% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 971 846 1,016
10th Percentile £343 £314 £323
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -5.58%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 30 50
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.43 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.03 £26.74 £16.80
Median hourly rate £35.25 £38.81 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.16% +68.72% -16.36%
75th Percentile £47.50 £63.44 £41.81
90th Percentile £56.70 £80.75 £53.30
England median hourly rate £30.11 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +9.47% +37.50% -38.82%

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 10,086 8,830 11,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.67% 65.59% 63.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,583 5,668 8,241
10th Percentile £350 £330 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 118 257
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.66 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.42 £26.56 £18.33
Median hourly rate £28.55 £37.81 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.48% +31.50% -1.71%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.51 £72.60
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.81 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.47% +18.48% -13.33%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 +3 233 £525 - 134
South London -8 28 £506 -13.16% 7
West London -12 28 £500 +33.33% 24
East London +4 8 £400 -32.23% 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 80 (5.09%) Confluence
2 29 (1.84%) Apache Spark
3 27 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 17 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.89%) Apache
6 12 (0.76%) CMS
7 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
7 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.25%) SAS
9 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.13%) Camunda
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.064%) Appian
10 1 (0.064%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.064%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.064%) Traefik
Applications
1 169 (10.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.54%) MS Visio
5 31 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.32%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.064%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.064%) Notion
10 1 (0.064%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.064%) Revit
10 1 (0.064%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.83%) NetSuite
3 9 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.51%) SAP HR
5 7 (0.45%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.45%) Workday HCM
6 6 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.38%) Shopify
7 5 (0.32%) BASE24
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 317 (20.15%) Azure
2 215 (13.67%) AWS
3 204 (12.97%) Power Platform
4 84 (5.34%) SaaS
5 82 (5.21%) GCP
6 69 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (2.92%) GitHub
9 45 (2.86%) Entra ID
10 44 (2.80%) Serverless
11 43 (2.73%) IaaS
12 41 (2.61%) Snowflake
13 35 (2.23%) Amazon S3
14 33 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
15 32 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
16 26 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
17 22 (1.40%) dbt
18 21 (1.34%) PaaS
19 20 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
20 19 (1.21%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.10%) Firewall
2 28 (1.78%) Network Security
3 24 (1.53%) DNS
4 19 (1.21%) VPN
5 15 (0.95%) WAN
6 13 (0.83%) DHCP
7 11 (0.70%) VLAN
8 10 (0.64%) LAN
8 10 (0.64%) SAN
9 9 (0.57%) SD-WAN
10 8 (0.51%) Internet
10 8 (0.51%) SMS
10 8 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.45%) SSL
11 7 (0.45%) TCP/IP
11 7 (0.45%) VoIP
12 6 (0.38%) HTTP
13 5 (0.32%) CTI
13 5 (0.32%) DMZ
14 4 (0.25%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (11.76%) Power BI
2 80 (5.09%) Tableau
3 70 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
4 55 (3.50%) SQL Server
5 42 (2.67%) Metadata
6 31 (1.97%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.65%) Data Lake
7 26 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.59%) NoSQL
9 21 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
10 19 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 18 (1.14%) BigQuery
12 17 (1.08%) Big Data
12 17 (1.08%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
13 15 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (0.95%) DB2
14 13 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
15 12 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
16 11 (0.70%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 157 (9.98%) JIRA
2 63 (4.01%) Git
3 23 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.08%) GitLab
5 15 (0.95%) Selenium
6 13 (0.83%) JUnit
7 12 (0.76%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.64%) MLflow
9 9 (0.57%) Postman
10 8 (0.51%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.38%) Appium
11 6 (0.38%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.38%) JMeter
11 6 (0.38%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.32%) Burp Suite
12 5 (0.32%) Metasploit
12 5 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.32%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.25%) sqlmap
General
1 801 (50.92%) Social Skills
2 567 (36.05%) Finance
3 210 (13.35%) Banking
4 130 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 103 (6.55%) Marketing
6 75 (4.77%) Legal
7 66 (4.20%) Documentation Skills
8 62 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
9 57 (3.62%) Investment Banking
10 52 (3.31%) Front Office
11 46 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
12 45 (2.86%) Retail
13 41 (2.61%) Financial Institution
13 41 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
14 35 (2.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 31 (1.97%) Telecoms
16 30 (1.91%) Back Office
17 24 (1.53%) Publishing
18 20 (1.27%) Law
19 15 (0.95%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 419 (26.64%) Analyst
2 215 (13.67%) Business Analyst
3 176 (11.19%) Senior
4 152 (9.66%) Developer
5 117 (7.44%) Architect
6 98 (6.23%) Lead
7 94 (5.98%) Data Analyst
8 88 (5.59%) Consultant
9 69 (4.39%) Data Engineer
10 63 (4.01%) Project Manager
11 54 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
12 42 (2.67%) Data Scientist
13 39 (2.48%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (2.10%) Senior Developer
15 31 (1.97%) Product Manager
15 31 (1.97%) Senior Business Analyst
16 27 (1.72%) Senior Manager
17 24 (1.53%) Security Analyst
17 24 (1.53%) Technical Analyst
18 23 (1.46%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (5.98%) REST
2 52 (3.31%) JSON
3 49 (3.12%) Kafka
4 44 (2.80%) .NET
5 35 (2.23%) Middleware
6 33 (2.10%) Pandas
6 33 (2.10%) RESTful
7 31 (1.97%) HTML
7 31 (1.97%) XML
8 30 (1.91%) CSS
8 30 (1.91%) SOAP
9 27 (1.72%) scikit-learn
10 24 (1.53%) NumPy
10 24 (1.53%) React
11 23 (1.46%) Node.js
12 21 (1.34%) AngularJS
13 20 (1.27%) Spring
14 19 (1.21%) OAuth
14 19 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
14 19 (1.21%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 156 (9.92%) Analytical Mindset
2 72 (4.58%) Product Ownership
3 66 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
4 56 (3.56%) Data Structures
5 49 (3.12%) Onboarding
6 48 (3.05%) Management Information System
7 43 (2.73%) Algorithms
8 37 (2.35%) Derivative
9 36 (2.29%) Fixed Income
10 32 (2.03%) Equities
11 31 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.91%) PKI
13 28 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 27 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
14 27 (1.72%) Security Posture
15 24 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
16 23 (1.46%) Data Centre
17 21 (1.34%) Cloud Native
18 19 (1.21%) Mobile App
19 18 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 74 (4.70%) Windows
2 58 (3.69%) Linux
3 24 (1.53%) Unix
4 13 (0.83%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.70%) Android
7 6 (0.38%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.32%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.25%) VMS
10 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.13%) Solaris
12 1 (0.064%) AIX
12 1 (0.064%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.064%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 787 (50.03%) Problem-Solving
2 474 (30.13%) Agile
3 326 (20.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 310 (19.71%) Analytics
5 273 (17.36%) Decision-Making
6 225 (14.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 214 (13.60%) Business Intelligence
8 204 (12.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 195 (12.40%) Data Modelling
10 192 (12.21%) AI
11 176 (11.19%) Validation
12 167 (10.62%) DevOps
13 164 (10.43%) CI/CD
14 159 (10.11%) Data Analysis
15 152 (9.66%) Roadmaps
16 146 (9.28%) Actionable Insight
17 145 (9.22%) Visualisation
18 144 (9.15%) Migration
19 137 (8.71%) Project Management
20 134 (8.52%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 405 (25.75%) SQL
2 338 (21.49%) Python
3 79 (5.02%) Java
3 79 (5.02%) PowerShell
4 70 (4.45%) JavaScript
5 67 (4.26%) C#
6 36 (2.29%) TypeScript
7 35 (2.23%) Bash
8 28 (1.78%) C++
9 23 (1.46%) R
10 19 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 15 (0.95%) PL/SQL
12 14 (0.89%) Shell Script
12 14 (0.89%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (0.76%) Scala
14 8 (0.51%) C
15 7 (0.45%) VBA
16 6 (0.38%) Bicep
17 5 (0.32%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 232 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 228 (14.49%) Degree
3 167 (10.62%) SC Cleared
4 63 (4.01%) Master's Degree
5 61 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 46 (2.92%) PMI Certification
7 34 (2.16%) PMP
8 27 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 24 (1.53%) CISSP
10 22 (1.40%) DV Cleared
11 15 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (0.89%) Azure Certification
13 13 (0.83%) AWS Certification
13 13 (0.83%) CIMA
14 12 (0.76%) ACCA
14 12 (0.76%) CISM
14 12 (0.76%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (0.70%) CBAP
15 11 (0.70%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (11.19%) Data Quality
2 135 (8.58%) QA
3 81 (5.15%) GDPR
4 50 (3.18%) PMO
5 45 (2.86%) Accessibility
6 31 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.91%) NIST
8 25 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (1.53%) PCI DSS
10 21 (1.34%) GRC
11 20 (1.27%) SLA
12 18 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 17 (1.08%) COBIT
14 12 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 11 (0.70%) MiFID
15 11 (0.70%) WCAG
16 10 (0.64%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.64%) Solvency II
17 9 (0.57%) EMIR
18 8 (0.51%) IFRS
System Software
1 66 (4.20%) Docker
2 52 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.32%) HDFS
4 5 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.25%) zsh
6 3 (0.19%) Firmware
6 3 (0.19%) ProxySG
6 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.19%) vSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Snort
7 2 (0.13%) Squid
8 1 (0.064%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.064%) NFS
8 1 (0.064%) Postfix
8 1 (0.064%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.064%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.064%) Xen
8 1 (0.064%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 65 (4.13%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.73%) Terraform
3 28 (1.78%) Ansible
4 21 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.83%) SCCM
6 11 (0.70%) Grafana
7 8 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.45%) Nessus
9 6 (0.38%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.32%) Nmap
11 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.19%) SCOM
12 2 (0.13%) Nexpose
12 2 (0.13%) Suricata
13 1 (0.064%) CSIRT
13 1 (0.064%) IBM Guardium
13 1 (0.064%) Istio
13 1 (0.064%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.064%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 263 (16.72%) Microsoft
2 91 (5.79%) Oracle
3 84 (5.34%) Salesforce
4 82 (5.21%) SAP
5 69 (4.39%) Databricks
6 68 (4.32%) Google
7 55 (3.50%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.78%) Splunk
9 26 (1.65%) Bloomberg
10 23 (1.46%) Cisco
10 23 (1.46%) VMware
11 20 (1.27%) Murex
12 19 (1.21%) Adobe
13 18 (1.14%) Workday
14 15 (0.95%) Informatica
14 15 (0.95%) Palo Alto
15 12 (0.76%) Juniper
15 12 (0.76%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.70%) Remedy
16 11 (0.70%) Tenable