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

6 months to
23 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 1,814 1,606 1,376
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.15% 11.81% 8.18%
As % of the General category 15.09% 17.33% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 1,022 917
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% -4.32% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 32 28
10th Percentile £22.61 £11.96 £15.83
25th Percentile £27.76 £25.94 £17.44
Median hourly rate £39.00 £37.56 £32.39
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +15.95% -26.27%
75th Percentile £51.25 £55.25 £47.05
90th Percentile £73.15 £63.25 £65.01
England median hourly rate £38.36 £34.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +12.84% +58.12% -39.44%

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 12,019 9,266 10,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.64% 68.12% 62.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,649 6,167 7,451
10th Percentile £350 £330 £335
25th Percentile £444 £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 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 175 176
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.68
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.98 £21.24
Median hourly rate £30.75 £31.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -7.35% -2.86%
75th Percentile £43.75 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £64.38 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +29.34% -28.00% +21.67%

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 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 23 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 23 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 -10 231 £538 -2.27% 221
West London +5 80 £520 +30.00% 38
South London +1 37 £513 -18.00% 25
East London -5 7 £400 +16.64% 28
North London - 3 £450 - 4
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 75 (4.13%) Confluence
2 32 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (1.76%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.21%) CMS
5 18 (0.99%) Apache
6 16 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.33%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.33%) SAS
9 5 (0.28%) IIS
10 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.22%) Appian
10 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.17%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.11%) JBoss
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 155 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.15%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.61%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.11%) Notion
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.11%) Trello
11 1 (0.055%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.88%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.55%) Finacle
5 10 (0.55%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.50%) Fidessa
6 9 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.39%) Shopify
9 6 (0.33%) Loan IQ
9 6 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.28%) Magento
10 5 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
11 4 (0.22%) Findur
11 4 (0.22%) HFM
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.22%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 366 (20.18%) Azure
2 258 (14.22%) AWS
3 220 (12.13%) Power Platform
4 96 (5.29%) GCP
5 76 (4.19%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (4.02%) SaaS
7 67 (3.69%) Microsoft 365
8 64 (3.53%) GitHub
9 56 (3.09%) Entra ID
10 48 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
11 44 (2.43%) Snowflake
12 33 (1.82%) Amazon S3
13 32 (1.76%) Serverless
14 30 (1.65%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (1.65%) dbt
14 30 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 24 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
17 21 (1.16%) Collibra
17 21 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.59%) Firewall
2 34 (1.87%) DNS
3 27 (1.49%) Network Security
3 27 (1.49%) VPN
4 24 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 22 (1.21%) DHCP
6 17 (0.94%) WAN
7 15 (0.83%) SAN
8 14 (0.77%) VLAN
9 13 (0.72%) HTTP
10 12 (0.66%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.61%) BGP
12 10 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.50%) 5G
14 8 (0.44%) 4G
14 8 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
14 8 (0.44%) OSPF
14 8 (0.44%) SSL
14 8 (0.44%) VXLAN
15 7 (0.39%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (10.92%) Power BI
2 105 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
3 98 (5.40%) SQL Server
4 76 (4.19%) Tableau
5 74 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 68 (3.75%) Metadata
7 47 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (2.15%) Data Lake
9 34 (1.87%) NoSQL
10 27 (1.49%) MongoDB
11 26 (1.43%) Big Data
12 23 (1.27%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.27%) Oracle Database
12 23 (1.27%) RDBMS
12 23 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 18 (0.99%) Delta Lake
14 17 (0.94%) Power Query
14 17 (0.94%) Star Schema
15 16 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
16 15 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 175 (9.65%) JIRA
2 73 (4.02%) Git
3 37 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.21%) Selenium
5 15 (0.83%) ERwin
6 12 (0.66%) GitLab
7 11 (0.61%) JUnit
8 10 (0.55%) Maven
9 9 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.50%) JMeter
9 9 (0.50%) Postman
9 9 (0.50%) REST Assured
10 8 (0.44%) Chocolatey
10 8 (0.44%) ER Studio
10 8 (0.44%) MLflow
10 8 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
10 8 (0.44%) Zephyr
11 7 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 871 (48.02%) Social Skills
2 716 (39.47%) Finance
3 266 (14.66%) Banking
4 155 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 92 (5.07%) Marketing
6 91 (5.02%) Front Office
7 85 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
8 83 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
9 76 (4.19%) Legal
10 57 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
11 56 (3.09%) Investment Banking
11 56 (3.09%) Retail
12 55 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
13 50 (2.76%) Telecoms
14 49 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 42 (2.32%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.60%) Back Office
17 22 (1.21%) Local Government
18 20 (1.10%) Law
18 20 (1.10%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 469 (25.85%) Analyst
2 235 (12.95%) Business Analyst
3 190 (10.47%) Senior
4 162 (8.93%) Developer
5 127 (7.00%) Architect
6 123 (6.78%) Lead
7 106 (5.84%) Data Engineer
8 101 (5.57%) Data Analyst
9 85 (4.69%) Consultant
10 71 (3.91%) Data Scientist
11 62 (3.42%) Project Manager
12 46 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
13 39 (2.15%) Senior Developer
14 31 (1.71%) Solutions Architect
14 31 (1.71%) Technical Business Analyst
15 29 (1.60%) Financial Analyst
15 29 (1.60%) Product Owner
15 29 (1.60%) Senior Manager
15 29 (1.60%) Technical Analyst
16 26 (1.43%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (5.51%) REST
2 63 (3.47%) .NET
3 49 (2.70%) Kafka
4 45 (2.48%) JSON
4 45 (2.48%) RESTful
5 42 (2.32%) XML
6 39 (2.15%) Pandas
6 39 (2.15%) SOAP
7 38 (2.09%) HTML
8 37 (2.04%) Web Services
9 34 (1.87%) CSS
10 32 (1.76%) Middleware
11 29 (1.60%) PySpark
12 27 (1.49%) scikit-learn
12 27 (1.49%) Spring
13 26 (1.43%) React
14 24 (1.32%) Spring Boot
15 23 (1.27%) AngularJS
16 22 (1.21%) NumPy
16 22 (1.21%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.10%) Analytical Mindset
2 128 (7.06%) Product Ownership
3 97 (5.35%) Onboarding
4 82 (4.52%) Data Structures
5 72 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
6 51 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
7 48 (2.65%) Cloud Native
7 48 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 42 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
9 37 (2.04%) Fixed Income
10 35 (1.93%) Algorithms
10 35 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.87%) Data Centre
12 33 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 30 (1.65%) Derivative
14 29 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
15 28 (1.54%) Equities
16 24 (1.32%) AI Agents
16 24 (1.32%) Reference Data
17 23 (1.27%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 118 (6.50%) Windows
2 88 (4.85%) Linux
3 35 (1.93%) Unix
4 18 (0.99%) Mac OS
4 18 (0.99%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.61%) Android
8 9 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.33%) Solaris
9 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.28%) AIX
11 2 (0.11%) SUSE
12 1 (0.055%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.055%) VMS
12 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 875 (48.24%) Problem-Solving
2 528 (29.11%) Agile
3 484 (26.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 348 (19.18%) Analytics
5 345 (19.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 322 (17.75%) AI
7 317 (17.48%) Decision-Making
8 267 (14.72%) Data Modelling
9 242 (13.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 235 (12.95%) Validation
11 229 (12.62%) Business Intelligence
12 216 (11.91%) DevOps
13 202 (11.14%) CI/CD
14 199 (10.97%) Migration
15 178 (9.81%) Data Analysis
16 169 (9.32%) Data Pipeline
17 164 (9.04%) User Acceptance Testing
18 163 (8.99%) Roadmaps
19 155 (8.54%) User Stories
20 154 (8.49%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 515 (28.39%) SQL
2 396 (21.83%) Python
3 114 (6.28%) Java
4 81 (4.47%) C#
5 76 (4.19%) JavaScript
6 65 (3.58%) PowerShell
7 41 (2.26%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.71%) Bash
8 31 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 28 (1.54%) C++
9 28 (1.54%) R
10 27 (1.49%) PL/SQL
11 26 (1.43%) T-SQL
12 15 (0.83%) Scala
13 11 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.55%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.55%) VBA
15 9 (0.50%) Ruby
16 8 (0.44%) C
16 8 (0.44%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 224 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 222 (12.24%) Degree
3 164 (9.04%) SC Cleared
4 69 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.98%) CISSP
6 35 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (1.82%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.49%) PMP
9 25 (1.38%) PMI Certification
10 24 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.27%) CISM
12 20 (1.10%) Azure Certification
13 15 (0.83%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (0.77%) CCNP
15 13 (0.72%) CISA
16 12 (0.66%) ACCA
17 11 (0.61%) CIMA
17 11 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (13.29%) Data Quality
2 132 (7.28%) QA
3 89 (4.91%) PMO
4 68 (3.75%) GDPR
5 47 (2.59%) SLA
6 46 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (2.37%) NIST
8 34 (1.87%) Accessibility
9 28 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
10 23 (1.27%) COBIT
10 23 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 19 (1.05%) GRC
12 16 (0.88%) IFRS
13 12 (0.66%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.61%) PCI DSS
15 7 (0.39%) Solvency II
16 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.33%) GAAP
16 6 (0.33%) GxP
System Software
1 72 (3.97%) Active Directory
2 66 (3.64%) Docker
3 12 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.50%) IAG
5 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.28%) Firmware
7 3 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 2 (0.11%) Squid
8 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.055%) RACF
9 1 (0.055%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.055%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 68 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 54 (2.98%) Terraform
3 33 (1.82%) Ansible
4 30 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (1.32%) Grafana
6 13 (0.72%) SCCM
7 11 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.50%) Kibana
10 8 (0.44%) Control-M
11 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.17%) systemd
13 2 (0.11%) Istio
13 2 (0.11%) Nessus
13 2 (0.11%) Tivoli
14 1 (0.055%) SCOM
14 1 (0.055%) SysTrack
14 1 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 286 (15.77%) Microsoft
2 157 (8.65%) Oracle
3 98 (5.40%) SAP
4 92 (5.07%) ServiceNow
5 74 (4.08%) Salesforce
6 66 (3.64%) Google
7 65 (3.58%) Databricks
8 34 (1.87%) Splunk
9 29 (1.60%) Dynatrace
10 26 (1.43%) Workday
11 25 (1.38%) Cisco
11 25 (1.38%) IBM
12 24 (1.32%) VMware
13 22 (1.21%) CyberArk
14 20 (1.10%) Adobe
14 20 (1.10%) Informatica
15 18 (0.99%) Alteryx
16 17 (0.94%) Apple
17 16 (0.88%) Tenable
18 14 (0.77%) Bloomberg