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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,638 1,486 1,493
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.24% 11.85% 8.37%
As % of the General category 15.28% 17.54% 13.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,028 938 1,019
10th Percentile £350 £313 £320
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £717 £698
90th Percentile £750 £835 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 36 48
10th Percentile £24.03 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £32.25 £25.88 £16.95
Median hourly rate £39.00 £39.31 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% +67.26% -28.11%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.45 £65.00 £62.38
England median hourly rate £39.00 £28.15 £18.50
% change year-on-year +38.54% +52.16% -50.99%

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 10,722 8,473 11,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.49% 67.54% 63.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,982 5,726 8,041
10th Percentile £345 £340 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £813
England median daily rate £503 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.29% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 138 245
10th Percentile £18.37 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.72 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +19.30% -10.94%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.81 £43.75
90th Percentile £71.50 £65.75 £65.02
England median hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £30.16
% change year-on-year +10.91% -8.82% -10.82%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -8 237 £525 -4.55% 247
West London -1 58 £520 +30.00% 45
South London -1 34 £500 -14.24% 16
East London 0 11 £400 -11.11% 20
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 88 (5.37%) Confluence
2 32 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.53%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.04%) Apache
6 15 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.73%) CMS
8 9 (0.55%) SAS
9 5 (0.31%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.24%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.12%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.061%) Appian
13 1 (0.061%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.061%) Traefik
Applications
1 156 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (3.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
4 49 (2.99%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.61%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
10 1 (0.061%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.61%) Shopify
6 9 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.49%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.43%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.43%) Summit
9 6 (0.37%) Aladdin
9 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.31%) BASE24
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.24%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 329 (20.09%) Azure
2 228 (13.92%) AWS
3 196 (11.97%) Power Platform
4 91 (5.56%) GCP
5 87 (5.31%) SaaS
6 78 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
8 56 (3.42%) GitHub
9 42 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 41 (2.50%) Amazon S3
10 41 (2.50%) Serverless
11 36 (2.20%) Entra ID
12 35 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
13 33 (2.01%) Snowflake
14 32 (1.95%) IaaS
15 28 (1.71%) dbt
16 26 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
17 23 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 23 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
18 22 (1.34%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.56%) Firewall
2 26 (1.59%) DNS
2 26 (1.59%) Network Security
3 18 (1.10%) DHCP
3 18 (1.10%) VPN
4 15 (0.92%) SAN
4 15 (0.92%) WAN
5 11 (0.67%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.49%) Internet
6 8 (0.49%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.49%) VLAN
6 8 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.43%) BGP
7 7 (0.43%) HTTP
8 6 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (0.37%) IOS XR
8 6 (0.37%) LAN
8 6 (0.37%) NAS
8 6 (0.37%) OSPF
8 6 (0.37%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (10.68%) Power BI
2 89 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (4.33%) Tableau
4 68 (4.15%) SQL Server
5 56 (3.42%) Metadata
6 39 (2.38%) Relational Database
7 31 (1.89%) Data Lake
8 29 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (1.65%) Big Data
9 27 (1.65%) NoSQL
10 24 (1.47%) BigQuery
11 22 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
12 21 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (0.98%) Power Query
14 15 (0.92%) Star Schema
15 14 (0.85%) MongoDB
15 14 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (0.85%) RDBMS
16 13 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 176 (10.74%) JIRA
2 66 (4.03%) Git
3 24 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.40%) Selenium
5 17 (1.04%) GitLab
6 13 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.67%) MLflow
7 11 (0.67%) REST Assured
8 10 (0.61%) ERwin
8 10 (0.61%) Postman
9 8 (0.49%) Appium
9 8 (0.49%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.49%) JMeter
9 8 (0.49%) JUnit
9 8 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.43%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (0.43%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.37%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.37%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.37%) WebDriver
General
1 743 (45.36%) Social Skills
2 625 (38.16%) Finance
3 232 (14.16%) Banking
4 143 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.68%) Marketing
6 87 (5.31%) Documentation Skills
7 72 (4.40%) Legal
8 66 (4.03%) Front Office
9 62 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
10 56 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
11 48 (2.93%) Investment Banking
12 45 (2.75%) Financial Institution
12 45 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
13 43 (2.63%) Retail
14 39 (2.38%) Telecoms
15 34 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 24 (1.47%) Back Office
17 17 (1.04%) Law
18 15 (0.92%) Local Government
18 15 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 428 (26.13%) Analyst
2 233 (14.22%) Business Analyst
3 166 (10.13%) Senior
4 137 (8.36%) Developer
5 116 (7.08%) Architect
6 108 (6.59%) Lead
7 96 (5.86%) Data Engineer
8 86 (5.25%) Consultant
9 84 (5.13%) Data Analyst
10 58 (3.54%) Data Scientist
11 57 (3.48%) Project Manager
12 52 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
13 36 (2.20%) Solutions Architect
14 35 (2.14%) Senior Business Analyst
15 30 (1.83%) Financial Analyst
16 25 (1.53%) Product Manager
16 25 (1.53%) Quantitative Developer
17 24 (1.47%) Salesforce Analyst
18 23 (1.40%) Senior Developer
18 23 (1.40%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (4.88%) REST
2 51 (3.11%) .NET
3 50 (3.05%) Kafka
4 46 (2.81%) JSON
5 39 (2.38%) Pandas
6 37 (2.26%) Middleware
7 32 (1.95%) RESTful
7 32 (1.95%) scikit-learn
8 31 (1.89%) XML
9 26 (1.59%) HTML
9 26 (1.59%) NumPy
9 26 (1.59%) PySpark
9 26 (1.59%) SOAP
10 25 (1.53%) CSS
11 24 (1.47%) PyTorch
12 21 (1.28%) Node.js
12 21 (1.28%) OAuth
13 20 (1.22%) SAML
14 19 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
14 19 (1.16%) React
Miscellaneous
1 157 (9.58%) Analytical Mindset
2 100 (6.11%) Product Ownership
3 72 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
4 65 (3.97%) Data Structures
5 62 (3.79%) Onboarding
6 40 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.32%) Algorithms
7 38 (2.32%) Management Information System
8 36 (2.20%) Data Centre
8 36 (2.20%) Derivative
9 35 (2.14%) Cloud Native
9 35 (2.14%) Fixed Income
10 29 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
10 29 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 27 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.65%) Equities
12 23 (1.40%) Credit Risk
12 23 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 19 (1.16%) Security Posture
14 18 (1.10%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 81 (4.95%) Windows
2 53 (3.24%) Linux
3 26 (1.59%) Unix
4 16 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.85%) Android
6 13 (0.79%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.49%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.061%) VMS
11 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 784 (47.86%) Problem-Solving
2 477 (29.12%) Agile
3 329 (20.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 309 (18.86%) Analytics
5 274 (16.73%) Decision-Making
6 261 (15.93%) AI
7 251 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 247 (15.08%) Data Modelling
9 205 (12.52%) Business Intelligence
10 200 (12.21%) Validation
11 194 (11.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 185 (11.29%) DevOps
13 175 (10.68%) CI/CD
14 171 (10.44%) Migration
15 156 (9.52%) Data Analysis
16 152 (9.28%) Roadmaps
17 149 (9.10%) Data Governance
18 145 (8.85%) Project Management
19 130 (7.94%) Visualisation
20 129 (7.88%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 442 (26.98%) SQL
2 365 (22.28%) Python
3 95 (5.80%) Java
4 78 (4.76%) C#
5 65 (3.97%) PowerShell
6 58 (3.54%) JavaScript
7 50 (3.05%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.95%) C++
9 30 (1.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 30 (1.83%) R
10 28 (1.71%) Bash
11 21 (1.28%) PL/SQL
12 18 (1.10%) Scala
12 18 (1.10%) T-SQL
13 12 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.55%) C
14 9 (0.55%) VBA
15 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
16 6 (0.37%) COBOL
16 6 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 231 (14.10%) Security Cleared
2 206 (12.58%) Degree
3 166 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 63 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (3.17%) Master's Degree
6 42 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (2.44%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.01%) CISSP
8 33 (2.01%) PMP
9 21 (1.28%) CISM
10 20 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.10%) ISTQB
12 16 (0.98%) CISA
13 15 (0.92%) DV Cleared
14 14 (0.85%) CRISC
14 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.79%) Azure Certification
15 13 (0.79%) CCNP
16 9 (0.55%) ACCA
16 9 (0.55%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 202 (12.33%) Data Quality
2 144 (8.79%) QA
3 80 (4.88%) GDPR
4 69 (4.21%) PMO
5 46 (2.81%) NIST
6 42 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.89%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.77%) SLA
9 27 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 25 (1.53%) PCI DSS
11 23 (1.40%) GRC
11 23 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (1.28%) COBIT
13 11 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.67%) IFRS
13 11 (0.67%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.61%) MiFID
15 9 (0.55%) PSD2
15 9 (0.55%) Solvency II
16 7 (0.43%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 61 (3.72%) Docker
2 46 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.31%) Firmware
5 4 (0.24%) IAG
5 4 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.18%) Squid
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.12%) HDFS
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Postfix
7 2 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.061%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.061%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.061%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.061%) RACF
8 1 (0.061%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.061%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 64 (3.91%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.69%) Terraform
3 23 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.22%) Grafana
5 19 (1.16%) Ansible
6 12 (0.73%) SCCM
7 10 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.49%) Kibana
8 8 (0.49%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.43%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.18%) SCOM
12 2 (0.12%) Control-M
12 2 (0.12%) Istio
12 2 (0.12%) Nessus
12 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.061%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.061%) Suricata
13 1 (0.061%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 260 (15.87%) Microsoft
2 107 (6.53%) Oracle
3 91 (5.56%) SAP
4 87 (5.31%) Salesforce
5 75 (4.58%) Google
6 68 (4.15%) ServiceNow
7 67 (4.09%) Databricks
8 25 (1.53%) Adobe
9 24 (1.47%) Workday
10 23 (1.40%) Bloomberg
11 22 (1.34%) Cisco
11 22 (1.34%) Splunk
12 19 (1.16%) Informatica
13 18 (1.10%) Murex
13 18 (1.10%) VMware
14 17 (1.04%) Palo Alto
15 15 (0.92%) Dynatrace
16 13 (0.79%) Atlassian
16 13 (0.79%) IBM
16 13 (0.79%) OpenAI