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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,482 1,434 1,489
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.44% 10.18% 8.21%
As % of the General category 15.91% 15.71% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 913 862 1,002
10th Percentile £315 £315 £313
25th Percentile £404 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £799 £801
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 26 35
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.38 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.83 £23.82 £21.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.97 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.02% -18.51% +43.82%
75th Percentile £47.00 £54.88 £52.88
90th Percentile £56.20 £80.75 £63.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.31 £25.81
% change year-on-year +33.02% +1.95% -24.09%

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 9,315 9,126 11,708
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 65.65% 64.76% 64.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,061 5,797 8,376
10th Percentile £350 £325 £341
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £824 £800
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.45% -2.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 111 176
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.50 £16.80
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.99 £19.99
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £32.11
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +9.02% +14.66%
75th Percentile £45.38 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.40 £75.63
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year -21.67% -7.18% +25.71%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 10 January 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 -4 227 £500 -9.09% 122
West London -14 21 £500 +33.33% 32
South London -10 20 £513 -12.09% 23
East London +5 8 £394 -39.42% 20
North London 0 1 - - 3
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 76 (5.13%) Confluence
2 39 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.94%) CMS
7 7 (0.47%) Apache
8 4 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.20%) SAS
10 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.13%) Camunda
10 2 (0.13%) IIS
10 2 (0.13%) Luigi
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.067%) Appian
11 1 (0.067%) GeoServer
Applications
1 159 (10.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (2.56%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.40%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.40%) Trello
8 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.13%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.067%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.067%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.067%) Revit
Business Applications
1 18 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.88%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (0.61%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
7 8 (0.54%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.40%) Endur
9 6 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
9 6 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
10 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.34%) Shopify
10 5 (0.34%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.34%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 251 (16.94%) Azure
2 188 (12.69%) AWS
3 173 (11.67%) Power Platform
4 72 (4.86%) SaaS
5 71 (4.79%) GCP
6 49 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
6 49 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (2.56%) Snowflake
8 36 (2.43%) IaaS
9 35 (2.36%) Amazon S3
9 35 (2.36%) Entra ID
9 35 (2.36%) GitHub
10 32 (2.16%) Serverless
11 27 (1.82%) dbt
12 25 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
13 23 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
14 17 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
14 17 (1.15%) PowerApps
15 16 (1.08%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.09%) Network Security
2 30 (2.02%) Firewall
3 25 (1.69%) DNS
4 16 (1.08%) VPN
5 13 (0.88%) WAN
6 11 (0.74%) LAN
7 10 (0.67%) HTTP
8 9 (0.61%) DHCP
8 9 (0.61%) SSL
8 9 (0.61%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.47%) Internet
9 7 (0.47%) SD-WAN
9 7 (0.47%) SMS
9 7 (0.47%) VoIP
10 6 (0.40%) VLAN
11 5 (0.34%) CTI
11 5 (0.34%) DMZ
12 4 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.20%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (10.93%) Power BI
2 78 (5.26%) Tableau
3 60 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (3.04%) SQL Server
5 40 (2.70%) Metadata
6 37 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 28 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.69%) Big Data
9 24 (1.62%) NoSQL
10 21 (1.42%) DB2
10 21 (1.42%) MongoDB
11 18 (1.21%) Data Lake
11 18 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
11 18 (1.21%) Snowflake Schema
12 15 (1.01%) BigQuery
12 15 (1.01%) Hadoop
12 15 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (0.94%) Star Schema
14 13 (0.88%) Looker
14 13 (0.88%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 142 (9.58%) JIRA
2 55 (3.71%) Git
3 19 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.21%) GitLab
5 14 (0.94%) JUnit
6 11 (0.74%) Selenium
7 7 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.40%) Appium
8 6 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.34%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.34%) Burp Suite
9 5 (0.34%) JMeter
9 5 (0.34%) Metasploit
9 5 (0.34%) Postman
9 5 (0.34%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 4 (0.27%) Browser DevTools
10 4 (0.27%) sqlmap
10 4 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.20%) MLflow
11 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 777 (52.43%) Social Skills
2 525 (35.43%) Finance
3 203 (13.70%) Banking
4 124 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 95 (6.41%) Marketing
6 68 (4.59%) Legal
7 65 (4.39%) Investment Banking
8 55 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
9 53 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
10 49 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
11 45 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
12 43 (2.90%) Front Office
13 41 (2.77%) Retail
14 36 (2.43%) Back Office
14 36 (2.43%) Financial Institution
15 34 (2.29%) Telecoms
16 30 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 20 (1.35%) Publishing
18 18 (1.21%) Law
19 16 (1.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 398 (26.86%) Analyst
2 198 (13.36%) Business Analyst
3 173 (11.67%) Senior
4 155 (10.46%) Developer
5 110 (7.42%) Architect
6 95 (6.41%) Lead
7 82 (5.53%) Data Analyst
8 70 (4.72%) Consultant
9 53 (3.58%) Data Engineer
10 52 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
11 49 (3.31%) Project Manager
12 37 (2.50%) Senior Developer
13 33 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
14 30 (2.02%) Data Scientist
14 30 (2.02%) Senior Business Analyst
14 30 (2.02%) Technical Analyst
15 28 (1.89%) Java Developer
16 26 (1.75%) Python Developer
17 25 (1.69%) Product Manager
18 24 (1.62%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.60%) REST
2 46 (3.10%) Kafka
3 44 (2.97%) JSON
4 32 (2.16%) .NET
4 32 (2.16%) HTML
5 27 (1.82%) RESTful
6 26 (1.75%) Spring
7 25 (1.69%) CSS
7 25 (1.69%) Middleware
7 25 (1.69%) XML
8 24 (1.62%) Pandas
9 23 (1.55%) React
9 23 (1.55%) SOAP
10 18 (1.21%) Node.js
10 18 (1.21%) scikit-learn
11 17 (1.15%) NumPy
12 16 (1.08%) TensorFlow
13 15 (1.01%) AngularJS
13 15 (1.01%) OAuth
13 15 (1.01%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 158 (10.66%) Analytical Mindset
2 69 (4.66%) Product Ownership
3 63 (4.25%) Management Information System
4 60 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
5 50 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 48 (3.24%) Data Structures
7 34 (2.29%) Algorithms
8 31 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (2.02%) PKI
10 28 (1.89%) Derivative
10 28 (1.89%) Equities
11 27 (1.82%) Fixed Income
12 26 (1.75%) Cloud Native
13 25 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
14 23 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
15 22 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 22 (1.48%) Security Posture
16 20 (1.35%) Data Centre
17 19 (1.28%) PMI
18 17 (1.15%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 70 (4.72%) Linux
2 68 (4.59%) Windows
3 22 (1.48%) Unix
4 7 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.47%) Mac OS
4 7 (0.47%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.40%) Android
6 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.34%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.27%) Solaris
7 4 (0.27%) VMS
8 2 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.067%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.067%) VME
9 1 (0.067%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 795 (53.64%) Problem-Solving
2 453 (30.57%) Agile
3 289 (19.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 288 (19.43%) Analytics
5 261 (17.61%) Decision-Making
6 206 (13.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 196 (13.23%) Business Intelligence
8 188 (12.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 164 (11.07%) Data Modelling
10 162 (10.93%) Data Analysis
11 153 (10.32%) AI
12 143 (9.65%) Project Management
12 143 (9.65%) Validation
13 136 (9.18%) Roadmaps
14 132 (8.91%) DevOps
15 131 (8.84%) CI/CD
16 130 (8.77%) Visualisation
17 129 (8.70%) Actionable Insight
18 125 (8.43%) Migration
19 120 (8.10%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 362 (24.43%) SQL
2 308 (20.78%) Python
3 80 (5.40%) Java
4 75 (5.06%) PowerShell
5 73 (4.93%) JavaScript
6 51 (3.44%) C#
7 35 (2.36%) Bash
8 30 (2.02%) TypeScript
9 26 (1.75%) C++
10 23 (1.55%) R
11 18 (1.21%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.01%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.61%) Go
16 8 (0.54%) Korn
16 8 (0.54%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.47%) Scala
17 7 (0.47%) VBA
18 6 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 231 (15.59%) Security Cleared
2 227 (15.32%) Degree
3 171 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 73 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (3.31%) Master's Degree
6 46 (3.10%) PMI Certification
7 30 (2.02%) PMP
8 25 (1.69%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.35%) CISSP
10 16 (1.08%) CBAP
11 15 (1.01%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.88%) CIMA
13 12 (0.81%) ACCA
13 12 (0.81%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
14 11 (0.74%) CISM
14 11 (0.74%) OSCP
15 9 (0.61%) CCNP
15 9 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (9.45%) Data Quality
2 114 (7.69%) QA
3 61 (4.12%) GDPR
4 45 (3.04%) Accessibility
5 36 (2.43%) PMO
6 24 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.42%) NIST
8 16 (1.08%) Actionable Recommendations
9 14 (0.94%) GRC
10 13 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (0.81%) WCAG
12 11 (0.74%) COBIT
12 11 (0.74%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 10 (0.67%) EMIR
13 10 (0.67%) MiFID
13 10 (0.67%) SLA
14 7 (0.47%) ISO 20022
14 7 (0.47%) PSD2
15 6 (0.40%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 57 (3.85%) Docker
2 46 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.54%) zsh
5 7 (0.47%) HDFS
6 3 (0.20%) ProxySG
6 3 (0.20%) Squid
6 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.20%) vSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Snort
8 1 (0.067%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.067%) Firmware
8 1 (0.067%) IAG
8 1 (0.067%) KVM
8 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 63 (4.25%) Kubernetes
2 39 (2.63%) Terraform
3 36 (2.43%) Ansible
4 16 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.94%) SCCM
6 9 (0.61%) Grafana
7 7 (0.47%) Nessus
7 7 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.34%) Nmap
9 5 (0.34%) SCOM
10 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.13%) Argo
11 2 (0.13%) BladeLogic
11 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.13%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.13%) Suricata
11 2 (0.13%) vRealize
11 2 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 248 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.40%) Oracle
3 75 (5.06%) SAP
4 67 (4.52%) Salesforce
5 61 (4.12%) Google
6 52 (3.51%) Databricks
7 49 (3.31%) ServiceNow
8 27 (1.82%) Splunk
9 24 (1.62%) Cisco
10 20 (1.35%) Bloomberg
10 20 (1.35%) VMware
11 17 (1.15%) Adobe
12 15 (1.01%) MuleSoft
12 15 (1.01%) Palo Alto
13 14 (0.94%) Remedy
14 13 (0.88%) Sybase
15 12 (0.81%) Juniper
16 11 (0.74%) Alteryx
16 11 (0.74%) IBM
16 11 (0.74%) Murex