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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,887 1,578 1,373
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.39% 11.79% 8.45%
As % of the General category 15.43% 17.08% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,131 1,014 883
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £651 £650 £675
90th Percentile £756 £775 £761
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 35 24
10th Percentile £19.55 £13.77 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.74 £22.75
Median hourly rate £36.00 £34.48 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -17.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.23 £58.50 £65.02
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +10.77% +51.16% -52.22%

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 12,232 9,240 10,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.84% 69.04% 62.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,767 6,143 6,997
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £450 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £503 £538
% change year-on-year +4.48% -6.51% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 185 140
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £24.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -12.50% +3.99%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £66.20
England median hourly rate £31.90 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +26.84% -34.02% +35.37%

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 27 August 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 27 August 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 27 August 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 -10 222 £525 -4.55% 328
West London +2 80 £520 +26.06% 152
South London 0 33 £550 -12.00% 22
East London +1 12 £425 +30.77% 33
North London +1 4 £500 - 5
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 86 (4.56%) Confluence
2 45 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 40 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.43%) CMS
6 22 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 20 (1.06%) Apache
8 10 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.48%) SAS
10 8 (0.42%) JBoss
10 8 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.32%) IIS
13 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.26%) Appian
13 5 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 3 (0.16%) Camunda
Applications
1 179 (9.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (3.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.12%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.58%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.26%) CPLEX
9 4 (0.21%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.053%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 26 (1.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.79%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.69%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.53%) Finacle
7 9 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.48%) Shopify
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.37%) iTrent
10 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.26%) Magento
11 4 (0.21%) Findur
11 4 (0.21%) Loan IQ
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.21%) SAP GRC
11 4 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 381 (20.19%) Azure
2 260 (13.78%) AWS
3 229 (12.14%) Power Platform
4 99 (5.25%) GCP
5 86 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
6 77 (4.08%) SaaS
7 73 (3.87%) GitHub
8 65 (3.44%) Entra ID
9 64 (3.39%) Microsoft 365
10 60 (3.18%) Snowflake
11 44 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
12 39 (2.07%) dbt
13 38 (2.01%) Serverless
14 33 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 28 (1.48%) Amazon S3
16 28 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
17 25 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
18 21 (1.11%) PaaS
19 19 (1.01%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.54%) Firewall
2 37 (1.96%) DNS
3 32 (1.70%) TCP/IP
4 30 (1.59%) Network Security
5 28 (1.48%) VPN
6 21 (1.11%) DHCP
7 20 (1.06%) WAN
8 16 (0.85%) HTTP
9 15 (0.79%) SSL
10 14 (0.74%) BGP
10 14 (0.74%) SAN
11 12 (0.64%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.58%) 5G
12 11 (0.58%) Kerberos
12 11 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (0.58%) VLAN
13 10 (0.53%) MPLS
13 10 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.48%) 4G
15 8 (0.42%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 208 (11.02%) Power BI
2 107 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (5.35%) SQL Server
4 82 (4.35%) Tableau
5 80 (4.24%) Relational Database
6 73 (3.87%) Metadata
7 57 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (1.91%) Data Lake
9 34 (1.80%) NoSQL
10 31 (1.64%) Big Data
11 28 (1.48%) Oracle Database
12 26 (1.38%) MongoDB
13 24 (1.27%) RDBMS
14 22 (1.17%) Delta Lake
14 22 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (1.11%) Power Query
16 19 (1.01%) BigQuery
17 18 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
18 16 (0.85%) Hadoop
18 16 (0.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 189 (10.02%) JIRA
2 91 (4.82%) Git
3 51 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.64%) Selenium
5 22 (1.17%) JMeter
6 21 (1.11%) GitLab
7 16 (0.85%) Postman
8 15 (0.79%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.74%) LoadRunner
10 13 (0.69%) ERwin
11 11 (0.58%) REST Assured
12 10 (0.53%) Gatling
12 10 (0.53%) Maven
13 9 (0.48%) ER Studio
13 9 (0.48%) Gradle
13 9 (0.48%) JUnit
13 9 (0.48%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.48%) Zephyr
14 8 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 959 (50.82%) Social Skills
2 750 (39.75%) Finance
3 288 (15.26%) Banking
4 151 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 102 (5.41%) Front Office
6 97 (5.14%) Marketing
7 88 (4.66%) Organisational Skills
8 85 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
9 74 (3.92%) Legal
10 73 (3.87%) Retail
11 67 (3.55%) Influencing Skills
12 59 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 59 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (3.07%) Investment Banking
13 58 (3.07%) Telecoms
14 40 (2.12%) Financial Institution
15 36 (1.91%) Local Government
16 27 (1.43%) Back Office
17 21 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
18 20 (1.06%) Law
Job Titles
1 467 (24.75%) Analyst
2 231 (12.24%) Business Analyst
3 215 (11.39%) Senior
4 176 (9.33%) Developer
5 138 (7.31%) Architect
6 133 (7.05%) Lead
7 99 (5.25%) Data Engineer
8 97 (5.14%) Data Analyst
9 76 (4.03%) Consultant
10 62 (3.29%) Data Scientist
11 53 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
12 52 (2.76%) Project Manager
13 44 (2.33%) Senior Developer
14 34 (1.80%) Support Engineer
15 33 (1.75%) Solutions Architect
16 32 (1.70%) Senior Manager
17 31 (1.64%) Financial Analyst
18 30 (1.59%) Technical Analyst
18 30 (1.59%) Technical Business Analyst
19 28 (1.48%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (6.25%) REST
2 85 (4.50%) .NET
3 66 (3.50%) Terraform
4 58 (3.07%) Kafka
5 53 (2.81%) RESTful
6 47 (2.49%) JSON
7 45 (2.38%) XML
8 44 (2.33%) Middleware
9 42 (2.23%) SOAP
9 42 (2.23%) Web Services
10 39 (2.07%) HTML
10 39 (2.07%) PySpark
11 32 (1.70%) CSS
11 32 (1.70%) React
12 31 (1.64%) Spring
13 29 (1.54%) Pandas
14 25 (1.32%) Spring Boot
15 24 (1.27%) OAuth
16 21 (1.11%) AngularJS
16 21 (1.11%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 163 (8.64%) Analytical Mindset
2 140 (7.42%) Product Ownership
3 114 (6.04%) Onboarding
4 77 (4.08%) Data Structures
5 74 (3.92%) Cloud Native
6 66 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
7 61 (3.23%) Management Information System
8 59 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
9 44 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
10 40 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
11 35 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
12 34 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 30 (1.59%) AI Agents
13 30 (1.59%) Data Centre
13 30 (1.59%) Derivative
14 29 (1.54%) Fixed Income
15 28 (1.48%) Equities
16 26 (1.38%) Algorithms
17 25 (1.32%) Reference Data
18 24 (1.27%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 129 (6.84%) Linux
2 124 (6.57%) Windows
3 47 (2.49%) Unix
4 24 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.01%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.90%) Mac OS
8 16 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.69%) Android
10 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.32%) Solaris
12 5 (0.26%) AIX
13 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) SUSE
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.053%) OpenWrt
15 1 (0.053%) VMS
15 1 (0.053%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 973 (51.56%) Problem-Solving
2 591 (31.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 563 (29.84%) Agile
4 382 (20.24%) Continuous Improvement
5 372 (19.71%) Analytics
6 349 (18.49%) AI
7 329 (17.44%) Decision-Making
8 266 (14.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 247 (13.09%) Data Modelling
10 244 (12.93%) Business Intelligence
11 242 (12.82%) DevOps
12 240 (12.72%) Validation
13 235 (12.45%) CI/CD
14 211 (11.18%) Migration
15 190 (10.07%) User Acceptance Testing
16 183 (9.70%) Data Analysis
17 170 (9.01%) Data Pipeline
18 167 (8.85%) Roadmaps
19 165 (8.74%) User Stories
20 156 (8.27%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 538 (28.51%) SQL
2 428 (22.68%) Python
3 131 (6.94%) Java
4 101 (5.35%) C#
5 93 (4.93%) JavaScript
6 75 (3.97%) PowerShell
7 47 (2.49%) Bash
8 46 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 36 (1.91%) R
10 35 (1.85%) C++
11 30 (1.59%) PL/SQL
12 27 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 24 (1.27%) T-SQL
14 16 (0.85%) Perl
14 16 (0.85%) Scala
15 14 (0.74%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.64%) Korn
17 9 (0.48%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.48%) Go
17 9 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 256 (13.57%) Security Cleared
2 242 (12.82%) Degree
3 198 (10.49%) SC Cleared
4 72 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (1.96%) CISSP
6 34 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (1.43%) Master's Degree
7 27 (1.43%) PMP
8 26 (1.38%) CISM
8 26 (1.38%) PMI Certification
9 24 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (1.22%) Azure Certification
11 20 (1.06%) DV Cleared
12 19 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (0.95%) ACCA
13 18 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 17 (0.90%) CIMA
15 16 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.74%) CCNP
17 12 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (12.77%) Data Quality
2 150 (7.95%) QA
3 88 (4.66%) PMO
4 53 (2.81%) GDPR
5 50 (2.65%) SLA
6 47 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (2.33%) NIST
8 31 (1.64%) Accessibility
9 27 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
10 24 (1.27%) GRC
11 21 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 19 (1.01%) COBIT
13 16 (0.85%) IFRS
14 12 (0.64%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.32%) ISO 15022
16 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.32%) WCAG
17 5 (0.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 78 (4.13%) Active Directory
2 74 (3.92%) Docker
3 22 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.48%) IAG
6 6 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 2 (0.11%) Postfix
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.053%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.053%) NFS
10 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.053%) RACF
Systems Management
1 76 (4.03%) Kubernetes
2 46 (2.44%) Ansible
3 32 (1.70%) Grafana
4 29 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.79%) SCCM
6 14 (0.74%) Control-M
7 12 (0.64%) Kibana
8 11 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.37%) Puppet
9 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 5 (0.26%) Istio
11 4 (0.21%) systemd
12 3 (0.16%) Cilium
12 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 313 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 166 (8.80%) Oracle
3 103 (5.46%) SAP
4 98 (5.19%) ServiceNow
5 74 (3.92%) Databricks
6 72 (3.82%) Google
7 63 (3.34%) Salesforce
8 41 (2.17%) Splunk
9 37 (1.96%) IBM
10 33 (1.75%) Dynatrace
11 32 (1.70%) Cisco
12 29 (1.54%) VMware
13 24 (1.27%) Adobe
14 22 (1.17%) CyberArk
15 20 (1.06%) Alteryx
15 20 (1.06%) Workday
16 19 (1.01%) Informatica
17 16 (0.85%) Apple
17 16 (0.85%) Sitecore
18 15 (0.79%) Red Hat