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

6 months to
31 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 1,900 1,576 1,370
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.45% 11.70% 8.44%
As % of the General category 15.51% 16.99% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,016 874
10th Percentile £350 £313 £319
25th Percentile £425 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £654 £650 £669
90th Percentile £758 £775 £760
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 34 24
10th Percentile £19.72 £18.15 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.59 £22.75
Median hourly rate £36.00 £34.74 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -17.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.30 £58.88 £65.02
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £21.75
% change year-on-year +10.77% +49.43% -51.67%

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 12,250 9,277 10,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.90% 68.89% 62.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,788 6,161 6,924
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £450 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £501 £538
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.88% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 186 137
10th Percentile £18.50 £16.17 £18.08
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.66 £24.18
Median hourly rate £28.40 £32.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% -11.64% +14.35%
75th Percentile £43.75 £50.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £64.50 £64.25 £65.42
England median hourly rate £31.56 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +25.47% -34.02% +38.62%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -11 220 £550 - 175
West London +4 80 £520 +26.06% 147
South London 0 33 £550 -12.00% 16
East London +2 13 £463 +42.31% 30
North London +3 4 £500 - 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 85 (4.47%) Confluence
2 47 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 39 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.42%) CMS
6 22 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
7 18 (0.95%) Apache
8 10 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.47%) 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
1 180 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.11%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.58%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.37%) 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 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.79%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.68%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.53%) Finacle
6 10 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.47%) Shopify
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.37%) iTrent
10 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.26%) Magento
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.26%) SAP GRC
10 5 (0.26%) Summit
11 4 (0.21%) Findur
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 382 (20.11%) Azure
2 268 (14.11%) AWS
3 236 (12.42%) Power Platform
4 99 (5.21%) GCP
5 84 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
6 78 (4.11%) SaaS
7 75 (3.95%) GitHub
8 70 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
9 67 (3.53%) Entra ID
10 61 (3.21%) Snowflake
11 45 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
12 40 (2.11%) Serverless
13 39 (2.05%) dbt
14 34 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
16 29 (1.53%) Amazon S3
17 28 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 25 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
19 21 (1.11%) PaaS
20 19 (1.00%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.47%) Firewall
2 37 (1.95%) DNS
3 32 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 31 (1.63%) Network Security
5 28 (1.47%) VPN
6 21 (1.11%) DHCP
7 20 (1.05%) WAN
8 16 (0.84%) HTTP
9 15 (0.79%) SSL
10 14 (0.74%) BGP
10 14 (0.74%) SAN
11 12 (0.63%) 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 (0.47%) 4G
15 8 (0.42%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (11.26%) Power BI
2 107 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
3 99 (5.21%) SQL Server
4 82 (4.32%) Tableau
5 79 (4.16%) Relational Database
6 73 (3.84%) Metadata
7 56 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
8 35 (1.84%) Data Lake
9 33 (1.74%) NoSQL
10 30 (1.58%) Big Data
11 28 (1.47%) Oracle Database
12 25 (1.32%) MongoDB
13 24 (1.26%) Delta Lake
14 23 (1.21%) Power Query
14 23 (1.21%) RDBMS
15 22 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 19 (1.00%) BigQuery
16 19 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
17 17 (0.89%) Star Schema
18 15 (0.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 186 (9.79%) JIRA
2 91 (4.79%) Git
3 51 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.58%) Selenium
5 22 (1.16%) JMeter
6 21 (1.11%) GitLab
7 16 (0.84%) Postman
8 15 (0.79%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.74%) LoadRunner
10 13 (0.68%) ERwin
11 10 (0.53%) Gatling
11 10 (0.53%) Maven
11 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
12 9 (0.47%) ER Studio
12 9 (0.47%) Gradle
12 9 (0.47%) JUnit
12 9 (0.47%) SonarQube
13 8 (0.42%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 971 (51.11%) Social Skills
2 753 (39.63%) Finance
3 284 (14.95%) Banking
4 155 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 101 (5.32%) Front Office
6 97 (5.11%) Marketing
7 89 (4.68%) Organisational Skills
8 83 (4.37%) Documentation Skills
9 75 (3.95%) Legal
10 74 (3.89%) Retail
11 69 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
12 60 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 58 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (3.05%) Telecoms
14 57 (3.00%) Investment Banking
15 40 (2.11%) Financial Institution
15 40 (2.11%) Local Government
16 28 (1.47%) Back Office
17 20 (1.05%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 476 (25.05%) Analyst
2 229 (12.05%) Business Analyst
3 219 (11.53%) Senior
4 174 (9.16%) Developer
5 136 (7.16%) Architect
6 133 (7.00%) Lead
7 102 (5.37%) Data Engineer
8 98 (5.16%) Data Analyst
9 77 (4.05%) Consultant
10 62 (3.26%) Data Scientist
11 54 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
12 53 (2.79%) Project Manager
13 46 (2.42%) Senior Developer
14 35 (1.84%) Support Engineer
15 34 (1.79%) Solutions Architect
16 32 (1.68%) Senior Manager
17 31 (1.63%) Financial Analyst
17 31 (1.63%) Technical Analyst
18 30 (1.58%) Technical Business Analyst
19 27 (1.42%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (6.05%) REST
2 84 (4.42%) .NET
3 67 (3.53%) Terraform
4 56 (2.95%) Kafka
5 53 (2.79%) RESTful
6 46 (2.42%) JSON
7 45 (2.37%) Middleware
8 44 (2.32%) XML
9 42 (2.21%) Web Services
10 41 (2.16%) PySpark
11 40 (2.11%) SOAP
12 39 (2.05%) HTML
13 32 (1.68%) CSS
13 32 (1.68%) React
14 30 (1.58%) Spring
15 29 (1.53%) Pandas
16 25 (1.32%) Spring Boot
17 24 (1.26%) OAuth
18 21 (1.11%) AngularJS
19 20 (1.05%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 164 (8.63%) Analytical Mindset
2 140 (7.37%) Product Ownership
3 115 (6.05%) Onboarding
4 78 (4.11%) Data Structures
5 74 (3.89%) Cloud Native
6 64 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
7 62 (3.26%) Management Information System
8 59 (3.11%) Distributed Systems
9 46 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
10 40 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 33 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
13 31 (1.63%) AI Agents
14 30 (1.58%) Data Centre
14 30 (1.58%) Derivative
15 29 (1.53%) Fixed Income
16 28 (1.47%) Equities
17 26 (1.37%) Algorithms
18 25 (1.32%) Reference Data
19 23 (1.21%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 128 (6.74%) Linux
2 123 (6.47%) Windows
3 47 (2.47%) Unix
4 24 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.05%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.89%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.74%) Android
9 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) Solaris
11 5 (0.26%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) SUSE
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.053%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.053%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 982 (51.68%) Problem-Solving
2 601 (31.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 566 (29.79%) Agile
4 386 (20.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 375 (19.74%) Analytics
6 351 (18.47%) AI
7 342 (18.00%) Decision-Making
8 272 (14.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 249 (13.11%) Business Intelligence
10 246 (12.95%) Data Modelling
11 242 (12.74%) Validation
12 239 (12.58%) DevOps
13 235 (12.37%) CI/CD
14 215 (11.32%) Migration
15 189 (9.95%) User Acceptance Testing
16 184 (9.68%) Data Analysis
17 170 (8.95%) Data Pipeline
18 169 (8.89%) Roadmaps
19 165 (8.68%) User Stories
20 157 (8.26%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 541 (28.47%) SQL
2 432 (22.74%) Python
3 130 (6.84%) Java
4 99 (5.21%) C#
5 94 (4.95%) JavaScript
6 76 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 47 (2.47%) Bash
8 46 (2.42%) TypeScript
9 35 (1.84%) C++
9 35 (1.84%) R
10 29 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 29 (1.53%) PL/SQL
11 24 (1.26%) T-SQL
12 16 (0.84%) Perl
12 16 (0.84%) Scala
13 15 (0.79%) Shell Script
14 13 (0.68%) Korn
15 9 (0.47%) Go
15 9 (0.47%) Ruby
16 8 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 264 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 240 (12.63%) Degree
3 207 (10.89%) SC Cleared
4 71 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (2.00%) CISSP
6 35 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 27 (1.42%) PMP
8 26 (1.37%) PMI Certification
9 25 (1.32%) CISM
10 24 (1.26%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (1.05%) DV Cleared
12 20 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (0.95%) ACCA
14 17 (0.89%) CIMA
14 17 (0.89%) ISTQB
14 17 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.68%) CCNP
15 13 (0.68%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 243 (12.79%) Data Quality
2 150 (7.89%) QA
3 87 (4.58%) PMO
4 54 (2.84%) GDPR
5 51 (2.68%) SLA
6 46 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 42 (2.21%) NIST
8 31 (1.63%) Accessibility
9 27 (1.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 27 (1.42%) GRC
10 20 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 19 (1.00%) COBIT
12 16 (0.84%) IFRS
13 12 (0.63%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.32%) ISO 15022
15 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.32%) WCAG
16 5 (0.26%) GAAP
System Software
1 80 (4.21%) Active Directory
2 75 (3.95%) Docker
3 22 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.47%) 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 78 (4.11%) Kubernetes
2 46 (2.42%) Ansible
3 32 (1.68%) Grafana
4 29 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.79%) SCCM
6 14 (0.74%) Control-M
7 12 (0.63%) 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 Fortify
10 5 (0.26%) Istio
11 4 (0.21%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.21%) systemd
12 3 (0.16%) Cilium
12 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.11%) Nessus
13 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 322 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 166 (8.74%) Oracle
3 103 (5.42%) SAP
4 93 (4.89%) ServiceNow
5 76 (4.00%) Databricks
6 72 (3.79%) Google
7 63 (3.32%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.47%) Splunk
9 35 (1.84%) IBM
10 32 (1.68%) Cisco
10 32 (1.68%) Dynatrace
11 29 (1.53%) VMware
12 24 (1.26%) Adobe
13 22 (1.16%) CyberArk
14 20 (1.05%) Alteryx
14 20 (1.05%) Workday
15 19 (1.00%) Informatica
16 16 (0.84%) Apple
16 16 (0.84%) Sitecore
17 15 (0.79%) Red Hat