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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,631 1,477 1,428
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.68% 12.06% 8.08%
As % of the General category 14.46% 17.76% 12.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,006 934 985
10th Percentile £350 £318 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £706 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 35 44
10th Percentile £19.16 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.59 £26.86 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £40.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +72.34% -41.61%
75th Percentile £51.25 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.15 £67.50 £62.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £32.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.67% -55.54%

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 11,279 8,318 11,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.01% 67.94% 62.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,250 5,545 7,914
10th Percentile £350 £338 £331
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £519 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -1.23% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 150 240
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.95
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £30.14
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +12.81% +0.47%
75th Percentile £45.22 £50.75 £47.81
90th Percentile £67.88 £65.25 £66.20
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.85 £31.50
% change year-on-year +16.70% -11.59% +2.78%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -9 212 £525 -4.55% 233
West London +3 74 £520 +30.00% 33
South London +1 32 £488 -22.00% 12
East London -4 11 £400 -7.03% 27
North London - 1 - - 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 75 (4.60%) Confluence
2 30 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.35%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.04%) Apache
6 14 (0.86%) CMS
7 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.37%) SAS
9 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.25%) IIS
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.18%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
13 1 (0.061%) Appian
13 1 (0.061%) nginx
13 1 (0.061%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.061%) Traefik
13 1 (0.061%) WebLogic
Applications
1 155 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (2.58%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.61%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.061%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.67%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.61%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.43%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.37%) Finacle
8 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.37%) Shopify
8 6 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
8 6 (0.37%) Summit
9 5 (0.31%) Magento
10 4 (0.25%) Findur
10 4 (0.25%) HFM
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 329 (20.17%) Azure
2 225 (13.80%) AWS
3 205 (12.57%) Power Platform
4 81 (4.97%) GCP
5 79 (4.84%) SaaS
6 67 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (3.62%) GitHub
7 59 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (2.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 36 (2.21%) Entra ID
10 35 (2.15%) Snowflake
11 34 (2.08%) Amazon S3
12 32 (1.96%) Serverless
13 30 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
14 28 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
15 25 (1.53%) dbt
15 25 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (1.47%) PaaS
17 20 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 20 (1.23%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.45%) Firewall
2 24 (1.47%) DNS
3 21 (1.29%) Network Security
3 21 (1.29%) VPN
4 18 (1.10%) DHCP
4 18 (1.10%) WAN
5 15 (0.92%) SD-WAN
5 15 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.80%) SAN
7 11 (0.67%) BGP
8 10 (0.61%) VLAN
9 9 (0.55%) OSPF
10 8 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
10 8 (0.49%) HTTP
10 8 (0.49%) VXLAN
10 8 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.43%) Internet
11 7 (0.43%) MPLS
12 6 (0.37%) LAN
12 6 (0.37%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 182 (11.16%) Power BI
2 88 (5.40%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (4.84%) SQL Server
3 79 (4.84%) Tableau
4 56 (3.43%) Relational Database
5 53 (3.25%) Metadata
6 37 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (2.21%) Data Lake
8 29 (1.78%) NoSQL
9 26 (1.59%) Big Data
10 22 (1.35%) BigQuery
10 22 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (1.29%) MongoDB
11 21 (1.29%) Power Query
12 19 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
13 18 (1.10%) RDBMS
14 16 (0.98%) Oracle Database
15 15 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.92%) Star Schema
16 13 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 161 (9.87%) JIRA
2 62 (3.80%) Git
3 23 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.35%) Selenium
5 11 (0.67%) Cucumber
5 11 (0.67%) Cypress.io
5 11 (0.67%) MLflow
5 11 (0.67%) Postman
5 11 (0.67%) REST Assured
6 10 (0.61%) ERwin
6 10 (0.61%) GitLab
7 8 (0.49%) JUnit
7 8 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
8 7 (0.43%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.37%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.37%) Chocolatey
9 6 (0.37%) JMeter
9 6 (0.37%) WebDriver
10 5 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 738 (45.25%) Social Skills
2 630 (38.63%) Finance
3 236 (14.47%) Banking
4 134 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 92 (5.64%) Marketing
6 78 (4.78%) Documentation Skills
6 78 (4.78%) Legal
7 71 (4.35%) Front Office
8 66 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
9 58 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
10 54 (3.31%) Investment Banking
11 46 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
12 45 (2.76%) Telecoms
13 44 (2.70%) Retail
14 42 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 39 (2.39%) Financial Institution
16 21 (1.29%) Back Office
17 16 (0.98%) Law
17 16 (0.98%) Local Government
17 16 (0.98%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 435 (26.67%) Analyst
2 219 (13.43%) Business Analyst
3 155 (9.50%) Senior
4 142 (8.71%) Developer
5 113 (6.93%) Lead
6 105 (6.44%) Architect
7 99 (6.07%) Data Analyst
8 95 (5.82%) Data Engineer
9 91 (5.58%) Consultant
10 58 (3.56%) Data Scientist
11 46 (2.82%) Project Manager
12 41 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
14 31 (1.90%) Senior Business Analyst
15 30 (1.84%) Financial Analyst
15 30 (1.84%) Senior Developer
16 22 (1.35%) Salesforce Analyst
16 22 (1.35%) Senior Manager
16 22 (1.35%) Technical Analyst
16 22 (1.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (4.66%) REST
2 58 (3.56%) .NET
3 45 (2.76%) Kafka
4 38 (2.33%) Pandas
5 35 (2.15%) JSON
6 34 (2.08%) XML
7 33 (2.02%) Middleware
8 32 (1.96%) RESTful
9 30 (1.84%) HTML
10 29 (1.78%) SOAP
11 28 (1.72%) CSS
12 26 (1.59%) scikit-learn
13 25 (1.53%) PySpark
14 24 (1.47%) Web Services
15 21 (1.29%) NumPy
15 21 (1.29%) React
16 20 (1.23%) PyTorch
16 20 (1.23%) SAML
17 19 (1.16%) OAuth
18 18 (1.10%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 151 (9.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 99 (6.07%) Product Ownership
3 63 (3.86%) Onboarding
4 62 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 58 (3.56%) Data Structures
6 45 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 40 (2.45%) Cloud Native
7 40 (2.45%) Distributed Systems
8 37 (2.27%) Algorithms
8 37 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 33 (2.02%) Data Centre
9 33 (2.02%) Fixed Income
9 33 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 31 (1.90%) Derivative
11 30 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
12 28 (1.72%) Equities
13 24 (1.47%) Virtual Team
14 22 (1.35%) Credit Risk
15 19 (1.16%) Security Posture
16 18 (1.10%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 90 (5.52%) Windows
2 61 (3.74%) Linux
3 31 (1.90%) Unix
4 14 (0.86%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.61%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.61%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.55%) Android
8 5 (0.31%) Solaris
9 4 (0.25%) AIX
9 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.061%) SUSE
10 1 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 775 (47.52%) Problem-Solving
2 430 (26.36%) Agile
3 366 (22.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 300 (18.39%) Analytics
5 281 (17.23%) AI
5 281 (17.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 279 (17.11%) Decision-Making
7 243 (14.90%) Data Modelling
8 202 (12.39%) Validation
9 200 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 199 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
11 177 (10.85%) Data Analysis
11 177 (10.85%) DevOps
12 170 (10.42%) Migration
13 165 (10.12%) CI/CD
14 142 (8.71%) User Acceptance Testing
15 137 (8.40%) Data Pipeline
16 136 (8.34%) User Stories
17 135 (8.28%) Visualisation
18 134 (8.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 462 (28.33%) SQL
2 374 (22.93%) Python
3 97 (5.95%) Java
4 90 (5.52%) C#
5 54 (3.31%) JavaScript
6 52 (3.19%) PowerShell
7 44 (2.70%) TypeScript
8 35 (2.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 31 (1.90%) C++
10 30 (1.84%) R
11 26 (1.59%) PL/SQL
12 21 (1.29%) Bash
12 21 (1.29%) T-SQL
13 20 (1.23%) Scala
14 9 (0.55%) C
15 8 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.49%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.49%) VBA
16 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
17 5 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 196 (12.02%) Degree
2 194 (11.89%) Security Cleared
3 134 (8.22%) SC Cleared
4 59 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (2.39%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.15%) CISSP
8 28 (1.72%) PMP
9 27 (1.66%) PMI Certification
10 24 (1.47%) CISM
11 20 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.98%) CISA
13 15 (0.92%) Azure Certification
13 15 (0.92%) CRISC
14 14 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.80%) ACCA
15 13 (0.80%) DV Cleared
15 13 (0.80%) ISTQB
15 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
16 12 (0.74%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (12.94%) Data Quality
2 122 (7.48%) QA
3 76 (4.66%) PMO
4 75 (4.60%) GDPR
5 50 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (3.00%) NIST
7 38 (2.33%) SLA
8 27 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
9 26 (1.59%) COBIT
10 25 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (1.47%) Accessibility
12 22 (1.35%) GRC
13 20 (1.23%) PCI DSS
14 17 (1.04%) IFRS
15 14 (0.86%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.49%) MiFID
16 8 (0.49%) Solvency II
17 7 (0.43%) GAAP
18 6 (0.37%) NCSC
18 6 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 54 (3.31%) Docker
2 50 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.25%) Firmware
7 3 (0.18%) IAG
7 3 (0.18%) Postfix
8 2 (0.12%) NFS
8 2 (0.12%) Squid
8 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.061%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.061%) RACF
9 1 (0.061%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.061%) vSphere
9 1 (0.061%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 52 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 42 (2.58%) Terraform
3 22 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.23%) Ansible
5 19 (1.16%) Grafana
6 12 (0.74%) SCCM
7 11 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.49%) Kibana
9 7 (0.43%) Prometheus
10 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
11 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.18%) Control-M
12 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.12%) Istio
13 2 (0.12%) Nessus
13 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 1 (0.061%) HAProxy
14 1 (0.061%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.061%) QRadar
14 1 (0.061%) vMotion
Vendors
1 247 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 132 (8.09%) Oracle
3 94 (5.76%) SAP
4 86 (5.27%) Salesforce
5 70 (4.29%) Databricks
5 70 (4.29%) ServiceNow
6 63 (3.86%) Google
7 23 (1.41%) Workday
8 20 (1.23%) Informatica
9 19 (1.16%) Adobe
9 19 (1.16%) Cisco
9 19 (1.16%) Dynatrace
9 19 (1.16%) Splunk
10 17 (1.04%) IBM
11 16 (0.98%) Bloomberg
12 15 (0.92%) Murex
12 15 (0.92%) VMware
13 14 (0.86%) Tenable
14 13 (0.80%) Alteryx
15 11 (0.67%) Palo Alto