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 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,457 1,430 1,717
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.89% 9.00% 8.31%
As % of the General category 15.93% 14.38% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 893 861 1,182
10th Percentile £313 £320 £325
25th Percentile £405 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £648 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
England median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 26 32
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £21.38
25th Percentile £25.01 £24.81 £35.25
Median hourly rate £34.48 £34.04 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.31% -31.93% +20.48%
75th Percentile £53.75 £52.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.64 £68.39
England median hourly rate £32.98 £25.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year +29.33% -32.89% -5.00%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,145 9,947 13,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.36% 62.60% 64.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,996 6,371 9,736
10th Percentile £329 £330 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £810
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 115 165
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.70 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.33 £26.34 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.75 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.01% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £48.00 £54.38 £55.00
90th Percentile £70.20 £73.50 £73.29
England median hourly rate £24.61 £33.00 £29.86
% change year-on-year -25.42% +10.52% +19.44%

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 23 October 2025.

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 23 October 2025.

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 23 October 2025. 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 +2 240 £539 -6.30% 556
West London +2 27 £425 +0.71% 90
South London -2 22 £650 +16.33% 47
East London 0 13 £325 -26.14% 48
North London -2 1 - - 13
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 61 (4.19%) Confluence
2 37 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.62%) Apache
6 9 (0.62%) CMS
7 6 (0.41%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.34%) Anypoint
9 3 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.14%) Camunda
10 2 (0.14%) IIS
10 2 (0.14%) Luigi
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.069%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.069%) CICS
11 1 (0.069%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.069%) SAP Portal
11 1 (0.069%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.069%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 126 (8.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 30 (2.06%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.96%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.41%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.41%) Trello
8 5 (0.34%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle Smart View
10 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
11 2 (0.14%) Notion
11 2 (0.14%) Revit
12 1 (0.069%) GNU Octave
12 1 (0.069%) Navisworks
12 1 (0.069%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 26 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.82%) Endur
3 10 (0.69%) SAP HR
4 9 (0.62%) FLEXCUBE
4 9 (0.62%) Oracle BPM
4 9 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
8 5 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.34%) SAP MDG
8 5 (0.34%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle Assets
9 4 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.27%) SAP SD
10 3 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
10 3 (0.21%) ION MarketView
Cloud Services
1 225 (15.44%) Azure
2 205 (14.07%) AWS
3 155 (10.64%) Power Platform
4 76 (5.22%) GCP
5 50 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
6 49 (3.36%) SaaS
7 46 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (2.61%) GitHub
9 35 (2.40%) Entra ID
10 28 (1.92%) Snowflake
11 26 (1.78%) Amazon S3
11 26 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
12 24 (1.65%) Serverless
13 23 (1.58%) dbt
14 18 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
14 18 (1.24%) PowerApps
15 17 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (0.89%) Collibra
17 12 (0.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.81%) Firewall
2 30 (2.06%) DNS
3 29 (1.99%) TCP/IP
4 26 (1.78%) Network Security
5 20 (1.37%) VPN
6 18 (1.24%) LAN
7 17 (1.17%) WAN
8 14 (0.96%) HTTP
9 13 (0.89%) Internet
10 10 (0.69%) DHCP
10 10 (0.69%) SSL
10 10 (0.69%) VLAN
11 7 (0.48%) SD-WAN
11 7 (0.48%) SMTP
11 7 (0.48%) SSH
11 7 (0.48%) Wireless
12 5 (0.34%) BGP
12 5 (0.34%) VoIP
12 5 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.27%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 146 (10.02%) Power BI
2 75 (5.15%) Tableau
3 63 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
4 52 (3.57%) SQL Server
5 49 (3.36%) Relational Database
6 37 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
7 32 (2.20%) Metadata
8 31 (2.13%) DB2
8 31 (2.13%) MongoDB
9 25 (1.72%) Big Data
9 25 (1.72%) BigQuery
9 25 (1.72%) Data Lake
10 23 (1.58%) NoSQL
11 22 (1.51%) Looker
12 19 (1.30%) Hadoop
13 17 (1.17%) Star Schema
14 15 (1.03%) Power Query
15 13 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
15 13 (0.89%) Redis
16 12 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 116 (7.96%) JIRA
2 76 (5.22%) Git
3 29 (1.99%) Jenkins
3 29 (1.99%) JUnit
4 14 (0.96%) Selenium
5 9 (0.62%) GitLab
5 9 (0.62%) Postman
6 7 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.41%) IntelliJ
7 6 (0.41%) Maven
7 6 (0.41%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.41%) webpack
8 5 (0.34%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.34%) Eclipse
8 5 (0.34%) JMeter
8 5 (0.34%) LoadRunner
8 5 (0.34%) Metasploit
8 5 (0.34%) TestRail
8 5 (0.34%) Toad
8 5 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 815 (55.94%) Social Skills
2 531 (36.44%) Finance
3 225 (15.44%) Banking
4 114 (7.82%) Public Sector
5 95 (6.52%) Investment Banking
6 83 (5.70%) Marketing
7 61 (4.19%) Legal
8 58 (3.98%) Front Office
9 57 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
10 50 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (3.36%) Financial Institution
12 48 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
13 46 (3.16%) Telecoms
14 44 (3.02%) Back Office
15 39 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
16 38 (2.61%) Retail
17 21 (1.44%) Military
18 20 (1.37%) Publishing
19 19 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 16 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 392 (26.90%) Analyst
2 186 (12.77%) Developer
3 179 (12.29%) Business Analyst
4 171 (11.74%) Senior
5 101 (6.93%) Lead
6 95 (6.52%) Architect
7 75 (5.15%) Data Analyst
8 71 (4.87%) Consultant
9 55 (3.77%) Data Engineer
10 50 (3.43%) Senior Developer
11 49 (3.36%) Java Developer
12 47 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
13 37 (2.54%) Project Manager
14 34 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
15 29 (1.99%) Python Developer
16 26 (1.78%) Security Analyst
17 25 (1.72%) Technical Analyst
18 24 (1.65%) SQL Developer
19 23 (1.58%) Senior Business Analyst
19 23 (1.58%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (5.01%) REST
2 51 (3.50%) Kafka
3 42 (2.88%) .NET
4 35 (2.40%) React
4 35 (2.40%) Spring
5 34 (2.33%) HTML
6 29 (1.99%) AngularJS
7 27 (1.85%) CSS
8 25 (1.72%) JSON
8 25 (1.72%) XML
9 22 (1.51%) SOAP
10 20 (1.37%) Pandas
10 20 (1.37%) RESTful
10 20 (1.37%) Web Services
11 19 (1.30%) TensorFlow
12 18 (1.24%) JMS
13 17 (1.17%) Middleware
14 16 (1.10%) PySpark
14 16 (1.10%) Spring Boot
15 15 (1.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 136 (9.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 65 (4.46%) Management Information System
3 64 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 52 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 50 (3.43%) Algorithms
6 48 (3.29%) Data Structures
7 42 (2.88%) Onboarding
8 33 (2.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 32 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.85%) Derivative
10 27 (1.85%) Equities
11 26 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
12 25 (1.72%) Reinsurance
13 23 (1.58%) Fixed Income
13 23 (1.58%) Security Posture
14 21 (1.44%) Cyber Threat
15 20 (1.37%) Cloud Native
16 19 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
17 18 (1.24%) Market Risk
18 16 (1.10%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 96 (6.59%) Linux
2 75 (5.15%) Windows
3 37 (2.54%) Unix
4 12 (0.82%) Windows 10
4 12 (0.82%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.27%) Mac OS
6 4 (0.27%) Solaris
6 4 (0.27%) VMS
7 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.069%) AIX
8 1 (0.069%) Android
8 1 (0.069%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.069%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.069%) VME
8 1 (0.069%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.069%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (55.66%) Problem-Solving
2 409 (28.07%) Agile
3 246 (16.88%) Analytics
4 242 (16.61%) Stakeholder Management
5 216 (14.82%) Decision-Making
6 179 (12.29%) Business Intelligence
7 176 (12.08%) Data Analysis
8 171 (11.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 170 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 157 (10.78%) Data Modelling
11 154 (10.57%) DevOps
12 153 (10.50%) CI/CD
13 134 (9.20%) Computer Science
14 131 (8.99%) Migration
15 125 (8.58%) Actionable Insight
16 123 (8.44%) Visualisation
17 121 (8.30%) Scrum
18 117 (8.03%) Project Management
19 115 (7.89%) AI
20 112 (7.69%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 380 (26.08%) SQL
2 328 (22.51%) Python
3 139 (9.54%) Java
4 84 (5.77%) JavaScript
5 47 (3.23%) C#
6 45 (3.09%) PowerShell
7 43 (2.95%) Bash
8 33 (2.26%) Shell Script
9 31 (2.13%) TypeScript
10 27 (1.85%) C++
11 21 (1.44%) PL/SQL
12 17 (1.17%) R
13 16 (1.10%) Go
14 15 (1.03%) VBA
15 10 (0.69%) Scala
15 10 (0.69%) T-SQL
16 9 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 8 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.48%) BeanShell
18 7 (0.48%) C
Qualifications
1 236 (16.20%) Degree
2 176 (12.08%) Security Cleared
3 123 (8.44%) SC Cleared
4 73 (5.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (2.61%) Master's Degree
6 32 (2.20%) PMI Certification
7 24 (1.65%) PMP
8 19 (1.30%) CISSP
8 19 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.03%) Azure Certification
10 13 (0.89%) CBAP
10 13 (0.89%) OSCP
11 12 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.82%) Numerate Degree
12 11 (0.75%) ACCA
12 11 (0.75%) CIMA
13 10 (0.69%) CompTIA Security+
14 9 (0.62%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (8.58%) Data Quality
2 90 (6.18%) QA
3 43 (2.95%) Accessibility
4 40 (2.75%) GDPR
5 23 (1.58%) PMO
6 20 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.37%) NIST
7 17 (1.17%) SLA
8 10 (0.69%) WCAG
9 9 (0.62%) GRC
10 8 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.55%) COBIT
10 8 (0.55%) EMIR
10 8 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.48%) ISO 20022
12 6 (0.41%) ISO 19650
12 6 (0.41%) MiFID
13 5 (0.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 5 (0.34%) SEPA
14 4 (0.27%) Basel III
System Software
1 59 (4.05%) Active Directory
2 44 (3.02%) Docker
3 10 (0.69%) zsh
4 8 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.34%) HDFS
6 4 (0.27%) Firmware
6 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.14%) Squid
8 2 (0.14%) vSphere
9 1 (0.069%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.069%) KVM
9 1 (0.069%) Postfix
9 1 (0.069%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.069%) Snort
Systems Management
1 61 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 49 (3.36%) Terraform
3 38 (2.61%) Ansible
4 16 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (1.03%) Grafana
5 15 (1.03%) Prometheus
6 14 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.82%) SCCM
8 7 (0.48%) Nessus
9 6 (0.41%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (0.34%) Nmap
11 4 (0.27%) BladeLogic
12 3 (0.21%) Argo
12 3 (0.21%) CA Spectrum
12 3 (0.21%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.21%) QRadar
13 2 (0.14%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.14%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.14%) Packer
13 2 (0.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 229 (15.72%) Microsoft
2 97 (6.66%) Oracle
3 73 (5.01%) SAP
4 56 (3.84%) ServiceNow
5 55 (3.77%) Google
6 46 (3.16%) Databricks
7 45 (3.09%) Salesforce
8 32 (2.20%) Splunk
9 28 (1.92%) Cisco
10 22 (1.51%) Sybase
11 19 (1.30%) VMware
12 15 (1.03%) Workday
13 14 (0.96%) CyberArk
13 14 (0.96%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.89%) Alteryx
14 13 (0.89%) Murex
15 12 (0.82%) Adobe
16 11 (0.75%) Bloomberg
16 11 (0.75%) Juniper
17 10 (0.69%) UiPath