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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,618 1,469 1,422
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.71% 12.10% 8.12%
As % of the General category 14.52% 17.83% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,008 929 978
10th Percentile £350 £318 £313
25th Percentile £425 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £706 £693
90th Percentile £750 £825 £829
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 34 44
10th Percentile £20.33 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.49 £26.59 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £39.31 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% +67.26% -37.75%
75th Percentile £51.87 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.23 £62.25 £62.00
England median hourly rate £37.75 £31.91 £19.50
% change year-on-year +18.32% +63.62% -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 11,141 8,239 10,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.99% 67.87% 62.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,167 5,484 7,827
10th Percentile £350 £342 £335
25th Percentile £431 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £515 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -1.90% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 149 239
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.90
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +12.88% +0.40%
75th Percentile £45.56 £50.75 £48.13
90th Percentile £68.00 £64.00 £66.40
England median hourly rate £32.00 £28.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +14.29% -9.68% -2.88%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -9 210 £525 -4.55% 224
West London +2 72 £520 +30.00% 37
South London +1 32 £488 -22.00% 12
East London -6 10 £400 -6.98% 28
North London - 1 - - 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 76 (4.70%) Confluence
2 30 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.73%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.30%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.05%) Apache
6 14 (0.87%) CMS
7 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.37%) SAS
9 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.31%) IIS
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.19%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
13 1 (0.062%) Appian
13 1 (0.062%) nginx
13 1 (0.062%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.062%) Traefik
13 1 (0.062%) WebLogic
Applications
1 149 (9.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (2.53%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.17%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.56%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.062%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.062%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 21 (1.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.68%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.56%) NetSuite
6 8 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.43%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (0.43%) Shopify
7 7 (0.43%) Summit
8 6 (0.37%) Finacle
8 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.31%) BASE24
9 5 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.25%) HFM
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 329 (20.33%) Azure
2 224 (13.84%) AWS
3 202 (12.48%) Power Platform
4 80 (4.94%) GCP
5 79 (4.88%) SaaS
6 66 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (3.71%) GitHub
7 60 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (2.60%) Azure Data Factory
9 37 (2.29%) Entra ID
10 35 (2.16%) Snowflake
11 34 (2.10%) Amazon S3
12 32 (1.98%) Serverless
13 31 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
14 28 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (1.61%) dbt
15 26 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (1.48%) PaaS
17 22 (1.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 20 (1.24%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.47%) Firewall
2 23 (1.42%) DNS
3 21 (1.30%) Network Security
4 20 (1.24%) VPN
5 17 (1.05%) DHCP
5 17 (1.05%) WAN
6 14 (0.87%) SD-WAN
7 13 (0.80%) SAN
7 13 (0.80%) TCP/IP
8 10 (0.62%) BGP
9 9 (0.56%) VLAN
10 8 (0.49%) OSPF
10 8 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (0.43%) HTTP
11 7 (0.43%) Internet
11 7 (0.43%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.37%) 5G
12 6 (0.37%) LAN
12 6 (0.37%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (11.00%) Power BI
2 91 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (4.88%) SQL Server
3 79 (4.88%) Tableau
4 54 (3.34%) Relational Database
5 53 (3.28%) Metadata
6 36 (2.22%) Data Lake
6 36 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (1.79%) NoSQL
8 26 (1.61%) Big Data
9 23 (1.42%) BigQuery
10 22 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (1.30%) Power Query
12 20 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
13 19 (1.17%) MongoDB
14 18 (1.11%) RDBMS
15 17 (1.05%) Oracle Database
16 15 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.93%) Star Schema
17 13 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 161 (9.95%) JIRA
2 61 (3.77%) Git
3 23 (1.42%) Selenium
4 22 (1.36%) Jenkins
5 12 (0.74%) Cucumber
6 11 (0.68%) GitLab
6 11 (0.68%) MLflow
6 11 (0.68%) Postman
6 11 (0.68%) REST Assured
7 10 (0.62%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.62%) ERwin
8 8 (0.49%) JUnit
8 8 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.43%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.37%) Chocolatey
10 6 (0.37%) JMeter
10 6 (0.37%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.37%) WebDriver
11 5 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 724 (44.75%) Social Skills
2 627 (38.75%) Finance
3 240 (14.83%) Banking
4 131 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 94 (5.81%) Marketing
6 78 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
7 77 (4.76%) Legal
8 72 (4.45%) Front Office
9 63 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
10 59 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
11 54 (3.34%) Investment Banking
12 45 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
13 44 (2.72%) Retail
14 43 (2.66%) Telecoms
15 40 (2.47%) Financial Institution
15 40 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (1.30%) Back Office
17 15 (0.93%) Billing
17 15 (0.93%) Publishing
18 14 (0.87%) Law
Job Titles
1 426 (26.33%) Analyst
2 217 (13.41%) Business Analyst
3 157 (9.70%) Senior
4 143 (8.84%) Developer
5 110 (6.80%) Lead
6 105 (6.49%) Architect
7 97 (6.00%) Data Analyst
7 97 (6.00%) Data Engineer
8 91 (5.62%) Consultant
9 60 (3.71%) Data Scientist
10 46 (2.84%) Project Manager
11 41 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
12 33 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
13 31 (1.92%) Senior Business Analyst
13 31 (1.92%) Senior Developer
14 30 (1.85%) Financial Analyst
15 23 (1.42%) Senior Manager
16 22 (1.36%) Salesforce Analyst
16 22 (1.36%) Tester
17 21 (1.30%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (4.45%) REST
2 58 (3.58%) .NET
3 46 (2.84%) Kafka
4 38 (2.35%) Pandas
5 35 (2.16%) Middleware
6 33 (2.04%) JSON
7 32 (1.98%) RESTful
7 32 (1.98%) XML
8 30 (1.85%) HTML
9 28 (1.73%) CSS
10 27 (1.67%) PySpark
10 27 (1.67%) scikit-learn
11 26 (1.61%) SOAP
12 23 (1.42%) Web Services
13 21 (1.30%) NumPy
13 21 (1.30%) PyTorch
13 21 (1.30%) React
14 19 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
14 19 (1.17%) SAML
15 18 (1.11%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 97 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 63 (3.89%) Onboarding
4 61 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
5 57 (3.52%) Data Structures
6 44 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (2.41%) Cloud Native
8 36 (2.22%) Algorithms
8 36 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
9 35 (2.16%) Management Information System
10 33 (2.04%) Fixed Income
10 33 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 32 (1.98%) Data Centre
12 31 (1.92%) Derivative
13 30 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
14 28 (1.73%) Equities
15 23 (1.42%) Virtual Team
16 22 (1.36%) Credit Risk
17 20 (1.24%) Security Posture
18 17 (1.05%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 88 (5.44%) Windows
2 60 (3.71%) Linux
3 30 (1.85%) Unix
4 13 (0.80%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.62%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.56%) Android
7 9 (0.56%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.31%) Solaris
9 4 (0.25%) AIX
9 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.062%) SUSE
10 1 (0.062%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 772 (47.71%) Problem-Solving
2 435 (26.89%) Agile
3 356 (22.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 304 (18.79%) Analytics
5 279 (17.24%) AI
6 276 (17.06%) Decision-Making
7 273 (16.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 246 (15.20%) Data Modelling
9 197 (12.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 196 (12.11%) Business Intelligence
11 195 (12.05%) Validation
12 176 (10.88%) Data Analysis
13 175 (10.82%) DevOps
14 167 (10.32%) Migration
15 161 (9.95%) CI/CD
16 141 (8.71%) User Acceptance Testing
17 137 (8.47%) Data Governance
18 135 (8.34%) Data Pipeline
19 134 (8.28%) Visualisation
20 133 (8.22%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 464 (28.68%) SQL
2 371 (22.93%) Python
3 94 (5.81%) Java
4 86 (5.32%) C#
5 53 (3.28%) JavaScript
6 50 (3.09%) PowerShell
7 42 (2.60%) TypeScript
8 34 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 30 (1.85%) C++
9 30 (1.85%) R
10 27 (1.67%) PL/SQL
11 22 (1.36%) Bash
12 21 (1.30%) T-SQL
13 20 (1.24%) Scala
14 12 (0.74%) C
15 9 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
16 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.43%) VBA
17 6 (0.37%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 197 (12.18%) Security Cleared
2 192 (11.87%) Degree
3 135 (8.34%) SC Cleared
4 58 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 40 (2.47%) Master's Degree
6 35 (2.16%) CISSP
7 29 (1.79%) PMI Certification
8 28 (1.73%) PMP
9 24 (1.48%) CISM
10 19 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (0.99%) CISA
12 15 (0.93%) CRISC
13 14 (0.87%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (0.80%) ACCA
14 13 (0.80%) Azure Certification
15 12 (0.74%) CIMA
15 12 (0.74%) DV Cleared
15 12 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 213 (13.16%) Data Quality
2 123 (7.60%) QA
3 75 (4.64%) GDPR
4 72 (4.45%) PMO
5 50 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (3.03%) NIST
7 38 (2.35%) SLA
8 27 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
9 26 (1.61%) Accessibility
9 26 (1.61%) COBIT
10 25 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (1.48%) GRC
12 22 (1.36%) PCI DSS
13 17 (1.05%) IFRS
14 13 (0.80%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.56%) 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 (3.34%) Docker
2 48 (2.97%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.25%) Firmware
6 3 (0.19%) IAG
6 3 (0.19%) Postfix
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.062%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.062%) RACF
8 1 (0.062%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.062%) vSphere
8 1 (0.062%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.47%) Terraform
3 22 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (1.17%) Ansible
4 19 (1.17%) Grafana
5 14 (0.87%) SCCM
6 11 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.49%) Kibana
8 7 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.19%) Control-M
11 3 (0.19%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.12%) Istio
12 2 (0.12%) Nessus
12 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.062%) EMC VPLEX
13 1 (0.062%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.062%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.062%) vMotion
Vendors
1 249 (15.39%) Microsoft
2 129 (7.97%) Oracle
3 91 (5.62%) SAP
4 83 (5.13%) Salesforce
5 73 (4.51%) Databricks
6 72 (4.45%) ServiceNow
7 62 (3.83%) Google
8 22 (1.36%) Workday
9 20 (1.24%) Adobe
10 19 (1.17%) Informatica
11 18 (1.11%) Cisco
11 18 (1.11%) Dynatrace
11 18 (1.11%) Splunk
12 17 (1.05%) Bloomberg
13 16 (0.99%) Murex
14 15 (0.93%) IBM
14 15 (0.93%) VMware
15 14 (0.87%) Tenable
16 13 (0.80%) Alteryx
17 12 (0.74%) Palo Alto