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 21 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,908 1,506 1,412
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.47% 11.27% 8.67%
As % of the General category 15.41% 16.31% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,175 944 879
10th Percentile £339 £313 £318
25th Percentile £425 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £665
90th Percentile £750 £775 £754
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 30 22
10th Percentile £19.72 £16.05 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.25 £25.71 £19.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.38 £34.04
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +1.00% -32.27%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.19 £52.50
90th Percentile £62.55 £60.38 £64.00
England median hourly rate £32.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -1.54% +44.44% -50.00%

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 general skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 12,380 9,234 10,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.47% 69.08% 62.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,915 6,073 6,697
10th Percentile £350 £325 £331
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £793 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 182 119
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.90
25th Percentile £21.11 £24.61 £24.75
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% -9.29% +27.27%
75th Percentile £44.97 £49.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.18 £64.98 £65.23
England median hourly rate £31.00 £25.15 £38.31
% change year-on-year +23.26% -34.35% +29.86%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -11 225 £525 -4.55% 455
West London +5 92 £553 +33.53% 158
South London -1 27 £537 -23.29% 40
East London +1 13 £525 +53.28% 44
North London +4 5 £525 - 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 92 (4.82%) Confluence
2 48 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 41 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
4 31 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.36%) CMS
6 23 (1.21%) Apache
7 20 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.47%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.42%) JBoss
10 8 (0.42%) SAS
10 8 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 6 (0.31%) IIS
12 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.26%) Appian
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 184 (9.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 36 (1.89%) MS Visio
4 26 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.37%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.26%) Trello
9 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.10%) Notion
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 26 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.89%) Aladdin
5 14 (0.73%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.52%) Finacle
7 9 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.47%) Shopify
8 8 (0.42%) iTrent
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.31%) Magento
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.26%) SAP GRC
10 5 (0.26%) Summit
11 4 (0.21%) Loan IQ
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 389 (20.39%) Azure
2 280 (14.68%) AWS
3 250 (13.10%) Power Platform
4 109 (5.71%) GCP
5 85 (4.45%) GitHub
6 83 (4.35%) SaaS
7 81 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
8 72 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
9 70 (3.67%) Entra ID
10 69 (3.62%) Snowflake
11 44 (2.31%) Serverless
12 41 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
13 39 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
14 37 (1.94%) dbt
15 36 (1.89%) Amazon S3
16 30 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
16 30 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
17 29 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
18 27 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 23 (1.21%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.52%) Firewall
2 39 (2.04%) DNS
3 35 (1.83%) TCP/IP
4 34 (1.78%) Network Security
5 33 (1.73%) VPN
6 24 (1.26%) DHCP
7 17 (0.89%) WAN
8 16 (0.84%) SSL
9 15 (0.79%) BGP
10 13 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
10 13 (0.68%) SAN
10 13 (0.68%) VLAN
11 12 (0.63%) 5G
11 12 (0.63%) HTTP
12 11 (0.58%) Kerberos
12 11 (0.58%) MPLS
12 11 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.47%) Wireshark
14 8 (0.42%) SD-WAN
14 8 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (11.58%) Power BI
2 106 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 98 (5.14%) SQL Server
4 80 (4.19%) Tableau
5 74 (3.88%) Relational Database
6 70 (3.67%) Metadata
7 64 (3.35%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.94%) NoSQL
9 35 (1.83%) Data Lake
10 33 (1.73%) MongoDB
11 29 (1.52%) Delta Lake
11 29 (1.52%) Oracle Database
12 25 (1.31%) Big Data
13 24 (1.26%) Power Query
14 22 (1.15%) BigQuery
14 22 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 21 (1.10%) RDBMS
16 20 (1.05%) Amazon Athena
17 19 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
18 16 (0.84%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 194 (10.17%) JIRA
2 109 (5.71%) Git
3 58 (3.04%) Jenkins
4 34 (1.78%) GitLab
5 26 (1.36%) Selenium
6 21 (1.10%) JMeter
7 16 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 14 (0.73%) Postman
9 13 (0.68%) Cypress.io
9 13 (0.68%) LoadRunner
10 12 (0.63%) ERwin
10 12 (0.63%) Maven
11 11 (0.58%) Gradle
11 11 (0.58%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.52%) Gatling
13 9 (0.47%) JUnit
13 9 (0.47%) REST Assured
13 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.42%) ER Studio
14 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 978 (51.26%) Social Skills
2 765 (40.09%) Finance
3 291 (15.25%) Banking
4 165 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 101 (5.29%) Front Office
6 93 (4.87%) Organisational Skills
7 90 (4.72%) Marketing
8 88 (4.61%) Documentation Skills
9 80 (4.19%) Legal
10 76 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
10 76 (3.98%) Retail
11 61 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 57 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
13 55 (2.88%) Investment Banking
13 55 (2.88%) Telecoms
14 50 (2.62%) Local Government
15 33 (1.73%) Financial Institution
16 31 (1.62%) Back Office
17 27 (1.42%) Manufacturing
18 20 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 476 (24.95%) Analyst
2 226 (11.84%) Senior
3 221 (11.58%) Business Analyst
4 176 (9.22%) Developer
5 129 (6.76%) Lead
6 125 (6.55%) Architect
7 100 (5.24%) Data Analyst
8 99 (5.19%) Data Engineer
9 70 (3.67%) Consultant
10 59 (3.09%) Data Scientist
11 52 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
12 49 (2.57%) Project Manager
13 47 (2.46%) Senior Developer
14 31 (1.62%) Senior Manager
14 31 (1.62%) Solutions Architect
14 31 (1.62%) Technical Analyst
15 30 (1.57%) Financial Analyst
15 30 (1.57%) Java Developer
15 30 (1.57%) Support Engineer
15 30 (1.57%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (6.08%) REST
2 94 (4.93%) .NET
3 80 (4.19%) Terraform
4 63 (3.30%) Kafka
5 57 (2.99%) RESTful
6 48 (2.52%) Web Services
7 44 (2.31%) JSON
7 44 (2.31%) SOAP
8 42 (2.20%) Middleware
8 42 (2.20%) XML
9 41 (2.15%) HTML
10 40 (2.10%) PySpark
11 35 (1.83%) React
12 34 (1.78%) CSS
13 33 (1.73%) Spring
14 28 (1.47%) Spring Boot
15 23 (1.21%) OAuth
15 23 (1.21%) Pandas
16 22 (1.15%) AngularJS
17 21 (1.10%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 153 (8.02%) Analytical Mindset
2 142 (7.44%) Product Ownership
3 117 (6.13%) Onboarding
4 80 (4.19%) Cloud Native
5 76 (3.98%) Data Structures
6 68 (3.56%) Management Information System
7 59 (3.09%) Enterprise Software
8 57 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
9 54 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
10 40 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
11 35 (1.83%) AI Agents
12 32 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
13 30 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 29 (1.52%) Algorithms
14 29 (1.52%) Derivative
15 28 (1.47%) Equities
16 26 (1.36%) Fixed Income
17 23 (1.21%) Reference Data
18 22 (1.15%) Credit Risk
18 22 (1.15%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 130 (6.81%) Linux
2 127 (6.66%) Windows
3 49 (2.57%) Unix
4 24 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.15%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.84%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 14 (0.73%) Android
8 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.31%) Solaris
10 5 (0.26%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.10%) SUSE
12 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.052%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.052%) VMS
13 1 (0.052%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 992 (51.99%) Problem-Solving
2 661 (34.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 552 (28.93%) Agile
4 399 (20.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 382 (20.02%) Analytics
6 372 (19.50%) AI
7 354 (18.55%) Decision-Making
8 278 (14.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 261 (13.68%) Validation
10 256 (13.42%) Business Intelligence
11 251 (13.16%) CI/CD
11 251 (13.16%) DevOps
12 239 (12.53%) Data Modelling
13 219 (11.48%) Migration
14 188 (9.85%) User Acceptance Testing
15 180 (9.43%) Data Analysis
16 178 (9.33%) Data Pipeline
16 178 (9.33%) Roadmaps
17 161 (8.44%) Workshop Facilitation
18 160 (8.39%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 550 (28.83%) SQL
2 433 (22.69%) Python
3 124 (6.50%) Java
4 107 (5.61%) C#
5 98 (5.14%) JavaScript
6 75 (3.93%) PowerShell
7 50 (2.62%) Bash
8 48 (2.52%) TypeScript
9 34 (1.78%) R
10 32 (1.68%) PL/SQL
11 31 (1.62%) C++
12 28 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 28 (1.47%) T-SQL
13 22 (1.15%) Shell Script
14 17 (0.89%) Scala
15 16 (0.84%) Korn
15 16 (0.84%) Perl
16 12 (0.63%) Go
17 9 (0.47%) VBA
18 8 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 260 (13.63%) Security Cleared
2 242 (12.68%) Degree
3 206 (10.80%) SC Cleared
4 62 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (1.94%) CISSP
7 33 (1.73%) PMI Certification
7 33 (1.73%) PMP
8 30 (1.57%) Master's Degree
9 27 (1.42%) Azure Certification
10 25 (1.31%) CISM
11 23 (1.21%) ACCA
12 22 (1.15%) CIMA
12 22 (1.15%) DV Cleared
13 21 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
15 16 (0.84%) ISTQB
15 16 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
16 15 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 14 (0.73%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (13.10%) Data Quality
2 153 (8.02%) QA
3 81 (4.25%) PMO
4 55 (2.88%) GDPR
5 50 (2.62%) SLA
6 44 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (1.89%) NIST
8 29 (1.52%) Accessibility
9 28 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 27 (1.42%) GRC
11 19 (1.00%) IFRS
12 16 (0.84%) COBIT
13 15 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
14 12 (0.63%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 8 (0.42%) NCSC
17 7 (0.37%) Basel III
18 6 (0.31%) ISO 15022
18 6 (0.31%) P3O
System Software
1 88 (4.61%) Docker
2 78 (4.09%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.47%) IAG
6 7 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.31%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.26%) Firmware
9 4 (0.21%) NFS
10 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.16%) vSphere
11 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 2 (0.10%) Postfix
11 2 (0.10%) Squid
11 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.052%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 91 (4.77%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.25%) Ansible
3 33 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (1.68%) Grafana
5 16 (0.84%) SCCM
6 15 (0.79%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.68%) Kibana
8 12 (0.63%) Control-M
9 7 (0.37%) Puppet
9 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 6 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
11 5 (0.26%) Istio
12 4 (0.21%) systemd
13 3 (0.16%) Cilium
13 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.16%) SnapMirror
14 2 (0.10%) Argo
14 2 (0.10%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 347 (18.19%) Microsoft
2 161 (8.44%) Oracle
3 96 (5.03%) SAP
4 94 (4.93%) ServiceNow
5 93 (4.87%) Databricks
6 76 (3.98%) Google
7 62 (3.25%) Salesforce
8 52 (2.73%) Splunk
9 36 (1.89%) IBM
10 34 (1.78%) Cisco
10 34 (1.78%) Dynatrace
11 31 (1.62%) VMware
12 23 (1.21%) Adobe
13 20 (1.05%) CyberArk
14 19 (1.00%) Alteryx
15 17 (0.89%) Workday
16 16 (0.84%) Informatica
16 16 (0.84%) Red Hat
17 15 (0.79%) Sitecore
18 14 (0.73%) Zscaler