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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,592 1,461 1,439
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.74% 12.05% 8.27%
As % of the General category 14.67% 17.80% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 994 929 985
10th Percentile £350 £317 £322
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £706 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 33 44
10th Percentile £20.50 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.32 £16.95
Median hourly rate £39.00 £38.11 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% +65.70% -31.02%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £65.60 £58.25 £53.13
England median hourly rate £38.25 £31.35 £18.50
% change year-on-year +22.03% +69.43% -53.75%

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 10,850 8,207 10,989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.55% 67.67% 63.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,014 5,493 7,853
10th Percentile £350 £341 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £704 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £514 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 142 234
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.93 £15.65
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.30 £18.16
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.92 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% +14.01% -11.11%
75th Percentile £46.25 £50.69 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.30 £63.70 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.81 £27.39 £30.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -8.71% -7.12%

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 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -10 204 £525 -4.55% 288
West London 0 69 £520 +30.00% 35
South London 0 34 £500 -14.24% 8
East London -6 10 £400 +11.11% 17
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 (5.34%) Confluence
2 28 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (1.63%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.51%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.07%) Apache
6 12 (0.75%) CMS
7 11 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.50%) SAS
9 6 (0.38%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.25%) IIS
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.19%) Camunda
12 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
14 1 (0.063%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.063%) nginx
14 1 (0.063%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.063%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 153 (9.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 49 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
4 47 (2.95%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.63%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.13%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) Trello
10 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.063%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.063%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.69%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.69%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 9 (0.57%) Shopify
6 8 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (0.44%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.44%) Summit
8 6 (0.38%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.31%) BASE24
9 5 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.25%) Findur
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 321 (20.16%) Azure
2 226 (14.20%) AWS
3 194 (12.19%) Power Platform
4 81 (5.09%) SaaS
5 78 (4.90%) GCP
6 71 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (3.64%) GitHub
8 57 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
9 43 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
10 39 (2.45%) Amazon S3
11 37 (2.32%) Serverless
12 33 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
12 33 (2.07%) Snowflake
13 30 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
14 29 (1.82%) dbt
14 29 (1.82%) Entra ID
15 26 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
16 24 (1.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 22 (1.38%) Collibra
18 21 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.58%) Firewall
2 23 (1.44%) DNS
2 23 (1.44%) Network Security
3 20 (1.26%) VPN
4 17 (1.07%) DHCP
5 15 (0.94%) WAN
6 13 (0.82%) SAN
7 12 (0.75%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.69%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.63%) BGP
10 8 (0.50%) VLAN
10 8 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
11 7 (0.44%) HTTP
11 7 (0.44%) OSPF
11 7 (0.44%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.38%) 5G
12 6 (0.38%) Internet
12 6 (0.38%) LAN
12 6 (0.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (10.80%) Power BI
2 90 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (4.77%) Tableau
4 75 (4.71%) SQL Server
5 57 (3.58%) Metadata
6 48 (3.02%) Relational Database
7 35 (2.20%) Data Lake
7 35 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (1.70%) NoSQL
9 25 (1.57%) Big Data
10 24 (1.51%) BigQuery
10 24 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (1.13%) MongoDB
12 18 (1.13%) Power Query
13 17 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.94%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.94%) Star Schema
15 14 (0.88%) Oracle Database
16 13 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 167 (10.49%) JIRA
2 64 (4.02%) Git
3 25 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.38%) Selenium
5 14 (0.88%) GitLab
6 13 (0.82%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.69%) MLflow
7 11 (0.69%) Postman
7 11 (0.69%) REST Assured
8 10 (0.63%) ERwin
9 9 (0.57%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.50%) JMeter
10 8 (0.50%) JUnit
10 8 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.44%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.38%) Appium
12 6 (0.38%) Chocolatey
12 6 (0.38%) WebDriver
13 5 (0.31%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.31%) TeamCity
General
1 701 (44.03%) Social Skills
2 622 (39.07%) Finance
3 233 (14.64%) Banking
4 134 (8.42%) Public Sector
5 91 (5.72%) Marketing
6 76 (4.77%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (4.71%) Legal
8 65 (4.08%) Front Office
9 59 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
10 58 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
11 53 (3.33%) Investment Banking
12 46 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
13 40 (2.51%) Financial Institution
13 40 (2.51%) Retail
13 40 (2.51%) Telecoms
14 31 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 18 (1.13%) Back Office
16 17 (1.07%) Publishing
17 13 (0.82%) Billing
17 13 (0.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 418 (26.26%) Analyst
2 212 (13.32%) Business Analyst
3 164 (10.30%) Senior
4 140 (8.79%) Developer
5 107 (6.72%) Lead
6 97 (6.09%) Architect
6 97 (6.09%) Data Engineer
7 93 (5.84%) Data Analyst
8 87 (5.46%) Consultant
9 52 (3.27%) Data Scientist
10 49 (3.08%) Project Manager
11 47 (2.95%) Senior Analyst
12 33 (2.07%) Senior Business Analyst
12 33 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
13 31 (1.95%) Financial Analyst
14 27 (1.70%) Senior Developer
15 24 (1.51%) Product Manager
15 24 (1.51%) Salesforce Analyst
15 24 (1.51%) Senior Manager
15 24 (1.51%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (4.15%) REST
2 52 (3.27%) .NET
3 46 (2.89%) Kafka
4 38 (2.39%) Pandas
5 37 (2.32%) Middleware
6 32 (2.01%) RESTful
7 30 (1.88%) HTML
8 29 (1.82%) JSON
9 28 (1.76%) CSS
9 28 (1.76%) XML
10 27 (1.70%) PySpark
10 27 (1.70%) scikit-learn
11 23 (1.44%) SOAP
12 22 (1.38%) NumPy
13 21 (1.32%) PyTorch
14 20 (1.26%) React
15 19 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
16 18 (1.13%) OAuth
16 18 (1.13%) SAML
16 18 (1.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 151 (9.48%) Analytical Mindset
2 95 (5.97%) Product Ownership
3 61 (3.83%) Data Structures
4 58 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 56 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
6 44 (2.76%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.39%) Management Information System
8 35 (2.20%) Algorithms
8 35 (2.20%) Cloud Native
9 34 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
10 33 (2.07%) Data Centre
11 32 (2.01%) Fixed Income
12 31 (1.95%) Derivative
13 29 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
13 29 (1.82%) Equities
14 28 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 24 (1.51%) Virtual Team
16 21 (1.32%) Credit Risk
17 19 (1.19%) Security Posture
18 17 (1.07%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 80 (5.03%) Windows
2 56 (3.52%) Linux
3 27 (1.70%) Unix
4 14 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 12 (0.75%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.69%) Android
7 8 (0.50%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.44%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.19%) AIX
9 3 (0.19%) Solaris
10 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.063%) SUSE
11 1 (0.063%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 753 (47.30%) Problem-Solving
2 443 (27.83%) Agile
3 331 (20.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 297 (18.66%) Analytics
5 274 (17.21%) Decision-Making
6 262 (16.46%) AI
7 253 (15.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 247 (15.52%) Data Modelling
9 199 (12.50%) Validation
10 197 (12.37%) Business Intelligence
11 190 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 181 (11.37%) DevOps
13 169 (10.62%) Migration
14 167 (10.49%) CI/CD
15 165 (10.36%) Data Analysis
16 144 (9.05%) Roadmaps
17 139 (8.73%) Data Governance
18 136 (8.54%) ETL
19 132 (8.29%) Project Management
20 127 (7.98%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 444 (27.89%) SQL
2 356 (22.36%) Python
3 91 (5.72%) Java
4 83 (5.21%) C#
5 53 (3.33%) JavaScript
6 48 (3.02%) PowerShell
7 44 (2.76%) TypeScript
8 33 (2.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 31 (1.95%) C++
10 27 (1.70%) R
11 25 (1.57%) Bash
12 23 (1.44%) PL/SQL
13 22 (1.38%) T-SQL
14 18 (1.13%) Scala
15 11 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.63%) C
17 7 (0.44%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.44%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.44%) VBA
18 6 (0.38%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 202 (12.69%) Security Cleared
2 195 (12.25%) Degree
3 137 (8.61%) SC Cleared
4 57 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (2.83%) Master's Degree
6 40 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (2.07%) CISSP
8 29 (1.82%) PMI Certification
9 27 (1.70%) PMP
10 22 (1.38%) CISM
11 18 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.01%) ISTQB
13 15 (0.94%) CISA
14 14 (0.88%) CRISC
14 14 (0.88%) DV Cleared
15 12 (0.75%) ACCA
16 11 (0.69%) CCNP
16 11 (0.69%) CIMA
16 11 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (13.57%) Data Quality
2 124 (7.79%) QA
3 76 (4.77%) GDPR
4 72 (4.52%) PMO
5 50 (3.14%) NIST
6 48 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (1.95%) SLA
8 28 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
9 27 (1.70%) Accessibility
10 23 (1.44%) GRC
10 23 (1.44%) PCI DSS
10 23 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (1.38%) COBIT
12 14 (0.88%) IFRS
13 12 (0.75%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.57%) MiFID
14 9 (0.57%) Solvency II
15 6 (0.38%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.38%) NCSC
15 6 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 57 (3.58%) Docker
2 41 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.25%) Firmware
6 3 (0.19%) IAG
6 3 (0.19%) Postfix
6 3 (0.19%) Squid
6 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.063%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.063%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.063%) RACF
8 1 (0.063%) Snort
8 1 (0.063%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.063%) vSphere
8 1 (0.063%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 58 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.51%) Terraform
3 20 (1.26%) Ansible
3 20 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (1.19%) Grafana
5 13 (0.82%) SCCM
6 10 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.50%) Kibana
8 7 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.31%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.19%) Control-M
11 3 (0.19%) Nessus
11 3 (0.19%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.13%) Istio
12 2 (0.13%) SCOM
12 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.063%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.063%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.063%) Suricata
Vendors
1 248 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 115 (7.22%) Oracle
3 86 (5.40%) SAP
4 85 (5.34%) Salesforce
5 72 (4.52%) Databricks
6 67 (4.21%) ServiceNow
7 59 (3.71%) Google
8 21 (1.32%) Splunk
8 21 (1.32%) Workday
9 20 (1.26%) Adobe
10 19 (1.19%) Cisco
10 19 (1.19%) Informatica
11 17 (1.07%) Bloomberg
11 17 (1.07%) Dynatrace
12 16 (1.01%) Murex
13 15 (0.94%) VMware
14 14 (0.88%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.82%) IBM
15 13 (0.82%) Palo Alto
15 13 (0.82%) Tenable