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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,790 1,602 1,379
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.05% 11.82% 8.16%
As % of the General category 14.93% 17.34% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,086 1,017 920
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £644 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 33 29
10th Percentile £22.16 £11.96 £16.30
25th Percentile £27.14 £26.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% +16.68% -27.93%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £46.48
90th Percentile £73.23 £62.75 £65.01
England median hourly rate £38.00 £33.88 £21.50
% change year-on-year +12.16% +57.58% -39.44%

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 11,986 9,239 10,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.59% 68.15% 62.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,618 6,153 7,476
10th Percentile £350 £331 £331
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £690 £700
90th Percentile £788 £802 £825
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 178 183
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.57
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.66 £21.11
Median hourly rate £31.50 £31.25 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year +0.80% -7.41% -3.57%
75th Percentile £44.97 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.16 £35.71
% change year-on-year +29.93% -26.74% +19.03%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -10 227 £525 -4.55% 131
West London +5 81 £520 +30.00% 34
South London +1 37 £513 -18.00% 21
East London -6 8 £400 +16.64% 22
North London - 3 £450 - 2
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 74 (4.13%) Confluence
2 33 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (1.79%) SharePoint
4 27 (1.51%) Apache Spark
5 23 (1.28%) CMS
6 16 (0.89%) Apache
6 16 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.34%) SAS
9 5 (0.28%) IIS
10 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.22%) Appian
10 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.17%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) JBoss
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
13 1 (0.056%) HCL Notes
Applications
1 156 (8.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (3.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.18%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.61%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.11%) Notion
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.11%) Trello
10 1 (0.056%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.89%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.56%) Finacle
5 10 (0.56%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.50%) Fidessa
6 9 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.34%) Shopify
9 5 (0.28%) Magento
9 5 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
10 4 (0.22%) Findur
10 4 (0.22%) HFM
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.22%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 356 (19.89%) Azure
2 256 (14.30%) AWS
3 219 (12.23%) Power Platform
4 93 (5.20%) GCP
5 73 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 72 (4.02%) SaaS
7 69 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
8 67 (3.74%) GitHub
9 54 (3.02%) Entra ID
10 44 (2.46%) Snowflake
11 43 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
12 34 (1.90%) Amazon S3
13 32 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (1.79%) Serverless
14 30 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (1.68%) dbt
15 27 (1.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 23 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
17 22 (1.23%) Collibra
18 21 (1.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.57%) Firewall
2 32 (1.79%) DNS
3 27 (1.51%) Network Security
4 25 (1.40%) VPN
5 23 (1.28%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.12%) DHCP
7 18 (1.01%) WAN
8 14 (0.78%) SAN
9 13 (0.73%) HTTP
9 13 (0.73%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.73%) VLAN
10 12 (0.67%) BGP
11 9 (0.50%) 5G
11 9 (0.50%) OSPF
11 9 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.45%) 4G
12 8 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.45%) LAN
12 8 (0.45%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (11.01%) Power BI
2 104 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
3 96 (5.36%) SQL Server
4 76 (4.25%) Tableau
5 73 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 66 (3.69%) Metadata
7 47 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (2.23%) Data Lake
9 33 (1.84%) NoSQL
10 27 (1.51%) MongoDB
11 26 (1.45%) Big Data
12 23 (1.28%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.28%) Oracle Database
12 23 (1.28%) RDBMS
12 23 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 18 (1.01%) Power Query
13 18 (1.01%) Star Schema
14 17 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
15 15 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.84%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 172 (9.61%) JIRA
2 73 (4.08%) Git
3 36 (2.01%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.23%) Selenium
5 12 (0.67%) ERwin
6 11 (0.61%) GitLab
6 11 (0.61%) JUnit
7 10 (0.56%) Maven
8 9 (0.50%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.50%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.50%) MLflow
8 9 (0.50%) Postman
8 9 (0.50%) REST Assured
9 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.45%) JMeter
9 8 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.39%) Chocolatey
10 7 (0.39%) Gradle
10 7 (0.39%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 852 (47.60%) Social Skills
2 699 (39.05%) Finance
3 256 (14.30%) Banking
4 154 (8.60%) Public Sector
5 91 (5.08%) Marketing
6 90 (5.03%) Front Office
7 85 (4.75%) Documentation Skills
8 80 (4.47%) Organisational Skills
9 75 (4.19%) Legal
10 56 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
11 55 (3.07%) Investment Banking
11 55 (3.07%) Presentation Skills
12 52 (2.91%) Retail
13 51 (2.85%) Telecoms
14 49 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 42 (2.35%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.62%) Back Office
17 21 (1.17%) Local Government
18 20 (1.12%) Law
18 20 (1.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 463 (25.87%) Analyst
2 230 (12.85%) Business Analyst
3 182 (10.17%) Senior
4 162 (9.05%) Developer
5 126 (7.04%) Architect
6 123 (6.87%) Lead
7 106 (5.92%) Data Engineer
8 100 (5.59%) Data Analyst
9 86 (4.80%) Consultant
10 69 (3.85%) Data Scientist
11 62 (3.46%) Project Manager
12 43 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
13 38 (2.12%) Senior Developer
14 31 (1.73%) Solutions Architect
15 29 (1.62%) Financial Analyst
15 29 (1.62%) Technical Business Analyst
16 28 (1.56%) Product Owner
16 28 (1.56%) Senior Manager
17 27 (1.51%) Technical Analyst
18 26 (1.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (5.53%) REST
2 63 (3.52%) .NET
3 49 (2.74%) Kafka
4 44 (2.46%) JSON
4 44 (2.46%) RESTful
5 42 (2.35%) XML
6 40 (2.23%) Pandas
7 39 (2.18%) HTML
7 39 (2.18%) SOAP
8 37 (2.07%) Web Services
9 34 (1.90%) CSS
10 32 (1.79%) Middleware
11 28 (1.56%) scikit-learn
12 26 (1.45%) Spring
13 24 (1.34%) PySpark
14 23 (1.28%) NumPy
14 23 (1.28%) React
14 23 (1.28%) Spring Boot
15 22 (1.23%) PyTorch
16 21 (1.17%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 162 (9.05%) Analytical Mindset
2 121 (6.76%) Product Ownership
3 94 (5.25%) Onboarding
4 75 (4.19%) Data Structures
5 71 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
6 51 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (2.74%) Cloud Native
8 44 (2.46%) Management Information System
9 42 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (2.07%) Algorithms
10 37 (2.07%) Fixed Income
11 34 (1.90%) Data Centre
11 34 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
12 33 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 30 (1.68%) Derivative
14 28 (1.56%) Equities
15 25 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
16 23 (1.28%) AI Agents
16 23 (1.28%) CMDB
17 21 (1.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 114 (6.37%) Windows
2 84 (4.69%) Linux
3 35 (1.96%) Unix
4 19 (1.06%) Mac OS
5 18 (1.01%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.73%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.67%) Android
8 8 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.34%) Solaris
10 5 (0.28%) AIX
10 5 (0.28%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.11%) SUSE
12 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.056%) VMS
12 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 866 (48.38%) Problem-Solving
2 516 (28.83%) Agile
3 470 (26.26%) Stakeholder Management
4 340 (18.99%) Analytics
5 339 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 313 (17.49%) AI
7 310 (17.32%) Decision-Making
8 260 (14.53%) Data Modelling
9 238 (13.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 229 (12.79%) Validation
11 224 (12.51%) Business Intelligence
12 207 (11.56%) DevOps
13 201 (11.23%) CI/CD
14 195 (10.89%) Migration
15 178 (9.94%) Data Analysis
16 166 (9.27%) Data Pipeline
17 160 (8.94%) Roadmaps
18 159 (8.88%) User Acceptance Testing
19 151 (8.44%) User Stories
20 149 (8.32%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 505 (28.21%) SQL
2 390 (21.79%) Python
3 113 (6.31%) Java
4 79 (4.41%) C#
5 73 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 62 (3.46%) PowerShell
7 41 (2.29%) TypeScript
8 33 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 29 (1.62%) Bash
9 29 (1.62%) C++
9 29 (1.62%) R
10 27 (1.51%) PL/SQL
11 26 (1.45%) T-SQL
12 16 (0.89%) Scala
13 11 (0.61%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.56%) Shell Script
14 10 (0.56%) VBA
15 9 (0.50%) Ruby
16 8 (0.45%) C
16 8 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 220 (12.29%) Security Cleared
2 215 (12.01%) Degree
3 160 (8.94%) SC Cleared
4 67 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 35 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 35 (1.96%) CISSP
6 32 (1.79%) Master's Degree
7 27 (1.51%) PMP
8 25 (1.40%) PMI Certification
9 23 (1.28%) CISM
10 22 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (1.06%) Azure Certification
12 15 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
13 14 (0.78%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (0.73%) CCNP
14 13 (0.73%) CISA
15 12 (0.67%) ACCA
16 11 (0.61%) CIMA
16 11 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 232 (12.96%) Data Quality
2 130 (7.26%) QA
3 87 (4.86%) PMO
4 67 (3.74%) GDPR
5 46 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (2.51%) SLA
7 44 (2.46%) NIST
8 35 (1.96%) Accessibility
9 27 (1.51%) Actionable Recommendations
10 23 (1.28%) COBIT
10 23 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 19 (1.06%) GRC
12 16 (0.89%) IFRS
13 12 (0.67%) ISO 20022
13 12 (0.67%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.45%) Solvency II
15 7 (0.39%) GAAP
16 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.34%) GxP
System Software
1 69 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 66 (3.69%) Docker
3 12 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.50%) IAG
6 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.28%) Firmware
8 3 (0.17%) Postfix
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.11%) vSphere
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.056%) RACF
10 1 (0.056%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.056%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.056%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 67 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 55 (3.07%) Terraform
3 30 (1.68%) Ansible
4 29 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (1.23%) Grafana
6 12 (0.67%) SCCM
7 11 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.50%) Kibana
9 8 (0.45%) Control-M
9 8 (0.45%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.11%) Istio
13 2 (0.11%) Nessus
13 2 (0.11%) systemd
13 2 (0.11%) Tivoli
14 1 (0.056%) SCOM
14 1 (0.056%) SysTrack
14 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 280 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 158 (8.83%) Oracle
3 98 (5.47%) SAP
4 92 (5.14%) ServiceNow
5 75 (4.19%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.63%) Google
7 62 (3.46%) Databricks
8 31 (1.73%) Splunk
9 26 (1.45%) Workday
10 25 (1.40%) Dynatrace
10 25 (1.40%) IBM
11 24 (1.34%) Cisco
12 23 (1.28%) VMware
13 21 (1.17%) CyberArk
14 20 (1.12%) Adobe
14 20 (1.12%) Informatica
15 19 (1.06%) Alteryx
16 17 (0.95%) Apple
17 15 (0.84%) Tenable
18 14 (0.78%) Bloomberg