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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -9 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,640 1,483 1,493
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.27% 11.82% 8.37%
As % of the General category 15.30% 17.49% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,027 935 1,019
10th Percentile £350 £313 £320
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £700
90th Percentile £750 £836 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.21% +0.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 36 48
10th Percentile £24.03 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £32.38 £25.88 £16.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £39.31 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% +70.89% -29.64%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £37.94
90th Percentile £66.53 £65.00 £56.88
England median hourly rate £38.25 £28.15 £18.50
% change year-on-year +35.88% +52.16% -50.99%

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 10,716 8,479 11,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.56% 67.56% 63.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,976 5,730 8,058
10th Percentile £343 £340 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £813
England median daily rate £501 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.67% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 141 245
10th Percentile £18.32 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.90 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +21.05% -10.94%
75th Percentile £50.00 £52.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £65.00 £65.45
England median hourly rate £30.38 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +8.50% -6.67% -11.53%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -8 236 £525 -4.55% 120
West London -3 56 £520 +30.00% 43
South London +1 35 £500 -14.24% 16
East London +1 11 £400 -11.11% 23
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 88 (5.37%) Confluence
2 32 (1.95%) Apache Spark
3 29 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.52%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.04%) Apache
6 15 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.73%) CMS
8 9 (0.55%) SAS
9 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.24%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.12%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.061%) Appian
13 1 (0.061%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.061%) Traefik
Applications
1 158 (9.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
4 49 (2.99%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
6 13 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.61%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
10 1 (0.061%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.85%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
5 10 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.61%) Shopify
6 9 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.49%) Workday HCM
8 7 (0.43%) Fidessa
8 7 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
8 7 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
8 7 (0.43%) Summit
9 6 (0.37%) Aladdin
9 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.30%) BASE24
10 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.24%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 326 (19.88%) Azure
2 229 (13.96%) AWS
3 195 (11.89%) Power Platform
4 91 (5.55%) GCP
5 87 (5.30%) SaaS
6 75 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
8 54 (3.29%) GitHub
9 42 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 41 (2.50%) Amazon S3
10 41 (2.50%) Serverless
11 36 (2.20%) Entra ID
12 35 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
13 34 (2.07%) Snowflake
14 33 (2.01%) IaaS
15 29 (1.77%) dbt
16 26 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
17 23 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 22 (1.34%) PaaS
19 21 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.50%) Firewall
2 27 (1.65%) DNS
2 27 (1.65%) Network Security
3 18 (1.10%) DHCP
3 18 (1.10%) VPN
4 15 (0.91%) SAN
4 15 (0.91%) WAN
5 11 (0.67%) SD-WAN
6 8 (0.49%) Internet
6 8 (0.49%) TCP/IP
6 8 (0.49%) VLAN
6 8 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (0.43%) BGP
7 7 (0.43%) HTTP
8 6 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (0.37%) IOS XR
8 6 (0.37%) LAN
8 6 (0.37%) NAS
8 6 (0.37%) OSPF
8 6 (0.37%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (10.61%) Power BI
2 90 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (4.33%) Tableau
4 69 (4.21%) SQL Server
5 56 (3.41%) Metadata
6 39 (2.38%) Relational Database
7 31 (1.89%) Data Lake
8 29 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (1.65%) Big Data
9 27 (1.65%) NoSQL
10 24 (1.46%) BigQuery
11 23 (1.40%) Snowflake Schema
12 21 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
13 16 (0.98%) Power Query
14 15 (0.91%) Star Schema
15 14 (0.85%) MongoDB
15 14 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (0.85%) RDBMS
16 13 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 176 (10.73%) JIRA
2 66 (4.02%) Git
3 24 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.40%) Selenium
5 15 (0.91%) GitLab
6 13 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.67%) MLflow
7 11 (0.67%) REST Assured
8 10 (0.61%) ERwin
8 10 (0.61%) Postman
9 8 (0.49%) Appium
9 8 (0.49%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.49%) JMeter
9 8 (0.49%) JUnit
9 8 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.43%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (0.43%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.37%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.37%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.37%) WebDriver
General
1 748 (45.61%) Social Skills
2 625 (38.11%) Finance
3 230 (14.02%) Banking
4 144 (8.78%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.67%) Marketing
6 87 (5.30%) Documentation Skills
7 72 (4.39%) Legal
8 66 (4.02%) Front Office
9 63 (3.84%) Presentation Skills
10 54 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
11 48 (2.93%) Investment Banking
12 46 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (2.74%) Financial Institution
13 45 (2.74%) Retail
14 40 (2.44%) Telecoms
15 34 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 24 (1.46%) Back Office
17 16 (0.98%) Law
17 16 (0.98%) Publishing
18 15 (0.91%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 426 (25.98%) Analyst
2 231 (14.09%) Business Analyst
3 165 (10.06%) Senior
4 136 (8.29%) Developer
5 117 (7.13%) Architect
6 106 (6.46%) Lead
7 96 (5.85%) Data Engineer
8 86 (5.24%) Consultant
9 85 (5.18%) Data Analyst
10 59 (3.60%) Data Scientist
11 57 (3.48%) Project Manager
12 53 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
13 37 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
14 36 (2.20%) Senior Business Analyst
15 30 (1.83%) Financial Analyst
16 25 (1.52%) Product Manager
16 25 (1.52%) Quantitative Developer
17 24 (1.46%) Salesforce Analyst
18 23 (1.40%) Tester
19 22 (1.34%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (4.88%) REST
2 49 (2.99%) .NET
3 48 (2.93%) Kafka
4 46 (2.80%) JSON
5 39 (2.38%) Pandas
6 37 (2.26%) Middleware
7 32 (1.95%) scikit-learn
8 31 (1.89%) XML
9 30 (1.83%) RESTful
10 27 (1.65%) SOAP
11 26 (1.59%) HTML
11 26 (1.59%) NumPy
12 25 (1.52%) CSS
13 24 (1.46%) PySpark
13 24 (1.46%) PyTorch
14 21 (1.28%) Node.js
14 21 (1.28%) OAuth
15 20 (1.22%) SAML
16 19 (1.16%) AngularJS
16 19 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 157 (9.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 99 (6.04%) Product Ownership
3 73 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
4 66 (4.02%) Data Structures
5 62 (3.78%) Onboarding
6 40 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.32%) Algorithms
7 38 (2.32%) Management Information System
8 36 (2.20%) Data Centre
8 36 (2.20%) Derivative
9 35 (2.13%) Fixed Income
10 34 (2.07%) Cloud Native
11 29 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 27 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
12 27 (1.65%) Equities
13 26 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
14 23 (1.40%) Credit Risk
14 23 (1.40%) Virtual Team
15 19 (1.16%) PKI
15 19 (1.16%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 81 (4.94%) Windows
2 53 (3.23%) Linux
3 26 (1.59%) Unix
4 16 (0.98%) Apple iOS
5 14 (0.85%) Android
6 13 (0.79%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.49%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.37%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.061%) VMS
11 1 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 785 (47.87%) Problem-Solving
2 477 (29.09%) Agile
3 332 (20.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 308 (18.78%) Analytics
5 277 (16.89%) Decision-Making
6 260 (15.85%) AI
7 251 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 248 (15.12%) Data Modelling
9 204 (12.44%) Business Intelligence
10 202 (12.32%) Validation
11 195 (11.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 182 (11.10%) DevOps
13 172 (10.49%) CI/CD
14 170 (10.37%) Migration
15 153 (9.33%) Data Analysis
16 152 (9.27%) Roadmaps
17 149 (9.09%) Data Governance
18 143 (8.72%) Project Management
19 132 (8.05%) Visualisation
20 129 (7.87%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 441 (26.89%) SQL
2 364 (22.20%) Python
3 95 (5.79%) Java
4 76 (4.63%) C#
5 65 (3.96%) PowerShell
6 57 (3.48%) JavaScript
7 48 (2.93%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.95%) C++
9 31 (1.89%) R
10 29 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 27 (1.65%) Bash
12 21 (1.28%) PL/SQL
13 18 (1.10%) Scala
13 18 (1.10%) T-SQL
14 11 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.55%) C
15 9 (0.55%) VBA
16 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.37%) COBOL
17 6 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 231 (14.09%) Security Cleared
2 207 (12.62%) Degree
3 167 (10.18%) SC Cleared
4 63 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 52 (3.17%) Master's Degree
6 42 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (2.44%) PMI Certification
8 33 (2.01%) CISSP
9 32 (1.95%) PMP
10 21 (1.28%) CISM
11 20 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.10%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.98%) CISA
14 14 (0.85%) CRISC
14 14 (0.85%) DV Cleared
14 14 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.79%) Azure Certification
15 13 (0.79%) CCNP
16 9 (0.55%) ACCA
16 9 (0.55%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (12.38%) Data Quality
2 145 (8.84%) QA
3 81 (4.94%) GDPR
4 68 (4.15%) PMO
5 45 (2.74%) NIST
6 41 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.95%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.77%) SLA
9 27 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 24 (1.46%) PCI DSS
11 23 (1.40%) GRC
11 23 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (1.28%) COBIT
13 11 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.67%) IFRS
13 11 (0.67%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.61%) MiFID
15 9 (0.55%) PSD2
15 9 (0.55%) Solvency II
16 7 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (3.72%) Docker
2 46 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Firmware
5 4 (0.24%) IAG
5 4 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.18%) Squid
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.12%) HDFS
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Postfix
7 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.061%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.061%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.061%) RACF
8 1 (0.061%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.061%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 64 (3.90%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.68%) Terraform
3 23 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.22%) Grafana
5 19 (1.16%) Ansible
6 12 (0.73%) SCCM
7 10 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.49%) Kibana
8 8 (0.49%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.43%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.18%) SCOM
12 2 (0.12%) Control-M
12 2 (0.12%) Istio
12 2 (0.12%) Nessus
12 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.061%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.061%) Suricata
13 1 (0.061%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 260 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 107 (6.52%) Oracle
3 93 (5.67%) SAP
4 88 (5.37%) Salesforce
5 74 (4.51%) Google
6 68 (4.15%) ServiceNow
7 66 (4.02%) Databricks
8 25 (1.52%) Adobe
8 25 (1.52%) Workday
9 23 (1.40%) Bloomberg
10 22 (1.34%) Cisco
10 22 (1.34%) Splunk
11 19 (1.16%) Informatica
12 18 (1.10%) Murex
12 18 (1.10%) VMware
13 17 (1.04%) Palo Alto
14 15 (0.91%) Dynatrace
15 13 (0.79%) Atlassian
15 13 (0.79%) IBM
15 13 (0.79%) OpenAI