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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,916 1,521 1,392
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.49% 11.32% 8.62%
As % of the General category 15.46% 16.37% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,170 957 865
10th Percentile £340 £313 £316
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 30 22
10th Percentile £19.55 £16.05 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.00 £25.71 £19.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.38 £37.29
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -7.80% -25.43%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.85 £60.38 £65.03
England median hourly rate £35.55 £32.31 £22.25
% change year-on-year +10.03% +45.21% -50.56%

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 12,392 9,290 10,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.39% 69.16% 62.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,890 6,130 6,673
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
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 £790 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 183 121
10th Percentile £16.74 £17.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.64 £24.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.63 £53.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £65.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.50
% change year-on-year +25.25% -34.68% +40.00%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -10 228 £525 -4.55% 505
West London +7 88 £553 +33.53% 150
South London +1 29 £537 -20.44% 41
East London +2 14 £500 +53.85% 44
North London +4 5 £525 - 3
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 89 (4.65%) Confluence
2 48 (2.51%) SharePoint
3 41 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (1.57%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.36%) CMS
6 23 (1.20%) Apache
7 20 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.47%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.47%) SAS
10 8 (0.42%) JBoss
10 8 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.37%) IIS
12 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.26%) Appian
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 182 (9.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (3.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.88%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.37%) CPLEX
9 5 (0.26%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.10%) Notion
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 26 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 20 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.78%) Aladdin
5 14 (0.73%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.52%) Finacle
6 10 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.52%) Shopify
7 8 (0.42%) iTrent
8 7 (0.37%) Summit
9 6 (0.31%) Magento
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.26%) SAP GRC
11 4 (0.21%) Loan IQ
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 384 (20.04%) Azure
2 281 (14.67%) AWS
3 248 (12.94%) Power Platform
4 105 (5.48%) GCP
5 83 (4.33%) GitHub
5 83 (4.33%) SaaS
6 82 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
7 74 (3.86%) Microsoft 365
8 70 (3.65%) Entra ID
9 66 (3.44%) Snowflake
10 43 (2.24%) Serverless
11 39 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 39 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
12 37 (1.93%) Amazon S3
12 37 (1.93%) dbt
13 31 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
15 27 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 26 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
17 22 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.40%) Firewall
2 38 (1.98%) DNS
3 34 (1.77%) TCP/IP
4 33 (1.72%) VPN
5 31 (1.62%) Network Security
6 23 (1.20%) DHCP
7 17 (0.89%) WAN
8 16 (0.84%) SSL
9 14 (0.73%) BGP
10 13 (0.68%) HTTP
10 13 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
10 13 (0.68%) SAN
11 12 (0.63%) 5G
11 12 (0.63%) VLAN
12 11 (0.57%) Kerberos
12 11 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
13 10 (0.52%) MPLS
14 9 (0.47%) Wireshark
15 8 (0.42%) Multicast
15 8 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (11.48%) Power BI
2 104 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (5.22%) SQL Server
4 81 (4.23%) Tableau
5 76 (3.97%) Relational Database
6 72 (3.76%) Metadata
7 65 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.93%) NoSQL
9 35 (1.83%) Data Lake
10 31 (1.62%) MongoDB
11 29 (1.51%) Oracle Database
12 28 (1.46%) Delta Lake
13 26 (1.36%) Big Data
14 23 (1.20%) Power Query
14 23 (1.20%) RDBMS
15 22 (1.15%) BigQuery
16 21 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 20 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
17 20 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
18 16 (0.84%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 193 (10.07%) JIRA
2 106 (5.53%) Git
3 57 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 32 (1.67%) GitLab
5 28 (1.46%) Selenium
6 21 (1.10%) JMeter
7 16 (0.84%) Bitbucket
8 14 (0.73%) Cypress.io
8 14 (0.73%) Postman
9 13 (0.68%) LoadRunner
10 12 (0.63%) ERwin
10 12 (0.63%) Maven
11 11 (0.57%) Gradle
11 11 (0.57%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.52%) Gatling
12 10 (0.52%) 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
1 984 (51.36%) Social Skills
2 772 (40.29%) Finance
3 291 (15.19%) Banking
4 166 (8.66%) Public Sector
5 102 (5.32%) Front Office
6 91 (4.75%) Organisational Skills
7 89 (4.65%) Marketing
8 88 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
9 80 (4.18%) Legal
10 77 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
10 77 (4.02%) Retail
11 63 (3.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 59 (3.08%) Investment Banking
12 59 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
13 54 (2.82%) Telecoms
14 47 (2.45%) Local Government
15 34 (1.77%) Financial Institution
16 33 (1.72%) Back Office
17 27 (1.41%) Manufacturing
18 22 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 481 (25.10%) Analyst
2 226 (11.80%) Senior
3 225 (11.74%) Business Analyst
4 177 (9.24%) Developer
5 131 (6.84%) Lead
6 130 (6.78%) Architect
7 102 (5.32%) Data Analyst
8 98 (5.11%) Data Engineer
9 71 (3.71%) Consultant
10 59 (3.08%) Data Scientist
11 51 (2.66%) Project Manager
11 51 (2.66%) Senior Analyst
12 49 (2.56%) Senior Developer
13 33 (1.72%) Senior Manager
14 32 (1.67%) Technical Analyst
15 31 (1.62%) Java Developer
15 31 (1.62%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (1.62%) Technical Business Analyst
16 30 (1.57%) Support Engineer
17 29 (1.51%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (6.16%) REST
2 93 (4.85%) .NET
3 77 (4.02%) Terraform
4 63 (3.29%) Kafka
5 57 (2.97%) RESTful
6 47 (2.45%) Web Services
7 44 (2.30%) JSON
7 44 (2.30%) SOAP
7 44 (2.30%) XML
8 42 (2.19%) HTML
8 42 (2.19%) Middleware
9 39 (2.04%) PySpark
10 35 (1.83%) CSS
10 35 (1.83%) React
11 33 (1.72%) Spring
12 28 (1.46%) Spring Boot
13 23 (1.20%) OAuth
13 23 (1.20%) Pandas
14 22 (1.15%) AngularJS
15 20 (1.04%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 154 (8.04%) Analytical Mindset
2 143 (7.46%) Product Ownership
3 118 (6.16%) Onboarding
4 82 (4.28%) Cloud Native
5 77 (4.02%) Data Structures
6 68 (3.55%) Management Information System
7 63 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
8 58 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
8 58 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
9 40 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
10 33 (1.72%) AI Agents
11 32 (1.67%) Derivative
11 32 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 31 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
13 30 (1.57%) Algorithms
14 29 (1.51%) Equities
14 29 (1.51%) Fixed Income
15 23 (1.20%) Data Centre
15 23 (1.20%) Reference Data
16 22 (1.15%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 129 (6.73%) Linux
2 125 (6.52%) Windows
3 50 (2.61%) Unix
4 23 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 22 (1.15%) Windows 10
6 17 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 17 (0.89%) 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%) 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
13 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 998 (52.09%) Problem-Solving
2 653 (34.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 564 (29.44%) Agile
4 398 (20.77%) Continuous Improvement
5 383 (19.99%) Analytics
6 372 (19.42%) AI
7 357 (18.63%) Decision-Making
8 274 (14.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 260 (13.57%) Validation
10 254 (13.26%) Business Intelligence
11 250 (13.05%) DevOps
12 245 (12.79%) CI/CD
13 239 (12.47%) Data Modelling
14 220 (11.48%) Migration
15 193 (10.07%) User Acceptance Testing
16 184 (9.60%) Data Analysis
17 178 (9.29%) Roadmaps
18 177 (9.24%) Data Pipeline
19 160 (8.35%) User Stories
19 160 (8.35%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 552 (28.81%) SQL
2 428 (22.34%) Python
3 127 (6.63%) Java
4 108 (5.64%) C#
5 99 (5.17%) JavaScript
6 75 (3.91%) PowerShell
7 48 (2.51%) Bash
7 48 (2.51%) TypeScript
8 35 (1.83%) R
9 32 (1.67%) C++
10 31 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 26 (1.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 26 (1.36%) T-SQL
12 22 (1.15%) Shell Script
13 16 (0.84%) Korn
13 16 (0.84%) Scala
14 15 (0.78%) Perl
15 10 (0.52%) Go
16 9 (0.47%) VBA
17 8 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 264 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 238 (12.42%) Degree
3 210 (10.96%) SC Cleared
4 62 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (1.83%) CISSP
7 33 (1.72%) PMP
8 32 (1.67%) PMI Certification
9 28 (1.46%) Master's Degree
10 25 (1.30%) Azure Certification
11 23 (1.20%) CISM
12 22 (1.15%) DV Cleared
13 21 (1.10%) ACCA
14 20 (1.04%) CIMA
14 20 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
15 19 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
16 17 (0.89%) ISTQB
17 16 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
18 14 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 14 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 249 (13.00%) Data Quality
2 156 (8.14%) QA
3 85 (4.44%) PMO
4 53 (2.77%) GDPR
5 50 (2.61%) SLA
6 46 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (1.93%) NIST
8 30 (1.57%) Accessibility
9 27 (1.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 26 (1.36%) GRC
11 18 (0.94%) COBIT
12 17 (0.89%) IFRS
12 17 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.63%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
14 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.31%) Basel III
15 6 (0.31%) GxP
15 6 (0.31%) ISO 15022
15 6 (0.31%) P3O
System Software
1 83 (4.33%) Docker
2 77 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.47%) IAG
6 6 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.10%) Firmware
9 2 (0.10%) Postfix
9 2 (0.10%) Squid
9 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.052%) NFS
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.052%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 87 (4.54%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.24%) Ansible
3 32 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (1.62%) Grafana
5 16 (0.84%) SCCM
6 14 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.68%) Control-M
7 13 (0.68%) Kibana
8 7 (0.37%) Puppet
8 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
9 5 (0.26%) Istio
10 4 (0.21%) systemd
11 3 (0.16%) Cilium
11 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.10%) Argo
12 2 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 338 (17.64%) Microsoft
2 165 (8.61%) Oracle
3 98 (5.11%) SAP
4 94 (4.91%) ServiceNow
5 87 (4.54%) Databricks
6 74 (3.86%) Google
7 66 (3.44%) Salesforce
8 51 (2.66%) Splunk
9 34 (1.77%) IBM
10 33 (1.72%) Cisco
10 33 (1.72%) Dynatrace
11 28 (1.46%) VMware
12 25 (1.30%) Adobe
13 21 (1.10%) CyberArk
14 20 (1.04%) Alteryx
15 18 (0.94%) Workday
16 17 (0.89%) Informatica
17 16 (0.84%) Sitecore
18 15 (0.78%) Red Hat
19 14 (0.73%) Zscaler