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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,504 1,389 1,504
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.12% 10.25% 8.08%
As % of the General category 15.74% 15.70% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 924 817 1,026
10th Percentile £338 £319 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.32% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 29 51
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.03 £26.00 £16.80
Median hourly rate £34.27 £39.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.24% +68.09% -18.97%
75th Percentile £47.00 £65.00 £44.00
90th Percentile £56.40 £80.75 £53.25
England median hourly rate £29.81 £27.13 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.88% +29.17% -40.00%

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 9,556 8,849 11,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 64.31% 65.30% 63.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,234 5,569 8,478
10th Percentile £350 £325 £337
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £690
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 110 256
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.68 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.81 £18.46
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.81 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% +35.02% -
75th Percentile £47.13 £54.88 £50.06
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.44 £73.70
England median hourly rate £22.85 £30.41 £25.37
% change year-on-year -24.85% +19.85% -6.04%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -1 220 £522 -0.57% 156
West London -9 27 £500 +33.33% 54
South London -7 21 £513 -12.09% 33
East London +3 9 £400 -38.01% 33
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 78 (5.19%) Confluence
2 32 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.93%) Apache
7 11 (0.73%) CMS
8 5 (0.33%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.27%) SAS
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.13%) Camunda
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.066%) IIS
11 1 (0.066%) JBoss
11 1 (0.066%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.066%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 158 (10.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.79%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (3.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.66%) MS Visio
5 27 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.33%) Trello
8 3 (0.20%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.20%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.13%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.066%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.066%) Notion
10 1 (0.066%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.066%) Revit
10 1 (0.066%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.86%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
4 8 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.53%) SAP HR
4 8 (0.53%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.47%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
6 6 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
6 6 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.40%) Shopify
7 5 (0.33%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.33%) BASE24
7 5 (0.33%) Endur
7 5 (0.33%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
8 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 297 (19.75%) Azure
2 193 (12.83%) AWS
3 181 (12.03%) Power Platform
4 81 (5.39%) SaaS
5 73 (4.85%) GCP
6 69 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (4.19%) Microsoft 365
8 43 (2.86%) Entra ID
9 42 (2.79%) GitHub
9 42 (2.79%) IaaS
10 37 (2.46%) Snowflake
11 36 (2.39%) Amazon S3
11 36 (2.39%) Serverless
12 29 (1.93%) Azure Data Factory
13 26 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
13 26 (1.73%) dbt
14 25 (1.66%) Dynamics 365
15 19 (1.26%) Amazon ECS
15 19 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (1.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.06%) Firewall
1 31 (2.06%) Network Security
2 27 (1.80%) DNS
3 20 (1.33%) VPN
4 16 (1.06%) WAN
5 13 (0.86%) LAN
6 11 (0.73%) DHCP
7 10 (0.66%) Internet
8 9 (0.60%) SD-WAN
8 9 (0.60%) VLAN
9 8 (0.53%) SMS
10 7 (0.47%) HTTP
10 7 (0.47%) SAN
10 7 (0.47%) SSL
10 7 (0.47%) VoIP
11 6 (0.40%) TCP/IP
11 6 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.33%) CTI
12 5 (0.33%) DMZ
13 4 (0.27%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (11.10%) Power BI
2 76 (5.05%) Tableau
3 58 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (3.26%) SQL Server
5 35 (2.33%) Metadata
6 34 (2.26%) Relational Database
7 24 (1.60%) Data Lake
8 23 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
9 22 (1.46%) NoSQL
9 22 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
10 18 (1.20%) Big Data
11 16 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
12 15 (1.00%) DB2
12 15 (1.00%) MongoDB
13 14 (0.93%) BigQuery
13 14 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (0.86%) Looker
14 13 (0.86%) Star Schema
15 12 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.80%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 152 (10.11%) JIRA
2 63 (4.19%) Git
3 20 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.20%) GitLab
5 17 (1.13%) Selenium
6 10 (0.66%) JUnit
7 8 (0.53%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.53%) Postman
8 7 (0.47%) MLflow
8 7 (0.47%) REST Assured
9 6 (0.40%) Appium
9 6 (0.40%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.40%) JMeter
10 5 (0.33%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.33%) Metasploit
10 5 (0.33%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.33%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 5 (0.33%) WebDriver
11 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.27%) sqlmap
General
1 777 (51.66%) Social Skills
2 539 (35.84%) Finance
3 203 (13.50%) Banking
4 112 (7.45%) Public Sector
5 96 (6.38%) Marketing
6 67 (4.45%) Legal
7 61 (4.06%) Presentation Skills
8 60 (3.99%) Documentation Skills
8 60 (3.99%) Investment Banking
9 51 (3.39%) Front Office
10 44 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
11 41 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
12 40 (2.66%) Retail
13 37 (2.46%) Financial Institution
13 37 (2.46%) Telecoms
14 34 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 33 (2.19%) Back Office
16 21 (1.40%) Law
17 20 (1.33%) Publishing
18 14 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 400 (26.60%) Analyst
2 207 (13.76%) Business Analyst
3 174 (11.57%) Senior
4 152 (10.11%) Developer
5 113 (7.51%) Architect
6 96 (6.38%) Lead
7 84 (5.59%) Data Analyst
8 75 (4.99%) Consultant
9 60 (3.99%) Data Engineer
10 53 (3.52%) Senior Analyst
11 52 (3.46%) Project Manager
12 37 (2.46%) Solutions Architect
13 34 (2.26%) Senior Developer
14 33 (2.19%) Data Scientist
15 32 (2.13%) Senior Business Analyst
16 29 (1.93%) Product Manager
17 26 (1.73%) Technical Analyst
18 24 (1.60%) Operations Analyst
18 24 (1.60%) Python Developer
19 23 (1.53%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (6.05%) REST
2 49 (3.26%) JSON
3 42 (2.79%) Kafka
4 40 (2.66%) .NET
5 35 (2.33%) HTML
6 31 (2.06%) Middleware
7 29 (1.93%) CSS
8 28 (1.86%) SOAP
8 28 (1.86%) XML
9 27 (1.80%) RESTful
10 24 (1.60%) Pandas
11 23 (1.53%) React
12 22 (1.46%) Node.js
13 20 (1.33%) scikit-learn
13 20 (1.33%) Spring
14 19 (1.26%) NumPy
15 18 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
16 16 (1.06%) AngularJS
16 16 (1.06%) OAuth
16 16 (1.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 153 (10.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 71 (4.72%) Product Ownership
3 63 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
4 52 (3.46%) Management Information System
5 48 (3.19%) Data Structures
6 45 (2.99%) Onboarding
7 41 (2.73%) Algorithms
8 33 (2.19%) Fixed Income
9 32 (2.13%) Derivative
10 31 (2.06%) Equities
11 30 (1.99%) PKI
12 28 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
13 27 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
14 26 (1.73%) Data Centre
14 26 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (1.60%) Cloud Native
15 24 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 23 (1.53%) Security Posture
17 19 (1.26%) CMDB
17 19 (1.26%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 72 (4.79%) Windows
2 61 (4.06%) Linux
3 25 (1.66%) Unix
4 12 (0.80%) Mac OS
5 10 (0.66%) Android
5 10 (0.66%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.47%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.27%) VMS
8 3 (0.20%) Solaris
9 1 (0.066%) AIX
9 1 (0.066%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.066%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 785 (52.19%) Problem-Solving
2 454 (30.19%) Agile
3 305 (20.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 297 (19.75%) Analytics
5 249 (16.56%) Decision-Making
6 205 (13.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 204 (13.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 195 (12.97%) Business Intelligence
9 181 (12.03%) Data Modelling
10 175 (11.64%) AI
11 159 (10.57%) Validation
12 158 (10.51%) CI/CD
13 153 (10.17%) Data Analysis
14 152 (10.11%) DevOps
15 145 (9.64%) Roadmaps
16 135 (8.98%) Visualisation
17 134 (8.91%) Actionable Insight
18 132 (8.78%) Project Management
19 131 (8.71%) Migration
20 129 (8.58%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 376 (25.00%) SQL
2 316 (21.01%) Python
3 80 (5.32%) PowerShell
4 74 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 72 (4.79%) Java
6 62 (4.12%) C#
7 35 (2.33%) Bash
7 35 (2.33%) TypeScript
8 27 (1.80%) C++
9 19 (1.26%) R
10 17 (1.13%) Shell Script
11 16 (1.06%) PL/SQL
12 15 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 12 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (0.80%) Scala
14 9 (0.60%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.53%) C
16 7 (0.47%) Korn
17 6 (0.40%) VBA
18 5 (0.33%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 231 (15.36%) Degree
2 224 (14.89%) Security Cleared
3 166 (11.04%) SC Cleared
4 69 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.86%) Master's Degree
6 48 (3.19%) PMI Certification
7 33 (2.19%) PMP
8 21 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (1.40%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.33%) CISSP
10 15 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 14 (0.93%) CBAP
11 14 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.86%) AWS Certification
12 13 (0.86%) CIMA
12 13 (0.86%) OSCP
13 12 (0.80%) ACCA
14 11 (0.73%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.66%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (9.77%) Data Quality
2 126 (8.38%) QA
3 74 (4.92%) GDPR
4 47 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 39 (2.59%) PMO
6 28 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.66%) NIST
8 19 (1.26%) PCI DSS
9 18 (1.20%) SLA
10 17 (1.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 16 (1.06%) GRC
12 14 (0.93%) COBIT
12 14 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 11 (0.73%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.73%) WCAG
15 10 (0.66%) EMIR
15 10 (0.66%) MiFID
16 9 (0.60%) PSD2
17 7 (0.47%) IFRS
System Software
1 60 (3.99%) Docker
2 52 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.40%) zsh
5 5 (0.33%) HDFS
6 4 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.27%) vSphere
7 3 (0.20%) ProxySG
7 3 (0.20%) Squid
7 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.13%) Snort
9 1 (0.066%) Firmware
9 1 (0.066%) IAG
9 1 (0.066%) KVM
9 1 (0.066%) NFS
9 1 (0.066%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.066%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.066%) Xen
9 1 (0.066%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (3.99%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.66%) Terraform
3 31 (2.06%) Ansible
4 18 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.86%) SCCM
6 8 (0.53%) Grafana
7 7 (0.47%) Nessus
8 5 (0.33%) Nmap
8 5 (0.33%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.33%) SCOM
8 5 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.13%) Nexpose
10 2 (0.13%) Suricata
10 2 (0.13%) vRealize
11 1 (0.066%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.066%) IBM Guardium
11 1 (0.066%) RSA Archer
11 1 (0.066%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 254 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 85 (5.65%) Oracle
3 81 (5.39%) Salesforce
4 80 (5.32%) SAP
5 65 (4.32%) Google
6 63 (4.19%) Databricks
7 57 (3.79%) ServiceNow
8 29 (1.93%) Splunk
9 24 (1.60%) Cisco
10 23 (1.53%) VMware
11 22 (1.46%) Bloomberg
12 20 (1.33%) Adobe
13 18 (1.20%) Murex
14 17 (1.13%) Palo Alto
15 16 (1.06%) Workday
16 15 (1.00%) Remedy
17 14 (0.93%) Informatica
18 13 (0.86%) Juniper
19 11 (0.73%) IBM
19 11 (0.73%) Sybase