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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,587 1,473 1,429
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.67% 12.12% 8.16%
As % of the General category 14.50% 17.90% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 988 936 985
10th Percentile £350 £318 £316
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.73% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £750 £825 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 33 46
10th Percentile £20.01 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.17 £26.32 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £38.11 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% +62.17% -37.75%
75th Percentile £50.62 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £58.25 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £31.91 £19.00
% change year-on-year +17.54% +67.92% -56.25%

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 10,942 8,228 10,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.80% 67.68% 62.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,046 5,491 7,837
10th Percentile £350 £346 £335
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £558 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -3.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £515 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 149 242
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.46 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £45.56 £50.50 £48.44
90th Percentile £69.00 £63.35 £65.90
England median hourly rate £31.16 £28.00 £30.44
% change year-on-year +11.27% -8.00% -4.65%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -9 202 £525 -4.55% 258
West London +1 70 £520 +30.00% 58
South London +2 32 £488 -22.00% 32
East London -6 10 £400 -6.98% 33
North London - 1 - - 6
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 77 (4.85%) Confluence
2 31 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.76%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.32%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.07%) Apache
6 14 (0.88%) CMS
7 9 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.38%) SAS
9 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.25%) IIS
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.19%) Camunda
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
13 1 (0.063%) Appian
13 1 (0.063%) nginx
13 1 (0.063%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.063%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.063%) Traefik
Applications
1 151 (9.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 49 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
4 43 (2.71%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.26%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.63%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.13%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.063%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.063%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.69%) Aladdin
3 11 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 9 (0.57%) NetSuite
4 9 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 8 (0.50%) Shopify
6 7 (0.44%) Fidessa
6 7 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.44%) Summit
7 6 (0.38%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
8 5 (0.32%) BASE24
8 5 (0.32%) Finacle
8 5 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
9 4 (0.25%) HFM
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 326 (20.54%) Azure
2 225 (14.18%) AWS
3 198 (12.48%) Power Platform
4 80 (5.04%) SaaS
5 79 (4.98%) GCP
6 67 (4.22%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (3.72%) GitHub
8 55 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
9 42 (2.65%) Azure Data Factory
10 36 (2.27%) Amazon S3
10 36 (2.27%) Snowflake
11 33 (2.08%) Serverless
12 32 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
13 31 (1.95%) Entra ID
14 29 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
15 28 (1.76%) dbt
16 25 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
17 23 (1.45%) PaaS
18 22 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 21 (1.32%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.46%) Firewall
2 22 (1.39%) DNS
3 20 (1.26%) Network Security
3 20 (1.26%) VPN
4 17 (1.07%) WAN
5 16 (1.01%) DHCP
6 14 (0.88%) SD-WAN
7 13 (0.82%) SAN
8 11 (0.69%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.63%) BGP
10 8 (0.50%) OSPF
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%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.38%) 5G
12 6 (0.38%) LAN
12 6 (0.38%) MPLS
12 6 (0.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (10.96%) Power BI
2 92 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
3 77 (4.85%) SQL Server
3 77 (4.85%) Tableau
4 54 (3.40%) Metadata
5 51 (3.21%) Relational Database
6 36 (2.27%) Data Lake
6 36 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
7 29 (1.83%) NoSQL
8 25 (1.58%) Big Data
9 23 (1.45%) BigQuery
9 23 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 21 (1.32%) Power Query
10 21 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
11 18 (1.13%) MongoDB
12 16 (1.01%) RDBMS
13 15 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (0.95%) Oracle Database
13 15 (0.95%) Star Schema
14 13 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 158 (9.96%) JIRA
2 62 (3.91%) Git
3 22 (1.39%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.32%) Selenium
5 12 (0.76%) Cucumber
6 11 (0.69%) MLflow
6 11 (0.69%) Postman
6 11 (0.69%) REST Assured
7 10 (0.63%) ERwin
7 10 (0.63%) GitLab
8 9 (0.57%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.50%) JUnit
9 8 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.44%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.38%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.38%) JMeter
11 6 (0.38%) WebDriver
12 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.32%) Browser DevTools
12 5 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 704 (44.36%) Social Skills
2 622 (39.19%) Finance
3 241 (15.19%) Banking
4 129 (8.13%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.86%) Marketing
6 77 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
7 76 (4.79%) Legal
8 70 (4.41%) Front Office
9 60 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
10 58 (3.65%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (3.47%) Investment Banking
12 45 (2.84%) Influencing Skills
13 42 (2.65%) Retail
14 41 (2.58%) Financial Institution
15 40 (2.52%) Telecoms
16 37 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 18 (1.13%) Back Office
18 15 (0.95%) Billing
18 15 (0.95%) Publishing
19 14 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 416 (26.21%) Analyst
2 212 (13.36%) Business Analyst
3 151 (9.51%) Senior
4 139 (8.76%) Developer
5 110 (6.93%) Lead
6 103 (6.49%) Architect
7 99 (6.24%) Data Engineer
8 95 (5.99%) Data Analyst
9 88 (5.55%) Consultant
10 57 (3.59%) Data Scientist
11 47 (2.96%) Project Manager
12 41 (2.58%) Senior Analyst
13 33 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (2.02%) Financial Analyst
15 31 (1.95%) Senior Business Analyst
16 28 (1.76%) Senior Developer
17 22 (1.39%) Salesforce Analyst
17 22 (1.39%) Senior Manager
17 22 (1.39%) Tester
18 21 (1.32%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (4.22%) REST
2 55 (3.47%) .NET
3 45 (2.84%) Kafka
4 39 (2.46%) Pandas
5 36 (2.27%) Middleware
6 31 (1.95%) JSON
6 31 (1.95%) RESTful
7 30 (1.89%) HTML
7 30 (1.89%) XML
8 28 (1.76%) CSS
9 27 (1.70%) scikit-learn
10 25 (1.58%) PySpark
11 23 (1.45%) SOAP
12 22 (1.39%) NumPy
13 21 (1.32%) PyTorch
14 20 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
14 20 (1.26%) React
14 20 (1.26%) Web Services
15 18 (1.13%) AngularJS
15 18 (1.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 148 (9.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 97 (6.11%) Product Ownership
3 60 (3.78%) Onboarding
4 59 (3.72%) Self-Motivation
5 58 (3.65%) Data Structures
6 44 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.39%) Cloud Native
8 37 (2.33%) Management Information System
9 35 (2.21%) Algorithms
9 35 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
10 32 (2.02%) Data Centre
10 32 (2.02%) Fixed Income
11 31 (1.95%) Derivative
12 30 (1.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 29 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
13 29 (1.83%) Equities
14 24 (1.51%) Virtual Team
15 22 (1.39%) Credit Risk
16 19 (1.20%) Security Posture
17 17 (1.07%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 82 (5.17%) Windows
2 57 (3.59%) Linux
3 27 (1.70%) Unix
4 12 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.69%) Mac OS
6 9 (0.57%) Android
6 9 (0.57%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.44%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.32%) Solaris
9 4 (0.25%) AIX
9 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.063%) SUSE
10 1 (0.063%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 757 (47.70%) Problem-Solving
2 431 (27.16%) Agile
3 338 (21.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 303 (19.09%) Analytics
5 272 (17.14%) AI
5 272 (17.14%) Decision-Making
6 265 (16.70%) Continuous Improvement
7 248 (15.63%) Data Modelling
8 194 (12.22%) Business Intelligence
8 194 (12.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 191 (12.04%) Validation
10 176 (11.09%) DevOps
11 173 (10.90%) Data Analysis
12 164 (10.33%) Migration
13 162 (10.21%) CI/CD
14 137 (8.63%) Data Governance
15 134 (8.44%) Roadmaps
15 134 (8.44%) Visualisation
16 133 (8.38%) Data Pipeline
16 133 (8.38%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 452 (28.48%) SQL
2 361 (22.75%) Python
3 93 (5.86%) Java
4 84 (5.29%) C#
5 53 (3.34%) JavaScript
6 46 (2.90%) PowerShell
7 41 (2.58%) TypeScript
8 35 (2.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 32 (2.02%) C++
10 29 (1.83%) R
11 24 (1.51%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.39%) Bash
13 21 (1.32%) T-SQL
14 20 (1.26%) Scala
15 11 (0.69%) C
16 9 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.44%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.44%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.44%) VBA
18 6 (0.38%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 196 (12.35%) Security Cleared
2 194 (12.22%) Degree
3 134 (8.44%) SC Cleared
4 58 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 43 (2.71%) Master's Degree
6 40 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 35 (2.21%) CISSP
8 30 (1.89%) PMI Certification
9 28 (1.76%) PMP
10 24 (1.51%) CISM
11 18 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.01%) CISA
13 15 (0.95%) CRISC
13 15 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.88%) ACCA
15 13 (0.82%) CIMA
15 13 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.76%) DV Cleared
17 11 (0.69%) Azure Certification
18 10 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 214 (13.48%) Data Quality
2 120 (7.56%) QA
3 75 (4.73%) GDPR
4 70 (4.41%) PMO
5 49 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 49 (3.09%) NIST
6 35 (2.21%) SLA
7 27 (1.70%) Actionable Recommendations
8 26 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 25 (1.58%) Accessibility
10 24 (1.51%) COBIT
10 24 (1.51%) GRC
11 22 (1.39%) PCI DSS
12 17 (1.07%) IFRS
13 13 (0.82%) ISO 20022
14 9 (0.57%) MiFID
15 8 (0.50%) Solvency II
16 7 (0.44%) GAAP
17 6 (0.38%) NCSC
17 6 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 54 (3.40%) Docker
2 41 (2.58%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.25%) Firmware
5 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.19%) IAG
6 3 (0.19%) Postfix
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) Squid
7 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.063%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.063%) RACF
8 1 (0.063%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.063%) vSphere
8 1 (0.063%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (3.34%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.52%) Terraform
3 19 (1.20%) Ansible
3 19 (1.20%) Grafana
3 19 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (0.82%) SCCM
5 11 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.50%) Kibana
7 7 (0.44%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.19%) Control-M
10 3 (0.19%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.13%) Istio
11 2 (0.13%) Nessus
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.063%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.063%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.063%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.063%) vMotion
Vendors
1 238 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 124 (7.81%) Oracle
3 86 (5.42%) SAP
4 81 (5.10%) Salesforce
5 73 (4.60%) Databricks
6 72 (4.54%) ServiceNow
7 60 (3.78%) Google
8 21 (1.32%) Workday
9 20 (1.26%) Adobe
10 18 (1.13%) Informatica
11 17 (1.07%) Bloomberg
11 17 (1.07%) Cisco
11 17 (1.07%) Dynatrace
11 17 (1.07%) Splunk
12 16 (1.01%) VMware
13 15 (0.95%) Murex
14 14 (0.88%) IBM
14 14 (0.88%) Tenable
15 13 (0.82%) Alteryx
16 12 (0.76%) Palo Alto