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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 18
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,676 1,483 1,490
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.68% 11.71% 8.31%
As % of the General category 15.81% 17.38% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,047 921 1,026
10th Percentile £350 £306 £323
25th Percentile £416 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £834 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 38 51
10th Percentile £23.71 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £27.07 £26.06 £16.80
Median hourly rate £38.25 £38.81 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% +65.13% -26.38%
75th Percentile £49.06 £55.25 £39.88
90th Percentile £57.70 £68.75 £55.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +33.93% +51.35% -47.89%

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 10,602 8,532 11,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.22% 67.36% 63.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,903 5,763 8,088
10th Percentile £348 £333 £331
25th Percentile £425 £447 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £706 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 139 252
10th Percentile £18.25 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.73 £23.99 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.65 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +15.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.63 £47.81
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £28.00
% change year-on-year +0.87% +2.68% -20.00%

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 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 16 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 16 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 -4 248 £525 -3.67% 255
West London -6 47 £500 +25.00% 56
South London -2 33 £500 -14.38% 11
East London +4 11 £400 -6.16% 28
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 86 (5.13%) Confluence
2 30 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 15 (0.89%) Apache
4 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (0.84%) CMS
6 8 (0.48%) Jupyter
7 6 (0.36%) SAS
8 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.18%) IIS
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.12%) Camunda
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.060%) Appian
11 1 (0.060%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.060%) Traefik
Applications
1 168 (10.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 51 (3.04%) Microsoft Office
4 49 (2.92%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.54%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.060%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.84%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
3 10 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.60%) Shopify
4 8 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.42%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 7 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.42%) Summit
6 5 (0.30%) Aladdin
6 5 (0.30%) BASE24
6 5 (0.30%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
6 5 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
7 4 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
7 4 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 336 (20.05%) Azure
2 240 (14.32%) AWS
3 206 (12.29%) Power Platform
4 92 (5.49%) GCP
5 88 (5.25%) SaaS
6 75 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
8 53 (3.16%) GitHub
9 49 (2.92%) Serverless
10 47 (2.80%) Amazon S3
11 43 (2.57%) AWS Lambda
11 43 (2.57%) IaaS
12 41 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
13 37 (2.21%) Snowflake
14 35 (2.09%) Entra ID
15 29 (1.73%) dbt
16 28 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
17 23 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 23 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 23 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.57%) Firewall
2 30 (1.79%) Network Security
3 28 (1.67%) DNS
4 18 (1.07%) VPN
5 17 (1.01%) DHCP
5 17 (1.01%) WAN
6 15 (0.89%) SAN
7 11 (0.66%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.60%) HTTP
9 9 (0.54%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.54%) VLAN
9 9 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.48%) Internet
10 8 (0.48%) LAN
11 7 (0.42%) BGP
12 6 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.36%) IOS XR
12 6 (0.36%) NAS
12 6 (0.36%) OSPF
12 6 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (11.16%) Power BI
2 88 (5.25%) Data Warehouse
3 82 (4.89%) Tableau
4 66 (3.94%) SQL Server
5 60 (3.58%) Metadata
6 40 (2.39%) Relational Database
7 28 (1.67%) Data Lake
7 28 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
9 26 (1.55%) NoSQL
10 25 (1.49%) Big Data
11 24 (1.43%) BigQuery
12 19 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (1.01%) Power Query
14 16 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
15 15 (0.89%) Star Schema
16 14 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (0.84%) RDBMS
17 13 (0.78%) Looker
Development Applications
1 166 (9.90%) JIRA
2 64 (3.82%) Git
3 27 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.19%) Selenium
5 14 (0.84%) GitLab
6 12 (0.72%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.66%) MLflow
8 10 (0.60%) ERwin
8 10 (0.60%) JUnit
8 10 (0.60%) Postman
8 10 (0.60%) REST Assured
9 8 (0.48%) Appium
9 8 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.42%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.42%) JMeter
11 6 (0.36%) Chocolatey
12 5 (0.30%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 773 (46.12%) Social Skills
2 622 (37.11%) Finance
3 232 (13.84%) Banking
4 146 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 106 (6.32%) Marketing
6 85 (5.07%) Documentation Skills
7 77 (4.59%) Legal
8 66 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
9 64 (3.82%) Front Office
10 53 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
11 51 (3.04%) Investment Banking
12 50 (2.98%) Retail
13 49 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
14 44 (2.63%) Financial Institution
15 39 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 37 (2.21%) Telecoms
17 27 (1.61%) Back Office
18 21 (1.25%) Publishing
19 18 (1.07%) Law
20 14 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 423 (25.24%) Analyst
2 235 (14.02%) Business Analyst
3 168 (10.02%) Senior
4 145 (8.65%) Developer
5 129 (7.70%) Architect
6 111 (6.62%) Lead
7 93 (5.55%) Data Engineer
8 91 (5.43%) Data Analyst
9 90 (5.37%) Consultant
10 59 (3.52%) Project Manager
11 57 (3.40%) Data Scientist
12 51 (3.04%) Senior Analyst
13 40 (2.39%) Solutions Architect
14 39 (2.33%) Senior Business Analyst
15 29 (1.73%) Product Manager
16 26 (1.55%) Financial Analyst
16 26 (1.55%) Senior Developer
17 25 (1.49%) Quantitative Developer
18 24 (1.43%) Salesforce Analyst
19 23 (1.37%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (5.43%) REST
2 54 (3.22%) JSON
3 48 (2.86%) Kafka
4 45 (2.68%) .NET
5 43 (2.57%) Pandas
6 39 (2.33%) Middleware
7 37 (2.21%) scikit-learn
8 33 (1.97%) RESTful
9 31 (1.85%) XML
10 30 (1.79%) NumPy
11 28 (1.67%) HTML
12 27 (1.61%) CSS
13 26 (1.55%) SOAP
14 25 (1.49%) Node.js
15 23 (1.37%) PySpark
15 23 (1.37%) PyTorch
16 22 (1.31%) Web Services
17 21 (1.25%) AngularJS
17 21 (1.25%) OAuth
18 20 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.07%) Analytical Mindset
2 90 (5.37%) Product Ownership
3 85 (5.07%) Self-Motivation
4 64 (3.82%) Data Structures
5 61 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 42 (2.51%) Algorithms
7 38 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
8 37 (2.21%) Management Information System
9 36 (2.15%) Derivative
9 36 (2.15%) Fixed Income
10 35 (2.09%) Data Centre
11 33 (1.97%) Cloud Native
12 29 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 28 (1.67%) PKI
14 27 (1.61%) Equities
15 26 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
16 24 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
17 22 (1.31%) Virtual Team
18 20 (1.19%) Credit Risk
19 19 (1.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 78 (4.65%) Windows
2 54 (3.22%) Linux
3 28 (1.67%) Unix
4 14 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.66%) Android
7 8 (0.48%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.060%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.060%) VMS
11 1 (0.060%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 810 (48.33%) Problem-Solving
2 497 (29.65%) Agile
3 339 (20.23%) Stakeholder Management
4 331 (19.75%) Analytics
5 286 (17.06%) Decision-Making
6 255 (15.21%) AI
7 254 (15.16%) Data Modelling
8 246 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 216 (12.89%) Business Intelligence
10 204 (12.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 188 (11.22%) Validation
12 181 (10.80%) DevOps
13 175 (10.44%) CI/CD
14 173 (10.32%) Migration
15 163 (9.73%) Data Analysis
16 156 (9.31%) Roadmaps
17 155 (9.25%) Data Governance
18 150 (8.95%) Project Management
19 144 (8.59%) Visualisation
20 138 (8.23%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 450 (26.85%) SQL
2 365 (21.78%) Python
3 93 (5.55%) Java
4 74 (4.42%) C#
5 72 (4.30%) PowerShell
6 58 (3.46%) JavaScript
7 45 (2.68%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.85%) C++
9 29 (1.73%) Bash
9 29 (1.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 29 (1.73%) R
10 21 (1.25%) PL/SQL
11 19 (1.13%) T-SQL
12 18 (1.07%) Scala
13 11 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.54%) C
15 8 (0.48%) VBA
16 7 (0.42%) Apex Code
17 6 (0.36%) Shell Script
18 5 (0.30%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 252 (15.04%) Security Cleared
2 215 (12.83%) Degree
3 185 (11.04%) SC Cleared
4 65 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (3.40%) Master's Degree
6 40 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (2.39%) PMI Certification
7 31 (1.85%) PMP
8 30 (1.79%) CISSP
9 20 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
10 18 (1.07%) CISM
11 16 (0.95%) CISA
11 16 (0.95%) DV Cleared
11 16 (0.95%) ISTQB
12 14 (0.84%) Azure Certification
12 14 (0.84%) CRISC
12 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.78%) CCNP
14 11 (0.66%) AWS Certification
15 10 (0.60%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (12.47%) Data Quality
2 139 (8.29%) QA
3 79 (4.71%) GDPR
4 68 (4.06%) PMO
5 43 (2.57%) NIST
6 40 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 38 (2.27%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.73%) SLA
9 27 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
10 24 (1.43%) GRC
10 24 (1.43%) PCI DSS
11 21 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (1.19%) COBIT
13 11 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.66%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.60%) IFRS
14 10 (0.60%) MiFID
15 9 (0.54%) PSD2
15 9 (0.54%) Solvency II
16 8 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (3.70%) Docker
2 44 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Firmware
5 4 (0.24%) IAG
5 4 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.18%) ProxySG
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.12%) HDFS
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.060%) Postfix
8 1 (0.060%) Snort
8 1 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.060%) Xen
8 1 (0.060%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 61 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 48 (2.86%) Terraform
3 23 (1.37%) Ansible
3 23 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (1.07%) Grafana
5 13 (0.78%) SCCM
6 10 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.42%) HP ALM
7 7 (0.42%) Kibana
7 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.18%) SCOM
10 2 (0.12%) Control-M
10 2 (0.12%) Istio
10 2 (0.12%) Nessus
10 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.060%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.060%) CEMLI
11 1 (0.060%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 264 (15.75%) Microsoft
2 108 (6.44%) Oracle
3 94 (5.61%) Salesforce
4 91 (5.43%) SAP
5 77 (4.59%) Google
6 68 (4.06%) Databricks
7 65 (3.88%) ServiceNow
8 25 (1.49%) Adobe
8 25 (1.49%) Bloomberg
9 24 (1.43%) Workday
10 21 (1.25%) Splunk
10 21 (1.25%) VMware
11 20 (1.19%) Cisco
12 19 (1.13%) Informatica
13 18 (1.07%) Murex
14 16 (0.95%) Palo Alto
15 14 (0.84%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.84%) OpenAI
16 12 (0.72%) HP
16 12 (0.72%) IBM