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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 16 21
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,496 1,425 1,478
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.43% 10.17% 8.12%
As % of the General category 15.97% 15.69% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 919 854 1,002
10th Percentile £321 £319 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £771 £800 £813
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 27 40
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.38 £25.25 £17.17
Median hourly rate £34.64 £37.50 £24.94
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% +50.36% -3.50%
75th Percentile £47.00 £60.13 £49.50
90th Percentile £56.10 £80.75 £61.63
England median hourly rate £30.82 £26.31 £23.50
% change year-on-year +17.13% +11.97% -32.86%

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 9,370 9,082 11,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 65.32% 64.84% 64.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,101 5,754 8,368
10th Percentile £343 £330 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 111 201
10th Percentile £17.50 £18.27 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.63 £19.47
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +20.69% +3.57%
75th Percentile £46.00 £52.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £70.60 £78.40 £75.00
England median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £28.96
% change year-on-year -23.33% +3.59% +12.64%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 18 January 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 -3 224 £510 -2.86% 148
West London -14 22 £500 +25.00% 25
South London -2 21 £513 -12.09% 30
East London +1 8 £400 -38.01% 19
North London +1 1 - - 2
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 (5.15%) Confluence
2 37 (2.47%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.94%) CMS
7 8 (0.53%) Apache
8 4 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.27%) SAS
9 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.13%) Camunda
10 2 (0.13%) Luigi
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.067%) SAP Portal
11 1 (0.067%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.067%) WebSphere
Applications
1 155 (10.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 55 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (2.74%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.40%) ProjectWise
8 5 (0.33%) Trello
9 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.13%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.067%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.067%) Notion
11 1 (0.067%) OmniGraffle
11 1 (0.067%) Revit
Business Applications
1 18 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 13 (0.87%) NetSuite
4 12 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
6 10 (0.67%) Oracle EBS R12
6 10 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.53%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
8 7 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
9 6 (0.40%) Endur
9 6 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
9 6 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
9 6 (0.40%) Shopify
10 5 (0.33%) BASE24
10 5 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.33%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.33%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 263 (17.58%) Azure
2 189 (12.63%) AWS
3 180 (12.03%) Power Platform
4 77 (5.15%) SaaS
5 73 (4.88%) GCP
6 54 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
8 39 (2.61%) GitHub
8 39 (2.61%) Snowflake
9 38 (2.54%) IaaS
10 36 (2.41%) Entra ID
11 33 (2.21%) Amazon S3
11 33 (2.21%) Serverless
12 28 (1.87%) dbt
13 25 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
14 24 (1.60%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
15 19 (1.27%) OCI
16 17 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
16 17 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (2.01%) Network Security
2 28 (1.87%) Firewall
3 25 (1.67%) DNS
4 18 (1.20%) VPN
5 14 (0.94%) WAN
6 11 (0.74%) LAN
7 10 (0.67%) HTTP
8 9 (0.60%) DHCP
8 9 (0.60%) SSL
9 8 (0.53%) Internet
9 8 (0.53%) SD-WAN
9 8 (0.53%) SMS
9 8 (0.53%) TCP/IP
10 7 (0.47%) VoIP
11 6 (0.40%) VLAN
12 5 (0.33%) CTI
12 5 (0.33%) DMZ
13 4 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
14 3 (0.20%) SAN
14 3 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (11.23%) Power BI
2 76 (5.08%) Tableau
3 61 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
4 44 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 37 (2.47%) Metadata
6 34 (2.27%) Relational Database
7 27 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
8 24 (1.60%) Big Data
9 22 (1.47%) NoSQL
10 20 (1.34%) Data Lake
11 19 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
12 18 (1.20%) DB2
12 18 (1.20%) MongoDB
12 18 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
13 15 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 15 (1.00%) Star Schema
14 14 (0.94%) BigQuery
15 13 (0.87%) Looker
16 12 (0.80%) Hadoop
16 12 (0.80%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 146 (9.76%) JIRA
2 57 (3.81%) Git
3 18 (1.20%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.14%) GitLab
5 13 (0.87%) JUnit
5 13 (0.87%) Selenium
6 7 (0.47%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.40%) Appium
7 6 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (0.33%) Burp Suite
8 5 (0.33%) JMeter
8 5 (0.33%) Metasploit
8 5 (0.33%) Postman
8 5 (0.33%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 4 (0.27%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.27%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (0.27%) MLflow
9 4 (0.27%) sqlmap
9 4 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 774 (51.74%) Social Skills
2 532 (35.56%) Finance
3 201 (13.44%) Banking
4 117 (7.82%) Public Sector
5 99 (6.62%) Marketing
6 66 (4.41%) Legal
7 62 (4.14%) Investment Banking
8 58 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
9 55 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
10 49 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
11 45 (3.01%) Front Office
12 42 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
12 42 (2.81%) Retail
13 36 (2.41%) Back Office
14 35 (2.34%) Financial Institution
15 34 (2.27%) Telecoms
16 33 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 20 (1.34%) Publishing
18 18 (1.20%) Law
18 18 (1.20%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 391 (26.14%) Analyst
2 199 (13.30%) Business Analyst
3 175 (11.70%) Senior
4 158 (10.56%) Developer
5 109 (7.29%) Architect
6 98 (6.55%) Lead
7 81 (5.41%) Data Analyst
8 76 (5.08%) Consultant
9 58 (3.88%) Data Engineer
10 51 (3.41%) Senior Analyst
11 48 (3.21%) Project Manager
12 36 (2.41%) Senior Developer
13 34 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (2.14%) Data Scientist
15 30 (2.01%) Senior Business Analyst
16 26 (1.74%) Java Developer
16 26 (1.74%) Product Manager
16 26 (1.74%) Python Developer
16 26 (1.74%) Technical Analyst
17 24 (1.60%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (5.68%) REST
2 47 (3.14%) Kafka
3 45 (3.01%) JSON
4 35 (2.34%) .NET
5 33 (2.21%) HTML
6 28 (1.87%) RESTful
7 26 (1.74%) CSS
7 26 (1.74%) Middleware
8 25 (1.67%) Spring
8 25 (1.67%) XML
9 24 (1.60%) Pandas
9 24 (1.60%) SOAP
10 23 (1.54%) React
11 20 (1.34%) scikit-learn
12 18 (1.20%) Node.js
13 17 (1.14%) NumPy
14 16 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
14 16 (1.07%) PyTorch
14 16 (1.07%) TensorFlow
15 15 (1.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 160 (10.70%) Analytical Mindset
2 70 (4.68%) Product Ownership
3 59 (3.94%) Management Information System
3 59 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
4 48 (3.21%) Onboarding
5 43 (2.87%) Data Structures
6 34 (2.27%) Algorithms
7 30 (2.01%) Equities
7 30 (2.01%) PKI
8 29 (1.94%) Derivative
8 29 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
8 29 (1.94%) Fixed Income
9 27 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
10 25 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
11 24 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 24 (1.60%) Security Posture
12 22 (1.47%) Cloud Native
13 21 (1.40%) Data Centre
14 19 (1.27%) PMI
15 18 (1.20%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 68 (4.55%) Linux
1 68 (4.55%) Windows
2 23 (1.54%) Unix
3 9 (0.60%) Mac OS
4 8 (0.53%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.47%) Android
5 7 (0.47%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.40%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.27%) VMS
8 3 (0.20%) Solaris
9 1 (0.067%) AIX
9 1 (0.067%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.067%) VME
9 1 (0.067%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 797 (53.28%) Problem-Solving
2 454 (30.35%) Agile
3 301 (20.12%) Stakeholder Management
4 287 (19.18%) Analytics
5 258 (17.25%) Decision-Making
6 206 (13.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 199 (13.30%) Business Intelligence
8 198 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 169 (11.30%) Data Modelling
10 163 (10.90%) AI
11 161 (10.76%) Data Analysis
12 156 (10.43%) Validation
13 139 (9.29%) Roadmaps
14 138 (9.22%) CI/CD
15 136 (9.09%) DevOps
15 136 (9.09%) Visualisation
16 135 (9.02%) Project Management
17 132 (8.82%) Actionable Insight
18 125 (8.36%) Migration
19 119 (7.95%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 371 (24.80%) SQL
2 314 (20.99%) Python
3 81 (5.41%) Java
4 77 (5.15%) PowerShell
5 73 (4.88%) JavaScript
6 58 (3.88%) C#
7 35 (2.34%) Bash
8 32 (2.14%) TypeScript
9 28 (1.87%) C++
10 22 (1.47%) R
11 19 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
14 13 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 9 (0.60%) Scala
16 8 (0.53%) C
16 8 (0.53%) Go
16 8 (0.53%) Korn
16 8 (0.53%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.47%) VBA
Qualifications
1 229 (15.31%) Degree
2 226 (15.11%) Security Cleared
3 168 (11.23%) SC Cleared
4 74 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.54%) Master's Degree
6 47 (3.14%) PMI Certification
7 31 (2.07%) PMP
8 21 (1.40%) CISSP
8 21 (1.40%) DV Cleared
9 16 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.00%) Azure Certification
11 14 (0.94%) CBAP
12 13 (0.87%) CIMA
12 13 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.87%) OSCP
13 12 (0.80%) ACCA
13 12 (0.80%) AWS Certification
14 10 (0.67%) CISM
14 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.60%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (9.49%) Data Quality
2 120 (8.02%) QA
3 66 (4.41%) GDPR
4 44 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 38 (2.54%) PMO
6 26 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.47%) NIST
8 18 (1.20%) PCI DSS
9 17 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
10 16 (1.07%) GRC
11 15 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.94%) SLA
13 11 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.74%) WCAG
14 10 (0.67%) COBIT
14 10 (0.67%) EMIR
14 10 (0.67%) MiFID
15 8 (0.53%) ISO 20022
16 7 (0.47%) ISO 8583
16 7 (0.47%) PSD2
System Software
1 60 (4.01%) Docker
2 48 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.47%) HDFS
4 7 (0.47%) zsh
5 3 (0.20%) ProxySG
5 3 (0.20%) Squid
5 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.20%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.20%) vSphere
6 2 (0.13%) Snort
7 1 (0.067%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.067%) Firmware
7 1 (0.067%) IAG
7 1 (0.067%) KVM
7 1 (0.067%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.067%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.067%) Xen
Systems Management
1 64 (4.28%) Kubernetes
2 42 (2.81%) Terraform
3 34 (2.27%) Ansible
4 14 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (0.74%) SCCM
6 10 (0.67%) Grafana
7 7 (0.47%) Nessus
7 7 (0.47%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.33%) Nmap
9 5 (0.33%) SCOM
10 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.13%) Argo
11 2 (0.13%) BladeLogic
11 2 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.13%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.13%) Suricata
11 2 (0.13%) vRealize
12 1 (0.067%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 245 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 84 (5.61%) Oracle
3 76 (5.08%) SAP
4 70 (4.68%) Salesforce
5 63 (4.21%) Google
6 59 (3.94%) Databricks
7 54 (3.61%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.87%) Splunk
9 23 (1.54%) Bloomberg
9 23 (1.54%) Cisco
10 19 (1.27%) VMware
11 18 (1.20%) Adobe
12 15 (1.00%) Murex
12 15 (1.00%) Palo Alto
12 15 (1.00%) Remedy
13 14 (0.94%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.87%) Sybase
15 12 (0.80%) Juniper
16 11 (0.74%) CyberArk
16 11 (0.74%) IBM