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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 16 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,607 1,428 1,482
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.88% 10.65% 8.05%
As % of the General category 15.61% 16.17% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 991 869 1,011
10th Percentile £350 £318 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £708 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 33 50
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.32 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.03 £26.25 £16.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.11 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +65.70% -20.00%
75th Percentile £47.50 £58.75 £41.81
90th Percentile £55.95 £80.75 £52.58
England median hourly rate £30.05 £29.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.63% +45.00% -41.18%

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 10,296 8,833 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.31% 65.87% 63.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,720 5,755 8,330
10th Percentile £350 £331 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £664 £700 £693
90th Percentile £780 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 167 124 267
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £25.94 £18.65
Median hourly rate £28.55 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.43% +16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £48.25 £55.25 £48.29
90th Percentile £71.00 £78.40 £72.60
England median hourly rate £24.51 £30.81 £25.79
% change year-on-year -20.45% +19.45% -19.41%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 7 March 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 -1 244 £525 -1.50% 232
West London -12 30 £500 +25.00% 46
South London -9 28 £506 -13.16% 15
East London +7 8 £400 -32.23% 34
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 80 (4.98%) Confluence
2 31 (1.93%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (1.00%) Apache
7 13 (0.81%) CMS
8 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.25%) SAS
10 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.12%) Camunda
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.062%) Appian
11 1 (0.062%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.062%) Traefik
Applications
1 164 (10.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.61%) MS Visio
5 31 (1.93%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.31%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.062%) Notion
10 1 (0.062%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.062%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.81%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.50%) SAP HR
4 8 (0.50%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.44%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.37%) Shopify
7 5 (0.31%) BASE24
7 5 (0.31%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 5 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 324 (20.16%) Azure
2 214 (13.32%) AWS
3 203 (12.63%) Power Platform
4 85 (5.29%) GCP
5 84 (5.23%) SaaS
6 73 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
7 65 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (2.86%) GitHub
9 45 (2.80%) Entra ID
10 43 (2.68%) IaaS
10 43 (2.68%) Serverless
11 42 (2.61%) Snowflake
12 35 (2.18%) Amazon S3
13 34 (2.12%) Azure Data Factory
14 31 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
15 24 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
16 23 (1.43%) dbt
17 22 (1.37%) PaaS
18 19 (1.18%) Amazon ECS
19 18 (1.12%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.36%) Firewall
2 30 (1.87%) Network Security
3 25 (1.56%) DNS
4 20 (1.24%) VPN
5 19 (1.18%) WAN
6 14 (0.87%) DHCP
7 13 (0.81%) SD-WAN
8 12 (0.75%) SAN
8 12 (0.75%) VLAN
9 10 (0.62%) LAN
9 10 (0.62%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.50%) HTTP
11 8 (0.50%) Internet
11 8 (0.50%) SMS
12 7 (0.44%) BGP
12 7 (0.44%) SSL
13 6 (0.37%) Ethernet VPN
13 6 (0.37%) OSPF
13 6 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 184 (11.45%) Power BI
2 80 (4.98%) Tableau
3 74 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
4 58 (3.61%) SQL Server
5 43 (2.68%) Metadata
6 34 (2.12%) Relational Database
7 27 (1.68%) Data Lake
7 27 (1.68%) NoSQL
8 26 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
10 22 (1.37%) Big Data
11 18 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (1.06%) BigQuery
12 17 (1.06%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
13 15 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (0.87%) DB2
14 14 (0.87%) Hadoop
15 13 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 160 (9.96%) JIRA
2 64 (3.98%) Git
3 23 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.00%) GitLab
4 16 (1.00%) Selenium
5 12 (0.75%) Cucumber
5 12 (0.75%) JUnit
6 9 (0.56%) MLflow
6 9 (0.56%) REST Assured
7 8 (0.50%) Postman
8 6 (0.37%) Appium
8 6 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.37%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.31%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.31%) Burp Suite
9 5 (0.31%) Chocolatey
9 5 (0.31%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.31%) JMeter
9 5 (0.31%) Metasploit
9 5 (0.31%) WebDriver
General
1 800 (49.78%) Social Skills
2 586 (36.47%) Finance
3 220 (13.69%) Banking
4 133 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 105 (6.53%) Marketing
6 79 (4.92%) Legal
7 69 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
8 64 (3.98%) Presentation Skills
9 55 (3.42%) Investment Banking
10 52 (3.24%) Front Office
11 51 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
12 46 (2.86%) Retail
13 43 (2.68%) Financial Institution
14 40 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
15 33 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 28 (1.74%) Back Office
16 28 (1.74%) Telecoms
17 24 (1.49%) Publishing
18 21 (1.31%) Law
19 15 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 423 (26.32%) Analyst
2 219 (13.63%) Business Analyst
3 175 (10.89%) Senior
4 159 (9.89%) Developer
5 120 (7.47%) Architect
6 102 (6.35%) Lead
7 93 (5.79%) Data Analyst
8 88 (5.48%) Consultant
9 71 (4.42%) Data Engineer
10 63 (3.92%) Project Manager
11 56 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
12 43 (2.68%) Data Scientist
13 37 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (2.05%) Product Manager
14 33 (2.05%) Senior Business Analyst
15 31 (1.93%) Senior Developer
16 26 (1.62%) Security Analyst
17 25 (1.56%) Senior Manager
18 23 (1.43%) Java Developer
18 23 (1.43%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (5.91%) REST
2 53 (3.30%) JSON
3 50 (3.11%) Kafka
4 46 (2.86%) .NET
5 34 (2.12%) Middleware
6 33 (2.05%) RESTful
7 32 (1.99%) Pandas
8 31 (1.93%) SOAP
8 31 (1.93%) XML
9 30 (1.87%) HTML
10 29 (1.80%) CSS
11 27 (1.68%) scikit-learn
12 24 (1.49%) Node.js
13 23 (1.43%) NumPy
13 23 (1.43%) OAuth
14 22 (1.37%) React
15 21 (1.31%) Oracle Fusion
15 21 (1.31%) PyTorch
16 20 (1.24%) Spring
17 19 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 162 (10.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 75 (4.67%) Product Ownership
3 69 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
4 60 (3.73%) Data Structures
5 57 (3.55%) Onboarding
6 45 (2.80%) Management Information System
7 43 (2.68%) Algorithms
8 37 (2.30%) Derivative
9 36 (2.24%) Fixed Income
10 32 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.87%) Equities
11 30 (1.87%) PKI
12 29 (1.80%) Data Centre
12 29 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 28 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
13 28 (1.74%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.37%) Cloud Native
14 22 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
15 21 (1.31%) Virtual Team
16 19 (1.18%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 81 (5.04%) Windows
2 56 (3.48%) Linux
3 23 (1.43%) Unix
4 14 (0.87%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.68%) Android
7 6 (0.37%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.37%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.19%) VMS
9 2 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.062%) AIX
10 1 (0.062%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.062%) Solaris
10 1 (0.062%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 805 (50.09%) Problem-Solving
2 481 (29.93%) Agile
3 327 (20.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 319 (19.85%) Analytics
5 274 (17.05%) Decision-Making
6 238 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 215 (13.38%) Business Intelligence
8 209 (13.01%) Data Modelling
9 208 (12.94%) AI
10 204 (12.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 178 (11.08%) Validation
12 173 (10.77%) DevOps
13 166 (10.33%) CI/CD
14 157 (9.77%) Roadmaps
15 156 (9.71%) Data Analysis
16 151 (9.40%) Migration
17 148 (9.21%) Actionable Insight
18 143 (8.90%) Visualisation
19 140 (8.71%) Project Management
20 137 (8.53%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 411 (25.58%) SQL
2 342 (21.28%) Python
3 82 (5.10%) PowerShell
4 81 (5.04%) Java
5 69 (4.29%) C#
6 64 (3.98%) JavaScript
7 36 (2.24%) Bash
7 36 (2.24%) TypeScript
8 28 (1.74%) C++
9 24 (1.49%) R
10 22 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 16 (1.00%) PL/SQL
12 15 (0.93%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.87%) Kusto Query Language
14 12 (0.75%) Scala
14 12 (0.75%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.56%) C
16 7 (0.44%) Bicep
17 6 (0.37%) VBA
18 5 (0.31%) Go
Qualifications
1 238 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 230 (14.31%) Degree
3 171 (10.64%) SC Cleared
4 64 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.73%) Master's Degree
6 46 (2.86%) PMI Certification
7 37 (2.30%) PMP
8 28 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.68%) CISSP
10 22 (1.37%) DV Cleared
11 21 (1.31%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (0.93%) CISM
14 14 (0.87%) Azure Certification
15 13 (0.81%) CCNP
15 13 (0.81%) CIMA
15 13 (0.81%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.75%) ACCA
16 12 (0.75%) AWS Certification
16 12 (0.75%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (11.20%) Data Quality
2 139 (8.65%) QA
3 84 (5.23%) GDPR
4 53 (3.30%) PMO
5 42 (2.61%) Accessibility
6 35 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (2.12%) NIST
8 26 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (1.49%) GRC
9 24 (1.49%) PCI DSS
10 21 (1.31%) SLA
11 19 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 17 (1.06%) COBIT
13 12 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 11 (0.68%) MiFID
14 11 (0.68%) Solvency II
15 10 (0.62%) ISO 20022
16 9 (0.56%) WCAG
17 8 (0.50%) IFRS
17 8 (0.50%) PSD2
System Software
1 66 (4.11%) Docker
2 56 (3.48%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.31%) Firmware
4 5 (0.31%) HDFS
4 5 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.19%) ProxySG
5 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.12%) Snort
6 2 (0.12%) Squid
6 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.12%) vSphere
6 2 (0.12%) zsh
7 1 (0.062%) IAG
7 1 (0.062%) NFS
7 1 (0.062%) Postfix
7 1 (0.062%) RACF
7 1 (0.062%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.062%) Xen
Systems Management
1 65 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.74%) Terraform
3 29 (1.80%) Ansible
4 23 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.87%) SCCM
6 11 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.56%) Grafana
8 7 (0.44%) Nessus
9 5 (0.31%) Nmap
9 5 (0.31%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.19%) SCOM
12 2 (0.12%) Nexpose
12 2 (0.12%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.12%) Suricata
12 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.062%) EMC VPLEX
13 1 (0.062%) Kibana
13 1 (0.062%) logstash
Vendors
1 266 (16.55%) Microsoft
2 92 (5.72%) Oracle
3 86 (5.35%) SAP
4 85 (5.29%) Salesforce
5 70 (4.36%) Google
6 66 (4.11%) ServiceNow
7 64 (3.98%) Databricks
8 27 (1.68%) Bloomberg
8 27 (1.68%) Splunk
9 25 (1.56%) Cisco
10 22 (1.37%) Murex
11 21 (1.31%) VMware
12 20 (1.24%) Workday
13 18 (1.12%) Adobe
14 16 (1.00%) Informatica
15 15 (0.93%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.75%) IBM
16 12 (0.75%) Juniper
16 12 (0.75%) OpenAI
17 11 (0.68%) Tenable