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 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,553 1,507 1,551
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.80% 10.00% 8.20%
As % of the General category 16.17% 15.56% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 911 1,034
10th Percentile £313 £319 £313
25th Percentile £402 £426 £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 £775 £775 £801
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 28 34
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £18.03
25th Percentile £25.83 £22.00 £21.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.80 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.47% -33.79% +32.35%
75th Percentile £47.00 £53.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £56.20 £80.75 £63.88
England median hourly rate £34.27 £25.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year +37.08% -22.65% -18.18%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,605 9,686 12,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 66.77% 64.28% 64.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,260 6,180 8,809
10th Percentile £338 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £700
90th Percentile £780 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 117 164
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.52
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.80 £21.44
Median hourly rate £26.40 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.57% - +2.94%
75th Percentile £44.81 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £66.13 £76.36 £75.88
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.31 £33.00
% change year-on-year -22.21% -8.17% +32.00%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 -2 241 £500 -9.26% 134
West London -14 22 £425 +6.25% 80
South London -5 19 £556 -4.59% 99
East London +3 11 £394 -10.51% 65
North London 0 1 - - 20
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 72 (4.64%) Confluence
2 43 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.90%) CMS
7 8 (0.52%) Apache
8 5 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.19%) IIS
10 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.19%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) Camunda
11 2 (0.13%) Luigi
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.064%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.064%) Appian
Applications
1 157 (10.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (3.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (2.64%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.55%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.39%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.39%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.13%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.064%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.064%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.064%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.064%) Revit
Business Applications
1 21 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (0.77%) Endur
4 11 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.71%) Oracle Financials
5 9 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
6 8 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.52%) SAP HR
7 7 (0.45%) Oracle Cash Management
8 6 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
8 6 (0.39%) Workday HCM
9 5 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
9 5 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.32%) Shopify
9 5 (0.32%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.26%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.19%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 262 (16.87%) Azure
2 211 (13.59%) AWS
3 179 (11.53%) Power Platform
4 81 (5.22%) GCP
5 72 (4.64%) SaaS
6 54 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (2.70%) GitHub
9 40 (2.58%) Entra ID
10 39 (2.51%) Snowflake
11 38 (2.45%) IaaS
12 33 (2.12%) Amazon S3
13 31 (2.00%) Serverless
14 28 (1.80%) dbt
15 26 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
16 23 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
16 23 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (1.22%) Dynamics 365
18 18 (1.16%) PowerApps
19 17 (1.09%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.58%) Firewall
2 35 (2.25%) Network Security
3 32 (2.06%) DNS
4 24 (1.55%) VPN
5 16 (1.03%) LAN
5 16 (1.03%) WAN
6 14 (0.90%) TCP/IP
7 12 (0.77%) DHCP
7 12 (0.77%) SSL
8 11 (0.71%) HTTP
9 9 (0.58%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.58%) VLAN
10 7 (0.45%) VoIP
11 6 (0.39%) BGP
11 6 (0.39%) Internet
11 6 (0.39%) Wireless
12 5 (0.32%) CTI
12 5 (0.32%) DMZ
12 5 (0.32%) WLAN
13 4 (0.26%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (10.75%) Power BI
2 76 (4.89%) Tableau
3 65 (4.19%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (3.22%) SQL Server
5 44 (2.83%) Relational Database
6 42 (2.70%) Metadata
7 33 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (1.74%) Big Data
9 26 (1.67%) MongoDB
10 25 (1.61%) DB2
11 22 (1.42%) Data Lake
11 22 (1.42%) NoSQL
12 19 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
13 18 (1.16%) BigQuery
14 17 (1.09%) Power Query
15 15 (0.97%) Hadoop
15 15 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
15 15 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 14 (0.90%) Looker
16 14 (0.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 134 (8.63%) JIRA
2 62 (3.99%) Git
3 21 (1.35%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.22%) GitLab
5 18 (1.16%) JUnit
6 11 (0.71%) Selenium
7 8 (0.52%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.52%) Postman
8 6 (0.39%) Appium
8 6 (0.39%) JMeter
8 6 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.32%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.32%) Burp Suite
9 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.32%) Metasploit
9 5 (0.32%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 4 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.26%) Eclipse
10 4 (0.26%) sqlmap
10 4 (0.26%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 826 (53.19%) Social Skills
2 552 (35.54%) Finance
3 208 (13.39%) Banking
4 133 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 100 (6.44%) Marketing
6 74 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 69 (4.44%) Legal
8 55 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
10 51 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
11 48 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (3.03%) Front Office
13 44 (2.83%) Back Office
14 43 (2.77%) Retail
15 39 (2.51%) Financial Institution
16 38 (2.45%) Telecoms
17 31 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 23 (1.48%) Publishing
19 19 (1.22%) Law
20 18 (1.16%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 401 (25.82%) Analyst
2 194 (12.49%) Business Analyst
3 184 (11.85%) Senior
4 169 (10.88%) Developer
5 120 (7.73%) Architect
6 91 (5.86%) Lead
7 79 (5.09%) Data Analyst
8 75 (4.83%) Consultant
9 56 (3.61%) Data Engineer
10 51 (3.28%) Senior Analyst
11 48 (3.09%) Project Manager
12 43 (2.77%) Senior Developer
13 38 (2.45%) Java Developer
14 37 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
15 32 (2.06%) Data Scientist
16 28 (1.80%) Python Developer
16 28 (1.80%) Technical Analyst
17 27 (1.74%) Security Analyst
18 26 (1.67%) Senior Business Analyst
19 25 (1.61%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (5.86%) REST
2 51 (3.28%) Kafka
3 50 (3.22%) JSON
4 36 (2.32%) .NET
5 34 (2.19%) Spring
6 33 (2.12%) HTML
7 31 (2.00%) React
8 28 (1.80%) XML
9 27 (1.74%) RESTful
10 25 (1.61%) Pandas
11 24 (1.55%) CSS
11 24 (1.55%) SOAP
12 22 (1.42%) Middleware
13 19 (1.22%) AngularJS
13 19 (1.22%) Node.js
13 19 (1.22%) scikit-learn
14 18 (1.16%) TensorFlow
15 17 (1.09%) NumPy
15 17 (1.09%) OAuth
16 16 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 166 (10.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 71 (4.57%) Product Ownership
3 69 (4.44%) Self-Motivation
4 65 (4.19%) Management Information System
5 53 (3.41%) Data Structures
6 52 (3.35%) Onboarding
7 37 (2.38%) Algorithms
8 33 (2.12%) Derivative
9 32 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
10 30 (1.93%) Equities
10 30 (1.93%) PKI
11 26 (1.67%) Cloud Native
11 26 (1.67%) Fixed Income
12 25 (1.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 25 (1.61%) Security Posture
13 24 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
13 24 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
14 19 (1.22%) Reinsurance
15 18 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
15 18 (1.16%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 82 (5.28%) Linux
2 71 (4.57%) Windows
3 29 (1.87%) Unix
4 8 (0.52%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.45%) Android
5 7 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 7 (0.45%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.45%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.32%) VMS
7 4 (0.26%) Solaris
8 2 (0.13%) AIX
8 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.064%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.064%) VME
9 1 (0.064%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 843 (54.28%) Problem-Solving
2 467 (30.07%) Agile
3 301 (19.38%) Analytics
4 285 (18.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 266 (17.13%) Decision-Making
6 210 (13.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 203 (13.07%) Business Intelligence
8 190 (12.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 178 (11.46%) Data Modelling
10 170 (10.95%) Data Analysis
11 154 (9.92%) AI
12 151 (9.72%) CI/CD
13 145 (9.34%) DevOps
14 143 (9.21%) Migration
14 143 (9.21%) Project Management
15 138 (8.89%) Validation
16 132 (8.50%) Roadmaps
17 130 (8.37%) Visualisation
18 123 (7.92%) Actionable Insight
18 123 (7.92%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 389 (25.05%) SQL
2 333 (21.44%) Python
3 103 (6.63%) Java
4 79 (5.09%) PowerShell
5 78 (5.02%) JavaScript
6 49 (3.16%) C#
7 43 (2.77%) Bash
8 32 (2.06%) TypeScript
9 26 (1.67%) C++
10 23 (1.48%) R
11 21 (1.35%) Shell Script
12 18 (1.16%) Go
13 15 (0.97%) PL/SQL
14 14 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 14 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
15 11 (0.71%) T-SQL
16 9 (0.58%) Scala
16 9 (0.58%) VBA
17 8 (0.52%) Korn
18 6 (0.39%) C
Qualifications
1 238 (15.33%) Security Cleared
2 234 (15.07%) Degree
3 179 (11.53%) SC Cleared
4 74 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.83%) PMI Certification
6 43 (2.77%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.87%) PMP
8 24 (1.55%) DV Cleared
9 20 (1.29%) CISSP
10 17 (1.09%) Azure Certification
10 17 (1.09%) CBAP
11 15 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.84%) CIMA
13 12 (0.77%) ACCA
13 12 (0.77%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (0.77%) CCNP
13 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.71%) CSPO
14 11 (0.71%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 142 (9.14%) Data Quality
2 119 (7.66%) QA
3 54 (3.48%) GDPR
4 48 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 39 (2.51%) PMO
6 22 (1.42%) NIST
7 21 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.90%) SLA
9 12 (0.77%) GRC
9 12 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.71%) EMIR
10 11 (0.71%) MiFID
10 11 (0.71%) WCAG
11 10 (0.64%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 9 (0.58%) COBIT
13 6 (0.39%) ISO 19650
13 6 (0.39%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 62 (3.99%) Docker
2 53 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.52%) zsh
5 7 (0.45%) HDFS
6 4 (0.26%) Firmware
6 4 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.19%) ProxySG
7 3 (0.19%) Squid
7 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.19%) vSphere
8 2 (0.13%) Snort
8 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.064%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.064%) IAG
9 1 (0.064%) KVM
9 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.064%) Xen
Systems Management
1 74 (4.76%) Kubernetes
2 56 (3.61%) Terraform
3 44 (2.83%) Ansible
4 18 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.97%) Grafana
6 13 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 13 (0.84%) SCCM
7 8 (0.52%) Nessus
7 8 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (0.32%) Nmap
8 5 (0.32%) SCOM
9 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (0.19%) Argo
10 3 (0.19%) BladeLogic
10 3 (0.19%) CA Spectrum
10 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.13%) Suricata
11 2 (0.13%) vRealize
11 2 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 261 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 88 (5.67%) Oracle
3 77 (4.96%) SAP
4 67 (4.31%) Google
5 57 (3.67%) Salesforce
6 53 (3.41%) Databricks
6 53 (3.41%) ServiceNow
7 33 (2.12%) Splunk
8 28 (1.80%) Cisco
9 21 (1.35%) VMware
10 20 (1.29%) Bloomberg
11 17 (1.09%) Adobe
11 17 (1.09%) Sybase
12 16 (1.03%) MuleSoft
13 15 (0.97%) Juniper
13 15 (0.97%) Palo Alto
14 14 (0.90%) CyberArk
15 12 (0.77%) Alteryx
15 12 (0.77%) Murex
15 12 (0.77%) Workday