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

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,953 1,436 1,426
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.66% 10.80% 8.85%
As % of the General category 15.60% 15.77% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 888 867
10th Percentile £338 £313 £325
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 32 23
10th Percentile £19.03 £18.25 £17.25
25th Percentile £24.81 £25.12 £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.40 £34.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -1.49% -30.69%
75th Percentile £50.00 £54.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £69.00 £74.01
England median hourly rate £28.40 £32.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -12.63% +30.00% -43.00%

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 12,523 9,104 10,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.94% 68.48% 62.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,983 5,991 6,513
10th Percentile £350 £331 £332
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £780 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 180 118
10th Percentile £15.70 £17.46 £17.43
25th Percentile £20.02 £24.24 £25.36
Median hourly rate £29.03 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% -12.16% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.37 £70.20 £72.38
England median hourly rate £29.00 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.65% -28.36% +16.67%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -13 219 £550 - 322
West London +9 92 £553 +33.13% 49
South London -6 28 £536 -20.59% 12
East London +2 12 £500 +38.89% 17
North London +2 5 £525 - 1
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 97 (4.97%) Confluence
2 48 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 47 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.38%) CMS
6 24 (1.23%) Apache
7 23 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.41%) JBoss
9 8 (0.41%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.41%) SAS
9 8 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
9 8 (0.41%) WebSphere
10 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
10 5 (0.26%) Appian
10 5 (0.26%) IIS
11 4 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.15%) nginx
12 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 191 (9.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 66 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 31 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 24 (1.23%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.36%) CPLEX
7 6 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.26%) Trello
9 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.15%) Productboard
10 2 (0.10%) Notion
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.051%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.051%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.051%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 26 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
3 19 (0.97%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.77%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.41%) Finacle
5 8 (0.41%) iTrent
5 8 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
5 8 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 7 (0.36%) Shopify
7 6 (0.31%) Magento
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 6 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
8 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
8 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
8 5 (0.26%) SAP GRC
9 4 (0.20%) Loan IQ
9 4 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.20%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 399 (20.43%) Azure
2 271 (13.88%) AWS
3 255 (13.06%) Power Platform
4 109 (5.58%) GCP
5 94 (4.81%) GitHub
6 85 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (4.05%) Snowflake
8 75 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
9 73 (3.74%) Entra ID
9 73 (3.74%) SaaS
10 46 (2.36%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (2.25%) Serverless
12 40 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 39 (2.00%) dbt
14 34 (1.74%) Microsoft Copilot
15 32 (1.64%) Amazon S3
16 28 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
18 24 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 24 (1.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.05%) Firewall
2 36 (1.84%) Network Security
2 36 (1.84%) TCP/IP
3 35 (1.79%) VPN
4 32 (1.64%) DNS
5 19 (0.97%) DHCP
6 16 (0.82%) BGP
6 16 (0.82%) SSL
7 15 (0.77%) Radio Access Network
7 15 (0.77%) VLAN
7 15 (0.77%) WAN
8 14 (0.72%) 5G
9 12 (0.61%) HTTP
9 12 (0.61%) MPLS
10 11 (0.56%) Kerberos
11 10 (0.51%) SAN
11 10 (0.51%) Wireshark
12 9 (0.46%) Cisco IPT
12 9 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 221 (11.32%) Power BI
2 108 (5.53%) Data Warehouse
3 104 (5.33%) SQL Server
4 82 (4.20%) Tableau
5 76 (3.89%) Relational Database
6 70 (3.58%) PostgreSQL
7 67 (3.43%) Metadata
8 40 (2.05%) NoSQL
9 37 (1.89%) MongoDB
10 35 (1.79%) Data Lake
11 33 (1.69%) Oracle Database
12 27 (1.38%) Power Query
13 25 (1.28%) Big Data
13 25 (1.28%) Delta Lake
14 24 (1.23%) BigQuery
15 23 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
15 23 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (0.87%) Amazon Athena
17 16 (0.82%) RDBMS
18 15 (0.77%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 194 (9.93%) JIRA
2 134 (6.86%) Git
3 66 (3.38%) Jenkins
4 41 (2.10%) GitLab
5 27 (1.38%) Selenium
6 20 (1.02%) JMeter
7 16 (0.82%) Bitbucket
7 16 (0.82%) Maven
8 15 (0.77%) Gradle
9 14 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.67%) Postman
11 12 (0.61%) LoadRunner
12 11 (0.56%) SonarQube
13 10 (0.51%) JUnit
14 9 (0.46%) ERwin
14 9 (0.46%) Gatling
14 9 (0.46%) REST Assured
14 9 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
15 8 (0.41%) Visual Studio
16 7 (0.36%) Cucumber
General
1 1,012 (51.82%) Social Skills
2 812 (41.58%) Finance
3 325 (16.64%) Banking
4 178 (9.11%) Public Sector
5 98 (5.02%) Front Office
6 97 (4.97%) Organisational Skills
7 92 (4.71%) Marketing
8 91 (4.66%) Legal
9 90 (4.61%) Documentation Skills
10 81 (4.15%) Retail
11 77 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
12 66 (3.38%) Investment Banking
13 63 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 62 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
15 57 (2.92%) Local Government
16 49 (2.51%) Telecoms
17 40 (2.05%) Financial Institution
18 38 (1.95%) Back Office
19 28 (1.43%) Manufacturing
20 20 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 485 (24.83%) Analyst
2 235 (12.03%) Senior
3 221 (11.32%) Business Analyst
4 189 (9.68%) Developer
5 134 (6.86%) Lead
6 116 (5.94%) Architect
7 100 (5.12%) Data Analyst
7 100 (5.12%) Data Engineer
8 89 (4.56%) Consultant
9 57 (2.92%) Data Scientist
10 52 (2.66%) Project Manager
10 52 (2.66%) Senior Developer
11 49 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
12 33 (1.69%) Technical Analyst
13 31 (1.59%) Java Developer
13 31 (1.59%) Support Engineer
14 30 (1.54%) Senior Manager
15 29 (1.48%) IT Support
15 29 (1.48%) Technical Business Analyst
16 28 (1.43%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 127 (6.50%) REST
2 102 (5.22%) .NET
3 87 (4.45%) Terraform
4 67 (3.43%) Kafka
5 64 (3.28%) RESTful
6 52 (2.66%) Web Services
7 45 (2.30%) Middleware
8 44 (2.25%) HTML
8 44 (2.25%) SOAP
9 42 (2.15%) JSON
9 42 (2.15%) XML
10 39 (2.00%) PySpark
11 38 (1.95%) Spring
12 35 (1.79%) CSS
12 35 (1.79%) React
13 34 (1.74%) Spring Boot
14 23 (1.18%) .NET Core
14 23 (1.18%) AngularJS
14 23 (1.18%) Pandas
15 22 (1.13%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 146 (7.48%) Product Ownership
2 143 (7.32%) Analytical Mindset
3 121 (6.20%) Onboarding
4 81 (4.15%) Cloud Native
5 75 (3.84%) Data Structures
6 74 (3.79%) Management Information System
7 70 (3.58%) Enterprise Software
8 55 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
9 51 (2.61%) Distributed Systems
10 42 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
11 40 (2.05%) AI Agents
11 40 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
12 32 (1.64%) Derivative
13 30 (1.54%) Fixed Income
14 29 (1.48%) Algorithms
15 28 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 27 (1.38%) Equities
17 26 (1.33%) Reference Data
18 25 (1.28%) Credit Risk
19 22 (1.13%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 134 (6.86%) Linux
2 126 (6.45%) Windows
3 53 (2.71%) Unix
4 25 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.23%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.18%) Windows Server
7 17 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.87%) macOS
8 14 (0.72%) Android
9 7 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.20%) Solaris
11 3 (0.15%) AIX
11 3 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
11 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.10%) SUSE
12 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.051%) OpenWrt
13 1 (0.051%) VMS
13 1 (0.051%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.051%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,028 (52.64%) Problem-Solving
2 720 (36.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 563 (28.83%) Agile
4 418 (21.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 394 (20.17%) AI
6 383 (19.61%) Analytics
7 355 (18.18%) Decision-Making
8 284 (14.54%) CI/CD
9 281 (14.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 268 (13.72%) Validation
11 266 (13.62%) DevOps
12 260 (13.31%) Business Intelligence
13 236 (12.08%) Data Modelling
14 229 (11.73%) Migration
15 201 (10.29%) Roadmaps
16 200 (10.24%) User Acceptance Testing
17 189 (9.68%) Data Analysis
18 183 (9.37%) Business Analysis
19 180 (9.22%) Requirements Gathering
20 176 (9.01%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 570 (29.19%) SQL
2 425 (21.76%) Python
3 123 (6.30%) Java
4 110 (5.63%) C#
5 103 (5.27%) JavaScript
6 77 (3.94%) PowerShell
7 57 (2.92%) Bash
8 39 (2.00%) TypeScript
9 31 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 31 (1.59%) PL/SQL
10 30 (1.54%) R
11 28 (1.43%) T-SQL
12 27 (1.38%) C++
12 27 (1.38%) Shell Script
13 16 (0.82%) Korn
13 16 (0.82%) Perl
14 14 (0.72%) Scala
15 13 (0.67%) Go
16 9 (0.46%) Groovy
17 8 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 269 (13.77%) Security Cleared
2 260 (13.31%) Degree
3 219 (11.21%) SC Cleared
4 70 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (1.89%) PMI Certification
7 36 (1.84%) PMP
8 34 (1.74%) Master's Degree
9 32 (1.64%) CISSP
10 27 (1.38%) Azure Certification
11 25 (1.28%) ACCA
11 25 (1.28%) CIMA
12 23 (1.18%) DV Cleared
13 22 (1.13%) CISM
14 20 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
15 19 (0.97%) AWS Certification
15 19 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
16 17 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 16 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
18 15 (0.77%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 260 (13.31%) Data Quality
2 154 (7.89%) QA
3 74 (3.79%) PMO
4 58 (2.97%) GDPR
5 45 (2.30%) SLA
6 42 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 32 (1.64%) NIST
9 29 (1.48%) Accessibility
10 28 (1.43%) GRC
11 18 (0.92%) IFRS
12 14 (0.72%) COBIT
13 13 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 12 (0.61%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.41%) Basel III
16 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.31%) ISO 15022
17 6 (0.31%) P3O
17 6 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 99 (5.07%) Docker
2 82 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.31%) IAG
7 5 (0.26%) Firmware
7 5 (0.26%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.20%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) NFS
9 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.10%) Postfix
10 2 (0.10%) Squid
10 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.051%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.051%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.051%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.051%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 95 (4.86%) Kubernetes
2 45 (2.30%) Ansible
3 35 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (1.69%) Grafana
5 17 (0.87%) Kibana
6 16 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.82%) SCCM
7 15 (0.77%) Control-M
8 8 (0.41%) Puppet
9 7 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 5 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.20%) Argo
11 4 (0.20%) Istio
11 4 (0.20%) systemd
12 3 (0.15%) Cilium
12 3 (0.15%) SnapMirror
13 2 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 370 (18.95%) Microsoft
2 171 (8.76%) Oracle
3 98 (5.02%) Databricks
4 96 (4.92%) ServiceNow
5 91 (4.66%) SAP
6 74 (3.79%) Google
7 65 (3.33%) Salesforce
8 56 (2.87%) Splunk
9 37 (1.89%) IBM
10 35 (1.79%) Cisco
11 31 (1.59%) Dynatrace
12 29 (1.48%) VMware
13 25 (1.28%) CyberArk
14 20 (1.02%) Adobe
15 18 (0.92%) Workday
16 17 (0.87%) Alteryx
16 17 (0.87%) Red Hat
16 17 (0.87%) UiPath
17 15 (0.77%) Informatica
17 15 (0.77%) Murex