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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,872 1,584 1,369
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.32% 11.77% 8.47%
As % of the General category 15.32% 17.10% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,011 895
10th Percentile £350 £313 £316
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 30 23
10th Percentile £19.20 £11.96 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £24.63 £22.03
Median hourly rate £36.00 £34.48 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -18.87% -10.53%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £72.08 £57.00 £65.03
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.77% +44.44% -48.70%

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 12,221 9,263 10,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.82% 68.80% 62.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,789 6,145 7,079
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
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 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £510 £538
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.20% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 187 145
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.41 £24.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.07 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.40% -16.94% +5.20%
75th Percentile £43.75 £48.13 £51.75
90th Percentile £64.88 £63.45 £67.20
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +38.62%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -11 226 £525 -4.55% 247
West London +3 78 £520 +26.06% 67
South London +3 32 £544 -13.04% 17
East London -3 11 £413 +26.92% 47
North London 0 3 £450 - 3
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 (4.59%) Confluence
2 43 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.44%) CMS
5 21 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 19 (1.01%) Apache
7 9 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.43%) JBoss
8 8 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.37%) SAS
9 7 (0.37%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.27%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.27%) Appian
11 5 (0.27%) IIS
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.16%) Camunda
Applications
1 169 (9.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (3.47%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (2.03%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.64%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.27%) CPLEX
9 4 (0.21%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.11%) Notion
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.053%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 24 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.75%) Aladdin
5 12 (0.64%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.53%) Finacle
7 9 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.48%) Shopify
8 8 (0.43%) Loan IQ
8 8 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.32%) iTrent
10 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.27%) Magento
11 4 (0.21%) Findur
11 4 (0.21%) HFM
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 373 (19.93%) Azure
2 250 (13.35%) AWS
3 218 (11.65%) Power Platform
4 98 (5.24%) GCP
5 81 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
6 77 (4.11%) SaaS
7 69 (3.69%) GitHub
8 65 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
9 63 (3.37%) Entra ID
10 54 (2.88%) Snowflake
11 42 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
12 35 (1.87%) dbt
13 32 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
14 31 (1.66%) Serverless
15 28 (1.50%) Amazon S3
16 27 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
17 26 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 25 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
19 23 (1.23%) PaaS
20 20 (1.07%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.67%) Firewall
2 39 (2.08%) DNS
3 29 (1.55%) VPN
4 28 (1.50%) Network Security
5 27 (1.44%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.23%) DHCP
7 18 (0.96%) WAN
8 15 (0.80%) HTTP
8 15 (0.80%) SSL
9 13 (0.69%) BGP
9 13 (0.69%) SAN
9 13 (0.69%) VLAN
10 12 (0.64%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.48%) MPLS
13 8 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
13 8 (0.43%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.37%) 4G
14 7 (0.37%) 5G
14 7 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (10.58%) Power BI
2 102 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
3 99 (5.29%) SQL Server
4 79 (4.22%) Relational Database
5 76 (4.06%) Tableau
6 71 (3.79%) Metadata
7 54 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (1.92%) NoSQL
9 35 (1.87%) Data Lake
10 32 (1.71%) Big Data
11 28 (1.50%) Oracle Database
12 27 (1.44%) MongoDB
13 24 (1.28%) RDBMS
14 22 (1.18%) Power Query
15 19 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (0.96%) Delta Lake
16 18 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
17 17 (0.91%) BigQuery
18 16 (0.85%) Hadoop
18 16 (0.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 190 (10.15%) JIRA
2 83 (4.43%) Git
3 45 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 30 (1.60%) Selenium
5 22 (1.18%) JMeter
6 19 (1.01%) GitLab
7 14 (0.75%) LoadRunner
7 14 (0.75%) Postman
8 13 (0.69%) Cypress.io
8 13 (0.69%) ERwin
9 12 (0.64%) JUnit
10 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.59%) Maven
10 11 (0.59%) REST Assured
11 10 (0.53%) Gatling
11 10 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.48%) ER Studio
12 9 (0.48%) Gradle
12 9 (0.48%) Zephyr
13 8 (0.43%) Cucumber
General
1 937 (50.05%) Social Skills
2 752 (40.17%) Finance
3 289 (15.44%) Banking
4 147 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 99 (5.29%) Front Office
6 98 (5.24%) Marketing
7 90 (4.81%) Organisational Skills
8 84 (4.49%) Documentation Skills
9 74 (3.95%) Legal
10 70 (3.74%) Retail
11 59 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (3.04%) Investment Banking
14 56 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 52 (2.78%) Telecoms
16 41 (2.19%) Financial Institution
17 31 (1.66%) Local Government
18 27 (1.44%) Back Office
19 22 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
20 18 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 467 (24.95%) Analyst
2 242 (12.93%) Business Analyst
3 208 (11.11%) Senior
4 175 (9.35%) Developer
5 136 (7.26%) Lead
6 130 (6.94%) Architect
7 97 (5.18%) Data Engineer
8 94 (5.02%) Data Analyst
9 81 (4.33%) Consultant
10 63 (3.37%) Data Scientist
11 56 (2.99%) Project Manager
12 52 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
13 43 (2.30%) Senior Developer
14 33 (1.76%) Senior Manager
15 32 (1.71%) Solutions Architect
15 32 (1.71%) Support Engineer
16 31 (1.66%) Technical Analyst
16 31 (1.66%) Technical Business Analyst
17 30 (1.60%) Financial Analyst
17 30 (1.60%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (5.98%) REST
2 78 (4.17%) .NET
3 59 (3.15%) Kafka
4 52 (2.78%) RESTful
5 46 (2.46%) JSON
6 45 (2.40%) XML
7 43 (2.30%) SOAP
8 42 (2.24%) Web Services
9 38 (2.03%) HTML
9 38 (2.03%) Middleware
10 33 (1.76%) PySpark
10 33 (1.76%) Spring
11 32 (1.71%) CSS
12 31 (1.66%) React
13 30 (1.60%) Pandas
14 26 (1.39%) Spring Boot
15 22 (1.18%) PyTorch
16 21 (1.12%) AngularJS
16 21 (1.12%) OAuth
16 21 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 174 (9.29%) Analytical Mindset
2 134 (7.16%) Product Ownership
3 114 (6.09%) Onboarding
4 75 (4.01%) Data Structures
5 66 (3.53%) Cloud Native
6 65 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
7 61 (3.26%) Management Information System
8 59 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
9 42 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
10 39 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
11 38 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
12 37 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 32 (1.71%) Data Centre
13 32 (1.71%) Fixed Income
14 31 (1.66%) Derivative
15 28 (1.50%) AI Agents
16 27 (1.44%) Algorithms
16 27 (1.44%) Equities
17 25 (1.34%) CMDB
18 23 (1.23%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 130 (6.94%) Windows
2 123 (6.57%) Linux
3 46 (2.46%) Unix
4 24 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.91%) Mac OS
5 17 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (0.91%) Windows 10
6 15 (0.80%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.59%) Android
8 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.32%) Solaris
10 5 (0.27%) AIX
11 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.11%) SUSE
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.053%) VMS
13 1 (0.053%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 955 (51.01%) Problem-Solving
2 562 (30.02%) Agile
2 562 (30.02%) Stakeholder Management
3 374 (19.98%) Continuous Improvement
4 360 (19.23%) Analytics
5 337 (18.00%) AI
6 317 (16.93%) Decision-Making
7 256 (13.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 251 (13.41%) Data Modelling
9 242 (12.93%) Validation
10 233 (12.45%) DevOps
11 228 (12.18%) Business Intelligence
12 217 (11.59%) CI/CD
13 211 (11.27%) Migration
14 184 (9.83%) Data Analysis
14 184 (9.83%) User Acceptance Testing
15 164 (8.76%) User Stories
16 163 (8.71%) Roadmaps
17 160 (8.55%) Data Pipeline
18 154 (8.23%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 522 (27.88%) SQL
2 406 (21.69%) Python
3 134 (7.16%) Java
4 92 (4.91%) C#
5 89 (4.75%) JavaScript
6 77 (4.11%) PowerShell
7 44 (2.35%) TypeScript
8 41 (2.19%) Bash
9 35 (1.87%) C++
10 29 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 28 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 28 (1.50%) R
12 22 (1.18%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.80%) Scala
14 11 (0.59%) Perl
14 11 (0.59%) Shell Script
15 9 (0.48%) Apex Code
15 9 (0.48%) Go
15 9 (0.48%) Ruby
15 9 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 252 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 240 (12.82%) Degree
3 193 (10.31%) SC Cleared
4 78 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.08%) CISSP
6 31 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (1.50%) PMP
8 27 (1.44%) CISM
8 27 (1.44%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.39%) PMI Certification
10 25 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (1.18%) Azure Certification
12 20 (1.07%) DV Cleared
12 20 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (0.96%) ISTQB
14 17 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.85%) ACCA
16 15 (0.80%) CCNP
16 15 (0.80%) CIMA
17 12 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (12.29%) Data Quality
2 143 (7.64%) QA
3 86 (4.59%) PMO
4 54 (2.88%) GDPR
5 49 (2.62%) SLA
6 45 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (2.40%) NIST
7 34 (1.82%) Accessibility
8 27 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
9 23 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (1.07%) COBIT
10 20 (1.07%) GRC
11 17 (0.91%) IFRS
12 11 (0.59%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.32%) GAAP
14 6 (0.32%) MiFID
14 6 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 79 (4.22%) Active Directory
2 72 (3.85%) Docker
3 22 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.48%) IAG
6 6 (0.32%) Firmware
6 6 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.16%) Postfix
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.053%) NFS
10 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.053%) RACF
Systems Management
1 74 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 62 (3.31%) Terraform
3 43 (2.30%) Ansible
4 34 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 31 (1.66%) Grafana
6 17 (0.91%) SCCM
7 16 (0.85%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.75%) Control-M
9 12 (0.64%) Kibana
10 11 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.37%) Puppet
11 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
12 5 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
12 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.27%) HP Fortify
13 4 (0.21%) Istio
13 4 (0.21%) systemd
14 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
14 3 (0.16%) RSA Archer
15 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 309 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 167 (8.92%) Oracle
3 103 (5.50%) SAP
4 102 (5.45%) ServiceNow
5 71 (3.79%) Google
6 65 (3.47%) Databricks
7 62 (3.31%) Salesforce
8 39 (2.08%) Splunk
9 35 (1.87%) IBM
10 33 (1.76%) Dynatrace
11 32 (1.71%) Cisco
12 31 (1.66%) VMware
13 23 (1.23%) Adobe
13 23 (1.23%) Workday
14 22 (1.18%) CyberArk
15 20 (1.07%) Alteryx
16 18 (0.96%) Informatica
17 17 (0.91%) Apple
18 16 (0.85%) Sitecore
19 14 (0.75%) Red Hat