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

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,905 1,576 1,369
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.42% 11.70% 8.47%
As % of the General category 15.46% 17.00% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,016 880
10th Percentile £350 £313 £314
25th Percentile £425 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £653 £650 £674
90th Percentile £761 £775 £763
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 34 24
10th Percentile £19.55 £18.15 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.59 £22.75
Median hourly rate £36.00 £34.74 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.63% -17.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.23 £58.88 £65.02
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £21.75
% change year-on-year +10.77% +49.43% -51.67%

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 12,320 9,273 10,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.93% 68.87% 62.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,840 6,158 6,931
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £450 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £501 £538
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.88% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 186 137
10th Percentile £18.50 £16.17 £18.08
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.66 £24.18
Median hourly rate £28.20 £32.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.57% -11.64% +7.35%
75th Percentile £43.75 £50.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £64.63 £64.25 £65.42
England median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +25.25% -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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -10 222 £550 - 183
West London +4 82 £520 +26.06% 154
South London 0 33 £550 -12.00% 25
East London +2 13 £463 +42.31% 31
North London +3 4 £500 - 4
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 85 (4.46%) Confluence
2 45 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 39 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.42%) CMS
6 21 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 18 (0.94%) Apache
8 10 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.47%) SAS
10 8 (0.42%) JBoss
10 8 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.31%) IIS
13 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.26%) Appian
13 5 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 3 (0.16%) Camunda
Applications
1 180 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.10%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.58%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.37%) CPLEX
9 4 (0.21%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.10%) Notion
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 26 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.79%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.68%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.52%) Finacle
6 10 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.47%) Shopify
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.37%) iTrent
10 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.26%) Magento
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.26%) SAP GRC
10 5 (0.26%) Summit
11 4 (0.21%) Findur
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 383 (20.10%) Azure
2 267 (14.02%) AWS
3 236 (12.39%) Power Platform
4 99 (5.20%) GCP
5 85 (4.46%) Azure DevOps
6 78 (4.09%) SaaS
7 75 (3.94%) GitHub
8 67 (3.52%) Microsoft 365
9 66 (3.46%) Entra ID
10 61 (3.20%) Snowflake
11 46 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
12 40 (2.10%) Serverless
13 39 (2.05%) dbt
14 34 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
16 29 (1.52%) Amazon S3
16 29 (1.52%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 25 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
18 21 (1.10%) PaaS
19 19 (1.00%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.52%) Firewall
2 37 (1.94%) DNS
3 32 (1.68%) Network Security
3 32 (1.68%) TCP/IP
4 28 (1.47%) VPN
5 21 (1.10%) DHCP
6 20 (1.05%) WAN
7 16 (0.84%) HTTP
8 15 (0.79%) SSL
9 14 (0.73%) BGP
9 14 (0.73%) SAN
10 12 (0.63%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.58%) 5G
11 11 (0.58%) Kerberos
11 11 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
11 11 (0.58%) VLAN
12 10 (0.52%) MPLS
12 10 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.47%) 4G
14 8 (0.42%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (11.23%) Power BI
2 108 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (5.25%) SQL Server
4 83 (4.36%) Tableau
5 80 (4.20%) Relational Database
6 73 (3.83%) Metadata
7 56 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
8 35 (1.84%) Data Lake
9 33 (1.73%) NoSQL
10 30 (1.57%) Big Data
11 28 (1.47%) Oracle Database
12 25 (1.31%) MongoDB
13 24 (1.26%) Delta Lake
14 23 (1.21%) Power Query
14 23 (1.21%) RDBMS
15 22 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 19 (1.00%) BigQuery
16 19 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
17 18 (0.94%) Star Schema
18 15 (0.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 187 (9.82%) JIRA
2 91 (4.78%) Git
3 51 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.63%) Selenium
5 22 (1.15%) JMeter
6 21 (1.10%) GitLab
7 16 (0.84%) Postman
8 15 (0.79%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.73%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.73%) LoadRunner
10 13 (0.68%) ERwin
11 10 (0.52%) Gatling
11 10 (0.52%) Maven
11 10 (0.52%) REST Assured
12 9 (0.47%) ER Studio
12 9 (0.47%) Gradle
12 9 (0.47%) JUnit
12 9 (0.47%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.47%) Zephyr
13 8 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 971 (50.97%) Social Skills
2 756 (39.69%) Finance
3 284 (14.91%) Banking
4 155 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 101 (5.30%) Front Office
6 97 (5.09%) Marketing
7 88 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
8 85 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
9 75 (3.94%) Legal
9 75 (3.94%) Retail
10 69 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
11 59 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 59 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (3.04%) Telecoms
13 57 (2.99%) Investment Banking
14 40 (2.10%) Financial Institution
15 39 (2.05%) Local Government
16 28 (1.47%) Back Office
17 20 (1.05%) Manufacturing
17 20 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 477 (25.04%) Analyst
2 231 (12.13%) Business Analyst
3 219 (11.50%) Senior
4 175 (9.19%) Developer
5 136 (7.14%) Architect
6 133 (6.98%) Lead
7 102 (5.35%) Data Engineer
8 98 (5.14%) Data Analyst
9 77 (4.04%) Consultant
10 64 (3.36%) Data Scientist
11 54 (2.83%) Senior Analyst
12 53 (2.78%) Project Manager
13 46 (2.41%) Senior Developer
14 34 (1.78%) Solutions Architect
14 34 (1.78%) Support Engineer
15 32 (1.68%) Senior Manager
16 31 (1.63%) Financial Analyst
16 31 (1.63%) Technical Analyst
17 30 (1.57%) Technical Business Analyst
18 27 (1.42%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (6.04%) REST
2 84 (4.41%) .NET
3 67 (3.52%) Terraform
4 56 (2.94%) Kafka
5 53 (2.78%) RESTful
6 46 (2.41%) JSON
7 45 (2.36%) Middleware
8 44 (2.31%) XML
9 42 (2.20%) Web Services
10 41 (2.15%) PySpark
11 40 (2.10%) SOAP
12 39 (2.05%) HTML
13 32 (1.68%) CSS
13 32 (1.68%) React
14 30 (1.57%) Spring
15 29 (1.52%) Pandas
16 25 (1.31%) Spring Boot
17 24 (1.26%) OAuth
18 21 (1.10%) AngularJS
18 21 (1.10%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 165 (8.66%) Analytical Mindset
2 141 (7.40%) Product Ownership
3 115 (6.04%) Onboarding
4 79 (4.15%) Data Structures
5 74 (3.88%) Cloud Native
6 64 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
7 62 (3.25%) Management Information System
8 59 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
9 46 (2.41%) Enterprise Software
10 40 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 34 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
12 31 (1.63%) AI Agents
13 30 (1.57%) Data Centre
13 30 (1.57%) Derivative
14 29 (1.52%) Fixed Income
15 28 (1.47%) Equities
16 26 (1.36%) Algorithms
17 25 (1.31%) Reference Data
18 23 (1.21%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 129 (6.77%) Linux
2 123 (6.46%) Windows
3 47 (2.47%) Unix
4 24 (1.26%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.00%) Windows 10
7 18 (0.94%) Mac OS
8 16 (0.84%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.68%) Android
10 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.31%) Solaris
12 5 (0.26%) AIX
13 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.10%) SUSE
14 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.052%) OpenWrt
15 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.052%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 983 (51.60%) Problem-Solving
2 603 (31.65%) Stakeholder Management
3 566 (29.71%) Agile
4 388 (20.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 378 (19.84%) Analytics
6 354 (18.58%) AI
7 342 (17.95%) Decision-Making
8 273 (14.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 250 (13.12%) Business Intelligence
10 247 (12.97%) Data Modelling
11 243 (12.76%) Validation
12 240 (12.60%) DevOps
13 235 (12.34%) CI/CD
14 217 (11.39%) Migration
15 191 (10.03%) User Acceptance Testing
16 184 (9.66%) Data Analysis
17 170 (8.92%) Data Pipeline
17 170 (8.92%) Roadmaps
18 166 (8.71%) User Stories
19 156 (8.19%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 542 (28.45%) SQL
2 435 (22.83%) Python
3 130 (6.82%) Java
4 100 (5.25%) C#
5 94 (4.93%) JavaScript
6 77 (4.04%) PowerShell
7 48 (2.52%) Bash
8 47 (2.47%) TypeScript
9 36 (1.89%) R
10 35 (1.84%) C++
11 30 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 29 (1.52%) PL/SQL
13 24 (1.26%) T-SQL
14 16 (0.84%) Perl
14 16 (0.84%) Scala
15 15 (0.79%) Shell Script
16 13 (0.68%) Korn
17 9 (0.47%) Go
17 9 (0.47%) Ruby
18 8 (0.42%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 264 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 243 (12.76%) Degree
3 207 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 72 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (1.99%) CISSP
6 35 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (1.42%) Master's Degree
7 27 (1.42%) PMP
8 26 (1.36%) PMI Certification
9 25 (1.31%) CISM
10 24 (1.26%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.05%) DV Cleared
14 18 (0.94%) ACCA
14 18 (0.94%) ISTQB
15 17 (0.89%) CIMA
15 17 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.68%) CCNP
16 13 (0.68%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (12.81%) Data Quality
2 151 (7.93%) QA
3 87 (4.57%) PMO
4 54 (2.83%) GDPR
5 51 (2.68%) SLA
6 47 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (2.26%) NIST
8 31 (1.63%) Accessibility
9 28 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 27 (1.42%) GRC
11 20 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 19 (1.00%) COBIT
13 16 (0.84%) IFRS
14 12 (0.63%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.31%) ISO 15022
16 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.31%) WCAG
17 5 (0.26%) GAAP
System Software
1 79 (4.15%) Active Directory
2 75 (3.94%) Docker
3 22 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.47%) IAG
6 6 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.10%) Firmware
9 2 (0.10%) Postfix
9 2 (0.10%) Squid
9 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.10%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.052%) NFS
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.052%) RACF
Systems Management
1 78 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 46 (2.41%) Ansible
3 32 (1.68%) Grafana
4 29 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.79%) SCCM
6 14 (0.73%) Control-M
7 12 (0.63%) Kibana
8 11 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.37%) Puppet
9 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 5 (0.26%) Istio
11 4 (0.21%) systemd
12 3 (0.16%) Cilium
12 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.10%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 321 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 167 (8.77%) Oracle
3 103 (5.41%) SAP
4 94 (4.93%) ServiceNow
5 76 (3.99%) Databricks
6 72 (3.78%) Google
7 63 (3.31%) Salesforce
8 45 (2.36%) Splunk
9 35 (1.84%) IBM
10 32 (1.68%) Cisco
10 32 (1.68%) Dynatrace
11 29 (1.52%) VMware
12 24 (1.26%) Adobe
13 22 (1.15%) CyberArk
14 20 (1.05%) Alteryx
14 20 (1.05%) Workday
15 19 (1.00%) Informatica
16 16 (0.84%) Apple
16 16 (0.84%) Sitecore
17 15 (0.79%) Red Hat