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

6 months to
17 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 1,870 1,593 1,368
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.31% 11.75% 8.46%
As % of the General category 15.33% 17.08% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,131 1,017 895
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% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 30 23
10th Percentile £19.03 £11.96 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.19 £24.63 £22.03
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.48 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% -18.87% -10.53%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £73.08 £57.00 £65.03
England median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +13.08% +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 12,201 9,324 10,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.74% 68.75% 62.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,776 6,186 7,078
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 229 190 145
10th Percentile £18.40 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.15 £24.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +1.10%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.31 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -9 227 £525 -4.55% 265
West London +3 76 £520 +26.06% 73
South London +6 33 £544 -13.04% 28
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 83 (4.44%) Confluence
2 42 (2.25%) 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 (1.02%) 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
1 165 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (3.10%) 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 25 (1.34%) 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%) Fidessa
9 6 (0.32%) iTrent
10 5 (0.27%) Magento
10 5 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.21%) Findur
11 4 (0.21%) HFM
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 375 (20.05%) Azure
2 249 (13.32%) AWS
3 220 (11.76%) Power Platform
4 97 (5.19%) GCP
5 80 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
6 79 (4.22%) SaaS
7 71 (3.80%) GitHub
8 66 (3.53%) Microsoft 365
9 65 (3.48%) Entra ID
10 55 (2.94%) Snowflake
11 43 (2.30%) 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 51 (2.73%) Firewall
2 39 (2.09%) DNS
3 29 (1.55%) Network Security
3 29 (1.55%) VPN
4 27 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 23 (1.23%) DHCP
6 18 (0.96%) WAN
7 15 (0.80%) HTTP
7 15 (0.80%) SSL
8 13 (0.70%) BGP
8 13 (0.70%) SAN
8 13 (0.70%) VLAN
9 12 (0.64%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.48%) MPLS
12 8 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.43%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.37%) 4G
13 7 (0.37%) 5G
13 7 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 199 (10.64%) Power BI
2 102 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
3 98 (5.24%) SQL Server
4 78 (4.17%) Relational Database
5 76 (4.06%) Tableau
6 71 (3.80%) Metadata
7 55 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (1.93%) Data Lake
8 36 (1.93%) NoSQL
9 32 (1.71%) Big Data
10 28 (1.50%) Oracle Database
11 27 (1.44%) MongoDB
12 24 (1.28%) RDBMS
13 21 (1.12%) Power Query
14 20 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (0.96%) Delta Lake
15 18 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
16 17 (0.91%) BigQuery
17 16 (0.86%) Hadoop
17 16 (0.86%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 186 (9.95%) JIRA
2 80 (4.28%) Git
3 45 (2.41%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.44%) Selenium
5 22 (1.18%) JMeter
6 18 (0.96%) GitLab
7 14 (0.75%) LoadRunner
7 14 (0.75%) Postman
8 13 (0.70%) ERwin
8 13 (0.70%) JUnit
9 12 (0.64%) Cypress.io
9 12 (0.64%) Maven
10 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
10 11 (0.59%) SonarQube
11 10 (0.53%) Gatling
11 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
12 9 (0.48%) ER Studio
12 9 (0.48%) Gradle
12 9 (0.48%) Zephyr
13 8 (0.43%) Cucumber
General
1 934 (49.95%) Social Skills
2 743 (39.73%) Finance
3 281 (15.03%) Banking
4 148 (7.91%) Public Sector
5 99 (5.29%) Front Office
5 99 (5.29%) Marketing
6 90 (4.81%) Organisational Skills
7 85 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
8 74 (3.96%) Legal
9 71 (3.80%) Retail
10 60 (3.21%) Influencing Skills
11 58 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
12 56 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 56 (2.99%) Investment Banking
13 52 (2.78%) Telecoms
14 41 (2.19%) Financial Institution
15 31 (1.66%) Local Government
16 27 (1.44%) Back Office
17 20 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
18 18 (0.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 460 (24.60%) Analyst
2 240 (12.83%) Business Analyst
3 209 (11.18%) Senior
4 176 (9.41%) Developer
5 137 (7.33%) Lead
6 129 (6.90%) Architect
7 99 (5.29%) Data Engineer
8 94 (5.03%) Data Analyst
9 84 (4.49%) Consultant
10 64 (3.42%) Data Scientist
11 58 (3.10%) Project Manager
12 51 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
13 44 (2.35%) Senior Developer
14 33 (1.76%) Senior Manager
15 32 (1.71%) Solutions Architect
15 32 (1.71%) Support Engineer
16 31 (1.66%) Java Developer
16 31 (1.66%) Technical Business Analyst
17 30 (1.60%) Technical Analyst
18 29 (1.55%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (5.99%) REST
2 76 (4.06%) .NET
3 60 (3.21%) Kafka
4 54 (2.89%) RESTful
5 46 (2.46%) JSON
6 44 (2.35%) SOAP
6 44 (2.35%) XML
7 42 (2.25%) Web Services
8 39 (2.09%) Middleware
9 38 (2.03%) HTML
10 34 (1.82%) Spring
11 33 (1.76%) PySpark
12 32 (1.71%) CSS
13 31 (1.66%) React
14 30 (1.60%) Pandas
15 27 (1.44%) Spring Boot
16 22 (1.18%) AngularJS
16 22 (1.18%) OAuth
16 22 (1.18%) PyTorch
17 21 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 175 (9.36%) Analytical Mindset
2 132 (7.06%) Product Ownership
3 112 (5.99%) Onboarding
4 75 (4.01%) Data Structures
5 65 (3.48%) Cloud Native
5 65 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
6 58 (3.10%) Distributed Systems
7 57 (3.05%) Management Information System
8 42 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
9 38 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
10 37 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 37 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
11 32 (1.71%) Data Centre
11 32 (1.71%) Fixed Income
12 31 (1.66%) Derivative
13 29 (1.55%) AI Agents
14 28 (1.50%) Algorithms
14 28 (1.50%) Equities
15 25 (1.34%) CMDB
16 23 (1.23%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 130 (6.95%) Windows
2 122 (6.52%) Linux
3 45 (2.41%) 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
1 948 (50.70%) Problem-Solving
2 560 (29.95%) Agile
3 555 (29.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 368 (19.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 357 (19.09%) Analytics
6 336 (17.97%) AI
7 316 (16.90%) Decision-Making
8 257 (13.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 251 (13.42%) Data Modelling
10 241 (12.89%) Validation
11 233 (12.46%) DevOps
12 229 (12.25%) Business Intelligence
13 212 (11.34%) CI/CD
13 212 (11.34%) Migration
14 180 (9.63%) Data Analysis
15 179 (9.57%) User Acceptance Testing
16 163 (8.72%) Data Pipeline
16 163 (8.72%) Roadmaps
16 163 (8.72%) User Stories
17 153 (8.18%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 520 (27.81%) SQL
2 403 (21.55%) Python
3 135 (7.22%) Java
4 91 (4.87%) C#
5 90 (4.81%) JavaScript
6 77 (4.12%) PowerShell
7 45 (2.41%) TypeScript
8 40 (2.14%) Bash
9 35 (1.87%) C++
10 29 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 29 (1.55%) PL/SQL
10 29 (1.55%) R
11 22 (1.18%) T-SQL
12 15 (0.80%) Scala
13 11 (0.59%) Perl
13 11 (0.59%) Shell Script
14 9 (0.48%) Apex Code
14 9 (0.48%) Go
14 9 (0.48%) Ruby
14 9 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 251 (13.42%) Security Cleared
2 236 (12.62%) Degree
3 192 (10.27%) SC Cleared
4 78 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.14%) CISSP
6 31 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (1.50%) CISM
7 28 (1.50%) PMP
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 16 (0.86%) ISTQB
14 15 (0.80%) ACCA
14 15 (0.80%) CCNP
14 15 (0.80%) ITIL Certification
15 14 (0.75%) CIMA
16 13 (0.70%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 227 (12.14%) Data Quality
2 140 (7.49%) QA
3 86 (4.60%) PMO
4 56 (2.99%) GDPR
5 49 (2.62%) SLA
6 47 (2.51%) NIST
7 46 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (1.87%) Accessibility
9 27 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 23 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (1.18%) COBIT
12 21 (1.12%) GRC
13 16 (0.86%) IFRS
14 10 (0.53%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.48%) PCI DSS
16 8 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 7 (0.37%) WCAG
18 6 (0.32%) GAAP
18 6 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 81 (4.33%) Active Directory
2 71 (3.80%) 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 73 (3.90%) Kubernetes
2 63 (3.37%) Terraform
3 44 (2.35%) Ansible
4 34 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 32 (1.71%) Grafana
6 17 (0.91%) SCCM
7 16 (0.86%) Prometheus
8 14 (0.75%) Control-M
8 14 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 12 (0.64%) Kibana
10 7 (0.37%) Puppet
10 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.21%) Istio
12 4 (0.21%) systemd
13 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.16%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.11%) Cilium
Vendors
1 309 (16.52%) Microsoft
2 166 (8.88%) Oracle
3 104 (5.56%) SAP
4 102 (5.45%) ServiceNow
5 71 (3.80%) Google
6 66 (3.53%) Databricks
7 63 (3.37%) Salesforce
8 40 (2.14%) Splunk
9 36 (1.93%) IBM
10 32 (1.71%) Cisco
10 32 (1.71%) Dynatrace
11 31 (1.66%) VMware
12 23 (1.23%) Adobe
12 23 (1.23%) Workday
13 22 (1.18%) CyberArk
14 19 (1.02%) Alteryx
15 18 (0.96%) Informatica
16 17 (0.91%) Apple
17 16 (0.86%) Sitecore
18 14 (0.75%) Red Hat