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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,676 1,470 1,478
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.72% 11.62% 8.31%
As % of the General category 15.88% 17.29% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 917 1,015
10th Percentile £350 £306 £320
25th Percentile £415 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 37 51
10th Percentile £22.75 £17.98 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.25 £16.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £39.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% +68.09% -26.38%
75th Percentile £47.50 £55.25 £39.88
90th Percentile £53.79 £70.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £36.53 £27.75 £18.50
% change year-on-year +31.62% +50.00% -47.89%

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 10,553 8,502 11,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.21% 67.20% 63.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,863 5,755 8,015
10th Percentile £348 £331 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £707 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 138 251
10th Percentile £17.85 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £47.69 £53.31 £48.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £28.13 £29.00 £27.84
% change year-on-year -3.02% +4.19% -20.47%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -4 247 £525 -2.78% 263
West London -5 45 £500 +25.00% 52
South London +1 34 £500 -14.38% 12
East London +4 11 £400 -6.16% 29
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 87 (5.19%) Confluence
2 27 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 26 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (0.89%) Apache
5 15 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.84%) CMS
7 8 (0.48%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.36%) SAS
9 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.18%) IIS
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.12%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.060%) GeoServer
12 1 (0.060%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.060%) Traefik
Applications
1 169 (10.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 52 (3.10%) Microsoft Office
4 49 (2.92%) MS Visio
5 31 (1.85%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.54%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.18%) Trello
9 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.060%) Notion
10 1 (0.060%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.78%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
3 10 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.54%) Shopify
5 8 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.42%) Fidessa
6 7 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 7 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.42%) Summit
7 5 (0.30%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.30%) BASE24
7 5 (0.30%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 333 (19.87%) Azure
2 236 (14.08%) AWS
3 204 (12.17%) Power Platform
4 94 (5.61%) GCP
5 90 (5.37%) SaaS
6 75 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
8 53 (3.16%) GitHub
9 48 (2.86%) Serverless
10 43 (2.57%) Amazon S3
10 43 (2.57%) IaaS
11 41 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
12 40 (2.39%) Snowflake
13 39 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
14 35 (2.09%) Entra ID
15 30 (1.79%) dbt
16 27 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
17 23 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 23 (1.37%) PaaS
18 21 (1.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.57%) Firewall
2 29 (1.73%) Network Security
3 28 (1.67%) DNS
4 18 (1.07%) VPN
5 17 (1.01%) DHCP
5 17 (1.01%) WAN
6 15 (0.89%) SAN
7 11 (0.66%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.60%) HTTP
9 9 (0.54%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.54%) VLAN
9 9 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.48%) Internet
10 8 (0.48%) LAN
11 7 (0.42%) BGP
12 6 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.36%) IOS XR
12 6 (0.36%) NAS
12 6 (0.36%) OSPF
12 6 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (11.04%) Power BI
2 91 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
3 81 (4.83%) Tableau
4 64 (3.82%) SQL Server
5 59 (3.52%) Metadata
6 40 (2.39%) Relational Database
7 28 (1.67%) Data Lake
8 27 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
9 24 (1.43%) BigQuery
9 24 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
10 22 (1.31%) Big Data
10 22 (1.31%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
11 17 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (0.95%) Power Query
13 15 (0.89%) Star Schema
14 14 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 14 (0.84%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.78%) Looker
Development Applications
1 170 (10.14%) JIRA
2 65 (3.88%) Git
3 23 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.19%) Selenium
5 14 (0.84%) GitLab
6 12 (0.72%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.66%) MLflow
8 10 (0.60%) JUnit
8 10 (0.60%) Postman
8 10 (0.60%) REST Assured
9 8 (0.48%) Appium
9 8 (0.48%) ERwin
10 7 (0.42%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 7 (0.42%) JMeter
11 6 (0.36%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.36%) PowerDesigner
12 5 (0.30%) Bitbucket
12 5 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.30%) SonarQube
General
1 782 (46.66%) Social Skills
2 621 (37.05%) Finance
3 231 (13.78%) Banking
4 145 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 107 (6.38%) Marketing
6 80 (4.77%) Documentation Skills
7 77 (4.59%) Legal
8 67 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (3.88%) Front Office
10 53 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
11 52 (3.10%) Investment Banking
12 49 (2.92%) Retail
13 47 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
14 46 (2.74%) Financial Institution
15 37 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 37 (2.21%) Telecoms
16 28 (1.67%) Back Office
17 22 (1.31%) Publishing
18 19 (1.13%) Law
19 14 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 425 (25.36%) Analyst
2 236 (14.08%) Business Analyst
3 171 (10.20%) Senior
4 148 (8.83%) Developer
5 131 (7.82%) Architect
6 109 (6.50%) Lead
7 93 (5.55%) Consultant
8 92 (5.49%) Data Analyst
9 89 (5.31%) Data Engineer
10 59 (3.52%) Project Manager
11 57 (3.40%) Data Scientist
12 51 (3.04%) Senior Analyst
13 41 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
14 38 (2.27%) Senior Business Analyst
15 29 (1.73%) Product Manager
16 27 (1.61%) Senior Developer
17 25 (1.49%) Financial Analyst
18 24 (1.43%) Quantitative Developer
18 24 (1.43%) Salesforce Analyst
19 23 (1.37%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (5.49%) REST
2 54 (3.22%) JSON
3 47 (2.80%) Kafka
4 45 (2.68%) Pandas
5 43 (2.57%) .NET
6 39 (2.33%) Middleware
7 37 (2.21%) scikit-learn
8 32 (1.91%) NumPy
8 32 (1.91%) XML
9 30 (1.79%) RESTful
10 27 (1.61%) SOAP
11 25 (1.49%) Node.js
12 24 (1.43%) HTML
13 23 (1.37%) CSS
13 23 (1.37%) PySpark
14 22 (1.31%) AngularJS
14 22 (1.31%) PyTorch
14 22 (1.31%) Web Services
15 21 (1.25%) React
16 20 (1.19%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 155 (9.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 88 (5.25%) Product Ownership
3 86 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
4 66 (3.94%) Data Structures
5 61 (3.64%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.57%) Algorithms
7 38 (2.27%) Management Information System
8 37 (2.21%) Derivative
8 37 (2.21%) Fixed Income
9 35 (2.09%) Data Centre
9 35 (2.09%) Legacy Systems
10 33 (1.97%) Cloud Native
11 30 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 28 (1.67%) Equities
12 28 (1.67%) PKI
13 27 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
14 24 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
15 22 (1.31%) Virtual Team
16 20 (1.19%) Credit Risk
17 18 (1.07%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 77 (4.59%) Windows
2 52 (3.10%) Linux
3 26 (1.55%) Unix
4 15 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.66%) Android
7 7 (0.42%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.060%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.060%) VMS
11 1 (0.060%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (48.39%) Problem-Solving
2 501 (29.89%) Agile
3 342 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 331 (19.75%) Analytics
5 288 (17.18%) Decision-Making
6 254 (15.16%) AI
7 253 (15.10%) Data Modelling
8 247 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 215 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
10 203 (12.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 191 (11.40%) Validation
12 183 (10.92%) DevOps
13 174 (10.38%) Migration
14 171 (10.20%) CI/CD
15 164 (9.79%) Data Analysis
16 155 (9.25%) Roadmaps
17 154 (9.19%) Data Governance
18 152 (9.07%) Project Management
19 148 (8.83%) Visualisation
20 139 (8.29%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 446 (26.61%) SQL
2 365 (21.78%) Python
3 90 (5.37%) Java
4 73 (4.36%) C#
4 73 (4.36%) PowerShell
5 56 (3.34%) JavaScript
6 45 (2.68%) TypeScript
7 32 (1.91%) C++
8 30 (1.79%) Bash
9 28 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 28 (1.67%) R
10 20 (1.19%) PL/SQL
11 18 (1.07%) T-SQL
12 15 (0.89%) Scala
13 12 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
14 9 (0.54%) C
15 8 (0.48%) Apex Code
15 8 (0.48%) VBA
16 6 (0.36%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.30%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 251 (14.98%) Security Cleared
2 219 (13.07%) Degree
3 186 (11.10%) SC Cleared
4 64 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 58 (3.46%) Master's Degree
6 42 (2.51%) PMI Certification
7 37 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 33 (1.97%) PMP
9 29 (1.73%) CISSP
10 20 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (1.07%) CISM
12 17 (1.01%) DV Cleared
13 16 (0.95%) CISA
13 16 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.84%) Azure Certification
14 14 (0.84%) CRISC
14 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.78%) CCNP
16 11 (0.66%) AWS Certification
17 10 (0.60%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 207 (12.35%) Data Quality
2 142 (8.47%) QA
3 78 (4.65%) GDPR
4 67 (4.00%) PMO
5 43 (2.57%) NIST
6 40 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 39 (2.33%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.73%) SLA
9 27 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
10 24 (1.43%) GRC
10 24 (1.43%) PCI DSS
11 21 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (1.19%) COBIT
13 11 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.66%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.66%) MiFID
14 9 (0.54%) IFRS
14 9 (0.54%) PSD2
14 9 (0.54%) Solvency II
14 9 (0.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (3.52%) Docker
2 44 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Firmware
5 4 (0.24%) IAG
5 4 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.18%) ProxySG
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.12%) HDFS
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.060%) Postfix
8 1 (0.060%) RACF
8 1 (0.060%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.060%) Xen
8 1 (0.060%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 61 (3.64%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.63%) Terraform
3 23 (1.37%) Ansible
3 23 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (0.84%) Grafana
5 13 (0.78%) SCCM
6 10 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.42%) HP ALM
7 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.18%) Kibana
9 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.18%) SCOM
10 2 (0.12%) Control-M
10 2 (0.12%) Istio
10 2 (0.12%) Nessus
10 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.060%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.060%) CEMLI
11 1 (0.060%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 261 (15.57%) Microsoft
2 107 (6.38%) Oracle
3 94 (5.61%) Salesforce
4 91 (5.43%) SAP
5 78 (4.65%) Google
6 65 (3.88%) Databricks
7 64 (3.82%) ServiceNow
8 25 (1.49%) Bloomberg
9 24 (1.43%) Adobe
9 24 (1.43%) Workday
10 21 (1.25%) VMware
11 19 (1.13%) Cisco
11 19 (1.13%) Informatica
12 18 (1.07%) Murex
13 17 (1.01%) Splunk
14 16 (0.95%) Palo Alto
15 14 (0.84%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.78%) Dynatrace
17 12 (0.72%) IBM
17 12 (0.72%) MuleSoft