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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,788 1,612 1,388
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.03% 11.89% 8.07%
As % of the General category 14.90% 17.45% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 1,024 932
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £643 £675 £678
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 33 32
10th Percentile £22.16 £11.96 £12.88
25th Percentile £27.14 £26.25 £17.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% +20.33% -32.79%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £44.43
90th Percentile £73.23 £62.75 £64.00
England median hourly rate £36.00 £34.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year +5.90% +59.98% -40.14%

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 11,996 9,240 10,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.60% 68.13% 62.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,661 6,162 7,605
10th Percentile £350 £331 £338
25th Percentile £440 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £700
90th Percentile £788 £812 £825
England median daily rate £525 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +2.44% -3.30% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 179 196
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.38
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £31.75 £32.50 £33.29
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% -2.36% -4.90%
75th Percentile £44.59 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £26.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.53% -24.43% +14.60%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -7 231 £525 -4.55% 127
West London +2 81 £520 +30.00% 39
South London +2 37 £513 -18.00% 19
East London -5 8 £400 +16.64% 23
North London - 3 £450 - 2
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 73 (4.08%) Confluence
2 33 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (1.79%) SharePoint
4 31 (1.73%) Apache Spark
5 20 (1.12%) CMS
6 19 (1.06%) Apache
7 16 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
8 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 6 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.34%) SAS
10 5 (0.28%) IIS
11 4 (0.22%) Appian
12 3 (0.17%) Camunda
13 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
13 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.056%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.056%) Traefik
Applications
1 157 (8.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (3.52%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.18%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.62%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.11%) Notion
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.056%) Sketch
10 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.95%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.56%) Finacle
6 9 (0.50%) Fidessa
6 9 (0.50%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.28%) Magento
9 5 (0.28%) Shopify
9 5 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.28%) Summit
10 4 (0.22%) HFM
10 4 (0.22%) iTrent
10 4 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 369 (20.64%) Azure
2 255 (14.26%) AWS
3 220 (12.30%) Power Platform
4 94 (5.26%) GCP
5 81 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
6 74 (4.14%) SaaS
7 71 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
8 68 (3.80%) GitHub
9 55 (3.08%) Entra ID
10 44 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
10 44 (2.46%) Snowflake
11 34 (1.90%) Amazon S3
12 33 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
13 32 (1.79%) Serverless
14 30 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (1.68%) dbt
15 27 (1.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 23 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
17 22 (1.23%) Collibra
17 22 (1.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.57%) Firewall
2 32 (1.79%) DNS
3 28 (1.57%) Network Security
4 25 (1.40%) VPN
5 22 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.12%) DHCP
7 18 (1.01%) WAN
8 14 (0.78%) SAN
9 13 (0.73%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.73%) VLAN
10 12 (0.67%) BGP
10 12 (0.67%) HTTP
11 9 (0.50%) 5G
11 9 (0.50%) OSPF
11 9 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.45%) 4G
12 8 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.45%) LAN
12 8 (0.45%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 197 (11.02%) Power BI
2 105 (5.87%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (5.31%) SQL Server
4 76 (4.25%) Tableau
5 74 (4.14%) Relational Database
6 66 (3.69%) Metadata
7 46 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (2.29%) Data Lake
9 34 (1.90%) NoSQL
10 27 (1.51%) MongoDB
11 26 (1.45%) Big Data
12 24 (1.34%) RDBMS
13 23 (1.29%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.29%) Oracle Database
13 23 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (1.01%) Power Query
14 18 (1.01%) Star Schema
15 17 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
16 15 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.84%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 171 (9.56%) JIRA
2 78 (4.36%) Git
3 37 (2.07%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.45%) Selenium
5 13 (0.73%) Postman
5 13 (0.73%) REST Assured
6 12 (0.67%) Cypress.io
6 12 (0.67%) ERwin
6 12 (0.67%) GitLab
7 11 (0.62%) JUnit
8 10 (0.56%) Maven
9 9 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.50%) JMeter
9 9 (0.50%) MLflow
10 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.39%) Chocolatey
11 7 (0.39%) Gradle
11 7 (0.39%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 843 (47.15%) Social Skills
2 697 (38.98%) Finance
3 257 (14.37%) Banking
4 152 (8.50%) Public Sector
5 89 (4.98%) Marketing
6 88 (4.92%) Front Office
7 84 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
8 79 (4.42%) Organisational Skills
9 75 (4.19%) Legal
10 56 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
10 56 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (3.08%) Investment Banking
12 52 (2.91%) Retail
13 50 (2.80%) Telecoms
14 47 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 41 (2.29%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.62%) Back Office
17 21 (1.17%) Local Government
18 20 (1.12%) Law
18 20 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 462 (25.84%) Analyst
2 233 (13.03%) Business Analyst
3 181 (10.12%) Senior
4 159 (8.89%) Developer
5 126 (7.05%) Architect
6 123 (6.88%) Lead
7 106 (5.93%) Data Engineer
8 100 (5.59%) Data Analyst
9 86 (4.81%) Consultant
10 70 (3.91%) Data Scientist
11 61 (3.41%) Project Manager
12 43 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
13 36 (2.01%) Senior Developer
14 32 (1.79%) Solutions Architect
15 29 (1.62%) Financial Analyst
15 29 (1.62%) Senior Manager
15 29 (1.62%) Technical Business Analyst
16 28 (1.57%) Product Owner
16 28 (1.57%) Support Engineer
17 27 (1.51%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (5.65%) REST
2 62 (3.47%) .NET
3 49 (2.74%) Kafka
4 44 (2.46%) XML
5 43 (2.40%) JSON
5 43 (2.40%) RESTful
6 40 (2.24%) Pandas
7 39 (2.18%) SOAP
8 37 (2.07%) HTML
8 37 (2.07%) Web Services
9 34 (1.90%) Middleware
10 32 (1.79%) CSS
11 28 (1.57%) scikit-learn
12 26 (1.45%) Spring
13 25 (1.40%) React
14 24 (1.34%) PySpark
15 23 (1.29%) NumPy
15 23 (1.29%) Spring Boot
16 22 (1.23%) AngularJS
16 22 (1.23%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 161 (9.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 117 (6.54%) Product Ownership
3 91 (5.09%) Onboarding
4 77 (4.31%) Data Structures
5 70 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
6 51 (2.85%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (2.74%) Cloud Native
8 43 (2.40%) Management Information System
9 42 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
10 39 (2.18%) Fixed Income
11 37 (2.07%) Algorithms
12 34 (1.90%) Data Centre
12 34 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
13 33 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 31 (1.73%) Derivative
15 29 (1.62%) Equities
16 26 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
17 22 (1.23%) AI Agents
17 22 (1.23%) CMDB
17 22 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 112 (6.26%) Windows
2 81 (4.53%) Linux
3 35 (1.96%) Unix
4 19 (1.06%) Mac OS
5 16 (0.89%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.73%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.67%) Android
8 7 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.34%) Solaris
10 5 (0.28%) AIX
11 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.11%) SUSE
13 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.056%) VMS
13 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 871 (48.71%) Problem-Solving
2 512 (28.64%) Agile
3 466 (26.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 338 (18.90%) Analytics
4 338 (18.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 314 (17.56%) AI
6 311 (17.39%) Decision-Making
7 263 (14.71%) Data Modelling
8 237 (13.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 231 (12.92%) Validation
10 222 (12.42%) Business Intelligence
11 213 (11.91%) DevOps
12 206 (11.52%) CI/CD
13 196 (10.96%) Migration
14 179 (10.01%) Data Analysis
15 166 (9.28%) Data Pipeline
16 159 (8.89%) Roadmaps
17 158 (8.84%) User Acceptance Testing
18 151 (8.45%) ETL
18 151 (8.45%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 511 (28.58%) SQL
2 394 (22.04%) Python
3 114 (6.38%) Java
4 80 (4.47%) C#
5 71 (3.97%) JavaScript
6 63 (3.52%) PowerShell
7 44 (2.46%) TypeScript
8 33 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 29 (1.62%) C++
9 29 (1.62%) R
10 28 (1.57%) Bash
11 27 (1.51%) PL/SQL
12 26 (1.45%) T-SQL
13 20 (1.12%) Scala
14 11 (0.62%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.56%) VBA
16 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.45%) C
17 8 (0.45%) Ruby
17 8 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 220 (12.30%) Security Cleared
2 215 (12.02%) Degree
3 161 (9.00%) SC Cleared
4 68 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (1.96%) CISSP
7 34 (1.90%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.51%) PMP
9 25 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 23 (1.29%) CISM
11 22 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.06%) Azure Certification
13 15 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
14 14 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.73%) CCNP
15 13 (0.73%) CISA
15 13 (0.73%) DV Cleared
16 12 (0.67%) ACCA
16 12 (0.67%) ISTQB
17 11 (0.62%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (12.81%) Data Quality
2 131 (7.33%) QA
3 87 (4.87%) PMO
4 69 (3.86%) GDPR
5 45 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (2.46%) NIST
6 44 (2.46%) SLA
7 35 (1.96%) Accessibility
8 26 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
9 23 (1.29%) COBIT
10 22 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.95%) GRC
11 17 (0.95%) IFRS
12 12 (0.67%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.67%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.45%) Solvency II
14 7 (0.39%) GAAP
15 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.34%) GxP
System Software
1 68 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 66 (3.69%) Docker
3 11 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
3 11 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.45%) IAG
5 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.28%) Firmware
7 3 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 2 (0.11%) Squid
8 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.056%) RACF
9 1 (0.056%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.056%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 67 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 53 (2.96%) Terraform
3 30 (1.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (1.62%) Ansible
5 22 (1.23%) Grafana
6 12 (0.67%) SCCM
7 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.50%) Kibana
9 8 (0.45%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.39%) Control-M
11 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.11%) Istio
14 2 (0.11%) Nessus
14 2 (0.11%) systemd
14 2 (0.11%) Tivoli
15 1 (0.056%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 1 (0.056%) SCOM
15 1 (0.056%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 280 (15.66%) Microsoft
2 159 (8.89%) Oracle
3 98 (5.48%) SAP
4 88 (4.92%) ServiceNow
5 76 (4.25%) Salesforce
6 64 (3.58%) Google
7 62 (3.47%) Databricks
8 30 (1.68%) Splunk
9 26 (1.45%) Workday
10 25 (1.40%) Dynatrace
11 24 (1.34%) IBM
12 23 (1.29%) Cisco
13 21 (1.17%) Informatica
13 21 (1.17%) VMware
14 20 (1.12%) CyberArk
15 19 (1.06%) Alteryx
16 18 (1.01%) Adobe
17 17 (0.95%) Apple
18 15 (0.84%) Tenable
19 14 (0.78%) Murex