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

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,569 1,496 1,440
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.72% 12.04% 8.24%
As % of the General category 14.68% 17.78% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 979 949 985
10th Percentile £350 £313 £320
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £708 £700
90th Percentile £738 £825 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.36% -0.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 36 45
10th Percentile £20.50 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.30 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £42.75 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +81.91% -29.52%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £65.60 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% +62.16% -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 10,690 8,416 11,012
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.43% 67.75% 63.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,919 5,651 7,861
10th Percentile £350 £344 £336
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.87% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £708 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 142 233
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.60
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.13 £18.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +21.43% -6.67%
75th Percentile £46.25 £51.07 £44.75
90th Percentile £67.30 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.58 £27.50 £30.12
% change year-on-year +11.20% -8.70% -5.88%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -10 205 £525 -4.55% 236
West London 0 63 £520 +30.00% 40
South London +5 34 £500 -14.24% 9
East London -6 10 £400 +11.11% 22
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 84 (5.35%) Confluence
2 27 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.59%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.15%) Apache
6 12 (0.76%) CMS
7 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.51%) SAS
9 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.25%) IIS
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.19%) Camunda
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.064%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.064%) nginx
13 1 (0.064%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.064%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 151 (9.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (3.19%) Microsoft Office
4 46 (2.93%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.64%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.13%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) Trello
10 1 (0.064%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.064%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.64%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
4 9 (0.57%) Aladdin
4 9 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
4 9 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 9 (0.57%) Shopify
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.45%) Fidessa
6 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.45%) Summit
7 6 (0.38%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
8 5 (0.32%) BASE24
8 5 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.32%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
9 4 (0.25%) Finacle
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 311 (19.82%) Azure
2 223 (14.21%) AWS
3 192 (12.24%) Power Platform
4 83 (5.29%) SaaS
5 77 (4.91%) GCP
6 72 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (3.63%) GitHub
7 57 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
9 39 (2.49%) Amazon S3
9 39 (2.49%) Serverless
10 35 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
11 30 (1.91%) Snowflake
12 28 (1.78%) Entra ID
13 27 (1.72%) dbt
14 25 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (1.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 22 (1.40%) PaaS
17 21 (1.34%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.55%) Firewall
2 24 (1.53%) Network Security
3 23 (1.47%) DNS
4 20 (1.27%) VPN
5 17 (1.08%) DHCP
6 15 (0.96%) WAN
7 13 (0.83%) SAN
8 12 (0.76%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.70%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.57%) BGP
11 8 (0.51%) VLAN
11 8 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.45%) HTTP
13 6 (0.38%) 5G
13 6 (0.38%) Internet
13 6 (0.38%) LAN
13 6 (0.38%) NAS
13 6 (0.38%) OSPF
13 6 (0.38%) SMS
13 6 (0.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (10.83%) Power BI
2 87 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
3 74 (4.72%) SQL Server
4 73 (4.65%) Tableau
5 56 (3.57%) Metadata
6 47 (3.00%) Relational Database
7 33 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (2.04%) Data Lake
9 29 (1.85%) NoSQL
10 24 (1.53%) Big Data
10 24 (1.53%) BigQuery
10 24 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
12 17 (1.08%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.08%) Power Query
13 16 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.96%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.96%) Star Schema
15 13 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
15 13 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 163 (10.39%) JIRA
2 65 (4.14%) Git
3 26 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.40%) Selenium
5 15 (0.96%) GitLab
6 13 (0.83%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.70%) MLflow
7 11 (0.70%) Postman
7 11 (0.70%) REST Assured
8 10 (0.64%) ERwin
9 9 (0.57%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.45%) JMeter
11 7 (0.45%) JUnit
12 6 (0.38%) Appium
12 6 (0.38%) Chocolatey
12 6 (0.38%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.38%) WebDriver
13 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 689 (43.91%) Social Skills
2 613 (39.07%) Finance
3 230 (14.66%) Banking
4 135 (8.60%) Public Sector
5 88 (5.61%) Marketing
6 78 (4.97%) Documentation Skills
7 68 (4.33%) Legal
8 65 (4.14%) Front Office
9 59 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
10 54 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
11 51 (3.25%) Investment Banking
12 44 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
13 39 (2.49%) Financial Institution
13 39 (2.49%) Telecoms
14 38 (2.42%) Retail
15 30 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (1.21%) Back Office
17 16 (1.02%) Publishing
18 13 (0.83%) Billing
18 13 (0.83%) Law
Job Titles
1 417 (26.58%) Analyst
2 209 (13.32%) Business Analyst
3 163 (10.39%) Senior
4 141 (8.99%) Developer
5 104 (6.63%) Lead
6 97 (6.18%) Data Engineer
7 96 (6.12%) Architect
8 91 (5.80%) Data Analyst
9 87 (5.54%) Consultant
10 50 (3.19%) Data Scientist
11 49 (3.12%) Project Manager
12 46 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
13 32 (2.04%) Senior Business Analyst
13 32 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
14 30 (1.91%) Financial Analyst
15 27 (1.72%) Senior Developer
16 24 (1.53%) Product Manager
16 24 (1.53%) Salesforce Analyst
16 24 (1.53%) Senior Manager
17 23 (1.47%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (3.95%) REST
2 51 (3.25%) .NET
3 49 (3.12%) Kafka
4 39 (2.49%) Pandas
5 38 (2.42%) Middleware
6 31 (1.98%) RESTful
7 29 (1.85%) HTML
8 28 (1.78%) JSON
8 28 (1.78%) scikit-learn
8 28 (1.78%) XML
9 27 (1.72%) CSS
9 27 (1.72%) PySpark
10 24 (1.53%) NumPy
11 23 (1.47%) SOAP
12 21 (1.34%) PyTorch
13 19 (1.21%) React
14 18 (1.15%) OAuth
14 18 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
14 18 (1.15%) SAML
15 17 (1.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 149 (9.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 92 (5.86%) Product Ownership
3 64 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 59 (3.76%) Onboarding
5 54 (3.44%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (2.49%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (2.49%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.29%) Algorithms
8 34 (2.17%) Cloud Native
8 34 (2.17%) Data Centre
8 34 (2.17%) Derivative
9 32 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
9 32 (2.04%) Fixed Income
10 30 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 28 (1.78%) Equities
11 28 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 24 (1.53%) Virtual Team
13 21 (1.34%) Credit Risk
14 18 (1.15%) Security Posture
15 17 (1.08%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 81 (5.16%) Windows
2 55 (3.51%) Linux
3 26 (1.66%) Unix
4 14 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.83%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.70%) Android
7 8 (0.51%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.45%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.19%) AIX
10 2 (0.13%) Solaris
11 1 (0.064%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.064%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 746 (47.55%) Problem-Solving
2 434 (27.66%) Agile
3 317 (20.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 289 (18.42%) Analytics
5 270 (17.21%) Decision-Making
6 255 (16.25%) AI
7 249 (15.87%) Data Modelling
8 245 (15.62%) Continuous Improvement
9 195 (12.43%) Business Intelligence
10 192 (12.24%) Validation
11 181 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 180 (11.47%) DevOps
13 167 (10.64%) CI/CD
14 163 (10.39%) Migration
15 159 (10.13%) Data Analysis
16 142 (9.05%) Roadmaps
17 140 (8.92%) Data Governance
18 134 (8.54%) ETL
18 134 (8.54%) Project Management
19 125 (7.97%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 436 (27.79%) SQL
2 357 (22.75%) Python
3 91 (5.80%) Java
4 84 (5.35%) C#
5 52 (3.31%) JavaScript
6 47 (3.00%) PowerShell
7 43 (2.74%) TypeScript
8 34 (2.17%) C++
9 31 (1.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 31 (1.98%) R
10 26 (1.66%) Bash
11 23 (1.47%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.40%) T-SQL
13 18 (1.15%) Scala
14 12 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (0.64%) C
16 8 (0.51%) VBA
17 7 (0.45%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.38%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 207 (13.19%) Security Cleared
2 197 (12.56%) Degree
3 142 (9.05%) SC Cleared
4 58 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (3.06%) Master's Degree
6 41 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (2.10%) CISSP
8 32 (2.04%) PMI Certification
9 31 (1.98%) PMP
10 21 (1.34%) CISM
11 19 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.08%) ISTQB
13 16 (1.02%) CISA
14 15 (0.96%) DV Cleared
15 14 (0.89%) CRISC
16 12 (0.76%) CCNP
16 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
17 10 (0.64%) ACCA
17 10 (0.64%) Azure Certification
18 9 (0.57%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (13.45%) Data Quality
2 127 (8.09%) QA
3 78 (4.97%) GDPR
4 73 (4.65%) PMO
5 49 (3.12%) NIST
6 45 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
7 29 (1.85%) SLA
8 28 (1.78%) Accessibility
9 24 (1.53%) GRC
10 23 (1.47%) PCI DSS
10 23 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (1.40%) COBIT
12 13 (0.83%) IFRS
13 12 (0.76%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.64%) MiFID
15 9 (0.57%) Solvency II
16 6 (0.38%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.38%) HL7
16 6 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 58 (3.70%) Docker
2 41 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.25%) Firmware
5 4 (0.25%) IAG
6 3 (0.19%) Squid
6 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) Postfix
7 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.064%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.064%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.064%) RACF
8 1 (0.064%) Snort
8 1 (0.064%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.064%) vSphere
8 1 (0.064%) Xen
8 1 (0.064%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 62 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 38 (2.42%) Terraform
3 21 (1.34%) Ansible
4 19 (1.21%) Grafana
4 19 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.76%) SCCM
6 10 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.45%) Kibana
7 7 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.32%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.19%) Control-M
10 3 (0.19%) Nessus
10 3 (0.19%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.13%) Istio
11 2 (0.13%) SCOM
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.064%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.064%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.064%) Suricata
Vendors
1 247 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 111 (7.07%) Oracle
3 88 (5.61%) SAP
4 82 (5.23%) Salesforce
5 75 (4.78%) Databricks
6 64 (4.08%) ServiceNow
7 58 (3.70%) Google
8 22 (1.40%) Workday
9 21 (1.34%) Adobe
9 21 (1.34%) Splunk
10 20 (1.27%) Cisco
11 18 (1.15%) Bloomberg
12 17 (1.08%) Informatica
12 17 (1.08%) Murex
13 15 (0.96%) Dynatrace
13 15 (0.96%) Palo Alto
13 15 (0.96%) VMware
14 13 (0.83%) Atlassian
14 13 (0.83%) Tenable
15 12 (0.76%) OpenAI