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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,860 1,602 1,342
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.27% 11.78% 8.18%
As % of the General category 15.29% 17.23% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 1,033 892
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £790 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 29 21
10th Percentile £19.03 £11.96 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.52 £25.01 £26.56
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.48 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.11% -18.87% -3.10%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £73.00 £59.75 £65.03
England median hourly rate £38.36 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +18.03% +44.44% -43.75%

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 12,167 9,296 10,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.62% 68.34% 62.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,761 6,202 7,258
10th Percentile £350 £325 £336
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 £512 £538
% change year-on-year +2.54% -4.74% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 181 153
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £22.34
Median hourly rate £28.55 £30.81 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -8.73% -3.57%
75th Percentile £43.75 £50.50 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £68.60
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.32 £38.12
% change year-on-year +34.24% -33.58% +27.07%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -8 234 £550 - 141
West London +3 77 £520 +27.92% 63
South London +5 38 £524 -16.20% 23
East London -3 9 £400 +16.72% 31
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 78 (4.19%) Confluence
2 33 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
2 33 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.45%) CMS
5 21 (1.13%) Apache
6 17 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.43%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.38%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 6 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.32%) SAS
9 6 (0.32%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.27%) IIS
10 5 (0.27%) JBoss
11 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 4 (0.22%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.16%) Apache Solr
12 3 (0.16%) Camunda
13 2 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 157 (8.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (2.04%) MS Visio
5 27 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.65%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.16%) Trello
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.11%) Notion
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.054%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.81%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.54%) Finacle
5 10 (0.54%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.43%) Fidessa
6 8 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 8 (0.43%) Shopify
7 7 (0.38%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.27%) iTrent
8 5 (0.27%) Magento
8 5 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.22%) Findur
9 4 (0.22%) HFM
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 368 (19.78%) Azure
2 260 (13.98%) AWS
3 231 (12.42%) Power Platform
4 99 (5.32%) GCP
5 80 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
6 74 (3.98%) SaaS
7 69 (3.71%) GitHub
8 65 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
9 56 (3.01%) Entra ID
10 52 (2.80%) Snowflake
11 46 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
12 37 (1.99%) Serverless
13 33 (1.77%) Amazon S3
13 33 (1.77%) dbt
14 32 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
15 31 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
16 27 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 25 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
18 24 (1.29%) PaaS
19 22 (1.18%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 49 (2.63%) Firewall
2 39 (2.10%) DNS
3 29 (1.56%) VPN
4 28 (1.51%) Network Security
5 26 (1.40%) DHCP
6 25 (1.34%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.91%) WAN
8 16 (0.86%) VLAN
9 14 (0.75%) SAN
10 13 (0.70%) HTTP
11 12 (0.65%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.59%) BGP
12 11 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.48%) 5G
13 9 (0.48%) SSL
14 8 (0.43%) 4G
14 8 (0.43%) Ethernet VPN
14 8 (0.43%) OSPF
14 8 (0.43%) VXLAN
15 7 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 209 (11.24%) Power BI
2 110 (5.91%) Data Warehouse
3 102 (5.48%) SQL Server
4 79 (4.25%) Tableau
5 74 (3.98%) Relational Database
6 72 (3.87%) Metadata
7 50 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (2.15%) Data Lake
9 37 (1.99%) NoSQL
10 29 (1.56%) Big Data
10 29 (1.56%) MongoDB
11 24 (1.29%) BigQuery
11 24 (1.29%) Oracle Database
12 23 (1.24%) RDBMS
12 23 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 18 (0.97%) Delta Lake
13 18 (0.97%) Power Query
14 17 (0.91%) Snowflake Schema
14 17 (0.91%) Star Schema
15 16 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 179 (9.62%) JIRA
2 76 (4.09%) Git
3 40 (2.15%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.24%) Selenium
5 16 (0.86%) ERwin
5 16 (0.86%) GitLab
6 14 (0.75%) JMeter
7 12 (0.65%) JUnit
8 11 (0.59%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.59%) Cypress.io
9 10 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.54%) Maven
9 10 (0.54%) REST Assured
10 9 (0.48%) Chocolatey
10 9 (0.48%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.48%) Postman
10 9 (0.48%) Zephyr
11 8 (0.43%) Gatling
11 8 (0.43%) PowerDesigner
12 7 (0.38%) LoadRunner
General
1 909 (48.87%) Social Skills
2 739 (39.73%) Finance
3 276 (14.84%) Banking
4 156 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 98 (5.27%) Marketing
6 94 (5.05%) Front Office
7 85 (4.57%) Organisational Skills
8 83 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
9 77 (4.14%) Legal
10 64 (3.44%) Retail
11 57 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
11 57 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
12 56 (3.01%) Investment Banking
13 51 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 46 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 43 (2.31%) Financial Institution
16 28 (1.51%) Back Office
17 25 (1.34%) Local Government
18 22 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
19 21 (1.13%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 479 (25.75%) Analyst
2 239 (12.85%) Business Analyst
3 204 (10.97%) Senior
4 168 (9.03%) Developer
5 132 (7.10%) Lead
6 128 (6.88%) Architect
7 110 (5.91%) Data Engineer
8 105 (5.65%) Data Analyst
9 86 (4.62%) Consultant
10 70 (3.76%) Data Scientist
11 62 (3.33%) Project Manager
12 50 (2.69%) Senior Analyst
13 41 (2.20%) Senior Developer
14 30 (1.61%) Technical Business Analyst
15 29 (1.56%) Senior Manager
15 29 (1.56%) Solutions Architect
16 28 (1.51%) Financial Analyst
16 28 (1.51%) Product Owner
16 28 (1.51%) Technical Analyst
17 27 (1.45%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (5.75%) REST
2 68 (3.66%) .NET
3 50 (2.69%) Kafka
4 48 (2.58%) RESTful
5 45 (2.42%) JSON
6 41 (2.20%) XML
7 40 (2.15%) SOAP
8 39 (2.10%) Pandas
9 38 (2.04%) HTML
10 36 (1.94%) Web Services
11 34 (1.83%) CSS
12 33 (1.77%) PySpark
13 32 (1.72%) Middleware
14 31 (1.67%) React
15 27 (1.45%) scikit-learn
15 27 (1.45%) Spring
16 25 (1.34%) AngularJS
17 24 (1.29%) PyTorch
17 24 (1.29%) Spring Boot
18 22 (1.18%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 166 (8.92%) Analytical Mindset
2 132 (7.10%) Product Ownership
3 100 (5.38%) Onboarding
4 85 (4.57%) Data Structures
5 73 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
6 55 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
7 54 (2.90%) Cloud Native
8 53 (2.85%) Management Information System
9 41 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
10 36 (1.94%) Fixed Income
11 34 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
11 34 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 33 (1.77%) Algorithms
12 33 (1.77%) Data Centre
13 29 (1.56%) Derivative
13 29 (1.56%) Equities
14 27 (1.45%) AI Agents
15 24 (1.29%) CMDB
16 23 (1.24%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 124 (6.67%) Windows
2 94 (5.05%) Linux
3 32 (1.72%) Unix
4 23 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 16 (0.86%) Mac OS
6 13 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.70%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.59%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.54%) Android
9 7 (0.38%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) Solaris
11 5 (0.27%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) SUSE
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.054%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.054%) VMS
14 1 (0.054%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.054%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 911 (48.98%) Problem-Solving
2 556 (29.89%) Agile
3 511 (27.47%) Stakeholder Management
4 362 (19.46%) Analytics
5 361 (19.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 341 (18.33%) AI
7 325 (17.47%) Decision-Making
8 274 (14.73%) Data Modelling
9 254 (13.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 244 (13.12%) Business Intelligence
11 236 (12.69%) Validation
12 227 (12.20%) DevOps
13 205 (11.02%) CI/CD
14 201 (10.81%) Migration
15 180 (9.68%) Data Analysis
16 174 (9.35%) Data Pipeline
17 168 (9.03%) User Acceptance Testing
18 162 (8.71%) Roadmaps
19 157 (8.44%) Data Governance
20 155 (8.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 528 (28.39%) SQL
2 407 (21.88%) Python
3 120 (6.45%) Java
4 87 (4.68%) C#
5 85 (4.57%) JavaScript
6 69 (3.71%) PowerShell
7 47 (2.53%) TypeScript
8 34 (1.83%) Bash
9 32 (1.72%) R
10 31 (1.67%) C++
10 31 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 27 (1.45%) T-SQL
12 25 (1.34%) PL/SQL
13 15 (0.81%) Scala
14 11 (0.59%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.54%) VBA
16 9 (0.48%) Ruby
17 8 (0.43%) C
17 8 (0.43%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 237 (12.74%) Security Cleared
2 232 (12.47%) Degree
3 177 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 74 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.94%) CISSP
6 35 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 32 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 28 (1.51%) PMP
9 26 (1.40%) PMI Certification
10 24 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.24%) CISM
12 20 (1.08%) Azure Certification
13 17 (0.91%) DV Cleared
13 17 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (0.81%) CCNP
14 15 (0.81%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.70%) CISA
16 12 (0.65%) ACCA
17 11 (0.59%) CEH
17 11 (0.59%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (13.55%) Data Quality
2 140 (7.53%) QA
3 93 (5.00%) PMO
4 65 (3.49%) GDPR
5 49 (2.63%) SLA
6 44 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (2.37%) NIST
7 36 (1.94%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 22 (1.18%) COBIT
11 20 (1.08%) GRC
12 14 (0.75%) IFRS
13 11 (0.59%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.54%) ISO 20022
15 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.32%) GAAP
15 6 (0.32%) GxP
15 6 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (4.03%) Active Directory
2 67 (3.60%) Docker
3 16 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.48%) IAG
6 6 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.27%) Firmware
8 4 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.16%) Postfix
9 3 (0.16%) vSphere
10 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.11%) Squid
10 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.054%) NFS
11 1 (0.054%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.054%) RACF
11 1 (0.054%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 67 (3.60%) Kubernetes
2 59 (3.17%) Terraform
3 38 (2.04%) Ansible
4 32 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 25 (1.34%) Grafana
6 16 (0.86%) SCCM
7 11 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 11 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.48%) Control-M
8 9 (0.48%) Kibana
9 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.22%) Puppet
10 4 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (0.22%) systemd
11 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.16%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.11%) SCOM
12 2 (0.11%) Tivoli
12 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 295 (15.86%) Microsoft
2 155 (8.33%) Oracle
3 94 (5.05%) SAP
4 93 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 71 (3.82%) Google
6 70 (3.76%) Databricks
6 70 (3.76%) Salesforce
7 36 (1.94%) Splunk
8 32 (1.72%) Dynatrace
9 28 (1.51%) IBM
9 28 (1.51%) VMware
10 27 (1.45%) Cisco
11 25 (1.34%) Workday
12 22 (1.18%) Adobe
12 22 (1.18%) CyberArk
13 19 (1.02%) Informatica
14 18 (0.97%) Alteryx
15 16 (0.86%) Apple
15 16 (0.86%) Tenable
16 15 (0.81%) AppDynamics