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

6 months to
28 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 1,893 1,578 1,374
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.39% 11.80% 8.46%
As % of the General category 15.43% 17.10% 13.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 1,018 886
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £651 £650 £675
90th Percentile £760 £775 £766
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 35 24
10th Percentile £19.55 £13.77 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.74 £22.75
Median hourly rate £36.00 £34.48 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -17.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.23 £58.50 £65.02
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +10.77% +51.16% -52.22%

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 12,267 9,228 10,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.87% 69.03% 62.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,798 6,135 6,970
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
25th Percentile £450 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £501 £538
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.88% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 184 140
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £24.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £31.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.10% -12.51% +3.99%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £65.13
England median hourly rate £31.93 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +26.94% -34.02% +33.38%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -11 223 £538 -2.27% 305
West London +2 82 £520 +26.06% 155
South London +2 33 £550 -12.00% 23
East London +2 13 £463 +42.31% 38
North London +3 4 £500 - 4
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 85 (4.49%) Confluence
2 45 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 39 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (1.48%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.43%) CMS
6 21 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 18 (0.95%) Apache
8 10 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.48%) SAS
10 8 (0.42%) JBoss
10 8 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.32%) IIS
13 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
13 5 (0.26%) Appian
13 5 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
14 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 3 (0.16%) Camunda
Applications
1 179 (9.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.06%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.58%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.37%) 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 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.79%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.69%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.53%) Finacle
6 10 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.48%) Shopify
8 8 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 7 (0.37%) iTrent
10 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.26%) Magento
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.26%) Summit
11 4 (0.21%) Findur
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.21%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 381 (20.13%) Azure
2 263 (13.89%) AWS
3 233 (12.31%) Power Platform
4 99 (5.23%) GCP
5 85 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
6 77 (4.07%) SaaS
7 74 (3.91%) GitHub
8 66 (3.49%) Entra ID
9 65 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
10 60 (3.17%) Snowflake
11 46 (2.43%) Azure Data Factory
12 39 (2.06%) dbt
12 39 (2.06%) Serverless
13 33 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
14 29 (1.53%) Amazon S3
14 29 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
14 29 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 25 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
16 21 (1.11%) PaaS
17 19 (1.00%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.48%) Firewall
2 37 (1.95%) DNS
3 32 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 31 (1.64%) Network Security
5 28 (1.48%) VPN
6 21 (1.11%) DHCP
7 19 (1.00%) WAN
8 16 (0.85%) HTTP
9 15 (0.79%) SSL
10 14 (0.74%) SAN
11 13 (0.69%) BGP
12 11 (0.58%) 5G
12 11 (0.58%) Kerberos
12 11 (0.58%) Radio Access Network
12 11 (0.58%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.58%) VLAN
13 10 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (0.48%) 4G
14 9 (0.48%) MPLS
15 8 (0.42%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (11.20%) Power BI
2 107 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (5.28%) SQL Server
4 83 (4.38%) Tableau
5 79 (4.17%) Relational Database
6 73 (3.86%) Metadata
7 56 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
8 35 (1.85%) Data Lake
9 33 (1.74%) NoSQL
10 30 (1.58%) Big Data
11 28 (1.48%) Oracle Database
12 25 (1.32%) MongoDB
13 24 (1.27%) Delta Lake
14 23 (1.22%) Power Query
14 23 (1.22%) RDBMS
15 22 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 19 (1.00%) BigQuery
17 18 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
17 18 (0.95%) Star Schema
18 15 (0.79%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 186 (9.83%) JIRA
2 91 (4.81%) Git
3 51 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.64%) Selenium
5 22 (1.16%) JMeter
6 21 (1.11%) GitLab
7 16 (0.85%) Postman
8 15 (0.79%) Cypress.io
9 14 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.74%) LoadRunner
10 13 (0.69%) ERwin
11 10 (0.53%) Gatling
11 10 (0.53%) Maven
11 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
12 9 (0.48%) ER Studio
12 9 (0.48%) Gradle
12 9 (0.48%) JUnit
12 9 (0.48%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.48%) Zephyr
13 8 (0.42%) TeamCity
General
1 962 (50.82%) Social Skills
2 751 (39.67%) Finance
3 283 (14.95%) Banking
4 155 (8.19%) Public Sector
5 101 (5.34%) Front Office
6 97 (5.12%) Marketing
7 88 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
8 84 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
9 75 (3.96%) Retail
10 74 (3.91%) Legal
11 68 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
12 59 (3.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 59 (3.12%) Presentation Skills
13 58 (3.06%) Telecoms
14 57 (3.01%) Investment Banking
15 40 (2.11%) Financial Institution
16 37 (1.95%) Local Government
17 28 (1.48%) Back Office
18 20 (1.06%) Law
18 20 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 474 (25.04%) Analyst
2 231 (12.20%) Business Analyst
3 217 (11.46%) Senior
4 175 (9.24%) Developer
5 135 (7.13%) Architect
6 133 (7.03%) Lead
7 101 (5.34%) Data Engineer
8 98 (5.18%) Data Analyst
9 77 (4.07%) Consultant
10 64 (3.38%) Data Scientist
11 53 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
12 52 (2.75%) Project Manager
13 46 (2.43%) Senior Developer
14 33 (1.74%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (1.74%) Support Engineer
15 32 (1.69%) Senior Manager
16 31 (1.64%) Financial Analyst
16 31 (1.64%) Technical Analyst
17 30 (1.58%) Technical Business Analyst
18 27 (1.43%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (6.08%) REST
2 84 (4.44%) .NET
3 65 (3.43%) Terraform
4 56 (2.96%) Kafka
5 53 (2.80%) RESTful
6 46 (2.43%) JSON
7 44 (2.32%) Middleware
7 44 (2.32%) XML
8 42 (2.22%) Web Services
9 41 (2.17%) PySpark
10 40 (2.11%) SOAP
11 39 (2.06%) HTML
12 32 (1.69%) CSS
12 32 (1.69%) React
13 30 (1.58%) Spring
14 29 (1.53%) Pandas
15 25 (1.32%) Spring Boot
16 24 (1.27%) OAuth
17 21 (1.11%) AngularJS
17 21 (1.11%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 164 (8.66%) Analytical Mindset
2 140 (7.40%) Product Ownership
3 115 (6.08%) Onboarding
4 77 (4.07%) Data Structures
5 73 (3.86%) Cloud Native
6 64 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
7 62 (3.28%) Management Information System
8 59 (3.12%) Distributed Systems
9 45 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
10 40 (2.11%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 34 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
12 30 (1.58%) AI Agents
12 30 (1.58%) Derivative
13 29 (1.53%) Data Centre
13 29 (1.53%) Fixed Income
14 28 (1.48%) Equities
15 26 (1.37%) Algorithms
16 25 (1.32%) Reference Data
17 23 (1.22%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 129 (6.81%) Linux
2 123 (6.50%) Windows
3 47 (2.48%) Unix
4 24 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.00%) Windows 10
7 18 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 16 (0.85%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.69%) Android
10 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.32%) Solaris
12 5 (0.26%) AIX
13 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.11%) SUSE
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.053%) OpenWrt
15 1 (0.053%) VMS
15 1 (0.053%) Windows 7
15 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 975 (51.51%) Problem-Solving
2 595 (31.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 561 (29.64%) Agile
4 383 (20.23%) Continuous Improvement
5 375 (19.81%) Analytics
6 349 (18.44%) AI
7 338 (17.86%) Decision-Making
8 272 (14.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 248 (13.10%) Business Intelligence
10 245 (12.94%) Data Modelling
11 241 (12.73%) Validation
12 239 (12.63%) DevOps
13 234 (12.36%) CI/CD
14 212 (11.20%) Migration
15 188 (9.93%) User Acceptance Testing
16 183 (9.67%) Data Analysis
17 170 (8.98%) Data Pipeline
18 168 (8.87%) Roadmaps
19 165 (8.72%) User Stories
20 156 (8.24%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 540 (28.53%) SQL
2 432 (22.82%) Python
3 130 (6.87%) Java
4 100 (5.28%) C#
5 93 (4.91%) JavaScript
6 76 (4.01%) PowerShell
7 48 (2.54%) Bash
8 46 (2.43%) TypeScript
9 36 (1.90%) R
10 35 (1.85%) C++
11 29 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 29 (1.53%) PL/SQL
12 24 (1.27%) T-SQL
13 16 (0.85%) Perl
13 16 (0.85%) Scala
14 15 (0.79%) Shell Script
15 13 (0.69%) Korn
16 9 (0.48%) Go
16 9 (0.48%) Ruby
17 8 (0.42%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 262 (13.84%) Security Cleared
2 243 (12.84%) Degree
3 205 (10.83%) SC Cleared
4 72 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (2.01%) CISSP
6 35 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (1.43%) Master's Degree
8 26 (1.37%) PMP
9 25 (1.32%) CISM
9 25 (1.32%) PMI Certification
10 24 (1.27%) Azure Certification
11 22 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
12 20 (1.06%) DV Cleared
12 20 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (0.95%) ACCA
13 18 (0.95%) ISTQB
14 17 (0.90%) CIMA
15 16 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
16 13 (0.69%) CCNP
16 13 (0.69%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 242 (12.78%) Data Quality
2 149 (7.87%) QA
3 87 (4.60%) PMO
4 54 (2.85%) GDPR
5 51 (2.69%) SLA
6 46 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (2.27%) NIST
8 31 (1.64%) Accessibility
9 28 (1.48%) Actionable Recommendations
10 25 (1.32%) GRC
11 20 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 19 (1.00%) COBIT
13 16 (0.85%) IFRS
14 12 (0.63%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.32%) ISO 15022
16 6 (0.32%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.32%) WCAG
17 5 (0.26%) GAAP
System Software
1 79 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 74 (3.91%) Docker
3 22 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.48%) IAG
6 6 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) Firmware
9 2 (0.11%) Postfix
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%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.053%) NFS
10 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.053%) RACF
Systems Management
1 76 (4.01%) Kubernetes
2 45 (2.38%) Ansible
3 32 (1.69%) Grafana
4 29 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 15 (0.79%) SCCM
6 14 (0.74%) Control-M
7 12 (0.63%) Kibana
8 11 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
9 7 (0.37%) Puppet
9 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 5 (0.26%) Istio
11 4 (0.21%) systemd
12 3 (0.16%) Cilium
12 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 316 (16.69%) Microsoft
2 167 (8.82%) Oracle
3 102 (5.39%) SAP
4 93 (4.91%) ServiceNow
5 76 (4.01%) Databricks
6 72 (3.80%) Google
7 62 (3.28%) Salesforce
8 44 (2.32%) Splunk
9 35 (1.85%) IBM
10 32 (1.69%) Dynatrace
11 31 (1.64%) Cisco
12 29 (1.53%) VMware
13 24 (1.27%) Adobe
14 22 (1.16%) CyberArk
15 20 (1.06%) Alteryx
15 20 (1.06%) Workday
16 19 (1.00%) Informatica
17 16 (0.85%) Apple
17 16 (0.85%) Sitecore
18 15 (0.79%) Red Hat