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

6 months to
20 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 1,873 1,591 1,372
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.34% 11.84% 8.48%
As % of the General category 15.33% 17.21% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,138 1,021 897
10th Percentile £350 £313 £320
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £764
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 32 23
10th Percentile £19.20 £11.96 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £24.88 £22.03
Median hourly rate £36.00 £34.24 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -19.44% -10.99%
75th Percentile £50.00 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £72.08 £56.25 £65.03
England median hourly rate £36.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.77% +44.44% -49.36%

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 12,219 9,247 10,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.91% 68.84% 62.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,802 6,139 7,058
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
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 £508 £540
% change year-on-year +3.45% -6.02% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 187 144
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.58 £23.80
Median hourly rate £27.75 £30.00 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -14.89% +1.82%
75th Percentile £43.75 £48.13 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.45 £67.40
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +27.24% -34.02% +38.62%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -10 223 £525 -4.55% 270
West London +3 78 £520 +25.68% 67
South London +7 33 £550 -12.00% 16
East London 0 11 £413 +26.92% 47
North London 0 4 £500 - 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 88 (4.70%) Confluence
2 44 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 35 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (1.44%) Apache Spark
4 27 (1.44%) CMS
5 21 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.96%) Apache
7 9 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.43%) JBoss
8 8 (0.43%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
9 7 (0.37%) SAS
9 7 (0.37%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.27%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.27%) Appian
11 5 (0.27%) IIS
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.16%) Camunda
Applications
1 173 (9.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (3.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.08%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.64%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.27%) 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 24 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (0.91%) Oracle EBS
4 14 (0.75%) Aladdin
5 12 (0.64%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.53%) Finacle
7 9 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 9 (0.48%) Shopify
8 8 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (0.32%) iTrent
9 6 (0.32%) Loan IQ
10 5 (0.27%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.27%) Magento
11 4 (0.21%) Findur
11 4 (0.21%) HFM
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 378 (20.18%) Azure
2 252 (13.45%) AWS
3 218 (11.64%) Power Platform
4 99 (5.29%) GCP
5 86 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
6 80 (4.27%) SaaS
7 72 (3.84%) GitHub
8 64 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
9 63 (3.36%) Entra ID
10 54 (2.88%) Snowflake
11 43 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 36 (1.92%) Serverless
13 35 (1.87%) dbt
14 33 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (1.55%) Amazon S3
16 28 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
17 26 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 26 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
18 23 (1.23%) PaaS
19 20 (1.07%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 50 (2.67%) Firewall
2 39 (2.08%) DNS
3 29 (1.55%) TCP/IP
3 29 (1.55%) VPN
4 28 (1.49%) Network Security
5 23 (1.23%) DHCP
6 18 (0.96%) WAN
7 15 (0.80%) HTTP
7 15 (0.80%) SSL
8 14 (0.75%) SAN
9 13 (0.69%) BGP
9 13 (0.69%) VLAN
10 12 (0.64%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.53%) 5G
12 10 (0.53%) Radio Access Network
13 9 (0.48%) 4G
13 9 (0.48%) MPLS
14 8 (0.43%) Kerberos
14 8 (0.43%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 198 (10.57%) Power BI
2 102 (5.45%) Data Warehouse
2 102 (5.45%) SQL Server
3 80 (4.27%) Relational Database
4 76 (4.06%) Tableau
5 71 (3.79%) Metadata
6 55 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
7 36 (1.92%) NoSQL
8 35 (1.87%) Data Lake
9 32 (1.71%) Big Data
10 28 (1.49%) Oracle Database
11 27 (1.44%) MongoDB
12 24 (1.28%) RDBMS
13 22 (1.17%) Power Query
14 20 (1.07%) Delta Lake
14 20 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (0.96%) BigQuery
15 18 (0.96%) Snowflake Schema
16 16 (0.85%) Hadoop
16 16 (0.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 191 (10.20%) JIRA
2 87 (4.64%) Git
3 47 (2.51%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.66%) Selenium
5 22 (1.17%) JMeter
6 20 (1.07%) GitLab
7 15 (0.80%) Cypress.io
7 15 (0.80%) Postman
8 14 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 14 (0.75%) LoadRunner
9 13 (0.69%) ERwin
10 11 (0.59%) Maven
10 11 (0.59%) REST Assured
11 10 (0.53%) Gatling
11 10 (0.53%) JUnit
11 10 (0.53%) SonarQube
12 9 (0.48%) ER Studio
12 9 (0.48%) Gradle
12 9 (0.48%) Zephyr
13 8 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 936 (49.97%) Social Skills
2 751 (40.10%) Finance
3 287 (15.32%) Banking
4 147 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 101 (5.39%) Front Office
6 99 (5.29%) Marketing
7 90 (4.81%) Organisational Skills
8 84 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
9 73 (3.90%) Legal
10 72 (3.84%) Retail
11 60 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
12 58 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
13 57 (3.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 57 (3.04%) Investment Banking
14 55 (2.94%) Telecoms
15 41 (2.19%) Financial Institution
16 33 (1.76%) Local Government
17 27 (1.44%) Back Office
18 21 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
19 18 (0.96%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 464 (24.77%) Analyst
2 237 (12.65%) Business Analyst
3 205 (10.95%) Senior
4 179 (9.56%) Developer
5 135 (7.21%) Lead
6 134 (7.15%) Architect
7 95 (5.07%) Data Engineer
8 94 (5.02%) Data Analyst
9 79 (4.22%) Consultant
10 62 (3.31%) Data Scientist
11 55 (2.94%) Project Manager
12 51 (2.72%) Senior Analyst
13 43 (2.30%) Senior Developer
14 33 (1.76%) Support Engineer
15 32 (1.71%) Senior Manager
15 32 (1.71%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (1.66%) Technical Analyst
16 31 (1.66%) Technical Business Analyst
17 29 (1.55%) Financial Analyst
17 29 (1.55%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (6.25%) REST
2 83 (4.43%) .NET
3 64 (3.42%) Terraform
4 57 (3.04%) Kafka
5 54 (2.88%) RESTful
6 46 (2.46%) JSON
7 45 (2.40%) XML
8 44 (2.35%) SOAP
9 43 (2.30%) Web Services
10 40 (2.14%) Middleware
11 38 (2.03%) HTML
12 36 (1.92%) PySpark
13 32 (1.71%) Spring
14 31 (1.66%) CSS
15 30 (1.60%) React
16 29 (1.55%) Pandas
17 26 (1.39%) Spring Boot
18 22 (1.17%) AngularJS
19 21 (1.12%) OAuth
19 21 (1.12%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 173 (9.24%) Analytical Mindset
2 133 (7.10%) Product Ownership
3 116 (6.19%) Onboarding
4 73 (3.90%) Data Structures
5 68 (3.63%) Cloud Native
6 67 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
7 61 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
7 61 (3.26%) Management Information System
8 44 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
9 39 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
10 36 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
11 34 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 32 (1.71%) Data Centre
13 31 (1.66%) Derivative
14 30 (1.60%) Fixed Income
15 28 (1.49%) AI Agents
16 27 (1.44%) Equities
17 26 (1.39%) Algorithms
18 25 (1.33%) CMDB
19 23 (1.23%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 130 (6.94%) Windows
2 124 (6.62%) Linux
3 46 (2.46%) Unix
4 24 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 18 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (0.91%) Mac OS
6 17 (0.91%) Windows 10
7 15 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 11 (0.59%) Android
9 7 (0.37%) 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 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.053%) VMS
14 1 (0.053%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 960 (51.25%) Problem-Solving
2 571 (30.49%) Stakeholder Management
3 567 (30.27%) Agile
4 377 (20.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 364 (19.43%) Analytics
6 341 (18.21%) AI
7 319 (17.03%) Decision-Making
8 256 (13.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 249 (13.29%) Data Modelling
10 240 (12.81%) DevOps
10 240 (12.81%) Validation
11 232 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
12 227 (12.12%) CI/CD
13 210 (11.21%) Migration
14 185 (9.88%) User Acceptance Testing
15 183 (9.77%) Data Analysis
16 163 (8.70%) Data Pipeline
17 162 (8.65%) User Stories
18 160 (8.54%) Roadmaps
19 153 (8.17%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 529 (28.24%) SQL
2 411 (21.94%) Python
3 131 (6.99%) Java
4 99 (5.29%) C#
5 91 (4.86%) JavaScript
6 77 (4.11%) PowerShell
7 45 (2.40%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.24%) Bash
9 36 (1.92%) C++
10 32 (1.71%) R
11 30 (1.60%) PL/SQL
12 28 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 25 (1.33%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.80%) Scala
15 12 (0.64%) Perl
16 11 (0.59%) Shell Script
17 9 (0.48%) Apex Code
17 9 (0.48%) Korn
17 9 (0.48%) Ruby
17 9 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 256 (13.67%) Security Cleared
2 241 (12.87%) Degree
3 196 (10.46%) SC Cleared
4 78 (4.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (2.03%) CISSP
6 33 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 27 (1.44%) CISM
8 27 (1.44%) PMP
9 25 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
9 25 (1.33%) PMI Certification
10 22 (1.17%) Azure Certification
11 20 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
12 19 (1.01%) DV Cleared
13 18 (0.96%) ISTQB
14 17 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
15 16 (0.85%) ACCA
16 15 (0.80%) CCNP
16 15 (0.80%) CIMA
17 12 (0.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (12.44%) Data Quality
2 142 (7.58%) QA
3 88 (4.70%) PMO
4 53 (2.83%) GDPR
5 52 (2.78%) SLA
6 45 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 44 (2.35%) NIST
8 32 (1.71%) Accessibility
9 27 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 23 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (1.12%) GRC
12 20 (1.07%) COBIT
13 17 (0.91%) IFRS
14 11 (0.59%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.37%) PCI DSS
17 6 (0.32%) GAAP
17 6 (0.32%) MiFID
17 6 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (4.27%) Active Directory
2 74 (3.95%) Docker
3 22 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.48%) IAG
6 6 (0.32%) Firmware
6 6 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.16%) Postfix
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
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%) NFS
10 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.053%) RACF
Systems Management
1 73 (3.90%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.30%) Ansible
3 34 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (1.71%) Grafana
5 17 (0.91%) SCCM
6 16 (0.85%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.75%) Control-M
8 12 (0.64%) Kibana
9 11 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.37%) Puppet
10 7 (0.37%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (0.27%) Failover Clustering
11 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.27%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.21%) Istio
12 4 (0.21%) systemd
13 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.16%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.11%) Thomson Reuters DACS
14 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 313 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 167 (8.92%) Oracle
3 102 (5.45%) ServiceNow
4 100 (5.34%) SAP
5 72 (3.84%) Google
6 69 (3.68%) Databricks
7 62 (3.31%) Salesforce
8 39 (2.08%) Splunk
9 36 (1.92%) IBM
10 34 (1.82%) Dynatrace
11 32 (1.71%) Cisco
12 31 (1.66%) VMware
13 23 (1.23%) Adobe
13 23 (1.23%) Workday
14 22 (1.17%) CyberArk
15 20 (1.07%) Alteryx
16 17 (0.91%) Apple
16 17 (0.91%) Informatica
17 16 (0.85%) Sitecore
18 14 (0.75%) Red Hat