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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,727 1,574 1,410
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.93% 11.91% 8.00%
As % of the General category 14.77% 17.51% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 994 956
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.21%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 35 38
10th Percentile £19.12 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.86 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £38.11 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% +81.48% -51.16%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.30 £67.50 £58.00
England median hourly rate £31.30 £32.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.69% +66.67% -44.68%

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 11,696 8,988 10,974
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.45% 68.00% 62.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,487 5,994 7,806
10th Percentile £350 £330 £335
25th Percentile £437 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £699 £700
90th Percentile £788 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £519 £535
% change year-on-year +1.25% -2.99% -2.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 167 229
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.66 £18.79
Median hourly rate £32.00 £34.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +12.73% -7.20%
75th Percentile £45.25 £50.97 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £64.25 £68.15
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.25 £32.90
% change year-on-year +19.29% -17.18% +9.65%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -9 218 £525 -4.55% 269
West London 0 79 £520 +30.00% 41
South London +3 30 £469 -25.00% 14
East London -5 9 £400 -7.09% 27
North London - 1 - - 9
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 72 (4.17%) Confluence
2 32 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (1.85%) Apache Spark
3 31 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.10%) Apache
5 16 (0.93%) CMS
5 16 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.41%) SAS
6 7 (0.41%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.29%) IIS
9 4 (0.23%) Appian
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.17%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.058%) nginx
12 1 (0.058%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.058%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.058%) WebLogic
Applications
1 154 (8.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.55%) MS Visio
5 21 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.64%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.058%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.058%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.81%) Aladdin
3 14 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.58%) Finacle
5 9 (0.52%) Fidessa
5 9 (0.52%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.35%) iTrent
6 6 (0.35%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
6 6 (0.35%) Summit
7 5 (0.29%) Magento
7 5 (0.29%) Shopify
8 4 (0.23%) HFM
8 4 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 349 (20.21%) Azure
2 244 (14.13%) AWS
3 216 (12.51%) Power Platform
4 89 (5.15%) GCP
5 76 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
5 76 (4.40%) SaaS
6 69 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
7 64 (3.71%) GitHub
8 44 (2.55%) Entra ID
9 41 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 39 (2.26%) Snowflake
11 32 (1.85%) Amazon S3
11 32 (1.85%) Serverless
12 31 (1.80%) GitHub Actions
13 28 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
13 28 (1.62%) dbt
14 25 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
15 24 (1.39%) PaaS
16 22 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 21 (1.22%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.43%) Firewall
2 26 (1.51%) DNS
2 26 (1.51%) Network Security
3 21 (1.22%) VPN
4 20 (1.16%) WAN
5 17 (0.98%) TCP/IP
6 16 (0.93%) DHCP
7 15 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.75%) SAN
9 11 (0.64%) BGP
10 10 (0.58%) VLAN
11 9 (0.52%) 5G
11 9 (0.52%) Internet
11 9 (0.52%) OSPF
12 8 (0.46%) 4G
12 8 (0.46%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.46%) HTTP
12 8 (0.46%) LAN
12 8 (0.46%) VXLAN
12 8 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (11.06%) Power BI
2 98 (5.67%) Data Warehouse
3 87 (5.04%) SQL Server
4 75 (4.34%) Tableau
5 68 (3.94%) Relational Database
6 58 (3.36%) Metadata
7 41 (2.37%) Data Lake
7 41 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (1.91%) NoSQL
9 26 (1.51%) Big Data
9 26 (1.51%) MongoDB
10 24 (1.39%) RDBMS
11 23 (1.33%) Oracle Database
12 22 (1.27%) BigQuery
13 21 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (1.10%) Power Query
15 18 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
15 18 (1.04%) Star Schema
16 14 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
17 13 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 161 (9.32%) JIRA
2 73 (4.23%) Git
3 34 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.45%) Selenium
5 14 (0.81%) REST Assured
6 13 (0.75%) Postman
7 12 (0.69%) Cypress.io
7 12 (0.69%) GitLab
8 11 (0.64%) ERwin
8 11 (0.64%) JUnit
9 10 (0.58%) MLflow
10 9 (0.52%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.46%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.46%) JMeter
11 8 (0.46%) PowerDesigner
12 7 (0.41%) SonarQube
12 7 (0.41%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.35%) Maven
13 6 (0.35%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 809 (46.84%) Social Skills
2 686 (39.72%) Finance
3 250 (14.48%) Banking
4 143 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 87 (5.04%) Marketing
6 84 (4.86%) Front Office
7 79 (4.57%) Legal
8 78 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
9 73 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
10 59 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (3.18%) Investment Banking
12 53 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (2.78%) Telecoms
14 47 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 45 (2.61%) Retail
16 41 (2.37%) Financial Institution
17 28 (1.62%) Back Office
18 20 (1.16%) Law
19 19 (1.10%) Local Government
20 18 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 452 (26.17%) Analyst
2 227 (13.14%) Business Analyst
3 170 (9.84%) Senior
4 152 (8.80%) Developer
5 123 (7.12%) Architect
6 110 (6.37%) Lead
7 102 (5.91%) Data Engineer
8 96 (5.56%) Data Analyst
9 92 (5.33%) Consultant
10 64 (3.71%) Data Scientist
11 54 (3.13%) Project Manager
12 41 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (2.03%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (1.91%) Senior Developer
15 30 (1.74%) Financial Analyst
16 27 (1.56%) Support Engineer
17 26 (1.51%) Product Owner
17 26 (1.51%) Senior Business Analyst
17 26 (1.51%) Technical Business Analyst
18 25 (1.45%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (5.44%) REST
2 64 (3.71%) .NET
3 49 (2.84%) Kafka
4 41 (2.37%) JSON
5 40 (2.32%) Pandas
5 40 (2.32%) XML
6 39 (2.26%) RESTful
7 36 (2.08%) SOAP
8 35 (2.03%) Middleware
9 31 (1.80%) scikit-learn
10 30 (1.74%) HTML
11 29 (1.68%) Web Services
12 26 (1.51%) CSS
12 26 (1.51%) PySpark
13 24 (1.39%) NumPy
14 22 (1.27%) PyTorch
14 22 (1.27%) React
15 21 (1.22%) Spring
16 20 (1.16%) AngularJS
16 20 (1.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 163 (9.44%) Analytical Mindset
2 105 (6.08%) Product Ownership
3 79 (4.57%) Onboarding
4 73 (4.23%) Data Structures
5 69 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
6 47 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
7 46 (2.66%) Cloud Native
8 44 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
9 39 (2.26%) Algorithms
10 38 (2.20%) Data Centre
10 38 (2.20%) Management Information System
11 36 (2.08%) Fixed Income
12 35 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 33 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
13 33 (1.91%) Derivative
14 30 (1.74%) Equities
15 23 (1.33%) Security Posture
16 22 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
16 22 (1.27%) Virtual Team
17 20 (1.16%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 110 (6.37%) Windows
2 74 (4.28%) Linux
3 35 (2.03%) Unix
4 19 (1.10%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.75%) Android
6 12 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 12 (0.69%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.69%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.35%) Solaris
8 5 (0.29%) AIX
9 2 (0.12%) SUSE
10 1 (0.058%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 837 (48.47%) Problem-Solving
2 471 (27.27%) Agile
3 423 (24.49%) Stakeholder Management
4 322 (18.65%) Analytics
5 321 (18.59%) Continuous Improvement
6 306 (17.72%) AI
7 293 (16.97%) Decision-Making
8 253 (14.65%) Data Modelling
9 227 (13.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 222 (12.85%) Validation
11 212 (12.28%) Business Intelligence
12 205 (11.87%) DevOps
13 196 (11.35%) CI/CD
14 190 (11.00%) Migration
15 181 (10.48%) Data Analysis
16 152 (8.80%) Data Pipeline
17 150 (8.69%) User Acceptance Testing
18 149 (8.63%) Roadmaps
19 144 (8.34%) Data Science
20 143 (8.28%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 498 (28.84%) SQL
2 383 (22.18%) Python
3 109 (6.31%) Java
4 88 (5.10%) C#
5 63 (3.65%) JavaScript
6 58 (3.36%) PowerShell
7 45 (2.61%) TypeScript
8 35 (2.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 31 (1.80%) C++
10 29 (1.68%) R
11 26 (1.51%) PL/SQL
12 25 (1.45%) T-SQL
13 23 (1.33%) Bash
14 22 (1.27%) Scala
15 10 (0.58%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.58%) C
15 10 (0.58%) VBA
16 9 (0.52%) Shell Script
17 8 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
18 7 (0.41%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 213 (12.33%) Degree
2 205 (11.87%) Security Cleared
3 145 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 65 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 38 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 36 (2.08%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.03%) CISSP
8 27 (1.56%) PMP
9 26 (1.51%) PMI Certification
10 22 (1.27%) CISM
11 21 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (0.98%) Azure Certification
13 16 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (0.87%) CISA
14 15 (0.87%) DV Cleared
14 15 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.69%) ACCA
15 12 (0.69%) ISTQB
16 11 (0.64%) CIMA
16 11 (0.64%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (12.74%) Data Quality
2 136 (7.87%) QA
3 82 (4.75%) PMO
4 74 (4.28%) GDPR
5 51 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 48 (2.78%) NIST
7 44 (2.55%) SLA
8 29 (1.68%) Accessibility
9 25 (1.45%) COBIT
10 24 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 24 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (1.16%) GRC
11 20 (1.16%) PCI DSS
12 17 (0.98%) IFRS
13 12 (0.69%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.46%) Solvency II
15 7 (0.41%) GAAP
16 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.35%) GxP
16 6 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 63 (3.65%) Docker
2 58 (3.36%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.29%) IAG
7 4 (0.23%) Firmware
8 3 (0.17%) Postfix
8 3 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.12%) NFS
9 2 (0.12%) Squid
10 1 (0.058%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.058%) RACF
10 1 (0.058%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.058%) vSphere
10 1 (0.058%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 63 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 51 (2.95%) Terraform
3 26 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.33%) Ansible
5 22 (1.27%) Grafana
6 11 (0.64%) SCCM
6 11 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.46%) Kibana
8 7 (0.41%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.35%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.29%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.23%) Control-M
12 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.12%) Istio
13 2 (0.12%) Nessus
13 2 (0.12%) Tivoli
14 1 (0.058%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 1 (0.058%) QRadar
14 1 (0.058%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 1 (0.058%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 260 (15.06%) Microsoft
2 149 (8.63%) Oracle
3 92 (5.33%) SAP
4 83 (4.81%) ServiceNow
5 76 (4.40%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.76%) Databricks
7 62 (3.59%) Google
8 28 (1.62%) Splunk
9 24 (1.39%) Workday
10 23 (1.33%) Dynatrace
11 21 (1.22%) IBM
12 20 (1.16%) Informatica
13 19 (1.10%) Alteryx
13 19 (1.10%) Cisco
14 17 (0.98%) Adobe
14 17 (0.98%) Murex
15 16 (0.93%) Apple
15 16 (0.93%) VMware
16 15 (0.87%) Bloomberg
16 15 (0.87%) CyberArk