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 3 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,940 1,483 1,419
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.53% 10.99% 8.75%
As % of the General category 15.44% 16.00% 14.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,189 918 867
10th Percentile £338 £313 £320
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £772
England median daily rate £500 £500 £518
% change year-on-year - -3.38% -3.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 32 24
10th Percentile £19.89 £18.25 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.06 £25.12 £22.75
Median hourly rate £30.75 £34.48 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.82% -9.86% -23.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £54.38 £54.06
90th Percentile £62.25 £69.00 £72.88
England median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -7.69% +30.00% -44.44%

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 12,568 9,268 10,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.75% 68.70% 62.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,012 6,090 6,586
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
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 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £501 £533
% change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 179 120
10th Percentile £16.09 £17.06 £17.95
25th Percentile £20.38 £24.56 £25.93
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £36.15
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% -12.86% +22.54%
75th Percentile £47.50 £48.50 £54.06
90th Percentile £73.23 £65.11 £68.33
England median hourly rate £29.50 £25.15 £36.00
% change year-on-year +17.30% -30.14% +25.22%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 3 October 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 -10 224 £550 - 420
West London +7 92 £556 +34.04% 135
South London -2 26 £537 -20.44% 28
East London +1 12 £500 +45.99% 26
North London +4 5 £525 - 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 95 (4.90%) Confluence
2 47 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 45 (2.32%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.39%) CMS
6 24 (1.24%) Apache
7 20 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.46%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.41%) JBoss
10 8 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
10 8 (0.41%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.36%) SAS
12 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.26%) Appian
12 5 (0.26%) IIS
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
14 3 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
15 2 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 185 (9.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.65%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.34%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.36%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.26%) Trello
9 3 (0.15%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.10%) Notion
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.10%) Productboard
11 1 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.052%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 27 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
4 18 (0.93%) Aladdin
5 15 (0.77%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.52%) Finacle
7 8 (0.41%) iTrent
7 8 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
7 8 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.41%) Shopify
8 6 (0.31%) Magento
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.26%) SAP GRC
9 5 (0.26%) Summit
10 4 (0.21%) Front Arena
10 4 (0.21%) Loan IQ
10 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 389 (20.05%) Azure
2 273 (14.07%) AWS
3 248 (12.78%) Power Platform
4 111 (5.72%) GCP
5 91 (4.69%) GitHub
6 83 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
7 79 (4.07%) SaaS
8 74 (3.81%) Snowflake
9 71 (3.66%) Entra ID
9 71 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
10 44 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
11 43 (2.22%) Serverless
12 40 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
13 38 (1.96%) dbt
14 32 (1.65%) Amazon S3
15 31 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
16 29 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
17 27 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
18 26 (1.34%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 23 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.11%) Firewall
2 35 (1.80%) TCP/IP
3 34 (1.75%) Network Security
4 33 (1.70%) DNS
4 33 (1.70%) VPN
5 20 (1.03%) DHCP
6 17 (0.88%) WAN
7 16 (0.82%) SSL
8 15 (0.77%) BGP
9 13 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
9 13 (0.67%) VLAN
10 12 (0.62%) 5G
10 12 (0.62%) HTTP
11 11 (0.57%) Kerberos
11 11 (0.57%) MPLS
11 11 (0.57%) SAN
12 10 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.46%) Wireless
13 9 (0.46%) Wireshark
14 8 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (11.19%) Power BI
2 106 (5.46%) Data Warehouse
3 99 (5.10%) SQL Server
4 80 (4.12%) Tableau
5 78 (4.02%) Relational Database
6 67 (3.45%) Metadata
6 67 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 38 (1.96%) NoSQL
8 36 (1.86%) MongoDB
9 32 (1.65%) Oracle Database
10 26 (1.34%) BigQuery
10 26 (1.34%) Delta Lake
11 24 (1.24%) Big Data
12 23 (1.19%) Power Query
13 22 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (1.03%) RDBMS
15 19 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
16 18 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
17 15 (0.77%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 196 (10.10%) JIRA
2 126 (6.49%) Git
3 63 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 37 (1.91%) GitLab
5 26 (1.34%) Selenium
6 21 (1.08%) JMeter
7 16 (0.82%) Bitbucket
8 15 (0.77%) Maven
9 14 (0.72%) Gradle
10 13 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.67%) LoadRunner
10 13 (0.67%) Postman
11 11 (0.57%) ERwin
11 11 (0.57%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.52%) Gatling
13 9 (0.46%) JUnit
13 9 (0.46%) REST Assured
13 9 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.41%) ER Studio
14 8 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,000 (51.55%) Social Skills
2 796 (41.03%) Finance
3 311 (16.03%) Banking
4 177 (9.12%) Public Sector
5 100 (5.15%) Front Office
6 96 (4.95%) Organisational Skills
7 87 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
8 86 (4.43%) Legal
8 86 (4.43%) Marketing
9 77 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
10 76 (3.92%) Retail
11 62 (3.20%) Investment Banking
11 62 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
12 61 (3.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 55 (2.84%) Local Government
14 49 (2.53%) Telecoms
15 38 (1.96%) Back Office
16 36 (1.86%) Financial Institution
17 29 (1.49%) Manufacturing
18 20 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 483 (24.90%) Analyst
2 236 (12.16%) Senior
3 221 (11.39%) Business Analyst
4 181 (9.33%) Developer
5 132 (6.80%) Lead
6 118 (6.08%) Architect
7 101 (5.21%) Data Analyst
8 96 (4.95%) Data Engineer
9 83 (4.28%) Consultant
10 59 (3.04%) Data Scientist
11 52 (2.68%) Senior Analyst
12 51 (2.63%) Project Manager
13 50 (2.58%) Senior Developer
14 33 (1.70%) Technical Analyst
15 31 (1.60%) Java Developer
16 30 (1.55%) Senior Manager
16 30 (1.55%) Support Engineer
16 30 (1.55%) Technical Business Analyst
17 29 (1.49%) Financial Analyst
18 28 (1.44%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (6.13%) REST
2 94 (4.85%) .NET
3 86 (4.43%) Terraform
4 65 (3.35%) Kafka
5 63 (3.25%) RESTful
6 49 (2.53%) Web Services
7 43 (2.22%) SOAP
8 42 (2.16%) JSON
8 42 (2.16%) Middleware
8 42 (2.16%) XML
9 41 (2.11%) HTML
10 40 (2.06%) PySpark
11 37 (1.91%) Spring
12 34 (1.75%) CSS
13 33 (1.70%) React
14 32 (1.65%) Spring Boot
15 26 (1.34%) Pandas
16 22 (1.13%) .NET Core
16 22 (1.13%) AngularJS
17 21 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 148 (7.63%) Analytical Mindset
2 144 (7.42%) Product Ownership
3 118 (6.08%) Onboarding
4 83 (4.28%) Cloud Native
5 73 (3.76%) Data Structures
6 72 (3.71%) Management Information System
7 66 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
8 54 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
9 49 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
10 43 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
11 38 (1.96%) AI Agents
12 35 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
13 32 (1.65%) Derivative
14 30 (1.55%) Fixed Income
15 29 (1.49%) Algorithms
16 27 (1.39%) Equities
17 26 (1.34%) Credit Risk
17 26 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 22 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
19 21 (1.08%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 132 (6.80%) Linux
2 123 (6.34%) Windows
3 54 (2.78%) Unix
4 25 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.13%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.82%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.82%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.72%) Android
9 7 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.31%) Solaris
11 5 (0.26%) AIX
12 3 (0.15%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.10%) SUSE
13 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.052%) OpenWrt
14 1 (0.052%) VMS
14 1 (0.052%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,015 (52.32%) Problem-Solving
2 703 (36.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 559 (28.81%) Agile
4 413 (21.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 388 (20.00%) Analytics
6 386 (19.90%) AI
7 363 (18.71%) Decision-Making
8 280 (14.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 269 (13.87%) CI/CD
10 266 (13.71%) Validation
11 255 (13.14%) DevOps
12 254 (13.09%) Business Intelligence
13 234 (12.06%) Data Modelling
14 227 (11.70%) Migration
15 198 (10.21%) User Acceptance Testing
16 190 (9.79%) Roadmaps
17 179 (9.23%) Data Analysis
18 177 (9.12%) Business Analysis
18 177 (9.12%) Data Pipeline
18 177 (9.12%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 563 (29.02%) SQL
2 426 (21.96%) Python
3 124 (6.39%) Java
4 106 (5.46%) C#
5 99 (5.10%) JavaScript
6 73 (3.76%) PowerShell
7 55 (2.84%) Bash
8 40 (2.06%) TypeScript
9 32 (1.65%) R
10 30 (1.55%) PL/SQL
11 28 (1.44%) C++
11 28 (1.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 28 (1.44%) T-SQL
12 25 (1.29%) Shell Script
13 16 (0.82%) Korn
13 16 (0.82%) Perl
14 15 (0.77%) Scala
15 13 (0.67%) Go
16 8 (0.41%) C
17 7 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 270 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 253 (13.04%) Degree
3 216 (11.13%) SC Cleared
4 65 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (1.91%) PMI Certification
7 36 (1.86%) PMP
8 33 (1.70%) CISSP
8 33 (1.70%) Master's Degree
9 26 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 23 (1.19%) ACCA
10 23 (1.19%) CIMA
11 22 (1.13%) CISM
11 22 (1.13%) DV Cleared
12 20 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (0.88%) AWS Certification
14 17 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 16 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
16 15 (0.77%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (13.09%) Data Quality
2 151 (7.78%) QA
3 78 (4.02%) PMO
4 56 (2.89%) GDPR
5 46 (2.37%) SLA
6 42 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
8 33 (1.70%) NIST
9 28 (1.44%) GRC
10 27 (1.39%) Accessibility
11 18 (0.93%) IFRS
12 15 (0.77%) COBIT
13 14 (0.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 13 (0.67%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.41%) Basel III
16 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.31%) ISO 15022
17 6 (0.31%) P3O
17 6 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 95 (4.90%) Docker
2 80 (4.12%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.36%) IAG
5 7 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.26%) Firmware
8 4 (0.21%) vSphere
9 3 (0.15%) NFS
9 3 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.10%) Postfix
10 2 (0.10%) Squid
10 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.052%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 95 (4.90%) Kubernetes
2 42 (2.16%) Ansible
3 34 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (1.70%) Grafana
5 17 (0.88%) Prometheus
6 16 (0.82%) SCCM
7 15 (0.77%) Kibana
8 14 (0.72%) Control-M
9 7 (0.36%) Puppet
9 7 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 5 (0.26%) Istio
10 5 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.21%) systemd
12 3 (0.15%) Argo
12 3 (0.15%) Cilium
12 3 (0.15%) SnapMirror
13 2 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
13 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 359 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 164 (8.45%) Oracle
3 96 (4.95%) Databricks
4 95 (4.90%) SAP
5 91 (4.69%) ServiceNow
6 75 (3.87%) Google
7 63 (3.25%) Salesforce
8 54 (2.78%) Splunk
9 36 (1.86%) Cisco
9 36 (1.86%) IBM
10 30 (1.55%) Dynatrace
10 30 (1.55%) VMware
11 23 (1.19%) CyberArk
12 20 (1.03%) Adobe
13 17 (0.88%) Alteryx
13 17 (0.88%) Red Hat
13 17 (0.88%) Workday
14 15 (0.77%) Informatica
14 15 (0.77%) UiPath
15 14 (0.72%) Zscaler