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 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,579 1,431 1,651
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.17% 9.10% 8.35%
As % of the General category 16.36% 14.45% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 868 1,121
10th Percentile £313 £310 £319
25th Percentile £406 £426 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £769 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.57% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 23 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £21.18
25th Percentile £25.15 £20.55 £28.18
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -39.70% +42.14%
75th Percentile £47.50 £48.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £64.00 £79.85 £66.20
England median hourly rate £33.94 £26.06 £32.50
% change year-on-year +30.23% -19.81% -18.75%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,653 9,900 12,879
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.28% 62.96% 65.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,312 6,356 9,318
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £695 £700
90th Percentile £783 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 112 170
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.55 £18.48
25th Percentile £20.18 £27.38 £21.31
Median hourly rate £26.40 £37.79 £35.44
Median % change year-on-year -30.13% +6.62% +8.21%
75th Percentile £45.44 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.20 £76.13 £75.13
England median hourly rate £24.61 £31.97 £32.32
% change year-on-year -23.02% -1.08% +25.71%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +6 259 £513 -10.87% 612
South London -2 26 £625 +11.86% 44
West London -6 25 £425 +6.25% 67
East London +4 10 £400 -9.09% 52
North London -3 1 - - 11
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 71 (4.50%) Confluence
2 41 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.89%) CMS
7 9 (0.57%) Apache
8 5 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) Camunda
11 2 (0.13%) IIS
11 2 (0.13%) Luigi
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.063%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.063%) Appian
12 1 (0.063%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 147 (9.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 34 (2.15%) MS Visio
5 21 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.38%) ProjectWise
8 4 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.25%) Trello
9 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) Revit
10 1 (0.063%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.063%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.063%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.063%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 21 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.76%) Endur
3 11 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.63%) SAP HR
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
6 8 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
7 7 (0.44%) Workday HCM
8 6 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
8 6 (0.38%) Oracle BPM
8 6 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
8 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
9 5 (0.32%) NetSuite
9 5 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
9 5 (0.32%) SAP MDG
9 5 (0.32%) Teamcenter
10 4 (0.25%) ION MarketView
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 256 (16.21%) Azure
2 212 (13.43%) AWS
3 172 (10.89%) Power Platform
4 81 (5.13%) GCP
5 59 (3.74%) SaaS
6 53 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
7 52 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (2.66%) Entra ID
9 38 (2.41%) GitHub
10 37 (2.34%) IaaS
11 36 (2.28%) Snowflake
12 31 (1.96%) Amazon S3
13 28 (1.77%) Serverless
14 25 (1.58%) dbt
15 20 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
15 20 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (1.14%) PowerApps
17 16 (1.01%) AWS CloudFormation
17 16 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
18 15 (0.95%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.72%) Firewall
2 31 (1.96%) DNS
2 31 (1.96%) Network Security
3 23 (1.46%) TCP/IP
4 20 (1.27%) VPN
5 17 (1.08%) LAN
5 17 (1.08%) WAN
6 15 (0.95%) HTTP
7 11 (0.70%) Internet
7 11 (0.70%) SSL
8 10 (0.63%) DHCP
8 10 (0.63%) VoIP
9 9 (0.57%) VLAN
10 7 (0.44%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.38%) Wireless
12 5 (0.32%) BGP
12 5 (0.32%) CTI
12 5 (0.32%) SMTP
12 5 (0.32%) SSH
12 5 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (10.20%) Power BI
2 74 (4.69%) Tableau
3 61 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
4 53 (3.36%) SQL Server
5 50 (3.17%) Relational Database
6 38 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
7 34 (2.15%) Metadata
8 29 (1.84%) DB2
8 29 (1.84%) MongoDB
9 27 (1.71%) Big Data
10 26 (1.65%) Data Lake
11 23 (1.46%) NoSQL
12 22 (1.39%) Hadoop
13 20 (1.27%) BigQuery
14 17 (1.08%) Power Query
15 16 (1.01%) Looker
15 16 (1.01%) Star Schema
16 15 (0.95%) Oracle Reports
17 13 (0.82%) Oracle Database
17 13 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 133 (8.42%) JIRA
2 73 (4.62%) Git
3 28 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.65%) JUnit
5 12 (0.76%) GitLab
5 12 (0.76%) Selenium
6 9 (0.57%) Postman
7 8 (0.51%) Bitbucket
8 7 (0.44%) Maven
9 6 (0.38%) Browser DevTools
9 6 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.38%) TestRail
10 5 (0.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 5 (0.32%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.32%) Eclipse
10 5 (0.32%) IntelliJ
10 5 (0.32%) Metasploit
10 5 (0.32%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 5 (0.32%) webpack
10 5 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 869 (55.03%) Social Skills
2 569 (36.04%) Finance
3 231 (14.63%) Banking
4 124 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 97 (6.14%) Marketing
6 90 (5.70%) Investment Banking
7 69 (4.37%) Legal
8 54 (3.42%) Front Office
9 53 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
10 52 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
10 52 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
11 49 (3.10%) Presentation Skills
12 48 (3.04%) Back Office
12 48 (3.04%) Financial Institution
13 44 (2.79%) Retail
14 43 (2.72%) Telecoms
15 24 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (1.33%) Publishing
17 19 (1.20%) Law
17 19 (1.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 426 (26.98%) Analyst
2 205 (12.98%) Business Analyst
3 193 (12.22%) Developer
4 177 (11.21%) Senior
5 125 (7.92%) Architect
6 99 (6.27%) Lead
7 77 (4.88%) Data Analyst
8 70 (4.43%) Consultant
9 56 (3.55%) Data Engineer
10 51 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
11 50 (3.17%) Java Developer
11 50 (3.17%) Senior Developer
12 42 (2.66%) Project Manager
13 37 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (2.09%) Python Developer
15 32 (2.03%) Technical Analyst
16 27 (1.71%) Security Analyst
17 26 (1.65%) Data Scientist
18 25 (1.58%) Senior Business Analyst
19 23 (1.46%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (6.71%) REST
2 51 (3.23%) JSON
3 50 (3.17%) Kafka
4 45 (2.85%) .NET
5 38 (2.41%) HTML
6 37 (2.34%) React
6 37 (2.34%) Spring
7 31 (1.96%) RESTful
8 30 (1.90%) CSS
9 29 (1.84%) AngularJS
10 28 (1.77%) XML
11 27 (1.71%) SOAP
12 22 (1.39%) Web Services
13 21 (1.33%) OAuth
14 20 (1.27%) Middleware
14 20 (1.27%) Pandas
15 17 (1.08%) SAML
16 16 (1.01%) JMS
16 16 (1.01%) scikit-learn
16 16 (1.01%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 148 (9.37%) Analytical Mindset
2 72 (4.56%) Product Ownership
3 71 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
4 63 (3.99%) Management Information System
5 55 (3.48%) Data Structures
6 50 (3.17%) Onboarding
7 47 (2.98%) Algorithms
8 34 (2.15%) Derivative
8 34 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 31 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.84%) Fixed Income
10 29 (1.84%) PKI
11 27 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 26 (1.65%) Equities
13 25 (1.58%) Cloud Native
13 25 (1.58%) Reinsurance
13 25 (1.58%) Security Posture
14 21 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
16 18 (1.14%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 97 (6.14%) Linux
2 80 (5.07%) Windows
3 40 (2.53%) Unix
4 9 (0.57%) Windows 10
4 9 (0.57%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.32%) Android
5 5 (0.32%) Mac OS
5 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.25%) Apple iOS
6 4 (0.25%) Solaris
6 4 (0.25%) VMS
7 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.13%) AIX
8 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.063%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.063%) VME
9 1 (0.063%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 864 (54.72%) Problem-Solving
2 471 (29.83%) Agile
3 285 (18.05%) Analytics
4 276 (17.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 240 (15.20%) Decision-Making
6 198 (12.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 194 (12.29%) Business Intelligence
8 186 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 172 (10.89%) Data Analysis
10 167 (10.58%) Data Modelling
11 164 (10.39%) CI/CD
12 161 (10.20%) DevOps
13 141 (8.93%) Migration
13 141 (8.93%) Project Management
14 139 (8.80%) AI
15 132 (8.36%) Computer Science
15 132 (8.36%) Visualisation
16 130 (8.23%) Actionable Insight
17 125 (7.92%) Scrum
18 122 (7.73%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 393 (24.89%) SQL
2 343 (21.72%) Python
3 137 (8.68%) Java
4 94 (5.95%) JavaScript
5 75 (4.75%) PowerShell
6 52 (3.29%) C#
7 44 (2.79%) Bash
8 37 (2.34%) TypeScript
9 30 (1.90%) C++
9 30 (1.90%) Shell Script
10 20 (1.27%) R
11 17 (1.08%) Go
12 16 (1.01%) PL/SQL
12 16 (1.01%) VBA
13 12 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 11 (0.70%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.63%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.57%) Scala
17 7 (0.44%) ABAP
17 7 (0.44%) Korn
Qualifications
1 239 (15.14%) Degree
2 218 (13.81%) Security Cleared
3 167 (10.58%) SC Cleared
4 73 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 37 (2.34%) PMI Certification
6 35 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 25 (1.58%) PMP
8 23 (1.46%) CISSP
9 22 (1.39%) DV Cleared
10 19 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 14 (0.89%) CBAP
11 14 (0.89%) CIMA
11 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.82%) ACCA
12 13 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.82%) OSCP
13 12 (0.76%) AWS Certification
14 11 (0.70%) Numerate Degree
15 10 (0.63%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (8.68%) Data Quality
2 118 (7.47%) QA
3 50 (3.17%) GDPR
4 46 (2.91%) Accessibility
5 27 (1.71%) PMO
6 20 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.27%) NIST
7 16 (1.01%) SLA
8 11 (0.70%) WCAG
9 10 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (0.63%) GRC
9 10 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.57%) EMIR
11 8 (0.51%) COBIT
12 7 (0.44%) ISO 20022
12 7 (0.44%) MiFID
13 6 (0.38%) ISO 19650
13 6 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 62 (3.93%) Active Directory
2 53 (3.36%) Docker
3 13 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.63%) zsh
5 7 (0.44%) HDFS
6 5 (0.32%) Firmware
7 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.19%) vSphere
9 2 (0.13%) ProxySG
9 2 (0.13%) Squid
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.063%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.063%) IAG
10 1 (0.063%) KVM
10 1 (0.063%) Postfix
10 1 (0.063%) Snort
10 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 68 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.67%) Terraform
3 43 (2.72%) Ansible
4 18 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.01%) Grafana
6 15 (0.95%) Prometheus
7 14 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.76%) SCCM
9 7 (0.44%) Nessus
10 6 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (0.32%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.32%) Nmap
12 4 (0.25%) BladeLogic
12 4 (0.25%) SCOM
13 3 (0.19%) Argo
13 3 (0.19%) CA Spectrum
13 3 (0.19%) QRadar
14 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.13%) Packer
14 2 (0.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 247 (15.64%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.89%) Oracle
3 75 (4.75%) SAP
4 64 (4.05%) Google
5 59 (3.74%) ServiceNow
6 53 (3.36%) Salesforce
7 43 (2.72%) Databricks
8 34 (2.15%) Splunk
9 30 (1.90%) Cisco
10 22 (1.39%) VMware
11 20 (1.27%) Sybase
12 17 (1.08%) Bloomberg
13 15 (0.95%) Adobe
13 15 (0.95%) Workday
14 14 (0.89%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.82%) Juniper
15 13 (0.82%) Murex
16 12 (0.76%) Alteryx
16 12 (0.76%) CyberArk
16 12 (0.76%) Palo Alto