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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 18 21
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,559 1,511 1,621
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.91% 9.69% 8.31%
As % of the General category 16.20% 15.17% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 947 914 1,088
10th Percentile £313 £313 £314
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £666 £675
90th Percentile £757 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £529
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.76% -3.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 27 38
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £19.73
25th Percentile £27.25 £22.00 £25.60
Median hourly rate £35.00 £29.00 £47.03
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -38.33% +38.32%
75th Percentile £47.00 £53.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £58.20 £80.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.00 £31.86
% change year-on-year +36.00% -21.52% -20.36%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 9,625 9,963 12,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.33% 63.86% 64.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,302 6,385 9,132
10th Percentile £331 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 113 168
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.55
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.00 £21.50
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.33% +7.14% +2.94%
75th Percentile £45.00 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £77.72 £76.63
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.45 £32.50
% change year-on-year -22.58% -6.31% +26.41%

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 7 December 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 7 December 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 7 December 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 +1 246 £500 -9.26% 136
South London -5 23 £556 -4.59% 78
West London -10 20 £425 +6.25% 51
East London +2 9 £394 -10.51% 50
North London -2 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 72 (4.62%) Confluence
2 44 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 28 (1.80%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 19 (1.22%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.90%) CMS
7 9 (0.58%) Apache
8 5 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 3 (0.19%) SAS
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
12 1 (0.064%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.064%) Appian
12 1 (0.064%) GeoServer
Applications
1 152 (9.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (3.72%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.57%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.38%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.38%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.13%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.064%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.064%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.064%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.064%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.064%) Revit
Business Applications
1 21 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.77%) Endur
2 12 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.64%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
4 10 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.51%) SAP HR
6 7 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
7 6 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
7 6 (0.38%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.32%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.26%) ION MarketView
9 4 (0.26%) Shopify
10 3 (0.19%) IntelliMatch
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 253 (16.23%) Azure
2 213 (13.66%) AWS
3 174 (11.16%) Power Platform
4 78 (5.00%) GCP
5 69 (4.43%) SaaS
6 53 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
6 53 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 39 (2.50%) GitHub
8 38 (2.44%) Snowflake
9 37 (2.37%) IaaS
10 35 (2.25%) Amazon S3
11 32 (2.05%) Serverless
12 28 (1.80%) dbt
13 27 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 18 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (1.15%) Google Analytics
16 18 (1.15%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.63%) Firewall
2 34 (2.18%) Network Security
3 32 (2.05%) DNS
4 22 (1.41%) VPN
5 18 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.09%) LAN
6 17 (1.09%) WAN
7 15 (0.96%) HTTP
8 11 (0.71%) DHCP
8 11 (0.71%) SSL
9 10 (0.64%) VoIP
10 9 (0.58%) Internet
10 9 (0.58%) VLAN
11 8 (0.51%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.38%) BGP
13 5 (0.32%) CTI
13 5 (0.32%) DMZ
13 5 (0.32%) SMTP
13 5 (0.32%) Wireless
13 5 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (10.46%) Power BI
2 75 (4.81%) Tableau
3 63 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (3.01%) Relational Database
4 47 (3.01%) SQL Server
5 41 (2.63%) Metadata
6 34 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
7 27 (1.73%) Big Data
8 26 (1.67%) DB2
8 26 (1.67%) MongoDB
9 22 (1.41%) Data Lake
10 20 (1.28%) NoSQL
11 17 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
12 16 (1.03%) BigQuery
12 16 (1.03%) Hadoop
13 15 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 15 (0.96%) Star Schema
14 14 (0.90%) Power Query
15 13 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (0.83%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 137 (8.79%) JIRA
2 65 (4.17%) Git
3 25 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.28%) JUnit
5 16 (1.03%) GitLab
6 10 (0.64%) Selenium
7 8 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.51%) Postman
8 6 (0.38%) Browser DevTools
8 6 (0.38%) JMeter
9 5 (0.32%) Burp Suite
9 5 (0.32%) Eclipse
9 5 (0.32%) Metasploit
9 5 (0.32%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 5 (0.32%) webpack
10 4 (0.26%) Appium
10 4 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.26%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.26%) sqlmap
10 4 (0.26%) TestRail
General
1 851 (54.59%) Social Skills
2 563 (36.11%) Finance
3 208 (13.34%) Banking
4 128 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 97 (6.22%) Marketing
6 75 (4.81%) Investment Banking
7 69 (4.43%) Legal
8 55 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
9 54 (3.46%) Influencing Skills
10 53 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
11 49 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
12 47 (3.01%) Front Office
13 45 (2.89%) Back Office
14 44 (2.82%) Financial Institution
15 43 (2.76%) Retail
16 41 (2.63%) Telecoms
17 27 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 24 (1.54%) Publishing
19 20 (1.28%) Law
20 18 (1.15%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 414 (26.56%) Analyst
2 199 (12.76%) Business Analyst
3 185 (11.87%) Senior
4 171 (10.97%) Developer
5 118 (7.57%) Architect
6 90 (5.77%) Lead
7 78 (5.00%) Data Analyst
8 73 (4.68%) Consultant
9 59 (3.78%) Data Engineer
10 54 (3.46%) Senior Analyst
11 50 (3.21%) Project Manager
12 46 (2.95%) Senior Developer
13 40 (2.57%) Java Developer
14 34 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
15 32 (2.05%) Technical Analyst
16 29 (1.86%) Python Developer
17 28 (1.80%) Data Scientist
17 28 (1.80%) Security Analyst
18 26 (1.67%) Senior Business Analyst
19 24 (1.54%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (6.09%) REST
2 51 (3.27%) Kafka
3 50 (3.21%) JSON
4 36 (2.31%) Spring
5 34 (2.18%) HTML
6 33 (2.12%) React
7 32 (2.05%) .NET
8 29 (1.86%) XML
9 27 (1.73%) RESTful
10 26 (1.67%) CSS
11 25 (1.60%) Pandas
11 25 (1.60%) SOAP
12 23 (1.48%) AngularJS
13 21 (1.35%) Middleware
14 19 (1.22%) NumPy
15 18 (1.15%) OAuth
15 18 (1.15%) scikit-learn
16 17 (1.09%) Node.js
17 16 (1.03%) TensorFlow
18 15 (0.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 159 (10.20%) Analytical Mindset
2 72 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 68 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
4 66 (4.23%) Management Information System
5 53 (3.40%) Data Structures
5 53 (3.40%) Onboarding
6 41 (2.63%) Algorithms
7 34 (2.18%) Derivative
8 30 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
9 29 (1.86%) PKI
10 28 (1.80%) Equities
11 26 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
11 26 (1.67%) Fixed Income
12 25 (1.60%) Cloud Native
12 25 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 24 (1.54%) Security Posture
14 21 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
14 21 (1.35%) Reinsurance
15 18 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
15 18 (1.15%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 87 (5.58%) Linux
2 71 (4.55%) Windows
3 32 (2.05%) Unix
4 7 (0.45%) Android
4 7 (0.45%) Mac OS
4 7 (0.45%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.45%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.32%) VMS
7 4 (0.26%) Solaris
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
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.064%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.064%) VME
9 1 (0.064%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 844 (54.14%) Problem-Solving
2 466 (29.89%) Agile
3 294 (18.86%) Analytics
4 285 (18.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 249 (15.97%) Decision-Making
6 206 (13.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 198 (12.70%) Business Intelligence
8 188 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 174 (11.16%) Data Modelling
10 164 (10.52%) Data Analysis
11 156 (10.01%) CI/CD
12 150 (9.62%) DevOps
13 148 (9.49%) Project Management
14 145 (9.30%) AI
15 143 (9.17%) Migration
16 140 (8.98%) Validation
17 130 (8.34%) Roadmaps
17 130 (8.34%) Visualisation
18 121 (7.76%) Computer Science
19 120 (7.70%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 378 (24.25%) SQL
2 337 (21.62%) Python
3 111 (7.12%) Java
4 83 (5.32%) JavaScript
5 76 (4.87%) PowerShell
6 44 (2.82%) C#
7 41 (2.63%) Bash
8 34 (2.18%) TypeScript
9 29 (1.86%) C++
10 22 (1.41%) R
10 22 (1.41%) Shell Script
11 17 (1.09%) Go
12 13 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 13 (0.83%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (0.77%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.64%) Scala
14 10 (0.64%) VBA
15 9 (0.58%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.45%) Korn
17 6 (0.38%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 245 (15.72%) Degree
2 228 (14.62%) Security Cleared
3 174 (11.16%) SC Cleared
4 74 (4.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (2.82%) Master's Degree
6 41 (2.63%) PMI Certification
7 28 (1.80%) PMP
8 24 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 21 (1.35%) CISSP
10 18 (1.15%) Azure Certification
10 18 (1.15%) CBAP
11 14 (0.90%) CIMA
11 14 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (0.83%) ACCA
12 13 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.77%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.77%) OSCP
14 11 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.71%) CCNP
14 11 (0.71%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (9.04%) Data Quality
2 117 (7.50%) QA
3 54 (3.46%) GDPR
4 46 (2.95%) Accessibility
5 34 (2.18%) PMO
6 21 (1.35%) NIST
7 20 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.96%) SLA
9 11 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.71%) WCAG
10 10 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 10 (0.64%) GRC
11 9 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.58%) COBIT
11 9 (0.58%) EMIR
12 8 (0.51%) PCI DSS
13 7 (0.45%) ISO 20022
13 7 (0.45%) MiFID
14 6 (0.38%) ISO 19650
15 5 (0.32%) SEPA
System Software
1 58 (3.72%) Active Directory
2 57 (3.66%) Docker
3 13 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.51%) zsh
5 7 (0.45%) HDFS
6 4 (0.26%) Firmware
6 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.19%) ProxySG
7 3 (0.19%) Squid
7 3 (0.19%) vSphere
8 2 (0.13%) Snort
8 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.064%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.064%) IAG
9 1 (0.064%) KVM
9 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.064%) Xen
Systems Management
1 70 (4.49%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.66%) Terraform
3 43 (2.76%) Ansible
4 17 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.03%) Grafana
6 13 (0.83%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.77%) SCCM
8 10 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.51%) Nessus
10 6 (0.38%) HP ALM
11 5 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
11 5 (0.32%) Nmap
11 5 (0.32%) SCOM
12 4 (0.26%) BladeLogic
13 3 (0.19%) Argo
13 3 (0.19%) CA Spectrum
14 2 (0.13%) CSIRT
14 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
14 2 (0.13%) Nexpose
14 2 (0.13%) Suricata
Vendors
1 257 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 91 (5.84%) Oracle
3 75 (4.81%) SAP
4 65 (4.17%) Google
5 56 (3.59%) Salesforce
6 54 (3.46%) ServiceNow
7 47 (3.01%) Databricks
8 34 (2.18%) Splunk
9 29 (1.86%) Cisco
10 21 (1.35%) VMware
11 18 (1.15%) Bloomberg
11 18 (1.15%) Sybase
12 16 (1.03%) Adobe
12 16 (1.03%) MuleSoft
13 13 (0.83%) CyberArk
13 13 (0.83%) Juniper
13 13 (0.83%) Palo Alto
14 12 (0.77%) Alteryx
14 12 (0.77%) Workday
15 11 (0.71%) Murex