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 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 15 18
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,579 1,401 1,482
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.84% 10.73% 8.10%
As % of the General category 15.63% 16.24% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 866 1,008
10th Percentile £350 £318 £320
25th Percentile £413 £425 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £708 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £537
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.21% -2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 33 51
10th Percentile £18.25 £22.32 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.03 £26.25 £16.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.11 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% +62.17% -21.67%
75th Percentile £47.50 £58.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £55.95 £80.75 £52.50
England median hourly rate £30.11 £29.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.81% +45.00% -41.18%

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 10,104 8,627 11,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 62.99% 66.08% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,602 5,692 8,272
10th Percentile £350 £333 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £694
90th Percentile £784 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 125 270
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.18 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £24.75 £19.00
Median hourly rate £28.55 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.43% +16.67% -6.98%
75th Percentile £48.50 £55.25 £48.69
90th Percentile £71.25 £78.40 £72.53
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.41 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.78% +16.94% -19.38%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -2 237 £525 -1.91% 242
West London -9 30 £500 +25.00% 38
South London -6 28 £506 -13.16% 8
East London +5 8 £400 -32.23% 29
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 79 (5.00%) Confluence
2 31 (1.96%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.77%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 15 (0.95%) Apache
7 13 (0.82%) CMS
8 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.25%) SAS
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.13%) Camunda
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
10 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.063%) Appian
11 1 (0.063%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.063%) Traefik
Applications
1 161 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.53%) MS Visio
5 31 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.32%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.32%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.13%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.063%) Notion
10 1 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.063%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 16 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.82%) NetSuite
3 11 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
4 8 (0.51%) SAP HR
4 8 (0.51%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.44%) Aladdin
5 7 (0.44%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.38%) Shopify
7 5 (0.32%) BASE24
7 5 (0.32%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.25%) Endur
8 4 (0.25%) SAP BPC
8 4 (0.25%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 318 (20.14%) Azure
2 209 (13.24%) AWS
3 202 (12.79%) Power Platform
4 83 (5.26%) SaaS
5 82 (5.19%) GCP
6 72 (4.56%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (2.91%) GitHub
9 43 (2.72%) Entra ID
10 42 (2.66%) IaaS
10 42 (2.66%) Serverless
11 41 (2.60%) Snowflake
12 34 (2.15%) Amazon S3
12 34 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
13 30 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
14 24 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
15 23 (1.46%) dbt
16 20 (1.27%) PaaS
17 19 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
18 18 (1.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 38 (2.41%) Firewall
2 30 (1.90%) Network Security
3 25 (1.58%) DNS
4 19 (1.20%) VPN
4 19 (1.20%) WAN
5 14 (0.89%) DHCP
6 13 (0.82%) SD-WAN
7 12 (0.76%) SAN
8 11 (0.70%) VLAN
9 10 (0.63%) LAN
9 10 (0.63%) TCP/IP
10 9 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.51%) HTTP
11 8 (0.51%) Internet
11 8 (0.51%) SMS
12 7 (0.44%) BGP
12 7 (0.44%) SSL
13 6 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.38%) IOS XR
13 6 (0.38%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (11.59%) Power BI
2 79 (5.00%) Tableau
3 73 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
4 57 (3.61%) SQL Server
5 43 (2.72%) Metadata
6 34 (2.15%) Relational Database
7 26 (1.65%) Data Lake
8 25 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (1.52%) NoSQL
10 23 (1.46%) Snowflake Schema
11 22 (1.39%) Big Data
12 17 (1.08%) BigQuery
12 17 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 16 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
14 15 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
15 14 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (0.89%) MongoDB
16 13 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
17 12 (0.76%) DB2
17 12 (0.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 158 (10.01%) JIRA
2 64 (4.05%) Git
3 23 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.01%) GitLab
4 16 (1.01%) Selenium
5 12 (0.76%) Cucumber
5 12 (0.76%) JUnit
6 9 (0.57%) MLflow
6 9 (0.57%) REST Assured
7 7 (0.44%) Postman
8 6 (0.38%) Appium
8 6 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.32%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.32%) Chocolatey
9 5 (0.32%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.32%) JMeter
9 5 (0.32%) WebDriver
10 4 (0.25%) Toad
General
1 783 (49.59%) Social Skills
2 578 (36.61%) Finance
3 215 (13.62%) Banking
4 132 (8.36%) Public Sector
5 105 (6.65%) Marketing
6 79 (5.00%) Legal
7 67 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
8 63 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
9 52 (3.29%) Investment Banking
10 51 (3.23%) Front Office
10 51 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
11 46 (2.91%) Retail
12 42 (2.66%) Financial Institution
13 39 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
14 31 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 28 (1.77%) Telecoms
16 27 (1.71%) Back Office
17 24 (1.52%) Publishing
18 20 (1.27%) Law
19 14 (0.89%) Billing
Job Titles
1 415 (26.28%) Analyst
2 215 (13.62%) Business Analyst
3 173 (10.96%) Senior
4 155 (9.82%) Developer
5 121 (7.66%) Architect
6 101 (6.40%) Lead
7 90 (5.70%) Data Analyst
8 85 (5.38%) Consultant
9 70 (4.43%) Data Engineer
10 63 (3.99%) Project Manager
11 56 (3.55%) Senior Analyst
12 43 (2.72%) Data Scientist
13 37 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (2.09%) Product Manager
15 32 (2.03%) Senior Business Analyst
16 30 (1.90%) Senior Developer
17 26 (1.65%) Security Analyst
18 25 (1.58%) Senior Manager
19 22 (1.39%) Quantitative Developer
19 22 (1.39%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (6.02%) REST
2 53 (3.36%) JSON
3 48 (3.04%) Kafka
4 46 (2.91%) .NET
5 33 (2.09%) Middleware
6 32 (2.03%) RESTful
7 31 (1.96%) Pandas
7 31 (1.96%) SOAP
7 31 (1.96%) XML
8 30 (1.90%) HTML
9 29 (1.84%) CSS
10 27 (1.71%) scikit-learn
11 24 (1.52%) Node.js
12 23 (1.46%) NumPy
12 23 (1.46%) OAuth
13 22 (1.39%) React
14 21 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
14 21 (1.33%) PyTorch
15 20 (1.27%) Spring
16 19 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 157 (9.94%) Analytical Mindset
2 73 (4.62%) Product Ownership
3 69 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
4 57 (3.61%) Data Structures
5 55 (3.48%) Onboarding
6 43 (2.72%) Management Information System
7 41 (2.60%) Algorithms
8 37 (2.34%) Derivative
9 36 (2.28%) Fixed Income
10 32 (2.03%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.90%) Equities
11 30 (1.90%) PKI
12 29 (1.84%) Data Centre
13 28 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 26 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
14 26 (1.65%) Security Posture
15 22 (1.39%) Cloud Native
16 21 (1.33%) Virtual Team
17 20 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
18 19 (1.20%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 78 (4.94%) Windows
2 53 (3.36%) Linux
3 22 (1.39%) Unix
4 14 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.70%) Android
7 6 (0.38%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.38%) Windows Server
8 2 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.13%) VMS
9 1 (0.063%) AIX
9 1 (0.063%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.063%) Solaris
9 1 (0.063%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 789 (49.97%) Problem-Solving
2 476 (30.15%) Agile
3 323 (20.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 312 (19.76%) Analytics
5 272 (17.23%) Decision-Making
6 234 (14.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 210 (13.30%) Business Intelligence
8 208 (13.17%) AI
9 205 (12.98%) Data Modelling
10 201 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 171 (10.83%) Validation
12 170 (10.77%) DevOps
13 165 (10.45%) CI/CD
14 153 (9.69%) Roadmaps
15 151 (9.56%) Data Analysis
16 147 (9.31%) Migration
17 145 (9.18%) Actionable Insight
18 140 (8.87%) Visualisation
19 138 (8.74%) Project Management
20 136 (8.61%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 405 (25.65%) SQL
2 332 (21.03%) Python
3 81 (5.13%) PowerShell
4 79 (5.00%) Java
5 69 (4.37%) C#
6 63 (3.99%) JavaScript
7 37 (2.34%) TypeScript
8 34 (2.15%) Bash
9 28 (1.77%) C++
10 24 (1.52%) R
11 22 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 15 (0.95%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
13 14 (0.89%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.76%) Scala
15 11 (0.70%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.57%) C
17 7 (0.44%) Bicep
18 6 (0.38%) VBA
19 5 (0.32%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 235 (14.88%) Security Cleared
2 227 (14.38%) Degree
3 169 (10.70%) SC Cleared
4 64 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.74%) Master's Degree
6 46 (2.91%) PMI Certification
7 37 (2.34%) PMP
8 28 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 27 (1.71%) CISSP
10 21 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
10 21 (1.33%) DV Cleared
11 16 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (0.95%) CISM
13 14 (0.89%) Azure Certification
14 13 (0.82%) CCNP
14 13 (0.82%) CIMA
14 13 (0.82%) ISTQB
15 12 (0.76%) ACCA
15 12 (0.76%) AWS Certification
15 12 (0.76%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (11.27%) Data Quality
2 137 (8.68%) QA
3 83 (5.26%) GDPR
4 53 (3.36%) PMO
5 42 (2.66%) Accessibility
6 34 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (2.15%) NIST
7 25 (1.58%) Actionable Recommendations
8 24 (1.52%) GRC
8 24 (1.52%) PCI DSS
9 21 (1.33%) SLA
10 19 (1.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (1.08%) COBIT
12 12 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.70%) MiFID
13 11 (0.70%) Solvency II
14 10 (0.63%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.57%) WCAG
16 8 (0.51%) IFRS
16 8 (0.51%) PSD2
System Software
1 65 (4.12%) Docker
2 54 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.32%) Firmware
4 5 (0.32%) HDFS
5 4 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.19%) ProxySG
6 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.13%) Snort
7 2 (0.13%) Squid
7 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.13%) vSphere
7 2 (0.13%) zsh
8 1 (0.063%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.063%) IAG
8 1 (0.063%) Postfix
8 1 (0.063%) RACF
8 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.063%) Xen
8 1 (0.063%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 62 (3.93%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.72%) Terraform
3 29 (1.84%) Ansible
4 23 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.89%) SCCM
6 11 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.57%) Grafana
8 5 (0.32%) Nessus
8 5 (0.32%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.19%) Nmap
10 3 (0.19%) SCOM
11 2 (0.13%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.13%) Suricata
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.063%) Istio
12 1 (0.063%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.063%) vRealize
Vendors
1 263 (16.66%) Microsoft
2 88 (5.57%) Oracle
3 85 (5.38%) Salesforce
4 83 (5.26%) SAP
5 69 (4.37%) Google
6 65 (4.12%) ServiceNow
7 63 (3.99%) Databricks
8 27 (1.71%) Bloomberg
8 27 (1.71%) Splunk
9 25 (1.58%) Cisco
10 21 (1.33%) Murex
10 21 (1.33%) VMware
11 20 (1.27%) Workday
12 18 (1.14%) Adobe
13 16 (1.01%) Informatica
14 15 (0.95%) Palo Alto
15 12 (0.76%) IBM
15 12 (0.76%) Juniper
15 12 (0.76%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.70%) Tenable