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 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,925 1,510 1,383
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.50% 11.40% 8.60%
As % of the General category 15.51% 16.48% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 948 861
10th Percentile £341 £313 £314
25th Percentile £425 £407 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 31 22
10th Percentile £19.55 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.00 £26.27 £19.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.48 £37.29
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% -7.52% -26.17%
75th Percentile £50.00 £52.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.85 £60.00 £65.03
England median hourly rate £33.75 £32.41 £22.00
% change year-on-year +4.15% +47.30% -51.11%

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 12,415 9,163 9,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.30% 69.20% 62.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,902 6,037 6,671
10th Percentile £350 £325 £330
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -5.22% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £790 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 186 121
10th Percentile £16.83 £16.75 £18.00
25th Percentile £20.94 £24.62 £24.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +13.82%
75th Percentile £43.75 £49.69 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.00
England median hourly rate £31.16 £25.15 £38.85
% change year-on-year +23.88% -35.26% +41.27%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -11 227 £525 -4.55% 484
West London +8 88 £553 +33.53% 148
South London +2 29 £537 -14.08% 43
East London +2 14 £500 +53.85% 46
North London +4 5 £525 - 3
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 88 (4.57%) Confluence
2 49 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 43 (2.23%) Apache Airflow
4 30 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 26 (1.35%) CMS
6 23 (1.19%) Apache
7 21 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.47%) Jupyter
9 9 (0.47%) SAS
10 8 (0.42%) JBoss
10 8 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
10 8 (0.42%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.36%) IIS
12 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 5 (0.26%) Appian
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
15 2 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 185 (9.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (3.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.87%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.47%) Chatbot
8 7 (0.36%) CPLEX
9 5 (0.26%) Trello
10 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.10%) Notion
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
12 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 26 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 19 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.78%) Aladdin
5 13 (0.68%) NetSuite
6 10 (0.52%) Finacle
6 10 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
6 10 (0.52%) Shopify
7 8 (0.42%) iTrent
8 7 (0.36%) Summit
9 6 (0.31%) Magento
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
9 6 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.26%) SAP GRC
11 4 (0.21%) Loan IQ
11 4 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
11 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 384 (19.95%) Azure
2 279 (14.49%) AWS
3 245 (12.73%) Power Platform
4 103 (5.35%) GCP
5 85 (4.42%) GitHub
6 84 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (4.31%) SaaS
8 72 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
9 68 (3.53%) Entra ID
10 66 (3.43%) Snowflake
11 43 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
11 43 (2.23%) Serverless
12 41 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
13 37 (1.92%) dbt
14 34 (1.77%) Amazon S3
15 31 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
15 31 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 29 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
17 26 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
18 22 (1.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (2.29%) Firewall
2 36 (1.87%) DNS
3 32 (1.66%) TCP/IP
4 29 (1.51%) Network Security
4 29 (1.51%) VPN
5 23 (1.19%) DHCP
6 17 (0.88%) WAN
7 16 (0.83%) SSL
8 14 (0.73%) BGP
9 13 (0.68%) HTTP
9 13 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
9 13 (0.68%) SAN
10 12 (0.62%) 5G
10 12 (0.62%) VLAN
11 11 (0.57%) Kerberos
11 11 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.52%) MPLS
13 9 (0.47%) Wireshark
14 8 (0.42%) Multicast
14 8 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 217 (11.27%) Power BI
2 103 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
3 102 (5.30%) SQL Server
4 80 (4.16%) Tableau
5 79 (4.10%) Relational Database
6 71 (3.69%) Metadata
7 64 (3.32%) PostgreSQL
8 37 (1.92%) NoSQL
9 36 (1.87%) Data Lake
10 31 (1.61%) MongoDB
11 30 (1.56%) Delta Lake
12 28 (1.45%) Oracle Database
13 26 (1.35%) Big Data
14 24 (1.25%) Power Query
15 23 (1.19%) RDBMS
16 21 (1.09%) BigQuery
16 21 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 17 (0.88%) Amazon Athena
17 17 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
18 16 (0.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 191 (9.92%) JIRA
2 108 (5.61%) Git
3 56 (2.91%) Jenkins
4 31 (1.61%) GitLab
5 28 (1.45%) Selenium
6 21 (1.09%) JMeter
7 16 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 14 (0.73%) Cypress.io
8 14 (0.73%) Postman
9 13 (0.68%) LoadRunner
10 12 (0.62%) ERwin
10 12 (0.62%) Maven
11 11 (0.57%) Gradle
11 11 (0.57%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.52%) Gatling
12 10 (0.52%) JUnit
13 9 (0.47%) REST Assured
13 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.42%) ER Studio
14 8 (0.42%) Visual Studio
General
1 992 (51.53%) Social Skills
2 772 (40.10%) Finance
3 292 (15.17%) Banking
4 167 (8.68%) Public Sector
5 103 (5.35%) Front Office
6 92 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
7 90 (4.68%) Marketing
8 86 (4.47%) Documentation Skills
9 77 (4.00%) Retail
10 76 (3.95%) Legal
11 75 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
12 64 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 60 (3.12%) Investment Banking
14 59 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
15 54 (2.81%) Telecoms
16 45 (2.34%) Local Government
17 35 (1.82%) Financial Institution
18 33 (1.71%) Back Office
19 27 (1.40%) Manufacturing
20 22 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 482 (25.04%) Analyst
2 231 (12.00%) Senior
3 226 (11.74%) Business Analyst
4 174 (9.04%) Developer
5 132 (6.86%) Architect
6 131 (6.81%) Lead
7 101 (5.25%) Data Analyst
8 99 (5.14%) Data Engineer
9 74 (3.84%) Consultant
10 62 (3.22%) Data Scientist
11 53 (2.75%) Senior Analyst
12 51 (2.65%) Project Manager
13 49 (2.55%) Senior Developer
14 33 (1.71%) Senior Manager
15 31 (1.61%) Java Developer
15 31 (1.61%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (1.61%) Support Engineer
15 31 (1.61%) Technical Analyst
16 30 (1.56%) Financial Analyst
16 30 (1.56%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (5.97%) REST
2 91 (4.73%) .NET
3 76 (3.95%) Terraform
4 62 (3.22%) Kafka
5 57 (2.96%) RESTful
6 45 (2.34%) JSON
7 43 (2.23%) Web Services
7 43 (2.23%) XML
8 42 (2.18%) HTML
9 41 (2.13%) Middleware
9 41 (2.13%) PySpark
9 41 (2.13%) SOAP
10 35 (1.82%) CSS
11 34 (1.77%) React
12 33 (1.71%) Spring
13 28 (1.45%) Spring Boot
14 25 (1.30%) Pandas
15 23 (1.19%) OAuth
16 22 (1.14%) AngularJS
17 20 (1.04%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 154 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 141 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 118 (6.13%) Onboarding
4 83 (4.31%) Cloud Native
5 77 (4.00%) Data Structures
6 68 (3.53%) Management Information System
7 64 (3.32%) Self-Motivation
8 59 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
9 57 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
10 40 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
11 33 (1.71%) AI Agents
12 32 (1.66%) Derivative
12 32 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 32 (1.66%) Legacy Systems
13 31 (1.61%) Algorithms
14 29 (1.51%) Equities
14 29 (1.51%) Fixed Income
15 23 (1.19%) Reference Data
16 22 (1.14%) Credit Risk
16 22 (1.14%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 129 (6.70%) Linux
2 122 (6.34%) Windows
3 50 (2.60%) Unix
4 23 (1.19%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 20 (1.04%) Windows 10
7 17 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.88%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.73%) Android
9 7 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.31%) Solaris
11 5 (0.26%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) 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
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,001 (52.00%) Problem-Solving
2 653 (33.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 569 (29.56%) Agile
4 396 (20.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 380 (19.74%) Analytics
6 375 (19.48%) AI
7 360 (18.70%) Decision-Making
8 277 (14.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 257 (13.35%) Validation
10 251 (13.04%) DevOps
11 250 (12.99%) Business Intelligence
12 246 (12.78%) CI/CD
13 237 (12.31%) Data Modelling
14 217 (11.27%) Migration
15 192 (9.97%) User Acceptance Testing
16 183 (9.51%) Data Analysis
17 179 (9.30%) Data Pipeline
18 177 (9.19%) Roadmaps
19 163 (8.47%) Workshop Facilitation
20 158 (8.21%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 554 (28.78%) SQL
2 433 (22.49%) Python
3 128 (6.65%) Java
4 106 (5.51%) C#
5 97 (5.04%) JavaScript
6 75 (3.90%) PowerShell
7 48 (2.49%) Bash
7 48 (2.49%) TypeScript
8 36 (1.87%) R
9 33 (1.71%) C++
10 32 (1.66%) PL/SQL
11 29 (1.51%) T-SQL
12 28 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 22 (1.14%) Shell Script
14 16 (0.83%) Korn
14 16 (0.83%) Scala
15 15 (0.78%) Perl
16 10 (0.52%) Go
17 9 (0.47%) VBA
18 8 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 268 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 239 (12.42%) Degree
3 212 (11.01%) SC Cleared
4 63 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.18%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (1.82%) CISSP
7 30 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 30 (1.56%) PMP
8 29 (1.51%) PMI Certification
9 25 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 23 (1.19%) CISM
11 22 (1.14%) DV Cleared
12 21 (1.09%) ACCA
13 20 (1.04%) CIMA
13 20 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.88%) ISTQB
15 17 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 14 (0.73%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 246 (12.78%) Data Quality
2 158 (8.21%) QA
3 87 (4.52%) PMO
4 52 (2.70%) GDPR
5 50 (2.60%) SLA
6 44 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (1.92%) NIST
8 30 (1.56%) Accessibility
9 27 (1.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 26 (1.35%) GRC
11 18 (0.94%) COBIT
12 17 (0.88%) IFRS
12 17 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.62%) ISO 20022
14 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
14 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.31%) Basel III
15 6 (0.31%) GxP
15 6 (0.31%) ISO 15022
15 6 (0.31%) P3O
System Software
1 85 (4.42%) Docker
2 75 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.47%) IAG
6 6 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.10%) Firmware
9 2 (0.10%) Postfix
9 2 (0.10%) Squid
9 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.052%) NFS
10 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.052%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 87 (4.52%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.23%) Ansible
3 31 (1.61%) Grafana
4 30 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (0.83%) SCCM
6 14 (0.73%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.68%) Control-M
8 12 (0.62%) Kibana
9 7 (0.36%) Puppet
9 7 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
9 7 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
10 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
10 5 (0.26%) Istio
11 4 (0.21%) systemd
12 3 (0.16%) Cilium
12 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.16%) HP ALM
13 2 (0.10%) Argo
13 2 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 339 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 165 (8.57%) Oracle
3 98 (5.09%) SAP
4 96 (4.99%) ServiceNow
5 89 (4.62%) Databricks
6 73 (3.79%) Google
7 66 (3.43%) Salesforce
8 51 (2.65%) Splunk
9 34 (1.77%) IBM
10 33 (1.71%) Dynatrace
11 32 (1.66%) Cisco
12 28 (1.45%) VMware
13 25 (1.30%) Adobe
14 21 (1.09%) CyberArk
15 20 (1.04%) Alteryx
16 19 (0.99%) Workday
17 17 (0.88%) Informatica
18 16 (0.83%) Sitecore
19 15 (0.78%) Red Hat
20 13 (0.68%) Apple