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 25 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,829 1,607 1,361
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.16% 11.83% 8.17%
As % of the General category 15.08% 17.37% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,117 1,024 902
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £796 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 31 26
10th Percentile £23.05 £11.96 £17.25
25th Percentile £28.38 £25.63 £17.56
Median hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £33.54
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% +10.33% -23.66%
75th Percentile £50.62 £55.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.75 £65.02
England median hourly rate £38.72 £33.88 £21.50
% change year-on-year +14.29% +57.58% -39.01%

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 12,125 9,252 10,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.73% 68.13% 62.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,724 6,161 7,388
10th Percentile £350 £326 £338
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £510 £538
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.12% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 177 171
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £22.84
Median hourly rate £31.50 £31.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% -9.49% -2.14%
75th Percentile £43.75 £50.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £64.00 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £26.00 £38.12
% change year-on-year +30.77% -31.79% +27.07%

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 25 July 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 25 July 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 25 July 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 -11 231 £525 -4.55% 137
West London +3 80 £520 +29.84% 51
South London 0 37 £513 -18.00% 24
East London -4 7 £400 +16.64% 21
North London - 3 £450 - 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 75 (4.10%) Confluence
2 32 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.26%) CMS
5 18 (0.98%) Apache
6 16 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 7 (0.38%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.33%) SAS
9 5 (0.27%) IIS
10 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.22%) Appian
10 4 (0.22%) JBoss
10 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.16%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 159 (8.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.13%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.66%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.22%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.11%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.11%) Notion
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.11%) Trello
11 1 (0.055%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 25 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 21 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.87%) Aladdin
3 16 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.55%) Finacle
4 10 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.49%) Fidessa
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.38%) Shopify
8 6 (0.33%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
9 5 (0.27%) Magento
9 5 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
9 5 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
10 4 (0.22%) HFM
10 4 (0.22%) iTrent
10 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 368 (20.12%) Azure
2 261 (14.27%) AWS
3 224 (12.25%) Power Platform
4 98 (5.36%) GCP
5 76 (4.16%) Azure DevOps
6 74 (4.05%) SaaS
7 65 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
8 64 (3.50%) GitHub
9 55 (3.01%) Entra ID
10 48 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
11 46 (2.52%) Snowflake
12 34 (1.86%) Amazon S3
13 33 (1.80%) Serverless
14 31 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
15 30 (1.64%) dbt
15 30 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
16 27 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 24 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
18 21 (1.15%) PaaS
19 20 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.57%) Firewall
2 34 (1.86%) DNS
3 27 (1.48%) Network Security
3 27 (1.48%) VPN
4 24 (1.31%) TCP/IP
5 22 (1.20%) DHCP
6 17 (0.93%) WAN
7 14 (0.77%) SAN
7 14 (0.77%) VLAN
8 13 (0.71%) HTTP
9 12 (0.66%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.60%) BGP
11 10 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.49%) 5G
13 8 (0.44%) 4G
13 8 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
13 8 (0.44%) OSPF
13 8 (0.44%) SSL
13 8 (0.44%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.38%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 202 (11.04%) Power BI
2 108 (5.90%) Data Warehouse
3 99 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 77 (4.21%) Tableau
5 73 (3.99%) Relational Database
6 70 (3.83%) Metadata
7 47 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (2.24%) Data Lake
9 34 (1.86%) NoSQL
10 28 (1.53%) Big Data
11 27 (1.48%) MongoDB
12 24 (1.31%) BigQuery
13 23 (1.26%) Oracle Database
13 23 (1.26%) RDBMS
13 23 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 18 (0.98%) Delta Lake
15 17 (0.93%) Power Query
15 17 (0.93%) Star Schema
16 16 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
16 16 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 176 (9.62%) JIRA
2 73 (3.99%) Git
3 37 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.20%) Selenium
5 15 (0.82%) ERwin
6 12 (0.66%) GitLab
7 11 (0.60%) JUnit
8 10 (0.55%) JMeter
8 10 (0.55%) Maven
9 9 (0.49%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.49%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.49%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.49%) Postman
9 9 (0.49%) REST Assured
10 8 (0.44%) Chocolatey
10 8 (0.44%) ER Studio
10 8 (0.44%) MLflow
10 8 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
10 8 (0.44%) Zephyr
11 7 (0.38%) SonarQube
General
1 882 (48.22%) Social Skills
2 725 (39.64%) Finance
3 269 (14.71%) Banking
4 156 (8.53%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.19%) Marketing
6 92 (5.03%) Front Office
7 85 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
8 84 (4.59%) Organisational Skills
9 76 (4.16%) Legal
10 58 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
10 58 (3.17%) Retail
11 56 (3.06%) Investment Banking
11 56 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
12 50 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 50 (2.73%) Telecoms
13 43 (2.35%) Financial Institution
14 30 (1.64%) Back Office
15 23 (1.26%) Local Government
16 21 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
17 20 (1.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 475 (25.97%) Analyst
2 237 (12.96%) Business Analyst
3 192 (10.50%) Senior
4 162 (8.86%) Developer
5 128 (7.00%) Lead
6 127 (6.94%) Architect
7 107 (5.85%) Data Engineer
8 105 (5.74%) Data Analyst
9 85 (4.65%) Consultant
10 71 (3.88%) Data Scientist
11 62 (3.39%) Project Manager
12 46 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
13 39 (2.13%) Senior Developer
14 31 (1.69%) Solutions Architect
14 31 (1.69%) Technical Business Analyst
15 30 (1.64%) Senior Manager
16 29 (1.59%) Financial Analyst
16 29 (1.59%) Technical Analyst
17 28 (1.53%) Product Owner
18 26 (1.42%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (5.52%) REST
2 64 (3.50%) .NET
3 49 (2.68%) Kafka
4 46 (2.52%) JSON
5 45 (2.46%) RESTful
6 42 (2.30%) XML
7 39 (2.13%) Pandas
7 39 (2.13%) SOAP
8 37 (2.02%) HTML
8 37 (2.02%) Web Services
9 33 (1.80%) CSS
10 32 (1.75%) Middleware
11 29 (1.59%) PySpark
12 27 (1.48%) scikit-learn
12 27 (1.48%) Spring
13 26 (1.42%) React
14 24 (1.31%) Spring Boot
15 23 (1.26%) AngularJS
16 22 (1.20%) NumPy
16 22 (1.20%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 164 (8.97%) Analytical Mindset
2 130 (7.11%) Product Ownership
3 98 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 82 (4.48%) Data Structures
5 72 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
6 51 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
7 50 (2.73%) Management Information System
8 49 (2.68%) Cloud Native
9 42 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
10 37 (2.02%) Fixed Income
11 35 (1.91%) Algorithms
12 33 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
12 33 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 32 (1.75%) Data Centre
13 32 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
14 30 (1.64%) Derivative
15 28 (1.53%) Equities
16 25 (1.37%) AI Agents
16 25 (1.37%) Reference Data
17 23 (1.26%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 118 (6.45%) Windows
2 90 (4.92%) Linux
3 35 (1.91%) Unix
4 18 (0.98%) Mac OS
4 18 (0.98%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.71%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.60%) Android
7 11 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.33%) Solaris
8 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.27%) AIX
10 2 (0.11%) SUSE
11 1 (0.055%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.055%) VMS
11 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 881 (48.17%) Problem-Solving
2 534 (29.20%) Agile
3 495 (27.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 349 (19.08%) Analytics
4 349 (19.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 326 (17.82%) AI
6 322 (17.61%) Decision-Making
7 270 (14.76%) Data Modelling
8 246 (13.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 236 (12.90%) Validation
10 233 (12.74%) Business Intelligence
11 216 (11.81%) DevOps
12 203 (11.10%) CI/CD
13 201 (10.99%) Migration
14 182 (9.95%) Data Analysis
15 170 (9.29%) Data Pipeline
16 166 (9.08%) User Acceptance Testing
17 162 (8.86%) Roadmaps
18 156 (8.53%) Data Governance
18 156 (8.53%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 524 (28.65%) SQL
2 400 (21.87%) Python
3 114 (6.23%) Java
4 82 (4.48%) C#
5 77 (4.21%) JavaScript
6 66 (3.61%) PowerShell
7 41 (2.24%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.69%) Bash
8 31 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 29 (1.59%) R
10 28 (1.53%) C++
11 27 (1.48%) PL/SQL
12 26 (1.42%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.82%) Scala
14 11 (0.60%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.55%) VBA
16 9 (0.49%) Ruby
17 8 (0.44%) C
17 8 (0.44%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 227 (12.41%) Security Cleared
2 224 (12.25%) Degree
3 167 (9.13%) SC Cleared
4 70 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 36 (1.97%) CISSP
6 33 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 27 (1.48%) PMP
8 25 (1.37%) PMI Certification
9 23 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
9 23 (1.26%) CISM
10 20 (1.09%) Azure Certification
11 15 (0.82%) DV Cleared
11 15 (0.82%) ITIL Certification
12 14 (0.77%) CCNP
12 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.71%) CISA
14 12 (0.66%) ACCA
15 11 (0.60%) CIMA
15 11 (0.60%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (13.34%) Data Quality
2 132 (7.22%) QA
3 89 (4.87%) PMO
4 67 (3.66%) GDPR
5 47 (2.57%) SLA
6 46 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 43 (2.35%) NIST
8 35 (1.91%) Accessibility
9 28 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
10 24 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (1.26%) COBIT
12 20 (1.09%) GRC
13 16 (0.87%) IFRS
14 12 (0.66%) ISO 20022
15 11 (0.60%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.33%) GAAP
16 6 (0.33%) GxP
16 6 (0.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 72 (3.94%) Active Directory
2 66 (3.61%) Docker
3 14 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.49%) IAG
6 7 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.27%) Firmware
8 3 (0.16%) Postfix
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.11%) vSphere
10 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.055%) RACF
10 1 (0.055%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.055%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 68 (3.72%) Kubernetes
2 55 (3.01%) Terraform
3 33 (1.80%) Ansible
4 30 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 24 (1.31%) Grafana
6 13 (0.71%) SCCM
7 11 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
8 10 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.49%) Kibana
10 8 (0.44%) Control-M
11 5 (0.27%) HP ALM
12 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.16%) Puppet
12 3 (0.16%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (0.16%) RSA Archer
12 3 (0.16%) systemd
13 2 (0.11%) Istio
13 2 (0.11%) Nessus
13 2 (0.11%) Tivoli
14 1 (0.055%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 285 (15.58%) Microsoft
2 159 (8.69%) Oracle
3 99 (5.41%) SAP
4 92 (5.03%) ServiceNow
5 73 (3.99%) Salesforce
6 69 (3.77%) Google
7 68 (3.72%) Databricks
8 34 (1.86%) Splunk
9 29 (1.59%) Dynatrace
10 26 (1.42%) Cisco
10 26 (1.42%) VMware
11 25 (1.37%) IBM
11 25 (1.37%) Workday
12 22 (1.20%) CyberArk
13 21 (1.15%) Informatica
14 19 (1.04%) Adobe
15 18 (0.98%) Alteryx
16 17 (0.93%) Apple
17 16 (0.87%) Tenable
18 14 (0.77%) Bloomberg