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 22 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,665 1,500 1,475
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.53% 11.80% 8.31%
As % of the General category 15.63% 17.48% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,046 940 1,013
10th Percentile £350 £313 £321
25th Percentile £419 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £714 £700
90th Percentile £775 £834 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 36 49
10th Percentile £24.03 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £32.00 £25.88 £16.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £39.31 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% +74.69% -31.17%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £36.00
90th Percentile £64.68 £71.25 £56.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £28.08 £18.50
% change year-on-year +33.57% +51.76% -50.34%

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 10,652 8,580 11,214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.95% 67.48% 63.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,942 5,802 7,998
10th Percentile £343 £338 £331
25th Percentile £425 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £703 £700
90th Percentile £785 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 138 250
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.84 £15.95
25th Percentile £22.87 £23.64 £18.39
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.25 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +16.10% -9.23%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.81 £46.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.75 £68.83
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.60 £29.00
% change year-on-year +4.90% -1.38% -17.14%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -6 240 £525 -4.55% 232
West London -6 51 £506 +26.56% 57
South London 0 34 £500 -14.24% 22
East London +4 11 £400 -25.93% 39
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 87 (5.23%) Confluence
2 31 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 29 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.50%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.96%) Apache
6 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.78%) CMS
8 9 (0.54%) SAS
9 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.18%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.12%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.060%) Appian
13 1 (0.060%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.060%) Traefik
Applications
1 159 (9.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
4 48 (2.88%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.60%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
10 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.060%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.84%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.60%) Shopify
4 9 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.42%) Fidessa
6 7 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 7 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.42%) Summit
7 6 (0.36%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.30%) BASE24
8 5 (0.30%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 338 (20.30%) Azure
2 238 (14.29%) AWS
3 199 (11.95%) Power Platform
4 92 (5.53%) GCP
5 89 (5.35%) SaaS
6 78 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (3.54%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (3.30%) GitHub
9 45 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 44 (2.64%) Serverless
11 42 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
12 41 (2.46%) IaaS
13 38 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (2.28%) Snowflake
14 36 (2.16%) Entra ID
15 30 (1.80%) dbt
16 28 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
17 24 (1.44%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 24 (1.44%) PaaS
18 21 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.46%) Firewall
2 26 (1.56%) DNS
2 26 (1.56%) Network Security
3 18 (1.08%) VPN
4 17 (1.02%) DHCP
5 15 (0.90%) SAN
5 15 (0.90%) WAN
6 11 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.60%) HTTP
8 8 (0.48%) Internet
8 8 (0.48%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.48%) VLAN
8 8 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.42%) BGP
10 6 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (0.36%) IOS XR
10 6 (0.36%) LAN
10 6 (0.36%) NAS
10 6 (0.36%) OSPF
10 6 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (10.69%) Power BI
2 86 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (4.56%) Tableau
4 68 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 57 (3.42%) Metadata
6 35 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 30 (1.80%) Data Lake
8 29 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
9 27 (1.62%) Big Data
9 27 (1.62%) NoSQL
10 24 (1.44%) BigQuery
10 24 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
11 21 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 17 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (1.02%) Power Query
13 16 (0.96%) Star Schema
14 15 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
15 14 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
16 13 (0.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 172 (10.33%) JIRA
2 63 (3.78%) Git
3 26 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.32%) Selenium
5 14 (0.84%) GitLab
6 12 (0.72%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.66%) MLflow
8 10 (0.60%) ERwin
8 10 (0.60%) Postman
8 10 (0.60%) REST Assured
9 8 (0.48%) Appium
9 8 (0.48%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.48%) JMeter
9 8 (0.48%) JUnit
9 8 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.42%) Browser DevTools
11 6 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.36%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.36%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 761 (45.71%) Social Skills
2 617 (37.06%) Finance
3 229 (13.75%) Banking
4 145 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 101 (6.07%) Marketing
6 85 (5.11%) Documentation Skills
7 76 (4.56%) Legal
8 66 (3.96%) Front Office
9 65 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
10 51 (3.06%) Investment Banking
11 50 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
13 47 (2.82%) Retail
14 46 (2.76%) Financial Institution
15 39 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 38 (2.28%) Telecoms
17 27 (1.62%) Back Office
18 18 (1.08%) Law
19 17 (1.02%) Publishing
20 14 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 421 (25.29%) Analyst
2 233 (13.99%) Business Analyst
3 166 (9.97%) Senior
4 139 (8.35%) Developer
5 126 (7.57%) Architect
6 104 (6.25%) Lead
7 97 (5.83%) Data Engineer
8 91 (5.47%) Consultant
9 87 (5.23%) Data Analyst
10 58 (3.48%) Project Manager
11 57 (3.42%) Data Scientist
12 53 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
13 39 (2.34%) Senior Business Analyst
14 37 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
15 26 (1.56%) Product Manager
16 25 (1.50%) Quantitative Developer
17 24 (1.44%) Financial Analyst
17 24 (1.44%) Salesforce Analyst
17 24 (1.44%) Tester
18 22 (1.32%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (5.35%) REST
2 55 (3.30%) JSON
3 48 (2.88%) .NET
4 46 (2.76%) Kafka
5 39 (2.34%) Pandas
6 37 (2.22%) Middleware
7 34 (2.04%) RESTful
8 33 (1.98%) scikit-learn
9 31 (1.86%) XML
10 28 (1.68%) SOAP
11 27 (1.62%) HTML
12 26 (1.56%) CSS
12 26 (1.56%) NumPy
13 24 (1.44%) Node.js
13 24 (1.44%) OAuth
13 24 (1.44%) PyTorch
14 23 (1.38%) PySpark
15 20 (1.20%) AngularJS
15 20 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
15 20 (1.20%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 154 (9.25%) Analytical Mindset
2 95 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 83 (4.98%) Self-Motivation
4 66 (3.96%) Data Structures
5 60 (3.60%) Onboarding
6 40 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (2.34%) Algorithms
8 38 (2.28%) Management Information System
9 36 (2.16%) Derivative
9 36 (2.16%) Fixed Income
10 35 (2.10%) Data Centre
11 32 (1.92%) Cloud Native
12 29 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 27 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
13 27 (1.62%) Equities
13 27 (1.62%) PKI
14 26 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
15 23 (1.38%) Virtual Team
16 22 (1.32%) Credit Risk
17 19 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 78 (4.68%) Windows
2 56 (3.36%) Linux
3 28 (1.68%) Unix
4 14 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.66%) Android
7 8 (0.48%) Windows Server
8 6 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.060%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.060%) VMS
11 1 (0.060%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 792 (47.57%) Problem-Solving
2 492 (29.55%) Agile
3 340 (20.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 321 (19.28%) Analytics
5 281 (16.88%) Decision-Making
6 261 (15.68%) AI
7 249 (14.95%) Data Modelling
8 246 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 208 (12.49%) Business Intelligence
10 200 (12.01%) Validation
11 199 (11.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 185 (11.11%) DevOps
13 178 (10.69%) CI/CD
14 172 (10.33%) Migration
15 157 (9.43%) Data Analysis
16 154 (9.25%) Roadmaps
17 150 (9.01%) Project Management
18 149 (8.95%) Data Governance
19 136 (8.17%) Actionable Insight
20 135 (8.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 445 (26.73%) SQL
2 362 (21.74%) Python
3 94 (5.65%) Java
4 77 (4.62%) C#
5 74 (4.44%) PowerShell
6 59 (3.54%) JavaScript
7 47 (2.82%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.86%) C++
8 31 (1.86%) R
9 30 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 28 (1.68%) Bash
11 21 (1.26%) PL/SQL
12 19 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 18 (1.08%) Scala
14 11 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.54%) C
16 8 (0.48%) VBA
17 7 (0.42%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.36%) Shell Script
19 5 (0.30%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 246 (14.77%) Security Cleared
2 212 (12.73%) Degree
3 185 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 65 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (3.36%) Master's Degree
6 42 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (2.40%) PMI Certification
8 33 (1.98%) CISSP
9 31 (1.86%) PMP
10 21 (1.26%) CISM
11 19 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.96%) CISA
12 16 (0.96%) ISTQB
13 14 (0.84%) Azure Certification
13 14 (0.84%) CRISC
13 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (0.78%) DV Cleared
15 12 (0.72%) CCNP
16 10 (0.60%) AWS Certification
17 9 (0.54%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (12.19%) Data Quality
2 144 (8.65%) QA
3 81 (4.86%) GDPR
4 66 (3.96%) PMO
5 44 (2.64%) NIST
6 41 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (1.98%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.74%) SLA
9 28 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
10 24 (1.44%) GRC
10 24 (1.44%) PCI DSS
11 22 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (1.20%) COBIT
13 11 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (0.60%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.60%) MiFID
15 9 (0.54%) IFRS
15 9 (0.54%) PSD2
15 9 (0.54%) Solvency II
16 8 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (3.72%) Docker
2 45 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Firmware
5 4 (0.24%) IAG
5 4 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.18%) Squid
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.12%) HDFS
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Postfix
7 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.060%) RACF
8 1 (0.060%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.060%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 61 (3.66%) Kubernetes
2 47 (2.82%) Terraform
3 23 (1.38%) Ansible
3 23 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (1.14%) Grafana
5 13 (0.78%) SCCM
6 10 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.42%) HP ALM
7 7 (0.42%) Kibana
7 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.30%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
9 3 (0.18%) SCOM
10 2 (0.12%) Control-M
10 2 (0.12%) Istio
10 2 (0.12%) Nessus
10 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.060%) logstash
11 1 (0.060%) Suricata
11 1 (0.060%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 262 (15.74%) Microsoft
2 108 (6.49%) Oracle
3 92 (5.53%) SAP
4 91 (5.47%) Salesforce
5 77 (4.62%) Google
6 68 (4.08%) Databricks
7 67 (4.02%) ServiceNow
8 25 (1.50%) Adobe
8 25 (1.50%) Bloomberg
8 25 (1.50%) Workday
9 21 (1.26%) Cisco
9 21 (1.26%) Splunk
10 19 (1.14%) Informatica
10 19 (1.14%) VMware
11 18 (1.08%) Murex
12 16 (0.96%) Palo Alto
13 14 (0.84%) Dynatrace
13 14 (0.84%) OpenAI
14 13 (0.78%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.72%) IBM