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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 15 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,672 1,488 1,496
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.64% 11.75% 8.33%
As % of the General category 15.76% 17.45% 13.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,045 923 1,027
10th Percentile £350 £306 £320
25th Percentile £415 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £712 £700
90th Percentile £775 £834 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 36 51
10th Percentile £24.03 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £29.25 £25.88 £16.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £40.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +70.21% -26.38%
75th Percentile £49.38 £55.25 £39.88
90th Percentile £59.40 £71.25 £55.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +33.93% +51.35% -47.89%

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 10,607 8,527 11,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.17% 67.32% 63.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,918 5,767 8,097
10th Percentile £347 £333 £331
25th Percentile £425 £450 £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 £788 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 137 254
10th Percentile £18.25 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.49 £23.80 £18.39
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year - +18.64% -9.23%
75th Percentile £50.00 £52.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £27.51
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.52% -21.41%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -4 246 £525 -4.55% 218
West London -5 48 £506 +26.56% 55
South London 0 33 £500 -14.38% 11
East London +3 11 £400 -6.16% 28
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 (5.20%) Confluence
2 30 (1.79%) Apache Spark
3 28 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 27 (1.61%) SharePoint
5 15 (0.90%) Apache
5 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.84%) CMS
7 9 (0.54%) Jupyter
8 7 (0.42%) SAS
9 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.18%) IIS
10 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.12%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
11 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.060%) Appian
12 1 (0.060%) Palantir Foundry
12 1 (0.060%) Traefik
Applications
1 165 (9.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 51 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
4 50 (2.99%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.54%) 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 Financials
3 10 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.60%) Shopify
4 8 (0.48%) Workday HCM
5 7 (0.42%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 7 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
5 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.42%) Summit
6 6 (0.36%) Aladdin
7 5 (0.30%) BASE24
7 5 (0.30%) Loan IQ
7 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
8 4 (0.24%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 337 (20.16%) Azure
2 242 (14.47%) AWS
3 206 (12.32%) Power Platform
4 92 (5.50%) GCP
5 88 (5.26%) SaaS
6 75 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
8 53 (3.17%) GitHub
9 48 (2.87%) Amazon S3
9 48 (2.87%) Serverless
10 42 (2.51%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (2.51%) IaaS
11 41 (2.45%) Azure Data Factory
12 38 (2.27%) Snowflake
13 34 (2.03%) Entra ID
14 29 (1.73%) dbt
15 28 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
16 24 (1.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 23 (1.38%) Amazon ECS
17 23 (1.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.57%) Firewall
2 29 (1.73%) Network Security
3 26 (1.56%) DNS
4 18 (1.08%) VPN
5 17 (1.02%) DHCP
5 17 (1.02%) WAN
6 15 (0.90%) SAN
7 11 (0.66%) SD-WAN
8 10 (0.60%) HTTP
9 9 (0.54%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.54%) VLAN
9 9 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.48%) Internet
10 8 (0.48%) LAN
11 7 (0.42%) BGP
12 6 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
12 6 (0.36%) NAS
12 6 (0.36%) OSPF
12 6 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (11.18%) Power BI
2 86 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
3 80 (4.78%) Tableau
4 66 (3.95%) SQL Server
5 60 (3.59%) Metadata
6 39 (2.33%) Relational Database
7 28 (1.67%) Data Lake
7 28 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.56%) NoSQL
8 26 (1.56%) Snowflake Schema
9 25 (1.50%) Big Data
10 24 (1.44%) BigQuery
11 20 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
12 19 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (1.02%) Power Query
14 16 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
15 15 (0.90%) Star Schema
16 14 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
16 14 (0.84%) RDBMS
17 13 (0.78%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 167 (9.99%) JIRA
2 65 (3.89%) Git
3 27 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.26%) Selenium
5 14 (0.84%) GitLab
6 12 (0.72%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.66%) JUnit
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%) JMeter
9 8 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.42%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (0.42%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.36%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.36%) SonarQube
12 5 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 769 (45.99%) Social Skills
2 619 (37.02%) Finance
3 233 (13.94%) Banking
4 145 (8.67%) Public Sector
5 103 (6.16%) Marketing
6 85 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
7 76 (4.55%) Legal
8 69 (4.13%) Presentation Skills
9 65 (3.89%) Front Office
10 51 (3.05%) Investment Banking
10 51 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
11 50 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
11 50 (2.99%) Retail
12 45 (2.69%) Financial Institution
13 39 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 37 (2.21%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.61%) Back Office
16 20 (1.20%) Publishing
17 18 (1.08%) Law
18 14 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 425 (25.42%) Analyst
2 236 (14.11%) Business Analyst
3 169 (10.11%) Senior
4 145 (8.67%) Developer
5 125 (7.48%) Architect
6 110 (6.58%) Lead
7 93 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 91 (5.44%) Data Analyst
9 89 (5.32%) Consultant
10 58 (3.47%) Data Scientist
10 58 (3.47%) Project Manager
11 51 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
12 39 (2.33%) Senior Business Analyst
13 38 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
14 29 (1.73%) Product Manager
15 26 (1.56%) Financial Analyst
15 26 (1.56%) Senior Developer
16 25 (1.50%) Quantitative Developer
17 24 (1.44%) Salesforce Analyst
18 23 (1.38%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (5.44%) REST
2 53 (3.17%) JSON
3 48 (2.87%) Kafka
4 45 (2.69%) .NET
5 44 (2.63%) Pandas
6 38 (2.27%) Middleware
7 37 (2.21%) scikit-learn
8 34 (2.03%) RESTful
9 31 (1.85%) NumPy
10 30 (1.79%) XML
11 27 (1.61%) HTML
12 26 (1.56%) CSS
12 26 (1.56%) SOAP
13 25 (1.50%) Node.js
14 24 (1.44%) PyTorch
15 23 (1.38%) PySpark
15 23 (1.38%) Web Services
16 21 (1.26%) AngularJS
16 21 (1.26%) OAuth
17 20 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 152 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 93 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 83 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
4 64 (3.83%) Data Structures
5 61 (3.65%) Onboarding
6 42 (2.51%) Algorithms
7 39 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
8 37 (2.21%) Management Information System
9 36 (2.15%) Derivative
9 36 (2.15%) Fixed Income
10 35 (2.09%) Data Centre
11 33 (1.97%) Cloud Native
12 29 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 27 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
13 27 (1.61%) Distributed Systems
13 27 (1.61%) Equities
13 27 (1.61%) PKI
14 23 (1.38%) Virtual Team
15 21 (1.26%) Credit Risk
16 19 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 77 (4.61%) Windows
2 56 (3.35%) Linux
3 28 (1.67%) 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
1 808 (48.33%) Problem-Solving
2 498 (29.78%) Agile
3 343 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 330 (19.74%) Analytics
5 286 (17.11%) Decision-Making
6 256 (15.31%) AI
7 251 (15.01%) Data Modelling
8 247 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 216 (12.92%) Business Intelligence
10 203 (12.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 191 (11.42%) Validation
12 182 (10.89%) DevOps
13 176 (10.53%) CI/CD
14 174 (10.41%) Migration
15 164 (9.81%) Data Analysis
16 156 (9.33%) Roadmaps
17 153 (9.15%) Data Governance
18 151 (9.03%) Project Management
19 142 (8.49%) Visualisation
20 136 (8.13%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 448 (26.79%) SQL
2 368 (22.01%) Python
3 95 (5.68%) Java
4 75 (4.49%) C#
5 72 (4.31%) PowerShell
6 58 (3.47%) JavaScript
7 46 (2.75%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.85%) C++
9 30 (1.79%) R
10 29 (1.73%) Bash
10 29 (1.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
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
1 250 (14.95%) Security Cleared
2 214 (12.80%) Degree
3 185 (11.06%) SC Cleared
4 64 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (3.41%) Master's Degree
6 41 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (2.39%) PMI Certification
8 31 (1.85%) CISSP
8 31 (1.85%) PMP
9 20 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
10 19 (1.14%) CISM
11 16 (0.96%) CISA
11 16 (0.96%) ISTQB
12 15 (0.90%) Azure Certification
12 15 (0.90%) DV Cleared
13 14 (0.84%) CRISC
13 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (0.78%) CCNP
15 11 (0.66%) AWS Certification
16 9 (0.54%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 208 (12.44%) Data Quality
2 141 (8.43%) QA
3 79 (4.72%) GDPR
4 69 (4.13%) PMO
5 44 (2.63%) NIST
6 41 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 36 (2.15%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.73%) SLA
9 27 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
10 24 (1.44%) GRC
10 24 (1.44%) PCI DSS
11 21 (1.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 20 (1.20%) COBIT
13 11 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.66%) 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 (3.71%) Docker
2 43 (2.57%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.78%) 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%) ProxySG
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%) vSphere
8 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.060%) Snort
8 1 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.060%) Xen
8 1 (0.060%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 61 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 47 (2.81%) 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%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.060%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.060%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 263 (15.73%) Microsoft
2 107 (6.40%) Oracle
3 91 (5.44%) Salesforce
4 90 (5.38%) SAP
5 77 (4.61%) Google
6 69 (4.13%) Databricks
7 64 (3.83%) ServiceNow
8 25 (1.50%) Adobe
8 25 (1.50%) Bloomberg
9 23 (1.38%) Workday
10 21 (1.26%) Splunk
11 20 (1.20%) Cisco
11 20 (1.20%) VMware
12 19 (1.14%) Informatica
13 18 (1.08%) Murex
14 16 (0.96%) Palo Alto
15 14 (0.84%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.84%) OpenAI
16 13 (0.78%) Atlassian
17 12 (0.72%) HP