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 12 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 13 22
Rank change year-on-year -12 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,625 1,484 1,422
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.63% 12.12% 8.04%
As % of the General category 14.38% 17.80% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,003 939 983
10th Percentile £350 £318 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £825 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 35 44
10th Percentile £19.14 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.49 £26.86 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £40.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +72.34% -41.61%
75th Percentile £51.87 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.23 £67.50 £62.00
England median hourly rate £35.53 £32.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +9.31% +66.67% -55.54%

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 11,303 8,338 11,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.03% 68.07% 62.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,262 5,565 7,919
10th Percentile £350 £338 £332
25th Percentile £431 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £520 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -0.95% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 148 240
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.95
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £34.06 £34.24 £30.14
Median % change year-on-year -0.53% +13.60% +0.47%
75th Percentile £46.69 £50.86 £47.81
90th Percentile £69.13 £65.75 £66.20
England median hourly rate £32.50 £28.08 £31.50
% change year-on-year +15.76% -10.87% +3.14%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -10 210 £550 - 191
West London +3 74 £520 +30.00% 42
South London +3 32 £488 -22.00% 11
East London -5 10 £400 -7.03% 27
North London - 1 - - 6
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 (4.62%) Confluence
2 30 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 22 (1.35%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.05%) Apache
6 14 (0.86%) CMS
7 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.37%) SAS
9 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.25%) IIS
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.18%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
13 1 (0.062%) Appian
13 1 (0.062%) nginx
13 1 (0.062%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.062%) Traefik
13 1 (0.062%) WebLogic
Applications
1 153 (9.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (3.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
4 42 (2.58%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.62%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.062%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.74%) Aladdin
3 12 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 7 (0.43%) Fidessa
6 7 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.37%) Finacle
7 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
7 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.37%) Shopify
7 6 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
7 6 (0.37%) Summit
8 5 (0.31%) Magento
9 4 (0.25%) Findur
9 4 (0.25%) HFM
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 330 (20.31%) Azure
2 225 (13.85%) AWS
3 205 (12.62%) Power Platform
4 82 (5.05%) GCP
5 79 (4.86%) SaaS
6 68 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (3.63%) GitHub
7 59 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
8 41 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
9 35 (2.15%) Entra ID
10 34 (2.09%) Amazon S3
10 34 (2.09%) Snowflake
11 32 (1.97%) Serverless
12 30 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
13 28 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
14 26 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
15 25 (1.54%) dbt
16 24 (1.48%) PaaS
17 20 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 20 (1.23%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.46%) Firewall
2 24 (1.48%) DNS
3 21 (1.29%) Network Security
3 21 (1.29%) VPN
4 18 (1.11%) DHCP
4 18 (1.11%) WAN
5 15 (0.92%) SD-WAN
5 15 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.80%) SAN
7 11 (0.68%) BGP
8 10 (0.62%) VLAN
9 9 (0.55%) OSPF
10 8 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
10 8 (0.49%) HTTP
10 8 (0.49%) VXLAN
10 8 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.43%) Internet
11 7 (0.43%) MPLS
12 6 (0.37%) LAN
12 6 (0.37%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (11.14%) Power BI
2 88 (5.42%) Data Warehouse
3 79 (4.86%) SQL Server
4 78 (4.80%) Tableau
5 56 (3.45%) Relational Database
6 53 (3.26%) Metadata
7 37 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
8 36 (2.22%) Data Lake
9 29 (1.78%) NoSQL
10 26 (1.60%) Big Data
11 22 (1.35%) BigQuery
11 22 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 21 (1.29%) MongoDB
12 21 (1.29%) Power Query
13 18 (1.11%) RDBMS
13 18 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
14 16 (0.98%) Oracle Database
15 15 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.92%) Star Schema
16 13 (0.80%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 161 (9.91%) JIRA
2 62 (3.82%) Git
3 24 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.35%) Selenium
5 11 (0.68%) Cucumber
5 11 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 11 (0.68%) MLflow
5 11 (0.68%) Postman
5 11 (0.68%) REST Assured
6 10 (0.62%) ERwin
6 10 (0.62%) GitLab
7 8 (0.49%) JUnit
7 8 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
8 6 (0.37%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.37%) Chocolatey
8 6 (0.37%) JMeter
8 6 (0.37%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.37%) WebDriver
9 5 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 736 (45.29%) Social Skills
2 628 (38.65%) Finance
3 235 (14.46%) Banking
4 133 (8.18%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.54%) Marketing
6 79 (4.86%) Legal
7 77 (4.74%) Documentation Skills
8 71 (4.37%) Front Office
9 66 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
10 58 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
11 53 (3.26%) Investment Banking
12 46 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
13 45 (2.77%) Telecoms
14 44 (2.71%) Retail
15 43 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 39 (2.40%) Financial Institution
17 21 (1.29%) Back Office
18 18 (1.11%) Law
19 16 (0.98%) Publishing
20 15 (0.92%) Billing
Job Titles
1 434 (26.71%) Analyst
2 219 (13.48%) Business Analyst
3 156 (9.60%) Senior
4 140 (8.62%) Developer
5 112 (6.89%) Lead
6 105 (6.46%) Architect
7 99 (6.09%) Data Analyst
8 95 (5.85%) Data Engineer
9 90 (5.54%) Consultant
10 58 (3.57%) Data Scientist
11 46 (2.83%) Project Manager
12 41 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
13 34 (2.09%) Solutions Architect
14 31 (1.91%) Senior Business Analyst
14 31 (1.91%) Senior Developer
15 30 (1.85%) Financial Analyst
16 22 (1.35%) Salesforce Analyst
16 22 (1.35%) Senior Manager
16 22 (1.35%) Technical Analyst
16 22 (1.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (4.68%) REST
2 58 (3.57%) .NET
3 46 (2.83%) Kafka
4 38 (2.34%) Pandas
5 35 (2.15%) JSON
6 34 (2.09%) XML
7 33 (2.03%) Middleware
7 33 (2.03%) RESTful
8 30 (1.85%) HTML
9 29 (1.78%) SOAP
10 28 (1.72%) CSS
11 27 (1.66%) scikit-learn
12 25 (1.54%) PySpark
13 24 (1.48%) Web Services
14 21 (1.29%) NumPy
14 21 (1.29%) React
15 20 (1.23%) PyTorch
16 19 (1.17%) SAML
17 18 (1.11%) OAuth
17 18 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 149 (9.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 99 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 63 (3.88%) Onboarding
4 62 (3.82%) Self-Motivation
5 59 (3.63%) Data Structures
6 45 (2.77%) Legacy Systems
7 42 (2.58%) Cloud Native
8 41 (2.52%) Distributed Systems
9 38 (2.34%) Algorithms
9 38 (2.34%) Management Information System
10 33 (2.03%) Data Centre
10 33 (2.03%) Fixed Income
10 33 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 31 (1.91%) Derivative
12 30 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
13 28 (1.72%) Equities
14 24 (1.48%) Virtual Team
15 22 (1.35%) Credit Risk
16 19 (1.17%) Security Posture
17 18 (1.11%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 90 (5.54%) Windows
2 61 (3.75%) Linux
3 31 (1.91%) Unix
4 14 (0.86%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.68%) Apple iOS
6 10 (0.62%) Windows 10
6 10 (0.62%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.55%) Android
8 5 (0.31%) Solaris
9 4 (0.25%) AIX
9 4 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.062%) SUSE
10 1 (0.062%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 774 (47.63%) Problem-Solving
2 429 (26.40%) Agile
3 366 (22.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 298 (18.34%) Analytics
5 282 (17.35%) Continuous Improvement
6 281 (17.29%) AI
7 278 (17.11%) Decision-Making
8 243 (14.95%) Data Modelling
9 201 (12.37%) Validation
10 199 (12.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 198 (12.18%) Business Intelligence
12 179 (11.02%) DevOps
13 176 (10.83%) Data Analysis
14 170 (10.46%) Migration
15 165 (10.15%) CI/CD
16 142 (8.74%) User Acceptance Testing
17 137 (8.43%) Data Pipeline
18 136 (8.37%) User Stories
19 135 (8.31%) Roadmaps
20 134 (8.25%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 457 (28.12%) SQL
2 374 (23.02%) Python
3 97 (5.97%) Java
4 90 (5.54%) C#
5 54 (3.32%) JavaScript
6 52 (3.20%) PowerShell
7 43 (2.65%) TypeScript
8 35 (2.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 30 (1.85%) C++
9 30 (1.85%) R
10 25 (1.54%) PL/SQL
11 21 (1.29%) T-SQL
12 20 (1.23%) Bash
12 20 (1.23%) Scala
13 8 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (0.49%) VBA
14 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
14 7 (0.43%) C
14 7 (0.43%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 195 (12.00%) Degree
2 194 (11.94%) Security Cleared
3 134 (8.25%) SC Cleared
4 58 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 39 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.15%) CISSP
8 28 (1.72%) PMP
9 27 (1.66%) PMI Certification
10 24 (1.48%) CISM
11 20 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.98%) CISA
13 15 (0.92%) Azure Certification
13 15 (0.92%) CRISC
14 14 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
14 14 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.80%) ACCA
15 13 (0.80%) DV Cleared
15 13 (0.80%) ISTQB
16 12 (0.74%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 211 (12.98%) Data Quality
2 121 (7.45%) QA
3 76 (4.68%) PMO
4 75 (4.62%) GDPR
5 50 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (3.02%) NIST
7 38 (2.34%) SLA
8 27 (1.66%) Actionable Recommendations
9 26 (1.60%) COBIT
10 25 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (1.48%) Accessibility
12 22 (1.35%) GRC
13 20 (1.23%) PCI DSS
14 17 (1.05%) IFRS
15 14 (0.86%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.49%) MiFID
16 8 (0.49%) Solvency II
17 7 (0.43%) GAAP
18 6 (0.37%) NCSC
18 6 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 55 (3.38%) Docker
2 49 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.25%) Firmware
7 3 (0.18%) IAG
7 3 (0.18%) Postfix
8 2 (0.12%) NFS
8 2 (0.12%) Squid
8 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.062%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.062%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.062%) RACF
9 1 (0.062%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.062%) vSphere
9 1 (0.062%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (3.32%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.65%) Terraform
3 22 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.23%) Ansible
4 20 (1.23%) Grafana
5 12 (0.74%) SCCM
6 10 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.49%) Kibana
8 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
8 6 (0.37%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.18%) Control-M
10 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.062%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.062%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.062%) QRadar
12 1 (0.062%) vMotion
Vendors
1 247 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 131 (8.06%) Oracle
3 94 (5.78%) SAP
4 86 (5.29%) Salesforce
5 72 (4.43%) ServiceNow
6 70 (4.31%) Databricks
7 62 (3.82%) Google
8 23 (1.42%) Workday
9 20 (1.23%) Informatica
9 20 (1.23%) Splunk
10 19 (1.17%) Adobe
10 19 (1.17%) Cisco
11 18 (1.11%) Dynatrace
12 17 (1.05%) IBM
13 16 (0.98%) Bloomberg
14 15 (0.92%) Murex
14 15 (0.92%) VMware
15 14 (0.86%) Tenable
16 13 (0.80%) Alteryx
17 11 (0.68%) Palo Alto