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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -10 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,786 1,608 1,402
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.99% 11.89% 8.00%
As % of the General category 14.85% 17.45% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,091 1,020 944
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £547 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -0.47% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 36 38
10th Percentile £19.16 £11.96 £15.13
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.30 £17.06
Median hourly rate £39.00 £37.81 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +93.87% -55.68%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.15 £66.88 £58.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £33.19 £19.50
% change year-on-year +6.96% +70.21% -51.25%

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 12,024 9,217 10,895
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.55% 68.15% 62.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,704 6,142 7,731
10th Percentile £350 £331 £335
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £700
90th Percentile £788 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £515 £533
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.41% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 174 211
10th Percentile £18.83 £15.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £22.29 £24.66 £19.96
Median hourly rate £31.75 £33.45 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.07% +6.17% -10.00%
75th Percentile £44.97 £51.07 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.75 £63.75 £68.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £27.21 £33.07
% change year-on-year +21.28% -17.72% +8.28%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -9 234 £538 -2.27% 221
West London +2 80 £520 +30.00% 39
South London 0 33 £500 -20.00% 23
East London -5 9 £400 -7.09% 26
North London - 3 £450 - 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 79 (4.42%) Confluence
2 33 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 31 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 20 (1.12%) Apache
6 16 (0.90%) CMS
6 16 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.39%) SAS
7 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.28%) IIS
9 5 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 3 (0.17%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
13 1 (0.056%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.056%) nginx
13 1 (0.056%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.056%) WebLogic
Applications
1 161 (9.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.46%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.62%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) Notion
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.056%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.056%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
4 15 (0.84%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.56%) Finacle
5 10 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.50%) Fidessa
6 9 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
9 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
9 6 (0.34%) Summit
10 5 (0.28%) iTrent
10 5 (0.28%) Magento
10 5 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.28%) Shopify
11 4 (0.22%) HFM
11 4 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 361 (20.21%) Azure
2 254 (14.22%) AWS
3 220 (12.32%) Power Platform
4 95 (5.32%) GCP
5 79 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
6 77 (4.31%) SaaS
7 70 (3.92%) Microsoft 365
8 69 (3.86%) GitHub
9 49 (2.74%) Entra ID
10 42 (2.35%) Snowflake
11 41 (2.30%) Azure Data Factory
12 33 (1.85%) Amazon S3
13 32 (1.79%) Serverless
14 31 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
15 29 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
15 29 (1.62%) dbt
16 26 (1.46%) PaaS
17 25 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 25 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
18 22 (1.23%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.52%) Firewall
2 28 (1.57%) DNS
3 26 (1.46%) Network Security
4 24 (1.34%) VPN
5 19 (1.06%) WAN
6 18 (1.01%) TCP/IP
7 17 (0.95%) DHCP
8 14 (0.78%) SAN
8 14 (0.78%) SD-WAN
9 11 (0.62%) BGP
9 11 (0.62%) VLAN
10 9 (0.50%) 5G
10 9 (0.50%) HTTP
10 9 (0.50%) OSPF
10 9 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.45%) 4G
11 8 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (0.45%) Internet
11 8 (0.45%) LAN
11 8 (0.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 195 (10.92%) Power BI
2 100 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
3 93 (5.21%) SQL Server
4 77 (4.31%) Tableau
5 72 (4.03%) Relational Database
6 62 (3.47%) Metadata
7 44 (2.46%) PostgreSQL
8 40 (2.24%) Data Lake
9 32 (1.79%) NoSQL
10 26 (1.46%) Big Data
10 26 (1.46%) MongoDB
11 24 (1.34%) RDBMS
12 23 (1.29%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.29%) Oracle Database
13 22 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 19 (1.06%) Power Query
14 19 (1.06%) Star Schema
15 18 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
16 15 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
17 14 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 170 (9.52%) JIRA
2 78 (4.37%) Git
3 34 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.46%) Selenium
5 15 (0.84%) REST Assured
6 14 (0.78%) Postman
7 13 (0.73%) Cypress.io
8 12 (0.67%) GitLab
9 11 (0.62%) ERwin
9 11 (0.62%) JUnit
10 10 (0.56%) MLflow
11 9 (0.50%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.50%) JMeter
11 9 (0.50%) Maven
12 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
12 8 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
13 7 (0.39%) Chocolatey
13 7 (0.39%) SonarQube
13 7 (0.39%) WebDriver
14 6 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 841 (47.09%) Social Skills
2 709 (39.70%) Finance
3 260 (14.56%) Banking
4 147 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 89 (4.98%) Marketing
6 86 (4.82%) Documentation Skills
7 85 (4.76%) Front Office
8 78 (4.37%) Legal
9 77 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
10 62 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (3.08%) Influencing Skills
11 55 (3.08%) Investment Banking
12 49 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 49 (2.74%) Retail
12 49 (2.74%) Telecoms
13 44 (2.46%) Financial Institution
14 29 (1.62%) Back Office
15 20 (1.12%) Law
15 20 (1.12%) Local Government
16 19 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 462 (25.87%) Analyst
2 232 (12.99%) Business Analyst
3 178 (9.97%) Senior
4 160 (8.96%) Developer
5 125 (7.00%) Architect
6 120 (6.72%) Lead
7 110 (6.16%) Data Engineer
8 99 (5.54%) Data Analyst
9 92 (5.15%) Consultant
10 67 (3.75%) Data Scientist
11 58 (3.25%) Project Manager
12 40 (2.24%) Senior Analyst
13 36 (2.02%) Senior Developer
14 33 (1.85%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (1.68%) Financial Analyst
16 28 (1.57%) Product Owner
17 27 (1.51%) Senior Manager
17 27 (1.51%) Support Engineer
18 26 (1.46%) Technical Business Analyst
19 25 (1.40%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (5.60%) REST
2 64 (3.58%) .NET
3 49 (2.74%) Kafka
4 44 (2.46%) JSON
5 43 (2.41%) XML
6 42 (2.35%) Pandas
6 42 (2.35%) RESTful
7 37 (2.07%) SOAP
8 35 (1.96%) Middleware
9 34 (1.90%) HTML
10 31 (1.74%) scikit-learn
10 31 (1.74%) Web Services
11 29 (1.62%) CSS
12 26 (1.46%) PySpark
13 24 (1.34%) NumPy
13 24 (1.34%) PyTorch
13 24 (1.34%) Spring
14 23 (1.29%) React
15 22 (1.23%) Spring Boot
16 21 (1.18%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 164 (9.18%) Analytical Mindset
2 112 (6.27%) Product Ownership
3 86 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 75 (4.20%) Data Structures
5 71 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
6 49 (2.74%) Cloud Native
7 48 (2.69%) Distributed Systems
8 44 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
9 42 (2.35%) Management Information System
10 41 (2.30%) Algorithms
11 36 (2.02%) Data Centre
12 35 (1.96%) Fixed Income
12 35 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 33 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
13 33 (1.85%) Derivative
14 30 (1.68%) Equities
15 24 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
15 24 (1.34%) Security Posture
16 22 (1.23%) Virtual Team
17 21 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 111 (6.22%) Windows
2 75 (4.20%) Linux
3 35 (1.96%) Unix
4 21 (1.18%) Mac OS
5 15 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 14 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 13 (0.73%) Android
8 12 (0.67%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.34%) Solaris
10 5 (0.28%) AIX
11 2 (0.11%) SUSE
11 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 865 (48.43%) Problem-Solving
2 490 (27.44%) Agile
3 445 (24.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 332 (18.59%) Analytics
5 330 (18.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 311 (17.41%) AI
7 302 (16.91%) Decision-Making
8 264 (14.78%) Data Modelling
9 233 (13.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 232 (12.99%) Validation
11 220 (12.32%) Business Intelligence
12 209 (11.70%) DevOps
13 207 (11.59%) CI/CD
14 196 (10.97%) Migration
15 185 (10.36%) Data Analysis
16 164 (9.18%) Data Pipeline
17 156 (8.73%) User Acceptance Testing
18 153 (8.57%) Roadmaps
19 147 (8.23%) Data Science
19 147 (8.23%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 512 (28.67%) SQL
2 396 (22.17%) Python
3 117 (6.55%) Java
4 87 (4.87%) C#
5 67 (3.75%) JavaScript
6 62 (3.47%) PowerShell
7 45 (2.52%) TypeScript
8 35 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 31 (1.74%) C++
10 29 (1.62%) R
11 27 (1.51%) PL/SQL
12 26 (1.46%) T-SQL
13 25 (1.40%) Bash
14 22 (1.23%) Scala
15 11 (0.62%) Apex Code
16 10 (0.56%) C
16 10 (0.56%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.56%) VBA
17 8 (0.45%) Ruby
17 8 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 222 (12.43%) Degree
2 216 (12.09%) Security Cleared
3 158 (8.85%) SC Cleared
4 70 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 38 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.02%) CISSP
8 27 (1.51%) PMP
9 26 (1.46%) PMI Certification
10 23 (1.29%) CISM
11 21 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.01%) Azure Certification
13 15 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (0.78%) CISA
15 13 (0.73%) DV Cleared
16 12 (0.67%) ACCA
16 12 (0.67%) ISTQB
17 11 (0.62%) CCNP
17 11 (0.62%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 230 (12.88%) Data Quality
2 138 (7.73%) QA
3 88 (4.93%) PMO
4 71 (3.98%) GDPR
5 47 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 47 (2.63%) NIST
5 47 (2.63%) SLA
6 33 (1.85%) Accessibility
7 24 (1.34%) Actionable Recommendations
7 24 (1.34%) COBIT
8 23 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 19 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 18 (1.01%) GRC
11 17 (0.95%) IFRS
12 13 (0.73%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.45%) Solvency II
14 7 (0.39%) GAAP
15 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.34%) GxP
16 5 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 66 (3.70%) Docker
2 62 (3.47%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.34%) IAG
5 6 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.22%) Firmware
7 3 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 2 (0.11%) Squid
8 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.056%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.056%) RACF
9 1 (0.056%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.056%) vSphere
9 1 (0.056%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 66 (3.70%) Kubernetes
2 54 (3.02%) Terraform
3 27 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (1.29%) Ansible
5 22 (1.23%) Grafana
6 11 (0.62%) SCCM
6 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.45%) Kibana
8 7 (0.39%) Control-M
8 7 (0.39%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.28%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.11%) Istio
11 2 (0.11%) Nessus
11 2 (0.11%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.056%) Data Guard
12 1 (0.056%) SCOM
12 1 (0.056%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.056%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 277 (15.51%) Microsoft
2 158 (8.85%) Oracle
3 94 (5.26%) SAP
4 87 (4.87%) ServiceNow
5 78 (4.37%) Salesforce
6 66 (3.70%) Databricks
7 64 (3.58%) Google
8 31 (1.74%) Splunk
9 26 (1.46%) Workday
10 24 (1.34%) Dynatrace
11 23 (1.29%) IBM
12 20 (1.12%) Cisco
12 20 (1.12%) Informatica
13 19 (1.06%) Alteryx
13 19 (1.06%) CyberArk
14 18 (1.01%) Apple
14 18 (1.01%) VMware
15 17 (0.95%) Adobe
15 17 (0.95%) Murex
16 15 (0.84%) Tenable