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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,662 1,500 1,417
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.69% 11.92% 8.07%
As % of the General category 14.42% 17.49% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,018 949 975
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £820
England median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.38% -3.43% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 35 41
10th Percentile £19.11 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.86 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £38.11 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% +69.38% -44.44%
75th Percentile £50.62 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £67.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £32.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +66.67% -45.07%

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 11,527 8,574 10,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.25% 68.13% 62.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,411 5,718 7,828
10th Percentile £350 £331 £335
25th Percentile £435 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £697 £700
90th Percentile £788 £815 £825
England median daily rate £520 £520 £535
% change year-on-year - -2.80% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 160 236
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.75
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.48 £30.14
Median % change year-on-year +1.51% +14.40% -5.58%
75th Percentile £45.50 £51.44 £47.81
90th Percentile £72.25 £65.06 £67.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £28.17 £32.12
% change year-on-year +15.39% -12.30% +14.41%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -10 207 £538 -2.27% 112
West London +3 79 £516 +29.06% 32
South London -2 31 £475 -24.00% 10
East London -5 8 £400 -7.03% 18
North London - 1 - - 9
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 (4.51%) Confluence
2 32 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
3 31 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 26 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.08%) Apache
6 14 (0.84%) CMS
6 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.42%) SAS
8 6 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.30%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.24%) IIS
10 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.18%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Appian
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
13 1 (0.060%) nginx
13 1 (0.060%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.060%) Traefik
13 1 (0.060%) WebLogic
Applications
1 151 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (3.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 41 (2.47%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.66%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.12%) Notion
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.060%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.060%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.72%) Aladdin
5 10 (0.60%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.54%) Finacle
6 9 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (0.42%) Fidessa
8 6 (0.36%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
8 6 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
8 6 (0.36%) Summit
9 5 (0.30%) iTrent
9 5 (0.30%) Magento
9 5 (0.30%) Shopify
10 4 (0.24%) HFM
10 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 333 (20.04%) Azure
2 237 (14.26%) AWS
3 209 (12.58%) Power Platform
4 87 (5.23%) GCP
5 79 (4.75%) SaaS
6 70 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
8 61 (3.67%) GitHub
9 40 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 37 (2.23%) Entra ID
11 36 (2.17%) Amazon S3
12 35 (2.11%) Serverless
12 35 (2.11%) Snowflake
13 30 (1.81%) AWS Lambda
14 27 (1.62%) dbt
14 27 (1.62%) GitHub Actions
15 26 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
16 24 (1.44%) PaaS
17 21 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 20 (1.20%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.47%) Firewall
2 24 (1.44%) DNS
3 23 (1.38%) Network Security
4 18 (1.08%) WAN
5 17 (1.02%) VPN
6 16 (0.96%) DHCP
6 16 (0.96%) TCP/IP
7 15 (0.90%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.78%) SAN
9 11 (0.66%) BGP
10 10 (0.60%) VLAN
11 9 (0.54%) OSPF
12 8 (0.48%) 5G
12 8 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.48%) HTTP
12 8 (0.48%) Internet
12 8 (0.48%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.42%) 4G
13 7 (0.42%) MPLS
13 7 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (11.13%) Power BI
2 93 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
3 82 (4.93%) SQL Server
4 77 (4.63%) Tableau
5 65 (3.91%) Relational Database
6 55 (3.31%) Metadata
7 40 (2.41%) Data Lake
7 40 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (1.93%) NoSQL
9 26 (1.56%) Big Data
10 24 (1.44%) MongoDB
11 22 (1.32%) BigQuery
11 22 (1.32%) RDBMS
12 21 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (1.14%) Power Query
13 19 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
14 18 (1.08%) Oracle Database
15 17 (1.02%) Star Schema
16 16 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
17 13 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 160 (9.63%) JIRA
2 64 (3.85%) Git
3 28 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.32%) Selenium
5 12 (0.72%) Postman
5 12 (0.72%) REST Assured
6 11 (0.66%) Cucumber
6 11 (0.66%) Cypress.io
6 11 (0.66%) GitLab
7 10 (0.60%) ERwin
7 10 (0.60%) MLflow
8 9 (0.54%) JUnit
9 8 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.42%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.42%) JMeter
10 7 (0.42%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.36%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.36%) WebDriver
12 5 (0.30%) Maven
12 5 (0.30%) Mockito
General
1 767 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 652 (39.23%) Finance
3 239 (14.38%) Banking
4 136 (8.18%) Public Sector
5 89 (5.35%) Marketing
6 82 (4.93%) Legal
7 78 (4.69%) Front Office
8 73 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
9 66 (3.97%) Organisational Skills
10 62 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
11 52 (3.13%) Investment Banking
12 50 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 50 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
13 47 (2.83%) Telecoms
14 45 (2.71%) Retail
15 38 (2.29%) Financial Institution
16 26 (1.56%) Back Office
17 21 (1.26%) Law
18 18 (1.08%) Local Government
18 18 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 433 (26.05%) Analyst
2 216 (13.00%) Business Analyst
3 157 (9.45%) Senior
4 145 (8.72%) Developer
5 116 (6.98%) Architect
6 112 (6.74%) Lead
7 100 (6.02%) Data Engineer
8 96 (5.78%) Data Analyst
9 92 (5.54%) Consultant
10 61 (3.67%) Data Scientist
11 50 (3.01%) Project Manager
12 41 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
13 36 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (1.93%) Senior Developer
15 29 (1.74%) Financial Analyst
15 29 (1.74%) Senior Business Analyst
16 24 (1.44%) Product Owner
16 24 (1.44%) Support Engineer
17 23 (1.38%) Tester
18 22 (1.32%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (4.75%) REST
2 58 (3.49%) .NET
3 49 (2.95%) Kafka
4 39 (2.35%) Pandas
5 36 (2.17%) JSON
6 35 (2.11%) RESTful
6 35 (2.11%) XML
7 34 (2.05%) Middleware
8 31 (1.87%) SOAP
9 30 (1.81%) HTML
9 30 (1.81%) scikit-learn
10 28 (1.68%) CSS
11 26 (1.56%) PySpark
12 25 (1.50%) Web Services
13 23 (1.38%) NumPy
14 22 (1.32%) PyTorch
15 21 (1.26%) React
16 20 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
17 19 (1.14%) SAML
17 19 (1.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 159 (9.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 99 (5.96%) Product Ownership
3 70 (4.21%) Onboarding
4 68 (4.09%) Data Structures
5 65 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
6 45 (2.71%) Cloud Native
6 45 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
7 42 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
7 42 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 39 (2.35%) Algorithms
9 34 (2.05%) Data Centre
10 32 (1.93%) Fixed Income
10 32 (1.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 31 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
11 31 (1.87%) Derivative
12 27 (1.62%) Equities
13 23 (1.38%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.32%) Virtual Team
15 20 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
15 20 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 98 (5.90%) Windows
2 67 (4.03%) Linux
3 33 (1.99%) Unix
4 15 (0.90%) Mac OS
5 11 (0.66%) Apple iOS
5 11 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 10 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 9 (0.54%) Android
8 6 (0.36%) Solaris
9 5 (0.30%) AIX
9 5 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.12%) SUSE
11 1 (0.060%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 809 (48.68%) Problem-Solving
2 446 (26.84%) Agile
3 389 (23.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 312 (18.77%) Analytics
5 302 (18.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 289 (17.39%) AI
7 287 (17.27%) Decision-Making
8 245 (14.74%) Data Modelling
9 219 (13.18%) Validation
10 209 (12.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 203 (12.21%) Business Intelligence
12 190 (11.43%) DevOps
13 179 (10.77%) CI/CD
14 177 (10.65%) Migration
15 174 (10.47%) Data Analysis
16 147 (8.84%) Data Pipeline
17 146 (8.78%) User Acceptance Testing
18 142 (8.54%) Data Science
18 142 (8.54%) Roadmaps
19 140 (8.42%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 479 (28.82%) SQL
2 381 (22.92%) Python
3 105 (6.32%) Java
4 87 (5.23%) C#
5 58 (3.49%) JavaScript
6 53 (3.19%) PowerShell
7 43 (2.59%) TypeScript
8 35 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 30 (1.81%) R
10 29 (1.74%) C++
11 24 (1.44%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.32%) T-SQL
13 21 (1.26%) Scala
14 20 (1.20%) Bash
15 9 (0.54%) VBA
16 8 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.48%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.42%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.42%) C
18 6 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 204 (12.27%) Degree
2 197 (11.85%) Security Cleared
3 139 (8.36%) SC Cleared
4 63 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 38 (2.29%) Master's Degree
7 36 (2.17%) CISSP
8 26 (1.56%) PMP
9 25 (1.50%) CISM
9 25 (1.50%) PMI Certification
10 20 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (0.96%) Azure Certification
11 16 (0.96%) CISA
12 15 (0.90%) CRISC
12 15 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
12 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (0.78%) DV Cleared
13 13 (0.78%) ISTQB
14 12 (0.72%) ACCA
15 11 (0.66%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (12.94%) Data Quality
2 127 (7.64%) QA
3 74 (4.45%) GDPR
3 74 (4.45%) PMO
4 49 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 48 (2.89%) NIST
6 41 (2.47%) SLA
7 27 (1.62%) Accessibility
7 27 (1.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 27 (1.62%) COBIT
8 24 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 22 (1.32%) GRC
10 20 (1.20%) PCI DSS
11 17 (1.02%) IFRS
12 13 (0.78%) ISO 20022
13 8 (0.48%) Solvency II
14 7 (0.42%) GAAP
15 6 (0.36%) GxP
15 6 (0.36%) NCSC
15 6 (0.36%) PSD2
System Software
1 59 (3.55%) Docker
2 51 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.24%) Firmware
6 4 (0.24%) IAG
7 3 (0.18%) Postfix
7 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.12%) NFS
8 2 (0.12%) Squid
9 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.060%) RACF
9 1 (0.060%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.060%) vSphere
9 1 (0.060%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 58 (3.49%) Kubernetes
2 44 (2.65%) Terraform
3 22 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (1.26%) Ansible
4 21 (1.26%) Grafana
5 11 (0.66%) SCCM
5 11 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.48%) Kibana
7 7 (0.42%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.30%) 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%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.060%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.060%) ITRS Geneos
12 1 (0.060%) Opsview
12 1 (0.060%) QRadar
Vendors
1 248 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 140 (8.42%) Oracle
3 89 (5.35%) SAP
4 81 (4.87%) Salesforce
5 77 (4.63%) ServiceNow
6 65 (3.91%) Databricks
7 61 (3.67%) Google
8 23 (1.38%) Splunk
8 23 (1.38%) Workday
9 21 (1.26%) Dynatrace
10 20 (1.20%) Informatica
11 19 (1.14%) IBM
12 18 (1.08%) Cisco
13 17 (1.02%) Adobe
14 16 (0.96%) Murex
14 16 (0.96%) VMware
15 14 (0.84%) Alteryx
15 14 (0.84%) Bloomberg
15 14 (0.84%) Tenable
16 13 (0.78%) Apple