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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,807 1,603 1,377
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.12% 11.82% 8.15%
As % of the General category 15.04% 17.35% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,101 1,018 918
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -3.86% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 32 29
10th Percentile £22.61 £11.96 £16.30
25th Percentile £27.76 £25.94 £17.50
Median hourly rate £39.00 £37.56 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +18.43% -27.82%
75th Percentile £51.25 £55.25 £46.48
90th Percentile £73.15 £63.25 £65.01
England median hourly rate £38.72 £34.11 £21.50
% change year-on-year +13.52% +58.65% -43.05%

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 12,013 9,240 10,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.62% 68.13% 62.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,647 6,155 7,472
10th Percentile £350 £330 £331
25th Percentile £445 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 173 183
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.57
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £21.11
Median hourly rate £31.50 £32.00 £33.75
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% -5.19% -3.57%
75th Percentile £44.03 £50.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £64.13 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.04 £35.86
% change year-on-year +30.53% -27.37% +19.42%

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 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 22 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 22 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 -10 231 £525 -4.55% 221
West London +5 80 £520 +30.00% 38
South London 0 37 £513 -18.00% 23
East London -6 8 £400 +16.64% 28
North London - 3 £450 - 5
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 76 (4.21%) Confluence
2 32 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.60%) Apache Spark
4 23 (1.27%) CMS
5 18 (1.00%) Apache
6 16 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.33%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.33%) SAS
9 5 (0.28%) IIS
10 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.22%) Appian
10 4 (0.22%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.17%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 2 (0.11%) JBoss
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 154 (8.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (3.54%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.21%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
6 18 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.61%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.11%) Notion
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.11%) Trello
10 1 (0.055%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 23 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.89%) Aladdin
4 15 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.55%) Finacle
5 10 (0.55%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.50%) Fidessa
6 9 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.39%) Shopify
9 6 (0.33%) Loan IQ
9 6 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
9 6 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
10 5 (0.28%) Magento
10 5 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
11 4 (0.22%) Findur
11 4 (0.22%) HFM
11 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
11 4 (0.22%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 364 (20.14%) Azure
2 257 (14.22%) AWS
3 218 (12.06%) Power Platform
4 96 (5.31%) GCP
5 75 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
6 73 (4.04%) SaaS
7 68 (3.76%) Microsoft 365
8 65 (3.60%) GitHub
9 56 (3.10%) Entra ID
10 48 (2.66%) Azure Data Factory
11 44 (2.43%) Snowflake
12 33 (1.83%) Amazon S3
13 32 (1.77%) Serverless
14 30 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
14 30 (1.66%) dbt
14 30 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
15 27 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 24 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
17 22 (1.22%) PaaS
18 21 (1.16%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 47 (2.60%) Firewall
2 34 (1.88%) DNS
3 27 (1.49%) Network Security
3 27 (1.49%) VPN
4 24 (1.33%) TCP/IP
5 22 (1.22%) DHCP
6 17 (0.94%) WAN
7 15 (0.83%) SAN
8 14 (0.77%) VLAN
9 13 (0.72%) HTTP
10 12 (0.66%) SD-WAN
11 11 (0.61%) BGP
12 10 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (0.50%) 5G
14 8 (0.44%) 4G
14 8 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
14 8 (0.44%) OSPF
14 8 (0.44%) VXLAN
15 7 (0.39%) LAN
15 7 (0.39%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (10.85%) Power BI
2 105 (5.81%) Data Warehouse
3 98 (5.42%) SQL Server
4 75 (4.15%) Tableau
5 74 (4.10%) Relational Database
6 67 (3.71%) Metadata
7 47 (2.60%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (2.16%) Data Lake
9 34 (1.88%) NoSQL
10 27 (1.49%) MongoDB
11 26 (1.44%) Big Data
12 23 (1.27%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.27%) Oracle Database
12 23 (1.27%) RDBMS
12 23 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (0.94%) Delta Lake
13 17 (0.94%) Power Query
13 17 (0.94%) Star Schema
14 16 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
15 15 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 175 (9.68%) JIRA
2 74 (4.10%) Git
3 37 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.22%) Selenium
5 14 (0.77%) ERwin
6 12 (0.66%) GitLab
7 11 (0.61%) JUnit
8 10 (0.55%) Maven
9 9 (0.50%) Bitbucket
9 9 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.50%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.50%) Postman
9 9 (0.50%) REST Assured
10 8 (0.44%) Chocolatey
10 8 (0.44%) JMeter
10 8 (0.44%) MLflow
10 8 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
10 8 (0.44%) Zephyr
11 7 (0.39%) Gradle
11 7 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 867 (47.98%) Social Skills
2 715 (39.57%) Finance
3 265 (14.67%) Banking
4 155 (8.58%) Public Sector
5 91 (5.04%) Front Office
5 91 (5.04%) Marketing
6 85 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
7 82 (4.54%) Organisational Skills
8 76 (4.21%) Legal
9 56 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
9 56 (3.10%) Investment Banking
10 55 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
11 54 (2.99%) Retail
12 51 (2.82%) Telecoms
13 49 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 42 (2.32%) Financial Institution
15 29 (1.60%) Back Office
16 22 (1.22%) Local Government
17 20 (1.11%) Law
17 20 (1.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 470 (26.01%) Analyst
2 236 (13.06%) Business Analyst
3 189 (10.46%) Senior
4 163 (9.02%) Developer
5 127 (7.03%) Architect
6 123 (6.81%) Lead
7 105 (5.81%) Data Engineer
8 101 (5.59%) Data Analyst
9 86 (4.76%) Consultant
10 68 (3.76%) Data Scientist
11 62 (3.43%) Project Manager
12 46 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
13 40 (2.21%) Senior Developer
14 31 (1.72%) Solutions Architect
14 31 (1.72%) Technical Business Analyst
15 29 (1.60%) Financial Analyst
15 29 (1.60%) Technical Analyst
16 28 (1.55%) Product Owner
16 28 (1.55%) Senior Manager
17 26 (1.44%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (5.53%) REST
2 64 (3.54%) .NET
3 49 (2.71%) Kafka
4 45 (2.49%) JSON
4 45 (2.49%) RESTful
5 42 (2.32%) XML
6 39 (2.16%) Pandas
6 39 (2.16%) SOAP
7 38 (2.10%) HTML
8 37 (2.05%) Web Services
9 34 (1.88%) CSS
10 32 (1.77%) Middleware
11 28 (1.55%) PySpark
12 27 (1.49%) scikit-learn
12 27 (1.49%) Spring
13 26 (1.44%) React
14 24 (1.33%) Spring Boot
15 23 (1.27%) AngularJS
16 22 (1.22%) NumPy
16 22 (1.22%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 127 (7.03%) Product Ownership
3 96 (5.31%) Onboarding
4 81 (4.48%) Data Structures
5 72 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
6 50 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
7 48 (2.66%) Cloud Native
7 48 (2.66%) Management Information System
8 42 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
9 37 (2.05%) Fixed Income
10 35 (1.94%) Algorithms
10 35 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
11 34 (1.88%) Data Centre
12 33 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 30 (1.66%) Derivative
14 28 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
14 28 (1.55%) Equities
15 24 (1.33%) AI Agents
16 23 (1.27%) CMDB
16 23 (1.27%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 117 (6.47%) Windows
2 88 (4.87%) Linux
3 35 (1.94%) Unix
4 18 (1.00%) Mac OS
4 18 (1.00%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.72%) Windows 10
6 12 (0.66%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.61%) Android
8 9 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.33%) Solaris
9 6 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.28%) AIX
11 2 (0.11%) SUSE
12 1 (0.055%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.055%) VMS
12 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.055%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 874 (48.37%) Problem-Solving
2 527 (29.16%) Agile
3 481 (26.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 344 (19.04%) Analytics
5 342 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 321 (17.76%) AI
7 311 (17.21%) Decision-Making
8 265 (14.67%) Data Modelling
9 243 (13.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 234 (12.95%) Validation
11 226 (12.51%) Business Intelligence
12 213 (11.79%) DevOps
13 201 (11.12%) CI/CD
14 198 (10.96%) Migration
15 178 (9.85%) Data Analysis
16 169 (9.35%) Data Pipeline
17 165 (9.13%) User Acceptance Testing
18 159 (8.80%) Roadmaps
19 156 (8.63%) User Stories
20 152 (8.41%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 511 (28.28%) SQL
2 394 (21.80%) Python
3 115 (6.36%) Java
4 82 (4.54%) C#
5 76 (4.21%) JavaScript
6 64 (3.54%) PowerShell
7 41 (2.27%) TypeScript
8 32 (1.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 31 (1.72%) Bash
10 29 (1.60%) C++
10 29 (1.60%) R
11 27 (1.49%) PL/SQL
12 26 (1.44%) T-SQL
13 15 (0.83%) Scala
14 11 (0.61%) Apex Code
15 10 (0.55%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.55%) VBA
16 9 (0.50%) Ruby
17 8 (0.44%) C
17 8 (0.44%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 223 (12.34%) Security Cleared
2 220 (12.17%) Degree
3 163 (9.02%) SC Cleared
4 69 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 36 (1.99%) CISSP
6 34 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (1.72%) Master's Degree
8 28 (1.55%) PMP
9 26 (1.44%) PMI Certification
10 24 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.27%) CISM
12 20 (1.11%) Azure Certification
13 15 (0.83%) DV Cleared
13 15 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (0.77%) CCNP
15 13 (0.72%) CISA
16 12 (0.66%) ACCA
17 11 (0.61%) CIMA
17 11 (0.61%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (13.23%) Data Quality
2 132 (7.30%) QA
3 88 (4.87%) PMO
4 68 (3.76%) GDPR
5 46 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.55%) SLA
6 44 (2.43%) NIST
7 35 (1.94%) Accessibility
8 27 (1.49%) Actionable Recommendations
9 23 (1.27%) COBIT
9 23 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 19 (1.05%) GRC
11 16 (0.89%) IFRS
12 12 (0.66%) ISO 20022
12 12 (0.66%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.44%) Solvency II
14 7 (0.39%) GAAP
15 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.33%) GxP
System Software
1 72 (3.98%) Active Directory
2 67 (3.71%) Docker
3 12 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (0.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.50%) IAG
5 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.28%) Firmware
7 3 (0.17%) Postfix
8 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.11%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.11%) NFS
8 2 (0.11%) Squid
8 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.11%) vSphere
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.055%) RACF
9 1 (0.055%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
9 1 (0.055%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.055%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 69 (3.82%) Kubernetes
2 55 (3.04%) Terraform
3 33 (1.83%) Ansible
4 30 (1.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 23 (1.27%) Grafana
6 13 (0.72%) SCCM
7 11 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.50%) Kibana
8 9 (0.50%) Prometheus
9 8 (0.44%) Control-M
10 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.17%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
11 3 (0.17%) systemd
12 2 (0.11%) Istio
12 2 (0.11%) Nessus
12 2 (0.11%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.055%) SCOM
13 1 (0.055%) SysTrack
13 1 (0.055%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 287 (15.88%) Microsoft
2 157 (8.69%) Oracle
3 98 (5.42%) SAP
4 92 (5.09%) ServiceNow
5 73 (4.04%) Salesforce
6 66 (3.65%) Google
7 64 (3.54%) Databricks
8 32 (1.77%) Splunk
9 27 (1.49%) Dynatrace
10 26 (1.44%) Workday
11 25 (1.38%) Cisco
11 25 (1.38%) IBM
12 24 (1.33%) VMware
13 22 (1.22%) CyberArk
14 20 (1.11%) Adobe
14 20 (1.11%) Informatica
15 18 (1.00%) Alteryx
16 17 (0.94%) Apple
17 16 (0.89%) Tenable
18 14 (0.77%) Bloomberg