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

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -11 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,608 1,463 1,420
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.74% 12.11% 8.15%
As % of the General category 14.59% 17.86% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,003 927 978
10th Percentile £350 £318 £313
25th Percentile £425 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £705 £699
90th Percentile £750 £825 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 33 45
10th Percentile £20.17 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £26.32 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £38.11 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% +62.17% -37.75%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.30 £58.25 £61.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year +19.05% +65.79% -56.25%

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 11,025 8,191 10,919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.96% 67.82% 62.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,091 5,452 7,791
10th Percentile £350 £344 £331
25th Percentile £433 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -4.30% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £515 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -1.90% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 149 241
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.48 £24.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £44.03 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £68.38 £63.35 £66.00
England median hourly rate £31.50 £28.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.68% -2.88%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -9 207 £525 -4.55% 247
West London +2 71 £520 +30.00% 39
South London +1 32 £488 -22.00% 10
East London -6 10 £400 -6.98% 27
North London - 1 - - 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 (4.73%) Confluence
2 30 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 21 (1.31%) SharePoint
5 17 (1.06%) Apache
6 14 (0.87%) CMS
7 12 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.37%) SAS
9 5 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 5 (0.31%) IIS
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.19%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
13 1 (0.062%) Appian
13 1 (0.062%) nginx
13 1 (0.062%) Oracle Application Server
13 1 (0.062%) Traefik
13 1 (0.062%) WebLogic
Applications
1 147 (9.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 50 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 49 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
4 41 (2.55%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.56%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.062%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.062%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.68%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.56%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 8 (0.50%) Shopify
7 7 (0.44%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
7 7 (0.44%) Summit
8 6 (0.37%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
8 6 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
8 6 (0.37%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.31%) BASE24
9 5 (0.31%) Finacle
9 5 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
10 4 (0.25%) HFM
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 327 (20.34%) Azure
2 223 (13.87%) AWS
3 199 (12.38%) Power Platform
4 79 (4.91%) GCP
4 79 (4.91%) SaaS
5 67 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 60 (3.73%) Microsoft 365
7 59 (3.67%) GitHub
8 43 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 36 (2.24%) Entra ID
9 36 (2.24%) Snowflake
10 35 (2.18%) Amazon S3
11 33 (2.05%) Serverless
12 32 (1.99%) Dynamics 365
13 29 (1.80%) AWS Lambda
14 27 (1.68%) dbt
15 25 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 23 (1.43%) PaaS
17 20 (1.24%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.49%) Firewall
2 22 (1.37%) DNS
3 21 (1.31%) Network Security
4 20 (1.24%) VPN
5 17 (1.06%) WAN
6 16 (1.00%) DHCP
7 14 (0.87%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.81%) SAN
9 11 (0.68%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.62%) BGP
11 8 (0.50%) OSPF
11 8 (0.50%) VLAN
11 8 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
12 7 (0.44%) HTTP
12 7 (0.44%) Internet
12 7 (0.44%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.37%) 5G
13 6 (0.37%) LAN
13 6 (0.37%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 175 (10.88%) Power BI
2 92 (5.72%) Data Warehouse
3 78 (4.85%) Tableau
4 77 (4.79%) SQL Server
5 53 (3.30%) Metadata
6 52 (3.23%) Relational Database
7 36 (2.24%) Data Lake
8 35 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
9 29 (1.80%) NoSQL
10 25 (1.55%) Big Data
11 23 (1.43%) BigQuery
12 22 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 21 (1.31%) Power Query
13 21 (1.31%) Snowflake Schema
14 18 (1.12%) MongoDB
15 17 (1.06%) RDBMS
16 16 (1.00%) Oracle Database
17 15 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
17 15 (0.93%) Star Schema
18 13 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 160 (9.95%) JIRA
2 62 (3.86%) Git
3 23 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.37%) Selenium
5 12 (0.75%) Cucumber
6 11 (0.68%) MLflow
6 11 (0.68%) Postman
6 11 (0.68%) REST Assured
7 10 (0.62%) Cypress.io
7 10 (0.62%) ERwin
7 10 (0.62%) GitLab
8 8 (0.50%) JUnit
8 8 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
9 7 (0.44%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.37%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.37%) Chocolatey
10 6 (0.37%) JMeter
10 6 (0.37%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.37%) WebDriver
11 5 (0.31%) Browser DevTools
General
1 720 (44.78%) Social Skills
2 626 (38.93%) Finance
3 243 (15.11%) Banking
4 131 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 94 (5.85%) Marketing
6 77 (4.79%) Documentation Skills
7 75 (4.66%) Legal
8 72 (4.48%) Front Office
9 63 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
10 58 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (3.42%) Investment Banking
12 45 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
13 43 (2.67%) Retail
14 41 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 41 (2.55%) Telecoms
15 40 (2.49%) Financial Institution
16 20 (1.24%) Back Office
17 15 (0.93%) Billing
17 15 (0.93%) Publishing
18 14 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 425 (26.43%) Analyst
2 218 (13.56%) Business Analyst
3 153 (9.51%) Senior
4 142 (8.83%) Developer
5 109 (6.78%) Lead
6 104 (6.47%) Architect
7 98 (6.09%) Data Engineer
8 97 (6.03%) Data Analyst
9 89 (5.53%) Consultant
10 58 (3.61%) Data Scientist
11 46 (2.86%) Project Manager
12 42 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
13 33 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (1.99%) Senior Business Analyst
15 31 (1.93%) Financial Analyst
16 29 (1.80%) Senior Developer
17 23 (1.43%) Tester
18 22 (1.37%) Salesforce Analyst
18 22 (1.37%) Senior Manager
19 21 (1.31%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (4.35%) REST
2 57 (3.54%) .NET
3 45 (2.80%) Kafka
4 39 (2.43%) Pandas
5 37 (2.30%) Middleware
6 31 (1.93%) JSON
6 31 (1.93%) RESTful
6 31 (1.93%) XML
7 30 (1.87%) HTML
8 28 (1.74%) CSS
9 27 (1.68%) scikit-learn
10 26 (1.62%) PySpark
11 25 (1.55%) SOAP
12 23 (1.43%) Web Services
13 22 (1.37%) NumPy
14 21 (1.31%) PyTorch
15 20 (1.24%) React
16 19 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
17 18 (1.12%) AngularJS
17 18 (1.12%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 151 (9.39%) Analytical Mindset
2 98 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 63 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 59 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
5 57 (3.54%) Data Structures
6 44 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.36%) Cloud Native
8 37 (2.30%) Management Information System
9 35 (2.18%) Algorithms
9 35 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
10 33 (2.05%) Fixed Income
10 33 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 32 (1.99%) Data Centre
11 32 (1.99%) Derivative
12 29 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
12 29 (1.80%) Equities
13 24 (1.49%) Virtual Team
14 22 (1.37%) Credit Risk
15 19 (1.18%) Security Posture
16 17 (1.06%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 85 (5.29%) Windows
2 60 (3.73%) Linux
3 30 (1.87%) Unix
4 13 (0.81%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.56%) Android
6 9 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.50%) Windows 10
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
1 766 (47.64%) Problem-Solving
2 435 (27.05%) Agile
3 347 (21.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 304 (18.91%) Analytics
5 277 (17.23%) AI
6 273 (16.98%) Decision-Making
7 271 (16.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 246 (15.30%) Data Modelling
9 197 (12.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 194 (12.06%) Validation
11 193 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
12 178 (11.07%) DevOps
13 174 (10.82%) Data Analysis
14 165 (10.26%) Migration
15 162 (10.07%) CI/CD
16 138 (8.58%) Data Governance
17 136 (8.46%) User Acceptance Testing
18 135 (8.40%) Roadmaps
19 134 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
19 134 (8.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 463 (28.79%) SQL
2 368 (22.89%) Python
3 94 (5.85%) Java
4 86 (5.35%) C#
5 53 (3.30%) JavaScript
6 49 (3.05%) PowerShell
7 42 (2.61%) TypeScript
8 34 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 31 (1.93%) C++
10 29 (1.80%) R
11 26 (1.62%) PL/SQL
12 22 (1.37%) Bash
13 21 (1.31%) T-SQL
14 20 (1.24%) Scala
15 12 (0.75%) C
16 9 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.44%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.44%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.44%) VBA
18 6 (0.37%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 197 (12.25%) Security Cleared
2 194 (12.06%) Degree
3 136 (8.46%) SC Cleared
4 59 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (2.61%) Master's Degree
6 40 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 35 (2.18%) CISSP
8 29 (1.80%) PMI Certification
9 27 (1.68%) PMP
10 24 (1.49%) CISM
11 18 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (1.00%) CISA
13 15 (0.93%) CRISC
14 14 (0.87%) ACCA
14 14 (0.87%) ISTQB
14 14 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
15 13 (0.81%) CIMA
16 12 (0.75%) DV Cleared
17 11 (0.68%) Azure Certification
18 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (13.18%) Data Quality
2 123 (7.65%) QA
3 75 (4.66%) GDPR
4 69 (4.29%) PMO
5 50 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 49 (3.05%) NIST
7 38 (2.36%) SLA
8 27 (1.68%) Actionable Recommendations
9 26 (1.62%) COBIT
9 26 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 25 (1.55%) Accessibility
11 24 (1.49%) GRC
12 22 (1.37%) PCI DSS
13 17 (1.06%) IFRS
14 13 (0.81%) ISO 20022
15 9 (0.56%) MiFID
16 8 (0.50%) Solvency II
17 7 (0.44%) GAAP
18 6 (0.37%) NCSC
18 6 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 54 (3.36%) Docker
2 46 (2.86%) Active Directory
3 8 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.25%) Firmware
5 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.19%) IAG
6 3 (0.19%) Postfix
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Squid
7 2 (0.12%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.062%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.062%) RACF
8 1 (0.062%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.062%) vSphere
8 1 (0.062%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (3.30%) Kubernetes
2 40 (2.49%) Terraform
3 22 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (1.18%) Ansible
4 19 (1.18%) Grafana
5 14 (0.87%) SCCM
6 11 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.50%) Kibana
8 7 (0.44%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.37%) FortiGate
10 4 (0.25%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.19%) Control-M
11 3 (0.19%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.12%) Istio
12 2 (0.12%) Nessus
12 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.062%) EMC VPLEX
13 1 (0.062%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.062%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.062%) vMotion
Vendors
1 246 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 127 (7.90%) Oracle
3 89 (5.53%) SAP
4 82 (5.10%) Salesforce
5 74 (4.60%) Databricks
6 72 (4.48%) ServiceNow
7 61 (3.79%) Google
8 21 (1.31%) Workday
9 20 (1.24%) Adobe
10 18 (1.12%) Dynatrace
10 18 (1.12%) Informatica
10 18 (1.12%) Splunk
11 17 (1.06%) Bloomberg
11 17 (1.06%) Cisco
12 16 (1.00%) Murex
13 15 (0.93%) IBM
13 15 (0.93%) VMware
14 14 (0.87%) Tenable
15 13 (0.81%) Alteryx
16 12 (0.75%) Palo Alto