Analytical Skills Contracts 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 21 23
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,548 1,404 1,944
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.00% 8.03% 7.69%
As % of the General category 17.64% 12.88% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 975 954 1,307
10th Percentile £313 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year - -1.17% -4.05%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £713
90th Percentile £813 £800 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 40 45
10th Percentile £11.96 £12.50 £21.24
25th Percentile £26.86 £17.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £38.11 £21.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.48% -51.16% +1.18%
75th Percentile £55.25 £43.75 £54.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £56.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £19.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -45.07% +9.57%

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 common skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 8,774 10,904 16,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.04% 62.40% 63.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,848 7,759 11,718
10th Percentile £331 £336 £373
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +2.56%
75th Percentile £695 £700 £725
90th Percentile £813 £825 £825
England median daily rate £518 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -3.21% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 234 195
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £17.07
25th Percentile £24.66 £18.39 £21.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £30.16 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% -7.20% -9.72%
75th Percentile £51.18 £48.44 £53.88
90th Percentile £64.50 £67.40 £71.50
England median hourly rate £27.50 £32.70 £30.00
% change year-on-year -15.90% +8.99% +28.26%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in London.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in London

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in London.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in London

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in London over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

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 1 July 2025. 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 +3 256 £550 -2.44% 875
West London +17 34 £400 -5.88% 197
South London +7 20 £625 +8.70% 101
East London +14 14 £430 -3.37% 75
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 45 (2.91%) Confluence
2 42 (2.71%) Apache Spark
3 18 (1.16%) Apache
4 17 (1.10%) SharePoint
5 11 (0.71%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 8 (0.52%) GemFire
7 8 (0.52%) Oracle Coherence
8 7 (0.45%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.32%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.26%) SAS
11 3 (0.19%) JBoss
11 3 (0.19%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.19%) WebLogic
11 3 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
12 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.13%) CMS
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.065%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.065%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 104 (6.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 38 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
4 26 (1.68%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
6 10 (0.65%) Trello
7 9 (0.58%) Oracle Smart View
8 7 (0.45%) AutoCAD
9 5 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.19%) Revit
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.13%) Sketch
12 1 (0.065%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.065%) EViews
12 1 (0.065%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 27 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.90%) FLEXCUBE
2 14 (0.90%) Oracle BPM
3 7 (0.45%) Endur
3 7 (0.45%) SAP MDG
4 6 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (0.39%) Shopify
5 5 (0.32%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.32%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.32%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.26%) ION Anvil
6 4 (0.26%) Magento
6 4 (0.26%) Oracle Assets
6 4 (0.26%) SAP CO
6 4 (0.26%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.19%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 232 (14.99%) Azure
2 216 (13.95%) AWS
3 140 (9.04%) Power Platform
4 64 (4.13%) GCP
5 59 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (2.65%) GitHub
7 38 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
8 36 (2.33%) SaaS
8 36 (2.33%) Serverless
9 32 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (1.94%) Amazon S3
11 26 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 26 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (1.61%) Snowflake
13 24 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
14 22 (1.42%) dbt
14 22 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
15 17 (1.10%) Entra ID
15 17 (1.10%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 54 (3.49%) Firewall
2 36 (2.33%) Network Security
3 22 (1.42%) TCP/IP
4 20 (1.29%) BGP
4 20 (1.29%) OSPF
5 19 (1.23%) EIGRP
6 18 (1.16%) VPN
7 17 (1.10%) DNS
7 17 (1.10%) LAN
8 15 (0.97%) SSH
8 15 (0.97%) WAN
9 12 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
9 12 (0.78%) HTTP
9 12 (0.78%) RIP
9 12 (0.78%) Spanning Tree
9 12 (0.78%) Wireless
10 11 (0.71%) SSL
10 11 (0.71%) Wireshark
11 10 (0.65%) DHCP
12 9 (0.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (8.27%) Power BI
2 71 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
2 71 (4.59%) Tableau
3 60 (3.88%) Relational Database
4 50 (3.23%) SQL Server
5 35 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
6 31 (2.00%) Big Data
7 27 (1.74%) Hadoop
8 26 (1.68%) DB2
8 26 (1.68%) MongoDB
9 20 (1.29%) Apache Hive
9 20 (1.29%) Metadata
10 19 (1.23%) Amazon RDS
11 18 (1.16%) Data Lake
11 18 (1.16%) NoSQL
11 18 (1.16%) Redis
12 17 (1.10%) BigQuery
13 15 (0.97%) Looker
13 15 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
14 13 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 127 (8.20%) JIRA
2 89 (5.75%) Git
3 72 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 38 (2.45%) JUnit
5 20 (1.29%) Selenium
6 14 (0.90%) Maven
7 13 (0.84%) IntelliJ
7 13 (0.84%) TeamCity
8 12 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.78%) GitLab
9 10 (0.65%) SonarQube
10 9 (0.58%) Bitbucket Server
10 9 (0.58%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.52%) JMeter
11 8 (0.52%) LoadRunner
12 7 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 7 (0.45%) REST Assured
12 7 (0.45%) Toad
13 6 (0.39%) Oracle Forms
13 6 (0.39%) Postman
General
1 894 (57.75%) Social Skills
2 621 (40.12%) Finance
3 279 (18.02%) Banking
4 140 (9.04%) Investment Banking
5 109 (7.04%) Public Sector
6 98 (6.33%) Front Office
7 82 (5.30%) Marketing
8 69 (4.46%) Organisational Skills
9 56 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
9 56 (3.62%) Retail
10 55 (3.55%) Financial Institution
11 54 (3.49%) Legal
12 50 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
13 30 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 30 (1.94%) Telecoms
14 25 (1.61%) Military
15 20 (1.29%) Back Office
16 19 (1.23%) Retail Banking
17 18 (1.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 369 (23.84%) Analyst
2 275 (17.76%) Developer
3 180 (11.63%) Business Analyst
4 161 (10.40%) Senior
5 122 (7.88%) Architect
6 105 (6.78%) Lead
7 80 (5.17%) Java Developer
8 72 (4.65%) Data Analyst
9 69 (4.46%) Consultant
10 61 (3.94%) Senior Developer
11 60 (3.88%) Data Engineer
12 50 (3.23%) Project Manager
13 42 (2.71%) C# Developer
13 42 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
14 34 (2.20%) Senior Java Developer
15 31 (2.00%) .NET Developer
16 30 (1.94%) Python Developer
17 29 (1.87%) Solutions Architect
18 25 (1.61%) C++ Developer
18 25 (1.61%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (6.33%) .NET
2 67 (4.33%) Kafka
3 51 (3.29%) AngularJS
4 49 (3.17%) REST
5 45 (2.91%) React
6 38 (2.45%) Web Services
7 35 (2.26%) Spring
8 34 (2.20%) ASP.NET
9 31 (2.00%) HTML
10 29 (1.87%) CSS
11 28 (1.81%) PySpark
12 22 (1.42%) RESTful
13 20 (1.29%) .NET Core
13 20 (1.29%) JMS
14 19 (1.23%) ActiveMQ
14 19 (1.23%) Middleware
14 19 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
15 17 (1.10%) JSON
15 17 (1.10%) Reactive Extensions
16 16 (1.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.43%) Analytical Mindset
2 60 (3.88%) Product Ownership
3 59 (3.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 57 (3.68%) Management Information System
5 56 (3.62%) Algorithms
6 55 (3.55%) Data Structures
7 50 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
8 41 (2.65%) Equities
9 39 (2.52%) Onboarding
10 33 (2.13%) Market Risk
11 31 (2.00%) Derivative
12 29 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
13 24 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (1.55%) Fixed Income
13 24 (1.55%) Reference Data
14 22 (1.42%) Distributed Computing
14 22 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
15 19 (1.23%) Virtual Team
16 18 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
16 18 (1.16%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 98 (6.33%) Linux
2 72 (4.65%) Windows
3 50 (3.23%) Unix
4 11 (0.71%) Android
4 11 (0.71%) Windows 10
5 10 (0.65%) Windows Server
6 8 (0.52%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.32%) CatOS
8 4 (0.26%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.065%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.065%) VMS
10 1 (0.065%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.065%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 868 (56.07%) Problem-Solving
2 427 (27.58%) Agile
3 227 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
4 219 (14.15%) DevOps
5 214 (13.82%) Analytics
6 195 (12.60%) Decision-Making
7 188 (12.14%) Project Management
8 185 (11.95%) CI/CD
9 173 (11.18%) Computer Science
10 167 (10.79%) Data Analysis
11 165 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 150 (9.69%) Risk Management
13 149 (9.63%) Business Intelligence
14 130 (8.40%) Migration
15 124 (8.01%) Data Modelling
16 111 (7.17%) SDLC
17 103 (6.65%) Actionable Insight
18 101 (6.52%) Artificial Intelligence
18 101 (6.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 97 (6.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 395 (25.52%) SQL
2 329 (21.25%) Python
3 222 (14.34%) Java
4 97 (6.27%) JavaScript
5 96 (6.20%) C#
6 62 (4.01%) TypeScript
7 52 (3.36%) C++
8 43 (2.78%) Bash
9 40 (2.58%) PL/SQL
10 35 (2.26%) Shell Script
11 33 (2.13%) PowerShell
12 27 (1.74%) Scala
13 26 (1.68%) R
14 21 (1.36%) VBA
15 12 (0.78%) C
15 12 (0.78%) Go
16 9 (0.58%) BeanShell
17 8 (0.52%) Haskell
17 8 (0.52%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.45%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 296 (19.12%) Degree
2 165 (10.66%) Security Cleared
3 130 (8.40%) SC Cleared
4 92 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (3.23%) Master's Degree
6 33 (2.13%) PMI Certification
7 29 (1.87%) PMP
8 27 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
8 27 (1.74%) Numerate Degree
9 25 (1.61%) CCNP
10 24 (1.55%) AWS Certification
11 21 (1.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 18 (1.16%) CISSP
13 15 (0.97%) CBAP
14 14 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
15 13 (0.84%) Azure Certification
16 12 (0.78%) CISM
17 11 (0.71%) ISTQB
18 10 (0.65%) ACCA
18 10 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (6.33%) Data Quality
2 96 (6.20%) QA
3 34 (2.20%) GDPR
4 26 (1.68%) PMO
5 22 (1.42%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.16%) NIST
7 17 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
9 13 (0.84%) GRC
10 12 (0.78%) MiFID
11 10 (0.65%) SLA
12 8 (0.52%) EMIR
13 6 (0.39%) Dodd-Frank
14 5 (0.32%) Basel III
14 5 (0.32%) ISO 20022
14 5 (0.32%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.32%) SEPA
14 5 (0.32%) WCAG
15 3 (0.19%) COBIT
15 3 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (3.42%) Docker
2 41 (2.65%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.52%) GridGain
5 7 (0.45%) Firmware
6 5 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.26%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.13%) IAG
8 2 (0.13%) zsh
9 1 (0.065%) FreeRADIUS
9 1 (0.065%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.065%) iptables
9 1 (0.065%) NFS
9 1 (0.065%) OpenAM
9 1 (0.065%) OpenDJ
9 1 (0.065%) OpenIDM
9 1 (0.065%) Postfix
9 1 (0.065%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 64 (4.13%) Kubernetes
2 51 (3.29%) Terraform
3 45 (2.91%) Ansible
4 16 (1.03%) Grafana
5 15 (0.97%) Prometheus
6 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.65%) SCCM
7 10 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.39%) CA Spectrum
9 5 (0.32%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.32%) Puppet
10 4 (0.26%) ITRS Geneos
10 4 (0.26%) QRadar
11 3 (0.19%) Control-M
11 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.19%) Istio
11 3 (0.19%) Packer
11 3 (0.19%) Rundeck
12 2 (0.13%) BladeLogic
12 2 (0.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 185 (11.95%) Microsoft
2 141 (9.11%) Oracle
3 79 (5.10%) SAP
4 55 (3.55%) Google
5 52 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 51 (3.29%) ServiceNow
7 49 (3.17%) Cisco
8 37 (2.39%) Databricks
9 29 (1.87%) Splunk
10 21 (1.36%) Adobe
10 21 (1.36%) IBM
10 21 (1.36%) Workday
11 19 (1.23%) Sybase
12 16 (1.03%) Juniper
12 16 (1.03%) Murex
13 15 (0.97%) CheckPoint
14 11 (0.71%) Avaloq
15 10 (0.65%) Bloomberg
15 10 (0.65%) F5
15 10 (0.65%) VMware