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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,559 1,480 1,466
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.83% 11.97% 8.35%
As % of the General category 14.80% 17.66% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 975 937 995
10th Percentile £350 £313 £320
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £708 £700
90th Percentile £738 £825 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 36 47
10th Percentile £22.75 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.30 £16.90
Median hourly rate £39.00 £42.75 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +81.91% -30.88%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £67.45 £65.00 £62.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £28.58 £18.50
% change year-on-year +31.23% +54.46% -53.75%

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 10,536 8,381 11,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.65% 67.79% 63.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,826 5,632 7,901
10th Percentile £350 £344 £336
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £671 £713 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £512 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.51% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 141 238
10th Percentile £18.66 £15.84 £15.85
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.90 £18.16
Median hourly rate £33.12 £34.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +21.78% -11.95%
75th Percentile £47.50 £51.25 £44.50
90th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.58 £27.25 £30.50
% change year-on-year +12.22% -10.66% -6.15%

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 13 May 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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -8 213 £525 -4.55% 228
West London 0 62 £520 +30.00% 41
South London +5 33 £500 -14.24% 18
East London -3 11 £400 +16.72% 23
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 84 (5.39%) Confluence
2 28 (1.80%) Apache Spark
3 27 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 26 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.15%) Apache
6 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (0.71%) CMS
8 8 (0.51%) SAS
9 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.26%) IIS
11 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.13%) Camunda
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.064%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.064%) Appian
13 1 (0.064%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.064%) Traefik
Applications
1 154 (9.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (3.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 51 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
4 48 (3.08%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.64%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.13%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) Trello
10 1 (0.064%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.064%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.71%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
5 9 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 9 (0.58%) Shopify
6 8 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.45%) Aladdin
7 7 (0.45%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.45%) Summit
8 6 (0.38%) Loan IQ
9 5 (0.32%) BASE24
9 5 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.32%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.26%) Bloomberg AIM
10 4 (0.26%) Finacle
10 4 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 307 (19.69%) Azure
2 224 (14.37%) AWS
3 193 (12.38%) Power Platform
4 82 (5.26%) SaaS
5 80 (5.13%) GCP
6 73 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
7 58 (3.72%) Microsoft 365
8 56 (3.59%) GitHub
9 43 (2.76%) Azure Data Factory
10 39 (2.50%) Amazon S3
10 39 (2.50%) Serverless
11 34 (2.18%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (2.05%) Snowflake
13 29 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
13 29 (1.86%) Entra ID
14 28 (1.80%) dbt
15 24 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 22 (1.41%) PaaS
18 21 (1.35%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.69%) Firewall
2 25 (1.60%) Network Security
3 23 (1.48%) DNS
4 19 (1.22%) VPN
5 17 (1.09%) DHCP
6 15 (0.96%) WAN
7 14 (0.90%) SAN
8 11 (0.71%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.71%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.58%) BGP
10 8 (0.51%) Internet
10 8 (0.51%) VLAN
10 8 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.45%) HTTP
12 6 (0.38%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (0.38%) IOS XR
12 6 (0.38%) LAN
12 6 (0.38%) NAS
12 6 (0.38%) OSPF
12 6 (0.38%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (11.03%) Power BI
2 87 (5.58%) Data Warehouse
3 71 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 71 (4.55%) Tableau
4 54 (3.46%) Metadata
5 44 (2.82%) Relational Database
6 33 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
7 30 (1.92%) Data Lake
8 28 (1.80%) NoSQL
9 25 (1.60%) Big Data
10 24 (1.54%) BigQuery
11 23 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 22 (1.41%) Snowflake Schema
13 17 (1.09%) Power Query
14 16 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
15 15 (0.96%) MongoDB
15 15 (0.96%) RDBMS
15 15 (0.96%) Star Schema
16 14 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
17 13 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 164 (10.52%) JIRA
2 64 (4.11%) Git
3 23 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.41%) Selenium
5 17 (1.09%) GitLab
6 13 (0.83%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.71%) MLflow
7 11 (0.71%) REST Assured
8 10 (0.64%) ERwin
8 10 (0.64%) Postman
9 9 (0.58%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.51%) Appium
10 8 (0.51%) JMeter
10 8 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.45%) JUnit
11 7 (0.45%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.38%) Chocolatey
12 6 (0.38%) WebDriver
13 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 695 (44.58%) Social Skills
2 605 (38.81%) Finance
3 224 (14.37%) Banking
4 138 (8.85%) Public Sector
5 87 (5.58%) Marketing
6 76 (4.87%) Documentation Skills
7 66 (4.23%) Legal
8 62 (3.98%) Front Office
9 61 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
10 53 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
11 50 (3.21%) Investment Banking
12 43 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
13 40 (2.57%) Financial Institution
13 40 (2.57%) Telecoms
14 38 (2.44%) Retail
15 32 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 19 (1.22%) Back Office
17 15 (0.96%) Publishing
18 14 (0.90%) Local Government
19 13 (0.83%) Law
Job Titles
1 422 (27.07%) Analyst
2 215 (13.79%) Business Analyst
3 159 (10.20%) Senior
4 131 (8.40%) Developer
5 102 (6.54%) Lead
6 97 (6.22%) Data Engineer
7 93 (5.97%) Architect
8 90 (5.77%) Data Analyst
9 83 (5.32%) Consultant
10 50 (3.21%) Data Scientist
11 49 (3.14%) Project Manager
12 48 (3.08%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (2.25%) Senior Business Analyst
14 30 (1.92%) Financial Analyst
14 30 (1.92%) Solutions Architect
15 24 (1.54%) Product Manager
15 24 (1.54%) Salesforce Analyst
15 24 (1.54%) Senior Manager
16 23 (1.48%) Quantitative Developer
17 22 (1.41%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (3.91%) REST
2 49 (3.14%) .NET
3 47 (3.01%) Kafka
4 38 (2.44%) Pandas
5 36 (2.31%) Middleware
6 31 (1.99%) RESTful
7 29 (1.86%) XML
8 28 (1.80%) JSON
8 28 (1.80%) scikit-learn
9 27 (1.73%) HTML
9 27 (1.73%) PySpark
10 25 (1.60%) CSS
11 24 (1.54%) NumPy
11 24 (1.54%) SOAP
12 22 (1.41%) PyTorch
13 21 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
14 19 (1.22%) React
15 18 (1.15%) Node.js
15 18 (1.15%) OAuth
15 18 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 153 (9.81%) Analytical Mindset
2 89 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 63 (4.04%) Data Structures
4 58 (3.72%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
6 40 (2.57%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 36 (2.31%) Algorithms
9 35 (2.25%) Data Centre
10 34 (2.18%) Cloud Native
11 32 (2.05%) Derivative
12 31 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
13 30 (1.92%) Fixed Income
14 28 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
15 27 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 25 (1.60%) Equities
16 25 (1.60%) Virtual Team
17 21 (1.35%) Credit Risk
18 17 (1.09%) Market Risk
18 17 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 81 (5.20%) Windows
2 54 (3.46%) Linux
3 24 (1.54%) Unix
4 16 (1.03%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.83%) Android
5 13 (0.83%) Mac OS
6 8 (0.51%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.45%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.19%) AIX
9 2 (0.13%) Solaris
10 1 (0.064%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.064%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 746 (47.85%) Problem-Solving
2 432 (27.71%) Agile
3 312 (20.01%) Stakeholder Management
4 289 (18.54%) Analytics
5 275 (17.64%) Decision-Making
6 255 (16.36%) AI
7 246 (15.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 246 (15.78%) Data Modelling
8 200 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
9 191 (12.25%) Validation
10 185 (11.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 178 (11.42%) DevOps
12 167 (10.71%) CI/CD
13 161 (10.33%) Migration
14 158 (10.13%) Data Analysis
15 141 (9.04%) Project Management
16 140 (8.98%) Data Governance
16 140 (8.98%) Roadmaps
17 131 (8.40%) ETL
18 128 (8.21%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 439 (28.16%) SQL
2 353 (22.64%) Python
3 89 (5.71%) Java
4 83 (5.32%) C#
5 54 (3.46%) JavaScript
6 47 (3.01%) PowerShell
6 47 (3.01%) TypeScript
7 34 (2.18%) C++
8 32 (2.05%) R
9 31 (1.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 26 (1.67%) Bash
11 22 (1.41%) PL/SQL
12 21 (1.35%) T-SQL
13 18 (1.15%) Scala
14 12 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (0.64%) C
16 9 (0.58%) VBA
17 7 (0.45%) Apex Code
17 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
18 6 (0.38%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 208 (13.34%) Security Cleared
2 192 (12.32%) Degree
3 144 (9.24%) SC Cleared
4 58 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (3.08%) Master's Degree
6 42 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (2.12%) CISSP
7 33 (2.12%) PMI Certification
8 30 (1.92%) PMP
9 21 (1.35%) CISM
10 20 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (1.09%) ISTQB
12 16 (1.03%) CISA
13 14 (0.90%) CRISC
13 14 (0.90%) DV Cleared
14 13 (0.83%) CCNP
15 12 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.64%) Azure Certification
17 9 (0.58%) ACCA
17 9 (0.58%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 205 (13.15%) Data Quality
2 132 (8.47%) QA
3 76 (4.87%) GDPR
4 72 (4.62%) PMO
5 49 (3.14%) NIST
6 45 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 30 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 29 (1.86%) Accessibility
9 28 (1.80%) SLA
10 23 (1.48%) GRC
10 23 (1.48%) PCI DSS
11 22 (1.41%) COBIT
11 22 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 12 (0.77%) IFRS
13 11 (0.71%) ISO 20022
13 11 (0.71%) MiFID
14 9 (0.58%) Solvency II
15 6 (0.38%) HIPAA
15 6 (0.38%) HL7
15 6 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 57 (3.66%) Docker
2 42 (2.69%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.26%) Firmware
5 4 (0.26%) IAG
6 3 (0.19%) Squid
6 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) Postfix
8 1 (0.064%) HDFS
8 1 (0.064%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.064%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.064%) RACF
8 1 (0.064%) Snort
8 1 (0.064%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.064%) vSphere
8 1 (0.064%) Xen
8 1 (0.064%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 38 (2.44%) Terraform
3 21 (1.35%) Ansible
4 20 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
5 19 (1.22%) Grafana
6 12 (0.77%) SCCM
7 10 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.45%) Kibana
8 7 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.32%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.19%) Control-M
11 3 (0.19%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.13%) Istio
12 2 (0.13%) Nessus
12 2 (0.13%) SCOM
12 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.064%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.064%) Jamf Pro
13 1 (0.064%) Suricata
Vendors
1 249 (15.97%) Microsoft
2 111 (7.12%) Oracle
3 89 (5.71%) SAP
4 80 (5.13%) Salesforce
5 71 (4.55%) Databricks
6 64 (4.11%) ServiceNow
7 59 (3.78%) Google
8 23 (1.48%) Cisco
9 22 (1.41%) Workday
10 20 (1.28%) Adobe
10 20 (1.28%) Splunk
11 19 (1.22%) Bloomberg
12 17 (1.09%) Informatica
12 17 (1.09%) Murex
12 17 (1.09%) Palo Alto
12 17 (1.09%) VMware
13 15 (0.96%) Dynatrace
14 13 (0.83%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.77%) OpenAI
16 11 (0.71%) Tenable