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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 0
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,928 1,458 1,417
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.52% 10.95% 8.84%
As % of the General category 15.40% 15.97% 14.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,181 902 865
10th Percentile £338 £313 £320
25th Percentile £425 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £656
90th Percentile £750 £750 £759
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 32 23
10th Percentile £19.20 £18.25 £17.25
25th Percentile £25.00 £25.12 £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.55 £34.48 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.20% -1.49% -29.29%
75th Percentile £50.00 £54.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £60.55 £69.00 £74.01
England median hourly rate £28.55 £32.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year -12.15% +27.45% -41.62%

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 12,518 9,127 10,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 61.83% 68.57% 62.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,980 6,007 6,504
10th Percentile £350 £325 £328
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £788 £788 £825
England median daily rate £525 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 175 119
10th Percentile £16.02 £17.44 £17.90
25th Percentile £20.14 £24.61 £25.87
Median hourly rate £28.40 £31.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% -11.27% +10.94%
75th Percentile £47.50 £47.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £69.18 £68.23 £68.65
England median hourly rate £29.03 £25.15 £35.36
% change year-on-year +15.41% -28.87% +17.87%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -10 221 £550 - 483
West London +7 91 £556 +34.04% 106
South London -2 26 £537 -20.44% 25
East London -1 11 £525 +45.83% 26
North London +4 5 £525 - 3
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 95 (4.93%) Confluence
2 47 (2.44%) SharePoint
3 46 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.40%) CMS
6 24 (1.24%) Apache
7 21 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
8 10 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 8 (0.41%) JBoss
9 8 (0.41%) Sitecore CMS
9 8 (0.41%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 7 (0.36%) SAS
11 5 (0.26%) Apache Solr
11 5 (0.26%) Appian
11 5 (0.26%) IIS
12 4 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
14 2 (0.10%) Mule
Applications
1 185 (9.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
3 65 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 32 (1.66%) MS Visio
5 25 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
7 7 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.36%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.26%) Trello
9 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.10%) Notion
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.10%) Productboard
11 1 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.052%) Gliffy
11 1 (0.052%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 26 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
3 21 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.99%) Aladdin
5 15 (0.78%) NetSuite
6 9 (0.47%) Finacle
7 8 (0.41%) iTrent
7 8 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
7 8 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 8 (0.41%) Shopify
8 6 (0.31%) Magento
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.26%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 5 (0.26%) SAP GRC
9 5 (0.26%) Summit
10 4 (0.21%) Loan IQ
10 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 392 (20.33%) Azure
2 273 (14.16%) AWS
3 249 (12.91%) Power Platform
4 113 (5.86%) GCP
5 92 (4.77%) GitHub
6 84 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
7 76 (3.94%) SaaS
8 75 (3.89%) Snowflake
9 72 (3.73%) Entra ID
10 71 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
11 44 (2.28%) GitHub Actions
12 42 (2.18%) Serverless
13 39 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
14 38 (1.97%) dbt
15 31 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
16 30 (1.56%) Amazon S3
17 27 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
18 25 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
18 25 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
19 23 (1.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 39 (2.02%) Firewall
2 35 (1.82%) TCP/IP
3 34 (1.76%) Network Security
4 33 (1.71%) DNS
5 32 (1.66%) VPN
6 20 (1.04%) DHCP
7 16 (0.83%) SSL
8 15 (0.78%) BGP
8 15 (0.78%) WAN
9 13 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
9 13 (0.67%) VLAN
10 12 (0.62%) 5G
10 12 (0.62%) HTTP
11 11 (0.57%) Kerberos
11 11 (0.57%) MPLS
11 11 (0.57%) SAN
12 9 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.47%) Wireless
12 9 (0.47%) Wireshark
13 8 (0.41%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (11.31%) Power BI
2 107 (5.55%) Data Warehouse
3 100 (5.19%) SQL Server
4 79 (4.10%) Tableau
5 78 (4.05%) Relational Database
6 69 (3.58%) Metadata
7 68 (3.53%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (2.02%) NoSQL
9 37 (1.92%) Data Lake
9 37 (1.92%) MongoDB
10 33 (1.71%) Oracle Database
11 26 (1.35%) Delta Lake
12 25 (1.30%) BigQuery
13 24 (1.24%) Big Data
13 24 (1.24%) Power Query
14 22 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 19 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
15 19 (0.99%) RDBMS
16 16 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
17 15 (0.78%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 194 (10.06%) JIRA
2 127 (6.59%) Git
3 63 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 38 (1.97%) GitLab
5 26 (1.35%) Selenium
6 21 (1.09%) JMeter
7 16 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 15 (0.78%) Maven
9 14 (0.73%) Gradle
10 13 (0.67%) Cypress.io
10 13 (0.67%) LoadRunner
10 13 (0.67%) Postman
11 11 (0.57%) ERwin
11 11 (0.57%) SonarQube
12 10 (0.52%) Gatling
13 9 (0.47%) JUnit
13 9 (0.47%) REST Assured
13 9 (0.47%) Visual Studio Code
14 8 (0.41%) ER Studio
14 8 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 996 (51.66%) Social Skills
2 797 (41.34%) Finance
3 313 (16.23%) Banking
4 176 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 98 (5.08%) Front Office
6 94 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
7 87 (4.51%) Marketing
8 86 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
8 86 (4.46%) Legal
9 78 (4.05%) Retail
10 77 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
11 65 (3.37%) Investment Banking
12 62 (3.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 61 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
14 54 (2.80%) Local Government
15 48 (2.49%) Telecoms
16 38 (1.97%) Back Office
17 36 (1.87%) Financial Institution
18 29 (1.50%) Manufacturing
19 20 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 479 (24.84%) Analyst
2 231 (11.98%) Senior
3 218 (11.31%) Business Analyst
4 183 (9.49%) Developer
5 130 (6.74%) Lead
6 117 (6.07%) Architect
7 101 (5.24%) Data Analyst
8 98 (5.08%) Data Engineer
9 84 (4.36%) Consultant
10 58 (3.01%) Data Scientist
11 51 (2.65%) Project Manager
12 50 (2.59%) Senior Developer
13 49 (2.54%) Senior Analyst
14 33 (1.71%) Technical Analyst
15 31 (1.61%) Java Developer
16 30 (1.56%) Senior Manager
16 30 (1.56%) Support Engineer
17 29 (1.50%) Technical Business Analyst
18 28 (1.45%) Financial Analyst
18 28 (1.45%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (6.28%) REST
2 94 (4.88%) .NET
3 85 (4.41%) Terraform
4 67 (3.48%) Kafka
5 63 (3.27%) RESTful
6 49 (2.54%) Web Services
7 43 (2.23%) JSON
7 43 (2.23%) Middleware
7 43 (2.23%) SOAP
7 43 (2.23%) XML
8 42 (2.18%) HTML
9 38 (1.97%) PySpark
9 38 (1.97%) Spring
10 34 (1.76%) CSS
11 33 (1.71%) React
11 33 (1.71%) Spring Boot
12 22 (1.14%) .NET Core
12 22 (1.14%) AngularJS
12 22 (1.14%) Pandas
13 21 (1.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 146 (7.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 141 (7.31%) Product Ownership
3 120 (6.22%) Onboarding
4 83 (4.30%) Cloud Native
5 74 (3.84%) Data Structures
6 73 (3.79%) Management Information System
7 68 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
8 52 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
9 50 (2.59%) Distributed Systems
10 42 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
11 39 (2.02%) AI Agents
12 38 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
13 33 (1.71%) Derivative
14 30 (1.56%) Algorithms
14 30 (1.56%) Fixed Income
15 27 (1.40%) Equities
16 26 (1.35%) Credit Risk
16 26 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 24 (1.24%) Reference Data
18 22 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 133 (6.90%) Linux
2 122 (6.33%) Windows
3 54 (2.80%) Unix
4 25 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (1.24%) Windows Server
6 22 (1.14%) Windows 10
7 16 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 16 (0.83%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.73%) Android
9 7 (0.36%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.31%) Solaris
11 5 (0.26%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Data ONTAP
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.10%) SUSE
13 2 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.052%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.052%) VMS
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.052%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,015 (52.65%) Problem-Solving
2 700 (36.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 554 (28.73%) Agile
4 410 (21.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 382 (19.81%) AI
5 382 (19.81%) Analytics
6 355 (18.41%) Decision-Making
7 280 (14.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 274 (14.21%) CI/CD
9 267 (13.85%) Validation
10 257 (13.33%) DevOps
11 256 (13.28%) Business Intelligence
12 237 (12.29%) Data Modelling
13 225 (11.67%) Migration
14 197 (10.22%) User Acceptance Testing
15 191 (9.91%) Roadmaps
16 181 (9.39%) Data Analysis
17 179 (9.28%) Requirements Gathering
18 177 (9.18%) Data Pipeline
19 175 (9.08%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 569 (29.51%) SQL
2 424 (21.99%) Python
3 125 (6.48%) Java
4 106 (5.50%) C#
5 98 (5.08%) JavaScript
6 73 (3.79%) PowerShell
7 56 (2.90%) Bash
8 40 (2.07%) TypeScript
9 31 (1.61%) PL/SQL
9 31 (1.61%) R
10 28 (1.45%) C++
10 28 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 28 (1.45%) T-SQL
11 27 (1.40%) Shell Script
12 16 (0.83%) Korn
12 16 (0.83%) Perl
13 15 (0.78%) Scala
14 13 (0.67%) Go
15 8 (0.41%) C
15 8 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 266 (13.80%) Security Cleared
2 256 (13.28%) Degree
3 213 (11.05%) SC Cleared
4 68 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (1.92%) PMI Certification
7 36 (1.87%) PMP
8 34 (1.76%) Master's Degree
9 33 (1.71%) CISSP
10 27 (1.40%) Azure Certification
11 24 (1.24%) ACCA
11 24 (1.24%) CIMA
12 22 (1.14%) CISM
12 22 (1.14%) DV Cleared
13 20 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
15 17 (0.88%) AWS Certification
15 17 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 16 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
17 15 (0.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 151 (7.83%) QA
3 76 (3.94%) PMO
4 58 (3.01%) GDPR
5 46 (2.39%) SLA
6 43 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 34 (1.76%) Actionable Recommendations
8 33 (1.71%) NIST
9 28 (1.45%) Accessibility
9 28 (1.45%) GRC
10 18 (0.93%) IFRS
11 15 (0.78%) COBIT
12 14 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 13 (0.67%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.41%) Basel III
15 8 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.31%) ISO 15022
16 6 (0.31%) NCSC
16 6 (0.31%) P3O
System Software
1 95 (4.93%) Docker
2 80 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.36%) IAG
5 7 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.26%) Firmware
8 4 (0.21%) vSphere
9 3 (0.16%) NFS
9 3 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.10%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.10%) Postfix
10 2 (0.10%) Squid
10 2 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.052%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.052%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.052%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.052%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 94 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.23%) Ansible
3 34 (1.76%) Grafana
3 34 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 17 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 16 (0.83%) Kibana
5 16 (0.83%) SCCM
6 14 (0.73%) Control-M
7 7 (0.36%) Puppet
7 7 (0.36%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (0.26%) Failover Clustering
8 5 (0.26%) HP Fortify
8 5 (0.26%) Istio
8 5 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.21%) Argo
9 4 (0.21%) systemd
10 3 (0.16%) Cilium
10 3 (0.16%) SnapMirror
11 2 (0.10%) Thomson Reuters DACS
11 2 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 355 (18.41%) Microsoft
2 165 (8.56%) Oracle
3 97 (5.03%) Databricks
4 94 (4.88%) SAP
5 91 (4.72%) ServiceNow
6 74 (3.84%) Google
7 63 (3.27%) Salesforce
8 54 (2.80%) Splunk
9 36 (1.87%) IBM
10 35 (1.82%) Cisco
11 31 (1.61%) Dynatrace
12 30 (1.56%) VMware
13 23 (1.19%) CyberArk
14 20 (1.04%) Adobe
15 18 (0.93%) Workday
16 17 (0.88%) Alteryx
16 17 (0.88%) Red Hat
17 15 (0.78%) Informatica
17 15 (0.78%) UiPath
18 14 (0.73%) Murex