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 26 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,597 1,470 1,641
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.25% 9.30% 8.34%
As % of the General category 16.53% 14.69% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 972 890 1,109
10th Percentile £313 £312 £313
25th Percentile £404 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £666 £668
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 27 39
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £21.20
25th Percentile £25.49 £22.80 £29.36
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.59 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.42% -38.82% +47.06%
75th Percentile £47.38 £59.38 £55.00
90th Percentile £63.00 £80.75 £65.83
England median hourly rate £33.94 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +35.76% -28.57% -12.50%

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 9,660 10,004 12,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 68.04% 63.29% 64.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,297 6,417 9,235
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £424 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 197 115 168
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.35 £18.45
25th Percentile £20.18 £26.63 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.50 £38.07 £35.13
Median % change year-on-year -30.39% +8.38% +6.44%
75th Percentile £46.75 £55.38 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.80 £78.61 £75.38
England median hourly rate £24.48 £31.97 £33.00
% change year-on-year -23.44% -3.12% +28.35%

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 26 November 2025.

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 26 November 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 26 November 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 +3 263 £510 -11.30% 129
South London +1 27 £625 +11.86% 40
West London -6 23 £415 -2.35% 58
East London +5 10 £400 -9.09% 49
North London -2 1 - - 11
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 72 (4.51%) Confluence
2 43 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 24 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 17 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.88%) CMS
7 10 (0.63%) Apache
8 5 (0.31%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) Camunda
11 2 (0.13%) IIS
11 2 (0.13%) Luigi
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.063%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.063%) Appian
Applications
1 148 (9.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (2.25%) MS Visio
5 22 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.38%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.38%) Trello
8 3 (0.19%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) Revit
10 1 (0.063%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.063%) GNU Octave
10 1 (0.063%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.063%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 20 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.75%) Endur
3 11 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
4 10 (0.63%) SAP HR
5 9 (0.56%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.44%) NetSuite
6 7 (0.44%) Workday HCM
7 6 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
8 5 (0.31%) Oracle Cash Management
8 5 (0.31%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.25%) ION MarketView
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
9 4 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
9 4 (0.25%) SAP MDG
10 3 (0.19%) FLEXCUBE
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 260 (16.28%) Azure
2 218 (13.65%) AWS
3 176 (11.02%) Power Platform
4 82 (5.13%) GCP
5 63 (3.94%) SaaS
6 56 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
8 42 (2.63%) Entra ID
9 39 (2.44%) GitHub
10 38 (2.38%) IaaS
11 36 (2.25%) Snowflake
12 34 (2.13%) Amazon S3
13 32 (2.00%) Serverless
14 26 (1.63%) dbt
15 24 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
17 19 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
18 18 (1.13%) PowerApps
19 17 (1.06%) Google Analytics
20 16 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 43 (2.69%) Firewall
2 32 (2.00%) Network Security
3 31 (1.94%) DNS
4 23 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.31%) VPN
6 17 (1.06%) LAN
6 17 (1.06%) WAN
7 15 (0.94%) HTTP
8 11 (0.69%) Internet
8 11 (0.69%) SSL
9 10 (0.63%) DHCP
9 10 (0.63%) VoIP
10 9 (0.56%) VLAN
11 8 (0.50%) SD-WAN
12 6 (0.38%) Wireless
13 5 (0.31%) BGP
13 5 (0.31%) CTI
13 5 (0.31%) SMTP
13 5 (0.31%) SSH
13 5 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (10.33%) Power BI
2 73 (4.57%) Tableau
3 66 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (3.38%) SQL Server
5 50 (3.13%) Relational Database
6 39 (2.44%) Metadata
7 37 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
8 29 (1.82%) DB2
8 29 (1.82%) MongoDB
9 27 (1.69%) Big Data
10 26 (1.63%) Data Lake
10 26 (1.63%) NoSQL
11 22 (1.38%) Hadoop
12 19 (1.19%) BigQuery
13 16 (1.00%) Power Query
13 16 (1.00%) Star Schema
14 15 (0.94%) Looker
14 15 (0.94%) Oracle Reports
15 13 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 137 (8.58%) JIRA
2 69 (4.32%) Git
3 27 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.44%) JUnit
5 16 (1.00%) GitLab
6 11 (0.69%) Selenium
7 8 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.50%) Postman
8 6 (0.38%) Browser DevTools
8 6 (0.38%) JMeter
9 5 (0.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.31%) Burp Suite
9 5 (0.31%) Eclipse
9 5 (0.31%) Metasploit
9 5 (0.31%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 5 (0.31%) webpack
10 4 (0.25%) Appium
10 4 (0.25%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.25%) sqlmap
10 4 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 874 (54.73%) Social Skills
2 578 (36.19%) Finance
3 225 (14.09%) Banking
4 128 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 97 (6.07%) Marketing
6 86 (5.39%) Investment Banking
7 70 (4.38%) Legal
8 55 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
9 54 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
9 54 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
10 53 (3.32%) Front Office
11 51 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
12 48 (3.01%) Back Office
13 46 (2.88%) Financial Institution
13 46 (2.88%) Retail
14 42 (2.63%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 22 (1.38%) Publishing
17 20 (1.25%) Law
18 17 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 431 (26.99%) Analyst
2 205 (12.84%) Business Analyst
3 191 (11.96%) Developer
4 190 (11.90%) Senior
5 127 (7.95%) Architect
6 97 (6.07%) Lead
7 79 (4.95%) Data Analyst
8 70 (4.38%) Consultant
9 59 (3.69%) Data Engineer
10 56 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
11 53 (3.32%) Senior Developer
12 47 (2.94%) Java Developer
12 47 (2.94%) Project Manager
13 38 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (2.07%) Python Developer
15 32 (2.00%) Technical Analyst
16 30 (1.88%) Security Analyst
17 27 (1.69%) Data Scientist
17 27 (1.69%) Senior Business Analyst
18 23 (1.44%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (6.57%) REST
2 55 (3.44%) Kafka
3 51 (3.19%) JSON
4 46 (2.88%) .NET
5 39 (2.44%) Spring
6 38 (2.38%) HTML
7 37 (2.32%) React
8 31 (1.94%) RESTful
9 30 (1.88%) CSS
10 29 (1.82%) AngularJS
10 29 (1.82%) XML
11 26 (1.63%) SOAP
12 22 (1.38%) Pandas
13 21 (1.31%) Middleware
14 20 (1.25%) OAuth
14 20 (1.25%) Web Services
15 18 (1.13%) PySpark
16 17 (1.06%) JMS
16 17 (1.06%) scikit-learn
17 16 (1.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 149 (9.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 72 (4.51%) Product Ownership
3 71 (4.45%) Self-Motivation
4 66 (4.13%) Management Information System
5 59 (3.69%) Data Structures
6 52 (3.26%) Onboarding
7 46 (2.88%) Algorithms
8 35 (2.19%) Derivative
9 33 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 32 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
11 29 (1.82%) Equities
11 29 (1.82%) Fixed Income
11 29 (1.82%) PKI
12 27 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
13 25 (1.57%) Cloud Native
13 25 (1.57%) Security Posture
14 24 (1.50%) Reinsurance
15 22 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
15 22 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
16 16 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 95 (5.95%) Linux
2 80 (5.01%) Windows
3 35 (2.19%) Unix
4 9 (0.56%) Windows 10
5 8 (0.50%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.44%) Android
7 6 (0.38%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.38%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.31%) VMS
9 4 (0.25%) Solaris
10 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.13%) AIX
11 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
12 1 (0.063%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.063%) VME
12 1 (0.063%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 878 (54.98%) Problem-Solving
2 486 (30.43%) Agile
3 291 (18.22%) Analytics
4 284 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 253 (15.84%) Decision-Making
6 201 (12.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 199 (12.46%) Business Intelligence
8 190 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 179 (11.21%) Data Modelling
10 173 (10.83%) Data Analysis
11 162 (10.14%) CI/CD
12 161 (10.08%) DevOps
13 146 (9.14%) Migration
13 146 (9.14%) Project Management
14 144 (9.02%) AI
15 133 (8.33%) Validation
16 132 (8.27%) Scrum
17 131 (8.20%) Computer Science
17 131 (8.20%) Visualisation
18 130 (8.14%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 398 (24.92%) SQL
2 348 (21.79%) Python
3 128 (8.02%) Java
4 91 (5.70%) JavaScript
5 76 (4.76%) PowerShell
6 53 (3.32%) C#
7 45 (2.82%) Bash
8 37 (2.32%) TypeScript
9 30 (1.88%) C++
10 25 (1.57%) Shell Script
11 21 (1.31%) R
12 17 (1.06%) Go
13 15 (0.94%) VBA
14 13 (0.81%) PL/SQL
15 12 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
16 11 (0.69%) T-SQL
17 10 (0.63%) Scala
18 7 (0.44%) Korn
19 6 (0.38%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 243 (15.22%) Degree
2 228 (14.28%) Security Cleared
3 176 (11.02%) SC Cleared
4 76 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 40 (2.50%) PMI Certification
6 28 (1.75%) PMP
7 22 (1.38%) CISSP
7 22 (1.38%) DV Cleared
8 20 (1.25%) Azure Certification
9 15 (0.94%) CBAP
9 15 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (0.88%) CIMA
10 14 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
11 13 (0.81%) ACCA
11 13 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (0.81%) OSCP
12 12 (0.75%) AWS Certification
13 11 (0.69%) CCNP
14 10 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 141 (8.83%) Data Quality
2 117 (7.33%) QA
3 52 (3.26%) GDPR
4 47 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 30 (1.88%) PMO
6 19 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.19%) NIST
7 16 (1.00%) SLA
8 11 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
8 11 (0.69%) WCAG
9 10 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (0.63%) GRC
9 10 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.56%) COBIT
10 9 (0.56%) EMIR
11 7 (0.44%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.44%) MiFID
12 6 (0.38%) ISO 19650
12 6 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.31%) SEPA
System Software
1 62 (3.88%) Active Directory
2 57 (3.57%) Docker
3 13 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.56%) zsh
5 7 (0.44%) HDFS
6 5 (0.31%) Firmware
7 4 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.19%) Squid
8 3 (0.19%) vSphere
9 2 (0.13%) ProxySG
9 2 (0.13%) Snort
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.063%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.063%) IAG
10 1 (0.063%) KVM
10 1 (0.063%) Postfix
10 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.063%) Xen
Systems Management
1 75 (4.70%) Kubernetes
2 58 (3.63%) Terraform
3 44 (2.76%) Ansible
4 18 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 17 (1.06%) Grafana
6 15 (0.94%) Prometheus
7 13 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
8 12 (0.75%) SCCM
9 8 (0.50%) Nessus
10 5 (0.31%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (0.31%) Nmap
11 4 (0.25%) BladeLogic
11 4 (0.25%) SCOM
12 3 (0.19%) Argo
12 3 (0.19%) CA Spectrum
13 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.13%) Nexpose
13 2 (0.13%) Packer
13 2 (0.13%) Suricata
Vendors
1 257 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 94 (5.89%) Oracle
3 76 (4.76%) SAP
4 66 (4.13%) Google
5 59 (3.69%) ServiceNow
6 54 (3.38%) Salesforce
7 45 (2.82%) Databricks
8 38 (2.38%) Splunk
9 32 (2.00%) Cisco
10 22 (1.38%) VMware
11 20 (1.25%) Sybase
12 18 (1.13%) Bloomberg
13 16 (1.00%) Adobe
14 15 (0.94%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.94%) Workday
15 14 (0.88%) Juniper
15 14 (0.88%) Palo Alto
16 13 (0.81%) Murex
17 12 (0.75%) Alteryx
17 12 (0.75%) CyberArk