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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 19 23
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,484 1,493 2,024
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 11.82% 8.37% 7.49%
As % of the General category 17.50% 13.23% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 936 1,019 1,329
10th Percentile £313 £320 £349
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £738
90th Percentile £836 £850 £830
England median daily rate £525 £537 £535
% change year-on-year -2.21% +0.34% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 48 51
10th Percentile £11.96 £12.50 £21.24
25th Percentile £25.88 £16.80 £21.83
Median hourly rate £39.31 £23.00 £32.69
Median % change year-on-year +70.89% -29.64% -27.36%
75th Percentile £55.25 £37.94 £52.38
90th Percentile £65.00 £56.88 £63.75
England median hourly rate £28.15 £18.50 £37.75
% change year-on-year +52.16% -50.99% +0.67%

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 8,480 11,281 17,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.55% 63.22% 63.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,731 8,058 12,397
10th Percentile £340 £336 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £725
90th Percentile £825 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 245 220
10th Percentile £15.84 £16.00 £16.59
25th Percentile £22.90 £18.25 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £28.50 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -10.94% -12.33%
75th Percentile £52.00 £43.75 £58.19
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.45 £70.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £33.91
% change year-on-year -6.67% -11.53% +57.72%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 +4 231 £550 - 136
West London +10 28 £400 -20.99% 67
South London +3 16 £583 -13.63% 18
East London +6 7 £450 +2.27% 31
North London -5 1 £405 +47.09% 3
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 44 (2.96%) Confluence
2 41 (2.76%) Apache Spark
3 25 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.48%) Apache
5 10 (0.67%) Jupyter
6 9 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.61%) SAS
7 8 (0.54%) GemFire
7 8 (0.54%) Oracle Coherence
8 5 (0.34%) CMS
8 5 (0.34%) Drupal
8 5 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
8 5 (0.34%) nginx
9 4 (0.27%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.20%) JBoss
10 3 (0.20%) MQSeries
10 3 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.20%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 114 (7.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 46 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 37 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
4 33 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.74%) Trello
7 7 (0.47%) Oracle Smart View
8 6 (0.40%) Adobe XD
8 6 (0.40%) Sketch
9 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.13%) Notepad++
10 2 (0.13%) Revit
11 1 (0.067%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.067%) EViews
11 1 (0.067%) Final Cut Pro
11 1 (0.067%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 21 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.47%) FLEXCUBE
3 7 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (0.40%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.40%) SAP FI
5 5 (0.34%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.34%) Oracle BPM
5 5 (0.34%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
6 4 (0.27%) Magento
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.27%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.27%) SAP SD
6 4 (0.27%) Shopify
6 4 (0.27%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.20%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 219 (14.76%) Azure
2 201 (13.54%) AWS
3 138 (9.30%) Power Platform
4 61 (4.11%) GCP
5 48 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
6 44 (2.96%) SaaS
7 43 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (2.29%) Serverless
9 31 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
10 30 (2.02%) GitHub
11 29 (1.95%) Amazon S3
12 24 (1.62%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (1.55%) Amazon EKS
14 22 (1.48%) dbt
14 22 (1.48%) Snowflake
15 19 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (1.28%) Cloud Computing
16 18 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (1.15%) PowerApps
18 16 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.30%) Firewall
2 47 (3.17%) Network Security
3 25 (1.68%) BGP
3 25 (1.68%) OSPF
4 19 (1.28%) EIGRP
5 13 (0.88%) DNS
6 12 (0.81%) Cisco IOS
6 12 (0.81%) RIP
6 12 (0.81%) Spanning Tree
6 12 (0.81%) VPN
6 12 (0.81%) WAN
7 11 (0.74%) SSH
7 11 (0.74%) Wireshark
8 10 (0.67%) DHCP
8 10 (0.67%) HTTPS
8 10 (0.67%) Internet
8 10 (0.67%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.61%) LAN
9 9 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 126 (8.49%) Power BI
2 74 (4.99%) Tableau
3 65 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 37 (2.49%) SQL Server
6 36 (2.43%) Big Data
7 32 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
8 26 (1.75%) Hadoop
9 21 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 21 (1.42%) Apache Hive
9 21 (1.42%) DB2
9 21 (1.42%) MongoDB
10 20 (1.35%) Data Lake
11 18 (1.21%) Metadata
12 15 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (1.01%) NoSQL
13 13 (0.88%) RDBMS
13 13 (0.88%) Redis
14 12 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
14 12 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 113 (7.61%) JIRA
2 75 (5.05%) Git
3 71 (4.78%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.75%) JUnit
5 17 (1.15%) Selenium
6 14 (0.94%) GitLab
7 10 (0.67%) Bitbucket
7 10 (0.67%) TeamCity
8 9 (0.61%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.61%) Maven
9 8 (0.54%) Bitbucket Server
9 8 (0.54%) ERwin
9 8 (0.54%) JMeter
10 7 (0.47%) IntelliJ
11 6 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
11 6 (0.40%) REST Assured
11 6 (0.40%) RStudio
12 5 (0.34%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.34%) Postman
12 5 (0.34%) SonarQube
General
1 871 (58.69%) Social Skills
2 539 (36.32%) Finance
3 261 (17.59%) Banking
4 133 (8.96%) Investment Banking
5 124 (8.36%) Public Sector
6 98 (6.60%) Marketing
7 81 (5.46%) Front Office
8 68 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
9 56 (3.77%) Retail
10 55 (3.71%) Presentation Skills
11 54 (3.64%) Legal
12 44 (2.96%) Financial Institution
13 37 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 34 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
15 23 (1.55%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.48%) Manufacturing
17 18 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
18 16 (1.08%) Military
18 16 (1.08%) Retail Banking
19 15 (1.01%) Law
Job Titles
1 333 (22.44%) Analyst
2 254 (17.12%) Developer
3 150 (10.11%) Business Analyst
4 149 (10.04%) Senior
5 124 (8.36%) Architect
6 91 (6.13%) Lead
7 82 (5.53%) Consultant
8 81 (5.46%) Data Analyst
9 65 (4.38%) Data Engineer
10 61 (4.11%) Java Developer
11 55 (3.71%) Project Manager
12 51 (3.44%) C# Developer
13 45 (3.03%) Senior Developer
14 35 (2.36%) Senior Analyst
15 33 (2.22%) Python Developer
16 31 (2.09%) C++ Developer
17 29 (1.95%) Product Manager
18 28 (1.89%) Senior Java Developer
19 26 (1.75%) Gen AI Developer
20 24 (1.62%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (7.28%) .NET
2 68 (4.58%) Kafka
3 53 (3.57%) React
4 44 (2.96%) HTML
5 42 (2.83%) AngularJS
5 42 (2.83%) ASP.NET
6 41 (2.76%) CSS
7 38 (2.56%) Web Services
8 34 (2.29%) FastAPI
9 31 (2.09%) PySpark
10 27 (1.82%) .NET Core
10 27 (1.82%) Django
10 27 (1.82%) REST
11 23 (1.55%) Spring
12 22 (1.48%) RESTful
13 19 (1.28%) WCF
14 16 (1.08%) XML
15 15 (1.01%) JMS
15 15 (1.01%) Node.js
15 15 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 76 (5.12%) Analytical Mindset
2 65 (4.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 53 (3.57%) Data Structures
4 52 (3.50%) Management Information System
5 51 (3.44%) Product Ownership
6 43 (2.90%) Onboarding
7 42 (2.83%) Algorithms
8 39 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
9 37 (2.49%) Equities
10 36 (2.43%) Derivative
11 27 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
12 24 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
12 24 (1.62%) Market Risk
13 22 (1.48%) Reference Data
14 20 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.21%) Hedge funds
16 16 (1.08%) Digital Media
16 16 (1.08%) Fixed Income
16 16 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 71 (4.78%) Linux
2 60 (4.04%) Windows
3 41 (2.76%) Unix
4 21 (1.42%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.01%) Android
6 10 (0.67%) Mac OS X
7 6 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.40%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.34%) CatOS
9 4 (0.27%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 825 (55.59%) Problem-Solving
2 399 (26.89%) Agile
3 249 (16.78%) Analytics
4 206 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 203 (13.68%) Project Management
6 198 (13.34%) DevOps
7 185 (12.47%) Decision-Making
8 164 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 164 (11.05%) Data Analysis
9 156 (10.51%) CI/CD
10 153 (10.31%) Computer Science
11 144 (9.70%) Business Intelligence
12 137 (9.23%) Risk Management
13 133 (8.96%) Data Modelling
14 124 (8.36%) Migration
15 115 (7.75%) Artificial Intelligence
16 109 (7.35%) Visualisation
17 106 (7.14%) SDLC
18 97 (6.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 96 (6.47%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 365 (24.60%) SQL
2 326 (21.97%) Python
3 183 (12.33%) Java
4 104 (7.01%) C#
5 99 (6.67%) JavaScript
6 61 (4.11%) TypeScript
7 53 (3.57%) C++
8 34 (2.29%) Scala
9 30 (2.02%) Bash
9 30 (2.02%) R
10 28 (1.89%) PL/SQL
10 28 (1.89%) PowerShell
11 23 (1.55%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.88%) VBA
13 11 (0.74%) C
14 8 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.54%) Haskell
14 8 (0.54%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.47%) PHP
15 7 (0.47%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 287 (19.34%) Degree
2 178 (11.99%) Security Cleared
3 142 (9.57%) SC Cleared
4 87 (5.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (3.23%) Master's Degree
6 36 (2.43%) PMI Certification
7 33 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
7 33 (2.22%) PMP
8 30 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 30 (2.02%) CCNP
9 27 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
10 25 (1.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 21 (1.42%) CISSP
12 14 (0.94%) CBAP
13 12 (0.81%) CEH
14 11 (0.74%) CISM
14 11 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (0.74%) DV Cleared
14 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (7.08%) Data Quality
2 100 (6.74%) QA
3 49 (3.30%) GDPR
4 31 (2.09%) Accessibility
5 24 (1.62%) NIST
6 23 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (1.55%) PMO
7 15 (1.01%) GRC
8 13 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
9 12 (0.81%) MiFID
10 9 (0.61%) SLA
11 8 (0.54%) EMIR
12 6 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
12 6 (0.40%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.34%) SEPA
13 5 (0.34%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.27%) IFRS
14 4 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (4.11%) Docker
2 27 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 13 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.54%) GridGain
5 7 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.34%) Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) IAG
8 3 (0.20%) OpenAM
8 3 (0.20%) OpenDJ
8 3 (0.20%) OpenIDM
9 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.067%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.067%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.067%) iptables
10 1 (0.067%) NFS
10 1 (0.067%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 64 (4.31%) Kubernetes
2 55 (3.71%) Ansible
3 38 (2.56%) Terraform
4 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (0.67%) SCCM
6 9 (0.61%) Grafana
7 6 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.40%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.34%) Puppet
8 5 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (0.27%) WSUS
10 3 (0.20%) CA Spectrum
10 3 (0.20%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (0.20%) Control-M
10 3 (0.20%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.20%) Istio
10 3 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.20%) QRadar
10 3 (0.20%) Rundeck
11 2 (0.13%) Kibana
Vendors
1 173 (11.66%) Microsoft
2 123 (8.29%) Oracle
3 69 (4.65%) SAP
4 56 (3.77%) Google
4 56 (3.77%) Salesforce
5 47 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 46 (3.10%) Cisco
7 37 (2.49%) Databricks
8 25 (1.68%) Adobe
9 24 (1.62%) IBM
10 17 (1.15%) Splunk
11 14 (0.94%) Juniper
11 14 (0.94%) Workday
12 13 (0.88%) Apple
12 13 (0.88%) Sybase
13 11 (0.74%) CheckPoint
14 10 (0.67%) Murex
14 10 (0.67%) Palo Alto
14 10 (0.67%) VMware
15 9 (0.61%) Meraki