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 23 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,669 1,493 1,484
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.54% 11.73% 8.30%
As % of the General category 15.66% 17.38% 13.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,047 935 1,018
10th Percentile £350 £313 £324
25th Percentile £420 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £719 £700
90th Percentile £775 £836 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 36 49
10th Percentile £24.03 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £32.00 £25.88 £16.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £39.31 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% +74.69% -31.17%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £36.00
90th Percentile £64.68 £71.25 £56.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £28.08 £18.50
% change year-on-year +33.57% +51.76% -50.34%

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 10,660 8,589 11,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.91% 67.47% 63.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,949 5,808 8,078
10th Percentile £345 £337 £334
25th Percentile £425 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £701 £700
90th Percentile £786 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 139 249
10th Percentile £17.75 £15.84 £15.90
25th Percentile £22.87 £23.70 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +18.97% -10.77%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.63 £46.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.50 £68.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.60 £29.83
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.11% -14.79%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -6 241 £525 -4.55% 127
West London -5 51 £506 +26.56% 55
South London +2 35 £500 -14.24% 26
East London +4 11 £400 -25.93% 30
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 87 (5.21%) Confluence
2 31 (1.86%) Apache Spark
3 29 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.50%) SharePoint
5 16 (0.96%) Apache
6 15 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 13 (0.78%) CMS
8 9 (0.54%) SAS
9 5 (0.30%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.24%) ArcGIS
11 3 (0.18%) IIS
11 3 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.12%) Camunda
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
13 1 (0.060%) Appian
13 1 (0.060%) Palantir Foundry
13 1 (0.060%) Traefik
Applications
1 160 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 53 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (3.00%) Microsoft Office
4 48 (2.88%) MS Visio
5 30 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.60%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.12%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.12%) Trello
10 1 (0.060%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.84%) NetSuite
3 10 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
3 10 (0.60%) Shopify
4 9 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
5 8 (0.48%) Workday HCM
6 7 (0.42%) Fidessa
6 7 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 7 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
6 7 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 7 (0.42%) Summit
7 6 (0.36%) Aladdin
8 5 (0.30%) BASE24
8 5 (0.30%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
9 4 (0.24%) Bloomberg AIM
Cloud Services
1 339 (20.31%) Azure
2 237 (14.20%) AWS
3 202 (12.10%) Power Platform
4 91 (5.45%) GCP
5 88 (5.27%) SaaS
6 78 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
8 55 (3.30%) GitHub
9 45 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 44 (2.64%) Serverless
11 43 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
12 41 (2.46%) IaaS
13 38 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
13 38 (2.28%) Snowflake
14 36 (2.16%) Entra ID
15 31 (1.86%) dbt
16 28 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
17 26 (1.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 24 (1.44%) PaaS
19 21 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.46%) Firewall
2 26 (1.56%) DNS
2 26 (1.56%) Network Security
3 18 (1.08%) VPN
4 17 (1.02%) DHCP
5 15 (0.90%) SAN
5 15 (0.90%) WAN
6 11 (0.66%) SD-WAN
7 10 (0.60%) HTTP
8 8 (0.48%) Internet
8 8 (0.48%) TCP/IP
8 8 (0.48%) VLAN
8 8 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (0.42%) BGP
10 6 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (0.36%) IOS XR
10 6 (0.36%) LAN
10 6 (0.36%) NAS
10 6 (0.36%) OSPF
10 6 (0.36%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (10.84%) Power BI
2 90 (5.39%) Data Warehouse
3 76 (4.55%) Tableau
4 70 (4.19%) SQL Server
5 57 (3.42%) Metadata
6 35 (2.10%) Relational Database
7 30 (1.80%) Data Lake
8 29 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
9 28 (1.68%) NoSQL
10 27 (1.62%) Big Data
11 24 (1.44%) BigQuery
11 24 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
12 21 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 17 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (1.02%) Power Query
14 16 (0.96%) Star Schema
15 14 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
16 13 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
16 13 (0.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 173 (10.37%) JIRA
2 64 (3.83%) Git
3 26 (1.56%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.32%) Selenium
5 14 (0.84%) GitLab
6 12 (0.72%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.66%) MLflow
8 10 (0.60%) ERwin
8 10 (0.60%) Postman
8 10 (0.60%) REST Assured
9 8 (0.48%) Appium
9 8 (0.48%) Cypress.io
9 8 (0.48%) JMeter
9 8 (0.48%) JUnit
9 8 (0.48%) PowerDesigner
10 7 (0.42%) Browser DevTools
11 6 (0.36%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.36%) Chocolatey
11 6 (0.36%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.36%) WebDriver
General
1 759 (45.48%) Social Skills
2 619 (37.09%) Finance
3 230 (13.78%) Banking
4 143 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 98 (5.87%) Marketing
6 86 (5.15%) Documentation Skills
7 76 (4.55%) Legal
8 66 (3.95%) Front Office
8 66 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
9 51 (3.06%) Investment Banking
10 50 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
11 48 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
12 46 (2.76%) Financial Institution
12 46 (2.76%) Retail
13 39 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 39 (2.34%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.62%) Back Office
15 18 (1.08%) Law
16 17 (1.02%) Publishing
17 14 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 424 (25.40%) Analyst
2 233 (13.96%) Business Analyst
3 166 (9.95%) Senior
4 137 (8.21%) Developer
5 126 (7.55%) Architect
6 105 (6.29%) Lead
7 98 (5.87%) Data Engineer
8 90 (5.39%) Consultant
9 87 (5.21%) Data Analyst
10 59 (3.54%) Data Scientist
11 58 (3.48%) Project Manager
12 54 (3.24%) Senior Analyst
13 39 (2.34%) Senior Business Analyst
14 37 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
15 25 (1.50%) Financial Analyst
15 25 (1.50%) Product Manager
15 25 (1.50%) Quantitative Developer
16 24 (1.44%) Salesforce Analyst
17 23 (1.38%) Tester
18 22 (1.32%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (5.39%) REST
2 55 (3.30%) JSON
3 47 (2.82%) .NET
4 46 (2.76%) Kafka
5 39 (2.34%) Pandas
6 37 (2.22%) Middleware
7 34 (2.04%) RESTful
8 33 (1.98%) scikit-learn
9 31 (1.86%) XML
10 28 (1.68%) SOAP
11 27 (1.62%) HTML
12 26 (1.56%) CSS
12 26 (1.56%) NumPy
13 25 (1.50%) PyTorch
14 24 (1.44%) Node.js
14 24 (1.44%) OAuth
15 23 (1.38%) PySpark
16 20 (1.20%) SAML
16 20 (1.20%) TensorFlow
17 19 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 153 (9.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 95 (5.69%) Product Ownership
3 82 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
4 66 (3.95%) Data Structures
5 60 (3.59%) Onboarding
6 40 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
7 39 (2.34%) Algorithms
7 39 (2.34%) Management Information System
8 36 (2.16%) Derivative
8 36 (2.16%) Fixed Income
9 35 (2.10%) Data Centre
10 33 (1.98%) Cloud Native
11 29 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
11 29 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 27 (1.62%) Equities
12 27 (1.62%) PKI
13 26 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
14 23 (1.38%) Credit Risk
14 23 (1.38%) Virtual Team
15 19 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 79 (4.73%) Windows
2 56 (3.36%) Linux
3 28 (1.68%) Unix
4 14 (0.84%) Mac OS
5 13 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.66%) Android
7 8 (0.48%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.42%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) Solaris
11 1 (0.060%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.060%) VMS
11 1 (0.060%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 799 (47.87%) Problem-Solving
2 493 (29.54%) Agile
3 339 (20.31%) Stakeholder Management
4 321 (19.23%) Analytics
5 279 (16.72%) Decision-Making
6 265 (15.88%) AI
7 251 (15.04%) Data Modelling
8 245 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 210 (12.58%) Business Intelligence
10 203 (12.16%) Validation
11 198 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 187 (11.20%) DevOps
13 179 (10.72%) CI/CD
14 173 (10.37%) Migration
15 158 (9.47%) Data Analysis
16 155 (9.29%) Roadmaps
17 149 (8.93%) Data Governance
17 149 (8.93%) Project Management
18 137 (8.21%) Actionable Insight
19 135 (8.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 448 (26.84%) SQL
2 367 (21.99%) Python
3 97 (5.81%) Java
4 76 (4.55%) C#
5 74 (4.43%) PowerShell
6 58 (3.48%) JavaScript
7 47 (2.82%) TypeScript
8 31 (1.86%) C++
8 31 (1.86%) R
9 30 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 28 (1.68%) Bash
11 20 (1.20%) PL/SQL
12 19 (1.14%) T-SQL
13 18 (1.08%) Scala
14 12 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.54%) C
16 8 (0.48%) VBA
17 7 (0.42%) Apex Code
18 6 (0.36%) Shell Script
19 5 (0.30%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 246 (14.74%) Security Cleared
2 212 (12.70%) Degree
3 185 (11.08%) SC Cleared
4 65 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 56 (3.36%) Master's Degree
6 42 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 40 (2.40%) PMI Certification
8 33 (1.98%) CISSP
9 31 (1.86%) PMP
10 21 (1.26%) CISM
11 19 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.02%) ISTQB
13 16 (0.96%) CISA
14 14 (0.84%) Azure Certification
14 14 (0.84%) CRISC
14 14 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
15 12 (0.72%) CCNP
15 12 (0.72%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.60%) AWS Certification
17 9 (0.54%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (12.16%) Data Quality
2 147 (8.81%) QA
3 81 (4.85%) GDPR
4 66 (3.95%) PMO
5 44 (2.64%) NIST
6 41 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.92%) Accessibility
8 29 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 29 (1.74%) SLA
9 24 (1.44%) GRC
9 24 (1.44%) PCI DSS
10 22 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 20 (1.20%) COBIT
12 11 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 10 (0.60%) ISO 20022
13 10 (0.60%) MiFID
14 9 (0.54%) IFRS
14 9 (0.54%) PSD2
14 9 (0.54%) Solvency II
15 7 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (3.71%) Docker
2 46 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 12 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.30%) Firmware
5 4 (0.24%) IAG
5 4 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.18%) Squid
6 3 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.12%) HDFS
7 2 (0.12%) NFS
7 2 (0.12%) Postfix
7 2 (0.12%) ProxySG
7 2 (0.12%) vSphere
8 1 (0.060%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.060%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.060%) RACF
8 1 (0.060%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.060%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 62 (3.71%) Kubernetes
2 48 (2.88%) Terraform
3 23 (1.38%) Ansible
3 23 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.20%) Grafana
5 13 (0.78%) SCCM
6 10 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.48%) Kibana
7 8 (0.48%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.42%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.30%) FortiGate
10 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
10 3 (0.18%) SCOM
11 2 (0.12%) Control-M
11 2 (0.12%) Istio
11 2 (0.12%) Nessus
11 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.060%) logstash
12 1 (0.060%) Suricata
12 1 (0.060%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 264 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 107 (6.41%) Oracle
3 91 (5.45%) SAP
4 90 (5.39%) Salesforce
5 76 (4.55%) Google
6 68 (4.07%) Databricks
6 68 (4.07%) ServiceNow
7 25 (1.50%) Adobe
7 25 (1.50%) Bloomberg
7 25 (1.50%) Workday
8 22 (1.32%) Splunk
9 21 (1.26%) Cisco
10 19 (1.14%) Informatica
10 19 (1.14%) VMware
11 18 (1.08%) Murex
12 16 (0.96%) Palo Alto
13 15 (0.90%) Dynatrace
14 14 (0.84%) OpenAI
15 13 (0.78%) Atlassian
16 12 (0.72%) IBM