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 1 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 16 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,574 1,424 1,492
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.94% 10.67% 8.11%
As % of the General category 15.65% 16.20% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 968 853 1,021
10th Percentile £350 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 £825 £850
England median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.32% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 30 50
10th Percentile £18.25 £23.43 £12.50
25th Percentile £24.03 £26.74 £16.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.81 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.81% +68.72% -16.36%
75th Percentile £47.50 £63.44 £41.81
90th Percentile £55.95 £80.75 £53.30
England median hourly rate £30.11 £27.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +9.47% +37.50% -41.18%

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 10,060 8,790 11,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 63.55% 65.85% 63.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,557 5,675 8,355
10th Percentile £350 £328 £335
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 117 261
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.45 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £26.04 £18.33
Median hourly rate £28.55 £35.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.43% +20.69% -4.92%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.54 £72.75
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £26.00
% change year-on-year -21.76% +17.12% -16.69%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 1 March 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 +1 237 £525 -0.76% 236
South London -10 28 £506 -13.16% 13
West London -14 28 £500 +33.33% 33
East London +7 8 £400 -32.23% 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 79 (5.02%) Confluence
2 30 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 27 (1.72%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
6 16 (1.02%) Apache
7 12 (0.76%) CMS
8 5 (0.32%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.25%) SAS
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.13%) Camunda
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.064%) Appian
11 1 (0.064%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.064%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.064%) Traefik
Applications
1 164 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.54%) MS Visio
5 31 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.32%) Trello
8 4 (0.25%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.13%) Autodesk Smoke
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.064%) Notion
11 1 (0.064%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (0.83%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
3 8 (0.51%) SAP HR
3 8 (0.51%) Workday HCM
4 7 (0.44%) Fidessa
4 7 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
4 7 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.38%) Aladdin
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
5 6 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
5 6 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.38%) Shopify
6 5 (0.32%) BASE24
6 5 (0.32%) Loan IQ
6 5 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 321 (20.39%) Azure
2 214 (13.60%) AWS
3 198 (12.58%) Power Platform
4 84 (5.34%) SaaS
5 83 (5.27%) GCP
6 71 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
8 46 (2.92%) Entra ID
9 45 (2.86%) GitHub
10 44 (2.80%) IaaS
10 44 (2.80%) Serverless
11 41 (2.60%) Snowflake
12 36 (2.29%) Amazon S3
13 33 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
14 32 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
15 26 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
16 22 (1.40%) dbt
16 22 (1.40%) PaaS
17 20 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
18 19 (1.21%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 34 (2.16%) Firewall
2 28 (1.78%) Network Security
3 22 (1.40%) DNS
4 20 (1.27%) VPN
5 16 (1.02%) WAN
6 14 (0.89%) DHCP
7 12 (0.76%) VLAN
8 11 (0.70%) SAN
9 10 (0.64%) LAN
9 10 (0.64%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.51%) Internet
11 8 (0.51%) SMS
12 7 (0.44%) SSL
12 7 (0.44%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.38%) VoIP
14 5 (0.32%) BGP
14 5 (0.32%) CTI
14 5 (0.32%) DMZ
14 5 (0.32%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 179 (11.37%) Power BI
2 77 (4.89%) Tableau
3 71 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
4 56 (3.56%) SQL Server
5 45 (2.86%) Metadata
6 31 (1.97%) Relational Database
7 28 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
8 27 (1.72%) Data Lake
8 27 (1.72%) NoSQL
9 21 (1.33%) Snowflake Schema
10 19 (1.21%) Big Data
10 19 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 18 (1.14%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.08%) BigQuery
12 17 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
13 15 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
14 14 (0.89%) DB2
15 13 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
15 13 (0.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 156 (9.91%) JIRA
2 64 (4.07%) Git
3 22 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.08%) GitLab
5 15 (0.95%) Selenium
6 12 (0.76%) Cucumber
6 12 (0.76%) JUnit
7 9 (0.57%) MLflow
7 9 (0.57%) Postman
7 9 (0.57%) REST Assured
8 6 (0.38%) Appium
8 6 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.38%) JMeter
8 6 (0.38%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.32%) Burp Suite
9 5 (0.32%) Chocolatey
9 5 (0.32%) Metasploit
9 5 (0.32%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.32%) WebDriver
General
1 792 (50.32%) Social Skills
2 564 (35.83%) Finance
3 215 (13.66%) Banking
4 133 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 101 (6.42%) Marketing
6 75 (4.76%) Legal
7 67 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
8 62 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
9 56 (3.56%) Investment Banking
10 52 (3.30%) Front Office
11 46 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
12 45 (2.86%) Retail
13 41 (2.60%) Financial Institution
14 40 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
15 35 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 29 (1.84%) Back Office
17 28 (1.78%) Telecoms
18 24 (1.52%) Publishing
19 20 (1.27%) Law
20 15 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 415 (26.37%) Analyst
2 212 (13.47%) Business Analyst
3 172 (10.93%) Senior
4 154 (9.78%) Developer
5 119 (7.56%) Architect
6 102 (6.48%) Lead
7 92 (5.84%) Data Analyst
8 88 (5.59%) Consultant
9 69 (4.38%) Data Engineer
10 61 (3.88%) Project Manager
11 54 (3.43%) Senior Analyst
12 41 (2.60%) Data Scientist
13 38 (2.41%) Solutions Architect
14 32 (2.03%) Senior Developer
15 31 (1.97%) Product Manager
15 31 (1.97%) Senior Business Analyst
16 25 (1.59%) Security Analyst
16 25 (1.59%) Senior Manager
17 23 (1.46%) Java Developer
17 23 (1.46%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (6.10%) REST
2 53 (3.37%) JSON
3 50 (3.18%) Kafka
4 44 (2.80%) .NET
5 35 (2.22%) Middleware
6 33 (2.10%) RESTful
7 32 (2.03%) Pandas
7 32 (2.03%) SOAP
7 32 (2.03%) XML
8 30 (1.91%) HTML
9 29 (1.84%) CSS
10 27 (1.72%) scikit-learn
11 24 (1.52%) Node.js
12 23 (1.46%) NumPy
13 22 (1.40%) React
14 20 (1.27%) Spring
15 19 (1.21%) AngularJS
15 19 (1.21%) OAuth
15 19 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
15 19 (1.21%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 155 (9.85%) Analytical Mindset
2 73 (4.64%) Product Ownership
3 68 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
4 56 (3.56%) Data Structures
5 53 (3.37%) Onboarding
6 45 (2.86%) Management Information System
7 43 (2.73%) Algorithms
8 39 (2.48%) Derivative
9 36 (2.29%) Fixed Income
10 33 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
11 30 (1.91%) Equities
11 30 (1.91%) PKI
12 29 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 28 (1.78%) Security Posture
14 27 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
15 25 (1.59%) Data Centre
16 23 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
17 22 (1.40%) Cloud Native
18 19 (1.21%) Mobile App
19 18 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 76 (4.83%) Windows
2 57 (3.62%) Linux
3 24 (1.52%) Unix
4 13 (0.83%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.76%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.70%) Android
7 5 (0.32%) Windows 10
8 4 (0.25%) VMS
8 4 (0.25%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.13%) Solaris
11 1 (0.064%) AIX
11 1 (0.064%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.064%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.064%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 789 (50.13%) Problem-Solving
2 471 (29.92%) Agile
3 324 (20.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 309 (19.63%) Analytics
5 272 (17.28%) Decision-Making
6 231 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 208 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
8 201 (12.77%) Data Modelling
8 201 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 194 (12.33%) AI
10 175 (11.12%) Validation
11 170 (10.80%) DevOps
12 165 (10.48%) CI/CD
13 154 (9.78%) Data Analysis
14 152 (9.66%) Roadmaps
15 147 (9.34%) Migration
16 143 (9.09%) Actionable Insight
17 140 (8.89%) Visualisation
18 137 (8.70%) Project Management
19 135 (8.58%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 402 (25.54%) SQL
2 335 (21.28%) Python
3 80 (5.08%) PowerShell
4 79 (5.02%) Java
5 67 (4.26%) C#
5 67 (4.26%) JavaScript
6 34 (2.16%) Bash
6 34 (2.16%) TypeScript
7 28 (1.78%) C++
8 23 (1.46%) R
9 19 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.02%) PL/SQL
11 15 (0.95%) T-SQL
12 13 (0.83%) Shell Script
13 12 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
13 12 (0.76%) Scala
14 9 (0.57%) C
15 7 (0.44%) Bicep
15 7 (0.44%) VBA
16 5 (0.32%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 233 (14.80%) Security Cleared
2 221 (14.04%) Degree
3 167 (10.61%) SC Cleared
4 60 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 60 (3.81%) Master's Degree
5 45 (2.86%) PMI Certification
6 36 (2.29%) PMP
7 27 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.65%) CISSP
9 22 (1.40%) DV Cleared
10 18 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (0.89%) Azure Certification
11 14 (0.89%) CISM
12 13 (0.83%) AWS Certification
12 13 (0.83%) CIMA
12 13 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.76%) ACCA
13 12 (0.76%) ISTQB
14 11 (0.70%) CCNP
14 11 (0.70%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (11.25%) Data Quality
2 138 (8.77%) QA
3 82 (5.21%) GDPR
4 52 (3.30%) PMO
5 43 (2.73%) Accessibility
6 33 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (2.03%) NIST
8 25 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
9 24 (1.52%) PCI DSS
10 23 (1.46%) GRC
11 21 (1.33%) SLA
12 18 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 17 (1.08%) COBIT
14 12 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 11 (0.70%) MiFID
16 10 (0.64%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.64%) Solvency II
16 10 (0.64%) WCAG
17 8 (0.51%) EMIR
17 8 (0.51%) IFRS
System Software
1 67 (4.26%) Docker
2 52 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 14 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.32%) Firmware
4 5 (0.32%) HDFS
4 5 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.25%) zsh
6 3 (0.19%) ProxySG
6 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.19%) vSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Snort
7 2 (0.13%) Squid
7 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.064%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.064%) IAG
8 1 (0.064%) Postfix
8 1 (0.064%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.064%) Xen
8 1 (0.064%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 66 (4.19%) Kubernetes
2 43 (2.73%) Terraform
3 28 (1.78%) Ansible
4 23 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (0.89%) SCCM
6 11 (0.70%) Grafana
7 8 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.44%) Nessus
9 6 (0.38%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.32%) Nmap
11 3 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 3 (0.19%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.19%) SCOM
12 2 (0.13%) Nexpose
12 2 (0.13%) RSA Archer
12 2 (0.13%) Suricata
12 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.064%) Control-M
13 1 (0.064%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.064%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 266 (16.90%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.72%) Oracle
3 85 (5.40%) Salesforce
4 82 (5.21%) SAP
5 67 (4.26%) Databricks
5 67 (4.26%) Google
6 62 (3.94%) ServiceNow
7 28 (1.78%) Bloomberg
7 28 (1.78%) Splunk
8 23 (1.46%) Cisco
8 23 (1.46%) VMware
9 22 (1.40%) Murex
10 19 (1.21%) Workday
11 18 (1.14%) Adobe
12 16 (1.02%) Informatica
13 15 (0.95%) Palo Alto
14 12 (0.76%) AppDynamics
14 12 (0.76%) IBM
14 12 (0.76%) Juniper
14 12 (0.76%) OpenAI