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 7 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,891 1,603 1,352
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.36% 11.82% 8.33%
As % of the General category 15.43% 17.25% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 1,029 889
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 32 21
10th Percentile £19.37 £11.96 £17.25
25th Percentile £26.52 £24.88 £26.56
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.74 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.26% -18.26% -10.53%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.06 £53.75
90th Percentile £71.15 £58.50 £65.03
England median hourly rate £38.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.92% +44.44% -48.19%

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 12,256 9,295 10,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.67% 68.54% 62.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,814 6,187 7,137
10th Percentile £350 £325 £338
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 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £525 £513 £538
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.65% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 186 143
10th Percentile £18.50 £15.84 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.50 £24.18
Median hourly rate £28.55 £31.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% -10.71% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £50.31 £51.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £63.50 £67.60
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +29.22% -34.02% +36.24%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -9 236 £525 -4.55% 299
West London +1 77 £520 +26.06% 64
South London +5 39 £513 -18.00% 20
East London -3 9 £400 +23.00% 39
North London 0 3 £450 - 4
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 83 (4.39%) Confluence
2 37 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 35 (1.85%) SharePoint
4 30 (1.59%) CMS
5 28 (1.48%) Apache Spark
6 20 (1.06%) Apache
6 20 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
7 9 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.42%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
9 7 (0.37%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.32%) SAS
11 5 (0.26%) Appian
11 5 (0.26%) IIS
11 5 (0.26%) JBoss
12 4 (0.21%) Apache Solr
13 3 (0.16%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.16%) Camunda
14 2 (0.11%) Mule
Applications
1 174 (9.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (3.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 29 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.63%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.21%) CPLEX
8 4 (0.21%) Trello
9 3 (0.16%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.11%) Notion
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.053%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.053%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 22 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
1 22 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
3 15 (0.79%) Aladdin
4 11 (0.58%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.53%) Finacle
6 9 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
6 9 (0.48%) Shopify
7 8 (0.42%) Loan IQ
7 8 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (0.37%) Fidessa
9 5 (0.26%) iTrent
9 5 (0.26%) Magento
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.21%) Findur
10 4 (0.21%) HFM
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 373 (19.73%) Azure
2 262 (13.86%) AWS
3 237 (12.53%) Power Platform
4 100 (5.29%) GCP
5 81 (4.28%) Azure DevOps
6 75 (3.97%) SaaS
7 69 (3.65%) GitHub
8 64 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
9 60 (3.17%) Entra ID
10 54 (2.86%) Snowflake
11 47 (2.49%) Azure Data Factory
12 37 (1.96%) Serverless
13 36 (1.90%) dbt
14 32 (1.69%) Amazon S3
14 32 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
15 30 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
16 28 (1.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 26 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
18 23 (1.22%) PaaS
19 20 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 48 (2.54%) Firewall
2 38 (2.01%) DNS
3 28 (1.48%) Network Security
4 27 (1.43%) TCP/IP
4 27 (1.43%) VPN
5 24 (1.27%) DHCP
6 16 (0.85%) WAN
7 14 (0.74%) HTTP
7 14 (0.74%) VLAN
8 13 (0.69%) SAN
8 13 (0.69%) SSL
9 12 (0.63%) SD-WAN
10 10 (0.53%) BGP
10 10 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (0.42%) 4G
11 8 (0.42%) 5G
12 7 (0.37%) MPLS
12 7 (0.37%) Multicast
12 7 (0.37%) Radio Access Network
12 7 (0.37%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (11.32%) Power BI
2 112 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
3 101 (5.34%) SQL Server
4 81 (4.28%) Tableau
5 77 (4.07%) Relational Database
6 75 (3.97%) Metadata
7 53 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (2.06%) Data Lake
9 35 (1.85%) NoSQL
10 29 (1.53%) Big Data
10 29 (1.53%) MongoDB
11 24 (1.27%) Oracle Database
11 24 (1.27%) RDBMS
12 23 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 22 (1.16%) BigQuery
14 19 (1.00%) Delta Lake
14 19 (1.00%) Power Query
15 17 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
15 17 (0.90%) Star Schema
16 16 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 187 (9.89%) JIRA
2 78 (4.12%) Git
3 43 (2.27%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.27%) Selenium
5 16 (0.85%) ERwin
5 16 (0.85%) GitLab
6 15 (0.79%) JMeter
7 12 (0.63%) JUnit
8 11 (0.58%) Bitbucket
8 11 (0.58%) Cypress.io
8 11 (0.58%) Maven
9 10 (0.53%) REST Assured
10 9 (0.48%) Cucumber
10 9 (0.48%) ER Studio
10 9 (0.48%) Gatling
10 9 (0.48%) Postman
10 9 (0.48%) Zephyr
11 8 (0.42%) Gradle
11 8 (0.42%) LoadRunner
11 8 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
General
1 931 (49.23%) Social Skills
2 756 (39.98%) Finance
3 284 (15.02%) Banking
4 162 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 103 (5.45%) Marketing
6 95 (5.02%) Front Office
7 91 (4.81%) Organisational Skills
8 80 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
9 78 (4.12%) Legal
10 69 (3.65%) Retail
11 59 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
12 57 (3.01%) Investment Banking
12 57 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
13 53 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 49 (2.59%) Telecoms
15 44 (2.33%) Financial Institution
16 30 (1.59%) Local Government
17 27 (1.43%) Back Office
18 22 (1.16%) Publishing
19 19 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 484 (25.59%) Analyst
2 244 (12.90%) Business Analyst
3 210 (11.11%) Senior
4 171 (9.04%) Developer
5 130 (6.87%) Lead
6 128 (6.77%) Architect
7 110 (5.82%) Data Engineer
8 106 (5.61%) Data Analyst
9 86 (4.55%) Consultant
10 68 (3.60%) Data Scientist
11 61 (3.23%) Project Manager
12 51 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
13 44 (2.33%) Senior Developer
14 34 (1.80%) Senior Manager
15 31 (1.64%) Financial Analyst
15 31 (1.64%) Technical Business Analyst
16 30 (1.59%) Solutions Architect
17 29 (1.53%) Java Developer
17 29 (1.53%) Support Engineer
17 29 (1.53%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (5.71%) REST
2 69 (3.65%) .NET
3 51 (2.70%) Kafka
3 51 (2.70%) RESTful
4 47 (2.49%) JSON
5 41 (2.17%) XML
6 39 (2.06%) Pandas
6 39 (2.06%) SOAP
7 37 (1.96%) HTML
8 36 (1.90%) Web Services
9 34 (1.80%) CSS
10 33 (1.75%) Middleware
11 32 (1.69%) PySpark
11 32 (1.69%) React
12 29 (1.53%) Spring
13 27 (1.43%) scikit-learn
14 24 (1.27%) AngularJS
15 23 (1.22%) PyTorch
15 23 (1.22%) Spring Boot
16 22 (1.16%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 174 (9.20%) Analytical Mindset
2 133 (7.03%) Product Ownership
3 109 (5.76%) Onboarding
4 81 (4.28%) Data Structures
5 71 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
6 55 (2.91%) Cloud Native
6 55 (2.91%) Management Information System
7 54 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
9 36 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 36 (1.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 34 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
10 34 (1.80%) Fixed Income
11 32 (1.69%) Derivative
12 31 (1.64%) Data Centre
13 29 (1.53%) Algorithms
14 28 (1.48%) AI Agents
15 27 (1.43%) Equities
16 24 (1.27%) CMDB
17 23 (1.22%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 126 (6.66%) Windows
2 104 (5.50%) Linux
3 36 (1.90%) Unix
4 23 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 17 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 15 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 15 (0.79%) Windows 10
7 14 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (0.58%) Android
9 7 (0.37%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.32%) Solaris
11 5 (0.26%) AIX
12 3 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.11%) SUSE
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.053%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.053%) VMS
14 1 (0.053%) Windows 7
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 932 (49.29%) Problem-Solving
2 570 (30.14%) Agile
3 538 (28.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 365 (19.30%) Analytics
4 365 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 341 (18.03%) AI
6 333 (17.61%) Decision-Making
7 267 (14.12%) Data Modelling
8 261 (13.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 247 (13.06%) Business Intelligence
10 236 (12.48%) Validation
11 235 (12.43%) DevOps
12 209 (11.05%) CI/CD
13 205 (10.84%) Migration
14 182 (9.62%) Data Analysis
15 177 (9.36%) Data Pipeline
16 171 (9.04%) User Acceptance Testing
17 162 (8.57%) Roadmaps
18 161 (8.51%) User Stories
19 156 (8.25%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 538 (28.45%) SQL
2 402 (21.26%) Python
3 123 (6.50%) Java
4 89 (4.71%) C#
5 86 (4.55%) JavaScript
6 74 (3.91%) PowerShell
7 47 (2.49%) TypeScript
8 36 (1.90%) Bash
9 33 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 32 (1.69%) C++
10 32 (1.69%) R
11 26 (1.37%) PL/SQL
11 26 (1.37%) T-SQL
12 15 (0.79%) Scala
13 10 (0.53%) Apex Code
13 10 (0.53%) VBA
14 9 (0.48%) Perl
14 9 (0.48%) Ruby
14 9 (0.48%) Shell Script
15 8 (0.42%) C
Qualifications
1 245 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 236 (12.48%) Degree
3 185 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 74 (3.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.17%) CISSP
6 34 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 31 (1.64%) Master's Degree
8 28 (1.48%) PMP
9 27 (1.43%) CISM
10 26 (1.37%) PMI Certification
11 24 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.16%) Azure Certification
13 19 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
14 17 (0.90%) DV Cleared
15 15 (0.79%) ACCA
15 15 (0.79%) CRISC
15 15 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (0.74%) CCNP
16 14 (0.74%) CIMA
17 13 (0.69%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (13.38%) Data Quality
2 142 (7.51%) QA
3 96 (5.08%) PMO
4 61 (3.23%) GDPR
5 50 (2.64%) SLA
6 49 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 48 (2.54%) NIST
8 35 (1.85%) Accessibility
9 30 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
10 25 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 23 (1.22%) COBIT
12 21 (1.11%) GRC
13 16 (0.85%) IFRS
14 11 (0.58%) ISO 20022
14 11 (0.58%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
15 8 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.37%) WCAG
17 6 (0.32%) GAAP
17 6 (0.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 76 (4.02%) Active Directory
2 70 (3.70%) Docker
3 17 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.48%) IAG
6 6 (0.32%) Firmware
6 6 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.16%) Postfix
8 3 (0.16%) vSphere
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.053%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.053%) NFS
10 1 (0.053%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.053%) RACF
Systems Management
1 69 (3.65%) Kubernetes
2 62 (3.28%) Terraform
3 39 (2.06%) Ansible
4 31 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (1.37%) Grafana
6 15 (0.79%) SCCM
7 13 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
9 11 (0.58%) Kibana
10 10 (0.53%) Control-M
11 5 (0.26%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.21%) Puppet
12 4 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
12 4 (0.21%) systemd
13 3 (0.16%) FortiGate
13 3 (0.16%) RSA Archer
14 2 (0.11%) Failover Clustering
14 2 (0.11%) Nessus
14 2 (0.11%) SCOM
14 2 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 310 (16.39%) Microsoft
2 157 (8.30%) Oracle
3 98 (5.18%) ServiceNow
4 96 (5.08%) SAP
5 74 (3.91%) Google
6 68 (3.60%) Databricks
7 67 (3.54%) Salesforce
8 36 (1.90%) Splunk
9 30 (1.59%) Dynatrace
10 28 (1.48%) IBM
11 27 (1.43%) VMware
12 26 (1.37%) Cisco
13 25 (1.32%) Adobe
14 22 (1.16%) CyberArk
15 21 (1.11%) Workday
16 18 (0.95%) Alteryx
16 18 (0.95%) Informatica
17 17 (0.90%) Apple
18 16 (0.85%) Sitecore
19 14 (0.74%) Tenable