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 18 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 13 20
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,571 1,504 1,440
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.75% 12.02% 8.24%
As % of the General category 14.71% 17.75% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 955 985
10th Percentile £350 £313 £320
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £707 £700
90th Percentile £738 £825 £838
England median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.36% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 36 45
10th Percentile £23.07 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.70 £26.30 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £42.75 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.77% +81.91% -30.88%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £66.53 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £39.00 £29.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +32.20% +59.46% -47.89%

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 10,678 8,471 11,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 59.49% 67.71% 63.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,920 5,694 7,861
10th Percentile £350 £342 £336
25th Percentile £425 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £565 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% -1.74% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £709 £700
90th Percentile £788 £825 £825
England median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 142 233
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £15.60
25th Percentile £22.29 £23.13 £18.13
Median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +21.43% -12.28%
75th Percentile £46.56 £51.07 £44.75
90th Percentile £67.40 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.58 £27.45 £30.12
% change year-on-year +11.40% -8.86% -6.75%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -9 207 £525 -4.55% 254
West London 0 63 £520 +30.00% 42
South London +4 33 £500 -14.24% 7
East London -6 11 £400 +11.04% 24
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 85 (5.41%) Confluence
2 27 (1.72%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
4 25 (1.59%) SharePoint
5 18 (1.15%) Apache
6 12 (0.76%) CMS
7 11 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.51%) SAS
9 5 (0.32%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.25%) IIS
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.19%) Camunda
11 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.13%) Oracle Spatial
13 1 (0.064%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.064%) nginx
13 1 (0.064%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.064%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 155 (9.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 50 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
4 47 (2.99%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
6 11 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
7 10 (0.64%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.13%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 2 (0.13%) Trello
10 1 (0.064%) Autodesk Smoke
10 1 (0.064%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 19 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (0.70%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.57%) Aladdin
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 9 (0.57%) Shopify
6 8 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
7 7 (0.45%) Fidessa
7 7 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.45%) Summit
8 6 (0.38%) Loan IQ
8 6 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
9 5 (0.32%) BASE24
9 5 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
9 5 (0.32%) Workday HCM
10 4 (0.25%) Bloomberg AIM
10 4 (0.25%) Finacle
10 4 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 311 (19.80%) Azure
2 223 (14.19%) AWS
3 194 (12.35%) Power Platform
4 82 (5.22%) SaaS
5 78 (4.96%) GCP
6 72 (4.58%) Azure DevOps
7 57 (3.63%) GitHub
7 57 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
8 44 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
9 39 (2.48%) Amazon S3
9 39 (2.48%) Serverless
10 35 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
11 30 (1.91%) Dynamics 365
11 30 (1.91%) Snowflake
12 28 (1.78%) Entra ID
13 27 (1.72%) dbt
14 25 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (1.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 22 (1.40%) PaaS
17 21 (1.34%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.61%) Firewall
2 24 (1.53%) Network Security
3 23 (1.46%) DNS
4 20 (1.27%) VPN
5 17 (1.08%) DHCP
6 14 (0.89%) WAN
7 13 (0.83%) SAN
8 11 (0.70%) SD-WAN
8 11 (0.70%) TCP/IP
9 9 (0.57%) BGP
10 8 (0.51%) VLAN
10 8 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.45%) HTTP
12 6 (0.38%) 5G
12 6 (0.38%) Ethernet VPN
12 6 (0.38%) Internet
12 6 (0.38%) NAS
12 6 (0.38%) OSPF
12 6 (0.38%) SMS
12 6 (0.38%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 172 (10.95%) Power BI
2 87 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
3 75 (4.77%) SQL Server
4 72 (4.58%) Tableau
5 55 (3.50%) Metadata
6 47 (2.99%) Relational Database
7 34 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
8 32 (2.04%) Data Lake
9 29 (1.85%) NoSQL
10 24 (1.53%) Big Data
10 24 (1.53%) BigQuery
10 24 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 21 (1.34%) Snowflake Schema
12 17 (1.08%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.08%) Power Query
13 16 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (0.95%) RDBMS
14 15 (0.95%) Star Schema
15 13 (0.83%) Delta Lake
15 13 (0.83%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 164 (10.44%) JIRA
2 66 (4.20%) Git
3 26 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.40%) Selenium
5 15 (0.95%) GitLab
6 13 (0.83%) Cucumber
7 11 (0.70%) MLflow
7 11 (0.70%) Postman
7 11 (0.70%) REST Assured
8 10 (0.64%) ERwin
9 9 (0.57%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.51%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.45%) JMeter
11 7 (0.45%) JUnit
12 6 (0.38%) Appium
12 6 (0.38%) Chocolatey
12 6 (0.38%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.38%) WebDriver
13 5 (0.32%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 695 (44.24%) Social Skills
2 611 (38.89%) Finance
3 230 (14.64%) Banking
4 136 (8.66%) Public Sector
5 89 (5.67%) Marketing
6 77 (4.90%) Documentation Skills
7 68 (4.33%) Legal
8 64 (4.07%) Front Office
9 60 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
10 55 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
11 51 (3.25%) Investment Banking
12 44 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
13 39 (2.48%) Financial Institution
13 39 (2.48%) Retail
14 38 (2.42%) Telecoms
15 30 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 20 (1.27%) Back Office
17 16 (1.02%) Publishing
18 14 (0.89%) Local Government
19 13 (0.83%) Billing
Job Titles
1 420 (26.73%) Analyst
2 213 (13.56%) Business Analyst
3 162 (10.31%) Senior
4 139 (8.85%) Developer
5 104 (6.62%) Lead
6 98 (6.24%) Data Engineer
7 97 (6.17%) Architect
8 91 (5.79%) Data Analyst
9 85 (5.41%) Consultant
10 50 (3.18%) Data Scientist
11 49 (3.12%) Project Manager
12 47 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
13 33 (2.10%) Senior Business Analyst
14 32 (2.04%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (1.97%) Financial Analyst
16 25 (1.59%) Senior Developer
17 24 (1.53%) Product Manager
17 24 (1.53%) Salesforce Analyst
17 24 (1.53%) Senior Manager
18 23 (1.46%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (4.01%) REST
2 51 (3.25%) .NET
3 49 (3.12%) Kafka
4 39 (2.48%) Pandas
5 38 (2.42%) Middleware
6 31 (1.97%) RESTful
7 29 (1.85%) HTML
7 29 (1.85%) XML
8 28 (1.78%) JSON
8 28 (1.78%) scikit-learn
9 27 (1.72%) CSS
9 27 (1.72%) PySpark
10 24 (1.53%) NumPy
11 23 (1.46%) SOAP
12 21 (1.34%) PyTorch
13 19 (1.21%) React
14 18 (1.15%) OAuth
14 18 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
14 18 (1.15%) SAML
15 17 (1.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 151 (9.61%) Analytical Mindset
2 91 (5.79%) Product Ownership
3 64 (4.07%) Data Structures
4 58 (3.69%) Onboarding
5 55 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 38 (2.42%) Management Information System
8 36 (2.29%) Algorithms
9 35 (2.23%) Cloud Native
10 34 (2.16%) Derivative
11 33 (2.10%) Data Centre
12 32 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
12 32 (2.04%) Fixed Income
13 30 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
14 28 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 26 (1.65%) Equities
16 24 (1.53%) Virtual Team
17 21 (1.34%) Credit Risk
18 17 (1.08%) Market Risk
18 17 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 81 (5.16%) Windows
2 56 (3.56%) Linux
3 26 (1.65%) Unix
4 14 (0.89%) Apple iOS
5 13 (0.83%) Mac OS
6 11 (0.70%) Android
7 8 (0.51%) Windows Server
8 7 (0.45%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.19%) AIX
10 2 (0.13%) Solaris
11 1 (0.064%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.064%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 747 (47.55%) Problem-Solving
2 436 (27.75%) Agile
3 316 (20.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 286 (18.20%) Analytics
5 273 (17.38%) Decision-Making
6 254 (16.17%) AI
7 249 (15.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 248 (15.79%) Data Modelling
9 197 (12.54%) Business Intelligence
10 193 (12.29%) Validation
11 182 (11.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 179 (11.39%) DevOps
13 168 (10.69%) CI/CD
14 164 (10.44%) Migration
15 158 (10.06%) Data Analysis
16 143 (9.10%) Roadmaps
17 141 (8.98%) Data Governance
18 135 (8.59%) Project Management
19 134 (8.53%) ETL
20 126 (8.02%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 441 (28.07%) SQL
2 357 (22.72%) Python
3 91 (5.79%) Java
4 84 (5.35%) C#
5 52 (3.31%) JavaScript
6 47 (2.99%) PowerShell
7 43 (2.74%) TypeScript
8 34 (2.16%) C++
9 32 (2.04%) R
10 31 (1.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 26 (1.65%) Bash
12 23 (1.46%) PL/SQL
13 22 (1.40%) T-SQL
14 18 (1.15%) Scala
15 12 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
16 10 (0.64%) C
17 9 (0.57%) VBA
18 7 (0.45%) Apex Code
18 7 (0.45%) Shell Script
19 6 (0.38%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 209 (13.30%) Security Cleared
2 196 (12.48%) Degree
3 144 (9.17%) SC Cleared
4 58 (3.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (3.06%) Master's Degree
6 41 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 33 (2.10%) CISSP
8 32 (2.04%) PMI Certification
9 31 (1.97%) PMP
10 21 (1.34%) CISM
11 20 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (1.08%) ISTQB
13 16 (1.02%) CISA
14 15 (0.95%) DV Cleared
15 14 (0.89%) CRISC
16 13 (0.83%) CCNP
17 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
18 10 (0.64%) ACCA
18 10 (0.64%) Azure Certification
19 9 (0.57%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (13.37%) Data Quality
2 131 (8.34%) QA
3 78 (4.96%) GDPR
4 73 (4.65%) PMO
5 49 (3.12%) NIST
6 45 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
8 28 (1.78%) Accessibility
8 28 (1.78%) SLA
9 24 (1.53%) GRC
10 23 (1.46%) PCI DSS
10 23 (1.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 22 (1.40%) COBIT
12 13 (0.83%) IFRS
13 12 (0.76%) ISO 20022
14 10 (0.64%) MiFID
15 9 (0.57%) Solvency II
16 6 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 6 (0.38%) HIPAA
16 6 (0.38%) HL7
System Software
1 58 (3.69%) Docker
2 41 (2.61%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.25%) Firmware
5 4 (0.25%) IAG
6 3 (0.19%) Squid
6 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.19%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.13%) NFS
7 2 (0.13%) Postfix
8 1 (0.064%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.064%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.064%) RACF
8 1 (0.064%) Snort
8 1 (0.064%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 1 (0.064%) vSphere
8 1 (0.064%) Xen
8 1 (0.064%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 62 (3.95%) Kubernetes
2 38 (2.42%) Terraform
3 21 (1.34%) Ansible
4 19 (1.21%) Grafana
4 19 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (0.76%) SCCM
6 10 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (0.45%) Kibana
7 7 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.38%) FortiGate
9 5 (0.32%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.19%) Control-M
10 3 (0.19%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.13%) Istio
11 2 (0.13%) Nessus
11 2 (0.13%) SCOM
11 2 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.064%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.064%) Suricata
12 1 (0.064%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 248 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 113 (7.19%) Oracle
3 89 (5.67%) SAP
4 82 (5.22%) Salesforce
5 75 (4.77%) Databricks
6 64 (4.07%) ServiceNow
7 59 (3.76%) Google
8 22 (1.40%) Workday
9 21 (1.34%) Adobe
9 21 (1.34%) Cisco
9 21 (1.34%) Splunk
10 19 (1.21%) Bloomberg
11 17 (1.08%) Informatica
11 17 (1.08%) Murex
12 16 (1.02%) Palo Alto
12 16 (1.02%) VMware
13 15 (0.95%) Dynatrace
14 13 (0.83%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.76%) IBM
15 12 (0.76%) OpenAI