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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 19 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,554 1,496 1,633
As % of all contract jobs in London 11.07% 9.54% 8.30%
As % of the General category 16.35% 14.97% 12.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 940 901 1,097
10th Percentile £313 £313 £317
25th Percentile £402 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £754 £775 £800
England median daily rate £495 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -5.71% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 30 36
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £21.13
25th Percentile £29.85 £22.40 £27.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £30.30 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.53% -37.86% +50.00%
75th Percentile £47.13 £53.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £34.48 £25.00 £32.32
% change year-on-year +37.92% -22.65% -19.20%

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 9,503 9,991 12,781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 67.70% 63.74% 64.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,213 6,415 9,217
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £668 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 115 168
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.45
25th Percentile £19.79 £25.12 £21.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.87% +7.14% +3.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.54 £76.63
England median hourly rate £24.00 £30.69 £32.50
% change year-on-year -21.79% -5.58% +26.41%

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 December 2025.

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 December 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 1 December 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 +5 250 £510 -9.33% 160
South London -3 23 £556 -3.93% 42
West London -9 20 £420 +1.82% 75
East London +2 9 £394 -10.51% 49
North London -1 1 - - 16
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 74 (4.76%) Confluence
2 42 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 32 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 25 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.90%) CMS
7 10 (0.64%) Apache
8 5 (0.32%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.19%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.13%) Camunda
11 2 (0.13%) IIS
11 2 (0.13%) Luigi
11 2 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
11 2 (0.13%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.064%) Apache Superset
12 1 (0.064%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 144 (9.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (2.32%) MS Visio
5 23 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.39%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.39%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.13%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.13%) Notion
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.064%) Autodesk Smoke
9 1 (0.064%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.064%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.064%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.064%) Revit
Business Applications
1 21 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.77%) Endur
2 12 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
3 10 (0.64%) Oracle Financials
4 9 (0.58%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.51%) SAP HR
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
7 6 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.39%) Workday HCM
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.32%) Teamcenter
9 4 (0.26%) ION MarketView
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
10 3 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
10 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.19%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 254 (16.34%) Azure
2 219 (14.09%) AWS
3 172 (11.07%) Power Platform
4 79 (5.08%) GCP
5 64 (4.12%) SaaS
6 52 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
8 39 (2.51%) Entra ID
8 39 (2.51%) GitHub
9 37 (2.38%) IaaS
9 37 (2.38%) Snowflake
10 34 (2.19%) Amazon S3
11 31 (1.99%) Serverless
12 26 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (1.61%) dbt
14 21 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
15 19 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 18 (1.16%) Google Analytics
17 17 (1.09%) PowerApps
18 16 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 40 (2.57%) Firewall
2 34 (2.19%) Network Security
3 32 (2.06%) DNS
4 22 (1.42%) VPN
5 19 (1.22%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.09%) LAN
6 17 (1.09%) WAN
7 15 (0.97%) HTTP
8 12 (0.77%) SSL
9 11 (0.71%) DHCP
10 10 (0.64%) VoIP
11 9 (0.58%) Internet
11 9 (0.58%) VLAN
12 8 (0.51%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.39%) BGP
14 5 (0.32%) CTI
14 5 (0.32%) DMZ
14 5 (0.32%) SMTP
14 5 (0.32%) Wireless
14 5 (0.32%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (10.42%) Power BI
2 74 (4.76%) Tableau
3 64 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (3.09%) Relational Database
4 48 (3.09%) SQL Server
5 39 (2.51%) Metadata
6 34 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (1.80%) DB2
7 28 (1.80%) MongoDB
8 27 (1.74%) Big Data
9 25 (1.61%) Data Lake
10 23 (1.48%) NoSQL
11 22 (1.42%) Hadoop
12 16 (1.03%) BigQuery
12 16 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
12 16 (1.03%) Star Schema
13 14 (0.90%) Power Query
13 14 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 13 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (0.77%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 136 (8.75%) JIRA
2 64 (4.12%) Git
3 25 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.35%) JUnit
5 16 (1.03%) GitLab
6 11 (0.71%) Selenium
7 8 (0.51%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.51%) Postman
8 6 (0.39%) Browser DevTools
8 6 (0.39%) JMeter
9 5 (0.32%) Burp Suite
9 5 (0.32%) Eclipse
9 5 (0.32%) Metasploit
9 5 (0.32%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 5 (0.32%) webpack
10 4 (0.26%) Appium
10 4 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (0.26%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.26%) sqlmap
10 4 (0.26%) TestRail
General
1 848 (54.57%) Social Skills
2 556 (35.78%) Finance
3 207 (13.32%) Banking
4 127 (8.17%) Public Sector
5 96 (6.18%) Marketing
6 77 (4.95%) Investment Banking
7 68 (4.38%) Legal
8 53 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
8 53 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
8 53 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
9 52 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
10 47 (3.02%) Back Office
10 47 (3.02%) Front Office
11 43 (2.77%) Financial Institution
12 42 (2.70%) Retail
13 41 (2.64%) Telecoms
14 26 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 24 (1.54%) Publishing
16 20 (1.29%) Law
17 18 (1.16%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 414 (26.64%) Analyst
2 197 (12.68%) Business Analyst
3 183 (11.78%) Senior
4 177 (11.39%) Developer
5 121 (7.79%) Architect
6 91 (5.86%) Lead
7 75 (4.83%) Data Analyst
8 72 (4.63%) Consultant
9 60 (3.86%) Data Engineer
10 54 (3.47%) Senior Analyst
11 48 (3.09%) Project Manager
12 47 (3.02%) Senior Developer
13 44 (2.83%) Java Developer
14 36 (2.32%) Solutions Architect
15 32 (2.06%) Technical Analyst
16 29 (1.87%) Python Developer
16 29 (1.87%) Security Analyst
17 28 (1.80%) Data Scientist
18 24 (1.54%) Senior Business Analyst
19 23 (1.48%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (6.50%) REST
2 53 (3.41%) Kafka
3 50 (3.22%) JSON
4 38 (2.45%) .NET
5 37 (2.38%) HTML
5 37 (2.38%) Spring
6 36 (2.32%) React
7 29 (1.87%) CSS
7 29 (1.87%) XML
8 28 (1.80%) RESTful
9 27 (1.74%) AngularJS
10 25 (1.61%) SOAP
11 24 (1.54%) Pandas
12 19 (1.22%) Middleware
12 19 (1.22%) OAuth
13 18 (1.16%) NumPy
13 18 (1.16%) PySpark
13 18 (1.16%) scikit-learn
14 16 (1.03%) TensorFlow
14 16 (1.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 154 (9.91%) Analytical Mindset
2 74 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 70 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
4 64 (4.12%) Management Information System
5 55 (3.54%) Data Structures
6 53 (3.41%) Onboarding
7 44 (2.83%) Algorithms
8 33 (2.12%) Derivative
9 32 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
10 29 (1.87%) PKI
11 27 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
11 27 (1.74%) Equities
12 26 (1.67%) Fixed Income
12 26 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 25 (1.61%) Cloud Native
13 25 (1.61%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
14 22 (1.42%) Reinsurance
15 19 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
16 17 (1.09%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 89 (5.73%) Linux
2 74 (4.76%) Windows
3 31 (1.99%) Unix
4 9 (0.58%) Windows 10
5 7 (0.45%) Android
5 7 (0.45%) Mac OS
5 7 (0.45%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.32%) VMS
8 4 (0.26%) Solaris
9 2 (0.13%) AIX
9 2 (0.13%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.064%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.064%) VME
10 1 (0.064%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 848 (54.57%) Problem-Solving
2 467 (30.05%) Agile
3 288 (18.53%) Analytics
4 280 (18.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 243 (15.64%) Decision-Making
6 202 (13.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 197 (12.68%) Business Intelligence
8 183 (11.78%) Continuous Improvement
9 174 (11.20%) Data Modelling
10 163 (10.49%) Data Analysis
11 155 (9.97%) CI/CD
12 150 (9.65%) DevOps
13 145 (9.33%) Project Management
14 144 (9.27%) AI
15 143 (9.20%) Migration
16 135 (8.69%) Validation
17 128 (8.24%) Visualisation
18 127 (8.17%) Scrum
19 124 (7.98%) Roadmaps
20 123 (7.92%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 377 (24.26%) SQL
2 344 (22.14%) Python
3 121 (7.79%) Java
4 86 (5.53%) JavaScript
5 76 (4.89%) PowerShell
6 44 (2.83%) C#
7 42 (2.70%) Bash
8 35 (2.25%) TypeScript
9 27 (1.74%) C++
10 23 (1.48%) Shell Script
11 22 (1.42%) R
12 17 (1.09%) Go
13 13 (0.84%) Kusto Query Language
14 12 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 12 (0.77%) PL/SQL
15 11 (0.71%) VBA
16 10 (0.64%) Scala
17 9 (0.58%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.45%) Korn
19 6 (0.39%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 239 (15.38%) Degree
2 225 (14.48%) Security Cleared
3 174 (11.20%) SC Cleared
4 73 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (2.64%) Master's Degree
6 40 (2.57%) PMI Certification
7 28 (1.80%) PMP
8 24 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.42%) CISSP
10 18 (1.16%) Azure Certification
11 16 (1.03%) CBAP
12 14 (0.90%) CIMA
12 14 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (0.84%) ACCA
13 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.77%) AWS Certification
14 12 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.77%) OSCP
15 11 (0.71%) CCNP
16 10 (0.64%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (8.82%) Data Quality
2 117 (7.53%) QA
3 52 (3.35%) GDPR
4 45 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 30 (1.93%) PMO
6 19 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.22%) NIST
7 15 (0.97%) SLA
8 11 (0.71%) WCAG
9 10 (0.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (0.64%) GRC
9 10 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 9 (0.58%) COBIT
10 9 (0.58%) EMIR
11 7 (0.45%) ISO 20022
11 7 (0.45%) MiFID
11 7 (0.45%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.39%) ISO 19650
13 5 (0.32%) HIPAA
System Software
1 60 (3.86%) Active Directory
2 57 (3.67%) Docker
3 13 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.51%) zsh
5 7 (0.45%) HDFS
6 4 (0.26%) Firmware
6 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.19%) ProxySG
7 3 (0.19%) Squid
7 3 (0.19%) vSphere
8 2 (0.13%) Snort
8 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.064%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.064%) IAG
9 1 (0.064%) KVM
9 1 (0.064%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.064%) Xen
Systems Management
1 75 (4.83%) Kubernetes
2 57 (3.67%) Terraform
3 43 (2.77%) Ansible
4 17 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 16 (1.03%) Grafana
6 14 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 12 (0.77%) SCCM
7 12 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.51%) Nessus
9 6 (0.39%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
10 5 (0.32%) Nmap
11 4 (0.26%) BladeLogic
11 4 (0.26%) SCOM
12 3 (0.19%) Argo
12 3 (0.19%) CA Spectrum
13 2 (0.13%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.13%) Nexpose
13 2 (0.13%) Suricata
Vendors
1 252 (16.22%) Microsoft
2 89 (5.73%) Oracle
3 74 (4.76%) SAP
4 65 (4.18%) Google
5 57 (3.67%) ServiceNow
6 54 (3.47%) Salesforce
7 47 (3.02%) Databricks
8 36 (2.32%) Splunk
9 30 (1.93%) Cisco
10 21 (1.35%) VMware
11 19 (1.22%) Sybase
12 18 (1.16%) Bloomberg
13 16 (1.03%) Adobe
14 15 (0.97%) MuleSoft
15 13 (0.84%) Juniper
15 13 (0.84%) Palo Alto
16 12 (0.77%) Alteryx
16 12 (0.77%) CyberArk
16 12 (0.77%) Workday
17 11 (0.71%) IBM