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 16 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 14 22
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,783 1,610 1,398
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.02% 11.87% 8.06%
As % of the General category 14.91% 17.44% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,089 1,020 941
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £807 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 33 35
10th Percentile £19.16 £11.96 £14.00
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.25 £17.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £37.00 £26.56
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% +39.31% -44.08%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.15 £62.75 £61.00
England median hourly rate £36.00 £34.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +5.90% +69.98% -47.02%

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 11,956 9,232 10,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.51% 68.07% 62.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 6,143 7,662
10th Percentile £350 £330 £335
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £571
Median % change year-on-year - -3.72% -4.79%
75th Percentile £675 £694 £700
90th Percentile £788 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £513 £530
% change year-on-year +2.44% -3.30% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 178 208
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £24.66 £20.18
Median hourly rate £31.75 £32.70 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.89% +2.17% -8.57%
75th Percentile £44.97 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.75 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £26.48 £33.75
% change year-on-year +28.42% -21.56% +10.51%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -8 229 £525 -4.55% 123
West London +2 81 £520 +30.00% 37
South London +1 36 £506 -19.00% 21
East London -5 9 £400 +10.97% 22
North London - 3 £450 - 2
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 73 (4.09%) Confluence
2 33 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 32 (1.79%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.12%) Apache
5 19 (1.07%) CMS
6 16 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 6 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.34%) Jupyter
8 6 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.34%) SAS
9 5 (0.28%) IIS
10 4 (0.22%) Appian
11 3 (0.17%) Camunda
12 2 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
12 2 (0.11%) Sitecore CMS
13 1 (0.056%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.056%) nginx
Applications
1 156 (8.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (3.53%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.19%) MS Visio
5 24 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.62%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.11%) Notion
9 2 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.056%) Sketch
10 1 (0.056%) Trello
Business Applications
1 24 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.90%) Aladdin
3 16 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.56%) Finacle
4 10 (0.56%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.45%) Fidessa
5 8 (0.45%) NetSuite
5 8 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 7 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
7 6 (0.34%) Loan IQ
7 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 6 (0.34%) Shopify
8 5 (0.28%) Magento
8 5 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
8 5 (0.28%) Summit
9 4 (0.22%) Findur
9 4 (0.22%) HFM
9 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 368 (20.64%) Azure
2 252 (14.13%) AWS
3 219 (12.28%) Power Platform
4 94 (5.27%) GCP
5 81 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
6 74 (4.15%) SaaS
7 71 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
8 67 (3.76%) GitHub
9 53 (2.97%) Entra ID
10 43 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
11 41 (2.30%) Snowflake
12 34 (1.91%) Amazon S3
13 33 (1.85%) Serverless
14 32 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
15 30 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
16 29 (1.63%) dbt
17 26 (1.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 24 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
19 23 (1.29%) PaaS
20 22 (1.23%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 46 (2.58%) Firewall
2 31 (1.74%) DNS
3 28 (1.57%) Network Security
4 25 (1.40%) VPN
5 22 (1.23%) TCP/IP
6 19 (1.07%) DHCP
7 18 (1.01%) WAN
8 14 (0.79%) SAN
9 13 (0.73%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.73%) VLAN
10 12 (0.67%) BGP
11 10 (0.56%) HTTP
12 9 (0.50%) 5G
12 9 (0.50%) OSPF
12 9 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (0.45%) 4G
13 8 (0.45%) Ethernet VPN
13 8 (0.45%) LAN
13 8 (0.45%) VXLAN
14 7 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 196 (10.99%) Power BI
2 103 (5.78%) Data Warehouse
3 95 (5.33%) SQL Server
4 76 (4.26%) Tableau
5 73 (4.09%) Relational Database
6 65 (3.65%) Metadata
7 46 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (2.30%) Data Lake
9 33 (1.85%) NoSQL
10 26 (1.46%) Big Data
10 26 (1.46%) MongoDB
11 24 (1.35%) RDBMS
12 23 (1.29%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.29%) Oracle Database
12 23 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (1.07%) Power Query
14 18 (1.01%) Star Schema
15 17 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
16 15 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
16 15 (0.84%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 169 (9.48%) JIRA
2 80 (4.49%) Git
3 36 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.46%) Selenium
5 13 (0.73%) Postman
5 13 (0.73%) REST Assured
6 12 (0.67%) Cypress.io
6 12 (0.67%) ERwin
6 12 (0.67%) GitLab
7 11 (0.62%) JUnit
8 10 (0.56%) Maven
9 9 (0.50%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.50%) JMeter
9 9 (0.50%) MLflow
10 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.39%) Chocolatey
11 7 (0.39%) Gradle
11 7 (0.39%) SonarQube
12 6 (0.34%) Zephyr
General
1 843 (47.28%) Social Skills
2 695 (38.98%) Finance
3 254 (14.25%) Banking
4 152 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 91 (5.10%) Marketing
6 85 (4.77%) Front Office
7 84 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
8 77 (4.32%) Organisational Skills
9 75 (4.21%) Legal
10 57 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
10 57 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
11 53 (2.97%) Investment Banking
12 52 (2.92%) Retail
13 48 (2.69%) Telecoms
14 47 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 42 (2.36%) Financial Institution
16 29 (1.63%) Back Office
17 21 (1.18%) Local Government
18 20 (1.12%) Law
18 20 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 461 (25.86%) Analyst
2 229 (12.84%) Business Analyst
3 182 (10.21%) Senior
4 161 (9.03%) Developer
5 125 (7.01%) Architect
6 123 (6.90%) Lead
7 108 (6.06%) Data Engineer
8 100 (5.61%) Data Analyst
9 89 (4.99%) Consultant
10 69 (3.87%) Data Scientist
11 59 (3.31%) Project Manager
12 44 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
13 36 (2.02%) Senior Developer
14 32 (1.79%) Solutions Architect
15 29 (1.63%) Financial Analyst
16 28 (1.57%) Product Owner
16 28 (1.57%) Senior Manager
16 28 (1.57%) Support Engineer
17 26 (1.46%) Technical Business Analyst
18 25 (1.40%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (5.55%) REST
2 62 (3.48%) .NET
3 49 (2.75%) Kafka
4 43 (2.41%) JSON
4 43 (2.41%) RESTful
5 42 (2.36%) XML
6 41 (2.30%) Pandas
7 37 (2.08%) SOAP
8 35 (1.96%) HTML
9 34 (1.91%) Middleware
9 34 (1.91%) Web Services
10 30 (1.68%) CSS
11 29 (1.63%) scikit-learn
12 26 (1.46%) Spring
13 25 (1.40%) PySpark
13 25 (1.40%) React
14 24 (1.35%) NumPy
15 23 (1.29%) Spring Boot
16 22 (1.23%) AngularJS
16 22 (1.23%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 158 (8.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 115 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 89 (4.99%) Onboarding
4 77 (4.32%) Data Structures
5 70 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
6 51 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
7 49 (2.75%) Cloud Native
8 44 (2.47%) Management Information System
9 42 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
10 38 (2.13%) Algorithms
10 38 (2.13%) Fixed Income
11 35 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
12 34 (1.91%) Data Centre
13 32 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 31 (1.74%) Derivative
15 28 (1.57%) Equities
16 26 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
17 23 (1.29%) AI Agents
18 22 (1.23%) Security Posture
18 22 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 111 (6.23%) Windows
2 79 (4.43%) Linux
3 35 (1.96%) Unix
4 19 (1.07%) Mac OS
5 15 (0.84%) Windows Server
6 13 (0.73%) Apple iOS
6 13 (0.73%) Windows 10
7 12 (0.67%) Android
8 6 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.34%) Solaris
9 5 (0.28%) AIX
10 4 (0.22%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.11%) SUSE
12 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 871 (48.85%) Problem-Solving
2 501 (28.10%) Agile
3 458 (25.69%) Stakeholder Management
4 338 (18.96%) Analytics
5 335 (18.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 317 (17.78%) AI
7 311 (17.44%) Decision-Making
8 264 (14.81%) Data Modelling
9 235 (13.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 231 (12.96%) Validation
11 222 (12.45%) Business Intelligence
12 214 (12.00%) DevOps
13 206 (11.55%) CI/CD
14 196 (10.99%) Migration
15 180 (10.10%) Data Analysis
16 168 (9.42%) Data Pipeline
17 158 (8.86%) Roadmaps
18 157 (8.81%) User Acceptance Testing
19 153 (8.58%) ETL
20 148 (8.30%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 512 (28.72%) SQL
2 395 (22.15%) Python
3 115 (6.45%) Java
4 83 (4.66%) C#
5 70 (3.93%) JavaScript
6 62 (3.48%) PowerShell
7 44 (2.47%) TypeScript
8 34 (1.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 29 (1.63%) C++
9 29 (1.63%) R
10 27 (1.51%) Bash
10 27 (1.51%) PL/SQL
11 26 (1.46%) T-SQL
12 22 (1.23%) Scala
13 11 (0.62%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.56%) VBA
15 9 (0.50%) C
15 9 (0.50%) Shell Script
16 8 (0.45%) Ruby
16 8 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 217 (12.17%) Degree
2 216 (12.11%) Security Cleared
3 158 (8.86%) SC Cleared
4 68 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 40 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (1.96%) CISSP
6 35 (1.96%) Master's Degree
7 27 (1.51%) PMP
8 25 (1.40%) PMI Certification
9 23 (1.29%) CISM
10 22 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
11 19 (1.07%) Azure Certification
12 15 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
13 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 13 (0.73%) CCNP
14 13 (0.73%) CISA
14 13 (0.73%) DV Cleared
15 12 (0.67%) ACCA
15 12 (0.67%) ISTQB
16 11 (0.62%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (12.96%) Data Quality
2 134 (7.52%) QA
3 86 (4.82%) PMO
4 69 (3.87%) GDPR
5 45 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.52%) SLA
6 43 (2.41%) NIST
7 33 (1.85%) Accessibility
8 26 (1.46%) Actionable Recommendations
9 23 (1.29%) COBIT
10 21 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 17 (0.95%) GRC
12 16 (0.90%) IFRS
13 13 (0.73%) PCI DSS
14 12 (0.67%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.45%) Solvency II
16 7 (0.39%) GAAP
17 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
17 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.34%) GxP
System Software
1 66 (3.70%) Docker
2 65 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
4 9 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.45%) IAG
6 7 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.22%) Firmware
8 3 (0.17%) Postfix
9 2 (0.11%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
9 2 (0.11%) Squid
9 2 (0.11%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.056%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.056%) RACF
10 1 (0.056%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.056%) vSphere
10 1 (0.056%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 67 (3.76%) Kubernetes
2 53 (2.97%) Terraform
3 29 (1.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (1.57%) Ansible
5 22 (1.23%) Grafana
6 11 (0.62%) SCCM
6 11 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (0.50%) Kibana
8 8 (0.45%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.39%) Control-M
10 5 (0.28%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.22%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.17%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.11%) Istio
13 2 (0.11%) Nessus
13 2 (0.11%) systemd
13 2 (0.11%) Tivoli
14 1 (0.056%) Nagios
14 1 (0.056%) NetBackup
14 1 (0.056%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 276 (15.48%) Microsoft
2 159 (8.92%) Oracle
3 97 (5.44%) SAP
4 87 (4.88%) ServiceNow
5 78 (4.37%) Salesforce
6 63 (3.53%) Google
7 62 (3.48%) Databricks
8 30 (1.68%) Splunk
9 25 (1.40%) Dynatrace
9 25 (1.40%) Workday
10 24 (1.35%) IBM
11 22 (1.23%) Cisco
12 21 (1.18%) Informatica
13 19 (1.07%) Adobe
13 19 (1.07%) Alteryx
13 19 (1.07%) CyberArk
13 19 (1.07%) VMware
14 17 (0.95%) Apple
15 15 (0.84%) Tenable
16 13 (0.73%) Murex