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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 14 21
Rank change year-on-year -10 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,700 1,547 1,404
As % of all contract jobs in London 8.82% 12.00% 8.03%
As % of the General category 14.63% 17.63% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,042 974 954
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.17%
75th Percentile £638 £681 £688
90th Percentile £750 £813 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 35 40
10th Percentile £19.12 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.86 £17.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £38.11 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% +81.48% -51.16%
75th Percentile £50.00 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.30 £67.50 £56.00
England median hourly rate £31.50 £32.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.08% +66.67% -45.07%

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 11,622 8,773 10,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 60.31% 68.05% 62.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,453 5,847 7,763
10th Percentile £350 £331 £336
25th Percentile £438 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £700
90th Percentile £788 £813 £825
England median daily rate £525 £518 £535
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.11% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 165 234
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.17 £24.66 £18.39
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% +12.73% -7.20%
75th Percentile £45.25 £51.18 £48.44
90th Percentile £68.25 £64.50 £67.40
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £32.70
% change year-on-year +18.18% -15.90% +8.99%

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 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 1 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 1 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 -8 216 £525 -4.55% 309
West London +2 80 £520 +30.00% 39
South London +4 30 £469 -25.00% 13
East London -6 8 £400 -7.03% 27
North London - 1 - - 9
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 (4.29%) Confluence
2 32 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
2 32 (1.88%) Apache Spark
3 29 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 19 (1.12%) Apache
5 15 (0.88%) CMS
5 15 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
6 7 (0.41%) SAS
6 7 (0.41%) WebSphere
7 6 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.35%) Jupyter
8 5 (0.29%) IIS
9 4 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.18%) Appian
10 3 (0.18%) Camunda
11 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.059%) nginx
12 1 (0.059%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.059%) Traefik
12 1 (0.059%) WebLogic
Applications
1 150 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (3.35%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (2.47%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
6 16 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.65%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.12%) Notion
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.059%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.059%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 22 (1.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.82%) Aladdin
3 14 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.59%) Finacle
5 9 (0.53%) Fidessa
5 9 (0.53%) NetSuite
5 9 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
5 9 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 6 (0.35%) iTrent
6 6 (0.35%) Loan IQ
6 6 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
6 6 (0.35%) SimCorp Dimension
6 6 (0.35%) Summit
7 5 (0.29%) Magento
7 5 (0.29%) Shopify
8 4 (0.24%) HFM
8 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
8 4 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 341 (20.06%) Azure
2 239 (14.06%) AWS
3 211 (12.41%) Power Platform
4 88 (5.18%) GCP
5 79 (4.65%) SaaS
6 75 (4.41%) Azure DevOps
7 66 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
8 62 (3.65%) GitHub
9 41 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
10 40 (2.35%) Entra ID
11 38 (2.24%) Snowflake
12 34 (2.00%) Amazon S3
13 33 (1.94%) Serverless
14 29 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
15 28 (1.65%) dbt
15 28 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
16 26 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
17 24 (1.41%) PaaS
18 21 (1.24%) Azure Synapse Analytics
18 21 (1.24%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 42 (2.47%) Firewall
2 26 (1.53%) DNS
2 26 (1.53%) Network Security
3 20 (1.18%) WAN
4 19 (1.12%) VPN
5 17 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 16 (0.94%) DHCP
7 15 (0.88%) SD-WAN
8 13 (0.76%) SAN
9 11 (0.65%) BGP
10 10 (0.59%) VLAN
11 9 (0.53%) 5G
11 9 (0.53%) Internet
11 9 (0.53%) OSPF
12 8 (0.47%) 4G
12 8 (0.47%) Ethernet VPN
12 8 (0.47%) HTTP
12 8 (0.47%) LAN
12 8 (0.47%) VXLAN
13 7 (0.41%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (11.00%) Power BI
2 99 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
3 86 (5.06%) SQL Server
4 75 (4.41%) Tableau
5 68 (4.00%) Relational Database
6 58 (3.41%) Metadata
7 41 (2.41%) Data Lake
7 41 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
8 33 (1.94%) NoSQL
9 26 (1.53%) Big Data
9 26 (1.53%) MongoDB
10 24 (1.41%) RDBMS
11 22 (1.29%) BigQuery
11 22 (1.29%) Oracle Database
12 21 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 19 (1.12%) Power Query
14 18 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
14 18 (1.06%) Star Schema
15 15 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
16 13 (0.76%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 162 (9.53%) JIRA
2 71 (4.18%) Git
3 33 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.41%) Selenium
5 14 (0.82%) REST Assured
6 13 (0.76%) Postman
7 12 (0.71%) Cypress.io
8 11 (0.65%) GitLab
9 10 (0.59%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.59%) ERwin
9 10 (0.59%) JUnit
9 10 (0.59%) MLflow
10 8 (0.47%) Bitbucket
10 8 (0.47%) PowerDesigner
11 7 (0.41%) JMeter
11 7 (0.41%) SonarQube
11 7 (0.41%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.35%) Maven
12 6 (0.35%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.35%) Zephyr
General
1 790 (46.47%) Social Skills
2 671 (39.47%) Finance
3 244 (14.35%) Banking
4 137 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 87 (5.12%) Marketing
6 82 (4.82%) Front Office
7 79 (4.65%) Legal
8 75 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
9 71 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
10 61 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
11 55 (3.24%) Investment Banking
12 52 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
13 48 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 48 (2.82%) Telecoms
14 45 (2.65%) Retail
15 40 (2.35%) Financial Institution
16 27 (1.59%) Back Office
17 21 (1.24%) Law
18 18 (1.06%) Local Government
18 18 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 441 (25.94%) Analyst
2 222 (13.06%) Business Analyst
3 163 (9.59%) Senior
4 151 (8.88%) Developer
5 122 (7.18%) Architect
6 111 (6.53%) Lead
7 100 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 94 (5.53%) Data Analyst
9 93 (5.47%) Consultant
10 62 (3.65%) Data Scientist
11 54 (3.18%) Project Manager
12 41 (2.41%) Senior Analyst
13 35 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (1.94%) Senior Developer
15 29 (1.71%) Financial Analyst
16 27 (1.59%) Senior Business Analyst
17 25 (1.47%) Product Owner
17 25 (1.47%) Support Engineer
17 25 (1.47%) Technical Analyst
17 25 (1.47%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (5.35%) REST
2 63 (3.71%) .NET
3 50 (2.94%) Kafka
4 40 (2.35%) JSON
5 39 (2.29%) Pandas
5 39 (2.29%) XML
6 37 (2.18%) Middleware
6 37 (2.18%) RESTful
7 35 (2.06%) SOAP
8 30 (1.76%) HTML
8 30 (1.76%) scikit-learn
9 29 (1.71%) Web Services
10 27 (1.59%) CSS
11 26 (1.53%) PySpark
12 23 (1.35%) NumPy
13 22 (1.29%) PyTorch
13 22 (1.29%) React
14 21 (1.24%) Spring
15 20 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
15 20 (1.18%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 161 (9.47%) Analytical Mindset
2 101 (5.94%) Product Ownership
3 76 (4.47%) Onboarding
4 73 (4.29%) Data Structures
5 66 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 46 (2.71%) Cloud Native
6 46 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
7 43 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
8 39 (2.29%) Algorithms
8 39 (2.29%) Management Information System
9 36 (2.12%) Data Centre
10 35 (2.06%) Fixed Income
11 32 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 31 (1.82%) Derivative
13 30 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
13 30 (1.76%) Equities
14 23 (1.35%) Security Posture
15 21 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
15 21 (1.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 21 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 106 (6.24%) Windows
2 73 (4.29%) Linux
3 35 (2.06%) Unix
4 17 (1.00%) Mac OS
5 12 (0.71%) Android
5 12 (0.71%) Apple iOS
5 12 (0.71%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.65%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.35%) Solaris
8 5 (0.29%) AIX
9 2 (0.12%) SUSE
10 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 829 (48.76%) Problem-Solving
2 463 (27.24%) Agile
3 409 (24.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 313 (18.41%) Analytics
5 311 (18.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 299 (17.59%) AI
7 287 (16.88%) Decision-Making
8 249 (14.65%) Data Modelling
9 225 (13.24%) Validation
10 219 (12.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 208 (12.24%) Business Intelligence
12 200 (11.76%) DevOps
13 187 (11.00%) CI/CD
14 185 (10.88%) Migration
15 178 (10.47%) Data Analysis
16 150 (8.82%) Data Pipeline
17 149 (8.76%) User Acceptance Testing
18 146 (8.59%) Roadmaps
19 144 (8.47%) ETL
20 142 (8.35%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 491 (28.88%) SQL
2 381 (22.41%) Python
3 107 (6.29%) Java
4 87 (5.12%) C#
5 62 (3.65%) JavaScript
6 57 (3.35%) PowerShell
7 44 (2.59%) TypeScript
8 35 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 31 (1.82%) C++
10 29 (1.71%) R
11 26 (1.53%) PL/SQL
12 24 (1.41%) T-SQL
13 22 (1.29%) Bash
13 22 (1.29%) Scala
14 10 (0.59%) Apex Code
14 10 (0.59%) C
15 9 (0.53%) VBA
16 8 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.47%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 208 (12.24%) Degree
2 201 (11.82%) Security Cleared
3 143 (8.41%) SC Cleared
4 63 (3.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 39 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (2.18%) Master's Degree
7 35 (2.06%) CISSP
8 27 (1.59%) PMP
9 26 (1.53%) PMI Certification
10 23 (1.35%) CISM
11 21 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
12 16 (0.94%) Azure Certification
13 15 (0.88%) CISA
13 15 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
13 15 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (0.82%) DV Cleared
15 13 (0.76%) CRISC
16 12 (0.71%) ACCA
16 12 (0.71%) ISTQB
17 11 (0.65%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (12.88%) Data Quality
2 135 (7.94%) QA
3 80 (4.71%) PMO
4 75 (4.41%) GDPR
5 50 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 47 (2.76%) NIST
7 43 (2.53%) SLA
8 28 (1.65%) Accessibility
9 26 (1.53%) COBIT
10 25 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 24 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (1.24%) GRC
13 20 (1.18%) PCI DSS
14 17 (1.00%) IFRS
15 13 (0.76%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.47%) Solvency II
17 7 (0.41%) GAAP
18 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
18 6 (0.35%) GxP
18 6 (0.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 61 (3.59%) Docker
2 54 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.29%) IAG
7 4 (0.24%) Firmware
8 3 (0.18%) Postfix
8 3 (0.18%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.12%) NFS
9 2 (0.12%) Squid
10 1 (0.059%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.059%) RACF
10 1 (0.059%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
10 1 (0.059%) vSphere
10 1 (0.059%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 47 (2.76%) Terraform
3 25 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 22 (1.29%) Ansible
5 21 (1.24%) Grafana
6 11 (0.65%) SCCM
6 11 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.47%) Kibana
8 7 (0.41%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.35%) FortiGate
10 5 (0.29%) HP ALM
11 4 (0.24%) Control-M
12 3 (0.18%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.12%) Istio
13 2 (0.12%) Nessus
13 2 (0.12%) Tivoli
14 1 (0.059%) Nagios
14 1 (0.059%) SCOM
14 1 (0.059%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 1 (0.059%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 254 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 147 (8.65%) Oracle
3 94 (5.53%) SAP
4 81 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 80 (4.71%) Salesforce
6 65 (3.82%) Databricks
7 61 (3.59%) Google
8 27 (1.59%) Splunk
9 23 (1.35%) Workday
10 22 (1.29%) Dynatrace
11 21 (1.24%) IBM
12 20 (1.18%) Informatica
13 19 (1.12%) Cisco
14 18 (1.06%) Alteryx
15 17 (1.00%) Adobe
16 16 (0.94%) Murex
16 16 (0.94%) VMware
17 14 (0.82%) Apple
17 14 (0.82%) Bloomberg
17 14 (0.82%) Tenable