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

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -3 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,507 1,465 1,496
As % of all contract jobs in London 10.48% 10.18% 8.21%
As % of the General category 15.88% 15.73% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 925 883 1,004
10th Percentile £319 £319 £311
25th Percentile £405 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £794 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £532
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.32% -3.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 28 34
10th Percentile £18.25 £17.25 £16.40
25th Percentile £24.38 £23.19 £21.75
Median hourly rate £34.64 £30.97 £43.68
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -29.10% +34.40%
75th Percentile £47.00 £54.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £56.10 £80.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £34.64 £26.13 £30.00
% change year-on-year +32.57% -12.92% -14.29%

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 9,489 9,313 11,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 65.96% 64.72% 64.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,180 5,922 8,431
10th Percentile £350 £325 £341
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £673 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £813 £800
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.37% -2.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 115 167
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.35 £17.13
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.99 £20.25
Median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.86% +7.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £45.56 £53.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.04 £76.75
England median hourly rate £23.58 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.42% -9.09% +28.83%

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 3 January 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 3 January 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 3 January 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 -2 236 £500 -9.09% 308
South London -10 20 £513 -12.09% 52
West London -15 20 £500 +33.33% 67
East London +5 9 £394 -38.98% 83
North London 0 1 - - 14
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 75 (4.98%) Confluence
2 39 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.59%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 18 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
6 14 (0.93%) CMS
7 7 (0.46%) Apache
8 4 (0.27%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.20%) SAS
10 2 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.13%) Camunda
10 2 (0.13%) IIS
10 2 (0.13%) Luigi
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle Application Server
10 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.066%) Appian
11 1 (0.066%) GeoServer
Applications
1 159 (10.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (2.59%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.40%) ProjectWise
7 6 (0.40%) Trello
8 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.13%) Autodesk Smoke
9 2 (0.13%) Notion
9 2 (0.13%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.066%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.066%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.066%) Revit
Business Applications
1 18 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.80%) NetSuite
4 11 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
5 10 (0.66%) Oracle Financials
6 9 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.53%) Endur
7 8 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
7 8 (0.53%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
9 6 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
9 6 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
10 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.33%) Shopify
10 5 (0.33%) Teamcenter
10 5 (0.33%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
11 4 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
12 3 (0.20%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 257 (17.05%) Azure
2 196 (13.01%) AWS
3 179 (11.88%) Power Platform
4 75 (4.98%) GCP
5 71 (4.71%) SaaS
6 50 (3.32%) Azure DevOps
6 50 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (2.59%) Snowflake
8 38 (2.52%) Entra ID
8 38 (2.52%) GitHub
9 36 (2.39%) IaaS
10 35 (2.32%) Amazon S3
11 31 (2.06%) Serverless
12 28 (1.86%) dbt
13 25 (1.66%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (1.46%) Azure Data Factory
14 22 (1.46%) Dynamics 365
15 20 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (1.13%) Google Analytics
16 17 (1.13%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 32 (2.12%) Network Security
2 31 (2.06%) Firewall
3 26 (1.73%) DNS
4 18 (1.19%) VPN
5 12 (0.80%) WAN
6 11 (0.73%) HTTP
6 11 (0.73%) LAN
7 10 (0.66%) TCP/IP
8 9 (0.60%) DHCP
8 9 (0.60%) SSL
9 7 (0.46%) VoIP
10 6 (0.40%) Internet
10 6 (0.40%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.40%) SMS
10 6 (0.40%) VLAN
11 5 (0.33%) CTI
11 5 (0.33%) DMZ
12 4 (0.27%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
13 3 (0.20%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (11.15%) Power BI
2 78 (5.18%) Tableau
3 63 (4.18%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (3.12%) SQL Server
5 41 (2.72%) Metadata
6 37 (2.46%) Relational Database
7 29 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
8 25 (1.66%) Big Data
9 23 (1.53%) NoSQL
10 22 (1.46%) MongoDB
11 21 (1.39%) DB2
12 20 (1.33%) Data Lake
13 18 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
13 18 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
14 17 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 16 (1.06%) Power Query
16 15 (1.00%) BigQuery
16 15 (1.00%) Hadoop
17 14 (0.93%) Star Schema
18 13 (0.86%) Looker
Development Applications
1 141 (9.36%) JIRA
2 58 (3.85%) Git
3 20 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.19%) GitLab
5 14 (0.93%) JUnit
6 11 (0.73%) Selenium
7 7 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.40%) Appium
8 6 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (0.40%) Postman
9 5 (0.33%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.33%) Browser DevTools
9 5 (0.33%) Burp Suite
9 5 (0.33%) JMeter
9 5 (0.33%) Metasploit
9 5 (0.33%) Visual Website Optimizer
10 4 (0.27%) sqlmap
10 4 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.20%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.20%) webpack
General
1 791 (52.49%) Social Skills
2 535 (35.50%) Finance
3 204 (13.54%) Banking
4 125 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 97 (6.44%) Marketing
6 68 (4.51%) Investment Banking
7 66 (4.38%) Legal
8 55 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
9 52 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
12 43 (2.85%) Front Office
12 43 (2.85%) Retail
13 41 (2.72%) Back Office
14 37 (2.46%) Financial Institution
15 35 (2.32%) Telecoms
16 30 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 21 (1.39%) Publishing
18 18 (1.19%) Law
19 16 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 399 (26.48%) Analyst
2 197 (13.07%) Business Analyst
3 177 (11.75%) Senior
4 156 (10.35%) Developer
5 113 (7.50%) Architect
6 98 (6.50%) Lead
7 81 (5.37%) Data Analyst
8 74 (4.91%) Consultant
9 54 (3.58%) Data Engineer
9 54 (3.58%) Senior Analyst
10 51 (3.38%) Project Manager
11 37 (2.46%) Senior Developer
12 34 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
13 31 (2.06%) Data Scientist
14 30 (1.99%) Senior Business Analyst
14 30 (1.99%) Technical Analyst
15 29 (1.92%) Java Developer
16 26 (1.73%) Python Developer
17 25 (1.66%) Product Manager
18 24 (1.59%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (5.84%) REST
2 47 (3.12%) Kafka
3 46 (3.05%) JSON
4 33 (2.19%) HTML
5 32 (2.12%) .NET
6 26 (1.73%) CSS
6 26 (1.73%) RESTful
6 26 (1.73%) Spring
7 25 (1.66%) React
7 25 (1.66%) XML
8 24 (1.59%) Middleware
8 24 (1.59%) Pandas
9 23 (1.53%) SOAP
10 18 (1.19%) Node.js
10 18 (1.19%) scikit-learn
11 17 (1.13%) NumPy
12 16 (1.06%) AngularJS
12 16 (1.06%) TensorFlow
13 15 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
13 15 (1.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 158 (10.48%) Analytical Mindset
2 71 (4.71%) Product Ownership
3 65 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
4 64 (4.25%) Management Information System
5 50 (3.32%) Onboarding
6 48 (3.19%) Data Structures
7 34 (2.26%) Algorithms
8 31 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
9 30 (1.99%) PKI
10 29 (1.92%) Derivative
10 29 (1.92%) Equities
11 26 (1.73%) Cloud Native
11 26 (1.73%) Fixed Income
12 25 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
13 23 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
13 23 (1.53%) Security Posture
14 22 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 19 (1.26%) PMI
16 18 (1.19%) Data Centre
17 17 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 69 (4.58%) Linux
2 66 (4.38%) Windows
3 22 (1.46%) Unix
4 7 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.46%) Mac OS
4 7 (0.46%) Windows Server
5 6 (0.40%) Android
5 6 (0.40%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.27%) Solaris
7 4 (0.27%) VMS
8 2 (0.13%) AIX
9 1 (0.066%) Kali Linux
9 1 (0.066%) VME
9 1 (0.066%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.066%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (53.62%) Problem-Solving
2 460 (30.52%) Agile
3 298 (19.77%) Analytics
4 292 (19.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 262 (17.39%) Decision-Making
6 211 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 202 (13.40%) Business Intelligence
8 190 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
9 170 (11.28%) Data Modelling
10 166 (11.02%) Data Analysis
11 154 (10.22%) AI
12 145 (9.62%) Project Management
13 142 (9.42%) Validation
14 136 (9.02%) Migration
15 135 (8.96%) CI/CD
15 135 (8.96%) Roadmaps
16 134 (8.89%) DevOps
17 133 (8.83%) Visualisation
18 130 (8.63%) Actionable Insight
19 121 (8.03%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 367 (24.35%) SQL
2 315 (20.90%) Python
3 88 (5.84%) Java
4 76 (5.04%) JavaScript
5 75 (4.98%) PowerShell
6 51 (3.38%) C#
7 35 (2.32%) Bash
8 31 (2.06%) TypeScript
9 26 (1.73%) C++
10 24 (1.59%) R
11 18 (1.19%) Shell Script
12 15 (1.00%) PL/SQL
13 14 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 14 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
14 11 (0.73%) Go
15 10 (0.66%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.53%) Korn
16 8 (0.53%) Scala
17 7 (0.46%) VBA
18 6 (0.40%) C
Qualifications
1 233 (15.46%) Security Cleared
2 228 (15.13%) Degree
3 175 (11.61%) SC Cleared
4 73 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 49 (3.25%) PMI Certification
6 48 (3.19%) Master's Degree
7 33 (2.19%) PMP
8 23 (1.53%) DV Cleared
9 21 (1.39%) CISSP
10 16 (1.06%) CBAP
11 15 (1.00%) Azure Certification
12 13 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (0.86%) CIMA
13 12 (0.80%) ACCA
13 12 (0.80%) AWS Certification
13 12 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (0.80%) CISM
14 11 (0.73%) OSCP
15 10 (0.66%) CSPO
15 10 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 146 (9.69%) Data Quality
2 115 (7.63%) QA
3 57 (3.78%) GDPR
4 46 (3.05%) Accessibility
5 38 (2.52%) PMO
6 22 (1.46%) NIST
7 20 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
9 13 (0.86%) WCAG
10 12 (0.80%) GRC
10 12 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.80%) SLA
11 11 (0.73%) COBIT
11 11 (0.73%) EMIR
11 11 (0.73%) MiFID
12 10 (0.66%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 8 (0.53%) ISO 20022
15 7 (0.46%) PSD2
16 6 (0.40%) ISO 19650
System Software
1 60 (3.98%) Docker
2 49 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.53%) zsh
5 7 (0.46%) HDFS
6 3 (0.20%) ProxySG
6 3 (0.20%) Squid
6 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.20%) vSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Snort
7 2 (0.13%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.066%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.066%) Firmware
8 1 (0.066%) IAG
8 1 (0.066%) KVM
8 1 (0.066%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.066%) Xen
Systems Management
1 66 (4.38%) Kubernetes
2 42 (2.79%) Terraform
3 37 (2.46%) Ansible
4 17 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (0.86%) SCCM
6 9 (0.60%) Grafana
7 7 (0.46%) Nessus
7 7 (0.46%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.33%) Nmap
9 5 (0.33%) SCOM
10 3 (0.20%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.13%) Argo
11 2 (0.13%) BladeLogic
11 2 (0.13%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.13%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.13%) Suricata
11 2 (0.13%) vRealize
11 2 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 257 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.31%) Oracle
3 73 (4.84%) SAP
4 65 (4.31%) Salesforce
5 63 (4.18%) Google
6 54 (3.58%) Databricks
7 49 (3.25%) ServiceNow
8 27 (1.79%) Splunk
9 23 (1.53%) Cisco
10 19 (1.26%) Bloomberg
10 19 (1.26%) VMware
11 17 (1.13%) Adobe
12 15 (1.00%) MuleSoft
12 15 (1.00%) Palo Alto
13 14 (0.93%) Remedy
14 13 (0.86%) Sybase
15 12 (0.80%) Juniper
16 11 (0.73%) Alteryx
16 11 (0.73%) IBM
16 11 (0.73%) Murex