Analytical Thinking Contracts in London

Analytical Thinking
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 325 408
Rank change year-on-year +30 +83 +56
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 58 66 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.46% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.42% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 50 47
10th Percentile £300 £348 £400
25th Percentile £397 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.62% +6.82% -4.72%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £763
90th Percentile £750 £710 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £23.60
25th Percentile £47.75 £24.25 £30.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £24.50 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year +102.04% -44.14% -
75th Percentile £51.25 £24.75 -
90th Percentile - - £61.04
England median hourly rate £60.00 £24.65 £43.86
% change year-on-year +143.41% -43.80% +137.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Analytical Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Analytical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in London

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Thinking in London.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Thinking in London

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in London

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Thinking in London.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Thinking in London

Analytical Thinking
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 Thinking within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -7 9 £600 -8.40% 15
West London +10 3 £400 -5.88% 12
South London - 1 - - 4
Analytical Thinking
England

Analytical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.90%) Confluence
2 3 (5.17%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.72%) MS Project Server
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (5.17%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Sprinklr
2 1 (1.72%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.72%) Murex MxG2000
2 1 (1.72%) Shopify
2 1 (1.72%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.52%) Power Platform
2 7 (12.07%) AWS
3 6 (10.34%) Azure
4 5 (8.62%) Snowflake
5 4 (6.90%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (6.90%) GCP
5 4 (6.90%) GitHub
6 3 (5.17%) Alation
6 3 (5.17%) dbt
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (3.45%) Google Analytics
7 2 (3.45%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.72%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.72%) Collibra
8 1 (1.72%) Datadog
8 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.72%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.52%) Power BI
2 4 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.17%) Data Vault
3 3 (5.17%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (3.45%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.45%) Looker
4 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.45%) Tableau
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.72%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.72%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.72%) IDMS
5 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Terragrunt
2 2 (3.45%) IntelliJ
2 2 (3.45%) JIRA
3 1 (1.72%) Git
3 1 (1.72%) GitLab
3 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.72%) JMeter
3 1 (1.72%) Maven
3 1 (1.72%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.72%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 58 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (58.62%) Social Skills
3 26 (44.83%) Finance
4 10 (17.24%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (13.79%) Banking
6 7 (12.07%) Investment Banking
6 7 (12.07%) Marketing
7 5 (8.62%) Retail
8 4 (6.90%) Advertising
8 4 (6.90%) Legal
9 3 (5.17%) Billing
9 3 (5.17%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
10 2 (3.45%) Aviation
10 2 (3.45%) Front Office
10 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.72%) German Language
11 1 (1.72%) Italian Language
11 1 (1.72%) Law
11 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (17.24%) Analyst
2 9 (15.52%) Senior
3 7 (12.07%) Business Analyst
3 7 (12.07%) Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Lead
5 4 (6.90%) Coordinator
5 4 (6.90%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.90%) Quantitative Developer
5 4 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Business Finance Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Finance Business Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Haskell Developer
6 3 (5.17%) Product Owner
6 3 (5.17%) Project Coordinator
6 3 (5.17%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Senior Business Finance Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Senior Financial Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Senior User Experience Researcher
7 2 (3.45%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) Kafka
1 2 (3.45%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.72%) J2EE
2 1 (1.72%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.72%) RESTful
2 1 (1.72%) Spring
2 1 (1.72%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.72%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (8.62%) Digital Media
4 4 (6.90%) Derivative
5 3 (5.17%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.45%) Social Media
7 1 (1.72%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.72%) FMCG
7 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.72%) Life Science
7 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.72%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.90%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
2 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (55.17%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (36.21%) Agile
3 15 (25.86%) Analytics
4 13 (22.41%) Decision-Making
5 11 (18.97%) Actionable Insight
6 10 (17.24%) Risk Management
7 9 (15.52%) Change Management
7 9 (15.52%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (15.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (13.79%) Data Analysis
8 8 (13.79%) Strategic Thinking
9 7 (12.07%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (10.34%) Critical Thinking
10 6 (10.34%) Data Visualisation
10 6 (10.34%) Project Management
10 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
10 6 (10.34%) Scrum
10 6 (10.34%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.79%) Python
2 7 (12.07%) SQL
3 4 (6.90%) Haskell
3 4 (6.90%) OCaml
3 4 (6.90%) Scala
4 3 (5.17%) Java
5 2 (3.45%) C#
5 2 (3.45%) C++
5 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.72%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Degree
2 6 (10.34%) PMP
3 3 (5.17%) CBAP
3 3 (5.17%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.45%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.72%) CISSP
5 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.45%) COBIT
2 2 (3.45%) GDPR
2 2 (3.45%) NIST
2 2 (3.45%) PMO
2 2 (3.45%) QA
3 1 (1.72%) GRC
3 1 (1.72%) IFRS
3 1 (1.72%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.72%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (1.72%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.17%) comScore
2 3 (5.17%) Facebook
2 3 (5.17%) Google
2 3 (5.17%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (3.45%) Databricks
3 2 (3.45%) Oracle
3 2 (3.45%) Wrike
3 2 (3.45%) YouTube
4 1 (1.72%) Adobe
4 1 (1.72%) Foundry
4 1 (1.72%) Instagram
4 1 (1.72%) Murex
4 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.72%) SAP
4 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.72%) Sitecore