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

6 months to
14 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 287 338 391
Rank change year-on-year +51 +53 +51
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 80 64 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.59% 0.37% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.41% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 44 52
10th Percentile £272 £285 £364
25th Percentile £395 £413 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £600 £568
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% +5.73% -1.69%
75th Percentile £609 £702 £800
90th Percentile £750 £711 £838
England median daily rate £500 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.27% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £23.97
25th Percentile £47.75 - £31.43
Median hourly rate £49.50 - £43.86
75th Percentile £51.25 - £58.18
90th Percentile - - £66.77
England median hourly rate £50.00 £25.00 £44.43
% change year-on-year +100.00% -43.73% +39.50%

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 12,452 15,433 23,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.70% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,332 10,964 16,712
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £790 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 285 263
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.24 £18.53
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £23.88
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.16 £41.04
Median % change year-on-year +6.10% -26.51% +14.80%
75th Percentile £50.50 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.25 £69.20 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +53.85%

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 14 July 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 14 July 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 -9 13 £575 -17.86% 28
West London +3 3 £400 -5.88% 1
South London - 2 £725 - 1
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 3 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Shopify
2 2 (2.50%) ION MarketView
2 2 (2.50%) Temenos T24
3 1 (1.25%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.25%) Endur
3 1 (1.25%) Murex MxG2000
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.00%) AWS
2 10 (12.50%) Azure
3 8 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 7 (8.75%) GitHub
5 5 (6.25%) Snowflake
6 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.00%) GCP
7 3 (3.75%) Alation
7 3 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.75%) BigCommerce
7 3 (3.75%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (3.75%) dbt
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.50%) Datadog
8 2 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.50%) SaaS
8 2 (2.50%) Serverless
8 2 (2.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.00%) Power BI
2 6 (7.50%) Relational Database
3 5 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.75%) Data Vault
4 3 (3.75%) KDB
4 3 (3.75%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.25%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.25%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Git
2 8 (10.00%) IntelliJ
3 4 (5.00%) Maven
3 4 (5.00%) SonarQube
3 4 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (5.00%) TeamCity
4 3 (3.75%) Terragrunt
5 2 (2.50%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.50%) JMeter
6 1 (1.25%) GitLab
6 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.25%) JIRA
General
1 80 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (50.00%) Finance
3 38 (47.50%) Social Skills
4 11 (13.75%) Banking
5 7 (8.75%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (8.75%) Retail
6 6 (7.50%) Financial Institution
6 6 (7.50%) Investment Banking
6 6 (7.50%) Legal
6 6 (7.50%) Marketing
7 4 (5.00%) Advertising
8 3 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Aviation
9 2 (2.50%) Billing
9 2 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.50%) Social Science
10 1 (1.25%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.25%) Law
10 1 (1.25%) Publishing
10 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (23.75%) Developer
2 16 (20.00%) Analyst
3 15 (18.75%) Senior
4 11 (13.75%) Business Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (7.50%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) Senior Business Analyst
6 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Lead
7 4 (5.00%) .NET Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Business Finance Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) C# Developer
7 4 (5.00%) Finance Business Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Business Finance Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Senior Financial Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) KDB Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) Spring Boot
2 6 (7.50%) RESTful
3 5 (6.25%) Spring
4 4 (5.00%) .NET
4 4 (5.00%) .NET Framework
4 4 (5.00%) J2EE
5 3 (3.75%) ASP.NET
5 3 (3.75%) Kafka
5 3 (3.75%) Middleware
5 3 (3.75%) VML
6 2 (2.50%) ASP.NET Core
6 2 (2.50%) Rendezvous
6 2 (2.50%) REST
7 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.25%) Node.js
7 1 (1.25%) PyTorch
7 1 (1.25%) React
7 1 (1.25%) Swagger
7 1 (1.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (7.50%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.75%) Derivative
3 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.75%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.75%) Market Risk
4 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.50%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.50%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.50%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.25%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.25%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (15.00%) Unix
2 10 (12.50%) Linux
3 4 (5.00%) Windows
4 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (26.25%) Agile
3 15 (18.75%) Risk Management
4 14 (17.50%) Analytics
4 14 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (17.50%) Decision-Making
4 14 (17.50%) DevOps
5 13 (16.25%) CI/CD
5 13 (16.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 13 (16.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (13.75%) Data Analysis
7 10 (12.50%) Change Management
8 9 (11.25%) Strategic Thinking
9 8 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
9 8 (10.00%) Roadmaps
10 7 (8.75%) Artificial Intelligence
10 7 (8.75%) Critical Thinking
10 7 (8.75%) Infrastructure as Code
10 7 (8.75%) Scrum
10 7 (8.75%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.00%) SQL
2 15 (18.75%) Python
3 10 (12.50%) Java
4 7 (8.75%) Shell Script
5 4 (5.00%) C#
5 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.75%) Bash
6 3 (3.75%) C++
6 3 (3.75%) Go
6 3 (3.75%) Haskell
6 3 (3.75%) OCaml
6 3 (3.75%) Scala
7 2 (2.50%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (13.75%) Degree
2 6 (7.50%) PMP
3 5 (6.25%) CBAP
4 4 (5.00%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
6 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.50%) GDPR
3 2 (2.50%) QA
4 1 (1.25%) COBIT
4 1 (1.25%) IFRS
4 1 (1.25%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.25%) NIST
4 1 (1.25%) PMO
4 1 (1.25%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.25%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (7.50%) Terraform
2 3 (3.75%) Grafana
2 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.75%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.50%) Ansible
3 2 (2.50%) BladeLogic
3 2 (2.50%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) Adobe
2 3 (3.75%) MicroStrategy
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle
2 3 (3.75%) Salesforce
2 3 (3.75%) SAP
2 3 (3.75%) Sitecore
2 3 (3.75%) Splunk
3 2 (2.50%) Bloomberg
3 2 (2.50%) comScore
3 2 (2.50%) Databricks
3 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.50%) Facebook
3 2 (2.50%) Instagram
3 2 (2.50%) ION Trading
3 2 (2.50%) Reuters
3 2 (2.50%) TIBCO
3 2 (2.50%) Tradeweb
3 2 (2.50%) Wrike
4 1 (1.25%) Tenable