Analytics Contract Job Trends in London

Analytics
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Analytics skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 23 27
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 1,914 1,117 1,128
As % of all contract jobs in London 9.46% 8.34% 6.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.63% 9.01% 7.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,285 746 786
10th Percentile £363 £371 £370
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £838 £825
England median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 20 11
10th Percentile £19.15 £26.37 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £33.06 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.97 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.78% +8.15% +19.92%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.69 £70.00
90th Percentile £66.05 £87.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £40.49 £32.50
% change year-on-year +29.66% +24.58% -8.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Analytics 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 17,999 12,398 14,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.95% 92.52% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,778 8,176 9,391
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 243 184
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.03 £17.33
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.01 £24.17
Median hourly rate £33.60 £30.00 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -18.14% -8.18%
75th Percentile £61.50 £47.25 £56.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.55 £78.75
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytics relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Analytics job vacancy trend in London

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Analytics

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in London over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in London

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Analytics

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in London over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in London

Analytics
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 Analytics within the London region over the 6 months to 10 October 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 +1 239 £600 +4.80% 610
West London +12 53 £563 +11.17% 94
East London +6 6 £325 -35.00% 19
North London -1 3 £550 - 2
South London -17 3 £500 +1.94% 30
Analytics
England

Analytics
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
1 115 (6.01%) Apache Airflow
2 89 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 67 (3.50%) Apache
4 51 (2.66%) CMS
5 48 (2.51%) SAS
6 39 (2.04%) Confluence
7 28 (1.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 27 (1.41%) SharePoint
9 12 (0.63%) Palantir Foundry
10 9 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.42%) Sitecore CMS
12 7 (0.37%) Jupyter
13 5 (0.26%) Drupal
13 5 (0.26%) nginx
14 3 (0.16%) WordPress
15 2 (0.10%) Moodle
16 1 (0.052%) ArcGIS
16 1 (0.052%) IIS
16 1 (0.052%) OpenStack
16 1 (0.052%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 94 (4.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (0.52%) Chatbot
4 10 (0.52%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.37%) CPLEX
7 4 (0.21%) Trello
8 2 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.10%) LaTeX
8 2 (0.10%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe Premiere
9 1 (0.052%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.052%) Notion
9 1 (0.052%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.052%) Sketch
9 1 (0.052%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 30 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.68%) Aladdin
3 12 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (0.63%) Salesforce CRM
3 12 (0.63%) Workday HCM
4 7 (0.37%) Shopify
4 7 (0.37%) Workfront
5 6 (0.31%) Eloqua
6 5 (0.26%) Cloudability
6 5 (0.26%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 5 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.26%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.21%) Endur
7 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
7 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.16%) SAP CO
8 3 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 552 (28.84%) Azure
2 358 (18.70%) Power Platform
3 329 (17.19%) AWS
4 192 (10.03%) Snowflake
5 176 (9.20%) GCP
6 153 (7.99%) dbt
7 149 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
8 133 (6.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 109 (5.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 104 (5.43%) GitHub
11 86 (4.49%) Serverless
12 79 (4.13%) SaaS
13 75 (3.92%) Amazon S3
14 66 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
15 61 (3.19%) Entra ID
16 48 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
17 47 (2.46%) Adobe Analytics
18 46 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
19 40 (2.09%) Microsoft 365
20 38 (1.99%) Azure Databricks
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.31%) Network Security
2 22 (1.15%) Firewall
3 13 (0.68%) VPN
4 11 (0.57%) DNS
5 8 (0.42%) DHCP
5 8 (0.42%) WAN
6 7 (0.37%) SMS
7 6 (0.31%) Cisco IPT
7 6 (0.31%) Kerberos
7 6 (0.31%) SD-WAN
7 6 (0.31%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.26%) BGP
8 5 (0.26%) HTTP
8 5 (0.26%) Internet
8 5 (0.26%) LAN
8 5 (0.26%) NGFW
9 4 (0.21%) Broadband
9 4 (0.21%) OSPF
10 3 (0.16%) 4G
10 3 (0.16%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 344 (17.97%) Power BI
2 230 (12.02%) Data Warehouse
3 153 (7.99%) Metadata
4 144 (7.52%) Data Lake
5 128 (6.69%) Tableau
6 100 (5.22%) BigQuery
7 64 (3.34%) Delta Lake
8 55 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
9 49 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
9 49 (2.56%) SQL Server
10 45 (2.35%) Looker
11 44 (2.30%) Relational Database
12 43 (2.25%) Big Data
13 38 (1.99%) Power Query
14 37 (1.93%) Semantic Layer
15 34 (1.78%) Azure SQL Database
16 32 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
17 30 (1.57%) Star Schema
18 29 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
19 26 (1.36%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 115 (6.01%) Git
2 95 (4.96%) JIRA
3 32 (1.67%) GitLab
4 25 (1.31%) Jenkins
5 10 (0.52%) MLflow
6 8 (0.42%) SonarQube
7 6 (0.31%) RStudio
8 5 (0.26%) Claude Code
8 5 (0.26%) Terragrunt
8 5 (0.26%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 4 (0.21%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.21%) Gradle
9 4 (0.21%) Selenium
10 3 (0.16%) ER Studio
10 3 (0.16%) ERwin
10 3 (0.16%) Maven
11 2 (0.10%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.10%) Crashlytics
11 2 (0.10%) Postman
11 2 (0.10%) REST Assured
General
1 653 (34.12%) Finance
2 542 (28.32%) Social Skills
3 383 (20.01%) Analytical Skills
4 219 (11.44%) Banking
5 173 (9.04%) Marketing
6 156 (8.15%) Public Sector
7 131 (6.84%) Retail
8 65 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
8 65 (3.40%) Legal
9 60 (3.13%) Front Office
10 51 (2.66%) Investment Banking
11 47 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
12 40 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 35 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
13 35 (1.83%) Publishing
14 33 (1.72%) Financial Institution
15 32 (1.67%) Manufacturing
16 26 (1.36%) Billing
17 25 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (0.99%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 293 (15.31%) Data Engineer
2 291 (15.20%) Architect
3 269 (14.05%) Senior
4 268 (14.00%) Analyst
5 187 (9.77%) Lead
6 144 (7.52%) Developer
7 120 (6.27%) Data Architect
8 99 (5.17%) Data Analyst
9 95 (4.96%) Consultant
10 86 (4.49%) Business Analyst
11 76 (3.97%) Data Scientist
12 73 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
13 60 (3.13%) Senior Data Engineer
14 59 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
15 50 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
16 38 (1.99%) Data Manager
17 36 (1.88%) Python Developer
18 34 (1.78%) Azure Data Engineer
18 34 (1.78%) Product Manager
19 33 (1.72%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (8.41%) Terraform
2 137 (7.16%) PySpark
3 89 (4.65%) REST
4 75 (3.92%) Kafka
5 42 (2.19%) Pandas
6 35 (1.83%) .NET
7 33 (1.72%) React
8 29 (1.52%) HTML
8 29 (1.52%) NumPy
9 26 (1.36%) CSS
10 23 (1.20%) JSON
11 20 (1.04%) YAML
12 19 (0.99%) scikit-learn
13 16 (0.84%) ARM Templates
13 16 (0.84%) pytest
14 15 (0.78%) FastAPI
14 15 (0.78%) Middleware
14 15 (0.78%) OAuth
14 15 (0.78%) RESTful
14 15 (0.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 137 (7.16%) Cloud Native
2 112 (5.85%) Product Ownership
3 97 (5.07%) Onboarding
4 77 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
5 74 (3.87%) Data Structures
6 44 (2.30%) Management Information System
7 42 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
8 39 (2.04%) AI Agents
9 37 (1.93%) Derivative
9 37 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
10 34 (1.78%) Taxonomies
11 30 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
11 30 (1.57%) Fixed Income
11 30 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
12 28 (1.46%) Algorithms
12 28 (1.46%) Virtual Team
13 26 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 26 (1.36%) Reinsurance
14 24 (1.25%) NHS
15 23 (1.20%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 43 (2.25%) Linux
2 31 (1.62%) Windows
3 29 (1.52%) Unix
4 6 (0.31%) VMS
4 6 (0.31%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.26%) Android
5 5 (0.26%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.16%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.16%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.052%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 597 (31.19%) AI
2 508 (26.54%) Stakeholder Management
3 500 (26.12%) Data Modelling
4 453 (23.67%) Agile
5 442 (23.09%) Business Intelligence
6 402 (21.00%) Data Engineering
7 392 (20.48%) Data Pipeline
8 386 (20.17%) Decision-Making
9 360 (18.81%) CI/CD
10 322 (16.82%) Data Governance
11 289 (15.10%) Roadmaps
12 287 (14.99%) ETL
13 271 (14.16%) Machine Learning
14 266 (13.90%) DevOps
15 254 (13.27%) Data Science
16 245 (12.80%) Problem-Solving
17 236 (12.33%) Migration
18 235 (12.28%) Validation
19 227 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 222 (11.60%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 683 (35.68%) SQL
2 630 (32.92%) Python
3 68 (3.55%) PowerShell
4 62 (3.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 53 (2.77%) JavaScript
6 52 (2.72%) Java
7 51 (2.66%) Bicep
8 45 (2.35%) C#
8 45 (2.35%) R
9 34 (1.78%) Bash
10 32 (1.67%) TypeScript
11 31 (1.62%) Scala
12 20 (1.04%) Shell Script
13 17 (0.89%) C++
14 15 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
15 14 (0.73%) LookML
16 12 (0.63%) VBA
17 10 (0.52%) Cypher
17 10 (0.52%) Korn
17 10 (0.52%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 232 (12.12%) Security Cleared
2 191 (9.98%) SC Cleared
3 168 (8.78%) Degree
4 57 (2.98%) Azure Certification
5 41 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (1.88%) Master's Degree
7 31 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 26 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 24 (1.25%) CISSP
9 24 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 20 (1.04%) AWS Certification
11 18 (0.94%) DBS Check
12 17 (0.89%) PMI Certification
13 13 (0.68%) PMP
14 11 (0.57%) Cisco Certification
15 10 (0.52%) CISA
16 9 (0.47%) PhD
17 8 (0.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 8 (0.42%) MBA
18 7 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 440 (22.99%) Data Quality
2 93 (4.86%) GDPR
3 73 (3.81%) QA
4 61 (3.19%) Accessibility
5 36 (1.88%) GRC
6 24 (1.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 18 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (0.94%) WCAG
8 17 (0.89%) NIST
9 15 (0.78%) PMO
10 11 (0.57%) SLA
11 10 (0.52%) IFRS
11 10 (0.52%) Solvency II
12 9 (0.47%) PERC
13 7 (0.37%) NCSC
14 6 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.31%) IFRS 17
14 6 (0.31%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.26%) Basel III
System Software
1 85 (4.44%) Docker
2 28 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 11 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.052%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 80 (4.18%) Kubernetes
2 23 (1.20%) Grafana
3 17 (0.89%) Ansible
4 14 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.37%) Prometheus
6 5 (0.26%) Control-M
6 5 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.21%) Kibana
7 4 (0.21%) Podman
8 2 (0.10%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.10%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.10%) Puppet
8 2 (0.10%) SCCM
9 1 (0.052%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.052%) Kustomize
9 1 (0.052%) Nagios
9 1 (0.052%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.052%) SCOM
9 1 (0.052%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.052%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 352 (18.39%) Microsoft
2 277 (14.47%) Databricks
3 95 (4.96%) Oracle
4 94 (4.91%) Google
5 69 (3.61%) Adobe
5 69 (3.61%) SAP
6 63 (3.29%) Salesforce
7 34 (1.78%) ServiceNow
8 28 (1.46%) Workday
9 24 (1.25%) Amplitude
10 22 (1.15%) Foundry
11 17 (0.89%) Dynatrace
11 17 (0.89%) Informatica
11 17 (0.89%) Palantir
12 16 (0.84%) OpenAI
13 14 (0.73%) Alteryx
14 13 (0.68%) Bloomberg
14 13 (0.68%) Optimizely
14 13 (0.68%) Splunk
15 12 (0.63%) IBM