IT Analyst Contracts in London

IT Analyst
England > London

The median IT Analyst daily rate in London is £361, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 257 290
Rank change year-on-year -36 +33 +30
Contract jobs requiring an IT Analyst 60 135 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.76% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.81% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 90 134
10th Percentile £209 £190 £213
25th Percentile £263 £269 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £361 £531 £465
Median % change year-on-year -32.09% +14.25% +3.33%
75th Percentile £566 £638 £564
90th Percentile £695 £675 £650
England median daily rate £344 £450 £350
% change year-on-year -23.61% +28.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 12
10th Percentile £27.21 £20.00 £22.63
25th Percentile £28.34 £20.38 £23.10
Median hourly rate £30.23 £22.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.33% -10.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £32.11 £25.00 £29.31
90th Percentile £33.25 £40.00 £61.38
England median hourly rate £22.05 £22.50 £23.32
% change year-on-year -2.00% -3.50% +39.19%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

IT Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured IT Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for IT Analyst in London

IT Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Analyst in London.

Daily rate trend for IT Analyst in London

IT Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Analyst in London

IT Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Analyst in London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Analyst in London

IT Analyst
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 IT Analyst 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 -10 18 £350 -36.36% 3
South London +6 4 £225 +12.50% 1
North London -3 2 £422 +134.58%
West London +10 1 £375 -31.82% 5
IT Analyst
England

IT Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring IT Analyst in the job title.

1 22 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 21 (35.00%) Finance
3 19 (31.67%) Banking
3 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
4 14 (23.33%) Risk Management
4 14 (23.33%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (23.33%) Windows
5 13 (21.67%) JIRA
5 13 (21.67%) Information Security
5 13 (21.67%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (20.00%) SharePoint
6 12 (20.00%) Project Management
7 11 (18.33%) Service Management
7 11 (18.33%) Agile
8 10 (16.67%) Active Directory
8 10 (16.67%) Azure
8 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
9 9 (15.00%) ITIL
9 9 (15.00%) Data Analysis
10 8 (13.33%) Confluence
10 8 (13.33%) ServiceNow
11 7 (11.67%) SQL
11 7 (11.67%) Change Management
11 7 (11.67%) Data Security
12 6 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (10.00%) Asset Management
12 6 (10.00%) Law
12 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management

IT Analyst Skill Set
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 12 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (13.33%) Confluence
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.33%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (23.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.67%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Endur
2 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.67%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.33%) Mimecast
3 2 (3.33%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.67%) GCP
4 1 (1.67%) Google Docs
4 1 (1.67%) Google Sheets
4 1 (1.67%) Google Workspace
4 1 (1.67%) IaaS
4 1 (1.67%) PaaS
4 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) VPN
2 2 (3.33%) DHCP
2 2 (3.33%) DNS
2 2 (3.33%) Wireless
3 1 (1.67%) FTP
3 1 (1.67%) LAN
3 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) VLAN
3 1 (1.67%) WAN
3 1 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Tableau
2 2 (3.33%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (21.67%) JIRA
General
1 21 (35.00%) Finance
2 19 (31.67%) Banking
2 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
3 13 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.00%) Law
5 3 (5.00%) Back Office
5 3 (5.00%) Legal
5 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Advertising
7 1 (1.67%) Billing
7 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.67%) Front Office
7 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.67%) International Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.33%) Equities
2 2 (3.33%) iPad
2 2 (3.33%) iPhone
2 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.33%) Reference Data
2 2 (3.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.67%) BYOD
3 1 (1.67%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Hedge funds
3 1 (1.67%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.67%) PMI
3 1 (1.67%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.67%) Taxonomies
3 1 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.33%) Windows
2 4 (6.67%) Apple iOS
3 3 (5.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.33%) Android
5 1 (1.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.33%) Risk Management
2 13 (21.67%) Information Security
3 12 (20.00%) Project Management
4 11 (18.33%) Agile
4 11 (18.33%) Service Management
5 10 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (15.00%) Data Analysis
6 9 (15.00%) ITIL
6 9 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 7 (11.67%) Change Management
7 7 (11.67%) Data Security
8 6 (10.00%) Asset Management
8 6 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (10.00%) Customer Service
8 6 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (10.00%) SDLC
8 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (8.33%) Decision-Making
9 5 (8.33%) Fintech
9 5 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.67%) SQL
2 2 (3.33%) Java
2 2 (3.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Degree
1 6 (10.00%) FFIEC
2 3 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (5.00%) Master's Degree
2 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) CBAP
4 1 (1.67%) IIBA
4 1 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) GDPR
1 6 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (8.33%) PMO
3 4 (6.67%) Data Quality
4 3 (5.00%) SLA
5 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.67%) GRC
5 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.33%) AirWatch
2 2 (3.33%) RSA Archer
2 2 (3.33%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (1.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.00%) Apple
3 3 (5.00%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) iManage
4 2 (3.33%) Intapp
4 2 (3.33%) OpenLink
4 2 (3.33%) Symantec
5 1 (1.67%) Anaplan
5 1 (1.67%) Google
5 1 (1.67%) IFS
5 1 (1.67%) Meraki
5 1 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.67%) SAP
5 1 (1.67%) Snow
5 1 (1.67%) Sophos
5 1 (1.67%) Splunk
5 1 (1.67%) Zscaler