Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Analyst
England > London

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 278 277
Rank change year-on-year -27 -1 +65
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 109 81 130
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.64% 0.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.69% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 50 90
10th Percentile £406 £364 £256
25th Percentile £463 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £663
90th Percentile £740 £739 £850
England median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.00 -
England median hourly rate £22.15 £15.14 £14.00
% change year-on-year +46.30% +8.14% -38.76%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 16,599 11,739 16,503
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 93.37% 93.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,021 8,044 11,935
10th Percentile £350 £345 £325
25th Percentile £426 £429 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £680 £684
90th Percentile £755 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 147 328
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.37 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.09 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% +23.64% -23.61%
75th Percentile £63.21 £50.75 £45.18
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £65.01
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.40 £37.18
% change year-on-year +54.61% -18.24% -17.38%

Technical Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Technical Analyst job vacancy trend in London

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Analyst job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Analyst job vacancies in London

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Analyst in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Analyst in London

Technical Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Analyst job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Analyst job vacancies in London

Technical 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 Technical Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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 -3 14 £608 +13.02% 9
West London -25 1 - -
Technical Analyst
England

Technical Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 10 May 2026, Technical Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Technical Analyst in the job title.

1 48 (44.04%) Agile
2 35 (32.11%) User Stories
3 33 (30.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (24.77%) SQL
5 23 (21.10%) Scrum
6 22 (20.18%) Acceptance Criteria
7 20 (18.35%) Analytics
7 20 (18.35%) Requirements Gathering
8 19 (17.43%) JIRA
9 18 (16.51%) SC Cleared
9 18 (16.51%) Security Cleared
10 17 (15.60%) Data Modelling
10 17 (15.60%) DevOps
11 16 (14.68%) AI
11 16 (14.68%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (13.76%) Data Analysis
12 15 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (13.76%) Validation
12 15 (13.76%) Workshop Facilitation
13 14 (12.84%) Azure
13 14 (12.84%) Business Analysis
13 14 (12.84%) Confluence
14 13 (11.93%) Backlog Refinement
15 12 (11.01%) Business Intelligence
15 12 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 12 (11.01%) Translating Business Requirements
16 11 (10.09%) AWS
16 11 (10.09%) Microservices
16 11 (10.09%) Migration
16 11 (10.09%) Python

Technical Analyst Skill Set
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 14 (12.84%) Confluence
2 8 (7.34%) CMS
3 3 (2.75%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.75%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.83%) Notion
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.92%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Actimize
2 2 (1.83%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.83%) Findur
2 2 (1.83%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.92%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.92%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 14 (12.84%) Azure
2 11 (10.09%) AWS
3 8 (7.34%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.59%) SaaS
5 3 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.75%) GCP
5 3 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.92%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (0.92%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.92%) Serverless
6 1 (0.92%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.42%) Power BI
2 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.75%) Tableau
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.92%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.92%) Metadata
5 1 (0.92%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 19 (17.43%) JIRA
2 7 (6.42%) Postman
3 1 (0.92%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.92%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (0.92%) Fiddler
General
1 48 (44.04%) Finance
2 38 (34.86%) Social Skills
3 24 (22.02%) Banking
4 21 (19.27%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (10.09%) Marketing
6 7 (6.42%) Front Office
6 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.50%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.59%) Back Office
8 5 (4.59%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.67%) Law
9 4 (3.67%) Legal
10 3 (2.75%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.83%) Publishing
11 2 (1.83%) Retail
12 1 (0.92%) Electronics
12 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.67%) REST
2 3 (2.75%) JSON
2 3 (2.75%) NumPy
2 3 (2.75%) Pandas
3 2 (1.83%) XML
4 1 (0.92%) .NET
4 1 (0.92%) ADO
4 1 (0.92%) CSS
4 1 (0.92%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.92%) HTML
4 1 (0.92%) Middleware
4 1 (0.92%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.92%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.60%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.26%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.34%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.67%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.67%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.75%) Derivative
6 3 (2.75%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (2.75%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.75%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.83%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.83%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.83%) Equities
7 2 (1.83%) PMI
7 2 (1.83%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.42%) Windows
2 2 (1.83%) Android
2 2 (1.83%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (44.04%) Agile
2 35 (32.11%) User Stories
3 33 (30.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (21.10%) Scrum
5 22 (20.18%) Acceptance Criteria
6 20 (18.35%) Analytics
6 20 (18.35%) Requirements Gathering
7 17 (15.60%) Data Modelling
7 17 (15.60%) DevOps
8 16 (14.68%) AI
8 16 (14.68%) User Acceptance Testing
9 15 (13.76%) Data Analysis
9 15 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (13.76%) Validation
9 15 (13.76%) Workshop Facilitation
10 14 (12.84%) Business Analysis
11 13 (11.93%) Backlog Refinement
12 12 (11.01%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 12 (11.01%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 27 (24.77%) SQL
2 11 (10.09%) Python
3 4 (3.67%) R
4 2 (1.83%) Java
5 1 (0.92%) C
5 1 (0.92%) C#
5 1 (0.92%) C++
5 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (16.51%) SC Cleared
1 18 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.26%) Degree
3 3 (2.75%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.75%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.92%) CBAP
5 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.92%) IIBA
5 1 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) QA
2 7 (6.42%) GDPR
3 5 (4.59%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.67%) PSD2
5 3 (2.75%) EMIR
5 3 (2.75%) MiFID
6 2 (1.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.83%) COREP
7 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.92%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.92%) GRC
7 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (6.42%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.59%) Databricks
3 5 (4.59%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.67%) Adobe
4 4 (3.67%) OneTrust
5 3 (2.75%) Tealium
6 2 (1.83%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.83%) Murex
6 2 (1.83%) OpenLink
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle
7 1 (0.92%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.92%) Ariba
7 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.92%) Calypso
7 1 (0.92%) Charles River
7 1 (0.92%) Google
7 1 (0.92%) iManage
7 1 (0.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) SAP