Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Analyst
England > London

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 244 280 300
Rank change year-on-year +36 +20 +83
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 138 93 123
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.00% 0.60% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 0.63% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 65 85
10th Percentile £363 £355 £368
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £593 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £663 £692
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile - £41.63 -
25th Percentile - £42.19 -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £46.25 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.27% +77.88% -
75th Percentile £24.00 £52.19 -
90th Percentile - £53.88 -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £42.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year -62.35% +193.10% -70.71%

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 12,746 14,684 18,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.03% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,467 9,481 13,720
10th Percentile £332 £338 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £798
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 155 210
10th Percentile £17.29 £17.25 £18.15
25th Percentile £22.13 £24.15 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.68 £37.50 £40.17
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -6.64% +22.64%
75th Percentile £47.38 £59.38 £60.00
90th Percentile £66.54 £80.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.63% -12.11% +52.93%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 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 +23 31 £550 -8.33% 34
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 November 2025, 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 55 (39.86%) Agile
2 37 (26.81%) SQL
3 31 (22.46%) User Stories
4 30 (21.74%) JIRA
5 24 (17.39%) Business Analysis
5 24 (17.39%) Python
5 24 (17.39%) Scrum
5 24 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (17.39%) Workshop Facilitation
6 22 (15.94%) Requirements Gathering
7 21 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 20 (14.49%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (13.77%) Oracle
10 18 (13.04%) Analytics
10 18 (13.04%) Azure
10 18 (13.04%) Migration
11 17 (12.32%) Data Analysis
11 17 (12.32%) Data Modelling
11 17 (12.32%) DevOps
11 17 (12.32%) Power BI
11 17 (12.32%) Power Platform
12 16 (11.59%) Acceptance Criteria
12 16 (11.59%) Microsoft
12 16 (11.59%) Security Cleared
12 16 (11.59%) User Acceptance Testing
13 15 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (10.87%) SC Cleared
14 14 (10.14%) AWS
14 14 (10.14%) Confluence
14 14 (10.14%) Process Improvement

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 (10.14%) Confluence
2 4 (2.90%) CMS
2 4 (2.90%) WebSphere
3 3 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.72%) JBoss
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (6.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.90%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (4.35%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.45%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.72%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.04%) Azure
2 17 (12.32%) Power Platform
3 14 (10.14%) AWS
4 8 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (5.07%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.62%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.17%) Collibra
7 3 (2.17%) GitHub
7 3 (2.17%) SaaS
8 2 (1.45%) GCP
8 2 (1.45%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.45%) Google Tag Manager
9 1 (0.72%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.72%) iPaaS
9 1 (0.72%) Lucidchart
9 1 (0.72%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.72%) DNS
1 1 (0.72%) Firewall
1 1 (0.72%) LAN
1 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.72%) VPN
1 1 (0.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.32%) Power BI
2 9 (6.52%) Oracle Database
3 6 (4.35%) Tableau
4 5 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.17%) Metadata
6 2 (1.45%) Big Data
6 2 (1.45%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.72%) Looker
7 1 (0.72%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.72%) Power Query
7 1 (0.72%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.72%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 30 (21.74%) JIRA
2 5 (3.62%) Postman
3 4 (2.90%) IBM UrbanCode
4 3 (2.17%) Jenkins
4 3 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 54 (39.13%) Finance
2 51 (36.96%) Social Skills
3 28 (20.29%) Banking
4 27 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.80%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.07%) Front Office
7 6 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.62%) Back Office
8 5 (3.62%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.62%) Legal
9 4 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.17%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.17%) Law
10 3 (2.17%) Marketing
11 2 (1.45%) Police
12 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.17%) .NET
1 3 (2.17%) JSON
1 3 (2.17%) RESTful
1 3 (2.17%) XML
2 2 (1.45%) ADO
2 2 (1.45%) Gherkin
2 2 (1.45%) REST
2 2 (1.45%) SOAP
2 2 (1.45%) Swagger
3 1 (0.72%) FIXML
3 1 (0.72%) FpML
3 1 (0.72%) LangChain
3 1 (0.72%) LangGraph
3 1 (0.72%) Middleware
3 1 (0.72%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.25%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.52%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 7 (5.07%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.35%) Reinsurance
5 5 (3.62%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.90%) Fixed Income
6 4 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.17%) Derivative
8 2 (1.45%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.45%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.45%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.72%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.72%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.72%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.25%) Windows
2 7 (5.07%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.17%) Linux
4 2 (1.45%) Unix
5 1 (0.72%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (39.86%) Agile
2 31 (22.46%) User Stories
3 24 (17.39%) Business Analysis
3 24 (17.39%) Scrum
3 24 (17.39%) Stakeholder Management
3 24 (17.39%) Workshop Facilitation
4 22 (15.94%) Requirements Gathering
5 21 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 20 (14.49%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (13.04%) Analytics
7 18 (13.04%) Migration
8 17 (12.32%) Data Analysis
8 17 (12.32%) Data Modelling
8 17 (12.32%) DevOps
9 16 (11.59%) Acceptance Criteria
9 16 (11.59%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (10.14%) Process Improvement
11 14 (10.14%) Project Management
12 13 (9.42%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 37 (26.81%) SQL
2 24 (17.39%) Python
3 5 (3.62%) C#
3 5 (3.62%) Java
4 1 (0.72%) C++
4 1 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.72%) Perl
4 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (11.59%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.52%) Degree
4 4 (2.90%) CBAP
4 4 (2.90%) ISEB
5 3 (2.17%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.45%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.72%) CISSP
7 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.25%) QA
2 6 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.35%) ISO 20022
3 5 (3.62%) SEPA
4 3 (2.17%) GDPR
5 2 (1.45%) EMIR
5 2 (1.45%) MiFID
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.72%) NCSC
6 1 (0.72%) PMO
6 1 (0.72%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.90%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (2.90%) Tivoli
2 3 (2.17%) Ansible
3 1 (0.72%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.72%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (13.77%) Oracle
2 16 (11.59%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 6 (4.35%) SAP
3 6 (4.35%) Temenos
4 4 (2.90%) Atlassian
4 4 (2.90%) IBM
5 3 (2.17%) Avaloq
5 3 (2.17%) Concur
5 3 (2.17%) Sonatype
6 2 (1.45%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.45%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.45%) Databricks
6 2 (1.45%) FIS
6 2 (1.45%) Google
6 2 (1.45%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.72%) Charles River
7 1 (0.72%) Cognos
7 1 (0.72%) FNZ
7 1 (0.72%) SunGard