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 25 April 2026.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 265 268
Rank change year-on-year -38 +3 +87
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 112 85 127
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.67% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.71% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 54 88
10th Percentile £406 £359 £250
25th Percentile £463 £411 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £663
90th Percentile £740 £696 £850
England median daily rate £488 £481 £525
% change year-on-year +1.30% -8.33% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £24.00 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year - -6.94% -45.85%
England median hourly rate £22.50 £15.14 £14.00
% change year-on-year +48.61% +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 16,261 11,918 16,636
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 93.51% 93.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,837 8,182 12,042
10th Percentile £350 £341 £325
25th Percentile £425 £434 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.24% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 146 342
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.73 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.63 £24.30 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +26.56% -21.55%
75th Percentile £63.26 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.38 £64.45
England median hourly rate £45.46 £31.64 £35.50
% change year-on-year +43.68% -10.87% -21.11%

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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -10 16 £570 +20.00% 1
West London -26 1 - -
South London - 1 - -
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 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 46 (41.07%) Agile
2 32 (28.57%) User Stories
3 31 (27.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (25.89%) SQL
5 23 (20.54%) Scrum
6 22 (19.64%) JIRA
6 22 (19.64%) Security Cleared
7 21 (18.75%) SC Cleared
8 20 (17.86%) Acceptance Criteria
8 20 (17.86%) Analytics
8 20 (17.86%) Data Modelling
9 17 (15.18%) Business Analysis
9 17 (15.18%) Requirements Gathering
10 16 (14.29%) Data Analysis
10 16 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
11 15 (13.39%) DevOps
11 15 (13.39%) Migration
12 14 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (11.61%) AI
13 13 (11.61%) Confluence
13 13 (11.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 13 (11.61%) Validation
14 12 (10.71%) AWS
14 12 (10.71%) Backlog Refinement
14 12 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
15 11 (9.82%) Azure
15 11 (9.82%) Translating Business Requirements
16 10 (8.93%) Data Protection
16 10 (8.93%) Decision-Making

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 13 (11.61%) Confluence
2 7 (6.25%) CMS
3 3 (2.68%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.79%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 8 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.68%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.89%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Actimize
2 2 (1.79%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.79%) Findur
2 2 (1.79%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.89%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.89%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.71%) AWS
2 11 (9.82%) Azure
3 6 (5.36%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.57%) SaaS
5 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.89%) GCP
6 1 (0.89%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (0.89%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.89%) Serverless
6 1 (0.89%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (4.46%) Power BI
1 5 (4.46%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (1.79%) Metadata
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 2 (1.79%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.89%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.89%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.89%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (19.64%) JIRA
2 6 (5.36%) Postman
3 1 (0.89%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.89%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (0.89%) Fiddler
General
1 44 (39.29%) Finance
2 36 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 22 (19.64%) Banking
4 20 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (8.93%) Marketing
6 8 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 7 (6.25%) Front Office
8 6 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (4.46%) Back Office
9 5 (4.46%) Investment Banking
10 4 (3.57%) Law
10 4 (3.57%) Legal
11 3 (2.68%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.79%) Publishing
13 1 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.89%) Police
13 1 (0.89%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.57%) REST
2 3 (2.68%) JSON
2 3 (2.68%) NumPy
2 3 (2.68%) Pandas
3 2 (1.79%) Middleware
3 2 (1.79%) XML
4 1 (0.89%) .NET
4 1 (0.89%) ADO
4 1 (0.89%) CSS
4 1 (0.89%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.89%) HTML
4 1 (0.89%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.89%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.07%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.04%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.46%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.46%) Fixed Income
4 5 (4.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.46%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.46%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (3.57%) Derivative
6 3 (2.68%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (2.68%) Equities
6 3 (2.68%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.68%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.79%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.79%) PMI
7 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.89%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.25%) Windows
2 3 (2.68%) Linux
3 1 (0.89%) Unix
3 1 (0.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (41.07%) Agile
2 32 (28.57%) User Stories
3 31 (27.68%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (20.54%) Scrum
5 20 (17.86%) Acceptance Criteria
5 20 (17.86%) Analytics
5 20 (17.86%) Data Modelling
6 17 (15.18%) Business Analysis
6 17 (15.18%) Requirements Gathering
7 16 (14.29%) Data Analysis
7 16 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 16 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
8 15 (13.39%) DevOps
8 15 (13.39%) Migration
9 14 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (11.61%) AI
10 13 (11.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (11.61%) Validation
11 12 (10.71%) Backlog Refinement
11 12 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 29 (25.89%) SQL
2 10 (8.93%) Python
3 4 (3.57%) R
4 1 (0.89%) C#
4 1 (0.89%) C++
4 1 (0.89%) Java
4 1 (0.89%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.14%) Degree
4 4 (3.57%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.79%) PMP
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.89%) CBAP
6 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.89%) IIBA
6 1 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) GDPR
1 7 (6.25%) QA
2 5 (4.46%) ISO 20022
3 4 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.57%) MiFID
3 4 (3.57%) PSD2
4 3 (2.68%) EMIR
5 2 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.79%) COREP
6 1 (0.89%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.89%) AIFMD
6 1 (0.89%) GRC
6 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 9 (8.04%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.36%) Salesforce
2 6 (5.36%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.46%) Databricks
3 5 (4.46%) Oracle
4 4 (3.57%) Adobe
4 4 (3.57%) OneTrust
5 3 (2.68%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.68%) Tealium
6 2 (1.79%) Murex
6 2 (1.79%) OpenLink
6 2 (1.79%) SAP
7 1 (0.89%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.89%) Calypso
7 1 (0.89%) FIS
7 1 (0.89%) Google
7 1 (0.89%) iManage
7 1 (0.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.89%) Snow
7 1 (0.89%) Workday