Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Analyst
England > London

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 291 276
Rank change year-on-year +26 -15 +73
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 125 72 124
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.82% 0.53% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.57% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 46 90
10th Percentile £360 £371 £345
25th Percentile £413 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -13.33% +11.63%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £672
90th Percentile £731 £650 £850
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.79
England median hourly rate £16.00 £15.44 £14.00
% change year-on-year +3.63% +10.29% -42.86%

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 14,124 12,736 17,136
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.64% 93.66% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,398 8,197 12,382
10th Percentile £350 £332 £325
25th Percentile £425 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 140 331
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.19 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.66 £19.03
Median hourly rate £34.14 £37.81 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +32.65% -15.73%
75th Percentile £59.93 £55.25 £48.92
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.95 £65.75
England median hourly rate £31.46 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.11% - -7.03%

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 13 February 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 13 February 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 +5 21 £550 -3.30%
South London -10 1 - -
West London -20 1 - -
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 13 February 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 (38.40%) Agile
2 40 (32.00%) SQL
3 35 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 32 (25.60%) JIRA
5 30 (24.00%) User Stories
6 26 (20.80%) Scrum
6 26 (20.80%) Workshop Facilitation
7 23 (18.40%) Security Cleared
8 22 (17.60%) SC Cleared
9 21 (16.80%) Data Modelling
9 21 (16.80%) Migration
10 20 (16.00%) Business Analysis
10 20 (16.00%) Requirements Gathering
11 19 (15.20%) User Acceptance Testing
12 18 (14.40%) Confluence
13 17 (13.60%) Analytics
13 17 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (12.80%) Process Improvement
15 15 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
15 15 (12.00%) DevOps
16 14 (11.20%) AWS
16 14 (11.20%) Azure
16 14 (11.20%) Data Analysis
16 14 (11.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 13 (10.40%) Python
18 12 (9.60%) Data Migration
18 12 (9.60%) Microsoft Excel
18 12 (9.60%) Validation
19 11 (8.80%) Acceptance Criteria
19 11 (8.80%) Continuous 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 18 (14.40%) Confluence
2 1 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.80%) CMS
2 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (9.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) Actimize
2 1 (0.80%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.80%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 14 (11.20%) AWS
1 14 (11.20%) Azure
2 10 (8.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (4.00%) SaaS
4 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (3.20%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.40%) GitHub
6 2 (1.60%) GCP
7 1 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.80%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.80%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.80%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.80%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.20%) Power BI
2 6 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.20%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.40%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.60%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.80%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.80%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.80%) Looker
6 1 (0.80%) Metadata
6 1 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.80%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (25.60%) JIRA
2 3 (2.40%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.40%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (1.60%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.80%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.80%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.80%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.80%) Postman
General
1 44 (35.20%) Finance
2 38 (30.40%) Social Skills
3 23 (18.40%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (18.40%) Banking
4 9 (7.20%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.40%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (5.60%) Front Office
7 5 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 5 (4.00%) Marketing
8 4 (3.20%) Law
8 4 (3.20%) Legal
8 4 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.40%) Back Office
10 2 (1.60%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Police
11 1 (0.80%) Advertising
11 1 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.80%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.80%) REST
2 4 (3.20%) JSON
3 3 (2.40%) .NET
3 3 (2.40%) XML
4 1 (0.80%) ADO
4 1 (0.80%) CSS
4 1 (0.80%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.80%) FIXML
4 1 (0.80%) HTML
4 1 (0.80%) Middleware
4 1 (0.80%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.80%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.60%) Onboarding
1 12 (9.60%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.20%) Derivative
4 4 (3.20%) Fixed Income
4 4 (3.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.40%) Digital Wallet
5 3 (2.40%) Educational Technology
5 3 (2.40%) Equities
5 3 (2.40%) Marketing Technology
5 3 (2.40%) Reinsurance
6 2 (1.60%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.60%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.60%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.60%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.80%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.80%) PMI
7 1 (0.80%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.60%) Windows
2 4 (3.20%) Linux
3 1 (0.80%) Unix
3 1 (0.80%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (38.40%) Agile
2 35 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (24.00%) User Stories
4 26 (20.80%) Scrum
4 26 (20.80%) Workshop Facilitation
5 21 (16.80%) Data Modelling
5 21 (16.80%) Migration
6 20 (16.00%) Business Analysis
6 20 (16.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 19 (15.20%) User Acceptance Testing
8 17 (13.60%) Analytics
8 17 (13.60%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (12.80%) Process Improvement
10 15 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
10 15 (12.00%) DevOps
11 14 (11.20%) Data Analysis
11 14 (11.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 12 (9.60%) Data Migration
12 12 (9.60%) Validation
13 11 (8.80%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 40 (32.00%) SQL
2 13 (10.40%) Python
3 4 (3.20%) Java
4 1 (0.80%) C++
4 1 (0.80%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.80%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (18.40%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.60%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.80%) Degree
4 3 (2.40%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.40%) CBAP
4 3 (2.40%) ISEB
4 3 (2.40%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.60%) PMP
6 1 (0.80%) IIBA
6 1 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.20%) GDPR
2 6 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.00%) PSD2
4 4 (3.20%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.20%) QA
5 3 (2.40%) MiFID
6 2 (1.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.60%) COREP
6 2 (1.60%) EMIR
7 1 (0.80%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.80%) GRC
7 1 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.80%) NCSC
7 1 (0.80%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 3 (2.40%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.20%) Oracle
3 7 (5.60%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.80%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.20%) Adobe
5 4 (3.20%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.20%) OneTrust
6 3 (2.40%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.40%) SAP
6 3 (2.40%) Sonatype
6 3 (2.40%) Tealium
7 2 (1.60%) Avaloq
7 2 (1.60%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.60%) Murex
8 1 (0.80%) Ariba
8 1 (0.80%) Calypso
8 1 (0.80%) Cognos
8 1 (0.80%) Google
8 1 (0.80%) Remedy
8 1 (0.80%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud