Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Analyst
England > London

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in London is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026.

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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 263 269
Rank change year-on-year -27 +6 +74
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 119 84 126
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.71% 0.67% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.71% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 53 86
10th Percentile £406 £367 £250
25th Percentile £455 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £598
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -12.13% +13.81%
75th Percentile £628 £600 £684
90th Percentile £725 £683 £850
England median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -0.10%
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 £21.50 £15.33 £14.00
% change year-on-year +40.25% +9.50% -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 15,597 11,820 16,837
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 93.59% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,451 8,096 12,160
10th Percentile £350 £340 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £753 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 150 341
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.19 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.00 £51.80 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £67.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £41.77 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +21.07% +6.15% -24.14%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -4 16 £608 +27.89% 7
West London -22 1 - -
South London - 1 - -
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 March 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 51 (42.86%) Agile
2 37 (31.09%) SQL
3 33 (27.73%) User Stories
4 32 (26.89%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (22.69%) JIRA
6 26 (21.85%) Scrum
7 25 (21.01%) Security Cleared
8 24 (20.17%) SC Cleared
9 22 (18.49%) Workshop Facilitation
10 21 (17.65%) Analytics
11 20 (16.81%) Data Modelling
11 20 (16.81%) Requirements Gathering
12 19 (15.97%) Business Analysis
12 19 (15.97%) Migration
13 17 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
13 17 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
14 16 (13.45%) Azure
14 16 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
15 15 (12.61%) Confluence
15 15 (12.61%) DevOps
15 15 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 14 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
17 13 (10.92%) AI
17 13 (10.92%) AWS
17 13 (10.92%) Data Analysis
18 12 (10.08%) Data Migration
19 11 (9.24%) Data Protection
19 11 (9.24%) Degree
19 11 (9.24%) ETL
20 10 (8.40%) Backlog Refinement

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 15 (12.61%) Confluence
2 5 (4.20%) CMS
3 2 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.84%) Jupyter
Applications
1 10 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (4.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Actimize
2 1 (0.84%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.84%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.84%) Findur
2 1 (0.84%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.45%) Azure
2 13 (10.92%) AWS
3 9 (7.56%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.20%) Snowflake
5 4 (3.36%) SaaS
6 3 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.84%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.84%) GCP
7 1 (0.84%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.84%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.84%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.72%) Power BI
2 6 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.20%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.36%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.52%) Oracle Database
6 2 (1.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.84%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.84%) Metadata
7 1 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (22.69%) JIRA
2 4 (3.36%) Postman
3 1 (0.84%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.84%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (0.84%) Fiddler
3 1 (0.84%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 41 (34.45%) Finance
2 33 (27.73%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (16.81%) Banking
5 10 (8.40%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.72%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (6.72%) Marketing
7 5 (4.20%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.36%) Back Office
8 4 (3.36%) Front Office
8 4 (3.36%) Law
8 4 (3.36%) Legal
9 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.84%) Advertising
10 1 (0.84%) Electronics
10 1 (0.84%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.84%) German Language
10 1 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.84%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.04%) REST
2 4 (3.36%) JSON
3 3 (2.52%) XML
4 2 (1.68%) .NET
5 1 (0.84%) ADO
5 1 (0.84%) CSS
5 1 (0.84%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.84%) FIXML
5 1 (0.84%) HTML
5 1 (0.84%) Middleware
5 1 (0.84%) NumPy
5 1 (0.84%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.84%) Pandas
5 1 (0.84%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.61%) Product Ownership
2 11 (9.24%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 5 (4.20%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.20%) Fixed Income
4 5 (4.20%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.20%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.36%) Derivative
5 4 (3.36%) Equities
5 4 (3.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 3 (2.52%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (2.52%) Educational Technology
6 3 (2.52%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.68%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.68%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.68%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.68%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.68%) PMI
7 2 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.88%) Windows
2 4 (3.36%) Linux
3 1 (0.84%) Unix
3 1 (0.84%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (42.86%) Agile
2 33 (27.73%) User Stories
3 32 (26.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (21.85%) Scrum
5 22 (18.49%) Workshop Facilitation
6 21 (17.65%) Analytics
7 20 (16.81%) Data Modelling
7 20 (16.81%) Requirements Gathering
8 19 (15.97%) Business Analysis
8 19 (15.97%) Migration
9 17 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
9 17 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (13.45%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (12.61%) DevOps
11 15 (12.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (10.92%) AI
13 13 (10.92%) Data Analysis
14 12 (10.08%) Data Migration
15 11 (9.24%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 37 (31.09%) SQL
2 10 (8.40%) Python
3 3 (2.52%) Java
4 1 (0.84%) C++
4 1 (0.84%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.84%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (21.01%) Security Cleared
2 24 (20.17%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.24%) Degree
4 4 (3.36%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.52%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.68%) CBAP
6 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.68%) ISEB
6 2 (1.68%) PMP
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.84%) IIBA
7 1 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.56%) GDPR
2 7 (5.88%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.04%) QA
4 4 (3.36%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.36%) PSD2
5 3 (2.52%) MiFID
6 2 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.68%) COREP
6 2 (1.68%) EMIR
7 1 (0.84%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.84%) GRC
7 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.84%) NCSC
Vendors
1 8 (6.72%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.88%) Oracle
2 7 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.20%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.36%) Adobe
4 4 (3.36%) Databricks
4 4 (3.36%) OneTrust
5 3 (2.52%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.52%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.52%) Tealium
6 2 (1.68%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.68%) Murex
6 2 (1.68%) SAP
7 1 (0.84%) Ariba
7 1 (0.84%) Calypso
7 1 (0.84%) FNZ
7 1 (0.84%) iManage
7 1 (0.84%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.84%) Remedy
7 1 (0.84%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud