Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Analyst
England > London

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 250 273
Rank change year-on-year -70 +23 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 121 121 106
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.89% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.96% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 82 77
10th Percentile £383 £367 £343
25th Percentile £495 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -7.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £642 £625
90th Percentile £745 £738 £693
England median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - - £41.63
25th Percentile - £23.00 £42.19
Median hourly rate - £23.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - -49.19% +64.44%
75th Percentile - £24.00 £52.19
90th Percentile - - £53.88
England median hourly rate £16.87 £18.04 £46.25
% change year-on-year -6.51% -60.99% +218.97%

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 18,764 12,642 15,279
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 93.00% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,231 8,551 10,761
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 202 201
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.28% -12.97%
75th Percentile £58.79 £49.69 £53.75
90th Percentile £79.13 £64.88 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.23 £45.00
% change year-on-year +72.45% -43.94% +8.04%

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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -22 20 £643 +35.26% 6
West London -12 6 £325 -
South London - 1 £650 -
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 August 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 59 (48.76%) Agile
2 41 (33.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (33.06%) User Stories
4 34 (28.10%) Requirements Gathering
5 30 (24.79%) Acceptance Criteria
6 29 (23.97%) Scrum
6 29 (23.97%) SQL
7 26 (21.49%) Python
8 25 (20.66%) Analytics
8 25 (20.66%) Data Analysis
8 25 (20.66%) Data Modelling
9 23 (19.01%) Business Analysis
9 23 (19.01%) Translating Business Requirements
10 22 (18.18%) AI
10 22 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (17.36%) Validation
12 18 (14.88%) JIRA
13 17 (14.05%) Azure
14 15 (12.40%) AWS
14 15 (12.40%) Kanban
15 14 (11.57%) Backlog Refinement
15 14 (11.57%) Business Intelligence
15 14 (11.57%) Decision-Making
15 14 (11.57%) DevOps
15 14 (11.57%) Workshop Facilitation
16 13 (10.74%) User Acceptance Testing
17 12 (9.92%) Microservices
18 11 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
18 11 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 10 (8.26%) Backlog Management

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 9 (7.44%) Confluence
2 8 (6.61%) CMS
3 4 (3.31%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.65%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.65%) Notion
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.83%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Findur
2 2 (1.65%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.65%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.83%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.05%) Azure
2 15 (12.40%) AWS
3 10 (8.26%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.44%) GCP
5 5 (4.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.48%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.48%) SaaS
8 2 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.65%) dbt
8 2 (1.65%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.83%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.83%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.83%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.26%) Power BI
2 7 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.96%) Metadata
4 5 (4.13%) Data Hub
5 3 (2.48%) Tableau
6 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.83%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.83%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.83%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 18 (14.88%) JIRA
2 7 (5.79%) Postman
General
1 58 (47.93%) Finance
2 41 (33.88%) Social Skills
3 29 (23.97%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (19.83%) Banking
5 12 (9.92%) Front Office
6 8 (6.61%) Retail
7 7 (5.79%) Marketing
8 6 (4.96%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (4.13%) Retail Banking
10 4 (3.31%) Financial Institution
10 4 (3.31%) Investment Banking
10 4 (3.31%) Legal
10 4 (3.31%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.48%) Back Office
11 3 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.65%) Law
12 2 (1.65%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.96%) JSON
1 6 (4.96%) Kafka
2 5 (4.13%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.13%) YAML
3 3 (2.48%) NumPy
3 3 (2.48%) Pandas
4 2 (1.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.88%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.61%) Fixed Income
2 8 (6.61%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (5.79%) Market Risk
4 5 (4.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.31%) Derivative
5 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.48%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.48%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.65%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.83%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.83%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.83%) Spread Betting
8 1 (0.83%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.48%) Windows
2 2 (1.65%) Android
2 2 (1.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (48.76%) Agile
2 41 (33.88%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (33.06%) User Stories
4 34 (28.10%) Requirements Gathering
5 30 (24.79%) Acceptance Criteria
6 29 (23.97%) Scrum
7 25 (20.66%) Analytics
7 25 (20.66%) Data Analysis
7 25 (20.66%) Data Modelling
8 23 (19.01%) Business Analysis
8 23 (19.01%) Translating Business Requirements
9 22 (18.18%) AI
9 22 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 21 (17.36%) Validation
11 15 (12.40%) Kanban
12 14 (11.57%) Backlog Refinement
12 14 (11.57%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (11.57%) Decision-Making
12 14 (11.57%) DevOps
12 14 (11.57%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 29 (23.97%) SQL
2 26 (21.49%) Python
3 10 (8.26%) Java
4 5 (4.13%) Scala
5 4 (3.31%) R
6 2 (1.65%) C#
6 2 (1.65%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.65%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.83%) C
7 1 (0.83%) Korn
7 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (5.79%) Degree
2 6 (4.96%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.96%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.61%) QA
2 3 (2.48%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.65%) GDPR
4 1 (0.83%) AIFMD
4 1 (0.83%) Basel III
4 1 (0.83%) EMIR
4 1 (0.83%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.83%) MiFID
4 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (7.44%) Oracle
2 7 (5.79%) Databricks
3 6 (4.96%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.13%) Google
5 4 (3.31%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.31%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.48%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.48%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.65%) Concur
7 2 (1.65%) SAP
8 1 (0.83%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.83%) Charles River
8 1 (0.83%) ForeScout
8 1 (0.83%) iManage
8 1 (0.83%) Murex
8 1 (0.83%) Snow
8 1 (0.83%) Workday