Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Analyst
England > London

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in London is £560, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 316 255 267
Rank change year-on-year -61 +12 +71
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 112 92 125
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.75% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.80% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 54 93
10th Percentile £313 £363 £268
25th Percentile £463 £405 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £734 £850
England median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £23.30 -
25th Percentile - £23.75 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £24.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - -43.53% +51.11%
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.80 £15.14 £14.00
% change year-on-year +43.99% +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 17,531 11,515 16,561
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.94% 93.56% 93.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,574 7,799 11,898
10th Percentile £358 £343 £325
25th Percentile £431 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £760 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 165 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.10 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.17
Median hourly rate £39.50 £34.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% +22.26% -22.75%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.59
90th Percentile £78.63 £64.50 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year +55.17% -26.58% -11.30%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -18 16 £558 +17.37% 8
West London -16 6 £325 - 1
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 June 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 (42.86%) Agile
2 35 (31.25%) User Stories
3 34 (30.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (25.00%) SQL
5 24 (21.43%) Scrum
6 21 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
6 21 (18.75%) Analytics
6 21 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
7 20 (17.86%) Data Analysis
8 18 (16.07%) Data Modelling
9 17 (15.18%) Business Analysis
9 17 (15.18%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (14.29%) AI
10 16 (14.29%) Python
10 16 (14.29%) Validation
11 15 (13.39%) DevOps
11 15 (13.39%) JIRA
11 15 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (11.61%) Backlog Refinement
12 13 (11.61%) SC Cleared
12 13 (11.61%) Security Cleared
13 12 (10.71%) Azure
13 12 (10.71%) Decision-Making
13 12 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
14 11 (9.82%) Microservices
14 11 (9.82%) Sprint Planning
15 10 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
15 10 (8.93%) Confluence
15 10 (8.93%) Kanban

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 10 (8.93%) Confluence
2 9 (8.04%) CMS
3 4 (3.57%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.79%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.79%) Notion
2 2 (1.79%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.89%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Actimize
1 3 (2.68%) Findur
2 2 (1.79%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.79%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.89%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.89%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.71%) Azure
2 8 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 6 (5.36%) AWS
4 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.68%) SaaS
5 2 (1.79%) GCP
5 2 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.89%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.89%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.89%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.25%) Power BI
2 5 (4.46%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.68%) Metadata
3 3 (2.68%) Tableau
4 1 (0.89%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.89%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (0.89%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.89%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 15 (13.39%) JIRA
2 8 (7.14%) Postman
General
1 51 (45.54%) Finance
2 38 (33.93%) Social Skills
3 25 (22.32%) Banking
4 23 (20.54%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.82%) Front Office
6 8 (7.14%) Marketing
7 7 (6.25%) Investment Banking
8 6 (5.36%) Public Sector
8 6 (5.36%) Retail
9 4 (3.57%) Back Office
9 4 (3.57%) Law
10 3 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.68%) Legal
11 2 (1.79%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.89%) French Language
12 1 (0.89%) German Language
12 1 (0.89%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.46%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.68%) NumPy
2 3 (2.68%) Pandas
3 2 (1.79%) Middleware
3 2 (1.79%) REST
4 1 (0.89%) ADO
4 1 (0.89%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.39%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.04%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (6.25%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.57%) Derivative
5 4 (3.57%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.68%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.68%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.79%) Equities
7 2 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.79%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.89%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.89%) PMI
8 1 (0.89%) Spread Betting
8 1 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.46%) Windows
2 2 (1.79%) Android
2 2 (1.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (42.86%) Agile
2 35 (31.25%) User Stories
3 34 (30.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 24 (21.43%) Scrum
5 21 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
5 21 (18.75%) Analytics
5 21 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
6 20 (17.86%) Data Analysis
7 18 (16.07%) Data Modelling
8 17 (15.18%) Business Analysis
8 17 (15.18%) User Acceptance Testing
9 16 (14.29%) AI
9 16 (14.29%) Validation
10 15 (13.39%) DevOps
10 15 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (11.61%) Backlog Refinement
12 12 (10.71%) Decision-Making
12 12 (10.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 12 (10.71%) Workshop Facilitation
13 11 (9.82%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 28 (25.00%) SQL
2 16 (14.29%) Python
3 5 (4.46%) Java
4 4 (3.57%) R
5 1 (0.89%) C
5 1 (0.89%) C#
5 1 (0.89%) Korn
5 1 (0.89%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.61%) SC Cleared
1 13 (11.61%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.04%) Degree
3 3 (2.68%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.79%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.89%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.89%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) QA
2 4 (3.57%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.68%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.68%) GDPR
3 3 (2.68%) PSD2
4 2 (1.79%) COREP
4 2 (1.79%) EMIR
4 2 (1.79%) MiFID
5 1 (0.89%) AIFMD
5 1 (0.89%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (8.93%) Oracle
2 6 (5.36%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.46%) Databricks
3 5 (4.46%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.68%) OpenLink
5 2 (1.79%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.79%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.79%) Murex
5 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.89%) Charles River
6 1 (0.89%) FIS
6 1 (0.89%) ForeScout
6 1 (0.89%) iManage
6 1 (0.89%) Snow
6 1 (0.89%) Workday