Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Analyst
England > London

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in London is £494, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 281 270
Rank change year-on-year +23 -11 +85
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 127 76 126
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.86% 0.55% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.58% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 51 92
10th Percentile £361 £385 £305
25th Percentile £413 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £663
90th Percentile £729 £650 £850
England median daily rate £463 £475 £506
% change year-on-year -2.63% -6.17% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.79
England median hourly rate £16.00 £15.14 £14.00
% change year-on-year +5.68% +8.14% -29.11%

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 13,717 13,002 17,150
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 93.61% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,100 8,336 12,388
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
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 217 143 315
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.58 £19.03
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +17.77% -12.59%
75th Percentile £63.10 £52.47 £51.25
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.68 £67.20
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% -4.11% +4.29%

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 30 January 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 30 January 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 +7 23 £550 -8.33% 1
South London -8 1 - -
West London -21 1 - - 1
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 January 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 53 (41.73%) Agile
2 39 (30.71%) SQL
3 36 (28.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 34 (26.77%) User Stories
5 33 (25.98%) JIRA
6 29 (22.83%) Scrum
7 26 (20.47%) Workshop Facilitation
8 23 (18.11%) Business Analysis
8 23 (18.11%) Security Cleared
9 22 (17.32%) Data Modelling
9 22 (17.32%) Migration
9 22 (17.32%) Requirements Gathering
9 22 (17.32%) SC Cleared
9 22 (17.32%) User Acceptance Testing
10 18 (14.17%) Analytics
10 18 (14.17%) Confluence
10 18 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (14.17%) Process Improvement
10 18 (14.17%) Python
11 17 (13.39%) Business Intelligence
11 17 (13.39%) DevOps
12 16 (12.60%) Azure
13 15 (11.81%) AWS
13 15 (11.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 14 (11.02%) Data Analysis
14 14 (11.02%) Validation
15 13 (10.24%) Acceptance Criteria
16 12 (9.45%) Data Migration
16 12 (9.45%) Degree
16 12 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel

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 (14.17%) Confluence
2 1 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Superset
2 1 (0.79%) CMS
2 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.94%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Actimize
1 1 (0.79%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.79%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.60%) Azure
2 15 (11.81%) AWS
3 12 (9.45%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (3.94%) SaaS
5 5 (3.94%) Snowflake
6 4 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.36%) GitHub
7 3 (2.36%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.57%) GCP
8 2 (1.57%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.79%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.79%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.66%) Power BI
2 7 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.15%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.36%) Tableau
5 2 (1.57%) Metadata
5 2 (1.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.79%) Big Data
6 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.79%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.79%) Looker
6 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (25.98%) JIRA
2 3 (2.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.36%) Postman
2 3 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (2.36%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.79%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (0.79%) Fiddler
General
1 42 (33.07%) Finance
1 42 (33.07%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.26%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (16.54%) Banking
4 9 (7.09%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.30%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (5.51%) Front Office
7 6 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.94%) Investment Banking
8 5 (3.94%) Marketing
9 4 (3.15%) Law
9 4 (3.15%) Legal
10 3 (2.36%) Back Office
11 2 (1.57%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.57%) Police
12 1 (0.79%) Advertising
12 1 (0.79%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.79%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.72%) REST
2 4 (3.15%) .NET
2 4 (3.15%) JSON
3 3 (2.36%) XML
4 2 (1.57%) RESTful
4 2 (1.57%) SOAP
5 1 (0.79%) ADO
5 1 (0.79%) CSS
5 1 (0.79%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.79%) FIXML
5 1 (0.79%) HTML
5 1 (0.79%) Middleware
5 1 (0.79%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.45%) Onboarding
1 12 (9.45%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.72%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 5 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.15%) Derivative
4 4 (3.15%) Fixed Income
4 4 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.15%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.15%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.36%) Digital Wallet
5 3 (2.36%) Educational Technology
5 3 (2.36%) Equities
5 3 (2.36%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.57%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.57%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.79%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.51%) Windows
2 5 (3.94%) Linux
3 2 (1.57%) Unix
4 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (41.73%) Agile
2 36 (28.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 34 (26.77%) User Stories
4 29 (22.83%) Scrum
5 26 (20.47%) Workshop Facilitation
6 23 (18.11%) Business Analysis
7 22 (17.32%) Data Modelling
7 22 (17.32%) Migration
7 22 (17.32%) Requirements Gathering
7 22 (17.32%) User Acceptance Testing
8 18 (14.17%) Analytics
8 18 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (14.17%) Process Improvement
9 17 (13.39%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (13.39%) DevOps
10 15 (11.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (11.02%) Data Analysis
11 14 (11.02%) Validation
12 13 (10.24%) Acceptance Criteria
13 12 (9.45%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 39 (30.71%) SQL
2 18 (14.17%) Python
3 5 (3.94%) Java
4 1 (0.79%) C++
4 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.79%) Perl
4 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (18.11%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.32%) SC Cleared
3 12 (9.45%) Degree
4 4 (3.15%) CBAP
4 4 (3.15%) ISEB
5 3 (2.36%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.36%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.57%) PMP
7 1 (0.79%) CISSP
7 1 (0.79%) IIBA
7 1 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.09%) GDPR
2 7 (5.51%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.72%) QA
4 5 (3.94%) PSD2
5 4 (3.15%) ISO 20022
6 3 (2.36%) MiFID
7 2 (1.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.57%) EMIR
8 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.79%) GRC
8 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.79%) NCSC
8 1 (0.79%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 3 (2.36%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.09%) Oracle
2 9 (7.09%) Salesforce
3 6 (4.72%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.15%) Adobe
4 4 (3.15%) Atlassian
4 4 (3.15%) OneTrust
5 3 (2.36%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.36%) Google
5 3 (2.36%) SAP
5 3 (2.36%) Sonatype
5 3 (2.36%) Tealium
6 2 (1.57%) Avaloq
6 2 (1.57%) CyberArk
6 2 (1.57%) Databricks
6 2 (1.57%) Murex
7 1 (0.79%) Ariba
7 1 (0.79%) Calypso
7 1 (0.79%) Cognos
7 1 (0.79%) Remedy