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 18 June 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 302 264 285
Rank change year-on-year -38 +21 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 111 94 125
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.59% 0.76% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.81% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 56 94
10th Percentile £313 £353 £252
25th Percentile £463 £404 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £675 £639 £663
90th Percentile £738 £731 £850
England median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.90% -3.75% -
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% -34.02%

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 17,583 11,612 16,630
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 93.47% 93.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,593 7,879 11,938
10th Percentile £358 £340 £325
25th Percentile £435 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £799 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 169 326
10th Percentile £18.75 £19.89 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £39.25 £32.89 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +19.34% +18.27% -24.37%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.75 £46.05
90th Percentile £78.88 £65.00 £66.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £39.53
% change year-on-year +56.52% -27.26% -12.17%

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 18 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 18 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 -22 16 £558 +25.28% 1
West London -19 6 £325 - 2
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 (43.24%) Agile
2 34 (30.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (29.73%) User Stories
4 25 (22.52%) SQL
5 24 (21.62%) Scrum
6 21 (18.92%) Acceptance Criteria
6 21 (18.92%) Analytics
6 21 (18.92%) Requirements Gathering
7 19 (17.12%) Data Analysis
8 18 (16.22%) Business Analysis
9 17 (15.32%) Python
10 16 (14.41%) AI
10 16 (14.41%) Data Modelling
10 16 (14.41%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (14.41%) Validation
11 15 (13.51%) DevOps
11 15 (13.51%) JIRA
12 14 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
13 13 (11.71%) Azure
13 13 (11.71%) Backlog Refinement
14 12 (10.81%) Decision-Making
14 12 (10.81%) SC Cleared
14 12 (10.81%) Security Cleared
15 11 (9.91%) Microservices
15 11 (9.91%) Sprint Planning
15 11 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 10 (9.01%) Confluence
16 10 (9.01%) Kanban
16 10 (9.01%) Translating Business Requirements
16 10 (9.01%) Workshop Facilitation

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 (9.01%) Confluence
2 9 (8.11%) CMS
3 4 (3.60%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.80%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.80%) Notion
2 2 (1.80%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.90%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Actimize
1 3 (2.70%) Findur
2 2 (1.80%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.80%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.90%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.90%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.71%) Azure
2 8 (7.21%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.50%) AWS
4 3 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.70%) SaaS
5 2 (1.80%) GCP
5 2 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.90%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.90%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.31%) Power BI
2 5 (4.50%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.60%) Metadata
4 3 (2.70%) Tableau
5 1 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.90%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.90%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.90%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 15 (13.51%) JIRA
2 8 (7.21%) Postman
General
1 50 (45.05%) Finance
2 37 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 24 (21.62%) Banking
4 22 (19.82%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (10.81%) Front Office
6 8 (7.21%) Marketing
7 6 (5.41%) Investment Banking
7 6 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.41%) Retail
8 4 (3.60%) Law
9 3 (2.70%) Back Office
9 3 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.70%) Legal
10 2 (1.80%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.90%) French Language
11 1 (0.90%) German Language
11 1 (0.90%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.50%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.70%) NumPy
2 3 (2.70%) Pandas
3 2 (1.80%) Middleware
3 2 (1.80%) REST
4 1 (0.90%) ADO
4 1 (0.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.51%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (6.31%) Fixed Income
3 7 (6.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.50%) Market Risk
5 3 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.70%) Derivative
5 3 (2.70%) Digital Wallet
5 3 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.80%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.90%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.90%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.90%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.90%) Spread Betting
7 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.50%) Windows
2 2 (1.80%) Android
2 2 (1.80%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (43.24%) Agile
2 34 (30.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (29.73%) User Stories
4 24 (21.62%) Scrum
5 21 (18.92%) Acceptance Criteria
5 21 (18.92%) Analytics
5 21 (18.92%) Requirements Gathering
6 19 (17.12%) Data Analysis
7 18 (16.22%) Business Analysis
8 16 (14.41%) AI
8 16 (14.41%) Data Modelling
8 16 (14.41%) User Acceptance Testing
8 16 (14.41%) Validation
9 15 (13.51%) DevOps
10 14 (12.61%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (11.71%) Backlog Refinement
12 12 (10.81%) Decision-Making
13 11 (9.91%) Microservices
13 11 (9.91%) Sprint Planning
13 11 (9.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.52%) SQL
2 17 (15.32%) Python
3 5 (4.50%) Java
4 4 (3.60%) R
5 1 (0.90%) C
5 1 (0.90%) C#
5 1 (0.90%) Korn
5 1 (0.90%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (10.81%) SC Cleared
1 12 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.11%) Degree
3 3 (2.70%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.80%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.31%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) ISO 20022
3 3 (2.70%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.70%) GDPR
3 3 (2.70%) PSD2
4 2 (1.80%) COREP
5 1 (0.90%) AIFMD
5 1 (0.90%) EMIR
5 1 (0.90%) MiFID
5 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (0.90%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (8.11%) Oracle
2 6 (5.41%) Databricks
2 6 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.50%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.70%) OpenLink
5 2 (1.80%) Alteryx
5 2 (1.80%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.80%) Murex
5 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.90%) Charles River
6 1 (0.90%) FIS
6 1 (0.90%) ForeScout
6 1 (0.90%) iManage
6 1 (0.90%) Snow
6 1 (0.90%) Workday