Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Analyst
England > London

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 235 286
Rank change year-on-year -102 +51 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 121 132 96
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.98% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 1.06% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 93 71
10th Percentile £313 £342 £400
25th Percentile £445 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -12.04% -1.82%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £625
90th Percentile £738 £735 £650
England median daily rate £545 £465 £500
% change year-on-year +17.27% -7.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £41.63
25th Percentile - - £42.19
Median hourly rate - £23.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - -50.27% +77.88%
75th Percentile - £24.00 £52.19
90th Percentile - - £53.88
England median hourly rate £16.87 £16.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +5.41% -62.35% +193.10%

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 18,822 12,435 15,223
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 92.56% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,167 8,299 9,958
10th Percentile £363 £333 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% -1.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 207 178
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £23.89
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.40 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.64% -21.71% -9.58%
75th Percentile £65.60 £48.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £66.34 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.70%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -27 21 £585 -2.50% 9
West London - 7 £325 - 4
East London - 1 - -
South London - 1 £650 -
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 October 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 56 (46.28%) Agile
2 49 (40.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (33.06%) Requirements Gathering
4 39 (32.23%) User Stories
5 37 (30.58%) SQL
6 27 (22.31%) Business Analysis
6 27 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (22.31%) Python
6 27 (22.31%) Scrum
7 26 (21.49%) AI
7 26 (21.49%) Data Analysis
8 25 (20.66%) Validation
9 24 (19.83%) Acceptance Criteria
9 24 (19.83%) Data Modelling
10 23 (19.01%) Translating Business Requirements
11 22 (18.18%) JIRA
12 20 (16.53%) Workshop Facilitation
13 18 (14.88%) Analytics
13 18 (14.88%) Azure
13 18 (14.88%) Migration
14 17 (14.05%) AWS
15 16 (13.22%) User Acceptance Testing
16 13 (10.74%) Java
17 12 (9.92%) Data Warehouse
17 12 (9.92%) Degree
17 12 (9.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 12 (9.92%) Use Case
18 11 (9.09%) Backlog Management
18 11 (9.09%) Confluence
18 11 (9.09%) Data Governance

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 11 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (1.65%) CMS
3 1 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.65%) Notion
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.83%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Front Arena
1 2 (1.65%) Summit
2 1 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.83%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 18 (14.88%) Azure
2 17 (14.05%) AWS
3 10 (8.26%) GCP
4 7 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (5.79%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.48%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.48%) SaaS
7 2 (1.65%) dbt
7 2 (1.65%) GitHub
7 2 (1.65%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.65%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.83%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.83%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.92%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (7.44%) Metadata
3 7 (5.79%) Power BI
4 5 (4.13%) Data Hub
5 2 (1.65%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.65%) Tableau
6 1 (0.83%) Big Data
6 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.83%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.83%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.83%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.83%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (1.65%) Postman
2 2 (1.65%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 58 (47.93%) Finance
2 38 (31.40%) Social Skills
3 32 (26.45%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (24.79%) Banking
5 13 (10.74%) Front Office
6 12 (9.92%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (9.09%) Investment Banking
8 9 (7.44%) Retail
9 5 (4.13%) Financial Institution
9 5 (4.13%) Retail Banking
10 3 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.48%) Legal
10 3 (2.48%) Marketing
10 3 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.48%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.65%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.83%) Law
12 1 (0.83%) Publishing
12 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
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 2 (1.65%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.44%) Market Risk
3 7 (5.79%) Fixed Income
4 5 (4.13%) Derivative
4 5 (4.13%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.31%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (3.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.48%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.65%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.65%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.65%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.83%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.83%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.13%) Windows
2 3 (2.48%) Android
2 3 (2.48%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.65%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.83%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (46.28%) Agile
2 49 (40.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (33.06%) Requirements Gathering
4 39 (32.23%) User Stories
5 27 (22.31%) Business Analysis
5 27 (22.31%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (22.31%) Scrum
6 26 (21.49%) AI
6 26 (21.49%) Data Analysis
7 25 (20.66%) Validation
8 24 (19.83%) Acceptance Criteria
8 24 (19.83%) Data Modelling
9 23 (19.01%) Translating Business Requirements
10 20 (16.53%) Workshop Facilitation
11 18 (14.88%) Analytics
11 18 (14.88%) Migration
12 16 (13.22%) User Acceptance Testing
13 12 (9.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 12 (9.92%) Use Case
14 11 (9.09%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 37 (30.58%) SQL
2 27 (22.31%) Python
3 13 (10.74%) Java
4 5 (4.13%) Scala
5 3 (2.48%) Korn
5 3 (2.48%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.48%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.48%) R
5 3 (2.48%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.65%) Bash
6 2 (1.65%) C#
6 2 (1.65%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.83%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (9.92%) Degree
2 5 (4.13%) CBAP
2 5 (4.13%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.13%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.65%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.96%) Data Quality
1 6 (4.96%) QA
2 2 (1.65%) Basel III
2 2 (1.65%) EMIR
2 2 (1.65%) GDPR
2 2 (1.65%) MiFID
3 1 (0.83%) AIFMD
3 1 (0.83%) DICOM
3 1 (0.83%) HL7
3 1 (0.83%) IFRS
3 1 (0.83%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.96%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (9.09%) Oracle
2 6 (4.96%) Databricks
2 6 (4.96%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.13%) Google
4 4 (3.31%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.48%) Alteryx
5 3 (2.48%) Murex
6 2 (1.65%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.65%) Calypso
6 2 (1.65%) Concur
6 2 (1.65%) FIS
6 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.65%) SAP
7 1 (0.83%) Adobe
7 1 (0.83%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (0.83%) Charles River
7 1 (0.83%) ForeScout
7 1 (0.83%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.83%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.83%) Wolters Kluwer