Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Analyst
England > London

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 April 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 265 262
Rank change year-on-year -36 -3 +96
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 116 81 128
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.67% 0.64% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.68% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 51 86
10th Percentile £406 £363 £250
25th Percentile £463 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £595
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -12.61% +13.33%
75th Percentile £647 £608 £672
90th Percentile £725 £688 £850
England median daily rate £475 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -1.30% -3.75% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £24.00 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year - -6.94% -45.85%
England median hourly rate £21.80 £15.24 £14.00
% change year-on-year +43.09% +8.82% -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 16,037 11,847 16,714
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 93.56% 93.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,725 8,116 12,060
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 147 337
10th Percentile £18.14 £21.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.11 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.71 £35.00 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +25.85% -22.75%
75th Percentile £59.99 £51.59 £46.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £65.00 £64.06
England median hourly rate £42.59 £32.66 £33.07
% change year-on-year +30.43% -1.24% -24.42%

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 8 April 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 8 April 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 -8 13 £608 +27.89% 7
West London -23 1 - -
South London - 1 - -
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 April 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 (41.38%) Agile
2 33 (28.45%) SQL
3 31 (26.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 30 (25.86%) User Stories
5 24 (20.69%) Security Cleared
6 23 (19.83%) SC Cleared
6 23 (19.83%) Scrum
7 22 (18.97%) JIRA
8 21 (18.10%) Analytics
9 19 (16.38%) Acceptance Criteria
10 18 (15.52%) Data Modelling
11 17 (14.66%) Business Analysis
11 17 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (14.66%) Requirements Gathering
11 17 (14.66%) Workshop Facilitation
12 16 (13.79%) User Acceptance Testing
13 15 (12.93%) DevOps
14 14 (12.07%) Migration
14 14 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 13 (11.21%) Azure
15 13 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (11.21%) Confluence
15 13 (11.21%) Data Analysis
16 12 (10.34%) AI
16 12 (10.34%) AWS
16 12 (10.34%) Backlog Refinement
16 12 (10.34%) Decision-Making
17 11 (9.48%) Data Protection
17 11 (9.48%) Validation
18 10 (8.62%) Microservices

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 13 (11.21%) Confluence
2 7 (6.03%) CMS
3 3 (2.59%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.72%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 8 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.59%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Actimize
2 2 (1.72%) Findur
2 2 (1.72%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.86%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.86%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.86%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.21%) Azure
2 12 (10.34%) AWS
3 9 (7.76%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.45%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.59%) SaaS
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.86%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.86%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.86%) GCP
6 1 (0.86%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (0.86%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.86%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.90%) Power BI
2 5 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (4.31%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (1.72%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 2 (1.72%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.86%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.86%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.86%) Metadata
5 1 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (18.97%) JIRA
2 6 (5.17%) Postman
3 1 (0.86%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.86%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (0.86%) Fiddler
General
1 44 (37.93%) Finance
2 36 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 24 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (18.97%) Banking
5 10 (8.62%) Marketing
5 10 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.31%) Back Office
7 5 (4.31%) Front Office
7 5 (4.31%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.45%) Law
8 4 (3.45%) Legal
9 3 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.72%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.86%) Advertising
11 1 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.86%) Electronics
11 1 (0.86%) Publishing
11 1 (0.86%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.17%) REST
2 4 (3.45%) JSON
3 3 (2.59%) NumPy
3 3 (2.59%) Pandas
3 3 (2.59%) XML
4 1 (0.86%) .NET
4 1 (0.86%) ADO
4 1 (0.86%) CSS
4 1 (0.86%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.86%) FIXML
4 1 (0.86%) HTML
4 1 (0.86%) Middleware
4 1 (0.86%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.86%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.66%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.76%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.03%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.31%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 4 (3.45%) Derivative
6 4 (3.45%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.59%) Digital Wallet
7 3 (2.59%) Equities
7 3 (2.59%) Marketing Technology
8 2 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.72%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.72%) Market Risk
8 2 (1.72%) PMI
8 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.86%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.03%) Windows
2 3 (2.59%) Linux
3 1 (0.86%) Unix
3 1 (0.86%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (41.38%) Agile
2 31 (26.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (25.86%) User Stories
4 23 (19.83%) Scrum
5 21 (18.10%) Analytics
6 19 (16.38%) Acceptance Criteria
7 18 (15.52%) Data Modelling
8 17 (14.66%) Business Analysis
8 17 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (14.66%) Requirements Gathering
8 17 (14.66%) Workshop Facilitation
9 16 (13.79%) User Acceptance Testing
10 15 (12.93%) DevOps
11 14 (12.07%) Migration
11 14 (12.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (11.21%) Data Analysis
13 12 (10.34%) AI
13 12 (10.34%) Backlog Refinement
13 12 (10.34%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 33 (28.45%) SQL
2 10 (8.62%) Python
3 2 (1.72%) Java
4 1 (0.86%) C++
4 1 (0.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.86%) R
4 1 (0.86%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.83%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.76%) Degree
4 4 (3.45%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.72%) PMP
6 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.86%) CBAP
6 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.86%) IIBA
6 1 (0.86%) ISEB
6 1 (0.86%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.03%) GDPR
2 6 (5.17%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.17%) QA
3 5 (4.31%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.45%) PSD2
5 3 (2.59%) MiFID
6 2 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.72%) COREP
6 2 (1.72%) EMIR
7 1 (0.86%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.86%) GRC
7 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.86%) NCSC
7 1 (0.86%) SLA
Vendors
1 9 (7.76%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.03%) Salesforce
3 6 (5.17%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.31%) Oracle
5 4 (3.45%) Adobe
5 4 (3.45%) Databricks
5 4 (3.45%) OneTrust
6 3 (2.59%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.59%) Tealium
7 2 (1.72%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.72%) Murex
7 2 (1.72%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.72%) SAP
8 1 (0.86%) Ariba
8 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.86%) Calypso
8 1 (0.86%) Google
8 1 (0.86%) iManage
8 1 (0.86%) Remedy
8 1 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud