Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Analyst
England > London

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in London is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 257 296
Rank change year-on-year -62 +39 +50
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 119 110 112
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.81% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.87% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 69 78
10th Percentile £373 £364 £296
25th Percentile £481 £408 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £700 £638 £647
90th Percentile £743 £728 £776
England median daily rate £550 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - - £41.63
25th Percentile - £23.00 £42.19
Median hourly rate - £23.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - -49.19% +52.89%
75th Percentile - £24.00 £52.19
90th Percentile - - £53.88
England median hourly rate £21.50 £15.44 £22.50
% change year-on-year +39.25% -31.38% +7.14%

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 18,298 12,595 16,588
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.88% 93.29% 93.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,030 8,505 11,864
10th Percentile £358 £331 £325
25th Percentile £440 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 194 304
10th Percentile £18.03 £18.83 £16.07
25th Percentile £24.74 £23.00 £20.44
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.75 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year +22.83% +14.17% -25.68%
75th Percentile £62.84 £50.50 £46.59
90th Percentile £80.13 £63.75 £68.53
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +60.71% -30.00% -9.09%

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 July 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 July 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 16 £613 +13.95% 4
West London -13 6 £325 -
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 July 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 55 (46.22%) Agile
2 34 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (27.73%) User Stories
4 29 (24.37%) SQL
5 27 (22.69%) Analytics
5 27 (22.69%) Requirements Gathering
5 27 (22.69%) Scrum
6 24 (20.17%) Acceptance Criteria
7 23 (19.33%) Data Analysis
7 23 (19.33%) Python
8 22 (18.49%) AI
8 22 (18.49%) Business Analysis
9 21 (17.65%) Data Modelling
10 19 (15.97%) Validation
11 17 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
12 16 (13.45%) Azure
12 16 (13.45%) DevOps
13 15 (12.61%) JIRA
14 14 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
14 14 (11.76%) Kanban
14 14 (11.76%) Microservices
14 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
15 13 (10.92%) AWS
15 13 (10.92%) Decision-Making
16 12 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 11 (9.24%) Backlog Refinement
17 11 (9.24%) Machine Learning
17 11 (9.24%) Project Management
17 11 (9.24%) Risk Management

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 (8.40%) Confluence
2 9 (7.56%) CMS
3 4 (3.36%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.68%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.68%) Notion
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.84%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Actimize
1 3 (2.52%) Findur
2 2 (1.68%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.68%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.45%) Azure
2 13 (10.92%) AWS
3 10 (8.40%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.88%) GCP
5 4 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.52%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.52%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (2.52%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.52%) SaaS
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.84%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.84%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.40%) Power BI
2 5 (4.20%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.36%) Metadata
4 3 (2.52%) Data Hub
4 3 (2.52%) Tableau
5 1 (0.84%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.84%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.84%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.84%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 15 (12.61%) JIRA
2 8 (6.72%) Postman
General
1 52 (43.70%) Finance
2 39 (32.77%) Social Skills
3 25 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (18.49%) Banking
5 14 (11.76%) Front Office
6 8 (6.72%) Marketing
6 8 (6.72%) Retail
7 6 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.20%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.20%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.52%) Back Office
9 3 (2.52%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.52%) Legal
9 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Law
10 2 (1.68%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.84%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.20%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.36%) JSON
3 3 (2.52%) Kafka
3 3 (2.52%) NumPy
3 3 (2.52%) Pandas
3 3 (2.52%) YAML
4 2 (1.68%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.61%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.56%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.72%) Fixed Income
4 7 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (5.88%) Market Risk
5 4 (3.36%) Derivative
5 4 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.52%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.68%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.84%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (0.84%) Equities
8 1 (0.84%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.84%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.84%) Spread Betting
8 1 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.52%) Windows
2 2 (1.68%) Android
2 2 (1.68%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (46.22%) Agile
2 34 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (27.73%) User Stories
4 27 (22.69%) Analytics
4 27 (22.69%) Requirements Gathering
4 27 (22.69%) Scrum
5 24 (20.17%) Acceptance Criteria
6 23 (19.33%) Data Analysis
7 22 (18.49%) AI
7 22 (18.49%) Business Analysis
8 21 (17.65%) Data Modelling
9 19 (15.97%) Validation
10 17 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
11 16 (13.45%) DevOps
12 14 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
12 14 (11.76%) Kanban
12 14 (11.76%) Microservices
12 14 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
13 13 (10.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 29 (24.37%) SQL
2 23 (19.33%) Python
3 8 (6.72%) Java
4 4 (3.36%) R
5 3 (2.52%) Scala
6 2 (1.68%) C#
6 2 (1.68%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.68%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.84%) C
7 1 (0.84%) Korn
7 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (7.56%) Degree
2 8 (6.72%) SC Cleared
2 8 (6.72%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.52%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.84%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.84%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.04%) QA
2 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.68%) COREP
3 2 (1.68%) GDPR
3 2 (1.68%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.84%) AIFMD
4 1 (0.84%) EMIR
4 1 (0.84%) MiFID
4 1 (0.84%) PSD2
4 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (7.56%) Oracle
2 6 (5.04%) Databricks
3 4 (3.36%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.52%) Alteryx
4 3 (2.52%) Google
4 3 (2.52%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.52%) OpenLink
4 3 (2.52%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.68%) Concur
5 2 (1.68%) Murex
5 2 (1.68%) SAP
6 1 (0.84%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.84%) Charles River
6 1 (0.84%) ForeScout
6 1 (0.84%) iManage
6 1 (0.84%) Snow
6 1 (0.84%) Workday