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 4 September 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 242 293
Rank change year-on-year -85 +51 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 123 117 97
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.89% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.95% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 79 70
10th Percentile £368 £359 £353
25th Percentile £481 £413 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £505 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.86% -8.18% +5.41%
75th Percentile £710 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £740 £675
England median daily rate £550 £475 £498
% change year-on-year +15.79% -4.69% -0.33%
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% +77.88%
75th Percentile - £24.00 £52.19
90th Percentile - - £53.88
England median hourly rate £16.87 £17.95 £46.25
% change year-on-year -6.02% -61.20% +218.97%

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 18,724 12,266 15,102
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 92.83% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,111 8,233 10,330
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £685
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 206 188
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.04 £17.76
25th Percentile £21.93 £23.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £31.00 £34.25
Median % change year-on-year +25.83% -9.50% -8.47%
75th Percentile £62.84 £50.56 £55.25
90th Percentile £80.38 £66.54 £72.81
England median hourly rate £42.58 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +69.28% -45.54% +5.29%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -24 20 £663 +23.26% 9
West London - 6 £325 - 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 4 September 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 57 (46.34%) Agile
2 43 (34.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (31.71%) User Stories
4 33 (26.83%) Requirements Gathering
5 30 (24.39%) SQL
6 28 (22.76%) Python
7 27 (21.95%) Acceptance Criteria
7 27 (21.95%) Scrum
8 25 (20.33%) AI
8 25 (20.33%) Data Analysis
8 25 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (19.51%) Data Modelling
10 23 (18.70%) Analytics
10 23 (18.70%) Business Analysis
10 23 (18.70%) Translating Business Requirements
11 20 (16.26%) Validation
12 19 (15.45%) JIRA
13 18 (14.63%) Azure
14 14 (11.38%) AWS
14 14 (11.38%) Workshop Facilitation
15 13 (10.57%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (10.57%) Decision-Making
15 13 (10.57%) Kanban
16 12 (9.76%) Java
16 12 (9.76%) User Acceptance Testing
17 11 (8.94%) Backlog Refinement
17 11 (8.94%) DevOps
17 11 (8.94%) Migration
17 11 (8.94%) Oracle
18 10 (8.13%) Backlog 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 9 (7.32%) Confluence
2 5 (4.07%) CMS
3 4 (3.25%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.63%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.63%) Notion
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.81%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Findur
2 2 (1.63%) Front Arena
2 2 (1.63%) Loan IQ
2 2 (1.63%) Summit
3 1 (0.81%) Actimize
3 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 18 (14.63%) Azure
2 14 (11.38%) AWS
3 9 (7.32%) GCP
3 9 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.25%) SaaS
6 3 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.44%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.44%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.63%) Azure Databricks
7 2 (1.63%) dbt
7 2 (1.63%) GitHub
7 2 (1.63%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.81%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.81%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.32%) Power BI
2 8 (6.50%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (6.50%) Metadata
3 5 (4.07%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.63%) Tableau
5 1 (0.81%) Big Data
5 1 (0.81%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.81%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.81%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.81%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.81%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (15.45%) JIRA
2 5 (4.07%) Postman
3 2 (1.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (50.41%) Finance
2 41 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 31 (25.20%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (21.14%) Banking
5 12 (9.76%) Front Office
6 8 (6.50%) Retail
7 7 (5.69%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (4.88%) Investment Banking
9 5 (4.07%) Financial Institution
9 5 (4.07%) Marketing
9 5 (4.07%) Retail Banking
10 4 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (3.25%) Legal
11 3 (2.44%) Back Office
11 3 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.44%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.63%) Law
12 2 (1.63%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.88%) JSON
1 6 (4.88%) Kafka
2 5 (4.07%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.07%) YAML
3 3 (2.44%) NumPy
3 3 (2.44%) Pandas
4 2 (1.63%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.38%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.50%) Fixed Income
3 7 (5.69%) Market Risk
4 6 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (4.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.25%) Derivative
6 4 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.44%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.44%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.63%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.63%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.81%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.81%) Equities
9 1 (0.81%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.81%) PMI
9 1 (0.81%) Spread Betting
9 1 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.07%) Windows
2 2 (1.63%) Android
2 2 (1.63%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.81%) Unix
3 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (46.34%) Agile
2 43 (34.96%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (31.71%) User Stories
4 33 (26.83%) Requirements Gathering
5 27 (21.95%) Acceptance Criteria
5 27 (21.95%) Scrum
6 25 (20.33%) AI
6 25 (20.33%) Data Analysis
6 25 (20.33%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (19.51%) Data Modelling
8 23 (18.70%) Analytics
8 23 (18.70%) Business Analysis
8 23 (18.70%) Translating Business Requirements
9 20 (16.26%) Validation
10 14 (11.38%) Workshop Facilitation
11 13 (10.57%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (10.57%) Decision-Making
11 13 (10.57%) Kanban
12 12 (9.76%) User Acceptance Testing
13 11 (8.94%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 30 (24.39%) SQL
2 28 (22.76%) Python
3 12 (9.76%) Java
4 5 (4.07%) Scala
5 4 (3.25%) R
6 3 (2.44%) Korn
6 3 (2.44%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.63%) Bash
7 2 (1.63%) C#
7 2 (1.63%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.81%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (7.32%) Degree
2 6 (4.88%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.81%) CBAP
4 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.88%) QA
2 3 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.63%) EMIR
3 2 (1.63%) GDPR
3 2 (1.63%) MiFID
3 2 (1.63%) SLA
4 1 (0.81%) AIFMD
4 1 (0.81%) Basel III
4 1 (0.81%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 6 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (8.94%) Oracle
2 8 (6.50%) Databricks
3 7 (5.69%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.07%) Google
5 4 (3.25%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.44%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.44%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.44%) Murex
6 3 (2.44%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.63%) Calypso
7 2 (1.63%) Concur
7 2 (1.63%) FIS
7 2 (1.63%) SAP
8 1 (0.81%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.81%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.81%) Charles River
8 1 (0.81%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.81%) ForeScout
8 1 (0.81%) Snow
8 1 (0.81%) Workday