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 August 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 264 280
Rank change year-on-year -51 +16 +51
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 125 116 102
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.62% 0.85% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.92% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 79 75
10th Percentile £403 £364 £320
25th Percentile £481 £406 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £641 £625
90th Percentile £739 £738 £711
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% +64.44%
75th Percentile - £24.00 £52.19
90th Percentile - - £53.88
England median hourly rate £16.87 £18.04 £46.25
% change year-on-year -6.51% -60.99% +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 18,620 12,668 15,338
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 93.00% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,167 8,582 10,875
10th Percentile £363 £326 £348
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 202 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.48
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.93 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £29.54 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -10.69% -11.81%
75th Percentile £59.36 £50.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +77.73% -43.73% +5.88%

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 August 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 August 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 -12 19 £635 +33.68% 5
West London -15 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 4 August 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 60 (48.00%) Agile
2 40 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (31.20%) User Stories
4 33 (26.40%) Requirements Gathering
5 31 (24.80%) Acceptance Criteria
5 31 (24.80%) SQL
6 29 (23.20%) Scrum
7 27 (21.60%) Analytics
8 26 (20.80%) Python
9 25 (20.00%) Data Analysis
9 25 (20.00%) Data Modelling
10 23 (18.40%) AI
10 23 (18.40%) Business Analysis
10 23 (18.40%) Translating Business Requirements
11 21 (16.80%) Validation
12 19 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (14.40%) JIRA
14 17 (13.60%) Azure
15 16 (12.80%) Kanban
16 15 (12.00%) AWS
16 15 (12.00%) DevOps
17 14 (11.20%) Backlog Refinement
17 14 (11.20%) Business Intelligence
18 13 (10.40%) Decision-Making
18 13 (10.40%) Microservices
18 13 (10.40%) User Acceptance Testing
18 13 (10.40%) Workshop Facilitation
19 12 (9.60%) Sprint Planning
19 12 (9.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 11 (8.80%) Machine Learning

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 (7.20%) CMS
1 9 (7.20%) Confluence
2 4 (3.20%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.60%) Notion
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.80%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Findur
2 2 (1.60%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.60%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.80%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 17 (13.60%) Azure
2 15 (12.00%) AWS
3 10 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 9 (7.20%) GCP
5 5 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 4 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.40%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.40%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.40%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.40%) SaaS
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.60%) dbt
8 2 (1.60%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.80%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.80%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.00%) Power BI
2 7 (5.60%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.80%) Metadata
4 5 (4.00%) Data Hub
5 4 (3.20%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.40%) Tableau
7 1 (0.80%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.80%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.80%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.80%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.80%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.80%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 18 (14.40%) JIRA
2 8 (6.40%) Postman
General
1 57 (45.60%) Finance
2 43 (34.40%) Social Skills
3 28 (22.40%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (20.00%) Banking
5 12 (9.60%) Front Office
6 8 (6.40%) Marketing
6 8 (6.40%) Retail
7 6 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.00%) Retail Banking
9 4 (3.20%) Investment Banking
9 4 (3.20%) Legal
10 3 (2.40%) Back Office
10 3 (2.40%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.60%) Law
11 2 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.80%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.80%) JSON
1 6 (4.80%) Kafka
2 5 (4.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.00%) YAML
3 3 (2.40%) NumPy
3 3 (2.40%) Pandas
4 2 (1.60%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.20%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.20%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.40%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.80%) Market Risk
5 5 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.20%) Derivative
6 4 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.40%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.60%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.60%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.60%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.80%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.80%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.80%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.80%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.80%) Spread Betting
9 1 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.40%) Windows
2 2 (1.60%) Android
2 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (48.00%) Agile
2 40 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 39 (31.20%) User Stories
4 33 (26.40%) Requirements Gathering
5 31 (24.80%) Acceptance Criteria
6 29 (23.20%) Scrum
7 27 (21.60%) Analytics
8 25 (20.00%) Data Analysis
8 25 (20.00%) Data Modelling
9 23 (18.40%) AI
9 23 (18.40%) Business Analysis
9 23 (18.40%) Translating Business Requirements
10 21 (16.80%) Validation
11 19 (15.20%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (12.80%) Kanban
13 15 (12.00%) DevOps
14 14 (11.20%) Backlog Refinement
14 14 (11.20%) Business Intelligence
15 13 (10.40%) Decision-Making
15 13 (10.40%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 31 (24.80%) SQL
2 26 (20.80%) Python
3 10 (8.00%) Java
4 5 (4.00%) Scala
5 4 (3.20%) R
6 2 (1.60%) C#
6 2 (1.60%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.60%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.80%) C
7 1 (0.80%) Korn
7 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (5.60%) Degree
1 7 (5.60%) SC Cleared
1 7 (5.60%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.40%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
3 1 (0.80%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.60%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.60%) COREP
3 2 (1.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.80%) AIFMD
4 1 (0.80%) EMIR
4 1 (0.80%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.80%) MiFID
4 1 (0.80%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.80%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (7.20%) Oracle
2 7 (5.60%) Databricks
3 5 (4.00%) Google
3 5 (4.00%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.20%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.20%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.40%) Alteryx
5 3 (2.40%) OpenLink
6 2 (1.60%) Concur
6 2 (1.60%) SAP
7 1 (0.80%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.80%) Charles River
7 1 (0.80%) ForeScout
7 1 (0.80%) iManage
7 1 (0.80%) Murex
7 1 (0.80%) Snow
7 1 (0.80%) Workday