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 6 May 2026.

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 297 281 261
Rank change year-on-year -16 -20 +93
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 109 77 132
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.61% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.66% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 48 91
10th Percentile £406 £363 £250
25th Percentile £463 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +10.09%
75th Percentile £653 £638 £663
90th Percentile £743 £703 £850
England median daily rate £488 £488 £525
% change year-on-year - -7.14% +2.94%
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 £22.50 £15.14 £14.00
% change year-on-year +48.61% +8.14% -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 16,509 11,741 16,509
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 93.40% 93.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,969 8,053 11,937
10th Percentile £350 £341 £325
25th Percentile £425 £430 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £676 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 145 336
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.33 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.03 £24.00 £20.02
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +26.00% -21.99%
75th Percentile £63.32 £50.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £64.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.90 £36.50
% change year-on-year +52.09% -15.34% -17.05%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -10 15 £590 +16.54% 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 6 May 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 (44.04%) Agile
2 35 (32.11%) User Stories
3 32 (29.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (24.77%) SQL
5 23 (21.10%) Scrum
6 21 (19.27%) Acceptance Criteria
6 21 (19.27%) JIRA
7 19 (17.43%) Analytics
7 19 (17.43%) Requirements Gathering
8 18 (16.51%) SC Cleared
8 18 (16.51%) Security Cleared
9 17 (15.60%) Data Modelling
10 16 (14.68%) AI
10 16 (14.68%) DevOps
10 16 (14.68%) User Acceptance Testing
11 15 (13.76%) Data Analysis
11 15 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (12.84%) Business Analysis
12 14 (12.84%) Confluence
12 14 (12.84%) Workshop Facilitation
13 13 (11.93%) Backlog Refinement
13 13 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 13 (11.93%) Validation
14 12 (11.01%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (11.01%) Translating Business Requirements
15 11 (10.09%) Azure
16 10 (9.17%) Kanban
16 10 (9.17%) Microservices
16 10 (9.17%) Migration
16 10 (9.17%) Python

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 14 (12.84%) Confluence
2 8 (7.34%) CMS
3 3 (2.75%) Jupyter
4 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.92%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 9 (8.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.75%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.83%) Notion
4 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.92%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Actimize
2 2 (1.83%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.83%) Findur
2 2 (1.83%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.92%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.92%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.09%) Azure
2 9 (8.26%) AWS
3 8 (7.34%) Power Platform
4 4 (3.67%) SaaS
5 3 (2.75%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.92%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (0.92%) GCP
6 1 (0.92%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (0.92%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.92%) Serverless
6 1 (0.92%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.42%) Power BI
2 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.75%) Tableau
4 2 (1.83%) Metadata
4 2 (1.83%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.92%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 21 (19.27%) JIRA
2 7 (6.42%) Postman
3 1 (0.92%) Browser DevTools
3 1 (0.92%) Charles Proxy
3 1 (0.92%) Fiddler
General
1 46 (42.20%) Finance
2 37 (33.94%) Social Skills
3 23 (21.10%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (21.10%) Banking
4 11 (10.09%) Marketing
5 7 (6.42%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (6.42%) Front Office
5 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.59%) Back Office
7 4 (3.67%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.67%) Law
7 4 (3.67%) Legal
8 3 (2.75%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.83%) Publishing
9 2 (1.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.92%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.67%) REST
2 3 (2.75%) JSON
2 3 (2.75%) NumPy
2 3 (2.75%) Pandas
3 2 (1.83%) Middleware
3 2 (1.83%) XML
4 1 (0.92%) .NET
4 1 (0.92%) ADO
4 1 (0.92%) CSS
4 1 (0.92%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.92%) HTML
4 1 (0.92%) OpenAPI
4 1 (0.92%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.35%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.26%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.34%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.59%) Fixed Income
4 5 (4.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 4 (3.67%) Derivative
5 4 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.75%) Digital Wallet
6 3 (2.75%) Equities
6 3 (2.75%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.75%) Marketing Technology
7 2 (1.83%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.83%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.83%) Credit Risk
7 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.83%) PMI
7 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.50%) Windows
2 3 (2.75%) Linux
3 2 (1.83%) Android
3 2 (1.83%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (44.04%) Agile
2 35 (32.11%) User Stories
3 32 (29.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (21.10%) Scrum
5 21 (19.27%) Acceptance Criteria
6 19 (17.43%) Analytics
6 19 (17.43%) Requirements Gathering
7 17 (15.60%) Data Modelling
8 16 (14.68%) AI
8 16 (14.68%) DevOps
8 16 (14.68%) User Acceptance Testing
9 15 (13.76%) Data Analysis
9 15 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (12.84%) Business Analysis
10 14 (12.84%) Workshop Facilitation
11 13 (11.93%) Backlog Refinement
11 13 (11.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (11.93%) Validation
12 12 (11.01%) Business Intelligence
12 12 (11.01%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 27 (24.77%) SQL
2 10 (9.17%) Python
3 4 (3.67%) R
4 1 (0.92%) C#
4 1 (0.92%) C++
4 1 (0.92%) Java
4 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.92%) VBA
Qualifications
1 18 (16.51%) SC Cleared
1 18 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.26%) Degree
3 4 (3.67%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.83%) PMP
5 1 (0.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.92%) CBAP
5 1 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.92%) IIBA
5 1 (0.92%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.34%) QA
2 7 (6.42%) GDPR
3 5 (4.59%) ISO 20022
4 4 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.67%) MiFID
4 4 (3.67%) PSD2
5 3 (2.75%) EMIR
6 2 (1.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.83%) COREP
7 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.92%) AIFMD
7 1 (0.92%) GRC
7 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 8 (7.34%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.50%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.59%) Databricks
3 5 (4.59%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.67%) Adobe
4 4 (3.67%) OneTrust
5 3 (2.75%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.75%) Tealium
6 2 (1.83%) Murex
6 2 (1.83%) OpenLink
6 2 (1.83%) Oracle
7 1 (0.92%) Alteryx
7 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.92%) FIS
7 1 (0.92%) Google
7 1 (0.92%) iManage
7 1 (0.92%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.92%) SAP
7 1 (0.92%) Snow
7 1 (0.92%) Workday