Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Analyst
England > London

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in London is £560, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 243 298
Rank change year-on-year -84 +55 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 132 130 95
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.64% 0.97% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.05% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 92 69
10th Percentile £313 £358 £393
25th Percentile £435 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £475 £535
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -11.21% +1.90%
75th Percentile £668 £628 £625
90th Percentile £738 £725 £650
England median daily rate £525 £463 £497
% change year-on-year +13.51% -6.89% -0.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £41.63
25th Percentile - - £42.19
Median hourly rate - £23.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - -50.27% +77.88%
75th Percentile - £24.00 £52.19
90th Percentile - - £53.88
England median hourly rate £16.87 £16.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +5.41% -62.35% +193.10%

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 19,058 12,391 15,104
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 92.55% 94.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,335 8,277 9,836
10th Percentile £363 £335 £341
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 £663 £664 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 210 171
10th Percentile £16.75 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £23.98
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.20 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -25.48% -9.88%
75th Percentile £64.25 £49.13 £59.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.75 £80.00
England median hourly rate £41.71 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.84% -41.51% -6.89%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -29 22 £495 -17.50% 2
West London - 9 £325 - 3
South London - 1 £650 -
East London - 1 - -
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 October 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 59 (44.70%) Agile
2 51 (38.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (31.06%) Requirements Gathering
3 41 (31.06%) User Stories
4 40 (30.30%) SQL
5 31 (23.48%) Business Analysis
6 29 (21.97%) AI
7 28 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (21.21%) Python
8 27 (20.45%) Acceptance Criteria
8 27 (20.45%) Scrum
9 26 (19.70%) Validation
10 25 (18.94%) Data Analysis
10 25 (18.94%) Data Modelling
11 24 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
12 23 (17.42%) JIRA
12 23 (17.42%) Workshop Facilitation
13 19 (14.39%) Analytics
13 19 (14.39%) Azure
13 19 (14.39%) Migration
14 18 (13.64%) AWS
14 18 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
15 14 (10.61%) Degree
15 14 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 13 (9.85%) Java
17 12 (9.09%) Backlog Management
17 12 (9.09%) Backlog Refinement
17 12 (9.09%) Confluence
17 12 (9.09%) Data Governance
17 12 (9.09%) Data Warehouse

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 12 (9.09%) Confluence
2 3 (2.27%) CMS
3 1 (0.76%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.76%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.76%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.52%) Notion
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.76%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.76%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Front Arena
1 2 (1.52%) Summit
2 1 (0.76%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.76%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.39%) Azure
2 18 (13.64%) AWS
3 10 (7.58%) GCP
4 8 (6.06%) Power Platform
5 7 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.79%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 4 (3.03%) SaaS
8 3 (2.27%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.27%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.52%) dbt
9 2 (1.52%) GitHub
9 2 (1.52%) GitHub Copilot
9 2 (1.52%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.76%) Adobe Analytics
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.76%) RelativityOne
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.76%) Cisco IPT
1 1 (0.76%) HTTP
1 1 (0.76%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.76%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (6.82%) Metadata
3 8 (6.06%) Power BI
4 5 (3.79%) Data Hub
5 3 (2.27%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.27%) Tableau
6 2 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.76%) Big Data
7 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.76%) Couchbase
7 1 (0.76%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.76%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (17.42%) JIRA
2 3 (2.27%) Postman
3 2 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (0.76%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.76%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.76%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.76%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.76%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.76%) Xcode
General
1 57 (43.18%) Finance
2 41 (31.06%) Social Skills
3 35 (26.52%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (21.97%) Banking
5 13 (9.85%) Front Office
6 12 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (8.33%) Investment Banking
8 10 (7.58%) Retail
9 5 (3.79%) Financial Institution
9 5 (3.79%) Legal
9 5 (3.79%) Retail Banking
10 4 (3.03%) Marketing
10 4 (3.03%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.52%) French Language
12 2 (1.52%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.76%) Back Office
13 1 (0.76%) Law
13 1 (0.76%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.30%) JSON
2 6 (4.55%) Kafka
3 5 (3.79%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (3.79%) YAML
4 2 (1.52%) Middleware
5 1 (0.76%) .NET
5 1 (0.76%) iOS SDK
5 1 (0.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.58%) Product Ownership
2 9 (6.82%) Market Risk
3 7 (5.30%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.79%) Derivative
6 4 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.27%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.27%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.27%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (2.27%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.52%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.52%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.52%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.76%) CMDB
9 1 (0.76%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.79%) Windows
2 4 (3.03%) Android
2 4 (3.03%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.52%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.76%) Unix
4 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (44.70%) Agile
2 51 (38.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 41 (31.06%) Requirements Gathering
3 41 (31.06%) User Stories
4 31 (23.48%) Business Analysis
5 29 (21.97%) AI
6 28 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (20.45%) Acceptance Criteria
7 27 (20.45%) Scrum
8 26 (19.70%) Validation
9 25 (18.94%) Data Analysis
9 25 (18.94%) Data Modelling
10 24 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
11 23 (17.42%) Workshop Facilitation
12 19 (14.39%) Analytics
12 19 (14.39%) Migration
13 18 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
14 14 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 12 (9.09%) Data Governance
15 12 (9.09%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 40 (30.30%) SQL
2 28 (21.21%) Python
3 13 (9.85%) Java
4 5 (3.79%) Scala
5 3 (2.27%) Korn
5 3 (2.27%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.27%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.27%) R
5 3 (2.27%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.52%) Bash
6 2 (1.52%) C#
6 2 (1.52%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.76%) C
7 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (10.61%) Degree
2 6 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.55%) Security Cleared
3 5 (3.79%) CBAP
3 5 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.52%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.76%) CSPO
5 1 (0.76%) IIBA
5 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.30%) QA
2 6 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.27%) GDPR
4 2 (1.52%) Basel III
4 2 (1.52%) EMIR
4 2 (1.52%) MiFID
5 1 (0.76%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.76%) AIFMD
5 1 (0.76%) DICOM
5 1 (0.76%) GRC
5 1 (0.76%) HL7
5 1 (0.76%) IFRS
5 1 (0.76%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.76%) PERC
5 1 (0.76%) SLA
5 1 (0.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.52%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (5.30%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (9.09%) Oracle
2 6 (4.55%) Databricks
2 6 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 5 (3.79%) Google
4 4 (3.03%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.27%) Alteryx
5 3 (2.27%) Murex
6 2 (1.52%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.52%) Calypso
6 2 (1.52%) Concur
6 2 (1.52%) FIS
6 2 (1.52%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.52%) SAP
7 1 (0.76%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (0.76%) Charles River
7 1 (0.76%) ForeScout
7 1 (0.76%) OneTrust
7 1 (0.76%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.76%) Tealium
7 1 (0.76%) Wolters Kluwer