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 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 263 292
Rank change year-on-year -62 +29 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 124 112 99
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.83% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.90% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 74 72
10th Percentile £313 £363 £366
25th Percentile £481 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £493 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.75% -10.45% +5.06%
75th Percentile £715 £638 £625
90th Percentile £750 £734 £673
England median daily rate £550 £466 £500
% change year-on-year +18.09% -6.85% -
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 £42.50
% change year-on-year -6.02% -57.78% +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 18,950 12,510 15,330
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 92.73% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,221 8,379 10,342
10th Percentile £363 £330 £344
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 £675
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 387 209 182
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.00 £17.54
25th Percentile £21.97 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £39.00 £30.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.87% -12.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile £63.10 £49.75 £57.13
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.96 £74.69
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -47.05% +6.15%

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 12 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 12 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 -18 21 £663 +23.26% 9
West London - 6 £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 12 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 (45.97%) Agile
2 45 (36.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (30.65%) User Stories
4 34 (27.42%) Requirements Gathering
5 30 (24.19%) SQL
6 29 (23.39%) Python
7 26 (20.97%) Acceptance Criteria
7 26 (20.97%) AI
7 26 (20.97%) Data Analysis
7 26 (20.97%) Scrum
8 25 (20.16%) Business Analysis
8 25 (20.16%) Data Modelling
8 25 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (18.55%) Analytics
9 23 (18.55%) Translating Business Requirements
10 20 (16.13%) Validation
11 19 (15.32%) JIRA
12 16 (12.90%) Azure
13 15 (12.10%) Workshop Facilitation
14 13 (10.48%) AWS
14 13 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
14 13 (10.48%) Decision-Making
14 13 (10.48%) Java
14 13 (10.48%) User Acceptance Testing
15 12 (9.68%) Kanban
16 11 (8.87%) Backlog Management
16 11 (8.87%) Migration
16 11 (8.87%) Oracle
16 11 (8.87%) Project Delivery
17 10 (8.06%) Backlog Refinement

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 8 (6.45%) Confluence
2 4 (3.23%) CMS
2 4 (3.23%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.61%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.61%) Notion
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 (2.42%) Findur
2 2 (1.61%) Front Arena
2 2 (1.61%) Loan IQ
2 2 (1.61%) Summit
3 1 (0.81%) Actimize
3 1 (0.81%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.90%) Azure
2 13 (10.48%) AWS
3 9 (7.26%) GCP
3 9 (7.26%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.23%) SaaS
6 3 (2.42%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.42%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.42%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.61%) dbt
7 2 (1.61%) GitHub
7 2 (1.61%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.81%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (0.81%) Azure Databricks
8 1 (0.81%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.81%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.26%) Power BI
2 8 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (6.45%) Metadata
3 5 (4.03%) Data Hub
4 2 (1.61%) 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%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (15.32%) JIRA
2 4 (3.23%) Postman
3 2 (1.61%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 62 (50.00%) Finance
2 42 (33.87%) Social Skills
3 31 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (21.77%) Banking
5 13 (10.48%) Front Office
6 8 (6.45%) Retail
7 7 (5.65%) Investment Banking
8 6 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (4.03%) Financial Institution
9 5 (4.03%) Retail Banking
10 4 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (3.23%) Legal
10 4 (3.23%) Marketing
11 3 (2.42%) Back Office
11 3 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.61%) Law
12 2 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.61%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.84%) JSON
1 6 (4.84%) Kafka
2 5 (4.03%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.03%) YAML
3 3 (2.42%) NumPy
3 3 (2.42%) Pandas
4 2 (1.61%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.10%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.45%) Fixed Income
3 7 (5.65%) Market Risk
4 5 (4.03%) Derivative
4 5 (4.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.03%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.42%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.42%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.42%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.61%) Reference Data
6 2 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.81%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.81%) Equities
7 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.81%) PMI
7 1 (0.81%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.84%) Windows
2 3 (2.42%) Android
2 3 (2.42%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.61%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.81%) Unix
4 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (45.97%) Agile
2 45 (36.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (30.65%) User Stories
4 34 (27.42%) Requirements Gathering
5 26 (20.97%) Acceptance Criteria
5 26 (20.97%) AI
5 26 (20.97%) Data Analysis
5 26 (20.97%) Scrum
6 25 (20.16%) Business Analysis
6 25 (20.16%) Data Modelling
6 25 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (18.55%) Analytics
7 23 (18.55%) Translating Business Requirements
8 20 (16.13%) Validation
9 15 (12.10%) Workshop Facilitation
10 13 (10.48%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (10.48%) Decision-Making
10 13 (10.48%) User Acceptance Testing
11 12 (9.68%) Kanban
12 11 (8.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 30 (24.19%) SQL
2 29 (23.39%) Python
3 13 (10.48%) Java
4 5 (4.03%) Scala
5 4 (3.23%) R
6 3 (2.42%) Korn
6 3 (2.42%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.42%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.42%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.61%) Bash
7 2 (1.61%) C#
7 2 (1.61%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.81%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (6.45%) Degree
2 6 (4.84%) SC Cleared
2 6 (4.84%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.42%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.81%) CBAP
4 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.84%) QA
2 3 (2.42%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.61%) EMIR
3 2 (1.61%) GDPR
3 2 (1.61%) MiFID
3 2 (1.61%) SLA
4 1 (0.81%) AIFMD
4 1 (0.81%) Basel III
4 1 (0.81%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 6 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (4.84%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (8.87%) Oracle
2 7 (5.65%) Databricks
2 7 (5.65%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.03%) Google
4 4 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.42%) Alteryx
5 3 (2.42%) Murex
5 3 (2.42%) OpenLink
6 2 (1.61%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.61%) Calypso
6 2 (1.61%) Concur
6 2 (1.61%) FIS
6 2 (1.61%) SAP
7 1 (0.81%) BeyondTrust
7 1 (0.81%) Charles River
7 1 (0.81%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.81%) ForeScout
7 1 (0.81%) Snow
7 1 (0.81%) Workday