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 8 October 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 240 290
Rank change year-on-year -93 +50 +13
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 122 130 95
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.60% 0.97% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 1.05% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 92 70
10th Percentile £313 £340 £396
25th Percentile £435 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £475 £545
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -12.84% -0.91%
75th Percentile £675 £628 £625
90th Percentile £738 £725 £650
England median daily rate £550 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +18.92% -7.50% -
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 18,828 12,404 15,167
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.15% 92.60% 94.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,171 8,272 9,930
10th Percentile £363 £333 £340
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.92% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 203 178
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.50 £24.16
Median hourly rate £41.00 £27.50 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year +49.09% -23.08% -7.65%
75th Percentile £65.60 £49.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.11 £78.75
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -6.70%

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 8 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 8 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 21 £585 -2.50% 7
West London - 7 £325 - 4
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 8 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 57 (46.72%) Agile
2 49 (40.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (32.79%) Requirements Gathering
3 40 (32.79%) User Stories
4 38 (31.15%) SQL
5 27 (22.13%) AI
5 27 (22.13%) Business Analysis
5 27 (22.13%) Data Analysis
5 27 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (22.13%) Python
5 27 (22.13%) Scrum
6 25 (20.49%) Data Modelling
7 24 (19.67%) Acceptance Criteria
7 24 (19.67%) Translating Business Requirements
7 24 (19.67%) Validation
8 23 (18.85%) JIRA
9 20 (16.39%) Azure
10 19 (15.57%) Workshop Facilitation
11 18 (14.75%) Analytics
12 17 (13.93%) AWS
12 17 (13.93%) Migration
12 17 (13.93%) User Acceptance Testing
13 13 (10.66%) Java
14 12 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (9.84%) Confluence
14 12 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
14 12 (9.84%) Degree
14 12 (9.84%) Use Case
15 11 (9.02%) Backlog Management
15 11 (9.02%) Data Governance

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 (9.84%) Confluence
2 2 (1.64%) CMS
3 1 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.82%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (3.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.64%) Notion
3 1 (0.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.82%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Front Arena
1 2 (1.64%) Summit
2 1 (0.82%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.82%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 20 (16.39%) Azure
2 17 (13.93%) AWS
3 10 (8.20%) GCP
4 8 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (5.74%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.10%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (2.46%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (2.46%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (2.46%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.46%) SaaS
8 2 (1.64%) dbt
8 2 (1.64%) GitHub
8 2 (1.64%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (1.64%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.82%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.82%) Azure Databricks
9 1 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.82%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.82%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.84%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (7.38%) Metadata
3 7 (5.74%) Power BI
4 5 (4.10%) Data Hub
5 2 (1.64%) Tableau
6 1 (0.82%) Big Data
6 1 (0.82%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.82%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.82%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.82%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.82%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.82%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.82%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (18.85%) JIRA
2 2 (1.64%) Postman
2 2 (1.64%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 60 (49.18%) Finance
2 39 (31.97%) Social Skills
3 32 (26.23%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (25.41%) Banking
5 13 (10.66%) Front Office
6 11 (9.02%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (9.02%) Investment Banking
7 9 (7.38%) Retail
8 6 (4.92%) Financial Institution
9 5 (4.10%) Retail Banking
10 4 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.46%) Legal
11 3 (2.46%) Marketing
11 3 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.46%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.64%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.82%) French Language
13 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.82%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.92%) JSON
1 6 (4.92%) Kafka
2 5 (4.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (4.10%) YAML
3 2 (1.64%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.02%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.38%) Market Risk
3 7 (5.74%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.92%) Derivative
5 5 (4.10%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.28%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.46%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.64%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.64%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.64%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.64%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.82%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.82%) PACS
9 1 (0.82%) PMI
9 1 (0.82%) Spread Betting
9 1 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.10%) Windows
2 3 (2.46%) Android
2 3 (2.46%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.64%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.82%) Unix
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (46.72%) Agile
2 49 (40.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 40 (32.79%) Requirements Gathering
3 40 (32.79%) User Stories
4 27 (22.13%) AI
4 27 (22.13%) Business Analysis
4 27 (22.13%) Data Analysis
4 27 (22.13%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (22.13%) Scrum
5 25 (20.49%) Data Modelling
6 24 (19.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 24 (19.67%) Translating Business Requirements
6 24 (19.67%) Validation
7 19 (15.57%) Workshop Facilitation
8 18 (14.75%) Analytics
9 17 (13.93%) Migration
9 17 (13.93%) User Acceptance Testing
10 12 (9.84%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (9.84%) Use Case
11 11 (9.02%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 38 (31.15%) SQL
2 27 (22.13%) Python
3 13 (10.66%) Java
4 5 (4.10%) Scala
5 4 (3.28%) PL/SQL
6 3 (2.46%) C#
6 3 (2.46%) Korn
6 3 (2.46%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.46%) R
6 3 (2.46%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.46%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.64%) Bash
8 1 (0.82%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (9.84%) Degree
2 5 (4.10%) CBAP
2 5 (4.10%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.10%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.64%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.82%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.92%) Data Quality
1 6 (4.92%) QA
2 2 (1.64%) Basel III
2 2 (1.64%) EMIR
2 2 (1.64%) GDPR
2 2 (1.64%) MiFID
3 1 (0.82%) AIFMD
3 1 (0.82%) DICOM
3 1 (0.82%) HL7
3 1 (0.82%) IFRS
3 1 (0.82%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.82%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.64%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (5.74%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (9.02%) Oracle
2 7 (5.74%) Databricks
3 6 (4.92%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.10%) Google
5 4 (3.28%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.46%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.46%) Murex
7 2 (1.64%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.64%) Calypso
7 2 (1.64%) Concur
7 2 (1.64%) FIS
7 2 (1.64%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.64%) SAP
8 1 (0.82%) Adobe
8 1 (0.82%) BeyondTrust
8 1 (0.82%) Charles River
8 1 (0.82%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.82%) ForeScout
8 1 (0.82%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.82%) Wolters Kluwer