Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Analyst
England > London

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025.

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

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 289 296
Rank change year-on-year +42 +7 +89
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 138 93 119
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.97% 0.58% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% 0.62% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 64 82
10th Percentile £363 £355 £353
25th Percentile £416 £425 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% -5.00% +1.85%
75th Percentile £596 £625 £625
90th Percentile £725 £663 £688
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile - £41.63 -
25th Percentile - £42.19 -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £46.25 £25.79
Median % change year-on-year -50.27% +79.33% -60.32%
75th Percentile £23.25 £52.19 -
90th Percentile £23.70 £53.88 -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £42.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year -62.35% +193.10% -74.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 13,126 14,911 18,269
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 93.69% 93.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,694 9,671 13,219
10th Percentile £333 £340 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.68%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £765 £794 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.81% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 162 215
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.07
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.98 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.89 £37.50 £36.28
Median % change year-on-year -28.29% +3.36% +3.66%
75th Percentile £50.13 £58.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.25 £81.14 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.47 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -36.33% -11.11% +38.38%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 +7 25 £550 -8.33% 5
South London -3 1 - - 2
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, 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 58 (42.03%) Agile
2 40 (28.99%) SQL
3 34 (24.64%) User Stories
4 30 (21.74%) JIRA
5 29 (21.01%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (19.57%) Workshop Facilitation
7 26 (18.84%) Business Analysis
7 26 (18.84%) Scrum
8 25 (18.12%) Requirements Gathering
9 24 (17.39%) Python
10 21 (15.22%) Migration
11 20 (14.49%) Azure
11 20 (14.49%) DevOps
11 20 (14.49%) Security Cleared
12 19 (13.77%) Analytics
12 19 (13.77%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (13.77%) SC Cleared
13 18 (13.04%) Acceptance Criteria
13 18 (13.04%) Data Modelling
13 18 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 17 (12.32%) AWS
14 17 (12.32%) User Acceptance Testing
15 16 (11.59%) Confluence
15 16 (11.59%) Oracle
15 16 (11.59%) Power BI
15 16 (11.59%) Power Platform
16 15 (10.87%) Microsoft
16 15 (10.87%) Process Improvement
17 14 (10.14%) Data Analysis

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 16 (11.59%) Confluence
2 4 (2.90%) CMS
3 3 (2.17%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.45%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.72%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.72%) JBoss
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.72%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (7.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.62%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (4.35%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.45%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.72%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.49%) Azure
2 17 (12.32%) AWS
3 16 (11.59%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (4.35%) Snowflake
6 5 (3.62%) SaaS
7 4 (2.90%) Entra ID
8 3 (2.17%) GCP
8 3 (2.17%) GitHub
9 2 (1.45%) Collibra
9 2 (1.45%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.45%) Google Tag Manager
10 1 (0.72%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.72%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.72%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.72%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.59%) Power BI
2 6 (4.35%) Oracle Database
2 6 (4.35%) Tableau
3 5 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.17%) Amazon Athena
4 3 (2.17%) Metadata
5 2 (1.45%) Big Data
5 2 (1.45%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.72%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.72%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.72%) Looker
6 1 (0.72%) Power Query
6 1 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.72%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (21.74%) JIRA
2 5 (3.62%) Postman
3 3 (2.17%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.17%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.72%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 56 (40.58%) Social Skills
2 53 (38.41%) Finance
3 32 (23.19%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (19.57%) Banking
5 10 (7.25%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (5.80%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (5.07%) Front Office
7 7 (5.07%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (4.35%) Back Office
9 5 (3.62%) Investment Banking
9 5 (3.62%) Legal
10 4 (2.90%) Marketing
11 3 (2.17%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.45%) Law
12 2 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.45%) Police
13 1 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.72%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.90%) .NET
1 4 (2.90%) JSON
1 4 (2.90%) REST
2 3 (2.17%) XML
3 2 (1.45%) ADO
3 2 (1.45%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.45%) RESTful
3 2 (1.45%) SOAP
3 2 (1.45%) Swagger
4 1 (0.72%) CSS
4 1 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.72%) FIXML
4 1 (0.72%) HTML
4 1 (0.72%) Middleware
4 1 (0.72%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.14%) Product Ownership
2 8 (5.80%) Onboarding
2 8 (5.80%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 6 (4.35%) Reinsurance
4 5 (3.62%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.62%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.90%) Derivative
5 4 (2.90%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.17%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.45%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.45%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.45%) Equities
7 2 (1.45%) PMI
8 1 (0.72%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.80%) Windows
2 6 (4.35%) Windows 10
3 5 (3.62%) Linux
4 2 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.03%) Agile
2 34 (24.64%) User Stories
3 29 (21.01%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (19.57%) Workshop Facilitation
5 26 (18.84%) Business Analysis
5 26 (18.84%) Scrum
6 25 (18.12%) Requirements Gathering
7 21 (15.22%) Migration
8 20 (14.49%) DevOps
9 19 (13.77%) Analytics
9 19 (13.77%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (13.04%) Acceptance Criteria
10 18 (13.04%) Data Modelling
10 18 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (13.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (12.32%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (10.87%) Process Improvement
13 14 (10.14%) Data Analysis
13 14 (10.14%) Validation
14 12 (8.70%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (28.99%) SQL
2 24 (17.39%) Python
3 6 (4.35%) Java
4 5 (3.62%) C#
5 2 (1.45%) C++
6 1 (0.72%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.72%) Perl
6 1 (0.72%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.72%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (14.49%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.77%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.25%) Degree
4 5 (3.62%) CBAP
5 4 (2.90%) ISEB
6 3 (2.17%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.17%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.72%) CISSP
8 1 (0.72%) IIBA
8 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.70%) QA
2 7 (5.07%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.62%) GDPR
4 4 (2.90%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.45%) MiFID
5 2 (1.45%) PSD2
5 2 (1.45%) SEPA
6 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.72%) EMIR
6 1 (0.72%) GRC
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.72%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (3.62%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.72%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (2.17%) Ansible
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.72%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (11.59%) Oracle
2 15 (10.87%) Microsoft
3 7 (5.07%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.35%) SAP
4 6 (4.35%) Temenos
5 5 (3.62%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.17%) Avaloq
6 3 (2.17%) Concur
6 3 (2.17%) Databricks
6 3 (2.17%) Sonatype
7 2 (1.45%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.45%) Bloomberg
7 2 (1.45%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.45%) Google
8 1 (0.72%) Adobe
8 1 (0.72%) Calypso
8 1 (0.72%) Charles River
8 1 (0.72%) IBM
8 1 (0.72%) Murex
8 1 (0.72%) Remedy