Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Analyst
England > London

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026.

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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 250 289
Rank change year-on-year -68 +39 +56
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 118 100 111
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.61% 0.78% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.83% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 60 81
10th Percentile £313 £361 £313
25th Percentile £463 £405 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £694 £639 £663
90th Percentile £743 £726 £850
England median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £23.00 £41.25
Median hourly rate - £24.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year - -43.53% +40.50%
75th Percentile - - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.80 £15.33 £22.50
% change year-on-year +42.20% -31.87% +7.14%

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 17,889 11,985 16,412
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 93.44% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,782 8,101 11,761
10th Percentile £358 £336 £325
25th Percentile £439 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 184 316
10th Percentile £18.07 £18.87 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.34 £20.17
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.70 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.34% +18.89% -26.51%
75th Percentile £63.10 £50.50 £45.18
90th Percentile £80.88 £63.75 £67.50
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -9.83%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 17 £590 +24.21%
West London -11 6 £325 - 1
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 June 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 53 (44.92%) Agile
2 35 (29.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (27.97%) User Stories
4 28 (23.73%) SQL
5 26 (22.03%) Scrum
6 25 (21.19%) Analytics
7 24 (20.34%) Requirements Gathering
8 22 (18.64%) Acceptance Criteria
9 21 (17.80%) Business Analysis
9 21 (17.80%) Data Analysis
9 21 (17.80%) Python
10 20 (16.95%) AI
10 20 (16.95%) Data Modelling
11 18 (15.25%) Validation
12 15 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
13 14 (11.86%) Azure
13 14 (11.86%) DevOps
13 14 (11.86%) JIRA
13 14 (11.86%) Translating Business Requirements
13 14 (11.86%) User Acceptance Testing
14 13 (11.02%) Microservices
15 12 (10.17%) Backlog Refinement
15 12 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
15 12 (10.17%) Decision-Making
15 12 (10.17%) Kanban
15 12 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 11 (9.32%) AWS
16 11 (9.32%) Project Management
16 11 (9.32%) Sprint Planning
17 10 (8.47%) Machine Learning

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 9 (7.63%) CMS
1 9 (7.63%) Confluence
2 4 (3.39%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (4.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.69%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.69%) Notion
2 2 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.85%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Actimize
1 3 (2.54%) Findur
2 2 (1.69%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.69%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.85%) Bloomberg TOMS
3 1 (0.85%) IntelliMatch
Cloud Services
1 14 (11.86%) Azure
2 11 (9.32%) AWS
3 9 (7.63%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.08%) GCP
5 3 (2.54%) SaaS
6 2 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.69%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (1.69%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.85%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.85%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.63%) Power BI
2 5 (4.24%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.39%) Metadata
4 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.54%) Tableau
5 2 (1.69%) Data Hub
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (0.85%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.85%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.85%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 14 (11.86%) JIRA
2 8 (6.78%) Postman
General
1 51 (43.22%) Finance
2 39 (33.05%) Social Skills
3 25 (21.19%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (19.49%) Banking
5 14 (11.86%) Front Office
6 8 (6.78%) Marketing
6 8 (6.78%) Retail
7 6 (5.08%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.24%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.54%) Back Office
9 3 (2.54%) Law
9 3 (2.54%) Legal
9 3 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.69%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.69%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.24%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (2.54%) JSON
2 3 (2.54%) NumPy
2 3 (2.54%) Pandas
3 2 (1.69%) Kafka
3 2 (1.69%) Middleware
3 2 (1.69%) YAML
4 1 (0.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.71%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.63%) Greenfield Project
3 8 (6.78%) Fixed Income
4 7 (5.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (5.08%) Market Risk
6 4 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.54%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.54%) Derivative
8 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.69%) Digital Wallet
8 2 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.69%) Reference Data
8 2 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.85%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.85%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.39%) Windows
2 2 (1.69%) Android
2 2 (1.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (44.92%) Agile
2 35 (29.66%) Stakeholder Management
3 33 (27.97%) User Stories
4 26 (22.03%) Scrum
5 25 (21.19%) Analytics
6 24 (20.34%) Requirements Gathering
7 22 (18.64%) Acceptance Criteria
8 21 (17.80%) Business Analysis
8 21 (17.80%) Data Analysis
9 20 (16.95%) AI
9 20 (16.95%) Data Modelling
10 18 (15.25%) Validation
11 15 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (11.86%) DevOps
12 14 (11.86%) Translating Business Requirements
12 14 (11.86%) User Acceptance Testing
13 13 (11.02%) Microservices
14 12 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (10.17%) Kanban
14 12 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.73%) SQL
2 21 (17.80%) Python
3 7 (5.93%) Java
4 4 (3.39%) R
5 2 (1.69%) Scala
6 1 (0.85%) C
6 1 (0.85%) C#
6 1 (0.85%) Korn
6 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (8.47%) SC Cleared
1 10 (8.47%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.63%) Degree
3 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.69%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) QA
2 3 (2.54%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.54%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.69%) COREP
3 2 (1.69%) GDPR
3 2 (1.69%) PSD2
4 1 (0.85%) AIFMD
4 1 (0.85%) EMIR
4 1 (0.85%) MiFID
4 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (4.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (7.63%) Oracle
2 6 (5.08%) Databricks
3 4 (3.39%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.39%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.39%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.54%) Alteryx
4 3 (2.54%) OpenLink
5 2 (1.69%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.69%) Google
5 2 (1.69%) Murex
6 1 (0.85%) Charles River
6 1 (0.85%) Concur
6 1 (0.85%) FIS
6 1 (0.85%) ForeScout
6 1 (0.85%) iManage
6 1 (0.85%) SAP
6 1 (0.85%) Snow
6 1 (0.85%) Workday