Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Analyst
England > London

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in London is £495, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 295 312
Rank change year-on-year +48 +17 +66
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 115 93 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.86% 0.58% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.61% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 68 93
10th Percentile £374 £360 £353
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £619
90th Percentile £738 £675 £656
England median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 1
10th Percentile - £41.63 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £42.19 -
Median hourly rate £23.50 £46.25 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.19% +77.88% +52.94%
75th Percentile £24.00 £52.19 -
90th Percentile - £53.88 -
England median hourly rate £17.95 £42.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year -57.78% +193.10% -35.56%

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 12,450 15,190 20,706
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.06% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,342 10,172 15,099
10th Percentile £331 £340 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 181 231
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.50 £18.16
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £22.39
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -6.27% +14.89%
75th Percentile £50.75 £56.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £66.73 £71.88 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
% change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%

Technical Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Technical Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Analyst 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +16 22 £538 -8.51% 8
Technical Analyst
England

Technical Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Technical Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Technical Analyst in the job title.

1 51 (44.35%) Finance
2 46 (40.00%) Agile
3 45 (39.13%) Social Skills
4 27 (23.48%) SQL
5 24 (20.87%) Banking
6 23 (20.00%) Python
6 23 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (19.13%) User Stories
8 21 (18.26%) Requirements Gathering
9 18 (15.65%) Microsoft
10 17 (14.78%) Data Analysis
10 17 (14.78%) Validation
10 17 (14.78%) Scrum
11 16 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (13.91%) Business Analysis
11 16 (13.91%) Oracle
11 16 (13.91%) JIRA
11 16 (13.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (13.91%) Power Platform
12 15 (13.04%) Azure
12 15 (13.04%) Project Management
13 14 (12.17%) Business Intelligence
13 14 (12.17%) Power BI
14 13 (11.30%) Acceptance Criteria
14 13 (11.30%) Data Modelling
14 13 (11.30%) Visualisation
14 13 (11.30%) Analytics
15 12 (10.43%) DevOps
15 12 (10.43%) AWS
15 12 (10.43%) Workshop Facilitation

Technical Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.22%) Confluence
2 5 (4.35%) WebSphere
3 4 (3.48%) CMS
3 4 (3.48%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (1.74%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.87%) JBoss
5 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (5.22%) Temenos T24
2 3 (2.61%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.87%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.87%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 16 (13.91%) Power Platform
2 15 (13.04%) Azure
3 12 (10.43%) AWS
4 10 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (6.09%) Entra ID
6 5 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.48%) Collibra
7 4 (3.48%) PowerApps
7 4 (3.48%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.74%) GCP
8 2 (1.74%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.74%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.74%) Lucidchart
8 2 (1.74%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.74%) SaaS
9 1 (0.87%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.87%) IaaS
9 1 (0.87%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.74%) DNS
1 2 (1.74%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.87%) DHCP
2 1 (0.87%) Firewall
2 1 (0.87%) LAN
2 1 (0.87%) VoIP
2 1 (0.87%) VPN
2 1 (0.87%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.17%) Power BI
2 8 (6.96%) Tableau
3 7 (6.09%) Oracle Database
4 4 (3.48%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.48%) Metadata
5 2 (1.74%) Big Data
5 2 (1.74%) Power Query
5 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.74%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.87%) DbVisualizer
6 1 (0.87%) Looker
6 1 (0.87%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.87%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 16 (13.91%) JIRA
2 6 (5.22%) Postman
3 5 (4.35%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.87%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.87%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 51 (44.35%) Finance
2 45 (39.13%) Social Skills
3 24 (20.87%) Banking
4 23 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (9.57%) Front Office
6 7 (6.09%) Back Office
6 7 (6.09%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (5.22%) Investment Banking
8 5 (4.35%) Legal
9 4 (3.48%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.61%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (2.61%) Marketing
10 3 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.74%) Law
12 1 (0.87%) French Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.35%) XML
2 3 (2.61%) FpML
2 3 (2.61%) RESTful
2 3 (2.61%) SOAP
2 3 (2.61%) Swagger
3 2 (1.74%) ADO
3 2 (1.74%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.87%) .NET
4 1 (0.87%) JSON
4 1 (0.87%) LangChain
4 1 (0.87%) LangGraph
4 1 (0.87%) REST
4 1 (0.87%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 7 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.22%) Reinsurance
4 5 (4.35%) Fixed Income
4 5 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.48%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (2.61%) DTCC
6 3 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.74%) Derivative
7 2 (1.74%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.74%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.87%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.87%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.87%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.87%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.57%) Windows
2 7 (6.09%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.87%) Linux
3 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (40.00%) Agile
2 22 (19.13%) User Stories
3 21 (18.26%) Requirements Gathering
4 17 (14.78%) Data Analysis
4 17 (14.78%) Scrum
4 17 (14.78%) Validation
5 16 (13.91%) Business Analysis
5 16 (13.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 16 (13.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 15 (13.04%) Project Management
7 14 (12.17%) Business Intelligence
8 13 (11.30%) Acceptance Criteria
8 13 (11.30%) Analytics
8 13 (11.30%) Data Modelling
8 13 (11.30%) Visualisation
9 12 (10.43%) DevOps
9 12 (10.43%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (10.43%) Workshop Facilitation
10 10 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
11 9 (7.83%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.48%) SQL
2 23 (20.00%) Python
3 5 (4.35%) C#
4 2 (1.74%) Java
5 1 (0.87%) C++
5 1 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.87%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (6.96%) SC Cleared
1 8 (6.96%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.35%) Degree
3 2 (1.74%) CBAP
3 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.74%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (0.87%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.87%) CISSP
4 1 (0.87%) ISEB
4 1 (0.87%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.87%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.70%) QA
2 6 (5.22%) ISO 20022
3 5 (4.35%) SEPA
4 4 (3.48%) EMIR
4 4 (3.48%) MiFID
5 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.87%) PMO
6 1 (0.87%) PSD2
System Software
1 10 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.35%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 5 (4.35%) Tivoli
2 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.74%) SCCM
3 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (15.65%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.91%) Oracle
3 6 (5.22%) Temenos
4 5 (4.35%) IBM
4 5 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.48%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.48%) SAP
6 3 (2.61%) Alteryx
6 3 (2.61%) Avaloq
6 3 (2.61%) Concur
6 3 (2.61%) Databricks
7 2 (1.74%) FIS
7 2 (1.74%) Google
8 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.87%) Charles River
8 1 (0.87%) Cisco
8 1 (0.87%) Citrix
8 1 (0.87%) Cognos
8 1 (0.87%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.87%) SunGard