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 23 January 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 262 286 275
Rank change year-on-year +24 -11 +81
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 127 75 126
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.87% 0.54% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.57% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 52 94
10th Percentile £355 £387 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £555
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -5.41% +2.78%
75th Percentile £588 £604 £663
90th Percentile £726 £650 £850
England median daily rate £463 £481 £513
% change year-on-year -3.90% -6.10% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.79
England median hourly rate £16.00 £15.14 £14.00
% change year-on-year +5.68% +8.14% -29.11%

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 13,543 13,061 16,991
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.60% 93.59% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,012 8,409 12,260
10th Percentile £350 £338 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 142 285
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.75 £16.02
25th Percentile £23.55 £24.26 £19.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +17.77% -10.37%
75th Percentile £63.10 £53.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.55 £67.20
England median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -15.43% -11.50% +13.00%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +5 21 £550 -8.33%
South London -4 1 - -
West London -18 1 - - 1
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 January 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 54 (42.52%) Agile
2 39 (30.71%) SQL
3 36 (28.35%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (27.56%) User Stories
5 34 (26.77%) JIRA
6 30 (23.62%) Scrum
7 26 (20.47%) Workshop Facilitation
8 23 (18.11%) Security Cleared
9 22 (17.32%) Business Analysis
9 22 (17.32%) Data Modelling
9 22 (17.32%) Migration
9 22 (17.32%) SC Cleared
10 21 (16.54%) Requirements Gathering
11 20 (15.75%) User Acceptance Testing
12 19 (14.96%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (14.96%) Process Improvement
12 19 (14.96%) Python
13 18 (14.17%) Confluence
13 18 (14.17%) DevOps
14 17 (13.39%) Analytics
14 17 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
15 16 (12.60%) AWS
15 16 (12.60%) Azure
16 15 (11.81%) Acceptance Criteria
16 15 (11.81%) Data Analysis
16 15 (11.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 15 (11.81%) Validation
17 14 (11.02%) Power Platform
18 13 (10.24%) Microsoft Excel
18 13 (10.24%) Power BI

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 18 (14.17%) Confluence
2 2 (1.57%) CMS
3 1 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (10.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (7.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.94%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.79%) IntelliMatch
1 1 (0.79%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 16 (12.60%) AWS
1 16 (12.60%) Azure
2 14 (11.02%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.94%) SaaS
4 5 (3.94%) Snowflake
5 4 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.36%) GitHub
6 3 (2.36%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (1.57%) GCP
7 2 (1.57%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.79%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.79%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.24%) Power BI
2 7 (5.51%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (3.15%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.36%) Tableau
5 2 (1.57%) Metadata
5 2 (1.57%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.79%) Big Data
6 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.79%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.79%) Looker
6 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (26.77%) JIRA
2 4 (3.15%) Postman
3 3 (2.36%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.36%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.79%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.79%) Fiddler
General
1 44 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 41 (32.28%) Finance
3 26 (20.47%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (14.17%) Banking
5 9 (7.09%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.30%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.72%) Marketing
9 5 (3.94%) Front Office
10 4 (3.15%) Back Office
10 4 (3.15%) Investment Banking
10 4 (3.15%) Legal
11 3 (2.36%) Law
12 2 (1.57%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.57%) Police
13 1 (0.79%) Advertising
13 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.79%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.72%) REST
2 4 (3.15%) .NET
2 4 (3.15%) JSON
3 3 (2.36%) XML
4 2 (1.57%) RESTful
4 2 (1.57%) SOAP
5 1 (0.79%) ADO
5 1 (0.79%) CSS
5 1 (0.79%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.79%) FIXML
5 1 (0.79%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.79%) HTML
5 1 (0.79%) Middleware
5 1 (0.79%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.24%) Product Ownership
2 12 (9.45%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.94%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.94%) Reinsurance
3 5 (3.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (3.15%) Derivative
4 4 (3.15%) Fixed Income
4 4 (3.15%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.36%) Educational Technology
5 3 (2.36%) Equities
5 3 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.36%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.57%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.79%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.79%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.79%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.79%) PMI
7 1 (0.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.51%) Windows
2 5 (3.94%) Linux
3 2 (1.57%) Unix
4 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (42.52%) Agile
2 36 (28.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (27.56%) User Stories
4 30 (23.62%) Scrum
5 26 (20.47%) Workshop Facilitation
6 22 (17.32%) Business Analysis
6 22 (17.32%) Data Modelling
6 22 (17.32%) Migration
7 21 (16.54%) Requirements Gathering
8 20 (15.75%) User Acceptance Testing
9 19 (14.96%) Business Intelligence
9 19 (14.96%) Process Improvement
10 18 (14.17%) DevOps
11 17 (13.39%) Analytics
11 17 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
12 15 (11.81%) Acceptance Criteria
12 15 (11.81%) Data Analysis
12 15 (11.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (11.81%) Validation
13 12 (9.45%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 39 (30.71%) SQL
2 19 (14.96%) Python
3 5 (3.94%) Java
4 1 (0.79%) C++
4 1 (0.79%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.79%) Perl
4 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (18.11%) Security Cleared
2 22 (17.32%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.66%) Degree
4 4 (3.15%) CBAP
4 4 (3.15%) ISEB
5 3 (2.36%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.36%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.57%) PMP
7 1 (0.79%) CISSP
7 1 (0.79%) IIBA
7 1 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.09%) GDPR
2 7 (5.51%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.51%) QA
3 4 (3.15%) PSD2
4 3 (2.36%) ISO 20022
4 3 (2.36%) MiFID
5 2 (1.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.57%) EMIR
6 1 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.79%) GRC
6 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.79%) NCSC
6 1 (0.79%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.36%) Ansible
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (8.66%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.87%) Oracle
3 9 (7.09%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.72%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.15%) Adobe
5 4 (3.15%) Atlassian
5 4 (3.15%) OneTrust
6 3 (2.36%) Bloomberg
6 3 (2.36%) Google
6 3 (2.36%) SAP
6 3 (2.36%) Sonatype
6 3 (2.36%) Tealium
7 2 (1.57%) Avaloq
7 2 (1.57%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.57%) Databricks
8 1 (0.79%) FIS
8 1 (0.79%) FNZ
8 1 (0.79%) iManage
8 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Workday