Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Analyst
England > London

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in London is £490, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 278 259
Rank change year-on-year +42 -19 +105
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 135 76 137
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.96% 0.55% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 0.58% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 52 97
10th Percentile £361 £387 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £593 £606 £663
90th Percentile £730 £661 £801
England median daily rate £465 £475 £513
% change year-on-year -2.16% -7.32% -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% -42.86%

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 12,993 13,016 16,941
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 93.50% 93.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,606 8,379 12,218
10th Percentile £350 £337 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.24% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 140 238
10th Percentile £17.88 £19.99 £16.25
25th Percentile £23.44 £23.80 £20.14
Median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +7.69% -4.41%
75th Percentile £60.63 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.75 £72.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.42
% change year-on-year -21.43% -19.38% +24.04%

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 12 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 12 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 +8 23 £550 -8.33% 4
South London -7 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 12 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 56 (41.48%) Agile
2 42 (31.11%) SQL
3 38 (28.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (25.93%) User Stories
5 33 (24.44%) JIRA
6 31 (22.96%) Scrum
7 28 (20.74%) Workshop Facilitation
8 25 (18.52%) Business Analysis
9 24 (17.78%) Requirements Gathering
10 23 (17.04%) Security Cleared
11 22 (16.30%) Data Modelling
11 22 (16.30%) Migration
11 22 (16.30%) SC Cleared
11 22 (16.30%) User Acceptance Testing
12 21 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
13 20 (14.81%) Python
14 19 (14.07%) Analytics
14 19 (14.07%) Process Improvement
15 18 (13.33%) Azure
15 18 (13.33%) DevOps
16 17 (12.59%) Confluence
16 17 (12.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 17 (12.59%) Validation
17 16 (11.85%) AWS
17 16 (11.85%) Power Platform
18 15 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
18 15 (11.11%) Data Analysis
18 15 (11.11%) Power BI
19 13 (9.63%) Microsoft Excel

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 17 (12.59%) Confluence
2 2 (1.48%) CMS
3 1 (0.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (9.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (7.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.70%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.74%) IntelliMatch
1 1 (0.74%) Maximo
1 1 (0.74%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.33%) Azure
2 16 (11.85%) AWS
2 16 (11.85%) Power Platform
3 8 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.70%) SaaS
4 5 (3.70%) Snowflake
5 4 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.22%) GitHub
6 3 (2.22%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (1.48%) Collibra
7 2 (1.48%) GCP
7 2 (1.48%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.48%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.74%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.74%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.11%) Power BI
2 7 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (3.70%) Oracle Database
3 5 (3.70%) Tableau
4 4 (2.96%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (2.22%) Metadata
6 2 (1.48%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.74%) Big Data
7 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.74%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.74%) Looker
7 1 (0.74%) Power Query
7 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.74%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.74%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 33 (24.44%) JIRA
2 4 (2.96%) Postman
3 3 (2.22%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.74%) Browser DevTools
4 1 (0.74%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (0.74%) Fiddler
General
1 49 (36.30%) Social Skills
2 47 (34.81%) Finance
3 29 (21.48%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (14.81%) Banking
5 11 (8.15%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.19%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.44%) Front Office
7 6 (4.44%) Investment Banking
7 6 (4.44%) Legal
7 6 (4.44%) Marketing
8 4 (2.96%) Back Office
9 3 (2.22%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.22%) Law
10 2 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.48%) Police
11 1 (0.74%) Advertising
11 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.44%) REST
2 4 (2.96%) .NET
2 4 (2.96%) JSON
3 3 (2.22%) XML
4 2 (1.48%) ADO
4 2 (1.48%) RESTful
4 2 (1.48%) SOAP
5 1 (0.74%) CSS
5 1 (0.74%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.74%) FIXML
5 1 (0.74%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.74%) HTML
5 1 (0.74%) Middleware
5 1 (0.74%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.74%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.37%) Onboarding
2 13 (9.63%) Product Ownership
3 5 (3.70%) Fixed Income
3 5 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.70%) Reinsurance
3 5 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (2.96%) Derivative
4 4 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.96%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.22%) Educational Technology
5 3 (2.22%) Equities
5 3 (2.22%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.48%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.48%) PMI
7 1 (0.74%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.19%) Windows
2 5 (3.70%) Linux
3 2 (1.48%) Unix
4 1 (0.74%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (41.48%) Agile
2 38 (28.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 35 (25.93%) User Stories
4 31 (22.96%) Scrum
5 28 (20.74%) Workshop Facilitation
6 25 (18.52%) Business Analysis
7 24 (17.78%) Requirements Gathering
8 22 (16.30%) Data Modelling
8 22 (16.30%) Migration
8 22 (16.30%) User Acceptance Testing
9 21 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (14.07%) Analytics
10 19 (14.07%) Process Improvement
11 18 (13.33%) DevOps
12 17 (12.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (12.59%) Validation
13 15 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
13 15 (11.11%) Data Analysis
14 12 (8.89%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 42 (31.11%) SQL
2 20 (14.81%) Python
3 5 (3.70%) Java
4 3 (2.22%) C#
5 2 (1.48%) C++
6 1 (0.74%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.74%) Perl
6 1 (0.74%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.74%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (17.04%) Security Cleared
2 22 (16.30%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.41%) Degree
4 5 (3.70%) CBAP
5 4 (2.96%) ISEB
5 4 (2.96%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.22%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.48%) PMP
8 1 (0.74%) CISSP
8 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.74%) IIBA
8 1 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.67%) GDPR
2 8 (5.93%) QA
3 7 (5.19%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.96%) PSD2
5 3 (2.22%) ISO 20022
5 3 (2.22%) MiFID
6 2 (1.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.48%) EMIR
7 1 (0.74%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.74%) GRC
7 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.74%) NCSC
7 1 (0.74%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.22%) Ansible
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (8.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.15%) Oracle
3 9 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.44%) ServiceNow
5 5 (3.70%) Atlassian
6 4 (2.96%) Adobe
6 4 (2.96%) OneTrust
6 4 (2.96%) SAP
7 3 (2.22%) Avaloq
7 3 (2.22%) Bloomberg
7 3 (2.22%) Google
7 3 (2.22%) Sonatype
7 3 (2.22%) Tealium
8 2 (1.48%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.48%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.48%) Databricks
9 1 (0.74%) Concur
9 1 (0.74%) FIS
9 1 (0.74%) FNZ
9 1 (0.74%) Workday