Analyst Contracts in London

Analyst
England > London

The median Analyst daily rate in London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 2,120 3,468 5,115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.14% 13.40% 13.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.00% 14.07% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,513 2,546 3,754
10th Percentile £310 £270 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £631 £641 £600
90th Percentile £718 £750 £675
England median daily rate £475 £480 £463
% change year-on-year -1.04% +3.78% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 43 59
10th Percentile - £18.75 £14.48
25th Percentile £20.50 £20.72 £17.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £25.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +4.08% +8.89%
75th Percentile £40.00 £41.50 £33.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £42.60
England median hourly rate £16.00 £19.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -15.79% +22.58% -4.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,306 24,641 36,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 95.23% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,788 17,910 26,919
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 281 439
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.63 £22.94
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £62.68 £49.92
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.00 £67.63
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in London

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in London.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in London

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in London

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in London.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in London

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in London

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 Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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 0 354 £525 - 97
West London -3 35 £500 +10.50% 16
South London +8 33 £438 +2.94% 12
East London -10 16 £460 +109.09% 15
North London +2 6 £369 -22.37% 3
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, 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 Analyst in the job title.

1 764 (36.04%) Finance
2 561 (26.46%) Social Skills
3 392 (18.49%) Agile
4 366 (17.26%) SQL
5 354 (16.70%) Banking
6 322 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
7 264 (12.45%) Microsoft
8 262 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
9 231 (10.90%) Business Analysis
10 213 (10.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 199 (9.39%) Python
12 189 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
13 187 (8.82%) Data Analysis
14 185 (8.73%) Azure
15 179 (8.44%) Analytics
16 176 (8.30%) Power Platform
17 175 (8.25%) Degree
18 171 (8.07%) Power BI
19 165 (7.78%) User Stories
19 165 (7.78%) Windows
19 165 (7.78%) Migration
20 156 (7.36%) Requirements Gathering
21 155 (7.31%) Asset Management
22 148 (6.98%) Front Office
23 139 (6.56%) Change Management
24 138 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
25 136 (6.42%) User Acceptance Testing
26 133 (6.27%) Security Cleared
26 133 (6.27%) Data Modelling
27 132 (6.23%) Public Sector

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 54 (2.55%) SharePoint
2 43 (2.03%) Confluence
3 21 (0.99%) CMS
4 18 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
5 10 (0.47%) MTS
6 8 (0.38%) SAS
7 7 (0.33%) Apache
7 7 (0.33%) Skype for Business
8 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.24%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.094%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.094%) Camunda
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.047%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.047%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.047%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.047%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 138 (6.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 109 (5.14%) Microsoft Office
3 71 (3.35%) MS Visio
4 54 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 27 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.094%) Trello
9 1 (0.047%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.047%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 38 (1.79%) Endur
2 20 (0.94%) Aladdin
2 20 (0.94%) Aligne
3 13 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.52%) Loan IQ
4 11 (0.52%) NEC Housing
5 10 (0.47%) EuroRunner
5 10 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
5 10 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 9 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
7 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
8 7 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
8 7 (0.33%) thinkFolio
9 6 (0.28%) Markit EDM
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
10 5 (0.24%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 185 (8.73%) Azure
2 176 (8.30%) Power Platform
3 101 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (4.25%) AWS
5 35 (1.65%) SaaS
6 34 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (1.23%) Google Analytics
8 25 (1.18%) Entra ID
9 24 (1.13%) Google Workspace
10 22 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (0.80%) PowerApps
12 16 (0.75%) Collibra
13 15 (0.71%) Snowflake
14 14 (0.66%) Power Automate
15 13 (0.61%) GCP
15 13 (0.61%) OCI
16 12 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
17 10 (0.47%) WhatsApp
18 9 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
18 9 (0.42%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (1.23%) Firewall
2 16 (0.75%) Wireless
3 15 (0.71%) VPN
4 14 (0.66%) DNS
4 14 (0.66%) Internet
5 9 (0.42%) DHCP
5 9 (0.42%) Network Security
6 7 (0.33%) Skype
7 6 (0.28%) FIX Connectivity
7 6 (0.28%) Intranet
7 6 (0.28%) WAN
8 5 (0.24%) TCP/IP
9 4 (0.19%) IPv4
9 4 (0.19%) LAN
9 4 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.14%) MPLS
10 3 (0.14%) NAS
10 3 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
10 3 (0.14%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 171 (8.07%) Power BI
2 60 (2.83%) Tableau
3 56 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (2.31%) SQL Server
5 31 (1.46%) Relational Database
6 22 (1.04%) Metadata
7 19 (0.90%) Big Data
8 16 (0.75%) Looker
9 15 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 14 (0.66%) Data Mining
10 14 (0.66%) Oracle Database
10 14 (0.66%) SAP HANA
11 13 (0.61%) BigQuery
11 13 (0.61%) Data Lake
12 12 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
13 11 (0.52%) NoSQL
14 9 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 8 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
16 7 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
17 6 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 87 (4.10%) JIRA
2 30 (1.42%) Postman
3 25 (1.18%) Selenium
4 22 (1.04%) Visual Studio
5 17 (0.80%) WebDriver
6 13 (0.61%) SpecFlow
7 12 (0.57%) Jenkins
8 11 (0.52%) Git
9 10 (0.47%) SoapUI
10 8 (0.38%) Eclipse
10 8 (0.38%) Subversion
11 7 (0.33%) Appium
11 7 (0.33%) Artifactory
11 7 (0.33%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.28%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.24%) JMeter
14 4 (0.19%) Rational Performance Tester
15 3 (0.14%) Bitbucket
15 3 (0.14%) Cypress.io
15 3 (0.14%) TestComplete
General
1 764 (36.04%) Finance
2 561 (26.46%) Social Skills
3 354 (16.70%) Banking
4 322 (15.19%) Analytical Skills
5 148 (6.98%) Front Office
6 132 (6.23%) Public Sector
7 116 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 105 (4.95%) Investment Banking
9 101 (4.76%) Back Office
10 78 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (2.78%) Retail
12 51 (2.41%) Marketing
13 47 (2.22%) Legal
14 43 (2.03%) Local Government
15 36 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
16 34 (1.60%) Organisational Skills
17 30 (1.42%) Telecoms
18 26 (1.23%) Financial Institution
19 24 (1.13%) Billing
20 19 (0.90%) Advertising
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (1.56%) XML
2 29 (1.37%) .NET
3 17 (0.80%) Middleware
4 15 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
5 14 (0.66%) FIX Protocol
6 12 (0.57%) .NET Framework
6 12 (0.57%) AngularJS
6 12 (0.57%) JSON
7 9 (0.42%) SailPoint
8 8 (0.38%) ADO
8 8 (0.38%) HTML
8 8 (0.38%) SOAP
9 7 (0.33%) IDoc
9 7 (0.33%) PySpark
9 7 (0.33%) SAP PI
10 5 (0.24%) Web Services
11 4 (0.19%) RESTful
11 4 (0.19%) SAML
11 4 (0.19%) SAP XI
11 4 (0.19%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 106 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 103 (4.86%) Derivative
3 71 (3.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 70 (3.30%) Hedge funds
5 63 (2.97%) Equities
6 62 (2.92%) Fixed Income
7 58 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 41 (1.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 37 (1.75%) Onboarding
10 35 (1.65%) Reinsurance
11 31 (1.46%) Mobile App
12 27 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
13 23 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
13 23 (1.08%) Market Risk
14 21 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
15 20 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
16 18 (0.85%) Credit Risk
17 15 (0.71%) Data Centre
18 14 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
18 14 (0.66%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 165 (7.78%) Windows
2 50 (2.36%) Windows 10
3 45 (2.12%) Linux
4 32 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.23%) Android
6 20 (0.94%) Apple iOS
6 20 (0.94%) Unix
7 13 (0.61%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.38%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.14%) VMS
11 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.047%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (18.49%) Agile
2 262 (12.36%) Problem-Solving
3 231 (10.90%) Business Analysis
4 213 (10.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 189 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
6 187 (8.82%) Data Analysis
7 179 (8.44%) Analytics
8 165 (7.78%) Migration
8 165 (7.78%) User Stories
9 156 (7.36%) Requirements Gathering
10 155 (7.31%) Asset Management
11 139 (6.56%) Change Management
12 136 (6.42%) User Acceptance Testing
13 133 (6.27%) Data Modelling
14 123 (5.80%) Project Management
14 123 (5.80%) Risk Management
15 114 (5.38%) ITIL
16 110 (5.19%) GAP Analysis
17 109 (5.14%) Cybersecurity
18 105 (4.95%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 366 (17.26%) SQL
2 199 (9.39%) Python
3 81 (3.82%) C#
4 53 (2.50%) PowerShell
5 44 (2.08%) Java
6 26 (1.23%) C++
7 19 (0.90%) VBA
8 18 (0.85%) R
9 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 13 (0.61%) Kotlin
10 13 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 11 (0.52%) JavaScript
11 11 (0.52%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.42%) ABAP
13 8 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.33%) C
14 7 (0.33%) Perl
15 5 (0.24%) VBScript
15 5 (0.24%) XPath
15 5 (0.24%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 175 (8.25%) Degree
2 133 (6.27%) Security Cleared
3 111 (5.24%) SC Cleared
4 36 (1.70%) CISSP
5 24 (1.13%) CISM
6 20 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 16 (0.75%) DV Cleared
9 14 (0.66%) Computer Science Degree
9 14 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
10 11 (0.52%) CISA
11 8 (0.38%) CBAP
11 8 (0.38%) CRISC
12 7 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.28%) CEH
13 6 (0.28%) GREM
13 6 (0.28%) GSEC
13 6 (0.28%) ISTQB
13 6 (0.28%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (4.95%) Data Quality
2 98 (4.62%) QA
3 52 (2.45%) PMO
4 41 (1.93%) SLA
5 32 (1.51%) NIST
6 27 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.23%) GDPR
8 20 (0.94%) EMIR
9 19 (0.90%) MiFID
9 19 (0.90%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.66%) SEPA
11 13 (0.61%) GRC
12 9 (0.42%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.38%) ISO 20022
14 6 (0.28%) GAAP
15 5 (0.24%) ISO 22301
15 5 (0.24%) NCSC
16 4 (0.19%) ISO 31000
17 3 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 91 (4.29%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.33%) Firmware
3 5 (0.24%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.19%) Docker
4 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.14%) vSphere
6 2 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.094%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.094%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.094%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
2 11 (0.52%) SCCM
3 9 (0.42%) Ansible
4 8 (0.38%) Grafana
5 7 (0.33%) BladeLogic
5 7 (0.33%) Control-M
5 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (0.24%) WSUS
8 4 (0.19%) Kubernetes
8 4 (0.19%) Nessus
8 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.14%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.14%) QRadar
10 2 (0.094%) CASB
10 2 (0.094%) Microsoft Clustering
10 2 (0.094%) Nmap
10 2 (0.094%) Terraform
11 1 (0.047%) HP Quality Center
11 1 (0.047%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 264 (12.45%) Microsoft
2 115 (5.42%) Oracle
3 94 (4.43%) SAP
4 66 (3.11%) ServiceNow
5 49 (2.31%) Bloomberg
6 45 (2.12%) Google
7 44 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 32 (1.51%) Citrix
9 19 (0.90%) Refinitiv
10 18 (0.85%) Apple
10 18 (0.85%) Databricks
10 18 (0.85%) IBM
11 16 (0.75%) Alteryx
11 16 (0.75%) Dynatrace
11 16 (0.75%) OpenLink
12 15 (0.71%) Adobe
13 13 (0.61%) Splunk
14 12 (0.57%) BISAM
14 12 (0.57%) Murex
14 12 (0.57%) NEC