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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 2,109 3,428 5,117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 12.04% 13.48% 13.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.87% 14.16% 13.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,514 2,540 3,796
10th Percentile £312 £272 £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 £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £704 £750 £688
England median daily rate £475 £488 £465
% change year-on-year -2.56% +4.84% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 41 57
10th Percentile £20.50 £18.75 £13.20
25th Percentile £20.69 £20.44 £16.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year - +2.67% +8.08%
75th Percentile £52.31 £40.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £75.88 £65.00 £41.60
England median hourly rate £16.30 £19.00 £15.52
% change year-on-year -14.21% +22.46% -4.41%

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 16,385 24,202 36,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,830 17,663 27,089
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 278 414
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £23.24
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £47.18 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.40 £82.33 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 0 353 £520 -0.95% 80
West London 0 37 £500 +6.67% 23
South London +5 33 £438 +2.94% 13
East London -12 17 £495 +116.63% 5
North London +3 6 £369 -22.37% 4
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 757 (35.89%) Finance
2 555 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 417 (19.77%) Agile
4 387 (18.35%) SQL
5 359 (17.02%) Banking
6 319 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
7 257 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
8 249 (11.81%) Business Analysis
9 248 (11.76%) Microsoft
10 227 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 220 (10.43%) Python
12 198 (9.39%) Business Intelligence
13 191 (9.06%) Analytics
14 186 (8.82%) Degree
15 184 (8.72%) Data Analysis
16 181 (8.58%) Azure
16 181 (8.58%) Power Platform
17 178 (8.44%) Migration
18 176 (8.35%) Power BI
19 170 (8.06%) User Stories
20 168 (7.97%) Requirements Gathering
21 157 (7.44%) Windows
22 152 (7.21%) Asset Management
23 145 (6.88%) Front Office
24 139 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
24 139 (6.59%) Security Cleared
24 139 (6.59%) User Acceptance Testing
25 137 (6.50%) Data Modelling
26 134 (6.35%) Public Sector
27 132 (6.26%) Change Management

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 55 (2.61%) SharePoint
2 47 (2.23%) Confluence
3 20 (0.95%) CMS
4 13 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (0.57%) SAS
6 9 (0.43%) Apache
7 8 (0.38%) MTS
8 6 (0.28%) Skype for Business
9 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 5 (0.24%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.095%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.047%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.047%) Alfresco
11 1 (0.047%) Camunda
11 1 (0.047%) IBM Notes
11 1 (0.047%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.047%) LiveLink
11 1 (0.047%) OpenStack
Applications
1 139 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 103 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (3.18%) MS Visio
4 52 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 28 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.19%) SPSS
8 3 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.14%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.095%) Trello
10 1 (0.047%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 32 (1.52%) Endur
2 19 (0.90%) Aladdin
3 18 (0.85%) Aligne
4 13 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.52%) Loan IQ
5 11 (0.52%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
7 8 (0.38%) EuroRunner
7 8 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
8 7 (0.33%) thinkFolio
9 6 (0.28%) Markit EDM
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
10 5 (0.24%) OpenLink RightAngle
10 5 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
10 5 (0.24%) SAP ERP
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
11 4 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
11 4 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 181 (8.58%) Azure
1 181 (8.58%) Power Platform
2 93 (4.41%) AWS
3 92 (4.36%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (1.85%) SaaS
5 34 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (1.28%) Google Analytics
7 24 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
7 24 (1.14%) Entra ID
8 23 (1.09%) Google Workspace
9 17 (0.81%) PowerApps
9 17 (0.81%) Snowflake
10 16 (0.76%) Collibra
10 16 (0.76%) Power Automate
11 13 (0.62%) GCP
11 13 (0.62%) OCI
12 11 (0.52%) dbt
13 10 (0.47%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (0.47%) PaaS
13 10 (0.47%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 24 (1.14%) Firewall
2 15 (0.71%) Wireless
3 14 (0.66%) VPN
4 13 (0.62%) Internet
5 11 (0.52%) DNS
6 7 (0.33%) DHCP
6 7 (0.33%) Network Security
7 6 (0.28%) FIX Connectivity
7 6 (0.28%) Skype
7 6 (0.28%) WAN
8 5 (0.24%) Intranet
8 5 (0.24%) LAN
8 5 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (0.19%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.14%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.14%) IPv4
10 3 (0.14%) MPLS
10 3 (0.14%) NAS
10 3 (0.14%) RTP
10 3 (0.14%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 176 (8.35%) Power BI
2 63 (2.99%) Tableau
3 54 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (2.37%) SQL Server
5 33 (1.56%) Relational Database
6 23 (1.09%) Metadata
7 21 (1.00%) Big Data
8 16 (0.76%) Looker
8 16 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 15 (0.71%) Oracle Database
10 14 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 14 (0.66%) Data Mining
11 12 (0.57%) BigQuery
11 12 (0.57%) NoSQL
12 11 (0.52%) SAP HANA
13 10 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
13 10 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
14 7 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 94 (4.46%) JIRA
2 35 (1.66%) Postman
3 25 (1.19%) Selenium
4 22 (1.04%) Visual Studio
5 17 (0.81%) WebDriver
6 13 (0.62%) SpecFlow
7 12 (0.57%) Git
7 12 (0.57%) Jenkins
7 12 (0.57%) SoapUI
8 8 (0.38%) Subversion
9 7 (0.33%) Appium
9 7 (0.33%) Artifactory
9 7 (0.33%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.28%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.24%) Eclipse
11 5 (0.24%) JMeter
12 4 (0.19%) Rational Performance Tester
13 3 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 3 (0.14%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.14%) TestComplete
General
1 757 (35.89%) Finance
2 555 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 359 (17.02%) Banking
4 319 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
5 145 (6.88%) Front Office
6 134 (6.35%) Public Sector
7 111 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 110 (5.22%) Investment Banking
9 95 (4.50%) Back Office
10 80 (3.79%) Presentation Skills
11 63 (2.99%) Retail
12 54 (2.56%) Marketing
13 41 (1.94%) Legal
13 41 (1.94%) Local Government
14 35 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
15 30 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
16 28 (1.33%) Telecoms
17 25 (1.19%) Billing
18 24 (1.14%) Financial Institution
19 21 (1.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (1.52%) XML
2 29 (1.38%) .NET
3 17 (0.81%) Middleware
4 14 (0.66%) Oracle Fusion
5 13 (0.62%) FIX Protocol
6 12 (0.57%) .NET Framework
6 12 (0.57%) AngularJS
7 10 (0.47%) SOAP
8 9 (0.43%) JSON
9 8 (0.38%) ADO
9 8 (0.38%) HTML
9 8 (0.38%) PySpark
9 8 (0.38%) SailPoint
10 7 (0.33%) IDoc
10 7 (0.33%) SAP PI
11 5 (0.24%) SAML
11 5 (0.24%) Web Services
12 4 (0.19%) OAuth
12 4 (0.19%) SAP XI
12 4 (0.19%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 111 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 101 (4.79%) Derivative
3 70 (3.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 69 (3.27%) Hedge funds
5 64 (3.03%) Fixed Income
6 61 (2.89%) Equities
7 58 (2.75%) Management Information System
8 40 (1.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 38 (1.80%) Onboarding
10 35 (1.66%) Mobile App
11 33 (1.56%) Reinsurance
12 25 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
13 24 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
15 19 (0.90%) Credit Risk
15 19 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
16 18 (0.85%) Market Risk
17 14 (0.66%) Data Centre
17 14 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
18 13 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 157 (7.44%) Windows
2 44 (2.09%) Linux
2 44 (2.09%) Windows 10
3 32 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 25 (1.19%) Android
5 22 (1.04%) Unix
6 15 (0.71%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.47%) Mac OS
8 7 (0.33%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.14%) VMS
11 1 (0.047%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.047%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (19.77%) Agile
2 257 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
3 249 (11.81%) Business Analysis
4 227 (10.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 198 (9.39%) Business Intelligence
6 191 (9.06%) Analytics
7 184 (8.72%) Data Analysis
8 178 (8.44%) Migration
9 170 (8.06%) User Stories
10 168 (7.97%) Requirements Gathering
11 152 (7.21%) Asset Management
12 139 (6.59%) User Acceptance Testing
13 137 (6.50%) Data Modelling
14 132 (6.26%) Change Management
15 128 (6.07%) Project Management
16 122 (5.78%) Risk Management
17 115 (5.45%) ITIL
18 114 (5.41%) GAP Analysis
19 107 (5.07%) Investment Management
20 105 (4.98%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 387 (18.35%) SQL
2 220 (10.43%) Python
3 75 (3.56%) C#
4 52 (2.47%) PowerShell
5 45 (2.13%) Java
6 26 (1.23%) C++
7 21 (1.00%) VBA
8 19 (0.90%) R
9 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
10 13 (0.62%) JavaScript
10 13 (0.62%) Kotlin
10 13 (0.62%) PL/SQL
11 11 (0.52%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.43%) ABAP
13 8 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.33%) C
14 7 (0.33%) Perl
15 5 (0.24%) Bash
15 5 (0.24%) XPath
15 5 (0.24%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 186 (8.82%) Degree
2 139 (6.59%) Security Cleared
3 117 (5.55%) SC Cleared
4 32 (1.52%) CISSP
5 20 (0.95%) CISM
5 20 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 19 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 17 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 17 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
8 16 (0.76%) DV Cleared
9 14 (0.66%) CISA
10 11 (0.52%) CRISC
11 8 (0.38%) CBAP
12 7 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.28%) Azure Certification
13 6 (0.28%) CEH
13 6 (0.28%) GREM
13 6 (0.28%) GSEC
13 6 (0.28%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 118 (5.60%) Data Quality
2 93 (4.41%) QA
3 53 (2.51%) PMO
4 41 (1.94%) SLA
5 25 (1.19%) NIST
6 24 (1.14%) GDPR
7 21 (1.00%) EMIR
7 21 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (0.90%) MiFID
9 15 (0.71%) PCI DSS
10 14 (0.66%) SEPA
11 10 (0.47%) GRC
12 9 (0.43%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.43%) ISO 20022
13 6 (0.28%) GAAP
14 4 (0.19%) ISO 31000
14 4 (0.19%) NCSC
15 3 (0.14%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.14%) NIST 800
System Software
1 83 (3.94%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.33%) Docker
2 7 (0.33%) Firmware
3 6 (0.28%) Hyper-V
3 6 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.14%) vSphere
5 2 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.095%) XenApp
6 1 (0.047%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (0.76%) SCCM
2 14 (0.66%) ITRS Geneos
3 9 (0.43%) Ansible
4 7 (0.33%) BladeLogic
4 7 (0.33%) Control-M
4 7 (0.33%) Grafana
4 7 (0.33%) Terraform
5 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (0.24%) WSUS
7 4 (0.19%) CSIRT
7 4 (0.19%) Kubernetes
7 4 (0.19%) Nessus
7 4 (0.19%) QRadar
8 3 (0.14%) Podman
8 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.095%) CASB
9 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Clustering
10 1 (0.047%) Nmap
10 1 (0.047%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 248 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 108 (5.12%) Oracle
3 95 (4.50%) SAP
4 66 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 50 (2.37%) Salesforce
6 48 (2.28%) Bloomberg
7 44 (2.09%) Google
8 29 (1.38%) Citrix
9 20 (0.95%) Apple
10 18 (0.85%) Alteryx
10 18 (0.85%) Databricks
11 16 (0.76%) Adobe
11 16 (0.76%) IBM
11 16 (0.76%) Refinitiv
12 15 (0.71%) Dynatrace
12 15 (0.71%) OpenLink
13 12 (0.57%) Guidewire
13 12 (0.57%) Murex
13 12 (0.57%) NEC
13 12 (0.57%) Splunk