Analyst
UK

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 9 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 4,843 7,136 11,383
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.31% 12.68% 12.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.19% 13.40% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,181 5,073 8,052
10th Percentile £213 £213 £210
25th Percentile £363 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £410
% change year-on-year - +3.66% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 276 456
10th Percentile £12.75 £12.65 £11.25
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.94 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £18.14 £15.64
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +16.02% -4.52%
75th Percentile £21.64 £23.81 £22.56
90th Percentile £31.34 £38.18 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.98 £16.85 £15.50
% change year-on-year -5.16% +8.71% +0.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,738 53,234 84,137
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,861 37,175 59,182
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,776 1,475 2,018
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +87.50% +6.90%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.50 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England -1 4,191 £475 -2.56% 1,998
UK excluding London +1 2,338 £425 - 1,178
London -1 2,113 £525 - 872
Work from Home 0 1,590 £488 +2.63% 801
South East -4 513 £450 +4.65% 279
North of England +1 504 £450 +0.11% 352
Midlands +1 359 £400 -5.88% 193
Scotland +1 329 £414 -2.36% 77
South West +4 322 £475 - 134
North West -1 294 £450 +5.88% 207
East of England +2 290 £410 +2.50% 122
West Midlands 0 248 £425 -5.56% 113
Yorkshire -5 174 £450 -10.00% 122
East Midlands +3 107 £363 -9.38% 80
North East +9 35 £435 +8.75% 26
Wales -5 27 £388 -3.13% 31
Northern Ireland -8 17 £338 -15.63% 20

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 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 featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 1,351 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 1,262 (26.06%) Finance
3 828 (17.10%) Agile
4 784 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
5 738 (15.24%) Microsoft
6 698 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
7 655 (13.52%) SQL
8 619 (12.78%) Security Cleared
9 523 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
10 491 (10.14%) Business Analysis
11 482 (9.95%) Banking
12 458 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
13 457 (9.44%) Degree
14 432 (8.92%) Windows
15 416 (8.59%) Power Platform
16 407 (8.40%) Power BI
17 403 (8.32%) Microsoft Excel
18 402 (8.30%) Azure
19 394 (8.14%) Public Sector
20 389 (8.03%) Analytics
21 388 (8.01%) Customer Service
22 385 (7.95%) ITIL
23 379 (7.83%) SC Cleared
24 374 (7.72%) Data Analysis
25 359 (7.41%) Python
26 356 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
27 346 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
28 324 (6.69%) User Stories
28 324 (6.69%) Migration
29 307 (6.34%) Project Management

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 139 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 128 (2.64%) Confluence
3 74 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 41 (0.85%) CMS
5 39 (0.81%) SAS
6 13 (0.27%) Skype for Business
7 11 (0.23%) Apache
8 10 (0.21%) ArcGIS
8 10 (0.21%) MTS
8 10 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
9 9 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.17%) Apache Spark
11 4 (0.083%) Appian
12 3 (0.062%) OpenEdge
13 2 (0.041%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.041%) LiveLink
13 2 (0.041%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.021%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.021%) OpenStack
14 1 (0.021%) Tomcat
Applications
1 403 (8.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 248 (5.12%) Microsoft Office
3 159 (3.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 122 (2.52%) MS Visio
5 49 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
6 21 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.23%) SPSS
8 5 (0.10%) Trello
9 4 (0.083%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.062%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.041%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.021%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 42 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 38 (0.78%) Endur
3 29 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 26 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 21 (0.43%) Aligne
5 21 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
6 19 (0.39%) Aladdin
7 17 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
8 11 (0.23%) Loan IQ
8 11 (0.23%) NEC Housing
8 11 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
9 10 (0.21%) EuroRunner
9 10 (0.21%) Maximo
10 9 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
11 8 (0.17%) NetSuite
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
11 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
12 7 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
12 7 (0.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 416 (8.59%) Power Platform
2 402 (8.30%) Azure
3 303 (6.26%) Microsoft 365
4 153 (3.16%) AWS
5 92 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
6 67 (1.38%) SaaS
7 64 (1.32%) Snowflake
8 63 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
9 56 (1.16%) Entra ID
10 46 (0.95%) Google Analytics
10 46 (0.95%) Power Automate
11 35 (0.72%) PowerApps
12 34 (0.70%) GCP
13 32 (0.66%) OCI
14 29 (0.60%) Collibra
15 27 (0.56%) Google Workspace
16 26 (0.54%) Azure Sentinel
16 26 (0.54%) OneDrive
17 23 (0.47%) WhatsApp
18 17 (0.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 97 (2.00%) Firewall
2 59 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
3 41 (0.85%) DNS
4 37 (0.76%) Network Security
4 37 (0.76%) VPN
5 33 (0.68%) Wireless
6 32 (0.66%) WAN
7 31 (0.64%) DHCP
8 27 (0.56%) LAN
9 23 (0.47%) Internet
9 23 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 13 (0.27%) Skype
11 12 (0.25%) Intranet
11 12 (0.25%) SAN
12 11 (0.23%) MPLS
13 10 (0.21%) BGP
14 7 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
14 7 (0.14%) VLAN
15 6 (0.12%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.12%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 407 (8.40%) Power BI
2 165 (3.41%) Tableau
3 93 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 89 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (0.99%) Relational Database
6 37 (0.76%) Metadata
7 36 (0.74%) Big Data
8 34 (0.70%) Data Mining
9 33 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 30 (0.62%) BigQuery
10 30 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 26 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
12 24 (0.50%) Looker
12 24 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 23 (0.47%) Oracle Database
13 23 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
14 21 (0.43%) SAP HANA
15 18 (0.37%) GIS
16 16 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (0.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 273 (5.64%) JIRA
2 51 (1.05%) Postman
2 51 (1.05%) Selenium
3 37 (0.76%) Visual Studio
4 26 (0.54%) TestRail
5 22 (0.45%) WebDriver
6 18 (0.37%) Eclipse
6 18 (0.37%) Git
7 17 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 17 (0.35%) SoapUI
8 14 (0.29%) JMeter
8 14 (0.29%) SpecFlow
9 12 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.21%) Subversion
11 9 (0.19%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.19%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.17%) Appium
12 8 (0.17%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.17%) PyCharm
12 8 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 1,351 (27.90%) Social Skills
2 1,262 (26.06%) Finance
3 784 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
4 482 (9.95%) Banking
5 394 (8.14%) Public Sector
6 171 (3.53%) Retail
7 159 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 155 (3.20%) Front Office
9 136 (2.81%) Legal
10 134 (2.77%) Presentation Skills
11 120 (2.48%) Investment Banking
12 118 (2.44%) Back Office
13 114 (2.35%) Marketing
14 111 (2.29%) Telecoms
15 110 (2.27%) Manufacturing
16 101 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
17 78 (1.61%) Local Government
18 74 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
19 60 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
20 48 (0.99%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (0.97%) XML
2 44 (0.91%) .NET
3 29 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
3 29 (0.60%) SailPoint
4 27 (0.56%) Middleware
5 21 (0.43%) JSON
6 19 (0.39%) HTML
7 17 (0.35%) ADO
7 17 (0.35%) FIX Protocol
8 13 (0.27%) .NET Framework
8 13 (0.27%) AngularJS
8 13 (0.27%) SOAP
9 12 (0.25%) Web Services
10 11 (0.23%) LDAP
11 10 (0.21%) IDoc
11 10 (0.21%) PySpark
11 10 (0.21%) REST
12 9 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (0.17%) SAP PI
14 7 (0.14%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 207 (4.27%) Management Information System
2 180 (3.72%) Product Ownership
3 109 (2.25%) Derivative
4 88 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
5 80 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 73 (1.51%) Security Operations Centre
7 71 (1.47%) Hedge funds
8 67 (1.38%) Equities
9 65 (1.34%) Fixed Income
10 61 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 59 (1.22%) Onboarding
12 56 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
13 54 (1.12%) Mobile App
14 52 (1.07%) Credit Risk
15 44 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 43 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
16 43 (0.89%) NHS
17 39 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
17 39 (0.81%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 38 (0.78%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 432 (8.92%) Windows
2 156 (3.22%) Windows 10
3 116 (2.40%) Linux
4 60 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 51 (1.05%) Unix
6 47 (0.97%) Android
7 41 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 22 (0.45%) Windows 7
9 20 (0.41%) Mac OS
10 17 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (0.31%) Mac OS X
12 14 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.10%) Debian
14 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.083%) VMS
16 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.021%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 828 (17.10%) Agile
2 698 (14.41%) Problem-Solving
3 523 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
4 491 (10.14%) Business Analysis
5 458 (9.46%) Business Intelligence
6 389 (8.03%) Analytics
7 388 (8.01%) Customer Service
8 385 (7.95%) ITIL
9 374 (7.72%) Data Analysis
10 356 (7.35%) Cybersecurity
11 346 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
12 324 (6.69%) Migration
12 324 (6.69%) User Stories
13 307 (6.34%) Project Management
14 273 (5.64%) User Acceptance Testing
15 266 (5.49%) Change Management
16 228 (4.71%) Incident Management
17 225 (4.65%) Data Modelling
18 219 (4.52%) Decision-Making
19 217 (4.48%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 655 (13.52%) SQL
2 359 (7.41%) Python
3 91 (1.88%) C#
4 77 (1.59%) PowerShell
5 76 (1.57%) Java
6 52 (1.07%) R
7 39 (0.81%) JavaScript
8 34 (0.70%) VBA
9 30 (0.62%) C++
10 23 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 22 (0.45%) PL/SQL
11 22 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 20 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 17 (0.35%) C
14 15 (0.31%) VBScript
15 13 (0.27%) Kotlin
16 10 (0.21%) ABAP
17 9 (0.19%) VB
18 8 (0.17%) Bash
18 8 (0.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 619 (12.78%) Security Cleared
2 457 (9.44%) Degree
3 379 (7.83%) SC Cleared
4 227 (4.69%) DV Cleared
5 74 (1.53%) CISSP
6 62 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 49 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (0.95%) CISM
10 45 (0.93%) ISTQB
11 44 (0.91%) A+ Certification
12 43 (0.89%) MCSA
13 35 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
13 35 (0.72%) MCP
14 27 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 26 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
16 25 (0.52%) ACCA
16 25 (0.52%) CIMA
16 25 (0.52%) Master's Degree
16 25 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 210 (4.34%) QA
2 202 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 159 (3.28%) PMO
4 139 (2.87%) SLA
5 98 (2.02%) GDPR
6 76 (1.57%) NIST
7 69 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
9 27 (0.56%) GxP
10 25 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 23 (0.47%) EMIR
11 23 (0.47%) NIST 800
12 21 (0.43%) MiFID
13 19 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
13 19 (0.39%) SEPA
14 18 (0.37%) NCSC
15 17 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 17 (0.35%) GRC
16 16 (0.33%) IFRS
17 15 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 277 (5.72%) Active Directory
2 34 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.29%) Firmware
4 14 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (0.19%) Docker
7 8 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
8 6 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.10%) vSphere
10 4 (0.083%) BitLocker
11 3 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.062%) XenApp
12 2 (0.041%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.021%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.021%) Samba
13 1 (0.021%) Snort
13 1 (0.021%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.021%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 47 (0.97%) SCCM
2 40 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (0.31%) Nessus
4 14 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
4 14 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
5 13 (0.27%) Ansible
6 12 (0.25%) Nagios
7 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
7 10 (0.21%) Terraform
8 9 (0.19%) Kibana
8 9 (0.19%) logstash
9 8 (0.17%) NetBackup
9 8 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.14%) BladeLogic
10 7 (0.14%) Control-M
10 7 (0.14%) Grafana
10 7 (0.14%) QRadar
10 7 (0.14%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.12%) Kubernetes
12 5 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 738 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 236 (4.87%) SAP
3 221 (4.56%) Oracle
4 210 (4.34%) ServiceNow
5 107 (2.21%) Citrix
6 97 (2.00%) Salesforce
7 77 (1.59%) Google
8 67 (1.38%) Alteryx
8 67 (1.38%) Splunk
9 53 (1.09%) Bloomberg
10 46 (0.95%) VMware
11 39 (0.81%) Apple
12 32 (0.66%) Atlassian
13 30 (0.62%) Ariba
13 30 (0.62%) Cisco
14 29 (0.60%) Adobe
15 28 (0.58%) LogRhythm
16 26 (0.54%) Databricks
17 23 (0.47%) Darktrace
18 21 (0.43%) FireEye