Analyst Contracts in Bedfordshire

Analyst
East of England > Bedfordshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Bedfordshire is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 11 2
Rank change year-on-year +1 -9 +12
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 30 21 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 12.20% 11.73% 26.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.76% 12.00% 27.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 59
10th Percentile £313 £180 £135
25th Percentile £416 £239 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 £480
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -16.67% +12.94%
75th Percentile £529 £469 £525
90th Percentile £542 £491 £530
East of England median daily rate £410 £388 £388
% change year-on-year +5.81% - +29.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.39 - £15.50
Median hourly rate £15.79 £22.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.23% +37.50% -
75th Percentile £16.20 - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £14.84 £15.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year -4.26% +6.90% -3.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bedfordshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire. 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 Bedfordshire with a recognized job title 218 175 277
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.62% 97.77% 97.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 123 153
10th Percentile £263 £188 £263
25th Percentile £361 £281 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £560 £588 £538
90th Percentile £625 £621 £635
East of England median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 6 19
10th Percentile £15.30 £18.50 £14.95
25th Percentile £15.39 £29.31 £42.50
Median hourly rate £31.80 £63.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.12% +15.91% +254.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £87.50 £61.38
90th Percentile £65.75 £90.00 £68.75
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £35.80 £15.53
% change year-on-year +20.11% +130.52% -11.26%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in Bedfordshire

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in Bedfordshire

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Bedfordshire

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in Bedfordshire

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Luton +7 23 £488 +8.33% 10
Bedford 0 3 £325 +182.61%
Dunstable -2 2 £500 +2.56%
Analyst
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 Bedfordshire region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (36.67%) Data Quality
2 10 (33.33%) SAP
3 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 8 (26.67%) Performance Management
4 8 (26.67%) Local Government
4 8 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
5 7 (23.33%) Benchmarking
5 7 (23.33%) Management Information System
5 7 (23.33%) Statistics
5 7 (23.33%) Business Analysis
5 7 (23.33%) Mathematics
5 7 (23.33%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (23.33%) Data Protection
5 7 (23.33%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (23.33%) Data Collection
6 6 (20.00%) Ariba
6 6 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
7 5 (16.67%) Virtual Team
7 5 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
7 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (16.67%) Data Analysis
8 4 (13.33%) Degree
8 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
8 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
8 4 (13.33%) SAP HANA
8 4 (13.33%) GDPR
8 4 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 1 (3.33%) Confluence
1 1 (3.33%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.33%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
1 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (3.33%) Collibra
2 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.33%) SAP HANA
2 2 (6.67%) Power BI
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.33%) Ataccama
3 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.33%) Metadata
3 1 (3.33%) MS Access
3 1 (3.33%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Local Government
2 8 (26.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Finance
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Legacy Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Management Information System
2 5 (16.67%) Virtual Team
3 3 (10.00%) Data Structures
4 2 (6.67%) IoT
4 2 (6.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Performance Management
2 7 (23.33%) Benchmarking
2 7 (23.33%) Business Analysis
2 7 (23.33%) Data Collection
2 7 (23.33%) Data Protection
2 7 (23.33%) Mathematics
2 7 (23.33%) Statistics
3 5 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (13.33%) Data Modelling
4 4 (13.33%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (10.00%) Accounts Payable
5 3 (10.00%) Analytics
5 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (10.00%) Creative Thinking
5 3 (10.00%) Critical Thinking
5 3 (10.00%) Data Integration
5 3 (10.00%) Data Management
5 3 (10.00%) Stakeholder Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) Python
1 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (36.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (13.33%) GDPR
3 2 (6.67%) QA
4 1 (3.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (3.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) SAP
2 6 (20.00%) Ariba
3 3 (10.00%) Alteryx
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.67%) Talend
5 1 (3.33%) Dataiku
5 1 (3.33%) Hyperion
5 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.33%) Snow
5 1 (3.33%) Trillium