Analyst Contracts in England

Analyst
UK > England

The median Analyst daily rate in England is £485 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 4,243 6,702 9,473
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 11.48% 13.26% 13.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.38% 14.01% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,835 4,778 6,714
10th Percentile £213 £219 £204
25th Percentile £363 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% +2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +6.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 272 453
10th Percentile £12.86 £12.68 £11.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.19 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £19.44 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% +25.44% -4.56%
75th Percentile £21.50 £25.78 £21.04
90th Percentile £30.88 £63.18 £33.60
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £18.26 £15.50
% change year-on-year -10.71% +17.77% -6.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in England

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in England

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in England

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in England

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in England

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London -2 2,131 £525 - 808
North of England -1 539 £450 +1.68% 296
South East -4 506 £450 +5.88% 214
South West +5 343 £475 +2.70% 124
Midlands 0 332 £400 -5.88% 186
North West -2 311 £450 +5.88% 172
East of England +3 289 £410 +5.81% 116
West Midlands -3 225 £425 - 111
Yorkshire -4 187 £450 -10.00% 88
East Midlands +5 104 £363 -9.38% 75
North East +21 42 £415 +3.75% 38
South Coast - 2 £500 -
Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 England region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 1,156 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 1,119 (26.37%) Finance
3 656 (15.46%) Agile
4 649 (15.30%) Analytical Skills
5 629 (14.82%) Microsoft
6 615 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
7 590 (13.91%) Security Cleared
8 546 (12.87%) SQL
9 449 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 435 (10.25%) Banking
11 406 (9.57%) Windows
12 404 (9.52%) Degree
13 403 (9.50%) Business Analysis
14 364 (8.58%) Business Intelligence
14 364 (8.58%) Customer Service
15 355 (8.37%) ITIL
16 348 (8.20%) SC Cleared
17 344 (8.11%) Data Analysis
18 341 (8.04%) Azure
19 336 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
20 328 (7.73%) Power Platform
21 320 (7.54%) Power BI
22 306 (7.21%) Analytics
22 306 (7.21%) Requirements Gathering
23 300 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
24 293 (6.91%) Public Sector
25 282 (6.65%) Python
26 269 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
27 268 (6.32%) User Stories
28 265 (6.25%) Migration

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 100 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 96 (2.26%) Confluence
3 68 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (0.94%) CMS
5 27 (0.64%) SAS
6 10 (0.24%) MTS
6 10 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
6 10 (0.24%) Skype for Business
7 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.094%) Apache
10 4 (0.094%) Appian
11 3 (0.071%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.047%) Camunda
13 1 (0.024%) Apache Airflow
13 1 (0.024%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.024%) LiveLink
13 1 (0.024%) OpenStack
Applications
1 300 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 262 (6.17%) Microsoft Office
3 126 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 112 (2.64%) MS Visio
5 44 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.16%) SPSS
8 3 (0.071%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.047%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.047%) Trello
10 1 (0.024%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.024%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 45 (1.06%) Endur
2 39 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 26 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 23 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 21 (0.49%) Aligne
6 20 (0.47%) Aladdin
7 17 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
8 13 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
9 12 (0.28%) Loan IQ
10 11 (0.26%) NEC Housing
10 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
10 11 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
11 10 (0.24%) EuroRunner
11 10 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
12 9 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
12 9 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
12 9 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
13 7 (0.16%) NetSuite
13 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
13 7 (0.16%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 341 (8.04%) Azure
2 328 (7.73%) Power Platform
3 269 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
4 121 (2.85%) AWS
5 73 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 51 (1.20%) SaaS
6 51 (1.20%) Snowflake
7 45 (1.06%) Entra ID
8 41 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
9 38 (0.90%) Google Analytics
10 29 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
11 28 (0.66%) Google Workspace
12 27 (0.64%) Collibra
13 26 (0.61%) Power Automate
14 23 (0.54%) OCI
15 22 (0.52%) WhatsApp
16 21 (0.49%) GCP
17 18 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
18 16 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
18 16 (0.38%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 88 (2.07%) Firewall
2 52 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
3 38 (0.90%) DNS
4 36 (0.85%) VPN
4 36 (0.85%) Wireless
5 35 (0.82%) Network Security
6 29 (0.68%) DHCP
7 25 (0.59%) WAN
8 24 (0.57%) LAN
9 19 (0.45%) TCP/IP
10 18 (0.42%) Internet
11 12 (0.28%) Intranet
11 12 (0.28%) SAN
12 10 (0.24%) BGP
12 10 (0.24%) MPLS
12 10 (0.24%) Skype
13 7 (0.16%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (0.16%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (7.54%) Power BI
2 126 (2.97%) Tableau
3 86 (2.03%) SQL Server
4 84 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
5 37 (0.87%) Relational Database
6 36 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 36 (0.85%) Metadata
7 27 (0.64%) Big Data
8 24 (0.57%) Data Mining
9 23 (0.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 22 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
11 21 (0.49%) Oracle Database
11 21 (0.49%) Qlik Sense
12 19 (0.45%) BigQuery
13 17 (0.40%) SAP HANA
14 15 (0.35%) Looker
15 14 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
15 14 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 13 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
16 13 (0.31%) GIS
Development Applications
1 202 (4.76%) JIRA
2 43 (1.01%) Selenium
3 29 (0.68%) Postman
4 28 (0.66%) TestRail
5 27 (0.64%) Visual Studio
6 19 (0.45%) Eclipse
7 16 (0.38%) WebDriver
8 14 (0.33%) Jenkins
8 14 (0.33%) SpecFlow
9 13 (0.31%) Git
9 13 (0.31%) SoapUI
10 11 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 9 (0.21%) JMeter
12 8 (0.19%) PyCharm
12 8 (0.19%) Subversion
13 7 (0.16%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.16%) TeamCity
13 7 (0.16%) Zephyr
14 6 (0.14%) Appium
14 6 (0.14%) LoadRunner
General
1 1,156 (27.24%) Social Skills
2 1,119 (26.37%) Finance
3 649 (15.30%) Analytical Skills
4 435 (10.25%) Banking
5 293 (6.91%) Public Sector
6 153 (3.61%) Retail
7 144 (3.39%) Front Office
8 138 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 128 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
10 118 (2.78%) Legal
11 114 (2.69%) Telecoms
12 108 (2.55%) Investment Banking
13 103 (2.43%) Manufacturing
14 96 (2.26%) Marketing
15 95 (2.24%) Back Office
16 88 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
17 75 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
18 74 (1.74%) Local Government
19 55 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
20 36 (0.85%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (0.99%) XML
2 37 (0.87%) .NET
3 25 (0.59%) SailPoint
4 22 (0.52%) JSON
5 21 (0.49%) Middleware
5 21 (0.49%) Oracle Fusion
6 18 (0.42%) FIX Protocol
7 15 (0.35%) HTML
8 13 (0.31%) SOAP
9 12 (0.28%) .NET Framework
9 12 (0.28%) ADO
9 12 (0.28%) AngularJS
10 10 (0.24%) REST
11 9 (0.21%) LDAP
12 7 (0.16%) D3.js
12 7 (0.16%) Web Services
13 6 (0.14%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (0.14%) PySpark
13 6 (0.14%) Swagger
14 5 (0.12%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 189 (4.45%) Management Information System
2 139 (3.28%) Product Ownership
3 100 (2.36%) Derivative
4 84 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
5 72 (1.70%) Hedge funds
6 69 (1.63%) Security Operations Centre
7 67 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 59 (1.39%) Equities
9 55 (1.30%) Onboarding
10 54 (1.27%) Fixed Income
11 48 (1.13%) NHS
12 43 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
13 40 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
13 40 (0.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 40 (0.94%) Data Structures
14 39 (0.92%) Reinsurance
15 38 (0.90%) Credit Risk
15 38 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
16 35 (0.82%) CSOC
16 35 (0.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 406 (9.57%) Windows
2 141 (3.32%) Windows 10
3 111 (2.62%) Linux
4 54 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.04%) Unix
6 34 (0.80%) Android
7 30 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 24 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 22 (0.52%) Windows 7
10 13 (0.31%) Mac OS X
11 10 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
12 8 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.12%) Debian
14 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.071%) VMS
15 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
16 2 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
17 1 (0.024%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 656 (15.46%) Agile
2 615 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
3 449 (10.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 403 (9.50%) Business Analysis
5 364 (8.58%) Business Intelligence
5 364 (8.58%) Customer Service
6 355 (8.37%) ITIL
7 344 (8.11%) Data Analysis
8 336 (7.92%) Cybersecurity
9 306 (7.21%) Analytics
9 306 (7.21%) Requirements Gathering
10 268 (6.32%) User Stories
11 265 (6.25%) Migration
12 263 (6.20%) Project Management
13 236 (5.56%) Change Management
14 216 (5.09%) Incident Management
15 214 (5.04%) Data Modelling
16 209 (4.93%) User Acceptance Testing
17 199 (4.69%) Decision-Making
18 194 (4.57%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 546 (12.87%) SQL
2 282 (6.65%) Python
3 89 (2.10%) C#
4 80 (1.89%) PowerShell
5 63 (1.48%) Java
6 33 (0.78%) R
7 28 (0.66%) C++
7 28 (0.66%) VBA
8 26 (0.61%) JavaScript
9 20 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 18 (0.42%) PL/SQL
10 18 (0.42%) T-SQL
11 16 (0.38%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.24%) VBScript
13 8 (0.19%) Bash
13 8 (0.19%) Kotlin
13 8 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.16%) C
14 7 (0.16%) Groovy
14 7 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 590 (13.91%) Security Cleared
2 404 (9.52%) Degree
3 348 (8.20%) SC Cleared
4 239 (5.63%) DV Cleared
5 66 (1.56%) CISSP
6 54 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 49 (1.15%) A+ Certification
8 47 (1.11%) CISM
9 46 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
10 45 (1.06%) ISTQB
11 41 (0.97%) MCP
12 40 (0.94%) MCSA
13 31 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 31 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
14 28 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 24 (0.57%) ACCA
15 24 (0.57%) CIMA
16 21 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
17 20 (0.47%) CISA
17 20 (0.47%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (4.57%) Data Quality
2 182 (4.29%) QA
3 138 (3.25%) PMO
4 131 (3.09%) SLA
5 91 (2.14%) GDPR
6 81 (1.91%) NIST
7 62 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (0.59%) NIST 800
9 21 (0.49%) MiFID
10 20 (0.47%) EMIR
10 20 (0.47%) GxP
10 20 (0.47%) NCSC
11 19 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
12 18 (0.42%) GRC
12 18 (0.42%) SEPA
13 17 (0.40%) IFRS
14 16 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
14 16 (0.38%) PCI DSS
15 15 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 15 (0.35%) GAAP
System Software
1 261 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 34 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.26%) Firmware
5 11 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (0.094%) Docker
7 4 (0.094%) vSphere
8 3 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.047%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.047%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.024%) Snort
10 1 (0.024%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.024%) XenApp
10 1 (0.024%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 47 (1.11%) SCCM
2 34 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (0.38%) ITRS Geneos
4 13 (0.31%) Ansible
4 13 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (0.28%) Nessus
6 11 (0.26%) Nagios
7 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
8 9 (0.21%) Grafana
9 8 (0.19%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.16%) BladeLogic
10 7 (0.16%) Kibana
10 7 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.14%) logstash
11 6 (0.14%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.12%) IBM BigFix
12 5 (0.12%) QRadar
12 5 (0.12%) Tivoli
12 5 (0.12%) WSUS
13 4 (0.094%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 629 (14.82%) Microsoft
2 225 (5.30%) SAP
3 196 (4.62%) ServiceNow
4 186 (4.38%) Oracle
5 114 (2.69%) Citrix
6 76 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 66 (1.56%) Google
8 59 (1.39%) Splunk
9 54 (1.27%) Alteryx
10 49 (1.15%) Bloomberg
11 44 (1.04%) VMware
12 30 (0.71%) Cisco
13 26 (0.61%) Databricks
13 26 (0.61%) Sun
14 25 (0.59%) Adobe
15 24 (0.57%) Apple
15 24 (0.57%) LogRhythm
16 23 (0.54%) Darktrace
17 22 (0.52%) Refinitiv
18 21 (0.49%) Ariba