Systems Analyst Contracts in England

System Analyst
UK > England

The median System Analyst daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 421 528 578
Rank change year-on-year +107 +50 -81
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Analyst 120 145 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.30% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 119 158
10th Percentile £275 £240 £323
25th Percentile £359 £319 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £465
Median % change year-on-year - -3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £670 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 12
10th Percentile £17.25 - £15.81
25th Percentile £17.50 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £21.90 £62.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.97% +257.14% -64.10%
75th Percentile £46.57 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £60.50 - £27.85
UK median hourly rate £21.90 £62.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -64.97% +257.14% -63.16%

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 34,448 47,601 67,845
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,861 33,797 48,247
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
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 2,434 1,402 1,905
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.95 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Systems Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Analyst in England

Systems Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Analyst in England

Systems Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Analyst in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Analyst in England

Systems Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Analyst in England

Systems Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Analyst in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Analyst in England

Systems 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 Systems Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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
London +97 73 £510 -7.27% 37
South East +12 19 £325 -5.11% 15
Midlands +24 14 £450 +21.62% 12
West Midlands +21 10 £450 +21.62% 7
East of England +11 6 £300 -42.17% 11
North of England +20 4 £463 +23.33% 9
East Midlands +20 4 - - 5
North West +25 3 £400 +17.65% 3
South West +13 2 - - 10
South Coast - 2 £500 -
Yorkshire +20 1 £525 +25.37% 3
Systems Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Systems 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 Systems Analyst in the job title.

1 43 (35.83%) Finance
2 22 (18.33%) Migration
2 22 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 21 (17.50%) Windows
4 19 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 15 (12.50%) Data Migration
6 15 (12.50%) Project Management
6 15 (12.50%) SQL
6 15 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
8 13 (10.83%) ACCA
8 13 (10.83%) Microsoft
8 13 (10.83%) Agile
8 13 (10.83%) CIMA
8 13 (10.83%) Degree
8 13 (10.83%) DevOps
9 12 (10.00%) ERP
10 11 (9.17%) Python
10 11 (9.17%) Sun
10 11 (9.17%) Windows Server
10 11 (9.17%) User Acceptance Testing
10 11 (9.17%) Requirements Gathering
11 10 (8.33%) SDLC
11 10 (8.33%) Citrix
11 10 (8.33%) Change Management
11 10 (8.33%) Banking
12 9 (7.50%) Data Management
13 8 (6.67%) QA
13 8 (6.67%) Waterfall

Systems 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 7 (5.83%) Confluence
2 4 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.50%) OpenEdge
4 2 (1.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 14 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.50%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.83%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Infor SunSystems
2 3 (2.50%) OPENHousing
2 3 (2.50%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.83%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.83%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.83%) SAP WM
4 1 (0.83%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (2.50%) Azure
4 2 (1.67%) AWS
4 2 (1.67%) Google Docs
4 2 (1.67%) Power Automate
4 2 (1.67%) PowerApps
4 2 (1.67%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.83%) Google Sheets
5 1 (0.83%) Lucidchart
5 1 (0.83%) SaaS
5 1 (0.83%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) DHCP
1 4 (3.33%) DNS
1 4 (3.33%) Firewall
1 4 (3.33%) IPv4
2 2 (1.67%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.83%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.00%) Power BI
2 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (1.67%) Big Data
3 2 (1.67%) Data Mining
3 2 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.83%) MS Access
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (5.83%) JIRA
2 2 (1.67%) Artifactory
2 2 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.67%) Subversion
2 2 (1.67%) Toad
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
General
1 43 (35.83%) Finance
2 22 (18.33%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.33%) Banking
5 5 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.33%) Local Government
6 4 (3.33%) Social Housing
7 3 (2.50%) Back Office
8 2 (1.67%) Billing
8 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.67%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.83%) Electronics
9 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.83%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Law
9 1 (0.83%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.83%) Middleware
2 5 (4.17%) .NET
3 4 (3.33%) JSON
3 4 (3.33%) SailPoint
3 4 (3.33%) XML
4 3 (2.50%) REST
4 3 (2.50%) SOAP
4 3 (2.50%) Swagger
5 1 (0.83%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.83%) Data Centre
1 7 (5.83%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.50%) Online Banking
3 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.67%) Credit Risk
3 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.67%) Mainframe
3 2 (1.67%) SCADA
3 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (0.83%) VLE
4 1 (0.83%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.50%) Windows
2 11 (9.17%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.17%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (18.33%) Migration
2 15 (12.50%) Data Migration
2 15 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (12.50%) Project Management
3 13 (10.83%) Agile
3 13 (10.83%) DevOps
4 12 (10.00%) ERP
5 11 (9.17%) Requirements Gathering
5 11 (9.17%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (8.33%) Change Management
6 10 (8.33%) SDLC
7 9 (7.50%) Data Management
8 8 (6.67%) Business Analysis
8 8 (6.67%) CRM
8 8 (6.67%) ITIL
8 8 (6.67%) Waterfall
9 7 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (5.83%) Data Analysis
9 7 (5.83%) User Stories
9 7 (5.83%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 15 (12.50%) SQL
3 11 (9.17%) Python
4 5 (4.17%) VBScript
5 4 (3.33%) C#
5 4 (3.33%) Java
6 3 (2.50%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.67%) C++
8 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.83%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (10.83%) ACCA
1 13 (10.83%) CIMA
1 13 (10.83%) Degree
2 2 (1.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.83%) CEH
3 1 (0.83%) CISM
3 1 (0.83%) CISSP
3 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.83%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.67%) QA
2 6 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.67%) PMO
3 2 (1.67%) SLA
4 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) EMIR
4 1 (0.83%) IFRS
4 1 (0.83%) ISO 15022
4 1 (0.83%) MiFID
4 1 (0.83%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (1.67%) Ansible
1 2 (1.67%) BladeLogic
1 2 (1.67%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 13 (10.83%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.17%) Sun
3 10 (8.33%) Citrix
4 7 (5.83%) Oracle
5 5 (4.17%) Bloomberg
5 5 (4.17%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.17%) Refinitiv
5 5 (4.17%) SAP
6 4 (3.33%) Capita
6 4 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.50%) Alteryx
7 3 (2.50%) Google
7 3 (2.50%) Northgate
7 3 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.67%) Altiris
8 2 (1.67%) BMC
8 2 (1.67%) Cisco
8 2 (1.67%) Databricks
8 2 (1.67%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.67%) Microgen