Software Analyst Contracts in the South East

Software Analyst
England > South East

The median Software Analyst daily rate in the South East is £209 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 213 243
Rank change year-on-year +20 +30 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Software Analyst 5 3 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.091% 0.053% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.056% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 12
10th Percentile £92 - £416
25th Percentile £135 £543 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £209 £545 £450
Median % change year-on-year -61.70% +21.11% +17.65%
75th Percentile £284 £548 -
90th Percentile £328 - -
England median daily rate £400 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -16.67% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £59.50 -
England median hourly rate - £17.00 £18.69
% change year-on-year - -9.02% -55.51%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,092 5,355 7,311
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 94.68% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,071 3,735 4,969
10th Percentile £213 £221 £205
25th Percentile £400 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year - +1.83% +9.11%
75th Percentile £619 £605 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 242 323
10th Percentile £12.79 £16.53 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.33 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £47.79 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% +138.95% -19.19%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £42.63
90th Percentile £77.40 £75.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%

Software Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Analyst in the South East

Software Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Analyst in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Software Analyst in the South East

Software Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Analyst in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Analyst in the South East

Software Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Analyst in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Software Analyst in the South East

Software Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Analyst within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Thames Valley - 3 £355 - 1
Berkshire - 2 - - 1
Hampshire -5 1 £63 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £355 -
East Sussex - 1 - -
Software Analyst
England

Software Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Software 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 South East region featuring Software Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Confluence
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 2 (40.00%) QA
4 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Postman
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Git
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Google
4 1 (20.00%) SysML
4 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Radio
4 1 (20.00%) Robot Framework
4 1 (20.00%) API Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
4 1 (20.00%) GoogleTest
4 1 (20.00%) Build Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (20.00%) CSS

Software Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (60.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SNMP
1 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Radio
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GoogleTest
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (20.00%) Automotive
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) User Stories
4 1 (20.00%) API Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Build Automation
4 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
4 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) SysML
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) UML
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) Google