Junior Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Junior Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Junior Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £288 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 394 464
Rank change year-on-year +24 +70 -48
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Analyst 21 50 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.23% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 30 30
10th Percentile £141 £116 £114
25th Percentile £185 £137 £118
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £200 £180
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% +11.11% -28.00%
75th Percentile £290 £280 £264
90th Percentile £311 £282 £354
UK median daily rate £290 £250 £265
% change year-on-year +16.00% -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 4
10th Percentile - £12.17 £18.29
25th Percentile - £13.03 £18.75
Median hourly rate £12.30 £14.62 £21.20
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% -31.04% +22.05%
75th Percentile £14.10 £18.06 £22.40
90th Percentile £15.17 £21.88 -
UK median hourly rate £12.30 £14.24 £20.00
% change year-on-year -13.62% -28.80% -0.60%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,752 21,824 29,184
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,467 15,208 20,476
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,112 1,441
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.07 £14.51
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.83 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Junior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Analyst in the UK excluding London

Junior Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Junior Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Junior Analyst in the UK excluding London

Junior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Junior Analyst in the UK excluding London

Junior Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Junior Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Junior Analyst in the UK excluding London

Junior Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Scotland +39 8 £147 +27.83%
Midlands +18 3 £245 -30.00% 5
South East +13 3 £253 +71.19% 3
East of England +2 3 £290 +7.41% 2
West Midlands +21 2 £290 -3.33% 3
North of England +27 1 £325 +62.50% 8
Yorkshire +17 1 £325 +116.67% 1
East Midlands +16 1 £200 -42.86% 2
South West +8 1 - - 8
Northern Ireland +3 1 £288 +21.05% 1
Wales - 1 - -
Junior Analyst
UK

Junior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, Junior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Junior Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 5 (23.81%) Data Analysis
5 4 (19.05%) Back Office
5 4 (19.05%) Linux
5 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
5 4 (19.05%) Degree
5 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
5 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (14.29%) IronPort
6 3 (14.29%) LogRhythm
6 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (14.29%) FireEye
6 3 (14.29%) Driving Licence
6 3 (14.29%) Splunk
6 3 (14.29%) Cyberattack
6 3 (14.29%) Darktrace
6 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
6 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (14.29%) Symantec
6 3 (14.29%) LDAP
6 3 (14.29%) SMTP
6 3 (14.29%) FTP
6 3 (14.29%) HTTP
6 3 (14.29%) DNS
6 3 (14.29%) ITIL
6 3 (14.29%) MCP

Junior Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) DNS
1 3 (14.29%) FTP
1 3 (14.29%) HTTP
1 3 (14.29%) SMTP
1 3 (14.29%) SSL
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) Power Query
2 1 (4.76%) SAP HANA
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Back Office
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Legal
4 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Automotive
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Electronics
5 1 (4.76%) Front Office
5 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Cyberattack
1 3 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (23.81%) Data Analysis
3 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (14.29%) Incident Response
4 3 (14.29%) ITIL
4 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (9.52%) Agile
5 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
5 2 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (9.52%) Supplier Management
5 2 (9.52%) Validation
5 2 (9.52%) Visualisation
6 1 (4.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (4.76%) Data Architecture
6 1 (4.76%) Data Governance
6 1 (4.76%) Data Visualisation
6 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
6 1 (4.76%) SIEM
6 1 (4.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) VBA
2 1 (4.76%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) MCP
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Darktrace
2 3 (14.29%) FireEye
2 3 (14.29%) IronPort
2 3 (14.29%) LogRhythm
2 3 (14.29%) Splunk
2 3 (14.29%) Symantec
3 1 (4.76%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow