Systems Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

System Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median System Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400 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 328 372 366
Rank change year-on-year +44 -6 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Analyst 62 71 142
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.30% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.32% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 57 108
10th Percentile £250 £197 £325
25th Percentile £275 £313 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £505 £538 £500
90th Percentile £538 £586 £588
UK median daily rate £461 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -2.89% +5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 9
10th Percentile £17.15 - £17.13
25th Percentile £17.38 £22.50 -
Median hourly rate £18.00 £25.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +42.86% -63.16%
75th Percentile £30.75 £27.50 -
90th Percentile £52.80 - £19.80
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £25.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +42.00% +42.86% -63.16%

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 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Systems Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Systems Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Systems Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Systems Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Systems Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Systems 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 Systems Analyst within the UK excluding London 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
South East +11 18 £325 -5.11% 16
Scotland +53 15 £520 -8.97% 6
Midlands +26 14 £450 +21.62% 14
West Midlands +10 10 £450 +21.62% 9
East of England +15 6 £300 -42.17% 10
North of England +25 5 £525 +40.00% 7
East Midlands +23 4 - - 5
North West +15 3 £400 +17.65% 3
South West +8 2 - - 5
South Coast - 2 £500 -
North East +16 1 £588 +80.77% 2
Yorkshire +10 1 £525 +25.37% 2
Systems Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 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 UK excluding London region featuring Systems Analyst in the job title.

1 26 (41.94%) Finance
2 14 (22.58%) Agile
3 13 (20.97%) ERP
4 12 (19.35%) Migration
4 12 (19.35%) ACCA
4 12 (19.35%) CIMA
4 12 (19.35%) AWS
5 10 (16.13%) Systems Analysis
5 10 (16.13%) Data Migration
5 10 (16.13%) Sun
6 9 (14.52%) Requirements Gathering
7 7 (11.29%) Project Delivery
7 7 (11.29%) Social Skills
7 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (11.29%) CRM
7 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (11.29%) Degree
8 6 (9.68%) SQL
8 6 (9.68%) Project Management
9 5 (8.06%) Manufacturing
9 5 (8.06%) Workflow
9 5 (8.06%) Service Delivery
9 5 (8.06%) Change Management
9 5 (8.06%) Oracle
9 5 (8.06%) Banking
9 5 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (8.06%) Roadmaps
10 4 (6.45%) Customer Service
10 4 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (6.45%) IT Strategy

Systems 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 (4.84%) OpenEdge
2 2 (3.23%) Confluence
2 2 (3.23%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Infor SunSystems
2 3 (4.84%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle FAH
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (3.23%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.61%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (1.61%) Maximo
4 1 (1.61%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.35%) AWS
2 2 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.61%) Azure
3 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.61%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.23%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) Big Data
2 1 (1.61%) GIS
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (3.23%) JIRA
1 2 (3.23%) Toad
General
1 26 (41.94%) Finance
2 7 (11.29%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (11.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.06%) Banking
3 5 (8.06%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.23%) Back Office
4 2 (3.23%) General Ledger
5 1 (1.61%) Billing
5 1 (1.61%) Electronics
5 1 (1.61%) Legal
5 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.84%) JSON
1 3 (4.84%) REST
1 3 (4.84%) SOAP
1 3 (4.84%) XML
2 2 (3.23%) .NET
2 2 (3.23%) Middleware
2 2 (3.23%) YAML
3 1 (1.61%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.84%) Online Banking
1 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.23%) Credit Risk
2 2 (3.23%) Data Centre
2 2 (3.23%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (3.23%) SCADA
2 2 (3.23%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.61%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Unix
2 1 (1.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (22.58%) Agile
2 13 (20.97%) ERP
3 12 (19.35%) Migration
4 10 (16.13%) Data Migration
4 10 (16.13%) Systems Analysis
5 9 (14.52%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (11.29%) CRM
6 7 (11.29%) Project Delivery
7 6 (9.68%) Project Management
8 5 (8.06%) Change Management
8 5 (8.06%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (8.06%) Roadmaps
8 5 (8.06%) Service Delivery
8 5 (8.06%) Workflow
9 4 (6.45%) Acceptance Criteria
9 4 (6.45%) Customer Service
9 4 (6.45%) IT Strategy
9 4 (6.45%) Software Delivery
9 4 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.68%) SQL
2 3 (4.84%) C#
3 2 (3.23%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.61%) Java
4 1 (1.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (19.35%) ACCA
1 12 (19.35%) CIMA
2 7 (11.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.23%) PMO
2 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.61%) IFRS
2 1 (1.61%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (16.13%) Sun
2 5 (8.06%) Oracle
3 3 (4.84%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.84%) SAP
4 2 (3.23%) BMC
4 2 (3.23%) Microgen
4 2 (3.23%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.61%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.61%) Concur
5 1 (1.61%) IFS
5 1 (1.61%) JD Edwards
5 1 (1.61%) Progress
5 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.61%) Workday