Functional Analyst Contracts

Functional Analyst
UK

The median Functional Analyst daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 679 823
Rank change year-on-year +126 +144 -190
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Analyst 41 37 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.095% 0.062% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.066% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 17
10th Percentile £405 £350 £379
25th Percentile £425 £395 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £600
90th Percentile £645 £825 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -2.44% -10.87% +35.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,181 56,479 84,762
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,164 39,476 59,482
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,646 1,570 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%

Functional Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Analyst in the UK

Functional Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Analyst in the UK

Functional Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Analyst over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Analyst in the UK

Functional Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Analyst in the UK

Functional Analyst
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
England +105 23 £520 -5.45% 2
UK excluding London +63 18 £500 -2.44% 3
Work from Home +123 13 £450 -12.20% 2
London +105 13 £485 -35.33% 1
Scotland - 6 £500 - 1
South East +14 5 £625 +19.05%
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
North of England +30 2 £408 -18.50%
North East - 2 £408 -

Functional Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Functional 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 featuring Functional Analyst in the job title.

1 14 (34.15%) Finance
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 13 (31.71%) SAP
3 8 (19.51%) Functional Testing
3 8 (19.51%) Oracle
3 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
4 7 (17.07%) Migration
4 7 (17.07%) Roadmaps
4 7 (17.07%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (14.63%) Customer Service
5 6 (14.63%) Procure-to-Pay
5 6 (14.63%) GAP Analysis
5 6 (14.63%) Agile
5 6 (14.63%) Data Modelling
5 6 (14.63%) QA
6 5 (12.20%) ISTQB
6 5 (12.20%) Banking
6 5 (12.20%) Business Analysis
6 5 (12.20%) ERP
6 5 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (12.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 5 (12.20%) SDLC
6 5 (12.20%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (9.76%) Technology Strategy
7 4 (9.76%) Technology Transformation
7 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
7 4 (9.76%) Product Backlog
7 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (9.76%) Risk Management

Functional Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 4 (9.76%) Oracle General Ledger
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle Cash Management
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle BPM
4 2 (4.88%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (4.88%) SAP MM
5 1 (2.44%) Loan IQ
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (2.44%) SAP APO
5 1 (2.44%) SAP ERP
5 1 (2.44%) SAP IBP
5 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.07%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (7.32%) OCI
3 2 (4.88%) Azure
3 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.88%) IaaS
3 2 (4.88%) PaaS
3 2 (4.88%) SaaS
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (4.88%) Cucumber
2 2 (4.88%) Cypress.io
2 2 (4.88%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.88%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) Selenium
2 2 (4.88%) Subversion
2 2 (4.88%) TeamCity
2 2 (4.88%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (34.15%) Finance
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Banking
3 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.44%) General Ledger
5 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.88%) .NET
1 2 (4.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.44%) IDoc
2 1 (2.44%) SAP XI
2 1 (2.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.32%) Derivative
1 3 (7.32%) Equities
2 2 (4.88%) Client/Server
2 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.44%) NHS
3 1 (2.44%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (19.51%) Functional Testing
2 7 (17.07%) Migration
2 7 (17.07%) Roadmaps
3 6 (14.63%) Agile
3 6 (14.63%) Customer Service
3 6 (14.63%) Data Modelling
3 6 (14.63%) GAP Analysis
3 6 (14.63%) Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (12.20%) Business Analysis
4 5 (12.20%) End-to-End Testing
4 5 (12.20%) ERP
4 5 (12.20%) SDLC
4 5 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (9.76%) ETL
5 4 (9.76%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (9.76%) Product Backlog
5 4 (9.76%) Risk Management
5 4 (9.76%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (9.76%) Technology Transformation
5 4 (9.76%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.76%) C#
1 4 (9.76%) Java
1 4 (9.76%) SQL
2 2 (4.88%) C++
2 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
2 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
2 2 (4.88%) VBA
2 2 (4.88%) VBScript
3 1 (2.44%) ABAP
3 1 (2.44%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) ISTQB
2 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) ISEB
3 3 (7.32%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) Degree
4 2 (4.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.44%) ACCA
5 1 (2.44%) CIMA
5 1 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) QA
2 3 (7.32%) IFRS
3 1 (2.44%) Basel III
3 1 (2.44%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.44%) FINREP
3 1 (2.44%) IFRS 9
3 1 (2.44%) SLA
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) SAP
2 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.51%) Oracle
3 2 (4.88%) Ariba
4 1 (2.44%) VMware
4 1 (2.44%) Workday