Market Analyst Contracts

Market Analyst
UK

The median Market Analyst daily rate in the UK is £385 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 680 838
Rank change year-on-year +126 +158 -170
Contract jobs requiring a Market Analyst 25 20 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.033% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.035% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 16
10th Percentile £359 £313 £527
25th Percentile £372 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -24.88% -14.58% -15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £722 £675
90th Percentile - £750 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £400 £457
% change year-on-year -50.00% -12.38% -

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Market Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Market Analyst in the UK

Market Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Market Analyst in the UK

Market Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Market Analyst over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Market Analyst in the UK

Market Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Market Analyst in the UK

Market Analyst
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Market Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +119 25 £385 -24.88% 8
London +116 24 £430 -31.20% 8
Work from Home +120 8 £650 +62.50% 2
UK excluding London +69 1 £200 -50.00% 1
North of England - 1 £200 -
North West - 1 £200 -
South West - 1 £200 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Market 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 Market Analyst in the job title.

1 13 (52.00%) Banking
2 12 (48.00%) Finance
3 11 (44.00%) Bloomberg
3 11 (44.00%) Refinitiv
4 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
5 7 (28.00%) Windows
6 6 (24.00%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (20.00%) Data Centre
7 5 (20.00%) Application Security
7 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
7 5 (20.00%) Application Packaging
7 5 (20.00%) VBScript
7 5 (20.00%) Red Hat
7 5 (20.00%) Citrix
8 4 (16.00%) DHCP
8 4 (16.00%) DNS
8 4 (16.00%) IPv4
8 4 (16.00%) Change Management
8 4 (16.00%) Firewall
8 4 (16.00%) Load Balancing
8 4 (16.00%) Investment Banking
8 4 (16.00%) Agile
8 4 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (16.00%) QA
8 4 (16.00%) Batch Scripting
8 4 (16.00%) SDLC
8 4 (16.00%) Security Patching
8 4 (16.00%) Application Virtualisation
9 3 (12.00%) Risk Management

Market 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) DHCP
1 4 (16.00%) DNS
1 4 (16.00%) Firewall
1 4 (16.00%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Data Mart
1 2 (8.00%) KDB
2 1 (4.00%) Big Data
2 1 (4.00%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (8.00%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (52.00%) Banking
2 12 (48.00%) Finance
3 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Front Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Derivative
2 2 (8.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (8.00%) Market Risk
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (24.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 5 (20.00%) Application Packaging
2 5 (20.00%) Application Security
3 4 (16.00%) Agile
3 4 (16.00%) Application Virtualisation
3 4 (16.00%) Batch Scripting
3 4 (16.00%) Change Management
3 4 (16.00%) Load Balancing
3 4 (16.00%) SDLC
3 4 (16.00%) Security Patching
3 4 (16.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (12.00%) Business Analysis
4 3 (12.00%) Risk Management
5 2 (8.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (8.00%) Design Thinking
5 2 (8.00%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.00%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (8.00%) Service Management
5 2 (8.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (20.00%) VBScript
2 2 (8.00%) C#
2 2 (8.00%) C++
2 2 (8.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Basel II
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Bloomberg
1 11 (44.00%) Refinitiv
2 5 (20.00%) Citrix
2 5 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.00%) Murex