Systems Analysis Contracts

Systems Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Systems Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Systems Analysis over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 623 625
Rank change year-on-year +97 +2 -90
Contract jobs citing Systems Analysis 60 99 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.16% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.18% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 82 150
10th Percentile £200 £363 £355
25th Percentile £413 £460 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +10.53% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £617 £564
90th Percentile £609 £725 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -9.47% +3.26% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.50 £49.25 £41.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £50.50 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.71% +20.24% +29.23%
75th Percentile £42.63 £51.75 £47.63
90th Percentile £46.30 - £55.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 - £59.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Systems Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

Systems Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Systems Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Analysis in the UK

Systems Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Analysis.

Daily rate trend for Systems Analysis in the UK

Systems Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Analysis over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Analysis in the UK

Systems Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Analysis.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Analysis in the UK

Systems Analysis
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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 +77 42 £513 -4.21% 48
UK excluding London +63 35 £430 -9.47% 32
Work from Home +120 24 £530 +6.00% 21
London +76 18 £575 +4.55% 20
Scotland +33 13 £425 +11.84% 2
South East +16 12 £460 +10.17% 10
Midlands +26 5 £425 - 1
East Midlands +20 4 - - 1
South West +21 2 £400 -30.07% 4
East of England +3 2 - - 10
North of England +26 1 £62 -88.67% 4
West Midlands +26 1 £425 -23.08%
North West +12 1 £62 -89.61% 3

Systems Analysis
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.67%) Simulink
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) iTrent
2 1 (1.67%) MFGPRO
2 1 (1.67%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.00%) AWS
2 2 (3.33%) Azure
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle CX
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Service Cloud
2 2 (3.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.67%) Google Workspace
3 1 (1.67%) Serverless
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) BGP
1 1 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (1.67%) Firewall
1 1 (1.67%) Internet
1 1 (1.67%) MPLS
1 1 (1.67%) NX-OS
1 1 (1.67%) VXLAN
1 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.33%) Big Data
2 2 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (3.33%) GIS
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.67%) DB2
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (11.67%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (23.33%) Finance
3 10 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.67%) Games
6 2 (3.33%) Automotive
6 2 (3.33%) Back Office
6 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Local Government
6 2 (3.33%) Military
6 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Retail
6 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.67%) Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Danish Language
Job Titles
1 32 (53.33%) Analyst
2 14 (23.33%) Senior
3 13 (21.67%) Business Analyst
4 12 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
5 9 (15.00%) Technical Analyst
6 7 (11.67%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (8.33%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Data Analyst
8 4 (6.67%) Digital Analyst
8 4 (6.67%) Digital Business Analyst
8 4 (6.67%) Lead
8 4 (6.67%) Senior Business Analyst
9 3 (5.00%) Administrator
9 3 (5.00%) Architect
9 3 (5.00%) Designer
9 3 (5.00%) Developer
9 3 (5.00%) Finance Systems Analyst
9 3 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
9 3 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
9 3 (5.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) ADO
1 2 (3.33%) Spring
2 1 (1.67%) .NET
2 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.67%) Blazor
2 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.67%) Augmented Reality
3 4 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (6.67%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (3.33%) Freedom of Information Act
4 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.67%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.67%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.67%) HPUX
1 1 (1.67%) Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.67%) Unix
1 1 (1.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.00%) Agile
2 13 (21.67%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (21.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 11 (18.33%) Customer Service
4 10 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 9 (15.00%) Data Analysis
6 8 (13.33%) SDLC
7 7 (11.67%) Data Modelling
7 7 (11.67%) Software Engineering
7 7 (11.67%) User Stories
8 6 (10.00%) Business Case
8 6 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 6 (10.00%) CRM
8 6 (10.00%) Data Protection
8 6 (10.00%) Migration
8 6 (10.00%) Project Management
8 6 (10.00%) Roadmaps
8 6 (10.00%) Scrum
8 6 (10.00%) Waterfall
9 5 (8.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.67%) SQL
2 5 (8.33%) Python
3 4 (6.67%) C++
3 4 (6.67%) MATLAB
4 3 (5.00%) Java
5 2 (3.33%) C
5 2 (3.33%) VB
6 1 (1.67%) Bicep
6 1 (1.67%) C#
6 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.00%) Degree
3 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared
4 6 (10.00%) ISEB
5 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.33%) HNC
6 1 (1.67%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.67%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.67%) GDPR
2 1 (1.67%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.67%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (3.33%) Genesys
4 1 (1.67%) Cisco
4 1 (1.67%) HP
4 1 (1.67%) IBM
4 1 (1.67%) Progress
4 1 (1.67%) QAD
4 1 (1.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.67%) VMware