Technical Analyst Contracts

Technical Analyst
UK

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in the UK is £520 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 433 381
Rank change year-on-year +105 -52 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 290 303 611
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.51% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.54% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 209 395
10th Percentile £215 £332 £350
25th Percentile £363 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +2.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £603 £588 £565
90th Percentile £730 £652 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £494 £450
% change year-on-year -24.05% +9.72% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 28
10th Percentile - £14.78 £14.18
25th Percentile - £19.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £14.00 £22.86 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.76% +57.66% -14.71%
75th Percentile £23.75 £39.59 £15.75
90th Percentile £24.36 £65.00 £20.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.00 £18.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +24.14% -13.82%

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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
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 £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Technical Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Analyst over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Analyst over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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 +93 228 £525 +2.94% 66
London +80 129 £600 +9.09% 35
Work from Home +131 124 £550 +7.84% 27
UK excluding London +67 113 £375 -24.05% 37
North of England +24 28 £454 -4.42% 8
East of England +32 27 £330 -32.31% 3
Scotland +41 20 £475 +40.74% 2
Midlands +23 17 £375 -25.00% 5
Yorkshire +21 15 £525 +20.00% 1
West Midlands +29 12 £275 -46.34% 2
South West +19 12 £230 -54.90% 6
North West +6 12 £450 -7.69% 7
South East +17 8 £463 +8.82% 9
East Midlands +19 5 £550 +15.79% 3
North East +18 1 £454 -17.45%
Wales - 1 £250 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Technical 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 Technical Analyst in the job title.

1 84 (28.97%) Finance
2 77 (26.55%) Social Skills
3 75 (25.86%) Agile
4 62 (21.38%) Banking
5 52 (17.93%) SQL
6 49 (16.90%) User Stories
7 38 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (12.76%) ITIL
9 33 (11.38%) Azure
10 31 (10.69%) Windows
10 31 (10.69%) Back Office
10 31 (10.69%) JIRA
11 30 (10.34%) Microsoft
12 29 (10.00%) Degree
13 28 (9.66%) Asset Management
13 28 (9.66%) Python
13 28 (9.66%) Front Office
13 28 (9.66%) Customer Service
14 27 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 27 (9.31%) Data Modelling
14 27 (9.31%) Security Cleared
14 27 (9.31%) Requirements Gathering
15 26 (8.97%) AWS
15 26 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
16 25 (8.62%) ITSM
17 24 (8.28%) Scrum
17 24 (8.28%) Acceptance Criteria
18 23 (7.93%) Service Management
18 23 (7.93%) C#

Technical 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.83%) Confluence
3 4 (1.38%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.03%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
5 1 (0.34%) JBoss
5 1 (0.34%) nginx
5 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (6.55%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.72%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.69%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Shopify
2 2 (0.69%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (0.69%) ION Anvil
2 2 (0.69%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.69%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) Endur
3 1 (0.34%) Maximo
3 1 (0.34%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.34%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.34%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 33 (11.38%) Azure
2 26 (8.97%) AWS
2 26 (8.97%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (3.79%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (1.03%) BigCommerce
5 2 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (0.69%) Entra ID
5 2 (0.69%) Lucidchart
5 2 (0.69%) OCI
5 2 (0.69%) OneDrive
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle CX
5 2 (0.69%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 1 (0.34%) Apigee
6 1 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.34%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.34%) SaaS
6 1 (0.34%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.34%) Serverless
6 1 (0.34%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.07%) LAN
1 6 (2.07%) WAN
2 4 (1.38%) Firewall
2 4 (1.38%) Skype
3 2 (0.69%) DNS
3 2 (0.69%) Network Security
4 1 (0.34%) DHCP
4 1 (0.34%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.83%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (3.79%) Power BI
3 8 (2.76%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.72%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 5 (1.72%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.03%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.03%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.69%) Big Data
7 2 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.69%) Tableau
8 1 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.34%) GIS
8 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.34%) MS Access
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.34%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (10.69%) JIRA
2 10 (3.45%) Postman
2 10 (3.45%) SoapUI
3 6 (2.07%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.34%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 84 (28.97%) Finance
2 77 (26.55%) Social Skills
3 62 (21.38%) Banking
4 37 (12.76%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (10.69%) Back Office
6 28 (9.66%) Front Office
7 12 (4.14%) Public Sector
8 7 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.07%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.72%) Marketing
11 4 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.38%) Retail
12 2 (0.69%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.69%) French Language
12 2 (0.69%) German Language
12 2 (0.69%) Law
12 2 (0.69%) Local Government
13 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.76%) SOAP
2 6 (2.07%) Swagger
2 6 (2.07%) XML
3 5 (1.72%) OpenAPI
3 5 (1.72%) REST
3 5 (1.72%) Web Services
4 4 (1.38%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.03%) ADO
5 3 (1.03%) OAuth
5 3 (1.03%) VML
6 2 (0.69%) .NET
6 2 (0.69%) Middleware
6 2 (0.69%) OpenID
7 1 (0.34%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.34%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.34%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.34%) HTML
7 1 (0.34%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.34%) React
7 1 (0.34%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.24%) Derivative
1 21 (7.24%) Hedge funds
2 13 (4.48%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.14%) Learning Management System
4 8 (2.76%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.07%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.72%) CMDB
7 5 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.38%) AS400
8 4 (1.38%) iPhone
8 4 (1.38%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.03%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.03%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.69%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.69%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.69%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.69%) Windows
2 11 (3.79%) Mac OS
3 8 (2.76%) Android
4 7 (2.41%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.07%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.07%) Unix
6 5 (1.72%) Linux
7 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.34%) VMS
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (25.86%) Agile
2 49 (16.90%) User Stories
3 38 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (12.76%) ITIL
5 28 (9.66%) Asset Management
5 28 (9.66%) Customer Service
6 27 (9.31%) Data Modelling
6 27 (9.31%) Requirements Gathering
6 27 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (8.62%) ITSM
8 24 (8.28%) Acceptance Criteria
8 24 (8.28%) Scrum
9 23 (7.93%) Service Management
10 22 (7.59%) Business Analysis
10 22 (7.59%) DevOps
11 21 (7.24%) Investment Management
12 20 (6.90%) Epics
12 20 (6.90%) Mentoring
12 20 (6.90%) Use Case
13 18 (6.21%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (17.93%) SQL
2 28 (9.66%) Python
3 23 (7.93%) C#
4 7 (2.41%) Java
5 6 (2.07%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.72%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.72%) XPath
6 5 (1.72%) XQuery
7 3 (1.03%) VBA
8 2 (0.69%) R
9 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (10.00%) Degree
2 27 (9.31%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.55%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (3.79%) MCP
6 9 (3.10%) CCNA
7 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.69%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.69%) CCENT
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.45%) QA
2 6 (2.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.72%) NIST
4 4 (1.38%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.03%) SLA
6 2 (0.69%) MiFID
7 1 (0.34%) GDPR
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (7.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.10%) SCCM
3 4 (1.38%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.21%) SAP
3 13 (4.48%) Oracle
4 12 (4.14%) Citrix
5 9 (3.10%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.07%) Cisco
7 5 (1.72%) Apple
7 5 (1.72%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.72%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.03%) Adobe
8 3 (1.03%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.69%) Dell
9 2 (0.69%) Genesys
9 2 (0.69%) Intel
9 2 (0.69%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.34%) Ariba
10 1 (0.34%) Cadence
10 1 (0.34%) Google
10 1 (0.34%) IBM
10 1 (0.34%) SimCorp