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 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 436 371
Rank change year-on-year +128 -65 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 296 297 615
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.50% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.53% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 208 394
10th Percentile £215 £331 £350
25th Percentile £348 £425 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% +2.50% +8.40%
75th Percentile £615 £588 £563
90th Percentile £745 £652 £624
UK excluding London median daily rate £365 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -25.13% +8.33% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 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 £16.06
90th Percentile - £65.00 £29.50
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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 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
England +80 228 £525 +2.94% 75
London +82 132 £600 +9.09% 32
Work from Home +141 126 £550 +7.84% 29
UK excluding London +74 115 £365 -25.13% 49
North of England +23 28 £465 -2.21% 9
East of England +23 26 £330 -32.31% 9
Scotland +54 24 £475 +40.74% 5
Midlands +27 17 £375 -25.00% 5
Yorkshire +24 15 £525 +20.00% 2
West Midlands +22 12 £275 -46.34% 4
South West +20 12 £230 -54.90% 8
North West +13 12 £450 -5.26% 7
South East +11 7 £475 +18.75% 10
East Midlands +24 5 £550 +15.79% 1
North East +17 1 £454 -17.45%
Wales - 1 £250 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 88 (29.73%) Finance
2 76 (25.68%) Social Skills
3 75 (25.34%) Agile
4 65 (21.96%) Banking
5 54 (18.24%) SQL
6 50 (16.89%) User Stories
7 38 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
8 37 (12.50%) ITIL
9 34 (11.49%) JIRA
9 34 (11.49%) Azure
10 32 (10.81%) Windows
10 32 (10.81%) Microsoft
11 31 (10.47%) Back Office
11 31 (10.47%) Degree
12 30 (10.14%) Requirements Gathering
13 29 (9.80%) Python
14 28 (9.46%) Data Modelling
14 28 (9.46%) Front Office
14 28 (9.46%) Asset Management
14 28 (9.46%) Customer Service
15 27 (9.12%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (8.78%) Security Cleared
16 26 (8.78%) Microsoft 365
17 25 (8.45%) AWS
17 25 (8.45%) ITSM
18 24 (8.11%) Acceptance Criteria
19 23 (7.77%) DevOps
19 23 (7.77%) Use Case
19 23 (7.77%) Scrum

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 (5.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (5.07%) Confluence
3 4 (1.35%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.01%) 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 (6.42%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.69%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.01%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Shopify
2 2 (0.68%) Endur
2 2 (0.68%) FLEXCUBE
2 2 (0.68%) ION Anvil
2 2 (0.68%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.68%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
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 34 (11.49%) Azure
2 26 (8.78%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (8.45%) AWS
4 11 (3.72%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.01%) BigCommerce
5 3 (1.01%) Entra ID
6 2 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.68%) Lucidchart
6 2 (0.68%) OCI
6 2 (0.68%) OneDrive
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle CX
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle Service Cloud
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.34%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.34%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.34%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.34%) Serverless
7 1 (0.34%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.36%) WAN
2 6 (2.03%) LAN
3 4 (1.35%) Firewall
3 4 (1.35%) Skype
4 2 (0.68%) DNS
4 2 (0.68%) Network Security
5 1 (0.34%) DHCP
5 1 (0.34%) Intranet
5 1 (0.34%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (3.72%) Power BI
3 8 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.69%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
5 5 (1.69%) Geospatial Data
5 5 (1.69%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.01%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.01%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.01%) Tableau
7 2 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.68%) Big Data
7 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
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
Development Applications
1 34 (11.49%) JIRA
2 9 (3.04%) Postman
2 9 (3.04%) SoapUI
3 6 (2.03%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.34%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 88 (29.73%) Finance
2 76 (25.68%) Social Skills
3 65 (21.96%) Banking
4 37 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 31 (10.47%) Back Office
6 28 (9.46%) Front Office
7 11 (3.72%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.36%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.03%) Marketing
11 4 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.35%) Retail
12 3 (1.01%) German Language
13 2 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
13 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.68%) French Language
13 2 (0.68%) Law
13 2 (0.68%) Local Government
14 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.36%) SOAP
2 6 (2.03%) Swagger
2 6 (2.03%) XML
3 5 (1.69%) OpenAPI
3 5 (1.69%) REST
3 5 (1.69%) Web Services
4 4 (1.35%) ADO
4 4 (1.35%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.01%) OAuth
5 3 (1.01%) VML
6 2 (0.68%) Middleware
6 2 (0.68%) OpenID
7 1 (0.34%) .NET
7 1 (0.34%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.34%) IBM Integration Bus
7 1 (0.34%) OAuth2
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.34%) React
7 1 (0.34%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.34%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.09%) Derivative
1 21 (7.09%) Hedge funds
2 13 (4.39%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.05%) Learning Management System
4 7 (2.36%) Mobile App
4 7 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.03%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.69%) CMDB
6 5 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.35%) AS400
7 4 (1.35%) Digital Media
7 4 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.35%) iPhone
8 3 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.01%) Fixed Income
9 2 (0.68%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.68%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.68%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 32 (10.81%) Windows
2 11 (3.72%) Mac OS
3 8 (2.70%) Android
4 7 (2.36%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.03%) Apple iOS
5 6 (2.03%) Unix
6 5 (1.69%) Linux
7 3 (1.01%) 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 (25.34%) Agile
2 50 (16.89%) User Stories
3 38 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (12.50%) ITIL
5 30 (10.14%) Requirements Gathering
6 28 (9.46%) Asset Management
6 28 (9.46%) Customer Service
6 28 (9.46%) Data Modelling
7 27 (9.12%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (8.45%) ITSM
9 24 (8.11%) Acceptance Criteria
10 23 (7.77%) DevOps
10 23 (7.77%) Scrum
10 23 (7.77%) Service Management
10 23 (7.77%) Use Case
11 22 (7.43%) Business Analysis
12 21 (7.09%) Investment Management
13 20 (6.76%) Mentoring
14 19 (6.42%) Change Management
15 18 (6.08%) Epics
Programming Languages
1 54 (18.24%) SQL
2 29 (9.80%) Python
3 23 (7.77%) C#
4 7 (2.36%) Java
5 6 (2.03%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.69%) XPath
6 5 (1.69%) XQuery
7 4 (1.35%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.01%) VBA
9 2 (0.68%) R
10 1 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (10.47%) Degree
2 26 (8.78%) Security Cleared
3 18 (6.08%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.39%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (3.72%) MCP
6 9 (3.04%) CCNA
7 4 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.68%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.68%) CCENT
8 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.34%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.34%) MCSA
9 1 (0.34%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.38%) QA
2 6 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.69%) NIST
4 4 (1.35%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.01%) SLA
6 2 (0.68%) MiFID
7 1 (0.34%) GDPR
7 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (7.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (3.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.04%) SCCM
3 4 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.08%) SAP
3 13 (4.39%) Oracle
4 12 (4.05%) Citrix
5 9 (3.04%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.03%) Cisco
7 5 (1.69%) Apple
7 5 (1.69%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.01%) Adobe
8 3 (1.01%) Genesys
8 3 (1.01%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.68%) Dell
9 2 (0.68%) Intel
9 2 (0.68%) ION Trading
10 1 (0.34%) Ariba
10 1 (0.34%) Google
10 1 (0.34%) IBM
10 1 (0.34%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.34%) SimCorp