IT Analyst Contracts with Work from Home Options

IT Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Analyst daily rate in Work from Home is £481 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 279 345
Rank change year-on-year +23 +66 -7
Contract jobs requiring an IT Analyst 85 196 294
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.56% 0.78% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.60% 0.82% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 134 204
10th Percentile £168 £158 £145
25th Percentile £241 £200 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £300 £350
Median % change year-on-year +60.44% -14.29% -9.09%
75th Percentile £578 £450 £475
90th Percentile £638 £538 £582
UK median daily rate £425 £286 £350
% change year-on-year +48.47% -18.21% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 24
10th Percentile - £13.43 £11.75
25th Percentile - £14.58 £12.02
Median hourly rate £15.42 £19.00 £18.53
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +2.56% +5.26%
75th Percentile - £24.50 £23.44
90th Percentile - £26.30 £24.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £22.57 £17.25
% change year-on-year -2.50% +30.81% +13.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,102 23,924 42,008
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.36% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,465 16,894 30,368
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 548 593
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.27
25th Percentile £23.37 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.87 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.91% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

IT Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured IT Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Analyst trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Analyst.

IT Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IT Analyst over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

IT Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Analyst.

IT Analyst hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, IT 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring IT Analyst in the job title.

1 41 (48.24%) Finance
2 35 (41.18%) Banking
3 34 (40.00%) Change Management
3 34 (40.00%) ITSM
4 31 (36.47%) Social Skills
5 30 (35.29%) Service Management
6 20 (23.53%) ITIL
7 19 (22.35%) Agile
8 14 (16.47%) Microsoft
8 14 (16.47%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (16.47%) Business Analysis
8 14 (16.47%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
9 13 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (15.29%) Active Directory
10 12 (14.12%) Public Sector
10 12 (14.12%) DevOps
11 10 (11.76%) SDLC
11 10 (11.76%) Windows
12 9 (10.59%) Manufacturing
12 9 (10.59%) Requirements Gathering
13 8 (9.41%) SaaS
13 8 (9.41%) AWS
13 8 (9.41%) Business Process Mapping
13 8 (9.41%) Business Process Modelling
13 8 (9.41%) Requirements Management
13 8 (9.41%) QA
14 7 (8.24%) GAP Analysis
14 7 (8.24%) SAP
14 7 (8.24%) Degree

IT Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.18%) Moodle
3 1 (1.18%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (1.18%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.88%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.18%) InVision
4 1 (1.18%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) assyst
1 1 (1.18%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.47%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (9.41%) AWS
2 8 (9.41%) SaaS
3 7 (8.24%) Azure
4 6 (7.06%) PaaS
5 4 (4.71%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.53%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.18%) Asana
7 1 (1.18%) Figma
7 1 (1.18%) Serverless
7 1 (1.18%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) DHCP
1 2 (2.35%) DNS
1 2 (2.35%) Firewall
2 1 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) JIRA
2 1 (1.18%) Appium
2 1 (1.18%) Balsamiq
2 1 (1.18%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.18%) JMeter
2 1 (1.18%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.18%) Postman
2 1 (1.18%) Rational Performance Tester
2 1 (1.18%) Selenium
2 1 (1.18%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.18%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 41 (48.24%) Finance
2 35 (41.18%) Banking
3 31 (36.47%) Social Skills
4 14 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (14.12%) Public Sector
6 9 (10.59%) Manufacturing
7 7 (8.24%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (4.71%) Marketing
9 4 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.18%) International Banking
10 1 (1.18%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.18%) .NET
1 1 (1.18%) Gherkin
1 1 (1.18%) Playwright
1 1 (1.18%) RESTful
1 1 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.71%) IoT
2 2 (2.35%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.35%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.18%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.18%) CSOC
3 1 (1.18%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.18%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.18%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.18%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.18%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.76%) Windows
2 7 (8.24%) Windows 10
3 4 (4.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (3.53%) Android
4 3 (3.53%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.18%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (40.00%) Change Management
1 34 (40.00%) ITSM
2 30 (35.29%) Service Management
3 20 (23.53%) ITIL
4 19 (22.35%) Agile
5 14 (16.47%) Business Analysis
5 14 (16.47%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (15.29%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (14.12%) DevOps
8 10 (11.76%) SDLC
9 9 (10.59%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (9.41%) Business Process Mapping
10 8 (9.41%) Business Process Modelling
10 8 (9.41%) Requirements Management
11 7 (8.24%) GAP Analysis
11 7 (8.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (7.06%) Cybersecurity
12 6 (7.06%) Data Analysis
12 6 (7.06%) Validation
13 5 (5.88%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.18%) C#
1 1 (1.18%) Java
1 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (8.24%) Degree
2 3 (3.53%) CISM
3 2 (2.35%) CISSP
3 2 (2.35%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.18%) CBAP
4 1 (1.18%) CISA
4 1 (1.18%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.18%) CRISC
4 1 (1.18%) CSPO
4 1 (1.18%) GCIH
4 1 (1.18%) IIBA
4 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.41%) QA
2 6 (7.06%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.35%) NIST
3 2 (2.35%) SLA
4 1 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 13 (15.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.53%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.71%) SCCM
2 2 (2.35%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 14 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.24%) SAP
3 5 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.35%) Dell
4 2 (2.35%) Mitel
5 1 (1.18%) Adobe
5 1 (1.18%) Cadence
5 1 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (1.18%) Equitrac
5 1 (1.18%) ForeScout
5 1 (1.18%) HP
5 1 (1.18%) IBM
5 1 (1.18%) IFS
5 1 (1.18%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle
5 1 (1.18%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.18%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.18%) Zscaler