Software Analyst Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Software Analyst daily rate in Work from Home is £490 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 428 575
Rank change year-on-year +89 +147 -88
Contract jobs requiring a Software Analyst 6 26 37
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.11% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.11% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 30
10th Percentile £334 £380 £378
25th Percentile £385 £396 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.62% +6.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £510 £508 -
90th Percentile - £550 £583
UK median daily rate £425 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -11.46% +6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £59.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £17.00 -

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 13,806 23,471 42,177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 16,589 30,510
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 538 592
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.44 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.33
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.43 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Software Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Analyst trend for jobs with a WFH option

Software 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 Software Analyst.

Software Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Software Analyst over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Software Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software 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 Software Analyst.

Software Analyst hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Software 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 Software Analyst in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (66.67%) JIRA
3 3 (50.00%) Test Planning
3 3 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) ADO
3 3 (50.00%) Genesys
3 3 (50.00%) Backlog Management
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Backlog
3 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 2 (33.33%) Postman
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle CX
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
4 2 (33.33%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 1 (16.67%) QA
5 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) Android
5 1 (16.67%) Confluence
5 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
5 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
5 1 (16.67%) User Stories
5 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
5 1 (16.67%) API Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
5 1 (16.67%) Back Office
5 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio

Software 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle CX
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (16.67%) Back Office
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) ADO
2 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (50.00%) Backlog Management
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Backlog
3 3 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
3 3 (50.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) API Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Build Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
5 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Kotlin
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Genesys
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft