Analyst Contracts in Berkshire

Analyst
South East > Berkshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Berkshire is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 15 5
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 110 193 263
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.38% 9.73% 14.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.14% 10.34% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 107 170
10th Percentile £301 £251 £298
25th Percentile £400 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +3.16% +11.62%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £585 £583 £615
South East median daily rate £460 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +2.22% +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 8
10th Percentile - £18.40 £17.83
25th Percentile - £20.50 £23.38
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £48.63
Median % change year-on-year - -56.81% +177.86%
75th Percentile - £30.00 £79.19
90th Percentile - £66.00 -
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £19.38 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.87% -13.89% +50.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,085 1,866 1,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.05% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 992 1,104
10th Percentile £311 £213 £325
25th Percentile £413 £381 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.09%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 116 56
10th Percentile £27.46 £18.75 £17.61
25th Percentile £50.06 £41.44 £22.66
Median hourly rate £63.37 £59.50 £56.89
Median % change year-on-year +6.51% +4.60% +170.88%
75th Percentile £76.77 £70.42 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.19 £86.32 £79.72
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in Berkshire

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in Berkshire

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Berkshire

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in Berkshire

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Reading +1 58 £488 -2.50% 50
Wokingham -3 16 £438 -7.89% 3
Bracknell +12 13 £400 -23.81% 1
Slough -5 8 £375 -34.78% 36
Maidenhead 0 4 £525 +105.88% 7
Windsor -8 1 £460 -34.29%
Analyst
South East

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the Berkshire region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 32 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.82%) Agile
2 24 (21.82%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (13.64%) Telecoms
5 15 (13.64%) Finance
6 14 (12.73%) SC Cleared
6 14 (12.73%) Security Cleared
7 13 (11.82%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (10.91%) Business Analysis
8 12 (10.91%) SQL
9 11 (10.00%) Microsoft
9 11 (10.00%) Incident Management
9 11 (10.00%) User Stories
10 10 (9.09%) Migration
10 10 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (9.09%) Oracle
10 10 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (8.18%) Change Management
11 9 (8.18%) Data Analysis
12 8 (7.27%) Validation
12 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
12 8 (7.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (7.27%) JIRA
12 8 (7.27%) Roadmaps
13 7 (6.36%) Onboarding
13 7 (6.36%) Customer Experience
13 7 (6.36%) Requirements Gathering

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (1.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.91%) Camunda
2 1 (0.91%) CMS
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.73%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (3.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.82%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.82%) Primavera
2 2 (1.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.45%) Azure
1 6 (5.45%) Power Platform
2 5 (4.55%) SaaS
3 3 (2.73%) OCI
4 2 (1.82%) AWS
4 2 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.82%) Azure Stack
4 2 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.82%) Snowflake
5 1 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (0.91%) GCP
5 1 (0.91%) GitHub
5 1 (0.91%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) 5G
1 2 (1.82%) Diameter Protocol
1 2 (1.82%) Ethernet
1 2 (1.82%) MPLS
1 2 (1.82%) SDH
1 2 (1.82%) SIGTRAN
1 2 (1.82%) SMS
1 2 (1.82%) SS7
1 2 (1.82%) VoLTE
1 2 (1.82%) VoWiFi
1 2 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (1.82%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.91%) Firewall
2 1 (0.91%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.91%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (0.91%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) Power BI
2 4 (3.64%) Tableau
3 2 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.82%) Metadata
3 2 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.91%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (7.27%) JIRA
2 2 (1.82%) ERwin
3 1 (0.91%) Git
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (0.91%) Postman
General
1 32 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.82%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (13.64%) Finance
3 15 (13.64%) Telecoms
4 10 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.64%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.64%) Retail
7 3 (2.73%) Automotive
7 3 (2.73%) Local Government
8 2 (1.82%) Billing
8 2 (1.82%) Legal
8 2 (1.82%) Military
8 2 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.91%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.91%) Games
9 1 (0.91%) German Language
9 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.73%) Web Services
2 2 (1.82%) JSON
3 1 (0.91%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.36%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.45%) Operational Technology
3 5 (4.55%) CMDB
4 4 (3.64%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.64%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.73%) SCADA
5 3 (2.73%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.82%) Cyberattack
6 2 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.91%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (0.91%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.91%) Life Science
7 1 (0.91%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.73%) Windows
2 1 (0.91%) Android
2 1 (0.91%) Linux
2 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (21.82%) Agile
2 22 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (11.82%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (10.91%) Business Analysis
6 11 (10.00%) Incident Management
6 11 (10.00%) User Stories
7 10 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
7 10 (9.09%) Migration
8 9 (8.18%) Change Management
8 9 (8.18%) Data Analysis
9 8 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (7.27%) Roadmaps
9 8 (7.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (7.27%) Validation
10 7 (6.36%) Customer Experience
10 7 (6.36%) ITIL
10 7 (6.36%) Process Improvement
10 7 (6.36%) Requirements Gathering
11 6 (5.45%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.91%) SQL
2 3 (2.73%) Python
3 2 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (1.82%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (12.73%) SC Cleared
1 14 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.36%) Degree
3 4 (3.64%) ACCA
3 4 (3.64%) CIMA
3 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.82%) A+ Certification
4 2 (1.82%) APMP
4 2 (1.82%) CCNA
4 2 (1.82%) CCNP
4 2 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.82%) ISEB
4 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (1.82%) MCSA
5 1 (0.91%) CFCE
5 1 (0.91%) CISSP
5 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.91%) IIBA
5 1 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.45%) GDPR
2 3 (2.73%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.73%) QA
3 2 (1.82%) PMO
4 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.91%) NCSC
4 1 (0.91%) P3O
4 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (5.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.91%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 11 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.09%) Oracle
3 7 (6.36%) BMC
3 7 (6.36%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.55%) BT
4 5 (4.55%) Virgin Media
5 4 (3.64%) Remedy
5 4 (3.64%) Splunk
6 3 (2.73%) IFS
6 3 (2.73%) Workday
7 2 (1.82%) Citrix
7 2 (1.82%) Cognos
7 2 (1.82%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.82%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.82%) Sparx
8 1 (0.91%) Capita
8 1 (0.91%) Cisco
8 1 (0.91%) Google
8 1 (0.91%) HP
8 1 (0.91%) Salesforce