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 28 June 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
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 17 7
Rank change year-on-year +3 -10 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 120 185 231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 10.51% 9.38% 12.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.43% 10.06% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 101 143
10th Percentile £350 £234 £325
25th Percentile £400 £325 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £446 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.30% -10.80% +21.21%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £550
90th Percentile £608 £575 £598
South East median daily rate £425 £448 £445
% change year-on-year -5.13% +0.67% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - £18.40 £17.83
25th Percentile - £20.50 £23.38
Median hourly rate £32.31 £21.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +53.86% -67.69% +282.35%
75th Percentile - £31.24 £79.19
90th Percentile - £66.50 -
South East median hourly rate £23.04 £20.19 £21.00
% change year-on-year +14.11% -3.87% +40.00%

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 1,050 1,839 1,724
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 93.26% 94.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 933 1,072
10th Percentile £313 £269 £325
25th Percentile £411 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £509 £500
% change year-on-year -1.77% +1.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 131 57
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.00 £17.34
25th Percentile £32.05 £42.00 £23.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £61.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +3.83% +179.76%
75th Percentile £78.60 £76.12 £74.25
90th Percentile £88.87 £87.53 £79.61
South East median hourly rate £31.50 £49.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -35.71% -2.00% +138.10%

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 28 June 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 28 June 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 +10 63 £500 +11.11% 47
Wokingham +2 17 £494 +41.07%
Bracknell +2 11 £525 - 3
Slough -4 9 £525 +6.06% 14
Windsor -8 4 £460 -8.00%
Maidenhead -3 1 - - 5
Analyst
South East

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

For the 6 months to 28 June 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 33 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 26 (21.67%) Agile
4 25 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (15.83%) Telecoms
6 19 (15.83%) Finance
7 18 (15.00%) Microsoft
7 18 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
8 15 (12.50%) SQL
8 15 (12.50%) Oracle
8 15 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
9 14 (11.67%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (10.83%) Security Cleared
11 11 (9.17%) SC Cleared
11 11 (9.17%) User Stories
11 11 (9.17%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (9.17%) Migration
11 11 (9.17%) Change Management
11 11 (9.17%) Power Platform
12 10 (8.33%) Power BI
12 10 (8.33%) Analytics
12 10 (8.33%) Process Improvement
12 10 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 9 (7.50%) Incident Management
13 9 (7.50%) Azure
13 9 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 9 (7.50%) Validation
14 8 (6.67%) Operational Technology
14 8 (6.67%) Customer Service

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 4 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.83%) Camunda
3 1 (0.83%) CMS
3 1 (0.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) Smallworld
Applications
1 18 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (5.00%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (1.67%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (1.67%) Primavera
3 2 (1.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.83%) BPCS
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (9.17%) Power Platform
2 9 (7.50%) Azure
3 5 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (4.17%) SaaS
4 4 (3.33%) OCI
5 3 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.67%) AWS
6 2 (1.67%) Azure Stack
6 2 (1.67%) Snowflake
7 1 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.83%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.83%) GitHub
7 1 (0.83%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.83%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) Firewall
2 3 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.67%) 5G
3 2 (1.67%) Diameter Protocol
3 2 (1.67%) SIGTRAN
3 2 (1.67%) SMS
3 2 (1.67%) SS7
3 2 (1.67%) VoLTE
3 2 (1.67%) VoWiFi
3 2 (1.67%) Wireshark
4 1 (0.83%) LAN
4 1 (0.83%) VoIP
4 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.33%) Power BI
2 5 (4.17%) Tableau
3 4 (3.33%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.33%) Metadata
4 3 (2.50%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.67%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.83%) GIS
6 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.83%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 8 (6.67%) JIRA
2 2 (1.67%) ERwin
3 1 (0.83%) Git
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Forms
General
1 33 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 19 (15.83%) Finance
3 19 (15.83%) Telecoms
4 14 (11.67%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.50%) Local Government
6 3 (2.50%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.67%) Automotive
7 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Legal
7 2 (1.67%) Military
7 2 (1.67%) Publishing
7 2 (1.67%) Retail
8 1 (0.83%) Aviation
8 1 (0.83%) Games
8 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.33%) Web Services
2 3 (2.50%) RFC 2544
3 1 (0.83%) ADO
3 1 (0.83%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.67%) Operational Technology
2 7 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.17%) CMDB
3 5 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.17%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.50%) Fibre Optics
4 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.50%) Smart Meter
5 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.67%) CCTV
5 2 (1.67%) Cyberattack
5 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.83%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.83%) Life Science
6 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.83%) SCADA
6 1 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.67%) Windows
2 1 (0.83%) Android
2 1 (0.83%) Linux
2 1 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (21.67%) Agile
2 25 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (9.17%) Change Management
5 11 (9.17%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (9.17%) Migration
5 11 (9.17%) User Stories
6 10 (8.33%) Analytics
6 10 (8.33%) Process Improvement
7 9 (7.50%) Incident Management
7 9 (7.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (7.50%) Validation
8 8 (6.67%) Customer Service
8 8 (6.67%) Data Modelling
8 8 (6.67%) Decision-Making
8 8 (6.67%) Waterfall
9 7 (5.83%) Financial Analysis
9 7 (5.83%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (5.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (12.50%) SQL
2 6 (5.00%) Python
3 3 (2.50%) PL/SQL
3 3 (2.50%) R
4 2 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (10.83%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.17%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.67%) ACCA
4 7 (5.83%) CIMA
5 4 (3.33%) Degree
6 3 (2.50%) A+ Certification
6 3 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.50%) MCSA
6 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.67%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.83%) APMP
8 1 (0.83%) CCNA
8 1 (0.83%) CCNP
8 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.83%) CISSP
8 1 (0.83%) GCIH
8 1 (0.83%) IIBA
8 1 (0.83%) ISEB
8 1 (0.83%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.83%) GDPR
2 6 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.50%) PMO
4 2 (1.67%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.67%) QA
4 2 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.83%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (5.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (1.67%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.83%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (0.83%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 18 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.50%) Oracle
3 7 (5.83%) BMC
3 7 (5.83%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.17%) Virgin Media
5 4 (3.33%) BT
5 4 (3.33%) IFS
5 4 (3.33%) Remedy
5 4 (3.33%) Workday
6 3 (2.50%) Cisco
6 3 (2.50%) Citrix
6 3 (2.50%) Hyperion
6 3 (2.50%) SAP
7 2 (1.67%) Cognos
7 2 (1.67%) CyberArk
7 2 (1.67%) HP
7 2 (1.67%) Sparx
7 2 (1.67%) Splunk
8 1 (0.83%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (0.83%) Databricks