Analyst Contracts in England

Analyst
UK > England

The median Analyst daily rate in England is £475, 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 13 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 2,838 4,262 6,673
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 11.65% 11.46% 13.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.59% 12.36% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,905 2,855 4,766
10th Percentile £250 £213 £219
25th Percentile £358 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £486 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +2.32% +2.70%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £695 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 311 267
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.86 £12.72
25th Percentile £16.30 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.14 £16.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.38% -17.95% +25.81%
75th Percentile £31.64 £21.46 £25.81
90th Percentile £52.50 £30.00 £60.30
UK median hourly rate £22.14 £16.30 £18.39
% change year-on-year +35.83% -11.36% +18.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in England

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in England

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in England

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in England

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in England

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the England 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
London -1 1,592 £506 -3.57% 1,640
North of England -1 367 £400 -11.11% 431
South East +1 316 £460 +2.22% 645
Midlands -4 217 £425 +6.25% 299
North West 0 215 £361 -19.72% 236
South West -3 159 £400 -15.79% 161
West Midlands -2 158 £475 +11.76% 182
Yorkshire +3 125 £411 -8.61% 154
East of England -4 125 £428 +4.27% 207
East Midlands -4 59 £358 -1.24% 100
North East -7 27 £450 +7.14% 43
Analyst
UK

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

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 England region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 933 (32.88%) Social Skills
2 833 (29.35%) Finance
3 591 (20.82%) Agile
4 587 (20.68%) Analytical Skills
5 579 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
6 512 (18.04%) SQL
7 463 (16.31%) Microsoft
8 389 (13.71%) Business Analysis
9 381 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
10 379 (13.35%) Data Analysis
11 339 (11.95%) Security Cleared
12 321 (11.31%) Business Intelligence
13 306 (10.78%) Banking
14 294 (10.36%) Power Platform
15 286 (10.08%) Python
16 283 (9.97%) Analytics
17 282 (9.94%) Power BI
18 279 (9.83%) Microsoft Excel
19 265 (9.34%) SC Cleared
20 256 (9.02%) Migration
21 244 (8.60%) Requirements Gathering
22 236 (8.32%) Degree
23 233 (8.21%) Windows
24 229 (8.07%) ITIL
25 223 (7.86%) Azure
26 213 (7.51%) JIRA
27 211 (7.43%) Decision-Making
28 206 (7.26%) User Acceptance Testing
29 204 (7.19%) User Stories
30 200 (7.05%) Project Management

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 120 (4.23%) Confluence
2 98 (3.45%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 26 (0.92%) SAS
5 17 (0.60%) CMS
6 8 (0.28%) Skype for Business
7 7 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.18%) Apache
9 4 (0.14%) IIS
9 4 (0.14%) Mattermost
9 4 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 4 (0.14%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.11%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.11%) Drupal
10 3 (0.11%) IBM Notes
10 3 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.070%) Appian
11 2 (0.070%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.035%) Camunda
12 1 (0.035%) Jupyter
Applications
1 279 (9.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 143 (5.04%) Microsoft Office
3 133 (4.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 100 (3.52%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 2 (0.070%) Notepad++
10 1 (0.035%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.035%) EViews
10 1 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 44 (1.55%) Aladdin
2 40 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 28 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
4 22 (0.78%) Endur
5 14 (0.49%) thinkFolio
6 11 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
7 10 (0.35%) Loan IQ
8 9 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
9 8 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
10 7 (0.25%) iTrent
10 7 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
10 7 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
11 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
11 6 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
11 6 (0.21%) SAP CO
11 6 (0.21%) SAP FI
11 6 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
12 5 (0.18%) SAP WM
12 5 (0.18%) Workday HCM
13 4 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 294 (10.36%) Power Platform
2 223 (7.86%) Azure
3 167 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 91 (3.21%) AWS
5 46 (1.62%) GCP
6 45 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
6 45 (1.59%) SaaS
7 37 (1.30%) Entra ID
8 32 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
9 30 (1.06%) Snowflake
10 20 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (0.67%) OneDrive
12 18 (0.63%) Lucidchart
13 15 (0.53%) PowerApps
14 14 (0.49%) Google Workspace
14 14 (0.49%) OCI
15 12 (0.42%) GitHub
16 11 (0.39%) Collibra
16 11 (0.39%) dbt
17 10 (0.35%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 43 (1.52%) Firewall
2 41 (1.44%) DNS
3 34 (1.20%) Network Security
3 34 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
4 26 (0.92%) TCP/IP
5 23 (0.81%) HTTP
6 22 (0.78%) VPN
7 21 (0.74%) SMTP
8 18 (0.63%) DHCP
9 17 (0.60%) WebEx
10 16 (0.56%) SSL
11 15 (0.53%) FTP
12 13 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
12 13 (0.46%) LAN
12 13 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
12 13 (0.46%) Skype
13 10 (0.35%) WAN
14 7 (0.25%) NAS
14 7 (0.25%) VLAN
14 7 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 282 (9.94%) Power BI
2 130 (4.58%) Tableau
3 91 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
4 72 (2.54%) SQL Server
5 29 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 24 (0.85%) Relational Database
6 24 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 23 (0.81%) Metadata
8 18 (0.63%) BigQuery
9 16 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
9 16 (0.56%) Looker
9 16 (0.56%) Power Query
10 15 (0.53%) Data Mining
10 15 (0.53%) MS Access
10 15 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
11 14 (0.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 11 (0.39%) Qlik Sense
13 10 (0.35%) Snowflake Schema
14 9 (0.32%) Big Data
14 9 (0.32%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 213 (7.51%) JIRA
2 19 (0.67%) Git
3 16 (0.56%) Selenium
3 16 (0.56%) TestRail
4 15 (0.53%) Postman
5 14 (0.49%) JMeter
6 10 (0.35%) QARun
6 10 (0.35%) WinRunner
7 9 (0.32%) LoadRunner
7 9 (0.32%) SoapUI
8 8 (0.28%) Jenkins
9 5 (0.18%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.18%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.18%) HP UFT
9 5 (0.18%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.18%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.14%) ERwin
10 4 (0.14%) MagicDraw
10 4 (0.14%) TestComplete
10 4 (0.14%) Toad
General
1 933 (32.88%) Social Skills
2 833 (29.35%) Finance
3 587 (20.68%) Analytical Skills
4 306 (10.78%) Banking
5 172 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 147 (5.18%) Front Office
7 102 (3.59%) Retail
8 85 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 85 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
9 72 (2.54%) Investment Banking
10 68 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
11 65 (2.29%) Marketing
12 55 (1.94%) Law
12 55 (1.94%) Legal
13 51 (1.80%) Local Government
14 43 (1.52%) Manufacturing
15 42 (1.48%) Back Office
15 42 (1.48%) Telecoms
16 37 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
17 35 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (0.85%) XML
2 22 (0.78%) Web Services
3 17 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
3 17 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (0.56%) LDAP
5 15 (0.53%) SailPoint
6 14 (0.49%) .NET
7 12 (0.42%) Kafka
8 11 (0.39%) JSON
8 11 (0.39%) Middleware
9 10 (0.35%) ADO
10 9 (0.32%) FpML
11 8 (0.28%) HTML
12 7 (0.25%) REST
13 6 (0.21%) Playwright
13 6 (0.21%) SOAP
14 5 (0.18%) OAuth
14 5 (0.18%) Plotly
14 5 (0.18%) PySpark
14 5 (0.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 120 (4.23%) Management Information System
2 105 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 96 (3.38%) Derivative
3 96 (3.38%) Fixed Income
4 79 (2.78%) Onboarding
5 75 (2.64%) Hedge funds
6 70 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 58 (2.04%) Equities
8 41 (1.44%) Data Structures
9 38 (1.34%) Security Operations Centre
10 37 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
11 36 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
12 34 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 33 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
14 32 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
15 29 (1.02%) Security Posture
16 25 (0.88%) Driving Licence
16 25 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
17 24 (0.85%) Data Centre
18 23 (0.81%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 233 (8.21%) Windows
2 70 (2.47%) Windows 10
3 47 (1.66%) Linux
4 45 (1.59%) Unix
5 44 (1.55%) Apple iOS
6 34 (1.20%) Windows Server
7 18 (0.63%) Mac OS
8 16 (0.56%) Android
9 6 (0.21%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.11%) CentOS
10 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.070%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.070%) Rocky
12 1 (0.035%) Debian
12 1 (0.035%) Fedora
12 1 (0.035%) Solaris
12 1 (0.035%) SUSE
12 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.035%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 591 (20.82%) Agile
2 579 (20.40%) Problem-Solving
3 389 (13.71%) Business Analysis
4 381 (13.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 379 (13.35%) Data Analysis
6 321 (11.31%) Business Intelligence
7 283 (9.97%) Analytics
8 256 (9.02%) Migration
9 244 (8.60%) Requirements Gathering
10 229 (8.07%) ITIL
11 211 (7.43%) Decision-Making
12 206 (7.26%) User Acceptance Testing
13 204 (7.19%) User Stories
14 200 (7.05%) Project Management
15 199 (7.01%) Cybersecurity
16 184 (6.48%) Asset Management
17 180 (6.34%) Process Improvement
18 179 (6.31%) Customer Service
19 176 (6.20%) Change Management
20 169 (5.95%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 512 (18.04%) SQL
2 286 (10.08%) Python
3 49 (1.73%) PowerShell
4 42 (1.48%) Java
5 34 (1.20%) R
6 30 (1.06%) VBA
7 22 (0.78%) JavaScript
8 21 (0.74%) Bash
9 17 (0.60%) C#
9 17 (0.60%) PL/SQL
10 16 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
11 14 (0.49%) VB
12 11 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 10 (0.35%) C++
14 8 (0.28%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.25%) Uniface
16 3 (0.11%) ABAP
16 3 (0.11%) C
16 3 (0.11%) MATLAB
16 3 (0.11%) RPG
Qualifications
1 339 (11.95%) Security Cleared
2 265 (9.34%) SC Cleared
3 236 (8.32%) Degree
4 65 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 62 (2.18%) DV Cleared
6 42 (1.48%) A+ Certification
7 32 (1.13%) ITIL Certification
8 29 (1.02%) MCSA
9 28 (0.99%) CISSP
9 28 (0.99%) ISTQB
10 26 (0.92%) CBAP
11 24 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
12 22 (0.78%) Master's Degree
13 21 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 18 (0.63%) Computer Science Degree
15 17 (0.60%) ISEB
15 17 (0.60%) PMI Certification
16 15 (0.53%) IIBA
17 14 (0.49%) ACCA
17 14 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 145 (5.11%) QA
2 131 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 77 (2.71%) GDPR
3 77 (2.71%) SLA
4 76 (2.68%) PMO
5 28 (0.99%) NIST
6 23 (0.81%) Accessibility
7 20 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 19 (0.67%) MiFID
8 19 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (0.60%) EMIR
10 16 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
11 15 (0.53%) GRC
11 15 (0.53%) SEPA
12 12 (0.42%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.39%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
14 8 (0.28%) IFRS
14 8 (0.28%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 196 (6.91%) Active Directory
2 12 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.21%) vSphere
4 5 (0.18%) Hyper-V
4 5 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.070%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.070%) Docker
5 2 (0.070%) Firmware
5 2 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.035%) HDFS
6 1 (0.035%) IAG
6 1 (0.035%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.035%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.035%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.035%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.035%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 43 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (0.67%) SCCM
3 10 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (0.25%) QRadar
4 7 (0.25%) SCOM
5 6 (0.21%) Grafana
5 6 (0.21%) Kubernetes
6 5 (0.18%) ZABBIX
7 4 (0.14%) RSA Archer
8 3 (0.11%) Cisco UCCX
8 3 (0.11%) CSIRT
8 3 (0.11%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.070%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.070%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.070%) Control-M
9 2 (0.070%) HP Data Protector
9 2 (0.070%) Nessus
9 2 (0.070%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.070%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 2 (0.070%) WSUS
Vendors
1 463 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 166 (5.85%) ServiceNow
3 143 (5.04%) Oracle
4 129 (4.55%) SAP
5 68 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 59 (2.08%) Citrix
7 51 (1.80%) Google
8 39 (1.37%) Splunk
9 37 (1.30%) BISAM
10 34 (1.20%) Databricks
11 24 (0.85%) Workday
12 22 (0.78%) Adobe
12 22 (0.78%) Cisco
13 21 (0.74%) Bloomberg
14 20 (0.70%) Charles River
15 18 (0.63%) VMware
16 17 (0.60%) Alteryx
16 17 (0.60%) IBM
16 17 (0.60%) Informatica
16 17 (0.60%) Virgin Media