Analyst Contract Job Trends in England

Analyst
UK > England

The median Analyst daily rate in England is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 12 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 4,357 3,077 4,205
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.17% 12.46% 11.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.01% 13.49% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,747 1,982 2,824
10th Percentile £263 £256 £213
25th Percentile £363 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -2.86%
75th Percentile £557 £575 £580
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 195 318
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.99 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.41 £14.16
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.14 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +35.83% -14.21%
75th Percentile £37.00 £31.00 £21.50
90th Percentile £64.63 £40.67 £37.55
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £22.14 £16.30
% change year-on-year +1.63% +35.83% -10.56%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 39,574 22,803 34,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.34% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,391 14,987 22,732
10th Percentile £325 £293 £288
25th Percentile £415 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £635 £638
90th Percentile £729 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,789 1,003 2,669
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.00 £29.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -26.68% -10.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £43.61 £27.52 £37.50
% change year-on-year +58.48% -26.63% -16.67%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Analyst job vacancy trend in England

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in England

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in England over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in England

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in England

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in England over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

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 15 June 2026. 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 -9 1,955 £500 -2.44% 503
North of England -7 679 £410 +1.86% 311
South East -1 618 £500 +11.11% 373
Midlands +2 552 £410 +2.50% 189
North West +2 373 £400 - 169
West Midlands -1 372 £413 -2.94% 97
South West 0 264 £450 +12.50% 149
Yorkshire -11 244 £438 +6.84% 103
East of England +1 216 £400 -5.88% 108
East Midlands +4 178 £400 +11.73% 92
North East +1 80 £420 -6.67% 42
Analyst
UK

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 15 June 2026, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 863 (19.81%) Agile
2 745 (17.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 661 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
4 640 (14.69%) Security Cleared
5 599 (13.75%) SQL
6 556 (12.76%) Business Analysis
7 555 (12.74%) Microsoft
8 541 (12.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 489 (11.22%) Business Intelligence
10 477 (10.95%) Requirements Gathering
11 474 (10.88%) User Stories
12 466 (10.70%) Workshop Facilitation
13 459 (10.53%) SC Cleared
14 444 (10.19%) Power Platform
15 417 (9.57%) Power BI
16 414 (9.50%) Migration
17 407 (9.34%) JIRA
18 405 (9.30%) Azure
19 401 (9.20%) Decision-Making
20 399 (9.16%) Data Analysis
21 397 (9.11%) User Acceptance Testing
22 391 (8.97%) Analytics
23 387 (8.88%) Microsoft Excel
24 385 (8.84%) Validation
25 370 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
26 334 (7.67%) Data Quality
27 333 (7.64%) Data Modelling
28 321 (7.37%) Degree
29 306 (7.02%) Acceptance Criteria
30 277 (6.36%) Windows

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 230 (5.28%) Confluence
2 103 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 39 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 37 (0.85%) CMS
5 29 (0.67%) SAS
6 9 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.18%) Apache
8 7 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 6 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 5 (0.11%) Mattermost
11 4 (0.092%) OpenEdge
12 3 (0.069%) Kentico
12 3 (0.069%) Palantir Foundry
12 3 (0.069%) WebSphere
13 2 (0.046%) Appian
13 2 (0.046%) IIS
13 2 (0.046%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 2 (0.046%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.023%) CICS
14 1 (0.023%) WordPress
Applications
1 387 (8.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (3.42%) MS Visio
3 138 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
4 90 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 57 (1.31%) Microsoft Project
6 36 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
7 8 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.16%) Revit
9 6 (0.14%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.069%) CATIA
10 3 (0.069%) Oracle Smart View
11 2 (0.046%) Notion
11 2 (0.046%) SPSS
12 1 (0.023%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.023%) SOLIDWORKS
12 1 (0.023%) Trello
Business Applications
1 65 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 44 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
3 22 (0.50%) Workday HCM
4 21 (0.48%) Aladdin
5 19 (0.44%) Loan IQ
6 16 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
7 15 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 13 (0.30%) iTrent
8 13 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
9 11 (0.25%) SystmOne
10 10 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
10 10 (0.23%) SAP ERP
11 9 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
12 8 (0.18%) Endur
12 8 (0.18%) Maximo
12 8 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
12 8 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
13 7 (0.16%) Actimize
14 6 (0.14%) Oracle Financials
14 6 (0.14%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 444 (10.19%) Power Platform
2 405 (9.30%) Azure
3 195 (4.48%) AWS
4 185 (4.25%) Microsoft 365
5 119 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
6 83 (1.90%) SaaS
7 67 (1.54%) Entra ID
8 54 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
9 50 (1.15%) Snowflake
10 47 (1.08%) GCP
11 31 (0.71%) Power Automate
11 31 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
12 29 (0.67%) Google Workspace
13 28 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
14 25 (0.57%) Lucidchart
15 24 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
16 21 (0.48%) GitHub
16 21 (0.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
17 20 (0.46%) Amazon S3
17 20 (0.46%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 59 (1.35%) DNS
2 42 (0.96%) TCP/IP
3 29 (0.67%) Firewall
4 28 (0.64%) DHCP
4 28 (0.64%) VPN
5 23 (0.53%) LAN
5 23 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
6 19 (0.44%) WAN
7 16 (0.37%) Network Security
8 13 (0.30%) VoIP
9 11 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 10 (0.23%) VLAN
10 10 (0.23%) Wireless
11 9 (0.21%) Internet
12 8 (0.18%) DMZ
12 8 (0.18%) FTP
12 8 (0.18%) VSAN
13 6 (0.14%) Broadband
13 6 (0.14%) FIX Connectivity
14 4 (0.092%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 417 (9.57%) Power BI
2 151 (3.47%) Tableau
3 111 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
4 69 (1.58%) Metadata
5 41 (0.94%) Relational Database
6 38 (0.87%) Power Query
7 37 (0.85%) SQL Server
8 32 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
9 25 (0.57%) Data Lake
10 22 (0.50%) Big Data
11 21 (0.48%) Looker
12 18 (0.41%) BigQuery
13 16 (0.37%) Qlik Sense
14 11 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
14 11 (0.25%) Oracle BI Publisher
15 10 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
16 9 (0.21%) Hadoop
16 9 (0.21%) PowerPivot
17 8 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
17 8 (0.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 407 (9.34%) JIRA
2 44 (1.01%) Postman
3 18 (0.41%) Zephyr
4 16 (0.37%) Jenkins
5 14 (0.32%) Git
5 14 (0.32%) Selenium
6 8 (0.18%) GitLab
6 8 (0.18%) TestRail
7 7 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.14%) MSI
8 6 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (0.11%) Appium
9 5 (0.11%) Balsamiq
10 4 (0.092%) JUnit
11 3 (0.069%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.069%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.069%) Gemini Tracker
11 3 (0.069%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.069%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.069%) Toad
General
1 1,251 (28.71%) Social Skills
2 1,187 (27.24%) Finance
3 905 (20.77%) Analytical Skills
4 384 (8.81%) Banking
5 356 (8.17%) Public Sector
6 182 (4.18%) Documentation Skills
7 152 (3.49%) Retail
8 121 (2.78%) Marketing
9 118 (2.71%) Organisational Skills
10 115 (2.64%) Legal
11 111 (2.55%) Front Office
12 94 (2.16%) Manufacturing
13 91 (2.09%) Investment Banking
14 80 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
15 68 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
16 65 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 57 (1.31%) Law
18 55 (1.26%) Local Government
19 51 (1.17%) Telecoms
20 46 (1.06%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
1 44 (1.01%) XML
2 26 (0.60%) REST
3 25 (0.57%) Middleware
4 24 (0.55%) JSON
5 21 (0.48%) SOAP
6 19 (0.44%) ADO
7 18 (0.41%) .NET
8 16 (0.37%) Flash
8 16 (0.37%) Pandas
9 13 (0.30%) SailPoint
10 12 (0.28%) EDI
10 12 (0.28%) OAuth
11 11 (0.25%) Web Services
12 9 (0.21%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (0.21%) Kafka
12 9 (0.21%) PySpark
12 9 (0.21%) Swagger
13 8 (0.18%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (0.18%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 194 (4.45%) Product Ownership
2 188 (4.31%) Onboarding
3 97 (2.23%) Management Information System
4 78 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 76 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 75 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 64 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
8 59 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
9 57 (1.31%) Derivative
9 57 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
10 46 (1.06%) Fixed Income
10 46 (1.06%) NHS
11 44 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 41 (0.94%) Operational Technology
13 40 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
14 30 (0.69%) Data Centre
15 29 (0.67%) CMDB
15 29 (0.67%) Credit Risk
15 29 (0.67%) Enterprise Software
15 29 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 277 (6.36%) Windows
2 84 (1.93%) Linux
3 66 (1.51%) Windows 10
4 39 (0.90%) Android
5 37 (0.85%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.76%) Unix
7 31 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 20 (0.46%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.18%) Windows 7
9 8 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
10 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.11%) AIX
11 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.069%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.069%) SUSE
13 2 (0.046%) Solaris
13 2 (0.046%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.023%) OpenVMS
14 1 (0.023%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 863 (19.81%) Agile
2 745 (17.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 661 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
4 556 (12.76%) Business Analysis
5 541 (12.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 489 (11.22%) Business Intelligence
7 477 (10.95%) Requirements Gathering
8 474 (10.88%) User Stories
9 466 (10.70%) Workshop Facilitation
10 414 (9.50%) Migration
11 401 (9.20%) Decision-Making
12 399 (9.16%) Data Analysis
13 397 (9.11%) User Acceptance Testing
14 391 (8.97%) Analytics
15 385 (8.84%) Validation
16 370 (8.49%) Continuous Improvement
17 333 (7.64%) Data Modelling
18 306 (7.02%) Acceptance Criteria
19 274 (6.29%) DevOps
20 269 (6.17%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 599 (13.75%) SQL
2 238 (5.46%) Python
3 43 (0.99%) PowerShell
4 42 (0.96%) R
5 36 (0.83%) Java
6 30 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 28 (0.64%) VBA
8 17 (0.39%) Korn
8 17 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
9 15 (0.34%) C#
10 13 (0.30%) PL/SQL
11 12 (0.28%) Shell Script
12 10 (0.23%) Bash
13 7 (0.16%) JavaScript
13 7 (0.16%) Perl
13 7 (0.16%) T-SQL
14 5 (0.11%) C++
15 4 (0.092%) C
15 4 (0.092%) Groovy
15 4 (0.092%) VB
Qualifications
1 640 (14.69%) Security Cleared
2 459 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 321 (7.37%) Degree
4 114 (2.62%) DV Cleared
5 111 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 44 (1.01%) IIBA
7 43 (0.99%) CBAP
8 41 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 37 (0.85%) CISSP
10 36 (0.83%) PMI Certification
11 34 (0.78%) ISTQB
11 34 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 30 (0.69%) ACCA
13 29 (0.67%) CIMA
13 29 (0.67%) CompTIA Security+
14 22 (0.50%) CISM
14 22 (0.50%) Master's Degree
15 19 (0.44%) CISA
15 19 (0.44%) PMP
16 18 (0.41%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 334 (7.67%) Data Quality
2 180 (4.13%) QA
3 170 (3.90%) PMO
4 98 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 90 (2.07%) GDPR
6 88 (2.02%) NIST
7 62 (1.42%) SLA
8 51 (1.17%) GRC
9 33 (0.76%) Accessibility
10 27 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
11 26 (0.60%) IFRS
12 21 (0.48%) COBIT
12 21 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 17 (0.39%) GAAP
14 15 (0.34%) EMIR
14 15 (0.34%) ISO 20022
15 13 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
15 13 (0.30%) MiFID
16 12 (0.28%) PSD2
17 10 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 164 (3.76%) Active Directory
2 27 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (0.39%) NFS
4 16 (0.37%) GPFS
4 16 (0.37%) vSphere
5 15 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
7 11 (0.25%) Docker
8 7 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.092%) Snort
10 3 (0.069%) Firmware
10 3 (0.069%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.046%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.023%) RACF
12 1 (0.023%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
12 1 (0.023%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.023%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 29 (0.67%) Kubernetes
3 22 (0.50%) SCCM
4 15 (0.34%) Terraform
5 13 (0.30%) vRealize
6 12 (0.28%) QRadar
7 10 (0.23%) Ansible
8 9 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.18%) VxRail
10 7 (0.16%) Nessus
11 6 (0.14%) HP ALM
11 6 (0.14%) WSUS
12 5 (0.11%) Jamf Pro
13 4 (0.092%) CSIRT
14 3 (0.069%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 3 (0.069%) Control-M
14 3 (0.069%) Grafana
15 2 (0.046%) HP Quality Center
15 2 (0.046%) Nexpose
15 2 (0.046%) Puppet
Vendors
1 555 (12.74%) Microsoft
2 234 (5.37%) SAP
3 206 (4.73%) ServiceNow
4 196 (4.50%) Oracle
5 170 (3.90%) Salesforce
6 86 (1.97%) Databricks
7 67 (1.54%) Google
8 63 (1.45%) Splunk
9 62 (1.42%) Workday
10 36 (0.83%) IBM
11 33 (0.76%) Bloomberg
12 32 (0.73%) Cisco
13 29 (0.67%) VMware
14 28 (0.64%) Citrix
15 26 (0.60%) Adobe
15 26 (0.60%) Murex
16 21 (0.48%) Remedy
17 18 (0.41%) CrowdStrike
17 18 (0.41%) MuleSoft
18 17 (0.39%) ION Trading