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 16 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
16 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 2,886 4,178 6,359
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 11.89% 11.49% 13.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.87% 12.39% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,929 2,795 4,540
10th Percentile £250 £213 £220
25th Percentile £358 £363 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year - -2.06% +4.86%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £700 £680 £698
UK median daily rate £457 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.84% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 310 257
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.86 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.95 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.06 £16.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.88% -15.79% +22.58%
75th Percentile £31.55 £21.46 £26.00
90th Percentile £52.03 £28.53 £52.01
UK median hourly rate £22.05 £16.30 £18.23
% change year-on-year +35.28% -10.56% +17.47%

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 22,424 33,720 45,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.73% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,926 22,354 32,457
10th Percentile £300 £281 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 908 2,424 1,347
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +95.65%
75th Percentile £63.38 £61.30 £65.30
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.20
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.79% -18.89% +87.50%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 1,620 £510 -2.86% 1,895
North of England -1 377 £400 -11.11% 424
South East +2 332 £450 - 803
Midlands -6 227 £425 +6.25% 293
North West -1 214 £360 -20.00% 254
West Midlands -5 162 £475 +11.76% 176
South West -5 150 £400 -15.79% 187
Yorkshire +4 133 £425 -5.56% 140
East of England -5 122 £430 +4.88% 208
East Midlands -3 65 £358 -1.24% 106
North East -3 30 £450 +7.14% 36
Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 976 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 860 (29.80%) Finance
3 589 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
4 588 (20.37%) Agile
5 580 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
6 527 (18.26%) SQL
7 475 (16.46%) Microsoft
8 427 (14.80%) Business Analysis
9 404 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 397 (13.76%) Data Analysis
11 326 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
11 326 (11.30%) Security Cleared
12 311 (10.78%) Banking
13 298 (10.33%) Python
14 295 (10.22%) Power Platform
15 286 (9.91%) Microsoft Excel
16 283 (9.81%) Power BI
17 269 (9.32%) Analytics
18 255 (8.84%) Migration
19 252 (8.73%) SC Cleared
20 248 (8.59%) Requirements Gathering
21 232 (8.04%) Degree
22 229 (7.93%) Windows
23 228 (7.90%) Azure
24 224 (7.76%) JIRA
25 223 (7.73%) ITIL
26 214 (7.42%) User Stories
27 213 (7.38%) Decision-Making
27 213 (7.38%) User Acceptance Testing
28 204 (7.07%) 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
1 125 (4.33%) Confluence
2 98 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 25 (0.87%) SAS
5 18 (0.62%) CMS
6 9 (0.31%) Skype for Business
7 6 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.21%) Mattermost
8 5 (0.17%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.14%) IBM Notes
9 4 (0.14%) IIS
9 4 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.10%) Apache
10 3 (0.10%) Drupal
10 3 (0.10%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.069%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.069%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.069%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.069%) MQSeries
11 2 (0.069%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 286 (9.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 155 (5.37%) Microsoft Office
3 135 (4.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 104 (3.60%) MS Visio
5 24 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.14%) Trello
9 2 (0.069%) Notepad++
10 1 (0.035%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.035%) EViews
10 1 (0.035%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 54 (1.87%) Aladdin
2 38 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
4 23 (0.80%) Endur
5 18 (0.62%) thinkFolio
6 11 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
7 10 (0.35%) Loan IQ
7 10 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
8 8 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
8 8 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
9 6 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
9 6 (0.21%) SAP CO
9 6 (0.21%) SAP FI
9 6 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
10 5 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
10 5 (0.17%) SAP WM
10 5 (0.17%) Workday HCM
11 4 (0.14%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 295 (10.22%) Power Platform
2 228 (7.90%) Azure
3 161 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
4 94 (3.26%) AWS
5 48 (1.66%) GCP
5 48 (1.66%) SaaS
6 47 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (1.21%) Entra ID
8 29 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
9 28 (0.97%) Snowflake
10 22 (0.76%) Lucidchart
11 18 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (0.59%) OneDrive
13 15 (0.52%) OCI
14 14 (0.49%) dbt
14 14 (0.49%) Google Workspace
14 14 (0.49%) PowerApps
15 12 (0.42%) Collibra
16 11 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
16 11 (0.38%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 42 (1.46%) Firewall
2 38 (1.32%) DNS
3 35 (1.21%) Network Security
4 31 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (0.90%) TCP/IP
6 23 (0.80%) HTTP
6 23 (0.80%) WebEx
7 22 (0.76%) VPN
8 21 (0.73%) SMTP
9 16 (0.55%) SSL
10 15 (0.52%) FTP
11 14 (0.49%) DHCP
11 14 (0.49%) Remote Desktop
11 14 (0.49%) Skype
12 13 (0.45%) Intrusion Detection
12 13 (0.45%) LAN
13 10 (0.35%) WAN
14 8 (0.28%) Unified Communications
15 7 (0.24%) Softphone
15 7 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 283 (9.81%) Power BI
2 128 (4.44%) Tableau
3 86 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
4 71 (2.46%) SQL Server
5 29 (1.00%) Data Lake
6 24 (0.83%) Metadata
6 24 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 18 (0.62%) MS Access
8 17 (0.59%) BigQuery
8 17 (0.59%) Power Query
9 16 (0.55%) Data Mining
10 15 (0.52%) Looker
10 15 (0.52%) Relational Database
11 14 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
12 13 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
13 11 (0.38%) Qlik Sense
14 10 (0.35%) Big Data
15 9 (0.31%) QlikView
16 8 (0.28%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 224 (7.76%) JIRA
2 18 (0.62%) Git
3 17 (0.59%) Selenium
4 15 (0.52%) Postman
5 14 (0.49%) JMeter
6 13 (0.45%) TestRail
7 10 (0.35%) QARun
7 10 (0.35%) WinRunner
8 9 (0.31%) LoadRunner
8 9 (0.31%) SoapUI
9 8 (0.28%) Jenkins
10 7 (0.24%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.17%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.17%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.17%) HP UFT
11 5 (0.17%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.14%) ERwin
12 4 (0.14%) MagicDraw
12 4 (0.14%) TestComplete
12 4 (0.14%) Toad
General
1 976 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 860 (29.80%) Finance
3 589 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
4 311 (10.78%) Banking
5 173 (5.99%) Public Sector
6 154 (5.34%) Front Office
7 97 (3.36%) Retail
8 87 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 86 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
10 76 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
11 68 (2.36%) Investment Banking
12 65 (2.25%) Marketing
13 59 (2.04%) Legal
14 53 (1.84%) Local Government
15 52 (1.80%) Law
16 46 (1.59%) Back Office
17 41 (1.42%) Telecoms
18 40 (1.39%) Manufacturing
19 38 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
20 37 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (1.00%) XML
2 24 (0.83%) Web Services
3 16 (0.55%) FIX Protocol
4 15 (0.52%) JSON
4 15 (0.52%) LDAP
4 15 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
5 14 (0.49%) SailPoint
6 12 (0.42%) .NET
7 11 (0.38%) Middleware
8 10 (0.35%) ADO
8 10 (0.35%) FpML
8 10 (0.35%) Kafka
9 8 (0.28%) REST
10 7 (0.24%) Playwright
10 7 (0.24%) XMPP
11 6 (0.21%) HTML
11 6 (0.21%) OAuth
11 6 (0.21%) SOAP
12 5 (0.17%) Plotly
12 5 (0.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 126 (4.37%) Management Information System
2 95 (3.29%) Product Ownership
3 94 (3.26%) Onboarding
4 89 (3.08%) Fixed Income
5 85 (2.95%) Derivative
6 70 (2.43%) Hedge funds
7 53 (1.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 46 (1.59%) Equities
9 43 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
9 43 (1.49%) Data Structures
10 38 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
10 38 (1.32%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 37 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 35 (1.21%) Data Centre
13 34 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
14 33 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
15 31 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
16 28 (0.97%) Security Posture
17 25 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
17 25 (0.87%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 229 (7.93%) Windows
2 64 (2.22%) Windows 10
3 50 (1.73%) Linux
4 34 (1.18%) Unix
4 34 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.11%) Apple iOS
6 18 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 13 (0.45%) Android
8 6 (0.21%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.10%) CentOS
9 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.069%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.069%) Rocky
11 1 (0.035%) Debian
11 1 (0.035%) Solaris
11 1 (0.035%) SUSE
11 1 (0.035%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.035%) VMS
11 1 (0.035%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (20.37%) Agile
2 580 (20.10%) Problem-Solving
3 427 (14.80%) Business Analysis
4 404 (14.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 397 (13.76%) Data Analysis
6 326 (11.30%) Business Intelligence
7 269 (9.32%) Analytics
8 255 (8.84%) Migration
9 248 (8.59%) Requirements Gathering
10 223 (7.73%) ITIL
11 214 (7.42%) User Stories
12 213 (7.38%) Decision-Making
12 213 (7.38%) User Acceptance Testing
13 204 (7.07%) Project Management
14 195 (6.76%) Process Improvement
15 190 (6.58%) Cybersecurity
16 183 (6.34%) Change Management
17 182 (6.31%) Asset Management
18 181 (6.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 176 (6.10%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 527 (18.26%) SQL
2 298 (10.33%) Python
3 51 (1.77%) PowerShell
4 41 (1.42%) Java
5 34 (1.18%) R
6 29 (1.00%) VBA
7 23 (0.80%) Bash
8 20 (0.69%) JavaScript
8 20 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 18 (0.62%) C#
10 17 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 14 (0.49%) VB
12 11 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (0.28%) C++
13 8 (0.28%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.24%) Uniface
15 3 (0.10%) MATLAB
15 3 (0.10%) Perl
15 3 (0.10%) PHP
15 3 (0.10%) RPG
Qualifications
1 326 (11.30%) Security Cleared
2 252 (8.73%) SC Cleared
3 232 (8.04%) Degree
4 63 (2.18%) DV Cleared
5 62 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (1.39%) A+ Certification
7 33 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
8 29 (1.00%) CBAP
9 27 (0.94%) CISSP
9 27 (0.94%) MCSA
10 26 (0.90%) ISTQB
11 25 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
12 22 (0.76%) Master's Degree
13 20 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 18 (0.62%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (0.62%) ISEB
15 17 (0.59%) PMI Certification
16 15 (0.52%) ACCA
16 15 (0.52%) IIBA
17 13 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (4.75%) QA
2 130 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 81 (2.81%) PMO
4 79 (2.74%) GDPR
5 76 (2.63%) SLA
6 29 (1.00%) NIST
7 25 (0.87%) Accessibility
7 25 (0.87%) MiFID
8 24 (0.83%) EMIR
9 22 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 18 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
10 18 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 18 (0.62%) SEPA
11 16 (0.55%) GRC
12 12 (0.42%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.35%) PCI DSS
14 9 (0.31%) IFRS
15 8 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
15 8 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 7 (0.24%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 200 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 11 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.21%) vSphere
4 4 (0.14%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.069%) BitLocker
5 2 (0.069%) Docker
5 2 (0.069%) Firmware
5 2 (0.069%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 2 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.035%) IAG
6 1 (0.035%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.035%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.035%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.035%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 43 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (0.76%) SCCM
3 10 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (0.31%) SCOM
5 6 (0.21%) Grafana
5 6 (0.21%) Kubernetes
5 6 (0.21%) QRadar
6 5 (0.17%) ZABBIX
7 3 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (0.10%) Cisco UCCX
7 3 (0.10%) CSIRT
7 3 (0.10%) HP ALM
7 3 (0.10%) Nessus
7 3 (0.10%) Rundeck
7 3 (0.10%) Terraform
8 2 (0.069%) AirWatch
8 2 (0.069%) NetBackup
8 2 (0.069%) RSA Archer
8 2 (0.069%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 2 (0.069%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 475 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 169 (5.86%) ServiceNow
3 136 (4.71%) Oracle
4 124 (4.30%) SAP
5 72 (2.49%) Salesforce
6 64 (2.22%) Citrix
7 49 (1.70%) Google
8 43 (1.49%) BISAM
8 43 (1.49%) Splunk
9 35 (1.21%) Databricks
10 25 (0.87%) Workday
11 24 (0.83%) Charles River
11 24 (0.83%) Cisco
12 21 (0.73%) Bloomberg
13 20 (0.69%) Adobe
13 20 (0.69%) Calypso
13 20 (0.69%) SimCorp
13 20 (0.69%) VMware
14 17 (0.59%) Virgin Media
15 16 (0.55%) IBM