Information Analyst Contracts in England

Information Analyst
UK > England

The median Information Analyst daily rate in England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 July 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
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 525 576
Rank change year-on-year +58 +51 +137
Contract jobs requiring an Information Analyst 27 28 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.075% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.081% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 45
10th Percentile £350 £400 £182
25th Percentile £353 £419 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £508 £400
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% +26.88% -8.57%
75th Percentile £619 £597 £513
90th Percentile £668 £675 £569
UK median daily rate £413 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -17.50% +25.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £27.15 - £16.00
25th Percentile £28.38 £20.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate £29.07 £21.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.43% -12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £24.94
90th Percentile - - £25.50
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £21.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year +38.43% -12.50% -7.69%

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 23,802 34,689 44,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 92.93% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,558 22,690 31,723
10th Percentile £293 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 2,587 1,360
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.87 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.80 £19.50
Median hourly rate £28.34 £40.00 £43.93
Median % change year-on-year -29.15% -8.95% +75.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.52 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.33% -12.79% +68.63%

Information Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Information Analyst in England

Information Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Information Analyst in England

Information Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Information Analyst in England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Information Analyst in England

Information Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Information Analyst in England

Information 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 Information Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 2 July 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 +40 12 £638 +6.25% 68
Midlands +13 11 £400 - 41
East Midlands +11 11 £400 - 18
South West +39 2 £558 +8.35% 25
East of England +21 1 - - 24
North West +7 1 - - 30
North of England +3 1 - - 50
Information Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 July 2025, Information 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 Information Analyst in the job title.

1 18 (66.67%) Information Security
2 16 (59.26%) Social Skills
3 13 (48.15%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (44.44%) GRC
5 10 (37.04%) Data Protection
5 10 (37.04%) Penetration Testing
6 9 (33.33%) ITSM
7 8 (29.63%) Business Continuity
8 7 (25.93%) Retail
8 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
8 7 (25.93%) SQL
8 7 (25.93%) Ticket Management
9 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (22.22%) GDPR
9 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
9 6 (22.22%) Management Information System
9 6 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (18.52%) Data Analysis
10 5 (18.52%) Finance
10 5 (18.52%) Data Modelling
10 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (18.52%) VBA
10 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
10 5 (18.52%) Power BI
11 4 (14.81%) Azure
11 4 (14.81%) NIST
11 4 (14.81%) Power Query
11 4 (14.81%) Incident Response
11 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making

Information 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 1 (3.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 5 (18.52%) Power Platform
2 4 (14.81%) Azure
3 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (22.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (18.52%) Power BI
3 4 (14.81%) MS Access
3 4 (14.81%) Power Query
4 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.70%) DB2
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.70%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
1 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (59.26%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Retail
3 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (18.52%) Finance
5 1 (3.70%) Law
5 1 (3.70%) Legal
5 1 (3.70%) Local Government
5 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 3 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (7.41%) NHS
3 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.70%) Housing Association
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Unix
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
1 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Information Security
2 13 (48.15%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (37.04%) Data Protection
3 10 (37.04%) Penetration Testing
4 9 (33.33%) ITSM
5 8 (29.63%) Business Continuity
6 7 (25.93%) Ticket Management
7 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (18.52%) Data Analysis
8 5 (18.52%) Data Modelling
9 4 (14.81%) Computer Science
9 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
9 4 (14.81%) Incident Response
10 3 (11.11%) Analytics
11 2 (7.41%) Cloud Security
11 2 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 2 (7.41%) Identity Access Management
11 2 (7.41%) ISMS
11 2 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) VBA
3 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.70%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) R
3 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) HNC
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (44.44%) GRC
2 6 (22.22%) GDPR
3 4 (14.81%) NIST
4 2 (7.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (3.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (3.70%) HIPAA
5 1 (3.70%) QA
5 1 (3.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 1 (3.70%) Intel
3 1 (3.70%) NEC
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.70%) Varonis