IT Analyst Contracts in England

IT Analyst
UK > England

The median IT Analyst daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 295 293
Rank change year-on-year -28 -2 +46
Contract jobs requiring an IT Analyst 228 420 643
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.86% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.91% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 272 427
10th Percentile £157 £140 £135
25th Percentile £193 £185 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £490 £500
90th Percentile £675 £581 £625
UK median daily rate £425 £288 £350
% change year-on-year +47.83% -17.86% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 36 63
10th Percentile £12.23 £13.08 £11.67
25th Percentile £18.29 £14.38 £13.63
Median hourly rate £22.50 £23.32 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +37.15% +9.68%
75th Percentile £40.00 £27.31 £19.25
90th Percentile - £32.40 £24.55
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £23.32 £17.00
% change year-on-year -5.64% +37.15% +11.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,087 46,245 67,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,605 32,838 47,758
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £761 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,370 1,849
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.49 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.80
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

IT Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Analyst in England

IT Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Analyst in England

IT Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Analyst in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Analyst in England

IT Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Analyst in England

IT Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Analyst in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Analyst in England

IT 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 IT Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 2024. 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 +34 133 £538 +16.85% 33
South East -6 33 £446 +158.55% 19
North of England +1 27 £210 -13.85% 21
South West +4 22 £175 -2.78% 14
Yorkshire +13 17 £230 +15.00% 10
North West -7 10 £188 -46.43% 9
Midlands 0 8 £258 -19.22% 24
West Midlands -6 6 £350 -12.50% 15
East of England -8 4 £180 -10.00% 9
East Midlands +13 2 £135 +8.00% 9
IT Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, IT 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 IT Analyst in the job title.

1 83 (36.40%) Social Skills
2 77 (33.77%) Windows
3 58 (25.44%) Active Directory
4 54 (23.68%) Finance
5 47 (20.61%) Banking
6 43 (18.86%) Microsoft 365
7 42 (18.42%) Microsoft
8 41 (17.98%) ITIL
8 41 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
9 39 (17.11%) Windows 10
9 39 (17.11%) ITSM
10 38 (16.67%) Change Management
10 38 (16.67%) Service Management
11 36 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (13.60%) Degree
13 29 (12.72%) Agile
13 29 (12.72%) Customer Service
14 26 (11.40%) DevOps
15 25 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (10.96%) Microsoft Office
15 25 (10.96%) Business Analysis
16 23 (10.09%) Asset Management
17 22 (9.65%) PowerShell
17 22 (9.65%) Azure
18 21 (9.21%) Project Management
19 17 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
19 17 (7.46%) DHCP
19 17 (7.46%) DNS
20 16 (7.02%) Citrix
20 16 (7.02%) Security Cleared

IT 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 17 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.75%) Skype for Business
3 2 (0.88%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 25 (10.96%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Aligne
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 43 (18.86%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (9.65%) Azure
3 11 (4.82%) SaaS
4 9 (3.95%) AWS
5 8 (3.51%) PaaS
6 4 (1.75%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.75%) Google Workspace
7 3 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.32%) WhatsApp
8 2 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.88%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.88%) Slack
9 1 (0.44%) Asana
9 1 (0.44%) Collibra
9 1 (0.44%) IaaS
9 1 (0.44%) Miro
9 1 (0.44%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.44%) Serverless
9 1 (0.44%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.46%) DHCP
1 17 (7.46%) DNS
2 10 (4.39%) LAN
2 10 (4.39%) WAN
3 9 (3.95%) MPLS
3 9 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (3.51%) SAN
5 4 (1.75%) Skype
5 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.32%) Wireless
7 2 (0.88%) Firewall
7 2 (0.88%) Intranet
7 2 (0.88%) VPN
8 1 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.44%) Internet
8 1 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.44%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.95%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.75%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.44%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.44%) GIS
3 1 (0.44%) Metadata
3 1 (0.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (2.63%) JIRA
2 1 (0.44%) Appium
2 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.44%) JMeter
2 1 (0.44%) LoadRunner
2 1 (0.44%) MSI
2 1 (0.44%) Postman
2 1 (0.44%) Rational Performance Tester
2 1 (0.44%) Selenium
2 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
2 1 (0.44%) Subversion
2 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.44%) WebDriver
General
1 83 (36.40%) Social Skills
2 54 (23.68%) Finance
3 47 (20.61%) Banking
4 41 (17.98%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.14%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.95%) Aerospace
6 9 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.19%) Billing
8 5 (2.19%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.19%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.75%) Advertising
9 4 (1.75%) Law
9 4 (1.75%) Local Government
9 4 (1.75%) Marketing
10 3 (1.32%) Retail
11 2 (0.88%) International Banking
11 2 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.44%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.75%) Middleware
2 1 (0.44%) .NET
2 1 (0.44%) ADO
2 1 (0.44%) Gherkin
2 1 (0.44%) Playwright
2 1 (0.44%) RESTful
2 1 (0.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.51%) Client/Server
1 8 (3.51%) Clustering
1 8 (3.51%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.07%) CMDB
2 7 (3.07%) iPhone
3 6 (2.63%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.19%) Cyberattack
4 5 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.75%) IoT
6 3 (1.32%) Derivative
6 3 (1.32%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.32%) iPad
6 3 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.88%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.88%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 77 (33.77%) Windows
2 39 (17.11%) Windows 10
3 14 (6.14%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.82%) Apple iOS
5 9 (3.95%) Unix
6 4 (1.75%) Android
6 4 (1.75%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.32%) Linux
7 3 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.88%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.44%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (17.98%) ITIL
2 39 (17.11%) ITSM
3 38 (16.67%) Change Management
3 38 (16.67%) Service Management
4 36 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (12.72%) Agile
5 29 (12.72%) Customer Service
6 26 (11.40%) DevOps
7 25 (10.96%) Business Analysis
7 25 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (10.09%) Asset Management
9 21 (9.21%) Project Management
10 16 (7.02%) Data Protection
11 14 (6.14%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (6.14%) Decision-Making
11 14 (6.14%) Requirements Gathering
12 13 (5.70%) Business Case
12 13 (5.70%) Migration
12 13 (5.70%) Requirements Management
13 12 (5.26%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (9.65%) PowerShell
2 12 (5.26%) Python
3 4 (1.75%) SQL
4 2 (0.88%) C#
4 2 (0.88%) Java
5 1 (0.44%) Bash
5 1 (0.44%) C++
5 1 (0.44%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 31 (13.60%) Degree
2 16 (7.02%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.95%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.51%) CISM
4 8 (3.51%) CISSP
5 7 (3.07%) CISA
6 5 (2.19%) CRISC
7 4 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.88%) CCNA
9 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.88%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.88%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.44%) CCNP
10 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.44%) MBA
10 1 (0.44%) MCITP
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.63%) QA
3 5 (2.19%) SLA
4 3 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.88%) GDPR
5 2 (0.88%) NIST
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.44%) GAAP
6 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 58 (25.44%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.95%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (3.51%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.88%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.44%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.44%) XenApp
6 1 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (6.58%) SCCM
2 9 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.95%) Nagios
3 8 (3.51%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (3.51%) NetBackup
4 5 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.44%) Ansible
5 1 (0.44%) BladeLogic
5 1 (0.44%) CASB
5 1 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.02%) Citrix
3 13 (5.70%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.82%) VMware
5 9 (3.95%) Apple
5 9 (3.95%) SAP
6 8 (3.51%) Hitachi
6 8 (3.51%) NetApp
7 4 (1.75%) Google
7 4 (1.75%) SmartStream
8 3 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.88%) Dell
9 2 (0.88%) Granicus
9 2 (0.88%) Okta
9 2 (0.88%) Oracle
10 1 (0.44%) Avaya
10 1 (0.44%) Cisco
10 1 (0.44%) HP
10 1 (0.44%) IBM
10 1 (0.44%) Progress