Software Analyst Contracts in England

Software Analyst
UK > England

The median Software Analyst daily rate in England is £460, 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 476 528 608
Rank change year-on-year +52 +80 +100
Contract jobs requiring a Software Analyst 9 14 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.038% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.041% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 27
10th Percentile £288 £288 £377
25th Percentile £328 £346 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £430 £480
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% +6.67%
75th Percentile £577 £519 £538
90th Percentile £619 £625 £571
UK median daily rate £460 £430 £480
% change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £31.52 - £17.00
75th Percentile - - £25.63
90th Percentile - - £47.00
UK median hourly rate £31.52 - £17.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.02%

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%

Software Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Analyst in England

Software Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Analyst in England

Software Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Analyst in England

Software Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Analyst in England

Software 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 Software 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 +39 4 £513 -10.87% 10
North of England +21 3 £495 -20.80% 4
North West +18 2 - - 2
South East +42 1 - - 5
Midlands +21 1 £300 -17.24% 3
West Midlands - 1 £300 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £495 - 1
Software Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Software 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 Software Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
3 1 (11.11%) IIS
3 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) Fidessa

Software 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 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Git
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Back Office
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Front Office
3 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
2 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) Kafka
2 1 (11.11%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Derivative
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Equities
1 1 (11.11%) Fixed Income
1 1 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
1 1 (11.11%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
2 2 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (11.11%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) Clean Code
3 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
3 1 (11.11%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
3 1 (11.11%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) KYC
3 1 (11.11%) Model Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (11.11%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Ruby
3 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) EMIR
1 1 (11.11%) MiFID
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Bloomberg
1 1 (11.11%) CQG
1 1 (11.11%) ION Trading
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Reuters
1 1 (11.11%) Snow