Systems Analysis Contracts in England

Systems Analysis
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Systems Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Systems Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 458 500 567
Rank change year-on-year +42 +67 +43
Contract jobs citing Systems Analysis 27 42 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.13% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 73
10th Percentile £339 £382 £363
25th Percentile £381 £412 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £473 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% -9.82% +10.53%
75th Percentile £541 £593 £625
90th Percentile £588 £622 £725
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £35.50 £49.25
Median hourly rate - £36.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year - -28.71% +20.24%
75th Percentile - £42.63 £51.75
90th Percentile - £46.30 -
UK median hourly rate £48.82 £36.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year +35.60% -28.71% +20.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Systems Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Systems Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Systems Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Analysis in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Systems Analysis in England.

Daily rate trend for Systems Analysis in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Systems Analysis in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Systems Analysis in England.

Hourly rate trend for Systems Analysis in England

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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 Systems Analysis 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 +35 15 £525 -4.55% 42
South East +40 6 £325 -29.34% 49
Midlands +20 3 £507 +19.24% 34
West Midlands +16 3 £507 +19.24% 20
North of England +20 2 £363 +481.72% 37
East of England +29 1 - - 25
North West +17 1 £325 +421.54% 16
Yorkshire - 1 £400 - 17
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Systems Analysis
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 2 (7.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (3.70%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) Azure
1 3 (11.11%) IaaS
1 3 (11.11%) PaaS
1 3 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
1 5 (18.52%) MySQL
2 3 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 3 (11.11%) Redis
2 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.70%) Big Data
3 1 (3.70%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) OLAP
3 1 (3.70%) Power BI
3 1 (3.70%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Git
1 5 (18.52%) Subversion
2 2 (7.41%) Codeception
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 1 (3.70%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (3.70%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Finance
3 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.70%) Local Government
5 1 (3.70%) Military
5 1 (3.70%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Analyst
2 8 (29.63%) Developer
3 6 (22.22%) Systems Analyst
4 5 (18.52%) Business Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Data Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (11.11%) IT Manager
5 3 (11.11%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (11.11%) Pensions Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) PHP Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Project Manager
5 3 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (7.41%) IAM Developer
6 2 (7.41%) Product Owner
6 2 (7.41%) Resilience Manager
7 1 (3.70%) Analytics Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Applications Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Insurance Systems Analyst
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Applications Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) Laravel
1 5 (18.52%) Phalcon
1 5 (18.52%) Web Services
2 3 (11.11%) .NET
2 3 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (11.11%) Kafka
2 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (11.11%) React
2 3 (11.11%) RESTful
2 3 (11.11%) Symfony
2 3 (11.11%) Vue
3 2 (7.41%) REST
4 1 (3.70%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 3 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.41%) PMI
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.70%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (3.70%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Agile
1 8 (29.63%) SDLC
2 6 (22.22%) Scrum
3 5 (18.52%) MVC
3 5 (18.52%) OO
3 5 (18.52%) OO PHP
4 4 (14.81%) Analytics
4 4 (14.81%) Kanban
4 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (14.81%) Project Management
4 4 (14.81%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 3 (11.11%) Code Quality
5 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 3 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (11.11%) ITIL
5 3 (11.11%) Requirements Workshops
5 3 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) PHP
2 4 (14.81%) SQL
2 4 (14.81%) VBA
3 3 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.70%) CSPO
2 1 (3.70%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) PMO
2 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (11.11%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.70%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Zend
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.41%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) IBM
4 1 (3.70%) InterSystems
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft