Technical Analyst Contracts in England

Technical Analyst
UK > England

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in England is £488, 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 331 323 402
Rank change year-on-year -8 +79 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 154 227 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.63% 0.61% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.66% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 151 189
10th Percentile £300 £215 £347
25th Percentile £400 £356 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +2.94% +2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £575
90th Percentile £688 £838 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -9.52% +2.94% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 17 8
10th Percentile - - £14.78
25th Percentile £14.99 - £19.50
Median hourly rate £15.14 £14.00 £22.86
Median % change year-on-year +8.14% -38.76% +57.66%
75th Percentile £15.44 £23.75 £39.59
90th Percentile £26.00 - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £15.14 £14.00 £22.86
% change year-on-year +8.14% -38.76% +57.66%

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%

Technical Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Analyst in England

Technical Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Analyst in England

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Analyst in England

Technical Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Analyst in England

Technical Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Analyst in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Analyst in England

Technical 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 Technical 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 -12 80 £525 -12.50% 77
East of England +31 27 £550 +66.67% 8
North of England +10 18 £400 -13.89% 12
South East +53 15 £425 -8.11% 25
North West +14 9 £320 -28.89% 10
Yorkshire +3 9 £513 -2.38% 2
Midlands +11 6 £606 +61.67% 6
South West +39 5 £438 +90.22% 10
West Midlands +6 4 £750 +172.73% 4
East Midlands +7 2 £463 -15.91% 1
Technical Analyst
UK

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

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

1 55 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 53 (34.42%) Agile
3 42 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (23.38%) Business Analysis
5 35 (22.73%) Finance
6 33 (21.43%) Microsoft
7 27 (17.53%) ITIL
7 27 (17.53%) Requirements Gathering
8 26 (16.88%) Microsoft Excel
8 26 (16.88%) Active Directory
8 26 (16.88%) Security Cleared
9 24 (15.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 24 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
10 23 (14.94%) Microsoft 365
10 23 (14.94%) Scrum
10 23 (14.94%) SQL
11 22 (14.29%) JIRA
11 22 (14.29%) User Stories
11 22 (14.29%) ServiceNow
11 22 (14.29%) Customer Service
12 20 (12.99%) SC Cleared
13 19 (12.34%) Incident Management
13 19 (12.34%) Migration
13 19 (12.34%) Service Delivery
13 19 (12.34%) Data Modelling
13 19 (12.34%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (12.34%) A+ Certification
14 18 (11.69%) MCSA
14 18 (11.69%) Wi-Fi

Technical 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 13 (8.44%) Confluence
2 8 (5.19%) CMS
3 2 (1.30%) Drupal
3 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.65%) CICS
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.65%) WebSphere
Applications
1 26 (16.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (15.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (5.19%) MS Visio
4 5 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.65%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.95%) SAP LE
1 3 (1.95%) SAP WM
2 2 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.65%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.65%) Shopify
3 1 (0.65%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.94%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (11.69%) Azure
3 12 (7.79%) Power Platform
4 6 (3.90%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.25%) AWS
5 5 (3.25%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.95%) Lucidchart
8 2 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.30%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.30%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.65%) Azure API Management
9 1 (0.65%) BigCommerce
9 1 (0.65%) Collibra
9 1 (0.65%) GCP
9 1 (0.65%) GitHub
9 1 (0.65%) Miro
9 1 (0.65%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.65%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.69%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (1.30%) DHCP
2 2 (1.30%) DNS
2 2 (1.30%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.30%) LAN
2 2 (1.30%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.30%) VoIP
2 2 (1.30%) WAN
3 1 (0.65%) Intranet
3 1 (0.65%) Softphone
3 1 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.65%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.49%) Power BI
2 6 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.25%) Tableau
4 3 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (1.95%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.30%) Power Query
5 2 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.65%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.65%) DbVisualizer
6 1 (0.65%) Metadata
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.65%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.65%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (14.29%) JIRA
2 6 (3.90%) Postman
3 2 (1.30%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.65%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.65%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (0.65%) IntelliJ
4 1 (0.65%) Subversion
General
1 55 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 35 (22.73%) Finance
3 24 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.14%) Banking
5 9 (5.84%) Front Office
6 8 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.55%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.90%) Marketing
8 6 (3.90%) Retail
9 5 (3.25%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.60%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.60%) Legal
11 3 (1.95%) Back Office
11 3 (1.95%) French Language
11 3 (1.95%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.65%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.90%) Web Services
2 5 (3.25%) XML
3 4 (2.60%) RESTful
4 3 (1.95%) .NET
4 3 (1.95%) JSON
4 3 (1.95%) SAP PI
5 2 (1.30%) OAuth
5 2 (1.30%) OpenID
5 2 (1.30%) SAML
5 2 (1.30%) SOAP
6 1 (0.65%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.65%) ADO
6 1 (0.65%) FpML
6 1 (0.65%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.65%) ISPF
6 1 (0.65%) Middleware
6 1 (0.65%) REST
6 1 (0.65%) Swagger
6 1 (0.65%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.79%) Product Ownership
2 5 (3.25%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.60%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.95%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.30%) CMDB
5 2 (1.30%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.30%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.30%) EPoS
5 2 (1.30%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.30%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.30%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.30%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.65%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (7.79%) Windows
2 4 (2.60%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.95%) Android
3 3 (1.95%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.30%) Linux
5 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.65%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (34.42%) Agile
2 42 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (23.38%) Business Analysis
4 27 (17.53%) ITIL
4 27 (17.53%) Requirements Gathering
5 24 (15.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 23 (14.94%) Scrum
7 22 (14.29%) Customer Service
7 22 (14.29%) User Stories
8 19 (12.34%) Data Modelling
8 19 (12.34%) Incident Management
8 19 (12.34%) Migration
8 19 (12.34%) Service Delivery
9 18 (11.69%) Mathematics
10 17 (11.04%) Data Analysis
10 17 (11.04%) Process Improvement
11 16 (10.39%) Acceptance Criteria
11 16 (10.39%) Validation
12 14 (9.09%) Project Management
13 13 (8.44%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 23 (14.94%) SQL
2 9 (5.84%) Python
3 2 (1.30%) Java
3 2 (1.30%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.65%) JCL
4 1 (0.65%) MATLAB
4 1 (0.65%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.99%) SC Cleared
3 19 (12.34%) A+ Certification
3 19 (12.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (11.69%) MCSA
5 10 (6.49%) Degree
6 5 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.95%) CBAP
8 2 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.30%) IIBA
8 2 (1.30%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.65%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.65%) ECDL
9 1 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.65%) MCP
9 1 (0.65%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.84%) QA
2 4 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.30%) MiFID
3 2 (1.30%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.30%) PMO
4 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.65%) EMIR
4 1 (0.65%) GDPR
4 1 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 26 (16.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.65%) Time Sharing Option
2 1 (0.65%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 6 (3.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.65%) CA Endevor
3 1 (0.65%) SCCM
3 1 (0.65%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 33 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 18 (11.69%) Citrix
4 9 (5.84%) Oracle
5 7 (4.55%) Salesforce
5 7 (4.55%) SAP
6 2 (1.30%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.30%) IBM
6 2 (1.30%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.65%) Adobe
7 1 (0.65%) Ariba
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco
7 1 (0.65%) Databricks
7 1 (0.65%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.65%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.65%) JDA
7 1 (0.65%) Murex
7 1 (0.65%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.65%) Workday
7 1 (0.65%) Zscaler