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 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 321 389
Rank change year-on-year +14 +68 -10
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 160 228 264
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.67% 0.63% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.68% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 153 188
10th Percentile £312 £215 £325
25th Percentile £400 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +2.94% +2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £627 £576
90th Percentile £703 £750 £652
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 9
10th Percentile - - £14.85
25th Percentile £14.99 - £21.00
Median hourly rate £15.14 £14.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.14% -42.86% +68.97%
75th Percentile £15.44 £23.75 £31.13
90th Percentile £25.60 - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £15.14 £14.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year +8.14% -42.86% +68.97%

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 22,160 33,731 45,413
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.37% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,728 22,389 32,257
10th Percentile £293 £282 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £641 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.31% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 2,440 1,336
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -18.13% +94.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.25
UK median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +87.50%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -5 85 £525 -11.76% 97
East of England +26 26 £550 +66.67% 5
North of England +10 18 £400 -13.51% 29
South East +55 15 £425 -10.53% 63
Yorkshire +3 10 £513 +2.50% 10
North West +10 8 £348 -18.24% 19
Midlands +5 8 £500 +33.33% 12
South West +27 6 £456 +98.37% 16
West Midlands +7 6 £625 +127.27% 10
East Midlands +2 2 £463 -15.91%
Technical Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 54 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 53 (33.13%) Agile
3 42 (26.25%) Finance
4 40 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 37 (23.13%) Business Analysis
6 35 (21.88%) Microsoft
7 29 (18.13%) Active Directory
8 28 (17.50%) ITIL
9 27 (16.88%) Requirements Gathering
10 26 (16.25%) Microsoft 365
10 26 (16.25%) SQL
10 26 (16.25%) JIRA
11 25 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
12 24 (15.00%) Security Cleared
12 24 (15.00%) ServiceNow
13 23 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
13 23 (14.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
13 23 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (13.75%) Scrum
14 22 (13.75%) User Stories
15 21 (13.13%) Customer Service
15 21 (13.13%) Data Analysis
16 20 (12.50%) Migration
16 20 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
17 19 (11.88%) A+ Certification
17 19 (11.88%) Citrix
17 19 (11.88%) MCSA
17 19 (11.88%) Wi-Fi
17 19 (11.88%) Service Delivery
17 19 (11.88%) Incident Management

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 (8.13%) Confluence
2 5 (3.13%) CMS
3 3 (1.88%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.63%) CICS
5 1 (0.63%) Drupal
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 25 (15.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (14.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (5.00%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.63%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.63%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) SAP LE
1 2 (1.25%) SAP WM
2 1 (0.63%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.63%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.63%) Shopify
2 1 (0.63%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 26 (16.25%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (11.88%) Azure
3 15 (9.38%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.38%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.75%) AWS
6 5 (3.13%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.50%) Lucidchart
8 2 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.25%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.25%) Collibra
8 2 (1.25%) GCP
8 2 (1.25%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.63%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.63%) Azure API Management
9 1 (0.63%) BigCommerce
9 1 (0.63%) GitHub
9 1 (0.63%) IaaS
9 1 (0.63%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.88%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 4 (2.50%) DNS
4 3 (1.88%) DHCP
5 2 (1.25%) Firewall
5 2 (1.25%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.25%) LAN
5 2 (1.25%) VoIP
5 2 (1.25%) VPN
5 2 (1.25%) WAN
5 2 (1.25%) Wireless
6 1 (0.63%) Intranet
6 1 (0.63%) Softphone
6 1 (0.63%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.13%) Power BI
2 6 (3.75%) SQL Server
2 6 (3.75%) Tableau
3 3 (1.88%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.25%) Metadata
4 2 (1.25%) Power Query
4 2 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.63%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.63%) DbVisualizer
5 1 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.63%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.63%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.63%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 26 (16.25%) JIRA
2 6 (3.75%) Postman
3 3 (1.88%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.25%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.63%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.63%) IntelliJ
General
1 54 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 42 (26.25%) Finance
3 23 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.00%) Banking
5 10 (6.25%) Front Office
6 8 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.75%) Marketing
7 6 (3.75%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.13%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.50%) Legal
9 4 (2.50%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.50%) Retail
9 4 (2.50%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.88%) Back Office
10 3 (1.88%) French Language
10 3 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.75%) XML
2 5 (3.13%) Web Services
3 4 (2.50%) RESTful
4 3 (1.88%) FpML
5 2 (1.25%) .NET
5 2 (1.25%) JSON
5 2 (1.25%) OAuth
5 2 (1.25%) OpenID
5 2 (1.25%) SAML
5 2 (1.25%) SAP PI
5 2 (1.25%) SOAP
5 2 (1.25%) Swagger
6 1 (0.63%) ADO
6 1 (0.63%) ISPF
6 1 (0.63%) LangChain
6 1 (0.63%) REST
6 1 (0.63%) VML
6 1 (0.63%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.75%) Onboarding
3 4 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 4 (2.50%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (1.88%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.88%) DTCC
4 3 (1.88%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.25%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.25%) CMDB
5 2 (1.25%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.25%) Derivative
5 2 (1.25%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.25%) Market Risk
5 2 (1.25%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.63%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.63%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.75%) Windows
2 5 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.88%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.25%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.63%) Android
5 1 (0.63%) Linux
5 1 (0.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (33.13%) Agile
2 40 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (23.13%) Business Analysis
4 28 (17.50%) ITIL
5 27 (16.88%) Requirements Gathering
6 23 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (13.75%) Scrum
7 22 (13.75%) User Stories
8 21 (13.13%) Customer Service
8 21 (13.13%) Data Analysis
9 20 (12.50%) Migration
10 19 (11.88%) Incident Management
10 19 (11.88%) Service Delivery
11 18 (11.25%) Data Modelling
11 18 (11.25%) Mathematics
12 17 (10.63%) Validation
13 16 (10.00%) Process Improvement
14 15 (9.38%) Project Management
14 15 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 14 (8.75%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 26 (16.25%) SQL
2 11 (6.88%) Python
3 2 (1.25%) Java
4 1 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.63%) JCL
4 1 (0.63%) MATLAB
4 1 (0.63%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.63%) R
Qualifications
1 24 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (11.88%) A+ Certification
3 19 (11.88%) MCSA
4 18 (11.25%) SC Cleared
5 13 (8.13%) Degree
6 5 (3.13%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.88%) CBAP
7 3 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.25%) IIBA
8 2 (1.25%) MCP
8 2 (1.25%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.63%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.63%) CCNA
9 1 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.63%) ECDL
9 1 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.63%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.75%) QA
2 5 (3.13%) MiFID
3 4 (2.50%) EMIR
4 3 (1.88%) PMO
5 2 (1.25%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.25%) ISO 20022
5 2 (1.25%) SEPA
6 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.63%) GDPR
6 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 29 (18.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.88%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.63%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.88%) SCCM
2 3 (1.88%) Tivoli
3 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.63%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 35 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 24 (15.00%) ServiceNow
3 19 (11.88%) Citrix
4 10 (6.25%) Oracle
5 7 (4.38%) SAP
6 6 (3.75%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.50%) IBM
8 2 (1.25%) Cisco
8 2 (1.25%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.25%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.63%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.63%) Aruba
9 1 (0.63%) Ceridian
9 1 (0.63%) Databricks
9 1 (0.63%) FIS
9 1 (0.63%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.63%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.63%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.63%) Workday
9 1 (0.63%) Zscaler