Analyst Contracts in Hertfordshire

Analyst
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Hertfordshire is £550, 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 9 18 8
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 42 67 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 13.08% 8.03% 13.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 14.14% 8.93% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 55 77
10th Percentile £381 £185 £184
25th Percentile £400 £290 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £365 £475
Median % change year-on-year +50.68% -23.16% +35.71%
75th Percentile £619 £463 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £631
East of England median daily rate £428 £410 £386
% change year-on-year +4.27% +6.15% -0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 7
10th Percentile £31.64 £16.86 £14.62
25th Percentile £39.57 £20.55 £17.14
Median hourly rate £80.68 £26.68 £50.01
Median % change year-on-year +202.38% -46.65% +104.12%
75th Percentile £81.35 £32.82 £64.38
90th Percentile £82.10 £36.50 £65.00
East of England median hourly rate £15.80 £14.82 £15.50
% change year-on-year +6.61% -4.39% +6.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 297 750 744
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 89.93% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 309 406
10th Percentile £330 £235 £210
25th Percentile £425 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £763
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 285 148
10th Percentile £27.96 £37.91 £20.31
25th Percentile £50.31 £43.00 £49.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -20.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £79.82 £65.00 £66.69
90th Percentile £85.00 £80.00 £74.95
East of England median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
% change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in Hertfordshire

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in Hertfordshire

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Hertfordshire

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in Hertfordshire

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in Hertfordshire

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Hertfordshire 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
Stevenage +33 25 £600 +14.29% 32
Hatfield -3 6 £525 +59.09% 11
Welwyn Garden City -1 3 £400 +4.44% 1
Rickmansworth +1 2 £175 -50.00% 1
Watford -2 2 £313 - 37
Letchworth - 1 - -
Analyst
East of England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Hertfordshire region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 21 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 21 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (47.62%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (45.24%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (42.86%) SC Cleared
5 14 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
5 14 (33.33%) LDAP
5 14 (33.33%) SMTP
5 14 (33.33%) FTP
5 14 (33.33%) HTTP
5 14 (33.33%) DNS
5 14 (33.33%) SSL
5 14 (33.33%) Management Information System
6 13 (30.95%) Information Management
6 13 (30.95%) Cyber Threat
6 13 (30.95%) Security Operations
6 13 (30.95%) Threat Detection
7 12 (28.57%) Cyberattack
7 12 (28.57%) Network Security
8 11 (26.19%) Incident Response
9 10 (23.81%) DV Cleared
9 10 (23.81%) Network Packet Capture
10 9 (21.43%) Analytics
10 9 (21.43%) SIEM
10 9 (21.43%) Information Security
10 9 (21.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (16.67%) Windows
12 7 (16.67%) CSOC

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 4 (9.52%) CMS
2 3 (7.14%) Confluence
2 3 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.76%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (7.14%) SAP LE
1 3 (7.14%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
2 1 (2.38%) AWS
2 1 (2.38%) Azure
2 1 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (33.33%) DNS
1 14 (33.33%) FTP
1 14 (33.33%) HTTP
1 14 (33.33%) SMTP
1 14 (33.33%) SSL
2 12 (28.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Power BI
2 3 (7.14%) Tableau
3 2 (4.76%) DB2
4 1 (2.38%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) JIRA
General
1 21 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (45.24%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Law
4 1 (2.38%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.38%) Aviation
4 1 (2.38%) Finance
4 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) LDAP
2 3 (7.14%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 14 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
2 13 (30.95%) Cyber Threat
3 12 (28.57%) Cyberattack
4 9 (21.43%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (16.67%) CSOC
6 4 (9.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (4.76%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (9.52%) Linux
3 2 (4.76%) Unix
3 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (47.62%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (30.95%) Information Management
2 13 (30.95%) Security Operations
2 13 (30.95%) Threat Detection
3 11 (26.19%) Incident Response
4 10 (23.81%) Network Packet Capture
5 9 (21.43%) Analytics
5 9 (21.43%) Information Security
5 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (21.43%) SIEM
6 8 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (14.29%) Behavioural Analytics
7 6 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (14.29%) Machine Learning
7 6 (14.29%) Visualisation
8 5 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (11.90%) ITSM
9 4 (9.52%) GAP Analysis
9 4 (9.52%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (11.90%) SQL
2 3 (7.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 21 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 10 (23.81%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) CISSP
4 2 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (4.76%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.76%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Darktrace
1 4 (9.52%) FireEye
1 4 (9.52%) LogRhythm
1 4 (9.52%) Splunk
2 3 (7.14%) SAP
2 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.76%) IronPort
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle
3 2 (4.76%) Symantec
4 1 (2.38%) Twitter