Software Analyst Contracts in London

Software Analyst
England > London

The median Software Analyst daily rate in London is £513, 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 349 388 469
Rank change year-on-year +39 +81 +99
Contract jobs requiring a Software Analyst 4 3 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.017% 0.089%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.018% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 13
10th Percentile £334 £473 £380
25th Percentile £384 £506 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £480
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +19.79% +6.67%
75th Percentile £609 £613 £500
90th Percentile £626 £628 £535
England median daily rate £460 £430 £480
% change year-on-year +6.98% -10.42% +6.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Software Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Analyst in London

Software Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Analyst in London

Software Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Analyst in London

Software Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Analyst in London

Software Analyst
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +4 1 £625 +38.89% 1
Software Analyst
England

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

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 London region featuring Software Analyst in the job title.

1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (25.00%) Fidessa
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (25.00%) Reuters
1 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (25.00%) CAD
1 1 (25.00%) CQG
1 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Front Office
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (25.00%) Equities
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) ION Trading
1 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services

Software Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (25.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Front Office
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Derivative
1 1 (25.00%) Equities
1 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
1 1 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) CAD
1 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (25.00%) Client Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (25.00%) Time Management
1 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Ruby
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) EMIR
1 1 (25.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Bloomberg
1 1 (25.00%) CQG
1 1 (25.00%) ION Trading
1 1 (25.00%) Reuters
1 1 (25.00%) Snow