Analyst Contracts in the North of England

Analyst
England > North of England

The median Analyst daily rate in the North of England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 9 6
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 517 821 1,017
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 11.02% 14.13% 14.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.83% 14.83% 14.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 563 674
10th Percentile £200 £200 £159
25th Percentile £319 £350 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £407
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +7.49% +12.28%
75th Percentile £519 £525 £500
90th Percentile £580 £600 £550
England median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 31 86
10th Percentile £10.95 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £11.01 £16.55 £12.52
Median hourly rate £15.17 £22.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% +28.06% -
75th Percentile £18.38 £27.28 £21.50
90th Percentile £22.63 £32.50 £26.50
England median hourly rate £16.00 £19.39 £15.50
% change year-on-year -17.46% +25.06% -4.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,370 5,536 6,958
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 95.30% 96.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,742 3,911 5,115
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £385 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £684 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 160 284
10th Percentile £11.01 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.76 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.63 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% +70.11% +4.63%
75th Percentile £46.00 £50.72 £28.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.07 £51.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
North West -2 292 £450 +5.88% 159
Yorkshire -3 184 £450 -10.00% 103
North East +15 41 £420 +5.00% 35
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 North of England region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 179 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 110 (21.28%) Microsoft
3 91 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
4 87 (16.83%) Agile
5 84 (16.25%) Customer Service
6 80 (15.47%) Windows
7 78 (15.09%) Finance
8 70 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 69 (13.35%) Microsoft Office
10 68 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
10 68 (13.15%) Requirements Gathering
11 61 (11.80%) SQL
12 60 (11.61%) Business Analysis
12 60 (11.61%) Degree
13 59 (11.41%) Public Sector
14 58 (11.22%) Active Directory
15 52 (10.06%) Power Platform
15 52 (10.06%) Power BI
16 51 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
17 50 (9.67%) Business Intelligence
17 50 (9.67%) Windows 10
18 49 (9.48%) Data Analysis
19 48 (9.28%) ITIL
20 45 (8.70%) Banking
21 44 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
22 41 (7.93%) Service Management
23 40 (7.74%) User Stories
23 40 (7.74%) Security Cleared
24 38 (7.35%) Change Management
24 38 (7.35%) Project Management

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 18 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.93%) SAS
3 8 (1.55%) Confluence
4 7 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.58%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.19%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.19%) LiveLink
6 1 (0.19%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 69 (13.35%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (3.68%) MS Visio
4 17 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 14 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.35%) SAP PM
3 4 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 52 (10.06%) Power Platform
2 51 (9.86%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (6.38%) Azure
4 11 (2.13%) Snowflake
5 10 (1.93%) Entra ID
6 8 (1.55%) AWS
6 8 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (1.55%) Google Analytics
7 7 (1.35%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (1.35%) Collibra
7 7 (1.35%) GCP
7 7 (1.35%) SaaS
8 6 (1.16%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.77%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (0.77%) IaaS
10 3 (0.58%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (0.39%) BrowserStack
11 2 (0.39%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.97%) DNS
2 4 (0.77%) DHCP
3 3 (0.58%) Intranet
4 2 (0.39%) Broadband
4 2 (0.39%) Network Security
4 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.39%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.39%) WAN
5 1 (0.19%) Firewall
5 1 (0.19%) LAN
5 1 (0.19%) PSTN
5 1 (0.19%) Skype
5 1 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.19%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (10.06%) Power BI
2 21 (4.06%) Tableau
3 13 (2.51%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.55%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.35%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.35%) Qlik Sense
7 6 (1.16%) Ataccama
8 5 (0.97%) Data Mining
8 5 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.58%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.58%) GIS
9 3 (0.58%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.39%) Big Data
10 2 (0.39%) Data Vault
10 2 (0.39%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 25 (4.84%) JIRA
2 6 (1.16%) Selenium
2 6 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 4 (0.77%) Postman
4 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.39%) PyCharm
4 2 (0.39%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.39%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.19%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.19%) Git
5 1 (0.19%) JMeter
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.19%) Rational Software Modeler
5 1 (0.19%) WebDriver
General
1 179 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 78 (15.09%) Finance
3 68 (13.15%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (11.41%) Public Sector
5 45 (8.70%) Banking
6 29 (5.61%) Pharmaceutical
7 19 (3.68%) Retail
8 18 (3.48%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.93%) Legal
10 10 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (1.93%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.74%) Law
11 9 (1.74%) Marketing
12 5 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.58%) Billing
14 3 (0.58%) General Ledger
14 3 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.55%) SailPoint
2 4 (0.77%) .NET
3 2 (0.39%) Middleware
4 1 (0.19%) CSS
4 1 (0.19%) HTML
4 1 (0.19%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.19%) OAuth
4 1 (0.19%) OpenID
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.19%) Shiny
4 1 (0.19%) SOAP
4 1 (0.19%) Visualforce
4 1 (0.19%) Web Services
4 1 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (2.90%) Product Ownership
2 14 (2.71%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (1.93%) Data Structures
5 9 (1.74%) NHS
6 6 (1.16%) Driving Licence
6 6 (1.16%) Virtual Team
7 5 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (0.97%) Industry 4.0
7 5 (0.97%) IoT
7 5 (0.97%) Robotics
8 4 (0.77%) CMDB
8 4 (0.77%) EPoS
9 3 (0.58%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.58%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.58%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (0.58%) Life Science
9 3 (0.58%) Mobile App
9 3 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 80 (15.47%) Windows
2 50 (9.67%) Windows 10
3 9 (1.74%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.58%) Linux
7 2 (0.39%) Android
8 1 (0.19%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (16.83%) Agile
3 84 (16.25%) Customer Service
4 70 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 68 (13.15%) Requirements Gathering
6 60 (11.61%) Business Analysis
7 50 (9.67%) Business Intelligence
8 49 (9.48%) Data Analysis
9 48 (9.28%) ITIL
10 41 (7.93%) Service Management
11 40 (7.74%) User Stories
12 38 (7.35%) Change Management
12 38 (7.35%) Project Management
13 36 (6.96%) Waterfall
14 35 (6.77%) Decision-Making
14 35 (6.77%) Workshop Facilitation
15 34 (6.58%) Migration
16 33 (6.38%) Visualisation
17 32 (6.19%) ITSM
18 31 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 61 (11.80%) SQL
2 34 (6.58%) Python
3 6 (1.16%) C#
4 5 (0.97%) Java
5 4 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (0.77%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.58%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.58%) R
7 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.19%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.19%) Bash
8 1 (0.19%) Groovy
8 1 (0.19%) Julia
8 1 (0.19%) SOQL
8 1 (0.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (11.61%) Degree
2 40 (7.74%) Security Cleared
3 32 (6.19%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.93%) CISSP
5 8 (1.55%) CISM
5 8 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
6 6 (1.16%) CBAP
6 6 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (0.97%) IIBA
8 4 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.77%) CISA
8 4 (0.77%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.77%) MCP
9 3 (0.58%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.58%) HNC
9 3 (0.58%) ISSAP
9 3 (0.58%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.58%) MCSE
10 2 (0.39%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.16%) QA
2 24 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.87%) SLA
4 19 (3.68%) GDPR
5 16 (3.09%) Disclosure Scotland
5 16 (3.09%) PMO
6 13 (2.51%) NIST
7 12 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (1.16%) Good Clinical Practice
8 6 (1.16%) GxP
9 5 (0.97%) GRC
9 5 (0.97%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.58%) COBIT
11 3 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.58%) IASME
11 3 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.39%) COREP
13 1 (0.19%) FINREP
13 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 58 (11.22%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.39%) Firmware
4 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (0.77%) SCCM
2 4 (0.77%) ZABBIX
3 2 (0.39%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 1 (0.19%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.19%) Nagios
4 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.19%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 110 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.35%) SAP
3 33 (6.38%) ServiceNow
4 11 (2.13%) Google
5 10 (1.93%) VMware
6 9 (1.74%) Salesforce
7 8 (1.55%) Citrix
7 8 (1.55%) CyberArk
8 6 (1.16%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.16%) Ariba
8 6 (1.16%) Dataiku
8 6 (1.16%) Trillium
9 5 (0.97%) Pega
10 4 (0.77%) Oracle
10 4 (0.77%) Splunk
11 3 (0.58%) Apple
11 3 (0.58%) ESRI
11 3 (0.58%) Kofax
11 3 (0.58%) Workday
12 2 (0.39%) Databricks