Analyst Contracts in the North of England

Analyst
England > North of England

The median Analyst daily rate in the North of England is £409, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 June 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
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 9 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 -1 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 436 520 793
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 12.50% 10.64% 14.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.40% 11.47% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 336 531
10th Percentile £213 £190 £193
25th Percentile £320 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% -0.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £488 £513 £538
90th Percentile £536 £584 £600
England median daily rate £463 £475 £493
% change year-on-year -2.63% -3.55% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 56 42
10th Percentile £15.64 £10.95 £14.29
25th Percentile £17.44 £11.07 £16.40
Median hourly rate £21.71 £16.00 £20.43
Median % change year-on-year +35.66% -21.68% +10.43%
75th Percentile £26.89 £19.58 £27.25
90th Percentile £38.75 £23.75 £31.80
England median hourly rate £22.14 £16.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year +35.83% -16.41% +18.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 3,254 4,533 5,217
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 92.76% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,148 2,747 3,625
10th Percentile £263 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% -3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £650 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 457 167
10th Percentile £12.58 £11.12 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.13 £13.25 £17.25
Median hourly rate £22.14 £24.10 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -9.06% +32.50%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.50 £43.61
90th Percentile £76.11 £68.75 £56.38
England median hourly rate £28.88 £39.53 £44.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -10.17% +80.66%

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 23 June 2025.

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 23 June 2025.

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 23 June 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
North West -2 231 £400 -7.83% 562
Yorkshire +2 181 £409 -9.11% 367
North East -9 24 £450 +2.86% 80
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 June 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 North of England region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 159 (36.47%) Social Skills
2 111 (25.46%) Problem-Solving
3 101 (23.17%) Finance
4 100 (22.94%) Microsoft
5 96 (22.02%) Analytical Skills
6 87 (19.95%) Agile
7 72 (16.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 65 (14.91%) Business Analysis
9 62 (14.22%) ITIL
10 58 (13.30%) Data Analysis
11 56 (12.84%) Power Platform
12 55 (12.61%) Power BI
12 55 (12.61%) SQL
13 52 (11.93%) Banking
14 50 (11.47%) Public Sector
15 49 (11.24%) Microsoft Excel
15 49 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
15 49 (11.24%) JIRA
16 45 (10.32%) Decision-Making
17 42 (9.63%) Change Management
18 40 (9.17%) Security Cleared
19 39 (8.94%) Degree
19 39 (8.94%) Confluence
19 39 (8.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 38 (8.72%) Requirements Gathering
21 37 (8.49%) Windows
22 36 (8.26%) MS Visio
22 36 (8.26%) Migration
22 36 (8.26%) Process Improvement
22 36 (8.26%) Customer Service

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 39 (8.94%) Confluence
2 12 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.06%) Skype for Business
5 8 (1.83%) IBM Domino
6 7 (1.61%) Mattermost
7 2 (0.46%) SAS
8 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.23%) Appian
8 1 (0.23%) CICS
Applications
1 49 (11.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (8.26%) MS Visio
3 22 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
4 20 (4.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.92%) Unit4 Business World
3 3 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.23%) Elite 3E
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.23%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.23%) SAP HR
4 1 (0.23%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 56 (12.84%) Power Platform
2 34 (7.80%) Azure
3 25 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (3.21%) AWS
4 14 (3.21%) Entra ID
5 11 (2.52%) GCP
6 8 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.61%) Lucidchart
7 7 (1.61%) SaaS
8 5 (1.15%) IaaS
9 4 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.69%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.46%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.46%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.46%) Azure AKS
11 2 (0.46%) Cloud Composer
11 2 (0.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 2 (0.46%) Miro
12 1 (0.23%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.21%) Firewall
2 11 (2.52%) Skype
3 8 (1.83%) Network Security
4 7 (1.61%) Softphone
4 7 (1.61%) Unified Communications
4 7 (1.61%) WebEx
5 5 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
6 4 (0.92%) Kerberos
6 4 (0.92%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (0.69%) VoIP
7 3 (0.69%) VPN
8 2 (0.46%) Broadband
8 2 (0.46%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (0.46%) DHCP
8 2 (0.46%) DNS
8 2 (0.46%) Wireless
9 1 (0.23%) ATM
9 1 (0.23%) GPRS
9 1 (0.23%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (12.61%) Power BI
2 29 (6.65%) Tableau
3 12 (2.75%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (0.69%) Power Query
5 3 (0.69%) QlikView
6 2 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.46%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.46%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.46%) Delta Lake
6 2 (0.46%) Looker
6 2 (0.46%) MySQL
6 2 (0.46%) Qlik Sense
6 2 (0.46%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.46%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.46%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.23%) GIS
7 1 (0.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 49 (11.24%) JIRA
2 4 (0.92%) TestRail
3 2 (0.46%) eggPlant
3 2 (0.46%) Selenium
3 2 (0.46%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.23%) Appium
4 1 (0.23%) JMeter
4 1 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 159 (36.47%) Social Skills
2 101 (23.17%) Finance
3 96 (22.02%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (11.93%) Banking
5 50 (11.47%) Public Sector
6 17 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (2.75%) Police
8 11 (2.52%) Retail
9 10 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.06%) Local Government
10 9 (2.06%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.83%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (1.38%) Law
14 5 (1.15%) Automotive
15 4 (0.92%) Legal
15 4 (0.92%) Marketing
15 4 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.61%) SAML
1 7 (1.61%) XMPP
2 6 (1.38%) OAuth
2 6 (1.38%) OpenID
3 2 (0.46%) JSON
3 2 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (0.46%) Playwright
3 2 (0.46%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.23%) ISPF
4 1 (0.23%) RAML
4 1 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (4.59%) Management Information System
2 17 (3.90%) Data Centre
3 12 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (2.75%) Product Ownership
4 8 (1.83%) NHS
5 7 (1.61%) CMDB
6 6 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.15%) Data Structures
8 4 (0.92%) Driving Licence
8 4 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.69%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.69%) Equities
9 3 (0.69%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.69%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.69%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.46%) Derivative
10 2 (0.46%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.46%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 37 (8.49%) Windows
2 15 (3.44%) Linux
3 10 (2.29%) Windows 10
4 7 (1.61%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.92%) Android
6 3 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.69%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (25.46%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (19.95%) Agile
3 72 (16.51%) Stakeholder Management
4 65 (14.91%) Business Analysis
5 62 (14.22%) ITIL
6 58 (13.30%) Data Analysis
7 49 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
8 45 (10.32%) Decision-Making
9 42 (9.63%) Change Management
10 39 (8.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 38 (8.72%) Requirements Gathering
12 36 (8.26%) Customer Service
12 36 (8.26%) Migration
12 36 (8.26%) Process Improvement
13 35 (8.03%) Analytics
14 34 (7.80%) Workshop Facilitation
15 31 (7.11%) Service Management
16 30 (6.88%) Visualisation
17 29 (6.65%) User Stories
18 26 (5.96%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 55 (12.61%) SQL
2 19 (4.36%) PowerShell
3 10 (2.29%) Python
4 4 (0.92%) Uniface
5 3 (0.69%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.46%) R
7 1 (0.23%) C#
7 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.23%) JCL
7 1 (0.23%) VB
7 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 40 (9.17%) Security Cleared
2 39 (8.94%) Degree
3 30 (6.88%) SC Cleared
4 12 (2.75%) ITIL Certification
5 11 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (1.83%) CBAP
7 5 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.15%) CISMP
7 5 (1.15%) GSEC
7 5 (1.15%) IIBA
8 4 (0.92%) A+ Certification
8 4 (0.92%) ISEB
8 4 (0.92%) MCP
9 3 (0.69%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.46%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.46%) Tableau Certification
11 1 (0.23%) ACCA
11 1 (0.23%) CCNA
11 1 (0.23%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.28%) SLA
2 20 (4.59%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.52%) GDPR
4 8 (1.83%) PMO
5 7 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.61%) QA
6 6 (1.38%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.69%) GRC
9 2 (0.46%) COREP
9 2 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.46%) FINREP
9 2 (0.46%) NIST
9 2 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.23%) COBIT
10 1 (0.23%) COSHH
10 1 (0.23%) GxP
10 1 (0.23%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.23%) SEPA
10 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (8.03%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.15%) vSphere
3 3 (0.69%) Firmware
4 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.23%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 14 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (1.61%) SCOM
4 3 (0.69%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.46%) HP Data Protector
5 2 (0.46%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.46%) Sysdig
6 1 (0.23%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.23%) Nagios
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
6 1 (0.23%) SCCM
6 1 (0.23%) Terraform
6 1 (0.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 100 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 27 (6.19%) ServiceNow
3 22 (5.05%) SAP
4 11 (2.52%) Cisco
4 11 (2.52%) SolarWinds
5 9 (2.06%) Splunk
6 7 (1.61%) Google
6 7 (1.61%) Oracle
6 7 (1.61%) Red Hat
6 7 (1.61%) Virgin Media
6 7 (1.61%) VMware
7 4 (0.92%) Databricks
7 4 (0.92%) Motorola
8 3 (0.69%) Ariba
8 3 (0.69%) Kronos
9 2 (0.46%) Citrix
9 2 (0.46%) Dell
9 2 (0.46%) Remedy
9 2 (0.46%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.46%) Veritas