Technical Analyst Contracts in the North of England

Technical Analyst
England > North of England

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in the North of England is £413, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 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
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 165 171
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 19 21 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.54% 0.43% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.47% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 28
10th Percentile £286 £358 £148
25th Percentile £381 £363 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £450 £444
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.41% -11.25%
75th Percentile £481 £488 £500
90th Percentile £525 £538 £550
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £14.25
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £15.33 £22.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year -31.87% +7.14% +35.48%

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 3,289 4,499 5,214
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 92.76% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,166 2,736 3,621
10th Percentile £263 £263 £263
25th Percentile £375 £388 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.13% -2.50% +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 190 437 169
10th Percentile £12.73 £11.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £14.14 £13.25 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.14 £24.10 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% -7.31% +30.00%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.50 £43.48
90th Percentile £75.83 £68.75 £56.38
England median hourly rate £28.17 £39.78 £43.32
% change year-on-year -29.19% -8.17% +73.26%

Technical Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Analyst in the North of England

Technical Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Analyst in the North of England

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Analyst in the North of England

Technical Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Analyst in the North of England

Technical 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 Technical Analyst within the North of England region over the 6 months to 26 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 +15 10 £406 +8.33% 10
Yorkshire -2 9 £469 -1.26% 3
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 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 North of England region featuring Technical Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 8 (42.11%) Business Analysis
2 8 (42.11%) JIRA
3 7 (36.84%) Migration
3 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
3 7 (36.84%) SQL
4 6 (31.58%) Data Analysis
5 5 (26.32%) Finance
5 5 (26.32%) Degree
5 5 (26.32%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
6 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
6 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
6 4 (21.05%) Process Improvement
6 4 (21.05%) Translating Business Requirements
6 4 (21.05%) Power BI
6 4 (21.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
7 3 (15.79%) Scrum
7 3 (15.79%) Tableau
7 3 (15.79%) Confluence
7 3 (15.79%) User Stories
7 3 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (15.79%) Backlog Refinement
7 3 (15.79%) Backlog Prioritisation

Technical 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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) CICS
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (5.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Lucidchart
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Kerberos
2 1 (5.26%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) Power BI
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) Tableau
3 2 (10.53%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) JIRA
General
1 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Games
4 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) OAuth
1 2 (10.53%) OpenID
1 2 (10.53%) SAML
2 1 (5.26%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (5.26%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
1 1 (5.26%) PMI
1 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Android
2 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (5.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (42.11%) Agile
2 8 (42.11%) Business Analysis
3 7 (36.84%) Migration
4 6 (31.58%) Data Analysis
5 5 (26.32%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (21.05%) Decision-Making
6 4 (21.05%) Process Improvement
6 4 (21.05%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (15.79%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 3 (15.79%) Backlog Refinement
7 3 (15.79%) Scrum
7 3 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (15.79%) User Stories
8 2 (10.53%) Acceptance Criteria
8 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (10.53%) RBAC
8 2 (10.53%) Roadmaps
8 2 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) JCL
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Tableau Certification
3 1 (5.26%) CBAP
3 1 (5.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) BitLocker
1 1 (5.26%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) BMC
2 1 (5.26%) IBM
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle
2 1 (5.26%) Toshiba