Analyst Contracts in Oxfordshire

Analyst
South East > Oxfordshire

The median Analyst daily rate in Oxfordshire is £413, 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 10 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 12 20 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 11.32% 8.81% 10.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.00% 10.36% 11.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 18
10th Percentile - £125 £235
25th Percentile £250 £150 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £180 £400
Median % change year-on-year +129.17% -55.00% +77.78%
75th Percentile £491 £472 £525
90th Percentile £523 £525 £588
South East median daily rate £460 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +2.22% +5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £22.20
25th Percentile £25.15 - £22.50
Median hourly rate £25.30 - £28.16
75th Percentile £25.45 - £32.30
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £19.38 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.87% -13.89% +50.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Oxfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Oxfordshire. 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 Oxfordshire with a recognized job title 100 193 230
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 85.02% 92.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 123 152
10th Percentile £250 £132 £250
25th Percentile £263 £180 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £638 £500 £550
90th Percentile £688 £550 £638
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 30 17
10th Percentile £22.97 £12.92 -
25th Percentile £23.50 £13.97 £18.08
Median hourly rate £27.76 £19.50 £25.95
Median % change year-on-year +42.36% -24.86% +29.75%
75th Percentile £46.30 £26.00 £32.30
90th Percentile £46.54 £65.00 £51.20
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in Oxfordshire

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in Oxfordshire

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in Oxfordshire

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in Oxfordshire

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -5 4 £450 +2.86% 34
Kidlington +1 1 £250 +66.67%
Abingdon - 1 - - 1
Analyst
South East

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

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 Oxfordshire region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Azure
4 4 (33.33%) SCCM
4 4 (33.33%) Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (33.33%) ITIL
4 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) SolarWinds
5 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (25.00%) SCOM
5 3 (25.00%) Degree
5 3 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
6 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (16.67%) Power BI
6 2 (16.67%) AWS
6 2 (16.67%) Kanban
6 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 2 (16.67%) Driving Licence
6 2 (16.67%) Tableau

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) Lucidchart
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) Internet
1 1 (8.33%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (8.33%) IP Telephony
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) MPLS
1 1 (8.33%) NAS
1 1 (8.33%) NetScaler
1 1 (8.33%) SAN
1 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (8.33%) Skype
1 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
1 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
1 2 (16.67%) Tableau
2 1 (8.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (8.33%) Automotive
3 1 (8.33%) Electronics
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Marketing
3 1 (8.33%) Police
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (8.33%) Data Fabric
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Analytics
2 4 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
3 3 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
4 2 (16.67%) Data Management
4 2 (16.67%) Kanban
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
4 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (16.67%) User Stories
5 1 (8.33%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) MBA
2 1 (8.33%) MCP
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 1 (8.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 1 (8.33%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
2 1 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (8.33%) vSphere
2 1 (8.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) SCCM
2 3 (25.00%) SCOM
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Citrix
4 1 (8.33%) F5
4 1 (8.33%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (8.33%) SAP
4 1 (8.33%) Talend
4 1 (8.33%) VMware