Analyst Contract Job Trends in the South East

Analyst
England > South East

The median Analyst daily rate in the South East is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 645 404 472
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 9.91% 11.38% 10.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.88% 12.71% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 252 321
10th Percentile £230 £200 £200
25th Percentile £375 £310 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -2.17%
75th Percentile £576 £526 £531
90th Percentile £625 £569 £588
England median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 27 22
10th Percentile £17.06 £15.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £21.73 £16.17 £16.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £16.65 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +80.23% -41.08% +61.43%
75th Percentile £67.85 £27.96 £42.00
90th Percentile £86.58 £35.65 £64.50
England median hourly rate £27.75 £20.66 £21.37
% change year-on-year +34.32% -3.32% +12.47%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,930 3,179 4,034
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.12% 89.52% 92.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,346 2,062 2,399
10th Percentile £300 £204 £243
25th Percentile £425 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -0.99% -0.98%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £625
90th Percentile £725 £650 £688
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 812 285 260
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.18 £16.00
25th Percentile £20.43 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £48.59 £25.15 £58.49
Median % change year-on-year +93.19% -57.00% +12.26%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £86.61 £71.15 £80.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.90
% change year-on-year +68.99% -42.71% -4.32%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Analyst job vacancy trend in the South East

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the South East

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the South East over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the South East

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the South East

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the South East over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the South East

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the South East region over the 6 months to 5 October 2026. 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
Thames Valley +2 338 £550 +23.94% 321
Berkshire +7 226 £550 +15.79% 173
Hampshire 0 171 £525 +10.53% 175
Buckinghamshire -12 63 £555 +48.00% 98
West Sussex +5 59 £223 +19.73% 36
Surrey -10 54 £475 +5.56% 78
Oxfordshire -9 49 £275 +43.42% 51
East Sussex +7 12 £298 -52.40% 20
Kent -12 7 £475 +26.67% 38
Middlesex -17 4 £570 +1.79% 11
Home Counties - 2 £650 -
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 5 October 2026, Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 176 (27.29%) Security Cleared
2 120 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 103 (15.97%) SC Cleared
4 97 (15.04%) Cybersecurity
5 96 (14.88%) Microsoft
6 92 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
7 91 (14.11%) Agile
8 79 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 78 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 76 (11.78%) Business Analysis
11 73 (11.32%) Requirements Gathering
12 67 (10.39%) SQL
13 66 (10.23%) Data Quality
14 64 (9.92%) DV Cleared
14 64 (9.92%) ITSM
15 62 (9.61%) Business Intelligence
15 62 (9.61%) ITIL
16 60 (9.30%) Workshop Facilitation
17 56 (8.68%) Decision-Making
17 56 (8.68%) Power Platform
18 55 (8.53%) ServiceNow
19 54 (8.37%) Degree
19 54 (8.37%) Power BI
20 53 (8.22%) Data Analysis
21 51 (7.91%) Security Operations
22 50 (7.75%) Azure
23 49 (7.60%) Validation
24 47 (7.29%) SIEM
25 45 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
26 44 (6.82%) Analytics

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (3.72%) Confluence
2 16 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.78%) IIS
4 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 45 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.55%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.16%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 16 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
3 5 (0.78%) iTrent
4 3 (0.47%) Maximo
5 2 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.31%) Primavera
5 2 (0.31%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.31%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.31%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.16%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.16%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (8.68%) Power Platform
2 50 (7.75%) Azure
3 37 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (2.64%) AWS
5 17 (2.64%) Entra ID
6 8 (1.24%) SaaS
7 6 (0.93%) GCP
8 5 (0.78%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (0.62%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (0.62%) Lucidchart
10 3 (0.47%) Akamai
10 3 (0.47%) IaaS
11 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.31%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.31%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.31%) Snowflake
12 1 (0.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.93%) Intranet
1 6 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (0.78%) Firewall
3 4 (0.62%) DHCP
3 4 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (0.62%) Network Security
4 3 (0.47%) DNS
4 3 (0.47%) HTTP
5 2 (0.31%) Internet
6 1 (0.16%) 4G
6 1 (0.16%) 5G
6 1 (0.16%) LTE
6 1 (0.16%) Mobile Backhaul
6 1 (0.16%) Modbus
6 1 (0.16%) MPLS
6 1 (0.16%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.16%) SONET
6 1 (0.16%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.16%) VoLTE
6 1 (0.16%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (8.37%) Power BI
2 17 (2.64%) Tableau
3 11 (1.71%) SQL Server
4 10 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (1.09%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (0.78%) Metadata
8 4 (0.62%) GIS
9 3 (0.47%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.47%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.31%) Data Mining
10 2 (0.31%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.16%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.16%) Db2
11 1 (0.16%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.16%) SQLPlus
11 1 (0.16%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 34 (5.27%) JIRA
2 2 (0.31%) Postman
3 1 (0.16%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.16%) eggPlant
3 1 (0.16%) Git
3 1 (0.16%) HP UFT
3 1 (0.16%) JMeter
3 1 (0.16%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.16%) Selenium
3 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.16%) TestRail
3 1 (0.16%) Toad
3 1 (0.16%) Zephyr
General
1 190 (29.46%) Social Skills
2 136 (21.09%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (13.33%) Finance
4 49 (7.60%) Public Sector
5 31 (4.81%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (3.26%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (2.48%) Retail
9 11 (1.71%) Automotive
10 10 (1.55%) Aerospace
10 10 (1.55%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.40%) Marketing
11 9 (1.40%) Military
12 8 (1.24%) Legal
13 6 (0.93%) Police
14 5 (0.78%) Banking
14 5 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 4 (0.62%) Billing
15 4 (0.62%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.24%) EDI
2 4 (0.62%) .NET
2 4 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (0.62%) REST
2 4 (0.62%) SailPoint
2 4 (0.62%) Terraform
3 3 (0.47%) Middleware
3 3 (0.47%) OAuth
3 3 (0.47%) OAuth2
3 3 (0.47%) OpenID
3 3 (0.47%) SAML
3 3 (0.47%) Web Services
4 2 (0.31%) PySpark
4 2 (0.31%) XML
5 1 (0.16%) ADO
5 1 (0.16%) Django
5 1 (0.16%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.16%) LDAP
5 1 (0.16%) Streamlit
5 1 (0.16%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.65%) Onboarding
2 23 (3.57%) Operational Technology
3 16 (2.48%) Product Ownership
4 15 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (2.33%) Data Centre
4 15 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 13 (2.02%) Security Operations Centre
6 10 (1.55%) CMDB
6 10 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (1.40%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
8 7 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (0.78%) Embedded Systems
9 5 (0.78%) Mobile Payment
9 5 (0.78%) Smartcard
10 4 (0.62%) IVR
10 4 (0.62%) Media Streaming
10 4 (0.62%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 42 (6.51%) Windows
2 16 (2.48%) Linux
3 8 (1.24%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.09%) Android
4 7 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) Unix
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (18.60%) Stakeholder Management
2 97 (15.04%) Cybersecurity
3 92 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
4 91 (14.11%) Agile
5 79 (12.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 78 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 76 (11.78%) Business Analysis
8 73 (11.32%) Requirements Gathering
9 64 (9.92%) ITSM
10 62 (9.61%) Business Intelligence
10 62 (9.61%) ITIL
11 60 (9.30%) Workshop Facilitation
12 56 (8.68%) Decision-Making
13 53 (8.22%) Data Analysis
14 51 (7.91%) Security Operations
15 49 (7.60%) Validation
16 47 (7.29%) SIEM
17 44 (6.82%) Analytics
18 43 (6.67%) Data Modelling
19 42 (6.51%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 67 (10.39%) SQL
2 20 (3.10%) Python
3 7 (1.09%) Java
4 6 (0.93%) PowerShell
5 5 (0.78%) R
6 3 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.16%) Bash
8 1 (0.16%) COBOL
8 1 (0.16%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.16%) JCL
8 1 (0.16%) Perl
8 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 176 (27.29%) Security Cleared
2 103 (15.97%) SC Cleared
3 64 (9.92%) DV Cleared
4 54 (8.37%) Degree
5 15 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (2.02%) ISTQB
8 12 (1.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 9 (1.40%) ACCA
9 9 (1.40%) CIMA
10 8 (1.24%) ISEB
11 6 (0.93%) CBAP
12 5 (0.78%) CISA
12 5 (0.78%) CISM
12 5 (0.78%) CISSP
12 5 (0.78%) IISP
13 4 (0.62%) CCSP
13 4 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.62%) CLAS
13 4 (0.62%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (10.23%) Data Quality
2 37 (5.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.88%) GRC
3 25 (3.88%) QA
4 24 (3.72%) NIST
5 17 (2.64%) PMO
6 11 (1.71%) GDPR
7 8 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.78%) ISO 31000
8 5 (0.78%) ISO 9001
8 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 5 (0.78%) NCSC
8 5 (0.78%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.62%) COBIT
9 4 (0.62%) SLA
10 3 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.16%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.16%) Solvency II
System Software
1 26 (4.03%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.62%) ISA Server
3 3 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.31%) vSphere
5 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.09%) QRadar
1 7 (1.09%) SCCM
2 4 (0.62%) CASB
2 4 (0.62%) CSIRT
3 3 (0.47%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.16%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.16%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 96 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 55 (8.53%) ServiceNow
3 44 (6.82%) SAP
4 25 (3.88%) Oracle
5 18 (2.79%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.55%) Databricks
6 10 (1.55%) LogRhythm
7 9 (1.40%) Workday
8 8 (1.24%) Cisco
8 8 (1.24%) Qualys
8 8 (1.24%) Splunk
9 6 (0.93%) Baan
10 5 (0.78%) CrowdStrike
10 5 (0.78%) Google
10 5 (0.78%) Tripwire
11 4 (0.62%) Centrify
11 4 (0.62%) F5
11 4 (0.62%) Meraki
11 4 (0.62%) Mitel
11 4 (0.62%) VMware