Analyst Contract Job Trends in the South East

Analyst
England > South East

The median Analyst daily rate in the South East is £466, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026.

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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 10 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 570 329 513
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 9.67% 11.09% 9.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.54% 12.14% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 232 341
10th Percentile £255 £201 £185
25th Percentile £350 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% - +4.65%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £609 £588 £600
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 13 26
10th Percentile £16.17 £17.05 £13.93
25th Percentile £16.35 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.21 £24.00 £19.38
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% +23.87% -12.57%
75th Percentile £67.60 £25.00 £22.25
90th Percentile £102.11 £27.49 £30.62
England median hourly rate £21.00 £22.05 £16.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +37.81% -15.79%

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 5,409 2,711 5,046
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.80% 91.37% 92.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,354 1,803 3,037
10th Percentile £300 £230 £213
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £619
90th Percentile £700 £660 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 519 161 483
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £25.00 £19.97 £18.26
Median hourly rate £54.00 £32.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.15% -31.58% -
75th Percentile £81.53 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.40
England median hourly rate £46.14 £30.20 £37.18
% change year-on-year +52.78% -18.77% -17.38%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 +1 304 £459 -0.86% 96
Berkshire -5 158 £433 -11.18% 47
Hampshire +1 140 £500 +11.11% 58
Buckinghamshire -1 117 £573 +44.03% 32
Surrey -5 49 £475 - 38
West Sussex +1 30 £364 -2.28% 12
Oxfordshire -8 29 £525 +110.00% 19
Kent +6 24 £250 -4.76% 11
East Sussex -5 9 £425 -22.73% 2
Middlesex - 2 £560 - 17
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 May 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.

1 169 (29.65%) Security Cleared
2 99 (17.37%) SC Cleared
3 92 (16.14%) Agile
4 85 (14.91%) Microsoft Excel
5 74 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
6 72 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (12.11%) Power Platform
8 68 (11.93%) Power BI
9 65 (11.40%) Azure
10 64 (11.23%) Microsoft
11 60 (10.53%) Windows
12 58 (10.18%) JIRA
13 57 (10.00%) Decision-Making
14 56 (9.82%) Business Analysis
14 56 (9.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 55 (9.65%) Workshop Facilitation
16 54 (9.47%) Cybersecurity
16 54 (9.47%) DV Cleared
17 52 (9.12%) Process Improvement
17 52 (9.12%) Stakeholder Management
18 48 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
18 48 (8.42%) SQL
19 47 (8.25%) Analytics
19 47 (8.25%) Degree
20 45 (7.89%) DevOps
21 41 (7.19%) Data Modelling
21 41 (7.19%) SAP
22 38 (6.67%) Customer Service
22 38 (6.67%) Data Analysis
22 38 (6.67%) SIEM

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 (4.21%) Confluence
2 15 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.88%) CMS
5 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 85 (14.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.98%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (2.28%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 19 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.58%) iTrent
3 5 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.70%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.53%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.53%) SAP R/3
6 2 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 69 (12.11%) Power Platform
2 65 (11.40%) Azure
3 36 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (4.39%) Entra ID
6 20 (3.51%) AWS
7 13 (2.28%) OCI
8 9 (1.58%) SuccessFactors
9 6 (1.05%) SaaS
10 4 (0.70%) Collibra
11 3 (0.53%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.53%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (0.53%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.53%) GCP
11 3 (0.53%) IaaS
11 3 (0.53%) Lucidchart
11 3 (0.53%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 2 (0.35%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.35%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.68%) DNS
2 12 (2.11%) DHCP
3 10 (1.75%) FTP
4 9 (1.58%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.88%) Firewall
6 3 (0.53%) Network Security
7 2 (0.35%) SMTP
7 2 (0.35%) Telnet
8 1 (0.18%) 4G
8 1 (0.18%) Broadband
8 1 (0.18%) GSM
8 1 (0.18%) HTTP
8 1 (0.18%) Internet
8 1 (0.18%) Intranet
8 1 (0.18%) LTE
8 1 (0.18%) SONET
8 1 (0.18%) UMTS
8 1 (0.18%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (11.93%) Power BI
2 19 (3.33%) Tableau
3 18 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (1.05%) Metadata
6 5 (0.88%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.70%) Big Data
7 4 (0.70%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.70%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.53%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.53%) OLAP
8 3 (0.53%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (0.18%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.18%) Power Query
10 1 (0.18%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 58 (10.18%) JIRA
2 4 (0.70%) Postman
3 3 (0.53%) Git
3 3 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.53%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.35%) Balsamiq
4 2 (0.35%) TestRail
5 1 (0.18%) GitLab
5 1 (0.18%) Selenium
5 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 155 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 134 (23.51%) Analytical Skills
3 95 (16.67%) Finance
4 65 (11.40%) Public Sector
5 22 (3.86%) Retail
6 16 (2.81%) Marketing
7 15 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.46%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.28%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.28%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.58%) Legal
11 8 (1.40%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.23%) Banking
13 6 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.05%) Military
14 4 (0.70%) Advertising
14 4 (0.70%) Automotive
14 4 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.35%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.58%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (1.40%) ADO
3 4 (0.70%) SailPoint
3 4 (0.70%) Web Services
4 3 (0.53%) EDI
5 2 (0.35%) .NET
5 2 (0.35%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.35%) OAuth
5 2 (0.35%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.35%) OpenID
5 2 (0.35%) SAML
6 1 (0.18%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.18%) HTML
6 1 (0.18%) LDAP
6 1 (0.18%) Middleware
6 1 (0.18%) Node.js
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 26 (4.56%) Security Operations Centre
2 25 (4.39%) Onboarding
3 17 (2.98%) Operational Technology
4 16 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 13 (2.28%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
8 10 (1.75%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.58%) Cyberattack
9 9 (1.58%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
10 7 (1.23%) SCADA
11 6 (1.05%) NHS
12 5 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.70%) Virtual Team
14 3 (0.53%) IVR
14 3 (0.53%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 60 (10.53%) Windows
2 21 (3.68%) Linux
3 11 (1.93%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.23%) Unix
5 6 (1.05%) Android
5 6 (1.05%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.18%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (16.14%) Agile
2 74 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
3 72 (12.63%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 56 (9.82%) Business Analysis
5 56 (9.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 55 (9.65%) Workshop Facilitation
7 54 (9.47%) Cybersecurity
8 52 (9.12%) Process Improvement
8 52 (9.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 48 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (8.25%) Analytics
11 45 (7.89%) DevOps
12 41 (7.19%) Data Modelling
13 38 (6.67%) Customer Service
13 38 (6.67%) Data Analysis
13 38 (6.67%) SIEM
14 36 (6.32%) ITIL
14 36 (6.32%) Project Management
14 36 (6.32%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 48 (8.42%) SQL
2 20 (3.51%) Python
3 5 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (0.88%) PowerShell
4 4 (0.70%) R
5 3 (0.53%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.53%) VBA
6 2 (0.35%) C#
6 2 (0.35%) Java
6 2 (0.35%) VB
7 1 (0.18%) C
7 1 (0.18%) C++
7 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.18%) Korn
7 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 169 (29.65%) Security Cleared
2 99 (17.37%) SC Cleared
3 54 (9.47%) DV Cleared
4 47 (8.25%) Degree
5 15 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.11%) ACCA
6 12 (2.11%) CIMA
6 12 (2.11%) ISTQB
7 9 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (0.88%) CompTIA CySA+
10 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.70%) PMP
11 3 (0.53%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.35%) CISSP
12 2 (0.35%) GCIH
12 2 (0.35%) GIAC
12 2 (0.35%) ISEB
12 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 28 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 28 (4.91%) PMO
3 22 (3.86%) GDPR
4 21 (3.68%) NIST
4 21 (3.68%) QA
5 11 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (1.93%) SLA
6 10 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (1.75%) GRC
7 7 (1.23%) NCSC
8 6 (1.05%) IASME
8 6 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 6 (1.05%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 2 (0.35%) IFRS
10 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.18%) GMP
System Software
1 36 (6.32%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.35%) NFS
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (2.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.75%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.88%) SCCM
3 5 (0.88%) Terraform
4 4 (0.70%) QRadar
5 3 (0.53%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.18%) Nagios
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 64 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.19%) SAP
3 35 (6.14%) Oracle
4 19 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 18 (3.16%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.81%) Splunk
7 12 (2.11%) VMware
8 10 (1.75%) Citrix
9 9 (1.58%) Workday
10 8 (1.40%) Avaya
10 8 (1.40%) Meraki
10 8 (1.40%) Mitel
11 7 (1.23%) LogRhythm
12 5 (0.88%) Remedy
12 5 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 4 (0.70%) Adobe
13 4 (0.70%) Google
14 3 (0.53%) Dell
14 3 (0.53%) HP
14 3 (0.53%) IBM