Analyst Contract Job Trends in the South East

Analyst
England > South East

The median Analyst daily rate in the South East is £454, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026.

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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 12 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 548 318 507
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 9.37% 10.55% 9.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.19% 11.49% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 228 338
10th Percentile £251 £225 £189
25th Percentile £350 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +1.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £588 £600
England median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 12 23
10th Percentile £16.17 £19.97 £13.29
25th Percentile £16.35 £20.09 £16.50
Median hourly rate £18.83 £24.00 £19.38
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +23.87% -13.89%
75th Percentile £40.75 £25.11 £22.25
90th Percentile £83.30 £27.75 £28.50
England median hourly rate £20.77 £22.14 £16.00
% change year-on-year -6.19% +38.38% -17.95%

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 5,377 2,767 5,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 91.84% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,347 1,823 3,082
10th Percentile £300 £250 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £615
90th Percentile £711 £663 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 163 482
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.48 £18.32
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -31.58% -1.86%
75th Percentile £82.00 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.86
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.79 £36.02
% change year-on-year +52.63% -14.52% -19.53%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 0 294 £450 -2.70% 83
Berkshire -7 150 £435 -10.87% 36
Hampshire -2 134 £500 +9.59% 64
Buckinghamshire -1 120 £475 +18.75% 29
Surrey -6 50 £475 +2.70% 30
West Sussex +2 26 £364 -2.28% 13
Kent +5 24 £250 -4.76% 25
Oxfordshire -11 24 £500 +21.21% 20
East Sussex -4 8 £350 -36.36% 7
Middlesex - 2 £560 - 16
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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.

1 155 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 96 (17.52%) SC Cleared
3 86 (15.69%) Agile
4 85 (15.51%) Microsoft Excel
5 74 (13.50%) Business Intelligence
6 70 (12.77%) Power Platform
6 70 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (12.59%) Power BI
8 60 (10.95%) Microsoft
9 57 (10.40%) Azure
9 57 (10.40%) Windows
9 57 (10.40%) Workshop Facilitation
10 56 (10.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 54 (9.85%) JIRA
12 53 (9.67%) Decision-Making
13 52 (9.49%) Business Analysis
14 50 (9.12%) Cybersecurity
15 49 (8.94%) Process Improvement
16 48 (8.76%) SQL
17 47 (8.58%) DV Cleared
18 45 (8.21%) Analytics
19 44 (8.03%) Stakeholder Management
20 43 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
21 42 (7.66%) Degree
22 41 (7.48%) Customer Service
23 39 (7.12%) Data Modelling
23 39 (7.12%) DevOps
23 39 (7.12%) SAP
24 38 (6.93%) ITIL
25 37 (6.75%) Data Analysis

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 18 (3.28%) Confluence
2 15 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.91%) CMS
5 1 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 85 (15.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (3.28%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (2.37%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (3.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.46%) iTrent
3 4 (0.73%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (0.73%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.55%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.55%) SAP R/3
5 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.36%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.36%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 70 (12.77%) Power Platform
2 57 (10.40%) Azure
3 33 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (4.20%) Entra ID
6 17 (3.10%) AWS
7 13 (2.37%) OCI
8 8 (1.46%) SuccessFactors
9 6 (1.09%) GCP
10 5 (0.91%) SaaS
11 4 (0.73%) Collibra
12 3 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
12 3 (0.55%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (0.55%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.55%) IaaS
12 3 (0.55%) Lucidchart
13 2 (0.36%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 2 (0.36%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.83%) DNS
2 12 (2.19%) DHCP
3 10 (1.82%) FTP
4 9 (1.64%) TCP/IP
4 9 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (0.73%) Firewall
6 3 (0.55%) Network Security
7 2 (0.36%) SMTP
7 2 (0.36%) Telnet
8 1 (0.18%) 4G
8 1 (0.18%) 5G
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%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.18%) VoWiFi
8 1 (0.18%) VPN
8 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (12.59%) Power BI
2 20 (3.65%) Tableau
3 19 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.46%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (1.09%) Metadata
6 5 (0.91%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.73%) Big Data
7 4 (0.73%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.55%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.55%) OLAP
8 3 (0.55%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.36%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.36%) 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%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.18%) Power Query
10 1 (0.18%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 54 (9.85%) JIRA
2 5 (0.91%) Git
3 4 (0.73%) Postman
4 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.55%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.36%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.36%) Gatling
5 2 (0.36%) JMeter
5 2 (0.36%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.36%) TestRail
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.18%) Selenium
6 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 143 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 135 (24.64%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (16.24%) Finance
4 57 (10.40%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.29%) Retail
6 17 (3.10%) Marketing
7 14 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 13 (2.37%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.82%) Legal
10 7 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.09%) Banking
11 6 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.91%) Aerospace
12 5 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.73%) Advertising
14 3 (0.55%) Automotive
14 3 (0.55%) Military
15 2 (0.36%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (1.46%) ADO
3 3 (0.55%) EDI
4 2 (0.36%) .NET
4 2 (0.36%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.36%) OAuth
4 2 (0.36%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.36%) OpenID
4 2 (0.36%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.36%) SAML
4 2 (0.36%) Web Services
5 1 (0.18%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.18%) HTML
5 1 (0.18%) LDAP
5 1 (0.18%) Middleware
5 1 (0.18%) Node.js
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.18%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.56%) Security Operations Centre
2 19 (3.47%) Management Information System
2 19 (3.47%) Onboarding
3 17 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (2.74%) Operational Technology
6 11 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (2.01%) Data Centre
7 10 (1.82%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.64%) Cyberattack
8 9 (1.64%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
9 7 (1.28%) SCADA
10 5 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.91%) NHS
11 4 (0.73%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.73%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.55%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 57 (10.40%) Windows
2 21 (3.83%) Linux
3 10 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.28%) Unix
5 3 (0.55%) Android
5 3 (0.55%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.18%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (15.69%) Agile
2 74 (13.50%) Business Intelligence
3 70 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (10.40%) Workshop Facilitation
5 56 (10.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 53 (9.67%) Decision-Making
7 52 (9.49%) Business Analysis
8 50 (9.12%) Cybersecurity
9 49 (8.94%) Process Improvement
10 45 (8.21%) Analytics
11 44 (8.03%) Stakeholder Management
12 43 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 41 (7.48%) Customer Service
14 39 (7.12%) Data Modelling
14 39 (7.12%) DevOps
15 38 (6.93%) ITIL
16 37 (6.75%) Data Analysis
17 36 (6.57%) Project Management
17 36 (6.57%) Requirements Gathering
18 35 (6.39%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 48 (8.76%) SQL
2 20 (3.65%) Python
3 5 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
4 3 (0.55%) PowerShell
4 3 (0.55%) R
4 3 (0.55%) T-SQL
4 3 (0.55%) VBA
5 2 (0.36%) C#
5 2 (0.36%) Java
5 2 (0.36%) VB
6 1 (0.18%) C
6 1 (0.18%) C++
6 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.18%) Korn
6 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 155 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 96 (17.52%) SC Cleared
3 47 (8.58%) DV Cleared
4 42 (7.66%) Degree
5 15 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (2.19%) ISTQB
7 10 (1.82%) ACCA
7 10 (1.82%) CIMA
8 9 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.91%) CompTIA CySA+
12 4 (0.73%) PMP
13 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.36%) CISSP
14 2 (0.36%) GCIH
14 2 (0.36%) GIAC
14 2 (0.36%) ISEB
14 2 (0.36%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 2 (0.36%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.47%) PMO
2 29 (5.29%) Data Quality
3 27 (4.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (4.01%) GDPR
4 22 (4.01%) QA
5 20 (3.65%) NIST
6 14 (2.55%) SLA
7 11 (2.01%) Cyber Essentials
8 10 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 9 (1.64%) GRC
10 7 (1.28%) NCSC
11 6 (1.09%) IASME
11 6 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (1.09%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.36%) IFRS
13 2 (0.36%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.18%) P3O
System Software
1 34 (6.20%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.36%) NFS
3 2 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.91%) Terraform
4 4 (0.73%) SCCM
5 3 (0.55%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 3 (0.55%) QRadar
6 2 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.36%) Ansible
6 2 (0.36%) Grafana
6 2 (0.36%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.36%) Prometheus
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 60 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.12%) SAP
3 34 (6.20%) Oracle
4 21 (3.83%) ServiceNow
5 17 (3.10%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.92%) Splunk
7 11 (2.01%) VMware
8 10 (1.82%) Citrix
9 8 (1.46%) Avaya
9 8 (1.46%) Meraki
9 8 (1.46%) Mitel
9 8 (1.46%) Workday
10 6 (1.09%) Google
10 6 (1.09%) LogRhythm
11 5 (0.91%) Remedy
12 4 (0.73%) Adobe
12 4 (0.73%) Foundry
12 4 (0.73%) Palantir
12 4 (0.73%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 3 (0.55%) Tenable