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 29 June 2026.

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

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 642 349 523
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 10.25% 11.19% 9.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.18% 12.34% 9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 233 331
10th Percentile £251 £200 £200
25th Percentile £363 £315 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £570 £525 £525
90th Percentile £616 £588 £588
England median daily rate £456 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +0.33% -4.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 16 32
10th Percentile £16.35 £15.50 £15.10
25th Percentile £18.21 £15.55 £16.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.04 £20.19
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% +14.11% -3.87%
75th Percentile £54.42 £26.09 £27.25
90th Percentile £86.58 £30.38 £36.20
England median hourly rate £23.00 £22.14 £16.30
% change year-on-year +3.88% +35.83% -14.21%

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 5,742 2,828 5,273
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 90.70% 92.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,446 1,835 3,104
10th Percentile £303 £220 £250
25th Percentile £419 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.57% +1.60%
75th Percentile £618 £600 £625
90th Percentile £706 £661 £692
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 604 210 540
10th Percentile £16.05 £14.20 £12.88
25th Percentile £25.62 £15.52 £18.46
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.29% -37.37% -1.00%
75th Percentile £78.75 £62.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +57.89% -27.94% -10.23%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 29 June 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 0 325 £500 +17.65% 90
Berkshire 0 192 £500 +2.56% 42
Hampshire +2 176 £505 +13.04% 45
Buckinghamshire -6 90 £600 +60.00% 26
Surrey -7 57 £475 - 31
West Sussex +3 45 £363 -2.03% 17
Oxfordshire -7 43 £400 +60.00% 22
Kent +5 17 £250 -4.76% 17
East Sussex -4 8 £350 -41.67% 3
Middlesex - 6 £570 - 14
Home Counties - 2 £650 -
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 June 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.

1 184 (28.66%) Security Cleared
2 101 (15.73%) SC Cleared
3 99 (15.42%) Agile
4 88 (13.71%) Microsoft Excel
5 80 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (11.99%) Business Intelligence
7 76 (11.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 74 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 73 (11.37%) Cybersecurity
9 73 (11.37%) Power Platform
10 72 (11.21%) Power BI
10 72 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
11 71 (11.06%) Microsoft
12 68 (10.59%) Business Analysis
13 66 (10.28%) DV Cleared
14 65 (10.12%) SQL
15 63 (9.81%) Azure
16 62 (9.66%) Decision-Making
17 57 (8.88%) Analytics
17 57 (8.88%) Degree
17 57 (8.88%) Process Improvement
18 56 (8.72%) ITIL
18 56 (8.72%) Workshop Facilitation
19 54 (8.41%) Windows
20 53 (8.26%) Data Modelling
21 49 (7.63%) Requirements Gathering
22 48 (7.48%) Data Analysis
22 48 (7.48%) JIRA
23 47 (7.32%) ITSM
24 45 (7.01%) Migration

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 (3.74%) Confluence
2 19 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.78%) CMS
5 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 88 (13.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (2.34%) MS Visio
4 13 (2.02%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.16%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.16%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (3.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.40%) iTrent
3 6 (0.93%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.62%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.47%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.47%) SAP R/3
6 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.31%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.16%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.16%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.16%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.16%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 73 (11.37%) Power Platform
2 63 (9.81%) Azure
3 40 (6.23%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (3.74%) Entra ID
6 21 (3.27%) AWS
7 13 (2.02%) OCI
8 9 (1.40%) SaaS
8 9 (1.40%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (0.47%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (0.47%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (0.47%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.47%) GCP
9 3 (0.47%) IaaS
9 3 (0.47%) Lucidchart
9 3 (0.47%) Power Automate
9 3 (0.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (0.31%) Miro
10 2 (0.31%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.31%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
2 10 (1.56%) DNS
3 7 (1.09%) DHCP
4 5 (0.78%) Firewall
5 4 (0.62%) FTP
5 4 (0.62%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.31%) Intranet
6 2 (0.31%) Network Security
7 1 (0.16%) 4G
7 1 (0.16%) 5G
7 1 (0.16%) HTTP
7 1 (0.16%) Internet
7 1 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.16%) LTE
7 1 (0.16%) Modbus
7 1 (0.16%) SONET
7 1 (0.16%) Telnet
7 1 (0.16%) VoLTE
7 1 (0.16%) VoWiFi
7 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (11.21%) Power BI
2 23 (3.58%) Tableau
3 18 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.56%) SQL Server
5 9 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
5 9 (1.40%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (0.78%) Metadata
8 4 (0.62%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.47%) OLAP
10 2 (0.31%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle OLAP
11 1 (0.16%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.16%) GIS
11 1 (0.16%) MS Access
11 1 (0.16%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.16%) Power Query
11 1 (0.16%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.16%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 48 (7.48%) JIRA
2 4 (0.62%) Postman
3 3 (0.47%) Git
3 3 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.47%) TestRail
3 3 (0.47%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.31%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.16%) GitLab
5 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
General
1 179 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 145 (22.59%) Analytical Skills
3 91 (14.17%) Finance
4 75 (11.68%) Public Sector
5 24 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (2.65%) Marketing
6 17 (2.65%) Retail
7 15 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (2.02%) Manufacturing
9 12 (1.87%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.40%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.40%) Legal
11 8 (1.25%) Automotive
11 8 (1.25%) Military
12 7 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.93%) Banking
14 5 (0.78%) Police
15 4 (0.62%) Advertising
15 4 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.09%) EDI
3 5 (0.78%) ADO
4 4 (0.62%) .NET
4 4 (0.62%) SailPoint
4 4 (0.62%) Web Services
5 3 (0.47%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.31%) OAuth
6 2 (0.31%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.31%) OpenID
6 2 (0.31%) SAML
7 1 (0.16%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.16%) LDAP
7 1 (0.16%) Middleware
7 1 (0.16%) Node.js
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.16%) SOAP
7 1 (0.16%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (4.67%) Onboarding
2 25 (3.89%) Operational Technology
3 20 (3.12%) Security Operations Centre
4 16 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.34%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.34%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (1.87%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.71%) CMDB
9 10 (1.56%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.09%) SCADA
11 6 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
12 5 (0.78%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (0.62%) Cyberattack
13 4 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
13 4 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.62%) Media Streaming
13 4 (0.62%) NHS
13 4 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (8.41%) Windows
2 17 (2.65%) Linux
3 8 (1.25%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.09%) Android
4 7 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 6 (0.93%) Unix
6 3 (0.47%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.16%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (15.42%) Agile
2 80 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
3 77 (11.99%) Business Intelligence
4 76 (11.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 74 (11.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 73 (11.37%) Cybersecurity
7 72 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 68 (10.59%) Business Analysis
9 62 (9.66%) Decision-Making
10 57 (8.88%) Analytics
10 57 (8.88%) Process Improvement
11 56 (8.72%) ITIL
11 56 (8.72%) Workshop Facilitation
12 53 (8.26%) Data Modelling
13 49 (7.63%) Requirements Gathering
14 48 (7.48%) Data Analysis
15 47 (7.32%) ITSM
16 45 (7.01%) Migration
17 43 (6.70%) SIEM
18 42 (6.54%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 65 (10.12%) SQL
2 23 (3.58%) Python
3 6 (0.93%) Java
3 6 (0.93%) PowerShell
4 5 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (0.78%) R
5 4 (0.62%) VBA
6 3 (0.47%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.31%) VB
8 1 (0.16%) Bash
8 1 (0.16%) C
8 1 (0.16%) COBOL
8 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.16%) JCL
8 1 (0.16%) Korn
8 1 (0.16%) Perl
8 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 184 (28.66%) Security Cleared
2 101 (15.73%) SC Cleared
3 66 (10.28%) DV Cleared
4 57 (8.88%) Degree
5 18 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.02%) ACCA
6 13 (2.02%) CIMA
7 10 (1.56%) ISTQB
8 8 (1.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 7 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (0.62%) ISEB
10 4 (0.62%) PMI Certification
10 4 (0.62%) PMP
11 3 (0.47%) CBAP
11 3 (0.47%) CompTIA CySA+
12 2 (0.31%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.31%) CISSP
12 2 (0.31%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (6.39%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (4.83%) NIST
4 26 (4.05%) PMO
5 24 (3.74%) QA
6 18 (2.80%) GDPR
7 12 (1.87%) GRC
8 9 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.25%) SLA
10 7 (1.09%) NCSC
11 6 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.93%) IASME
11 6 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (0.93%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.47%) COBIT
14 2 (0.31%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.31%) IFRS
14 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (4.98%) Active Directory
2 7 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.31%) vSphere
4 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.16%) NFS
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (1.56%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.78%) Terraform
4 4 (0.62%) QRadar
5 3 (0.47%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 3 (0.47%) SCCM
6 2 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.31%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.16%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.16%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.16%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.16%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 71 (11.06%) Microsoft
2 45 (7.01%) SAP
3 39 (6.07%) Oracle
3 39 (6.07%) ServiceNow
4 18 (2.80%) Salesforce
5 12 (1.87%) Workday
6 10 (1.56%) Avaya
6 10 (1.56%) Meraki
6 10 (1.56%) Mitel
7 8 (1.25%) Splunk
7 8 (1.25%) VMware
8 7 (1.09%) LogRhythm
9 5 (0.78%) Baan
9 5 (0.78%) Remedy
9 5 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (0.62%) Adobe
10 4 (0.62%) Citrix
10 4 (0.62%) IBM
11 3 (0.47%) Dell
11 3 (0.47%) HP