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 30 July 2026.

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

 6 months to
30 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 679 394 480
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 10.28% 11.37% 9.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.12% 12.56% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 254 317
10th Percentile £231 £200 £200
25th Percentile £374 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £575 £520 £538
90th Percentile £625 £575 £592
England median daily rate £460 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 19 26
10th Percentile £16.35 £15.50 £13.93
25th Percentile £18.32 £15.94 £16.08
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +11.63% +22.86%
75th Percentile £54.81 £25.68 £30.44
90th Percentile £89.75 £30.15 £33.99
England median hourly rate £25.12 £22.14 £17.50
% change year-on-year +13.46% +26.51% -7.89%

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 6,104 3,136 4,720
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 90.51% 92.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,619 2,036 2,862
10th Percentile £304 £213 £255
25th Percentile £425 £376 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £634
90th Percentile £713 £663 £688
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 696 249 411
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £26.53 £15.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -56.15% +14.70%
75th Percentile £77.50 £60.00 £71.82
90th Percentile £87.98 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £45.56 £26.02 £43.00
% change year-on-year +75.08% -39.49% -1.58%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +1 360 £525 +16.67% 70
Berkshire +4 225 £531 +11.84% 31
Hampshire +1 170 £505 +20.96% 70
Buckinghamshire -9 86 £578 +50.13% 26
West Sussex +4 59 £364 -1.62% 14
Surrey -12 56 £463 -2.63% 26
Oxfordshire -4 49 £375 +44.79% 13
East Sussex +5 13 £350 -41.67% 9
Kent -3 10 £300 +14.29% 19
Middlesex -11 4 £570 +1.79% 13
Home Counties - 2 £650 -
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 July 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.

1 189 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 105 (15.46%) SC Cleared
3 96 (14.14%) Agile
4 92 (13.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 91 (13.40%) Microsoft
6 90 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 89 (13.11%) Cybersecurity
7 89 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
8 88 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
9 81 (11.93%) Business Analysis
10 79 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
11 75 (11.05%) Microsoft Excel
11 75 (11.05%) SQL
12 74 (10.90%) Power Platform
13 72 (10.60%) Power BI
14 69 (10.16%) Workshop Facilitation
15 66 (9.72%) Decision-Making
15 66 (9.72%) DV Cleared
16 65 (9.57%) ITIL
17 64 (9.43%) Degree
18 60 (8.84%) Analytics
18 60 (8.84%) Data Analysis
19 59 (8.69%) Requirements Gathering
20 58 (8.54%) Azure
20 58 (8.54%) Process Improvement
21 56 (8.25%) Data Modelling
21 56 (8.25%) ITSM
22 53 (7.81%) Validation
23 51 (7.51%) Data Quality
24 48 (7.07%) 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 (3.53%) Confluence
2 19 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.15%) SAS
5 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 75 (11.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.62%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.15%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.33%) iTrent
2 9 (1.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.59%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.44%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.44%) SAP R/3
5 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.29%) Primavera
5 2 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.29%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.15%) Maximo
6 1 (0.15%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (10.90%) Power Platform
2 58 (8.54%) Azure
3 39 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (3.53%) Entra ID
6 22 (3.24%) AWS
7 10 (1.47%) OCI
8 9 (1.33%) SaaS
8 9 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (0.59%) GCP
10 3 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.44%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (0.44%) IaaS
10 3 (0.44%) Lucidchart
10 3 (0.44%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.29%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.29%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (0.74%) Firewall
2 5 (0.74%) Network Security
3 4 (0.59%) Intranet
4 3 (0.44%) DHCP
4 3 (0.44%) DNS
5 1 (0.15%) 4G
5 1 (0.15%) 5G
5 1 (0.15%) Broadband
5 1 (0.15%) GSM
5 1 (0.15%) HTTP
5 1 (0.15%) Internet
5 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.15%) LTE
5 1 (0.15%) Modbus
5 1 (0.15%) SONET
5 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.15%) UMTS
5 1 (0.15%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.15%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (10.60%) Power BI
2 25 (3.68%) Tableau
3 19 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.33%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (1.33%) Relational Database
4 9 (1.33%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.88%) Qlik Sense
6 5 (0.74%) Metadata
7 4 (0.59%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.44%) OLAP
9 2 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.29%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.29%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.29%) GIS
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle OLAP
9 2 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.15%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.15%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.15%) QGIS
10 1 (0.15%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 41 (6.04%) JIRA
2 3 (0.44%) Git
3 2 (0.29%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.29%) Postman
3 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.15%) GitLab
4 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.15%) TestRail
4 1 (0.15%) Toad
4 1 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 190 (27.98%) Social Skills
2 158 (23.27%) Analytical Skills
3 92 (13.55%) Finance
4 75 (11.05%) Public Sector
5 32 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (2.80%) Retail
7 18 (2.65%) Telecoms
8 17 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 17 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.77%) Marketing
10 11 (1.62%) Legal
10 11 (1.62%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.33%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.33%) Automotive
11 9 (1.33%) Military
12 7 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.03%) Police
13 4 (0.59%) Banking
13 4 (0.59%) Billing
13 4 (0.59%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.47%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (1.18%) EDI
3 5 (0.74%) ADO
4 4 (0.59%) .NET
4 4 (0.59%) SailPoint
4 4 (0.59%) Web Services
5 3 (0.44%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.29%) Middleware
6 2 (0.29%) OAuth
6 2 (0.29%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.29%) OpenID
6 2 (0.29%) SAML
6 2 (0.29%) XML
7 1 (0.15%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.15%) Django
7 1 (0.15%) LDAP
7 1 (0.15%) Node.js
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.15%) SOAP
7 1 (0.15%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.86%) Onboarding
2 31 (4.57%) Operational Technology
3 15 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
4 14 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (1.77%) CMDB
5 12 (1.77%) Data Centre
5 12 (1.77%) Management Information System
5 12 (1.77%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.62%) Cyber Defence
7 10 (1.47%) Data Structures
8 6 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (0.88%) SCADA
9 5 (0.74%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.74%) IVR
9 5 (0.74%) PMI
10 4 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.59%) Media Streaming
11 3 (0.44%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 44 (6.48%) Windows
2 11 (1.62%) Linux
3 7 (1.03%) Android
3 7 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.59%) Unix
4 4 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.44%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.15%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (14.14%) Agile
2 92 (13.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 90 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 89 (13.11%) Cybersecurity
4 89 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
5 88 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
6 81 (11.93%) Business Analysis
7 79 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
8 69 (10.16%) Workshop Facilitation
9 66 (9.72%) Decision-Making
10 65 (9.57%) ITIL
11 60 (8.84%) Analytics
11 60 (8.84%) Data Analysis
12 59 (8.69%) Requirements Gathering
13 58 (8.54%) Process Improvement
14 56 (8.25%) Data Modelling
14 56 (8.25%) ITSM
15 53 (7.81%) Validation
16 48 (7.07%) Migration
17 46 (6.77%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 75 (11.05%) SQL
2 23 (3.39%) Python
3 7 (1.03%) Java
3 7 (1.03%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (0.74%) PowerShell
4 5 (0.74%) R
5 2 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.29%) VB
6 1 (0.15%) Bash
6 1 (0.15%) C
6 1 (0.15%) COBOL
6 1 (0.15%) JCL
6 1 (0.15%) Korn
6 1 (0.15%) Perl
6 1 (0.15%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 189 (27.84%) Security Cleared
2 105 (15.46%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.72%) DV Cleared
4 64 (9.43%) Degree
5 17 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.91%) ACCA
6 13 (1.91%) CIMA
7 10 (1.47%) ISTQB
7 10 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 8 (1.18%) ISEB
10 6 (0.88%) CBAP
10 6 (0.88%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (0.44%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.44%) ISEB Practitioner
12 3 (0.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 3 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
13 2 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.51%) Data Quality
2 42 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (4.86%) NIST
4 27 (3.98%) QA
5 24 (3.53%) PMO
6 15 (2.21%) GDPR
6 15 (2.21%) GRC
7 11 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
8 9 (1.33%) NCSC
9 8 (1.18%) SLA
10 6 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.88%) IASME
10 6 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 6 (0.88%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.44%) COBIT
12 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.29%) IFRS
12 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 1 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 29 (4.27%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.29%) vSphere
4 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.74%) QRadar
2 5 (0.74%) SCCM
2 5 (0.74%) Terraform
3 3 (0.44%) CSIRT
3 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.15%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.15%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (0.15%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 91 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.92%) SAP
3 45 (6.63%) ServiceNow
4 43 (6.33%) Oracle
5 23 (3.39%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.77%) Avaya
6 12 (1.77%) Meraki
6 12 (1.77%) Mitel
6 12 (1.77%) Workday
7 6 (0.88%) Baan
7 6 (0.88%) LogRhythm
8 5 (0.74%) Databricks
8 5 (0.74%) IBM
8 5 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (0.59%) Adobe
9 4 (0.59%) Remedy
9 4 (0.59%) Splunk
9 4 (0.59%) VMware
10 3 (0.44%) Google
10 3 (0.44%) HP
367 Analyst jobs in the South East