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 2 August 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 693 395 471
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 10.38% 11.29% 9.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.24% 12.46% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 253 314
10th Percentile £232 £200 £200
25th Percentile £375 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £575 £519 £538
90th Percentile £625 £575 £595
England median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 19 20
10th Percentile £16.35 £15.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.32 £15.94 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -7.69% +48.57%
75th Percentile £54.81 £25.68 £31.00
90th Percentile £89.75 £30.15 £39.32
England median hourly rate £25.42 £22.14 £17.50
% change year-on-year +14.81% +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 6,167 3,169 4,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 90.59% 92.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,651 2,055 2,807
10th Percentile £305 £213 £255
25th Percentile £425 £376 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £638
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 713 256 381
10th Percentile £16.04 £13.93 £15.96
25th Percentile £26.25 £15.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -56.15% +14.70%
75th Percentile £75.40 £58.75 £72.33
90th Percentile £87.93 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +73.08% -42.22% +4.65%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 0 373 £531 +18.06% 86
Berkshire +4 237 £550 +15.79% 37
Hampshire +1 174 £513 +25.00% 75
Buckinghamshire -9 86 £575 +49.35% 31
West Sussex +5 61 £363 -2.03% 14
Surrey -10 58 £450 -5.26% 30
Oxfordshire -4 50 £375 +44.79% 19
East Sussex +3 13 £350 -41.67% 6
Kent -2 8 £350 +33.33% 20
Middlesex -13 4 £570 +1.79% 12
Home Counties - 2 £650 -
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 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.

1 196 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 112 (16.16%) SC Cleared
3 98 (14.14%) Agile
4 95 (13.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 93 (13.42%) Microsoft
6 92 (13.28%) Cybersecurity
7 91 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 90 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
9 89 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 83 (11.98%) Business Analysis
11 79 (11.40%) Business Intelligence
12 75 (10.82%) Microsoft Excel
12 75 (10.82%) SQL
13 74 (10.68%) Power Platform
14 72 (10.39%) Power BI
15 69 (9.96%) Workshop Facilitation
16 68 (9.81%) Decision-Making
17 66 (9.52%) DV Cleared
18 65 (9.38%) Degree
18 65 (9.38%) ITIL
19 60 (8.66%) Data Analysis
19 60 (8.66%) Requirements Gathering
20 59 (8.51%) Analytics
20 59 (8.51%) Process Improvement
21 58 (8.37%) Azure
21 58 (8.37%) ITSM
22 56 (8.08%) Data Modelling
23 54 (7.79%) Validation
24 51 (7.36%) Data Quality
25 48 (6.93%) 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 25 (3.61%) Confluence
2 19 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.43%) CMS
5 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
5 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 75 (10.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.14%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.30%) iTrent
2 9 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.43%) 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 (0.14%) Maximo
6 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (10.68%) Power Platform
2 58 (8.37%) Azure
3 40 (5.77%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (3.46%) Entra ID
6 22 (3.17%) AWS
7 10 (1.44%) OCI
8 9 (1.30%) SaaS
8 9 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (0.58%) GCP
10 3 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (0.43%) IaaS
10 3 (0.43%) Lucidchart
10 3 (0.43%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.43%) 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 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (0.72%) Firewall
2 5 (0.72%) Intranet
2 5 (0.72%) Network Security
3 3 (0.43%) DHCP
3 3 (0.43%) DNS
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) Broadband
4 1 (0.14%) GSM
4 1 (0.14%) HTTP
4 1 (0.14%) Internet
4 1 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.14%) LTE
4 1 (0.14%) Modbus
4 1 (0.14%) SONET
4 1 (0.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.14%) UMTS
4 1 (0.14%) VoLTE
4 1 (0.14%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (10.39%) Power BI
2 25 (3.61%) Tableau
3 19 (2.74%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (1.30%) Relational Database
4 9 (1.30%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
6 5 (0.72%) Metadata
7 4 (0.58%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.43%) 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 (0.14%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.14%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.14%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.14%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 42 (6.06%) JIRA
2 3 (0.43%) Git
3 2 (0.29%) Balsamiq
3 2 (0.29%) Postman
3 2 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.14%) GitLab
4 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.14%) TestRail
4 1 (0.14%) Toad
4 1 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 192 (27.71%) Social Skills
2 162 (23.38%) Analytical Skills
3 94 (13.56%) Finance
4 76 (10.97%) Public Sector
5 32 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (2.60%) Retail
6 18 (2.60%) Telecoms
7 17 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
7 17 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (1.73%) Marketing
9 11 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 10 (1.44%) Legal
11 9 (1.30%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.30%) Automotive
11 9 (1.30%) Military
12 8 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.01%) Police
14 4 (0.58%) Banking
14 4 (0.58%) Billing
14 4 (0.58%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (1.15%) EDI
3 5 (0.72%) ADO
4 4 (0.58%) .NET
4 4 (0.58%) SailPoint
4 4 (0.58%) Web Services
5 3 (0.43%) 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 (0.14%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.14%) Django
7 1 (0.14%) LDAP
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.14%) REST
7 1 (0.14%) SOAP
7 1 (0.14%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 32 (4.62%) Operational Technology
3 15 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
3 15 (2.16%) Security Operations Centre
4 14 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (1.73%) CMDB
5 12 (1.73%) Cyber Threat
5 12 (1.73%) Management Information System
5 12 (1.73%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.59%) Data Centre
7 10 (1.44%) Cyber Defence
7 10 (1.44%) Data Structures
8 6 (0.87%) SCADA
9 5 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
9 5 (0.72%) IVR
9 5 (0.72%) PMI
10 4 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (0.58%) Media Streaming
10 4 (0.58%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.43%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 43 (6.20%) Windows
2 11 (1.59%) Linux
3 7 (1.01%) Android
3 7 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.58%) Unix
4 4 (0.58%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.43%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.14%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (14.14%) Agile
2 95 (13.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 92 (13.28%) Cybersecurity
4 91 (13.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 90 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
6 89 (12.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 83 (11.98%) Business Analysis
8 79 (11.40%) Business Intelligence
9 69 (9.96%) Workshop Facilitation
10 68 (9.81%) Decision-Making
11 65 (9.38%) ITIL
12 60 (8.66%) Data Analysis
12 60 (8.66%) Requirements Gathering
13 59 (8.51%) Analytics
13 59 (8.51%) Process Improvement
14 58 (8.37%) ITSM
15 56 (8.08%) Data Modelling
16 54 (7.79%) Validation
17 48 (6.93%) Migration
18 47 (6.78%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 75 (10.82%) SQL
2 23 (3.32%) Python
3 7 (1.01%) Java
3 7 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (0.72%) PowerShell
4 5 (0.72%) R
5 2 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.29%) T-SQL
5 2 (0.29%) VB
6 1 (0.14%) Bash
6 1 (0.14%) C
6 1 (0.14%) COBOL
6 1 (0.14%) JCL
6 1 (0.14%) Korn
6 1 (0.14%) Perl
6 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 196 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 112 (16.16%) SC Cleared
3 66 (9.52%) DV Cleared
4 65 (9.38%) Degree
5 19 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.88%) ACCA
6 13 (1.88%) CIMA
7 11 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.44%) ISTQB
9 9 (1.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 8 (1.15%) ISEB
11 6 (0.87%) CBAP
11 6 (0.87%) PMI Certification
12 5 (0.72%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.43%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.43%) ISEB Practitioner
13 3 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 3 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (0.29%) DBS Check
14 2 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.36%) Data Quality
2 42 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (4.76%) NIST
4 28 (4.04%) QA
5 23 (3.32%) PMO
6 17 (2.45%) GRC
7 15 (2.16%) GDPR
8 12 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 9 (1.30%) NCSC
10 8 (1.15%) SLA
11 6 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.87%) IASME
11 6 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 6 (0.87%) NIST 800
12 4 (0.58%) COBIT
13 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.29%) IFRS
14 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
System Software
1 28 (4.04%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.29%) vSphere
4 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (1.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.72%) QRadar
2 5 (0.72%) SCCM
2 5 (0.72%) Terraform
3 3 (0.43%) CSIRT
3 3 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.14%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.14%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 93 (13.42%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.78%) SAP
3 46 (6.64%) ServiceNow
4 43 (6.20%) Oracle
5 25 (3.61%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.73%) Avaya
6 12 (1.73%) Meraki
6 12 (1.73%) Mitel
6 12 (1.73%) Workday
7 6 (0.87%) Baan
7 6 (0.87%) LogRhythm
8 5 (0.72%) Databricks
8 5 (0.72%) IBM
8 5 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (0.58%) Adobe
9 4 (0.58%) Remedy
9 4 (0.58%) VMware
10 3 (0.43%) Dell
10 3 (0.43%) Google
10 3 (0.43%) HP