Analyst Contract Job Trends in the South East

Analyst
England > South East

The median Analyst daily rate in the South East is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026.

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

 6 months to
21 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 10 13
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 -5
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 579 330 509
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 9.73% 11.09% 9.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.59% 12.13% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 232 335
10th Percentile £254 £201 £190
25th Percentile £350 £323 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - +4.65%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £625 £588 £600
England median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 12 27
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.69 £14.14
25th Percentile £16.35 £19.99 £16.00
Median hourly rate £24.23 £24.00 £19.38
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +23.87% -12.57%
75th Percentile £61.30 £25.11 £22.25
90th Percentile £101.79 £27.75 £43.74
England median hourly rate £21.00 £22.14 £16.00
% change year-on-year -5.15% +38.38% -16.63%

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 5,467 2,720 5,046
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.87% 91.43% 92.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,399 1,812 3,031
10th Percentile £300 £225 £213
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% - -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £619
90th Percentile £700 £661 £688
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.27% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 515 163 486
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.20 £12.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £18.50 £18.20
Median hourly rate £52.43 £32.05 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.57% -32.53% -2.46%
75th Percentile £80.15 £62.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.23 £37.18
% change year-on-year +53.95% -21.38% -16.94%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +2 308 £475 +2.76% 94
Berkshire -2 158 £435 -10.87% 43
Hampshire 0 142 £500 +11.11% 51
Buckinghamshire -1 115 £575 +44.65% 34
Surrey -7 51 £475 +2.70% 28
Oxfordshire -5 35 £525 +110.00% 18
West Sussex +4 33 £364 -2.28% 10
Kent +5 22 £250 -4.76% 9
East Sussex -4 9 £425 -22.73% 1
Middlesex - 2 £560 - 14
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 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.

1 177 (30.57%) Security Cleared
2 101 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 95 (16.41%) Agile
4 84 (14.51%) Microsoft Excel
5 73 (12.61%) Business Intelligence
6 70 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (11.57%) Power Platform
8 66 (11.40%) Power BI
9 65 (11.23%) Microsoft
10 62 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
11 61 (10.54%) Azure
11 61 (10.54%) Windows
12 60 (10.36%) DV Cleared
13 59 (10.19%) Decision-Making
14 57 (9.84%) Business Analysis
14 57 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 56 (9.67%) JIRA
15 56 (9.67%) Workshop Facilitation
16 55 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
17 54 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
18 53 (9.15%) Process Improvement
19 50 (8.64%) Degree
20 49 (8.46%) SQL
21 47 (8.12%) Analytics
22 45 (7.77%) SIEM
23 44 (7.60%) DevOps
24 42 (7.25%) Data Modelling
25 41 (7.08%) SAP
26 39 (6.74%) Security Operations
27 38 (6.56%) Customer Service

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 (4.15%) Confluence
2 14 (2.42%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.86%) CMS
5 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 84 (14.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (2.25%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.17%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 20 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.55%) iTrent
3 5 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.69%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.52%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.52%) SAP R/3
6 2 (0.35%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.35%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.17%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 67 (11.57%) Power Platform
2 61 (10.54%) Azure
3 36 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (5.53%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (3.80%) Entra ID
6 20 (3.45%) AWS
7 13 (2.25%) OCI
8 9 (1.55%) SuccessFactors
9 7 (1.21%) SaaS
10 4 (0.69%) Collibra
11 3 (0.52%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.52%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.52%) GCP
11 3 (0.52%) IaaS
11 3 (0.52%) Lucidchart
11 3 (0.52%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 2 (0.35%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.35%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (3.11%) DNS
2 9 (1.55%) DHCP
2 9 (1.55%) TCP/IP
2 9 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (1.21%) FTP
4 6 (1.04%) Firewall
5 2 (0.35%) Network Security
6 1 (0.17%) 4G
6 1 (0.17%) Broadband
6 1 (0.17%) GSM
6 1 (0.17%) HTTP
6 1 (0.17%) Internet
6 1 (0.17%) Intranet
6 1 (0.17%) LTE
6 1 (0.17%) Modbus
6 1 (0.17%) SMTP
6 1 (0.17%) SONET
6 1 (0.17%) Telnet
6 1 (0.17%) VoLTE
6 1 (0.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (11.40%) Power BI
2 19 (3.28%) Tableau
3 18 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (1.04%) Metadata
6 5 (0.86%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.86%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.69%) Big Data
7 4 (0.69%) Qlik Sense
7 4 (0.69%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.52%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.52%) OLAP
9 2 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.35%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (0.17%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.17%) Power Query
10 1 (0.17%) QGIS
10 1 (0.17%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 56 (9.67%) JIRA
2 4 (0.69%) Postman
3 3 (0.52%) Git
3 3 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.52%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.35%) Balsamiq
4 2 (0.35%) TestRail
5 1 (0.17%) GitLab
5 1 (0.17%) Selenium
5 1 (0.17%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.17%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.17%) WebDriver
General
1 161 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 131 (22.63%) Analytical Skills
3 94 (16.23%) Finance
4 68 (11.74%) Public Sector
5 21 (3.63%) Retail
6 19 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (2.76%) Marketing
8 15 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.25%) Manufacturing
9 13 (2.25%) Telecoms
10 9 (1.55%) Legal
11 8 (1.38%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (1.21%) Banking
12 7 (1.21%) Military
13 6 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (0.86%) Automotive
15 4 (0.69%) Advertising
15 4 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
16 2 (0.35%) Back Office
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.04%) ADO
3 4 (0.69%) SailPoint
3 4 (0.69%) Web Services
4 3 (0.52%) 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 (0.17%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.17%) HTML
6 1 (0.17%) LDAP
6 1 (0.17%) Middleware
6 1 (0.17%) Node.js
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (4.84%) Security Operations Centre
2 27 (4.66%) Onboarding
3 23 (3.97%) Operational Technology
4 16 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 13 (2.25%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
9 10 (1.73%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.55%) Cyberattack
11 8 (1.38%) Data Structures
12 7 (1.21%) Cyber Defence
12 7 (1.21%) SCADA
13 6 (1.04%) NHS
14 5 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
15 4 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
15 4 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (0.69%) Virtual Team
16 3 (0.52%) IVR
16 3 (0.52%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 61 (10.54%) Windows
2 24 (4.15%) Linux
3 9 (1.55%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.21%) Unix
5 6 (1.04%) Android
5 6 (1.04%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.17%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (16.41%) Agile
2 73 (12.61%) Business Intelligence
3 70 (12.09%) Problem-Solving
4 62 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
5 59 (10.19%) Decision-Making
6 57 (9.84%) Business Analysis
6 57 (9.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 56 (9.67%) Workshop Facilitation
8 55 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (9.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 53 (9.15%) Process Improvement
11 47 (8.12%) Analytics
12 45 (7.77%) SIEM
13 44 (7.60%) DevOps
14 42 (7.25%) Data Modelling
15 39 (6.74%) Security Operations
16 38 (6.56%) Customer Service
16 38 (6.56%) Migration
17 37 (6.39%) Data Analysis
17 37 (6.39%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (8.46%) SQL
2 20 (3.45%) Python
3 5 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (0.86%) PowerShell
4 4 (0.69%) R
5 3 (0.52%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.52%) VBA
6 2 (0.35%) C#
6 2 (0.35%) Java
6 2 (0.35%) VB
7 1 (0.17%) C
7 1 (0.17%) C++
7 1 (0.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.17%) Korn
7 1 (0.17%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 177 (30.57%) Security Cleared
2 101 (17.44%) SC Cleared
3 60 (10.36%) DV Cleared
4 50 (8.64%) Degree
5 15 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.25%) ISTQB
7 12 (2.07%) ACCA
7 12 (2.07%) CIMA
8 10 (1.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 9 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
11 5 (0.86%) CompTIA CySA+
12 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.69%) PMP
13 3 (0.52%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.35%) CISSP
14 2 (0.35%) GCIH
14 2 (0.35%) GIAC
14 2 (0.35%) ISEB
14 2 (0.35%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 30 (5.18%) Data Quality
3 26 (4.49%) NIST
3 26 (4.49%) PMO
4 21 (3.63%) GDPR
4 21 (3.63%) QA
5 10 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 10 (1.73%) GRC
5 10 (1.73%) SLA
6 7 (1.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 7 (1.21%) NCSC
7 6 (1.04%) IASME
7 6 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 6 (1.04%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.35%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.35%) IFRS
9 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 2 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (5.87%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.35%) vSphere
5 1 (0.17%) NFS
5 1 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (1.73%) Kubernetes
1 10 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.04%) SCCM
3 5 (0.86%) Terraform
4 4 (0.69%) QRadar
5 3 (0.52%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 2 (0.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.35%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.17%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.17%) Dell DRAC
7 1 (0.17%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.17%) Nagios
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (11.23%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.08%) SAP
3 34 (5.87%) Oracle
4 18 (3.11%) Salesforce
5 17 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 16 (2.76%) Splunk
7 10 (1.73%) VMware
8 9 (1.55%) Workday
9 8 (1.38%) Avaya
9 8 (1.38%) Meraki
9 8 (1.38%) Mitel
10 7 (1.21%) Citrix
10 7 (1.21%) LogRhythm
11 5 (0.86%) Remedy
11 5 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 4 (0.69%) Adobe
12 4 (0.69%) Google
13 3 (0.52%) Dell
13 3 (0.52%) HP
13 3 (0.52%) IBM
376 Analyst jobs in the South East