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 11 June 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 10 12
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 608 343 535
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 10.01% 11.48% 9.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.95% 12.61% 10.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 237 346
10th Percentile £258 £211 £195
25th Percentile £358 £332 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +2.86%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £538
90th Percentile £625 £580 £603
England median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 17 29
10th Percentile £16.35 £15.50 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.56 £16.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.07 £19.38
Median % change year-on-year +35.93% +13.91% -7.74%
75th Percentile £55.74 £25.00 £22.52
90th Percentile £92.92 £28.80 £37.49
England median hourly rate £22.50 £22.27 £16.30
% change year-on-year +1.03% +36.63% -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 5,555 2,720 5,294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.49% 91.03% 92.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,379 1,811 3,116
10th Percentile £303 £225 £243
25th Percentile £416 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £655 £688
England median daily rate £520 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +1.17% -2.10% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 179 552
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.20 £12.88
25th Percentile £24.73 £16.95 £18.82
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.05 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.01% -35.90% -
75th Percentile £80.15 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £38.50
% change year-on-year +54.80% -24.49% -14.44%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +2 319 £503 +8.77% 103
Berkshire -2 178 £483 -0.92% 47
Hampshire +1 157 £500 +11.92% 48
Buckinghamshire 0 105 £600 +50.94% 31
Surrey -6 57 £475 - 26
West Sussex -2 37 £364 -1.95% 13
Oxfordshire -9 36 £525 +110.00% 25
Kent +7 19 £250 -4.76% 16
East Sussex -6 8 £350 -30.00% 4
Middlesex - 3 £560 - 7
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 11 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.

1 183 (30.10%) Security Cleared
2 104 (17.11%) SC Cleared
3 96 (15.79%) Agile
4 86 (14.14%) Microsoft Excel
5 78 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
6 75 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
7 72 (11.84%) Power Platform
8 71 (11.68%) Power BI
9 69 (11.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 67 (11.02%) Cybersecurity
11 66 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
12 63 (10.36%) Business Analysis
12 63 (10.36%) Microsoft
12 63 (10.36%) Stakeholder Management
13 62 (10.20%) DV Cleared
14 61 (10.03%) Azure
15 59 (9.70%) Decision-Making
16 57 (9.38%) Workshop Facilitation
17 56 (9.21%) Process Improvement
17 56 (9.21%) SQL
18 55 (9.05%) JIRA
19 54 (8.88%) Degree
20 52 (8.55%) Windows
21 51 (8.39%) ITIL
22 50 (8.22%) Data Modelling
23 48 (7.89%) Analytics
24 43 (7.07%) Migration
24 43 (7.07%) SAP
24 43 (7.07%) SIEM
25 42 (6.91%) 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 27 (4.44%) Confluence
2 17 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.82%) CMS
5 1 (0.16%) SAS
Applications
1 86 (14.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (2.14%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.32%) 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 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.48%) iTrent
3 6 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.66%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.49%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.49%) SAP R/3
6 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.16%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.16%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 72 (11.84%) Power Platform
2 61 (10.03%) Azure
3 34 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (5.43%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 20 (3.29%) AWS
7 13 (2.14%) OCI
8 9 (1.48%) SaaS
8 9 (1.48%) SuccessFactors
9 3 (0.49%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (0.49%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.49%) Collibra
9 3 (0.49%) GCP
9 3 (0.49%) IaaS
9 3 (0.49%) Lucidchart
9 3 (0.49%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (0.33%) Miro
10 2 (0.33%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.63%) DNS
2 9 (1.48%) TCP/IP
2 9 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (1.15%) DHCP
4 5 (0.82%) FTP
5 3 (0.49%) Firewall
6 2 (0.33%) Intranet
6 2 (0.33%) Network Security
7 1 (0.16%) 4G
7 1 (0.16%) Broadband
7 1 (0.16%) GSM
7 1 (0.16%) HTTP
7 1 (0.16%) Internet
7 1 (0.16%) LTE
7 1 (0.16%) Modbus
7 1 (0.16%) SMTP
7 1 (0.16%) SONET
7 1 (0.16%) Telnet
7 1 (0.16%) VoLTE
7 1 (0.16%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (11.68%) Power BI
2 20 (3.29%) Tableau
3 17 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.48%) Oracle Reports
5 7 (1.15%) SQL Server
6 6 (0.99%) Metadata
6 6 (0.99%) Qlik Sense
6 6 (0.99%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.66%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.49%) OLAP
9 2 (0.33%) Big Data
9 2 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.33%) Oracle OLAP
9 2 (0.33%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.16%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.16%) Power Query
10 1 (0.16%) QGIS
10 1 (0.16%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 55 (9.05%) JIRA
2 4 (0.66%) Postman
3 3 (0.49%) Git
3 3 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (0.49%) TestRail
3 3 (0.49%) Zephyr
4 2 (0.33%) Balsamiq
5 1 (0.16%) GitLab
5 1 (0.16%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 168 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 137 (22.53%) Analytical Skills
3 102 (16.78%) Finance
4 71 (11.68%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
6 18 (2.96%) Retail
7 17 (2.80%) Marketing
8 15 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.14%) Manufacturing
10 11 (1.81%) Telecoms
11 9 (1.48%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.48%) Legal
12 8 (1.32%) Automotive
13 7 (1.15%) Banking
13 7 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.15%) Military
14 4 (0.66%) Advertising
14 4 (0.66%) Billing
14 4 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (0.82%) ADO
3 4 (0.66%) SailPoint
3 4 (0.66%) Web Services
4 3 (0.49%) .NET
4 3 (0.49%) EDI
5 2 (0.33%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.33%) OAuth
5 2 (0.33%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.33%) OpenID
5 2 (0.33%) SAML
6 1 (0.16%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.16%) LDAP
6 1 (0.16%) Middleware
6 1 (0.16%) Node.js
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.16%) SOAP
6 1 (0.16%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.77%) Onboarding
2 25 (4.11%) Security Operations Centre
3 22 (3.62%) Operational Technology
4 17 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 15 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
5 15 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (2.14%) Management Information System
8 10 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
9 9 (1.48%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.32%) Cyberattack
11 7 (1.15%) CMDB
11 7 (1.15%) Cyber Defence
11 7 (1.15%) SCADA
12 6 (0.99%) NHS
13 5 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
14 4 (0.66%) Greenfield Project
14 4 (0.66%) Legacy Systems
14 4 (0.66%) Virtual Team
15 3 (0.49%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 52 (8.55%) Windows
2 18 (2.96%) Linux
3 7 (1.15%) Android
3 7 (1.15%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.15%) Windows Server
4 6 (0.99%) Unix
5 3 (0.49%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.16%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (15.79%) Agile
2 78 (12.83%) Business Intelligence
3 75 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
4 69 (11.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 67 (11.02%) Cybersecurity
6 66 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
7 63 (10.36%) Business Analysis
7 63 (10.36%) Stakeholder Management
8 59 (9.70%) Decision-Making
9 57 (9.38%) Workshop Facilitation
10 56 (9.21%) Process Improvement
11 51 (8.39%) ITIL
12 50 (8.22%) Data Modelling
13 48 (7.89%) Analytics
14 43 (7.07%) Migration
14 43 (7.07%) SIEM
15 42 (6.91%) Data Analysis
15 42 (6.91%) Requirements Gathering
16 41 (6.74%) DevOps
17 39 (6.41%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (9.21%) SQL
2 21 (3.45%) Python
3 5 (0.82%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (0.82%) PowerShell
4 4 (0.66%) Java
4 4 (0.66%) R
5 3 (0.49%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.49%) VBA
6 2 (0.33%) VB
7 1 (0.16%) C
7 1 (0.16%) C#
7 1 (0.16%) C++
7 1 (0.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.16%) Korn
7 1 (0.16%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 183 (30.10%) Security Cleared
2 104 (17.11%) SC Cleared
3 62 (10.20%) DV Cleared
4 54 (8.88%) Degree
5 17 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
6 12 (1.97%) ACCA
6 12 (1.97%) CIMA
7 9 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.48%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (0.82%) CompTIA CySA+
11 4 (0.66%) ISEB
11 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.66%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.66%) PMP
12 3 (0.49%) CBAP
13 2 (0.33%) CISSP
13 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (5.92%) Data Quality
2 34 (5.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (5.10%) PMO
4 27 (4.44%) NIST
5 23 (3.78%) QA
6 20 (3.29%) GDPR
7 12 (1.97%) GRC
8 9 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.32%) SLA
10 6 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (0.99%) IASME
10 6 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 6 (0.99%) NCSC
10 6 (0.99%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.33%) COBIT
12 2 (0.33%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.33%) IFRS
12 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 31 (5.10%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.33%) vSphere
4 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.16%) NFS
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.82%) Terraform
4 4 (0.66%) QRadar
5 3 (0.49%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 3 (0.49%) SCCM
6 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.33%) HP Quality Center
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 63 (10.36%) Microsoft
2 43 (7.07%) SAP
3 37 (6.09%) Oracle
4 28 (4.61%) ServiceNow
5 19 (3.13%) Salesforce
6 14 (2.30%) Splunk
7 9 (1.48%) Workday
8 8 (1.32%) Avaya
8 8 (1.32%) Meraki
8 8 (1.32%) Mitel
8 8 (1.32%) VMware
9 7 (1.15%) LogRhythm
10 5 (0.82%) Citrix
10 5 (0.82%) Remedy
10 5 (0.82%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 4 (0.66%) Adobe
12 3 (0.49%) Baan
12 3 (0.49%) Dell
12 3 (0.49%) HP
12 3 (0.49%) IBM