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 10 September 2026.

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

 6 months to
10 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 659 397 471
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 9.93% 11.35% 10.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.84% 12.61% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 248 324
10th Percentile £230 £200 £200
25th Percentile £375 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £430
Median % change year-on-year +11.92% +3.90% -4.44%
75th Percentile £575 £520 £525
90th Percentile £625 £575 £584
England median daily rate £470 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 24 20
10th Percentile £16.75 £15.50 £15.58
25th Percentile £19.50 £16.17 £16.24
Median hourly rate £30.00 £17.87 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.88% -35.02% +57.14%
75th Percentile £53.17 £28.50 £32.62
90th Percentile £101.16 £31.84 £64.73
England median hourly rate £26.37 £22.07 £19.18
% change year-on-year +19.46% +15.07% -3.18%

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 6,077 3,149 4,281
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.56% 90.05% 92.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,522 2,027 2,556
10th Percentile £303 £205 £250
25th Percentile £430 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £625
90th Percentile £713 £656 £688
England median daily rate £525 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -3.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 772 285 336
10th Percentile £15.07 £13.60 £16.13
25th Percentile £21.34 £15.50 £34.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% -56.15% +14.70%
75th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £73.45 £80.00
England median hourly rate £43.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +72.96% -47.05% +7.95%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -1 332 £550 +22.22% 109
Berkshire +5 215 £550 +15.79% 61
Hampshire -2 169 £525 +13.51% 68
Buckinghamshire -14 69 £555 +46.05% 32
West Sussex +7 67 £223 +20.54% 12
Surrey -9 60 £438 -7.89% 35
Oxfordshire -3 48 £373 +66.67% 18
East Sussex +6 14 £350 -44.00% 12
Kent -8 8 £413 +10.00% 27
Middlesex -17 4 £570 +1.79% 10
Home Counties - 2 £650 -
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 September 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.

1 176 (26.71%) Security Cleared
2 103 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
3 98 (14.87%) Cybersecurity
4 97 (14.72%) Microsoft
5 95 (14.42%) SC Cleared
6 88 (13.35%) Agile
7 87 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
8 85 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 81 (12.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 76 (11.53%) Business Analysis
11 73 (11.08%) SQL
12 70 (10.62%) Business Intelligence
13 67 (10.17%) Power Platform
14 65 (9.86%) DV Cleared
14 65 (9.86%) Power BI
15 63 (9.56%) Decision-Making
16 62 (9.41%) ITIL
17 60 (9.10%) Degree
17 60 (9.10%) ITSM
18 59 (8.95%) Workshop Facilitation
19 58 (8.80%) Requirements Gathering
20 57 (8.65%) Data Analysis
20 57 (8.65%) Microsoft Excel
21 56 (8.50%) Data Quality
22 53 (8.04%) Azure
23 52 (7.89%) Analytics
24 51 (7.74%) Process Improvement
24 51 (7.74%) ServiceNow
25 50 (7.59%) Validation
26 49 (7.44%) SAP

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 22 (3.34%) Confluence
2 17 (2.58%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.30%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.30%) IIS
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
Applications
1 57 (8.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.15%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (2.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.37%) iTrent
3 8 (1.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.30%) Maximo
4 2 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.30%) Primavera
4 2 (0.30%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.30%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.15%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.15%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (10.17%) Power Platform
2 53 (8.04%) Azure
3 35 (5.31%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (2.88%) AWS
5 19 (2.88%) Entra ID
6 10 (1.52%) SaaS
7 9 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
8 6 (0.91%) GCP
9 4 (0.61%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.46%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.46%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.46%) IaaS
10 3 (0.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.30%) Akamai
11 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.30%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.30%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (0.91%) Intranet
3 5 (0.76%) Firewall
4 4 (0.61%) DHCP
4 4 (0.61%) Network Security
5 3 (0.46%) DNS
6 2 (0.30%) HTTP
6 2 (0.30%) Internet
7 1 (0.15%) 4G
7 1 (0.15%) 5G
7 1 (0.15%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.15%) LTE
7 1 (0.15%) Mobile Backhaul
7 1 (0.15%) Modbus
7 1 (0.15%) MPLS
7 1 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.15%) SONET
7 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.15%) VoLTE
7 1 (0.15%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (9.86%) Power BI
2 20 (3.03%) Tableau
3 14 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (1.67%) SQL Server
5 7 (1.06%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.91%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (0.76%) Metadata
7 5 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (0.46%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.46%) Data Lake
8 3 (0.46%) GIS
9 2 (0.30%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.30%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.15%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.15%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.15%) Db2
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 1 (0.15%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.15%) QGIS
10 1 (0.15%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 33 (5.01%) JIRA
2 2 (0.30%) Git
2 2 (0.30%) Postman
3 1 (0.15%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.15%) eggPlant
3 1 (0.15%) GitLab
3 1 (0.15%) HP UFT
3 1 (0.15%) JMeter
3 1 (0.15%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.15%) Selenium
3 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.15%) TestRail
3 1 (0.15%) Toad
3 1 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 192 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 143 (21.70%) Analytical Skills
3 92 (13.96%) Finance
4 63 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 32 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (3.49%) Telecoms
7 18 (2.73%) Retail
8 16 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.67%) Legal
11 10 (1.52%) Military
12 9 (1.37%) Automotive
12 9 (1.37%) Manufacturing
13 8 (1.21%) Aerospace
13 8 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.21%) Marketing
14 7 (1.06%) Police
15 4 (0.61%) Billing
16 3 (0.46%) Banking
16 3 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.21%) EDI
2 5 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.61%) .NET
3 4 (0.61%) SailPoint
3 4 (0.61%) Terraform
3 4 (0.61%) Web Services
4 3 (0.46%) REST
5 2 (0.30%) ADO
5 2 (0.30%) OAuth
5 2 (0.30%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.30%) OpenID
5 2 (0.30%) PySpark
5 2 (0.30%) SAML
5 2 (0.30%) XML
6 1 (0.15%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.15%) Django
6 1 (0.15%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.15%) LDAP
6 1 (0.15%) Middleware
6 1 (0.15%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (4.40%) Onboarding
2 27 (4.10%) Operational Technology
3 13 (1.97%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (1.97%) Management Information System
4 11 (1.67%) Data Centre
4 11 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 11 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (1.52%) CMDB
5 10 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (1.37%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.06%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (0.76%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (0.76%) IVR
8 5 (0.76%) PMI
9 4 (0.61%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.61%) Media Streaming
9 4 (0.61%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.46%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 41 (6.22%) Windows
2 13 (1.97%) Linux
3 7 (1.06%) Android
3 7 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.61%) Unix
6 3 (0.46%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 98 (14.87%) Cybersecurity
3 88 (13.35%) Agile
4 87 (13.20%) Problem-Solving
5 85 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 81 (12.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 76 (11.53%) Business Analysis
8 70 (10.62%) Business Intelligence
9 63 (9.56%) Decision-Making
10 62 (9.41%) ITIL
11 60 (9.10%) ITSM
12 59 (8.95%) Workshop Facilitation
13 58 (8.80%) Requirements Gathering
14 57 (8.65%) Data Analysis
15 52 (7.89%) Analytics
16 51 (7.74%) Process Improvement
17 50 (7.59%) Validation
18 48 (7.28%) Data Modelling
19 46 (6.98%) Security Operations
20 43 (6.53%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 73 (11.08%) SQL
2 25 (3.79%) Python
3 7 (1.06%) Java
3 7 (1.06%) R
4 6 (0.91%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (0.76%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.15%) Bash
7 1 (0.15%) COBOL
7 1 (0.15%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.15%) JCL
7 1 (0.15%) Perl
7 1 (0.15%) VB
7 1 (0.15%) VBA
Qualifications
1 176 (26.71%) Security Cleared
2 95 (14.42%) SC Cleared
3 65 (9.86%) DV Cleared
4 60 (9.10%) Degree
5 18 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.82%) ACCA
7 12 (1.82%) CIMA
7 12 (1.82%) ISTQB
8 11 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 8 (1.21%) ISEB
10 6 (0.91%) CBAP
10 6 (0.91%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.46%) ISEB Practitioner
11 3 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 3 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.30%) CISA
12 2 (0.30%) CISM
12 2 (0.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.50%) Data Quality
2 40 (6.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 29 (4.40%) NIST
4 26 (3.95%) QA
5 23 (3.49%) GRC
6 19 (2.88%) PMO
7 13 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (1.82%) GDPR
9 8 (1.21%) NCSC
10 5 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (0.76%) IASME
10 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.76%) NIST 800
11 4 (0.61%) COBIT
12 3 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.46%) SLA
13 2 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.30%) IFRS
13 2 (0.30%) ISO 31000
13 2 (0.30%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 25 (3.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.30%) ISA Server
3 2 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.30%) vSphere
4 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 10 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.76%) QRadar
3 4 (0.61%) CSIRT
3 4 (0.61%) SCCM
4 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.30%) CASB
6 1 (0.15%) AirWatch
6 1 (0.15%) CA Endevor
6 1 (0.15%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 97 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.74%) ServiceNow
3 49 (7.44%) SAP
4 30 (4.55%) Oracle
5 21 (3.19%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.82%) Workday
7 9 (1.37%) Databricks
8 7 (1.06%) Avaya
8 7 (1.06%) Meraki
8 7 (1.06%) Mitel
9 6 (0.91%) Baan
9 6 (0.91%) LogRhythm
10 5 (0.76%) Cisco
10 5 (0.76%) Google
10 5 (0.76%) Qualys
11 4 (0.61%) Splunk
11 4 (0.61%) VMware
12 3 (0.46%) CrowdStrike
12 3 (0.46%) Dell
12 3 (0.46%) Tripwire
429 Analyst jobs in the South East