Analyst Contract Job Trends in the South East

Analyst
England > South East

The median Analyst daily rate in the South East is £431, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 0
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 432 419 574
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 9.82% 12.40% 11.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.86% 13.38% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 304 435
10th Percentile £200 £210 £182
25th Percentile £322 £347 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £463 £473
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% -2.12% +16.67%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £600 £575 £600
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 13 23
10th Percentile £15.62 £20.02 £15.28
25th Percentile £16.17 £25.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £29.00 £19.99
Median % change year-on-year -34.93% +45.07% +14.23%
75th Percentile £27.63 £62.50 £27.88
90th Percentile £38.79 £64.73 £32.32
England median hourly rate £18.00 £23.35 £18.00
% change year-on-year -22.91% +29.72% +5.02%

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 3,978 3,131 4,629
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.43% 92.69% 93.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,588 1,957 2,971
10th Percentile £231 £236 £205
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £613 £608
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 352 117 281
10th Percentile £13.88 £19.06 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £24.50 £24.34
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £54.39
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -21.85% +25.02%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.25 £69.75 £76.53
England median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% -19.54% +24.29%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +1 233 £428 +0.59% 85
Berkshire -7 123 £431 -4.17% 42
Hampshire -5 103 £475 -6.86% 47
Buckinghamshire +4 96 £438 +13.64% 25
Surrey -9 46 £425 -10.53% 33
Kent +5 25 £413 -19.51% 27
Oxfordshire 0 14 £325 -35.00% 19
West Sussex -10 14 £203 +3.85% 11
East Sussex +3 7 £625 +44.93% 7
Middlesex - 1 - - 5
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 15 January 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.

1 100 (23.15%) Security Cleared
2 75 (17.36%) Microsoft
3 69 (15.97%) SC Cleared
4 68 (15.74%) Agile
5 65 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (13.19%) Windows
7 55 (12.73%) Azure
8 52 (12.04%) Microsoft Excel
9 46 (10.65%) Business Intelligence
9 46 (10.65%) JIRA
10 44 (10.19%) Power Platform
11 43 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 43 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
12 42 (9.72%) Business Analysis
12 42 (9.72%) Data Analysis
13 41 (9.49%) SQL
14 40 (9.26%) Power BI
15 39 (9.03%) Workshop Facilitation
16 38 (8.80%) Cybersecurity
16 38 (8.80%) ITIL
17 36 (8.33%) Degree
18 35 (8.10%) Active Directory
18 35 (8.10%) Decision-Making
19 33 (7.64%) Analytics
20 32 (7.41%) Customer Service
20 32 (7.41%) DevOps
21 30 (6.94%) Incident Management
21 30 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
22 29 (6.71%) ServiceNow
23 28 (6.48%) CRM

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 (5.09%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.55%) Confluence
3 7 (1.62%) Mattermost
3 7 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.62%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.69%) GeoServer
4 3 (0.69%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.23%) Camunda
5 1 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.23%) Moodle
5 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
Applications
1 52 (12.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (6.48%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (3.94%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (1.85%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.31%) Salesforce CRM
2 7 (1.62%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.69%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.46%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.46%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.23%) iTrent
6 1 (0.23%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.23%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 55 (12.73%) Azure
2 44 (10.19%) Power Platform
3 30 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (3.94%) Entra ID
6 16 (3.70%) AWS
7 9 (2.08%) OCI
7 9 (2.08%) SaaS
8 7 (1.62%) GCP
9 6 (1.39%) Collibra
10 5 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (0.93%) Figma
11 4 (0.93%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.69%) Lucidchart
12 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (0.69%) Tricentis Tosca
13 2 (0.46%) Adobe Analytics
13 2 (0.46%) Google Workspace
13 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Copilot
13 2 (0.46%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.17%) DNS
2 10 (2.31%) DHCP
2 10 (2.31%) Firewall
3 9 (2.08%) FTP
4 7 (1.62%) Network Security
4 7 (1.62%) Skype
5 5 (1.16%) TCP/IP
6 4 (0.93%) HTTP
6 4 (0.93%) VPN
7 2 (0.46%) NGFW
7 2 (0.46%) SMTP
7 2 (0.46%) Telnet
7 2 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.46%) Wireless
8 1 (0.23%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.23%) VLAN
8 1 (0.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (9.26%) Power BI
2 10 (2.31%) Tableau
3 8 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.39%) SQL Server
5 4 (0.93%) Big Data
5 4 (0.93%) Star Schema
6 3 (0.69%) BigQuery
6 3 (0.69%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (0.69%) GIS
6 3 (0.69%) Metadata
6 3 (0.69%) QGIS
7 2 (0.46%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
7 2 (0.46%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.46%) Metadata Repository
7 2 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.23%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.23%) Looker
8 1 (0.23%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.23%) QlikView
8 1 (0.23%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 46 (10.65%) JIRA
2 4 (0.93%) Gatling
2 4 (0.93%) JMeter
2 4 (0.93%) LoadRunner
3 3 (0.69%) Git
3 3 (0.69%) Selenium
3 3 (0.69%) Toad
4 2 (0.46%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.46%) Postman
4 2 (0.46%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.23%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.23%) TestRail
5 1 (0.23%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.23%) WebDriver
5 1 (0.23%) Zephyr
General
1 118 (27.31%) Social Skills
2 88 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
2 88 (20.37%) Finance
3 35 (8.10%) Retail
4 29 (6.71%) Public Sector
5 16 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (3.70%) Manufacturing
5 16 (3.70%) Marketing
5 16 (3.70%) Telecoms
6 14 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (1.62%) Banking
7 7 (1.62%) Billing
7 7 (1.62%) Legal
8 6 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.16%) Electronics
9 5 (1.16%) Local Government
10 4 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.69%) Automotive
12 2 (0.46%) Back Office
12 2 (0.46%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.31%) ADO
2 4 (0.93%) .NET
2 4 (0.93%) XML
3 3 (0.69%) SailPoint
4 2 (0.46%) DAO
4 2 (0.46%) SOAP
5 1 (0.23%) HTML
5 1 (0.23%) JSON
5 1 (0.23%) PySpark
5 1 (0.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 34 (7.87%) Management Information System
2 17 (3.94%) Security Operations Centre
2 17 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
3 11 (2.55%) Onboarding
3 11 (2.55%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.08%) Data Centre
4 9 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.16%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.16%) Cyberattack
6 5 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.16%) Data Structures
7 4 (0.93%) CSOC
7 4 (0.93%) iPad
7 4 (0.93%) NHS
7 4 (0.93%) Operational Technology
7 4 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (13.19%) Windows
2 26 (6.02%) Linux
3 11 (2.55%) Windows 10
3 11 (2.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.23%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.23%) Unix
4 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (15.74%) Agile
2 65 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (10.65%) Business Intelligence
4 43 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 43 (9.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 42 (9.72%) Business Analysis
5 42 (9.72%) Data Analysis
6 39 (9.03%) Workshop Facilitation
7 38 (8.80%) Cybersecurity
7 38 (8.80%) ITIL
8 35 (8.10%) Decision-Making
9 33 (7.64%) Analytics
10 32 (7.41%) Customer Service
10 32 (7.41%) DevOps
11 30 (6.94%) Incident Management
12 28 (6.48%) CRM
12 28 (6.48%) Incident Response
12 28 (6.48%) Project Management
12 28 (6.48%) Requirements Gathering
12 28 (6.48%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 41 (9.49%) SQL
2 24 (5.56%) Python
3 12 (2.78%) PowerShell
4 4 (0.93%) Java
5 2 (0.46%) C#
5 2 (0.46%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.46%) R
6 1 (0.23%) C++
6 1 (0.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.23%) Korn
6 1 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 100 (23.15%) Security Cleared
2 69 (15.97%) SC Cleared
3 36 (8.33%) Degree
4 24 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 11 (2.55%) CISSP
6 9 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
7 8 (1.85%) ISTQB
8 7 (1.62%) GCIH
8 7 (1.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (1.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 5 (1.16%) A+ Certification
10 5 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.16%) GCFA
10 5 (1.16%) GCIA
11 4 (0.93%) CFCE
11 4 (0.93%) CISM
11 4 (0.93%) GIAC
12 3 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.69%) CompTIA CySA+
12 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (6.02%) PMO
2 22 (5.09%) GDPR
3 21 (4.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (4.17%) Data Quality
5 17 (3.94%) SLA
6 16 (3.70%) NIST
6 16 (3.70%) QA
7 8 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 7 (1.62%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.39%) GRC
10 4 (0.93%) NCSC
10 4 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.69%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.69%) IASME
11 3 (0.69%) ISO 8583
11 3 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.69%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.69%) P3O
12 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 35 (8.10%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.46%) NFS
3 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (2.31%) SCCM
3 7 (1.62%) HP SiteScope
3 7 (1.62%) SCOM
4 3 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (0.69%) Ansible
4 3 (0.69%) Grafana
4 3 (0.69%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.69%) Terraform
5 2 (0.46%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 2 (0.46%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.23%) Kibana
6 1 (0.23%) Nagios
6 1 (0.23%) Nmap
6 1 (0.23%) QRadar
6 1 (0.23%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 75 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 29 (6.71%) ServiceNow
3 27 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 23 (5.32%) Splunk
5 21 (4.86%) Oracle
6 18 (4.17%) SAP
7 11 (2.55%) Citrix
8 10 (2.31%) VMware
9 8 (1.85%) Cisco
9 8 (1.85%) CrowdStrike
9 8 (1.85%) Remedy
10 7 (1.62%) Google
10 7 (1.62%) Workday
11 5 (1.16%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.93%) ArcSight
12 4 (0.93%) Tenable
13 3 (0.69%) Databricks
13 3 (0.69%) F5
13 3 (0.69%) Palo Alto
13 3 (0.69%) Snow