Analyst Contract Job Trends in the South East

Analyst
England > South East

The median Analyst daily rate in the South East is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 12 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 543 310 517
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 9.49% 10.35% 9.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.33% 11.21% 10.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 378 226 351
10th Percentile £254 £210 £212
25th Percentile £350 £346 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +1.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £588 £600
England median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 12 24
10th Percentile £16.17 £19.97 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.35 £20.09 £17.48
Median hourly rate £18.32 £24.00 £20.19
Median % change year-on-year -23.67% +18.89% -9.27%
75th Percentile £36.00 £25.11 £22.32
90th Percentile £82.25 £27.75 £47.00
England median hourly rate £20.75 £22.27 £16.30
% change year-on-year -6.83% +36.63% -16.41%

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 5,254 2,766 5,153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.80% 92.38% 92.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,286 1,823 3,097
10th Percentile £300 £245 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £615
90th Percentile £713 £663 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.24% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 158 473
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.43 £18.32
Median hourly rate £49.00 £32.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.77% -31.58% -0.61%
75th Percentile £81.05 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.15 £76.86
England median hourly rate £45.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +38.46% -7.14% -22.22%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +1 296 £450 -2.60% 72
Berkshire -1 156 £433 -10.03% 31
Hampshire -2 131 £500 +9.59% 50
Buckinghamshire -1 120 £458 +22.00% 23
Surrey -6 51 £475 - 31
Kent +10 24 £250 -4.76% 24
West Sussex +3 23 £363 -2.68% 8
Oxfordshire -9 20 £515 +24.85% 20
East Sussex -4 6 £350 -41.67% 11
Middlesex - 2 £560 - 11
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 April 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.

1 151 (27.81%) Security Cleared
2 94 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 85 (15.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 79 (14.55%) Agile
5 72 (13.26%) Business Intelligence
6 69 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (12.34%) Power BI
7 67 (12.34%) Power Platform
8 61 (11.23%) Windows
9 57 (10.50%) JIRA
10 56 (10.31%) Decision-Making
10 56 (10.31%) Workshop Facilitation
11 54 (9.94%) Microsoft
11 54 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 52 (9.58%) Cybersecurity
13 51 (9.39%) Business Analysis
14 50 (9.21%) Azure
14 50 (9.21%) Process Improvement
15 47 (8.66%) SQL
16 45 (8.29%) DV Cleared
17 43 (7.92%) Customer Service
18 42 (7.73%) Data Analysis
18 42 (7.73%) Stakeholder Management
19 41 (7.55%) Degree
20 40 (7.37%) Analytics
20 40 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
21 39 (7.18%) Project Management
22 38 (7.00%) Data Modelling
23 37 (6.81%) SAP
24 36 (6.63%) ITIL

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 18 (3.31%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.95%) Confluence
3 13 (2.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.92%) CMS
5 1 (0.18%) Moodle
5 1 (0.18%) SAS
5 1 (0.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 85 (15.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (3.68%) Microsoft Project
3 17 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (2.58%) MS Visio
5 11 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.18%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (2.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.47%) iTrent
3 6 (1.10%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.74%) Adobe Campaign
4 4 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.55%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.55%) SAP R/3
6 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.37%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.18%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.18%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 67 (12.34%) Power Platform
2 50 (9.21%) Azure
3 31 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (3.68%) Entra ID
6 15 (2.76%) AWS
7 13 (2.39%) OCI
8 8 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
9 6 (1.10%) GCP
10 4 (0.74%) Collibra
10 4 (0.74%) SaaS
11 3 (0.55%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.55%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (0.55%) Google Workspace
11 3 (0.55%) IaaS
11 3 (0.55%) Lucidchart
11 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.55%) Tricentis Tosca
12 2 (0.37%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.87%) DNS
2 12 (2.21%) DHCP
3 10 (1.84%) FTP
4 9 (1.66%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.55%) Firewall
6 3 (0.55%) Network Security
7 2 (0.37%) SMTP
7 2 (0.37%) Telnet
8 1 (0.18%) Broadband
8 1 (0.18%) HTTP
8 1 (0.18%) Intranet
8 1 (0.18%) SONET
8 1 (0.18%) VPN
8 1 (0.18%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (12.34%) Power BI
2 18 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (3.13%) Tableau
4 8 (1.47%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (1.10%) Metadata
6 5 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.74%) Big Data
7 4 (0.74%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.74%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.55%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.55%) OLAP
9 2 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.37%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (0.18%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.18%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.18%) Power Query
10 1 (0.18%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.18%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 57 (10.50%) JIRA
2 5 (0.92%) Git
3 4 (0.74%) Gatling
3 4 (0.74%) JMeter
3 4 (0.74%) LoadRunner
3 4 (0.74%) Postman
4 3 (0.55%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 3 (0.55%) Toad
4 3 (0.55%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.37%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.37%) TestRail
6 1 (0.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.18%) Selenium
6 1 (0.18%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.18%) WebDriver
General
1 140 (25.78%) Social Skills
2 134 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (16.39%) Finance
4 53 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 29 (5.34%) Retail
6 17 (3.13%) Marketing
7 15 (2.76%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (2.58%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.66%) Legal
10 7 (1.29%) Banking
10 7 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.92%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.74%) Advertising
13 3 (0.55%) Military
14 2 (0.37%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.37%) Automotive
14 2 (0.37%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (1.47%) ADO
3 3 (0.55%) XML
4 2 (0.37%) .NET
4 2 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.18%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.18%) EDI
5 1 (0.18%) HTML
5 1 (0.18%) Middleware
5 1 (0.18%) Node.js
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle GoldenGate
5 1 (0.18%) SOAP
5 1 (0.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (4.97%) Management Information System
1 27 (4.97%) Security Operations Centre
2 19 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 16 (2.95%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (2.58%) Operational Technology
6 11 (2.03%) Cyber Threat
6 11 (2.03%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.66%) Cyberattack
7 9 (1.66%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.66%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.29%) SCADA
9 6 (1.10%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
10 5 (0.92%) NHS
11 4 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.74%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.55%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 61 (11.23%) Windows
2 23 (4.24%) Linux
3 10 (1.84%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.29%) Unix
5 1 (0.18%) OpenVMS
5 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (14.55%) Agile
2 72 (13.26%) Business Intelligence
3 69 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (10.31%) Decision-Making
4 56 (10.31%) Workshop Facilitation
5 54 (9.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 52 (9.58%) Cybersecurity
7 51 (9.39%) Business Analysis
8 50 (9.21%) Process Improvement
9 43 (7.92%) Customer Service
10 42 (7.73%) Data Analysis
10 42 (7.73%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (7.37%) Analytics
11 40 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (7.18%) Project Management
13 38 (7.00%) Data Modelling
14 36 (6.63%) ITIL
15 35 (6.45%) DevOps
16 34 (6.26%) SIEM
17 33 (6.08%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (8.66%) SQL
2 21 (3.87%) Python
3 5 (0.92%) Java
3 5 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (0.74%) PowerShell
5 3 (0.55%) T-SQL
5 3 (0.55%) VBA
6 2 (0.37%) C#
6 2 (0.37%) R
6 2 (0.37%) VB
7 1 (0.18%) C
7 1 (0.18%) C++
7 1 (0.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.18%) Korn
7 1 (0.18%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 151 (27.81%) Security Cleared
2 94 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.29%) DV Cleared
4 41 (7.55%) Degree
5 15 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (2.39%) ISTQB
7 10 (1.84%) ACCA
7 10 (1.84%) CIMA
7 10 (1.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (1.10%) CompTIA CySA+
8 6 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.74%) CISSP
9 4 (0.74%) GCIH
9 4 (0.74%) PMP
10 3 (0.55%) A+ Certification
10 3 (0.55%) GCFA
10 3 (0.55%) GCIA
10 3 (0.55%) GIAC
10 3 (0.55%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.89%) PMO
2 29 (5.34%) Data Quality
2 29 (5.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (4.24%) QA
4 22 (4.05%) GDPR
4 22 (4.05%) NIST
5 15 (2.76%) SLA
6 11 (2.03%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 10 (1.84%) GRC
8 7 (1.29%) NCSC
9 6 (1.10%) IASME
9 6 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (1.10%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27005
11 2 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.37%) IFRS
11 2 (0.37%) P3O
11 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.37%) NFS
3 2 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (2.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (1.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.74%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (0.74%) SCCM
3 4 (0.74%) Terraform
4 3 (0.55%) Ansible
4 3 (0.55%) Grafana
4 3 (0.55%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.37%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.18%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.18%) Nagios
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 54 (9.94%) Microsoft
2 37 (6.81%) SAP
3 36 (6.63%) Oracle
4 22 (4.05%) ServiceNow
5 17 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 17 (3.13%) Splunk
6 11 (2.03%) VMware
7 10 (1.84%) Citrix
8 8 (1.47%) Avaya
8 8 (1.47%) Meraki
8 8 (1.47%) Mitel
8 8 (1.47%) Workday
9 6 (1.10%) Google
10 5 (0.92%) LogRhythm
10 5 (0.92%) Remedy
11 4 (0.74%) Adobe
11 4 (0.74%) Ariba
11 4 (0.74%) Foundry
11 4 (0.74%) Palantir
11 4 (0.74%) Tenable