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 21 July 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 9 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 692 391 504
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 10.52% 11.48% 9.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.42% 12.69% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 253 327
10th Percentile £232 £200 £200
25th Percentile £363 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £575 £520 £538
90th Percentile £625 £575 £600
England median daily rate £459 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.00% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 19 29
10th Percentile £16.35 £15.50 £14.57
25th Percentile £18.32 £15.94 £16.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +11.63% +22.86%
75th Percentile £54.61 £25.68 £28.75
90th Percentile £88.17 £30.15 £32.34
England median hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +11.11% +28.57% -7.89%

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 6,058 3,081 4,960
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 90.46% 92.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,613 1,991 2,979
10th Percentile £303 £213 £255
25th Percentile £425 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £630
90th Percentile £713 £663 £689
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 666 243 449
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.20 £13.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £15.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £27.50 £55.80
Median % change year-on-year +90.91% -50.72% +11.60%
75th Percentile £77.50 £62.24 £70.39
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £45.56 £27.40 £42.50
% change year-on-year +66.26% -35.53% -3.53%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +1 365 £525 +16.67% 68
Berkshire +3 225 £505 +3.59% 38
Hampshire +1 181 £505 +23.17% 50
Buckinghamshire -9 91 £578 +50.13% 20
West Sussex +2 55 £366 -1.22% 13
Surrey -12 54 £475 - 26
Oxfordshire -4 49 £388 +55.00% 10
East Sussex +3 13 £350 -42.86% 12
Kent +1 13 £250 -4.76% 14
Middlesex -7 5 £570 +1.79% 13
Home Counties - 2 £650 -
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 21 July 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.

1 197 (28.47%) Security Cleared
2 112 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 101 (14.60%) Agile
4 88 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 86 (12.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 85 (12.28%) Microsoft
6 85 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
7 84 (12.14%) Cybersecurity
8 80 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
8 80 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 79 (11.42%) Microsoft Excel
10 77 (11.13%) Power Platform
11 76 (10.98%) Business Analysis
12 75 (10.84%) Power BI
13 72 (10.40%) SQL
14 67 (9.68%) DV Cleared
15 66 (9.54%) Decision-Making
15 66 (9.54%) ITIL
15 66 (9.54%) Workshop Facilitation
16 65 (9.39%) Degree
17 61 (8.82%) Azure
18 59 (8.53%) Requirements Gathering
19 58 (8.38%) Analytics
19 58 (8.38%) Process Improvement
20 57 (8.24%) Data Analysis
21 54 (7.80%) ITSM
22 51 (7.37%) Data Modelling
23 50 (7.23%) Validation
24 48 (6.94%) Migration
24 48 (6.94%) Windows

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 25 (3.61%) Confluence
2 20 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.58%) CMS
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.14%) SAS
5 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 79 (11.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.14%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.14%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.30%) iTrent
2 9 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.43%) SAP R/3
5 2 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.29%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.29%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.14%) Primavera
6 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 77 (11.13%) Power Platform
2 61 (8.82%) Azure
3 42 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (3.61%) Entra ID
6 22 (3.18%) AWS
7 13 (1.88%) OCI
8 9 (1.30%) SaaS
8 9 (1.30%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (0.58%) GCP
10 3 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.43%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (0.43%) IaaS
10 3 (0.43%) Lucidchart
10 3 (0.43%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.29%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.29%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.02%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (0.72%) DNS
2 5 (0.72%) Firewall
3 4 (0.58%) DHCP
3 4 (0.58%) Network Security
4 2 (0.29%) Intranet
4 2 (0.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.14%) 4G
5 1 (0.14%) Broadband
5 1 (0.14%) FTP
5 1 (0.14%) GSM
5 1 (0.14%) HTTP
5 1 (0.14%) Internet
5 1 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.14%) LTE
5 1 (0.14%) Modbus
5 1 (0.14%) SONET
5 1 (0.14%) UMTS
5 1 (0.14%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (10.84%) Power BI
2 24 (3.47%) Tableau
3 19 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
4 9 (1.30%) Relational Database
4 9 (1.30%) SQL Server
5 6 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
6 5 (0.72%) Metadata
7 4 (0.58%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.43%) OLAP
9 2 (0.29%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.29%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.29%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.29%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (0.14%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.14%) Electronic Patient Records
10 1 (0.14%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.14%) QGIS
10 1 (0.14%) Tableau Desktop
10 1 (0.14%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 45 (6.50%) JIRA
2 3 (0.43%) Git
2 3 (0.43%) Postman
2 3 (0.43%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.29%) Balsamiq
4 1 (0.14%) GitLab
4 1 (0.14%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.14%) TestRail
4 1 (0.14%) Toad
4 1 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 188 (27.17%) Social Skills
2 157 (22.69%) Analytical Skills
3 96 (13.87%) Finance
4 76 (10.98%) Public Sector
5 29 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (3.03%) Retail
7 19 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 17 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (2.46%) Marketing
10 12 (1.73%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.59%) Legal
12 9 (1.30%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.30%) Automotive
13 8 (1.16%) Military
14 7 (1.01%) Police
15 6 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.72%) Banking
17 4 (0.58%) Advertising
17 4 (0.58%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.01%) EDI
3 5 (0.72%) ADO
4 4 (0.58%) .NET
4 4 (0.58%) SailPoint
4 4 (0.58%) Web Services
5 3 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.29%) Middleware
6 2 (0.29%) OAuth
6 2 (0.29%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.29%) OpenID
6 2 (0.29%) SAML
6 2 (0.29%) XML
7 1 (0.14%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.14%) LDAP
7 1 (0.14%) Node.js
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 1 (0.14%) REST
7 1 (0.14%) SOAP
7 1 (0.14%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.77%) Onboarding
2 30 (4.34%) Operational Technology
3 17 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
5 14 (2.02%) Data Centre
6 13 (1.88%) Product Ownership
7 12 (1.73%) CMDB
7 12 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 11 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
9 10 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.01%) SCADA
11 5 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.72%) IVR
11 5 (0.72%) PMI
12 4 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (0.58%) Media Streaming
13 3 (0.43%) Life Science
13 3 (0.43%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.94%) Windows
2 13 (1.88%) Linux
3 7 (1.01%) Android
3 7 (1.01%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.72%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.58%) Unix
6 3 (0.43%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.14%) OpenVMS
7 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (14.60%) Agile
2 88 (12.72%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (12.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 85 (12.28%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (12.14%) Cybersecurity
6 80 (11.56%) Business Intelligence
6 80 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 76 (10.98%) Business Analysis
8 66 (9.54%) Decision-Making
8 66 (9.54%) ITIL
8 66 (9.54%) Workshop Facilitation
9 59 (8.53%) Requirements Gathering
10 58 (8.38%) Analytics
10 58 (8.38%) Process Improvement
11 57 (8.24%) Data Analysis
12 54 (7.80%) ITSM
13 51 (7.37%) Data Modelling
14 50 (7.23%) Validation
15 48 (6.94%) Migration
16 45 (6.50%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 72 (10.40%) SQL
2 21 (3.03%) Python
3 7 (1.01%) Java
3 7 (1.01%) Kusto Query Language
4 5 (0.72%) PowerShell
4 5 (0.72%) R
5 3 (0.43%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.29%) VB
7 1 (0.14%) Bash
7 1 (0.14%) C
7 1 (0.14%) COBOL
7 1 (0.14%) JCL
7 1 (0.14%) Korn
7 1 (0.14%) Perl
7 1 (0.14%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 197 (28.47%) Security Cleared
2 112 (16.18%) SC Cleared
3 67 (9.68%) DV Cleared
4 65 (9.39%) Degree
5 21 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.88%) ACCA
6 13 (1.88%) CIMA
7 12 (1.73%) ISTQB
8 10 (1.45%) ISEB
8 10 (1.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 10 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.01%) CBAP
10 6 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (0.87%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.72%) PMP
12 4 (0.58%) ISEB Practitioner
12 4 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (0.43%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
14 2 (0.29%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.79%) Data Quality
2 41 (5.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 32 (4.62%) NIST
4 29 (4.19%) PMO
5 28 (4.05%) QA
6 16 (2.31%) GDPR
6 16 (2.31%) GRC
7 9 (1.30%) NCSC
8 8 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.16%) SLA
9 6 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.87%) IASME
9 6 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 6 (0.87%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.43%) COBIT
12 2 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.29%) IFRS
12 2 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 31 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (0.29%) vSphere
4 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (1.45%) Kubernetes
2 5 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.72%) QRadar
2 5 (0.72%) SCCM
2 5 (0.72%) Terraform
3 3 (0.43%) CSIRT
4 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.14%) AirWatch
5 1 (0.14%) CA Endevor
5 1 (0.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (0.14%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (0.14%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 85 (12.28%) Microsoft
2 47 (6.79%) ServiceNow
3 46 (6.65%) SAP
4 45 (6.50%) Oracle
5 21 (3.03%) Salesforce
6 12 (1.73%) Avaya
6 12 (1.73%) Meraki
6 12 (1.73%) Mitel
6 12 (1.73%) Workday
7 6 (0.87%) LogRhythm
8 5 (0.72%) Baan
8 5 (0.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 5 (0.72%) Splunk
8 5 (0.72%) VMware
9 4 (0.58%) Adobe
9 4 (0.58%) IBM
9 4 (0.58%) Remedy
10 3 (0.43%) Dell
10 3 (0.43%) Google
10 3 (0.43%) HP