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 1 March 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 500 343 609
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 10.18% 11.01% 10.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.20% 11.88% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 245 445
10th Percentile £225 £213 £187
25th Percentile £340 £338 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% - +11.78%
75th Percentile £532 £538 £538
90th Percentile £589 £588 £588
England median daily rate £459 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -3.47% -2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 11 29
10th Percentile - £20.00 £15.20
25th Percentile £16.17 £21.81 £17.64
Median hourly rate £17.34 £25.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.66% +25.00% -9.75%
75th Percentile £21.34 £53.13 £22.52
90th Percentile £39.26 £64.73 £35.74
England median hourly rate £17.87 £24.66 £16.75
% change year-on-year -27.53% +47.22% -7.24%

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 4,464 2,888 5,157
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.92% 92.68% 92.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,855 1,830 3,160
10th Percentile £273 £240 £205
25th Percentile £406 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £606 £602
90th Percentile £690 £670 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 386 119 417
10th Percentile £13.95 £18.50 £12.84
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.18 £18.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £46.30 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.41% +8.94% -5.56%
75th Percentile £74.92 £62.59 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £34.25
% change year-on-year - +2.19% -14.38%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 1 March 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 +9 280 £433 +1.76% 99
Berkshire -2 153 £431 -6.25% 60
Hampshire +1 130 £500 -1.96% 75
Buckinghamshire +4 108 £450 +20.00% 32
Surrey -6 47 £475 - 33
Kent +1 25 £338 -34.15% 41
Oxfordshire -1 19 £413 -8.33% 9
West Sussex -8 14 £203 -10.00% 18
East Sussex -4 4 £600 +26.32% 11
Middlesex - 2 £560 - 13
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 March 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.

1 130 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 90 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 77 (15.40%) Agile
4 76 (15.20%) Microsoft Excel
5 73 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (13.80%) Windows
7 67 (13.40%) Microsoft
8 61 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
9 59 (11.80%) Azure
10 57 (11.40%) JIRA
11 54 (10.80%) Power Platform
12 52 (10.40%) Power BI
13 49 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 48 (9.60%) Data Analysis
14 48 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
15 47 (9.40%) Decision-Making
15 47 (9.40%) Workshop Facilitation
16 44 (8.80%) Business Analysis
16 44 (8.80%) Customer Service
17 43 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
18 41 (8.20%) DevOps
18 41 (8.20%) ITIL
19 40 (8.00%) Degree
19 40 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
20 38 (7.60%) Incident Management
21 36 (7.20%) Analytics
21 36 (7.20%) Incident Response
21 36 (7.20%) SQL
22 35 (7.00%) Active Directory
23 33 (6.60%) Project Management

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 21 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.80%) Confluence
3 8 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (1.00%) CMS
5 3 (0.60%) GeoServer
5 3 (0.60%) Mattermost
5 3 (0.60%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.60%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.20%) Moodle
6 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 76 (15.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
3 23 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (2.20%) MS Visio
5 10 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.40%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 5 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.80%) Adobe Campaign
3 4 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.60%) Eloqua
4 3 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.60%) SAP R/3
5 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.40%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.20%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.20%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 59 (11.80%) Azure
2 54 (10.80%) Power Platform
3 40 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 15 (3.00%) AWS
6 15 (3.00%) OCI
7 7 (1.40%) GCP
7 7 (1.40%) SaaS
8 4 (0.80%) Collibra
9 3 (0.60%) Lucidchart
9 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.60%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.60%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (0.40%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.40%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.40%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.20%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.20%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.60%) DNS
2 11 (2.20%) DHCP
3 10 (2.00%) FTP
4 9 (1.80%) TCP/IP
5 8 (1.60%) Network Security
6 6 (1.20%) Firewall
6 6 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.00%) HTTP
7 5 (1.00%) VPN
8 3 (0.60%) Skype
9 2 (0.40%) SMTP
9 2 (0.40%) Telnet
9 2 (0.40%) Wireless
10 1 (0.20%) Broadband
10 1 (0.20%) Intranet
10 1 (0.20%) Remote Desktop
10 1 (0.20%) VLAN
10 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (10.40%) Power BI
2 10 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.80%) Tableau
4 7 (1.40%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.00%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.80%) Big Data
7 4 (0.80%) Metadata
7 4 (0.80%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.60%) BigQuery
8 3 (0.60%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (0.60%) GIS
8 3 (0.60%) OLAP
8 3 (0.60%) QGIS
9 2 (0.40%) Metadata Repository
9 2 (0.40%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.20%) QlikView
10 1 (0.20%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 57 (11.40%) JIRA
2 4 (0.80%) Gatling
2 4 (0.80%) JMeter
2 4 (0.80%) LoadRunner
2 4 (0.80%) Postman
3 3 (0.60%) Git
3 3 (0.60%) Selenium
3 3 (0.60%) Toad
4 2 (0.40%) Balsamiq
4 2 (0.40%) Cucumber
4 2 (0.40%) SoapUI
4 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.40%) TestRail
4 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.20%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.20%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 128 (25.60%) Social Skills
2 114 (22.80%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (17.80%) Finance
4 36 (7.20%) Public Sector
5 34 (6.80%) Retail
6 25 (5.00%) Marketing
7 17 (3.40%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.00%) Manufacturing
9 14 (2.80%) Documentation Skills
9 14 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.40%) Banking
10 7 (1.40%) Billing
11 6 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (1.20%) Legal
12 4 (0.80%) Advertising
12 4 (0.80%) Electronics
12 4 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.60%) Local Government
14 2 (0.40%) Automotive
14 2 (0.40%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.40%) ADO
2 8 (1.60%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (0.80%) XML
4 3 (0.60%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.40%) .NET
5 2 (0.40%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.40%) SOAP
6 1 (0.20%) HTML
6 1 (0.20%) JSON
6 1 (0.20%) Middleware
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle GoldenGate
6 1 (0.20%) PySpark
6 1 (0.20%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (7.00%) Management Information System
2 26 (5.20%) Security Operations Centre
3 20 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
7 10 (2.00%) Product Ownership
8 9 (1.80%) Cyberattack
9 8 (1.60%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.40%) Operational Technology
11 5 (1.00%) Cloud Native
11 5 (1.00%) CMDB
11 5 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (1.00%) Data Structures
11 5 (1.00%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.80%) BYOD
12 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 69 (13.80%) Windows
2 29 (5.80%) Linux
3 11 (2.20%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.60%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.60%) Unix
6 1 (0.20%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.20%) OpenVMS
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (15.40%) Agile
2 73 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
3 61 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
4 49 (9.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 48 (9.60%) Data Analysis
5 48 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (9.40%) Decision-Making
6 47 (9.40%) Workshop Facilitation
7 44 (8.80%) Business Analysis
7 44 (8.80%) Customer Service
8 43 (8.60%) Cybersecurity
9 41 (8.20%) DevOps
9 41 (8.20%) ITIL
10 38 (7.60%) Incident Management
11 36 (7.20%) Analytics
11 36 (7.20%) Incident Response
12 33 (6.60%) Project Management
12 33 (6.60%) Security Operations
12 33 (6.60%) SIEM
13 32 (6.40%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 36 (7.20%) SQL
2 23 (4.60%) Python
3 9 (1.80%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.00%) Java
5 3 (0.60%) VBA
6 2 (0.40%) C#
6 2 (0.40%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.20%) C
7 1 (0.20%) C++
7 1 (0.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.20%) Korn
7 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.20%) R
7 1 (0.20%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.20%) VB
Qualifications
1 130 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 90 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 40 (8.00%) Degree
4 31 (6.20%) DV Cleared
5 12 (2.40%) CISSP
5 12 (2.40%) ISTQB
6 11 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (2.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 8 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.40%) GCIH
10 6 (1.20%) CompTIA CySA+
10 6 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (1.20%) GCFA
10 6 (1.20%) GCIA
11 5 (1.00%) A+ Certification
11 5 (1.00%) CFCE
11 5 (1.00%) CISM
11 5 (1.00%) GIAC
11 5 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (0.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.40%) PMO
2 26 (5.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (4.80%) Data Quality
4 23 (4.60%) GDPR
5 21 (4.20%) NIST
6 18 (3.60%) SLA
7 17 (3.40%) QA
8 8 (1.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.60%) GRC
8 8 (1.60%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 5 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.80%) NCSC
12 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.60%) IASME
12 3 (0.60%) ISO 8583
12 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.60%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.60%) P3O
System Software
1 35 (7.00%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.40%) NFS
3 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (2.20%) SCCM
3 5 (1.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 4 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (0.80%) Terraform
5 3 (0.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.60%) Ansible
5 3 (0.60%) Grafana
5 3 (0.60%) HP SiteScope
5 3 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.60%) SCOM
6 2 (0.40%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.20%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.20%) Kibana
7 1 (0.20%) Nagios
7 1 (0.20%) Nmap
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
7 1 (0.20%) QRadar
Vendors
1 67 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.40%) ServiceNow
3 31 (6.20%) Oracle
4 25 (5.00%) Splunk
5 23 (4.60%) Salesforce
6 17 (3.40%) SAP
7 12 (2.40%) Citrix
8 11 (2.20%) VMware
9 7 (1.40%) Remedy
10 6 (1.20%) Google
11 5 (1.00%) ArcSight
11 5 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (1.00%) Mitel
11 5 (1.00%) MuleSoft
12 4 (0.80%) Adobe
12 4 (0.80%) Ariba
12 4 (0.80%) Avaya
12 4 (0.80%) LogRhythm
12 4 (0.80%) Meraki
12 4 (0.80%) Tenable