IT Analyst Contracts in the South East

IT Analyst
England > South East

The median IT Analyst daily rate in the South East is £290, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 130 157 156
Rank change year-on-year +27 -1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an IT Analyst 20 35 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.67% 0.64% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.69% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 31 42
10th Percentile £130 £164 £126
25th Percentile £145 £201 £143
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £446 £173
Median % change year-on-year -34.90% +158.26% -11.54%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £282
90th Percentile £544 £538 £458
England median daily rate £325 £446 £350
% change year-on-year -27.05% +27.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
10th Percentile £20.93 £16.45 £13.06
25th Percentile £22.33 £18.06 £13.15
Median hourly rate £24.66 £21.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.70% -10.42% +36.99%
75th Percentile £24.83 £22.25 £27.50
90th Percentile £24.93 - £30.38
England median hourly rate £22.05 £22.50 £22.63
% change year-on-year -2.00% -0.57% +29.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 2,720 5,046 5,333
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 92.35% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,812 3,031 3,721
10th Percentile £225 £213 £220
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £601
90th Percentile £661 £688 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 486 234
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.80 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.20 £21.95
Median hourly rate £32.05 £47.50 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year -32.53% -2.46% +143.49%
75th Percentile £62.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £37.18 £44.77
% change year-on-year -21.60% -16.94% +94.63%

IT Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured IT Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for IT Analyst in the South East

IT Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Analyst in the South East.

Daily rate trend for IT Analyst in the South East

IT Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Analyst in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Analyst in the South East

IT Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Analyst in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for IT Analyst in the South East

IT 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 IT Analyst within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 May 2025. 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 +32 11 £130 -70.84% 5
Berkshire +24 6 £130 -70.82%
Surrey +6 5 £383 -21.54% 3
Oxfordshire - 5 - - 4
Hampshire +20 3 £538 +53.57% 7
West Sussex +16 1 £200 - 9
IT Analyst
England

IT Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, IT Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring IT Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (45.00%) Service Delivery
3 8 (40.00%) Customer Service
4 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
4 7 (35.00%) ITIL
5 5 (25.00%) Windows
5 5 (25.00%) Analytics
5 5 (25.00%) ServiceNow
5 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
6 4 (20.00%) Application Security
6 4 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
6 4 (20.00%) Liquidlogic
6 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 4 (20.00%) Change Control
6 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
6 4 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
6 4 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (20.00%) Release Management
6 4 (20.00%) SLA
6 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
6 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (20.00%) Citrix
6 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification

IT Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (10.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) IP Telephony
2 2 (10.00%) Wireless
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (5.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (5.00%) LAN
3 1 (5.00%) NAS
3 1 (5.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (5.00%) SAN
3 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.00%) Skype
3 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (5.00%) VLAN
3 1 (5.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
1 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.00%) Smartphone
1 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.00%) Android
3 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (45.00%) Service Delivery
3 8 (40.00%) Customer Service
4 7 (35.00%) ITIL
4 7 (35.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (25.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Application Security
6 4 (20.00%) Business Continuity
6 4 (20.00%) Change Control
6 4 (20.00%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (20.00%) Information Management
6 4 (20.00%) Knowledge Management
6 4 (20.00%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
6 4 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
6 4 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
6 4 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 4 (20.00%) Release Management
7 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
7 3 (15.00%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) A+ Certification
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (15.00%) MCSA
3 1 (5.00%) CCNA
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) HP APS
3 1 (5.00%) MCP
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 4 (20.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
2 1 (5.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (5.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (20.00%) Citrix
3 4 (20.00%) Liquidlogic
4 2 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.00%) Dell
5 1 (5.00%) F5
5 1 (5.00%) IBM
5 1 (5.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.00%) VMware