Systems Analyst Contracts in the South East

System Analyst
England > South East

The median System Analyst daily rate in the South East is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 July 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
29 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 153 183 197
Rank change year-on-year +30 +14 +25
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Analyst 13 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.38% 0.14% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.15% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 9
10th Percentile £444 £253 £280
25th Percentile £472 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £350 £515
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% -32.04% +8.42%
75th Percentile £553 £538 £548
90th Percentile £559 £575 £575
England median daily rate £391 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -18.75% -3.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
England median hourly rate £21.21 £65.00 £24.43
% change year-on-year -67.37% +166.09% -8.36%

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 3,128 4,762 5,477
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.51% 92.22% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,033 2,891 3,764
10th Percentile £213 £255 £228
25th Percentile £380 £405 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £634 £613
90th Percentile £663 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +1.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 419 248
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.85 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £22.07 £21.04
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +136.13%
75th Percentile £60.00 £71.50 £63.97
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.28 £43.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year -38.88% -1.58% +71.33%

Systems Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Analyst in the South East

Systems Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Analyst in the South East

Systems Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Analyst in the South East

Systems 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 Systems Analyst within the South East region over the 6 months to 29 July 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
Surrey +25 7 £550 +29.41% 5
Thames Valley +14 6 £525 +82.61% 5
Oxfordshire -6 5 - - 3
Berkshire +13 1 £525 - 1
Systems Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 29 July 2025, Systems 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 Systems Analyst in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) SQL
1 7 (53.85%) Business Continuity
1 7 (53.85%) Data Analysis
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
3 5 (38.46%) Proactive Monitoring
3 5 (38.46%) Customer-Centricity
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Proactive Maintenance
3 5 (38.46%) Liquidlogic
3 5 (38.46%) Application Security
3 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (38.46%) Knowledge Management
3 5 (38.46%) Service Delivery
3 5 (38.46%) Information Management
3 5 (38.46%) Release Management
3 5 (38.46%) Performance Metrics
3 5 (38.46%) Process Improvement
3 5 (38.46%) Change Control
3 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
3 5 (38.46%) Analytics
3 5 (38.46%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (30.77%) Visualisation
5 2 (15.38%) Product Vision
5 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
5 2 (15.38%) Power BI
5 2 (15.38%) Oracle
5 2 (15.38%) Web Services
5 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (7.69%) Data Conversion

Systems 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Power BI
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) Data Mining
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Business Continuity
1 7 (53.85%) Data Analysis
2 5 (38.46%) Analytics
2 5 (38.46%) Application Security
2 5 (38.46%) Change Control
2 5 (38.46%) Customer-Centricity
2 5 (38.46%) Information Management
2 5 (38.46%) Knowledge Management
2 5 (38.46%) Performance Metrics
2 5 (38.46%) Performance Monitoring
2 5 (38.46%) Proactive Maintenance
2 5 (38.46%) Proactive Monitoring
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Process Improvement
2 5 (38.46%) Release Management
2 5 (38.46%) Service Delivery
2 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (30.77%) Visualisation
4 2 (15.38%) Product Vision
5 1 (7.69%) Data Conversion
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Liquidlogic
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle