Technical Analysis Contract Job Trends in the South East

Technical Analysis
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Technical Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 173 192
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 +57
Contract jobs citing Technical Analysis 5 4 12
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.14% 0.093% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.11% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £416 £491 £564
25th Percentile £418 £505 £599
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £523 £668
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -21.72% +36.92%
75th Percentile £440 £547 £676
90th Percentile £443 £564 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £671
% change year-on-year - -21.79% -10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.44
Median hourly rate - - £48.61
75th Percentile - - £51.78
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -0.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Technical Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,216 3,588 4,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 88.82% 83.71% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,013 2,171 3,285
10th Percentile £213 £260 £239
25th Percentile £380 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 183 257
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £24.50
Median hourly rate £20.73 £58.49 £54.37
Median % change year-on-year -64.56% +7.58% +55.34%
75th Percentile £40.91 £70.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £69.38 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -5.56% +36.36%

Technical Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Technical Analysis relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Technical Analysis job vacancy trend in the South East

Technical Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Technical Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Technical Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Technical Analysis

Technical Analysis
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 Technical Analysis within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Berkshire +19 5 £428 -15.14% 6
Thames Valley +4 5 £428 -15.14% 6
Technical Analysis
England

Technical Analysis
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) SOC Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (20.00%) Voice Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Behavioural Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Forensic Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Malware Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CFCE
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
1 2 (40.00%) GCFA
1 2 (40.00%) GCIA
1 2 (40.00%) GCIH
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (20.00%) LogRhythm