Technical Analyst Contract Job Trends in the South East

Technical Analyst
England > South East

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in the South East is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 149 192
Rank change year-on-year -5 +43 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 20 23 26
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.51% 0.56% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.61% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 21 21
10th Percentile £384 £170 £400
25th Percentile £410 £300 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £492 £525 £538
90th Percentile £513 £638 £588
England median daily rate £463 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% -

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 3,543 3,800 5,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.76% 92.71% 94.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,276 2,284 3,354
10th Percentile £205 £250 £208
25th Percentile £385 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £511
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.24% +2.25%
75th Percentile £598 £625 £613
90th Percentile £664 £688 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 212 253
10th Percentile £13.50 £17.71 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.97 £26.81 £24.00
Median hourly rate £20.79 £57.50 £52.10
Median % change year-on-year -63.84% +10.36% +38.93%
75th Percentile £51.39 £72.36 £67.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.16 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £45.21
% change year-on-year -37.13% -11.52% +50.70%

Technical Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Technical Analyst job vacancy trend in the South East

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Analyst job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Analyst job vacancies in the South East

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Analyst in the South East over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Analyst in the South East

Technical Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Analyst job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Analyst job vacancies in the South East

Technical 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 Technical Analyst within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 November 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 +12 16 £450 -5.26% 7
Berkshire +8 10 £463 -15.91% 1
Buckinghamshire +10 6 £413 -17.50% 2
Kent +3 1 £413 +271.62% 1
Hampshire -1 1 - - 1
Middlesex - 1 £560 -
Technical Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 17 November 2025, Technical 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 Technical Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (40.00%) User Stories
2 7 (35.00%) Agile
2 7 (35.00%) Salesforce
3 6 (30.00%) Azure
4 5 (25.00%) AWS
4 5 (25.00%) DevOps
4 5 (25.00%) QA
4 5 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (20.00%) ADO
5 4 (20.00%) Analytics
5 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) CRM
5 4 (20.00%) Figma
5 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (20.00%) Wireframes
6 3 (15.00%) MuleSoft
6 3 (15.00%) Prototyping
6 3 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
7 2 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (10.00%) Attestation
7 2 (10.00%) Backlog Refinement
7 2 (10.00%) Boomi
7 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
7 2 (10.00%) Business Case
7 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
7 2 (10.00%) Data Governance
7 2 (10.00%) Data Hub

Technical 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 1 (5.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 5 (25.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (20.00%) Figma
4 2 (10.00%) Boomi
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Data Hub
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
1 2 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Postman
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Billing
3 3 (15.00%) Finance
4 2 (10.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Law
5 1 (5.00%) Local Government
5 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (5.00%) Police
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.00%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) User Stories
2 7 (35.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (20.00%) Analytics
4 4 (20.00%) CRM
4 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (20.00%) Wireframes
5 3 (15.00%) Prototyping
5 3 (15.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
6 2 (10.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (10.00%) Attestation
6 2 (10.00%) Backlog Refinement
6 2 (10.00%) Business Case
6 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (10.00%) Epics
6 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (10.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Salesforce
2 3 (15.00%) MuleSoft
3 2 (10.00%) Dell
3 2 (10.00%) Foundry
3 2 (10.00%) Palantir