Analyst Contracts in the South West

Analyst
England > South West

The median Analyst daily rate in the South West is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 August 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
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 18 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -8
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an Analyst 183 208 256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 9.51% 7.59% 7.66%
As % of the Job Titles category 10.71% 8.21% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 159 182
10th Percentile £213 £176 £176
25th Percentile £300 £263 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% -0.11%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £538
90th Percentile £563 £613 £588
England median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 11 20
10th Percentile - £14.41 -
25th Percentile £6.00 £15.56 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.84 £16.00 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +5.25% +2.45% -55.38%
75th Percentile £33.75 £30.00 £33.00
90th Percentile £34.88 - £37.45
England median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £19.81
% change year-on-year +26.51% -11.66% +13.20%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 1,709 2,533 3,193
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.78% 92.38% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 985 1,625 2,211
10th Percentile £220 £238 £300
25th Percentile £363 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +1.94%
75th Percentile £623 £613 £640
90th Percentile £700 £700 £719
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 299 284
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.85 £18.31
25th Percentile £18.13 £33.00 £40.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% +15.74%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £74.06
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.60% +68.69%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the South West

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the South West over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the South West

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the South West over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the South West

Analyst
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol +23 77 £400 -5.88% 55
Gloucestershire +25 40 £388 -8.82% 49
Wiltshire -10 29 £458 -3.68% 15
Devon +10 16 £320 +96.92% 19
Somerset -7 14 £379 +37.73% 29
Dorset -13 3 - - 17
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 2025, 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 West region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 59 (32.24%) Social Skills
2 53 (28.96%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (20.77%) Microsoft
4 37 (20.22%) Security Cleared
5 36 (19.67%) Finance
6 35 (19.13%) ITIL
7 33 (18.03%) SQL
8 29 (15.85%) Microsoft Excel
9 25 (13.66%) Agile
9 25 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (13.66%) Customer Service
10 23 (12.57%) SC Cleared
11 22 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (11.48%) Power Platform
12 21 (11.48%) Power BI
13 20 (10.93%) Windows
14 19 (10.38%) Azure
15 18 (9.84%) ITSM
16 17 (9.29%) GDPR
17 16 (8.74%) ServiceNow
17 16 (8.74%) Oracle
18 15 (8.20%) Management Information System
18 15 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
19 14 (7.65%) ERP
19 14 (7.65%) Data Analysis
19 14 (7.65%) Public Sector
19 14 (7.65%) Onboarding
20 13 (7.10%) Data Protection
20 13 (7.10%) Salesforce

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (3.28%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.73%) Confluence
3 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 29 (15.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.64%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.64%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.55%) assyst
2 1 (0.55%) Maximo
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.55%) Summit
2 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (11.48%) Power Platform
2 19 (10.38%) Azure
3 12 (6.56%) AWS
4 11 (6.01%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.09%) Apple Pay
6 2 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (1.09%) Google Pay
6 2 (1.09%) OCI
6 2 (1.09%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.55%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.55%) Pendo
7 1 (0.55%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.73%) Wireshark
2 2 (1.09%) DNS
2 2 (1.09%) Firewall
2 2 (1.09%) LAN
2 2 (1.09%) VoIP
2 2 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.55%) Network Security
3 1 (0.55%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.48%) Power BI
2 6 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.19%) Tableau
4 3 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.09%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.09%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.09%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.09%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.55%) MySQL
6 1 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.55%) Scylla
6 1 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (5.46%) JIRA
2 1 (0.55%) Postman
2 1 (0.55%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (0.55%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.55%) Zephyr
General
1 59 (32.24%) Social Skills
2 53 (28.96%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (19.67%) Finance
4 14 (7.65%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.28%) Banking
6 4 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (2.19%) Local Government
6 4 (2.19%) Military
6 4 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.64%) Legal
7 3 (1.64%) Manufacturing
7 3 (1.64%) Marketing
8 2 (1.09%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.55%) Back Office
9 1 (0.55%) Electronics
9 1 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.55%) Law
9 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.55%) .NET
1 1 (0.55%) FHIR
1 1 (0.55%) LDAP
1 1 (0.55%) ODBC
1 1 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.55%) SailPoint
1 1 (0.55%) Web Services
1 1 (0.55%) XML
1 1 (0.55%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.20%) Management Information System
2 14 (7.65%) Onboarding
3 10 (5.46%) AS400
4 9 (4.92%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.83%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.19%) Digital Wallet
6 4 (2.19%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.19%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.09%) EPoS
8 2 (1.09%) Replication
8 2 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.09%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.55%) NHS
9 1 (0.55%) PMI
9 1 (0.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.93%) Windows
2 7 (3.83%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.19%) Mac OS
3 4 (2.19%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.64%) Android
5 2 (1.09%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (19.13%) ITIL
2 25 (13.66%) Agile
2 25 (13.66%) Customer Service
2 25 (13.66%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (9.84%) ITSM
6 15 (8.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (7.65%) Data Analysis
7 14 (7.65%) ERP
8 13 (7.10%) Data Protection
9 12 (6.56%) Service Management
9 12 (6.56%) User Acceptance Testing
10 11 (6.01%) Business Analysis
10 11 (6.01%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (6.01%) Incident Response
10 11 (6.01%) Roadmaps
11 10 (5.46%) Customer Requirements
11 10 (5.46%) Logistics
11 10 (5.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 33 (18.03%) SQL
2 11 (6.01%) Python
3 8 (4.37%) PowerShell
4 4 (2.19%) Bash
4 4 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.09%) Java
5 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.55%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.55%) Tcl
6 1 (0.55%) Uniface
Qualifications
1 37 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 23 (12.57%) SC Cleared
3 11 (6.01%) DV Cleared
4 9 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.83%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (2.19%) ISTQB
6 4 (2.19%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.64%) A+ Certification
8 2 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.09%) CEH
8 2 (1.09%) CISSP
8 2 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (1.09%) Degree
8 2 (1.09%) MCSE
9 1 (0.55%) GCIH
9 1 (0.55%) GIAC
9 1 (0.55%) ISEB
9 1 (0.55%) MCP
9 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.29%) GDPR
2 7 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.73%) SLA
4 4 (2.19%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.64%) PMO
6 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.55%) DICOM
7 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.55%) HL7
7 1 (0.55%) NIST
7 1 (0.55%) QA
7 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (5.46%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (2.19%) Nessus
1 4 (2.19%) SCCM
1 4 (2.19%) WSUS
2 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.55%) Graphite
3 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.74%) Oracle
2 16 (8.74%) ServiceNow
3 13 (7.10%) Salesforce
4 4 (2.19%) NEC
4 4 (2.19%) Qualys
5 3 (1.64%) Apple
5 3 (1.64%) Google
5 3 (1.64%) SAP
6 2 (1.09%) Computacenter
6 2 (1.09%) VMware
7 1 (0.55%) Capita
7 1 (0.55%) Civica
7 1 (0.55%) Dell
7 1 (0.55%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.55%) HP
7 1 (0.55%) IBM
7 1 (0.55%) Northgate
7 1 (0.55%) Orchard
7 1 (0.55%) QAD