Service Analyst Contract Job Trends in the South West

Service Analyst
England > South West

The median Service Analyst daily rate in the South West is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 106 110
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Service Analyst 12 28 47
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.61% 1.10% 1.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 1.19% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 29
10th Percentile £164 £140 £131
25th Percentile £218 £172 £170
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £200 £176
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% +13.64% -2.22%
75th Percentile £419 £223 £330
90th Percentile £443 £488 £340
England median daily rate £225 £215 £225
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.44% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 13
10th Percentile £14.41 - -
25th Percentile £14.43 £14.41 £13.25
Median hourly rate £14.66 £15.22 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +12.70% -20.59%
75th Percentile £15.04 £15.62 £15.47
90th Percentile £15.14 - £15.59
England median hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% +3.23%

All Contract 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.

Contract vacancies in the South West with a recognized job title 1,759 2,362 3,057
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.11% 92.66% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 992 1,393 2,074
10th Percentile £222 £225 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -5.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £640
90th Percentile £725 £700 £719
England median daily rate £513 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 245 294
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.84 £18.41
25th Percentile £18.22 £36.00 £45.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.26 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £45.94
% change year-on-year -42.71% -4.44% +74.23%

Service Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Service Analyst job vacancy trend in the South West

Service Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Service Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Analyst in the South West over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Analyst in the South West

Service Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Service Analyst
Contract 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 Service Analyst within the South West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Gloucestershire +15 3 £400 -
Bristol 0 3 - - 1
Dorset -6 2 - - 1
Devon - 2 £165 - 2
Wiltshire +3 1 £425 +112.50% 2
Somerset -1 1 £275 +27.91% 2
Service Analyst
England

Service Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 3 October 2025, Service 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 West region featuring Service Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 4 (33.33%) Change Management
3 4 (33.33%) ITSM
3 4 (33.33%) ITIL
3 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) User Experience
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) Workflow
4 3 (25.00%) Service Management
4 3 (25.00%) Validation
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (25.00%) JIRA
4 3 (25.00%) Azure
5 2 (16.67%) AWS
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) REST
5 2 (16.67%) CMDB
5 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (16.67%) Git
5 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
5 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
5 2 (16.67%) Bootstrap
5 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow

Service Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Skype
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Military
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (16.67%) Bootstrap
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) JSON
1 2 (16.67%) REST
1 2 (16.67%) SOAP
1 2 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) CMDB
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Change Management
1 4 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 4 (33.33%) ITIL
1 4 (33.33%) ITSM
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) Service Management
2 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (25.00%) User Experience
2 3 (25.00%) Validation
2 3 (25.00%) Workflow
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) CAD
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (16.67%) DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Line Management
3 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) Remedy
3 1 (8.33%) VMware