IT Analyst Contracts in the Thames Valley

IT Analyst
South East > Thames Valley

The median IT Analyst daily rate in the Thames Valley is £130, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 May 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 123 137
Rank change year-on-year +35 +14 -25
Contract jobs requiring an IT Analyst 11 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.76% 0.50% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% 0.54% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 9
10th Percentile - £164 £148
25th Percentile - £303 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £130 £446 £350
Median % change year-on-year -70.84% +27.36% +84.21%
75th Percentile £315 £511 £473
90th Percentile £426 £554 £502
South East median daily rate £338 £446 £173
% change year-on-year -24.24% +158.26% -11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.10
25th Percentile - - £22.25
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £29.90
90th Percentile - - £31.34
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +14.70% -10.42% +37.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,343 2,415 2,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.56% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 848 1,380 1,832
10th Percentile £273 £213 £300
25th Percentile £400 £374 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 183 78
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.55 £17.11
25th Percentile £15.16 £19.25 £20.25
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £64.96 £62.50 £66.16
90th Percentile £77.02 £85.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.28 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -32.05% -1.86% +142.00%

IT Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Analyst in the Thames Valley

IT Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Analyst in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for IT Analyst in the Thames Valley

IT Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Analyst in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Analyst in the Thames Valley

IT Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Analyst in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for IT Analyst in the Thames Valley

IT Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Analyst within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 May 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 +26 6 £130 -70.82% 14
Oxfordshire - 5 - - 4
IT Analyst
South East

IT Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, IT 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 Thames Valley region featuring IT Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (63.64%) Service Delivery
3 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
4 4 (36.36%) Knowledge Management
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (36.36%) Process Improvement
4 4 (36.36%) Change Control
4 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (36.36%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Business Continuity
4 4 (36.36%) Information Management
4 4 (36.36%) Release Management
4 4 (36.36%) Citrix
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (36.36%) A+ Certification
4 4 (36.36%) ITIL
4 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (36.36%) Proactive Maintenance
4 4 (36.36%) Liquidlogic
4 4 (36.36%) Application Security
4 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Metrics
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Monitoring
4 4 (36.36%) Proactive Monitoring
4 4 (36.36%) Customer-Centricity
5 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
5 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi

IT Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) Internet
2 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (9.09%) IP Telephony
2 1 (9.09%) LAN
2 1 (9.09%) MPLS
2 1 (9.09%) NAS
2 1 (9.09%) NetScaler
2 1 (9.09%) SAN
2 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Skype
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.09%) Unified Communications
2 1 (9.09%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Wireless
General
1 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
1 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Android
2 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
2 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (63.64%) Service Delivery
3 4 (36.36%) Analytics
3 4 (36.36%) Application Security
3 4 (36.36%) Business Continuity
3 4 (36.36%) Change Control
3 4 (36.36%) Customer Service
3 4 (36.36%) Customer-Centricity
3 4 (36.36%) Information Management
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) Knowledge Management
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Metrics
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Monitoring
3 4 (36.36%) Proactive Maintenance
3 4 (36.36%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (36.36%) Process Improvement
3 4 (36.36%) Release Management
3 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
4 3 (27.27%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) A+ Certification
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (27.27%) MCSA
3 1 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) vSphere
2 1 (9.09%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Citrix
2 4 (36.36%) Liquidlogic
3 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco
4 1 (9.09%) F5
4 1 (9.09%) VMware