Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,485 2,388 3,346
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.63% 11.50% 13.90%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.62% 12.41% 14.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1,486 2,307
10th Percentile £200 £175 £165
25th Percentile £313 £307 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.94%
75th Percentile £506 £525 £519
90th Percentile £575 £588 £588
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 301 245
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.18 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £21.46 £15.79 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.91% -7.12% +13.33%
75th Percentile £30.68 £21.37 £22.16
90th Percentile £52.38 £25.17 £34.80
UK median hourly rate £22.14 £16.30 £18.39
% change year-on-year +35.83% -11.36% +18.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
North of England -1 367 £400 -11.11% 801
South East +1 316 £460 +2.22% 1,068
Scotland -3 259 £425 +1.80% 190
Midlands -4 217 £425 +6.25% 648
North West 0 215 £361 -19.72% 401
South West -3 159 £400 -15.79% 379
West Midlands -2 158 £475 +11.76% 366
Yorkshire +3 125 £411 -8.61% 312
East of England -4 125 £428 +4.27% 480
East Midlands -4 59 £358 -1.24% 243
Northern Ireland 0 29 £350 +4.48% 60
North East -7 27 £450 +7.14% 90
Wales -3 22 £400 +3.23% 79
Channel Islands - 2 £463 - 1
Analyst
UK

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 512 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 337 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
3 323 (21.75%) Analytical Skills
4 298 (20.07%) Finance
5 288 (19.39%) Microsoft
6 287 (19.33%) Agile
7 219 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
8 205 (13.80%) Security Cleared
9 190 (12.79%) ITIL
10 188 (12.66%) SQL
11 184 (12.39%) Microsoft Excel
12 179 (12.05%) Data Analysis
13 172 (11.58%) Business Analysis
14 160 (10.77%) Customer Service
15 158 (10.64%) Public Sector
16 154 (10.37%) Active Directory
17 153 (10.30%) Windows
17 153 (10.30%) Microsoft 365
18 147 (9.90%) Power Platform
19 145 (9.76%) SC Cleared
20 141 (9.49%) Business Intelligence
20 141 (9.49%) Power BI
21 126 (8.48%) Degree
22 124 (8.35%) JIRA
23 123 (8.28%) ServiceNow
24 116 (7.81%) User Stories
25 115 (7.74%) Migration
26 113 (7.61%) Azure
26 113 (7.61%) Analytics
27 111 (7.47%) Change Management

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 78 (5.25%) SharePoint
2 56 (3.77%) Confluence
3 28 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.01%) SAS
5 8 (0.54%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.40%) CMS
7 4 (0.27%) Mattermost
7 4 (0.27%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.20%) IBM Notes
8 3 (0.20%) IIS
8 3 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
9 2 (0.13%) Appian
9 2 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.067%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.067%) Camunda
10 1 (0.067%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 184 (12.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 108 (7.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 95 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
4 66 (4.44%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.40%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 25 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
5 4 (0.27%) iTrent
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Cash Management
6 3 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.20%) SAP LE
6 3 (0.20%) SAP WM
7 2 (0.13%) Maximo
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.13%) Primavera
7 2 (0.13%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 153 (10.30%) Microsoft 365
2 147 (9.90%) Power Platform
3 113 (7.61%) Azure
4 39 (2.63%) Entra ID
5 34 (2.29%) AWS
6 32 (2.15%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (1.62%) SaaS
8 18 (1.21%) Yammer
9 17 (1.14%) GCP
10 12 (0.81%) PowerApps
11 11 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (0.74%) OCI
11 11 (0.74%) Snowflake
12 9 (0.61%) OneDrive
13 8 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.47%) Adobe Analytics
14 7 (0.47%) Lucidchart
14 7 (0.47%) Power Automate
15 5 (0.34%) Google Workspace
15 5 (0.34%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.22%) DNS
2 29 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
3 22 (1.48%) Network Security
4 17 (1.14%) Firewall
4 17 (1.14%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.08%) VPN
6 15 (1.01%) HTTP
7 14 (0.94%) FTP
7 14 (0.94%) SMTP
7 14 (0.94%) SSL
8 13 (0.88%) DHCP
8 13 (0.88%) WebEx
9 12 (0.81%) Skype
10 8 (0.54%) Intrusion Detection
10 8 (0.54%) Remote Desktop
10 8 (0.54%) WAN
11 7 (0.47%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.40%) LAN
13 5 (0.34%) Softphone
13 5 (0.34%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 141 (9.49%) Power BI
2 62 (4.18%) Tableau
3 54 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (1.28%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.28%) SQL Server
5 13 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
6 12 (0.81%) Oracle Database
7 9 (0.61%) Looker
7 9 (0.61%) Metadata
7 9 (0.61%) RDBMS
8 8 (0.54%) Qlik Sense
9 7 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.34%) Data Mining
11 5 (0.34%) MS Access
12 4 (0.27%) MySQL
12 4 (0.27%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (0.27%) QlikView
12 4 (0.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 124 (8.35%) JIRA
2 17 (1.14%) TestRail
3 9 (0.61%) Git
4 6 (0.40%) Selenium
4 6 (0.40%) Toad
5 5 (0.34%) Postman
5 5 (0.34%) SoapUI
6 4 (0.27%) Cucumber
6 4 (0.27%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.20%) GitLab
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle APEX
8 2 (0.13%) eggPlant
8 2 (0.13%) ERwin
8 2 (0.13%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (0.13%) QARun
8 2 (0.13%) WinRunner
9 1 (0.067%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.067%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.067%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.067%) Zephyr
General
1 512 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 323 (21.75%) Analytical Skills
3 298 (20.07%) Finance
4 158 (10.64%) Public Sector
5 105 (7.07%) Banking
6 50 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
7 49 (3.30%) Retail
8 39 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (2.29%) Law
9 34 (2.29%) Manufacturing
9 34 (2.29%) Telecoms
10 25 (1.68%) Marketing
11 23 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (1.55%) Local Government
11 23 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
12 21 (1.41%) Legal
13 19 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
14 16 (1.08%) Investment Banking
15 15 (1.01%) Back Office
16 13 (0.88%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 15 (1.01%) LDAP
3 12 (0.81%) Web Services
4 9 (0.61%) Middleware
4 9 (0.61%) XML
5 7 (0.47%) .NET
5 7 (0.47%) REST
6 5 (0.34%) HTML
6 5 (0.34%) SOAP
7 4 (0.27%) OAuth
7 4 (0.27%) OpenID
7 4 (0.27%) SAML
7 4 (0.27%) XMPP
8 3 (0.20%) JSON
8 3 (0.20%) SailPoint
8 3 (0.20%) SAP PI
9 2 (0.13%) Gherkin
9 2 (0.13%) RESTful
9 2 (0.13%) SAP Fiori
9 2 (0.13%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 91 (6.13%) Management Information System
2 36 (2.42%) Product Ownership
3 26 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 26 (1.75%) Driving Licence
3 26 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
4 22 (1.48%) Cyber Threat
4 22 (1.48%) Data Structures
4 22 (1.48%) Onboarding
5 21 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (1.28%) CMDB
6 19 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (1.28%) Operational Technology
7 16 (1.08%) Data Centre
8 15 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (0.94%) Cyberattack
10 11 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (0.74%) Smartphone
11 10 (0.67%) Security Posture
12 9 (0.61%) CSOC
12 9 (0.61%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 153 (10.30%) Windows
2 62 (4.18%) Windows 10
3 32 (2.15%) Linux
4 26 (1.75%) Unix
5 21 (1.41%) Windows Server
6 15 (1.01%) Android
7 8 (0.54%) Apple iOS
7 8 (0.54%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.067%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 337 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
2 287 (19.33%) Agile
3 219 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 190 (12.79%) ITIL
5 179 (12.05%) Data Analysis
6 172 (11.58%) Business Analysis
7 160 (10.77%) Customer Service
8 141 (9.49%) Business Intelligence
9 116 (7.81%) User Stories
10 115 (7.74%) Migration
11 113 (7.61%) Analytics
12 111 (7.47%) Change Management
13 110 (7.41%) Requirements Gathering
14 107 (7.21%) Cybersecurity
15 103 (6.94%) Decision-Making
16 95 (6.40%) Incident Management
17 88 (5.93%) Process Improvement
18 86 (5.79%) Project Management
18 86 (5.79%) Workshop Facilitation
19 84 (5.66%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 188 (12.66%) SQL
2 61 (4.11%) Python
3 24 (1.62%) PowerShell
4 13 (0.88%) PL/SQL
5 11 (0.74%) Java
5 11 (0.74%) Perl
6 10 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
6 10 (0.67%) Uniface
7 9 (0.61%) JavaScript
7 9 (0.61%) VBA
8 8 (0.54%) R
9 6 (0.40%) C#
10 4 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (0.27%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.20%) ProC
12 2 (0.13%) Bicep
12 2 (0.13%) PHP
12 2 (0.13%) VB
13 1 (0.067%) ABAP
13 1 (0.067%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 205 (13.80%) Security Cleared
2 145 (9.76%) SC Cleared
3 126 (8.48%) Degree
4 57 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 48 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 40 (2.69%) A+ Certification
7 29 (1.95%) MCSA
8 27 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (1.41%) ISTQB
10 20 (1.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 16 (1.08%) IIBA
12 14 (0.94%) ISEB
13 12 (0.81%) CISSP
14 9 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
15 8 (0.54%) ACCA
15 8 (0.54%) Azure Certification
16 7 (0.47%) CIMA
16 7 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
17 6 (0.40%) MCP
17 6 (0.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (4.78%) Data Quality
2 67 (4.51%) QA
3 54 (3.64%) SLA
4 39 (2.63%) PMO
5 36 (2.42%) GDPR
6 12 (0.81%) Disclosure Scotland
7 10 (0.67%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.40%) NIST
10 5 (0.34%) IFRS
11 4 (0.27%) FINREP
11 4 (0.27%) IFRS 9
12 3 (0.20%) Basel III
12 3 (0.20%) COREP
12 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.20%) NCSC
12 3 (0.20%) P3O
System Software
1 154 (10.37%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.40%) vSphere
4 5 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.27%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.27%) RACF
6 3 (0.20%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.13%) Firmware
7 2 (0.13%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.067%) Docker
8 1 (0.067%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.067%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 29 (1.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (1.21%) SCCM
3 7 (0.47%) SCOM
3 7 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.34%) QRadar
5 4 (0.27%) Grafana
6 3 (0.20%) AirWatch
6 3 (0.20%) Kubernetes
7 2 (0.13%) CASB
7 2 (0.13%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.13%) HP Data Protector
7 2 (0.13%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.13%) Sysdig
7 2 (0.13%) WSUS
8 1 (0.067%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.067%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.067%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.067%) Nagios
8 1 (0.067%) Podman
8 1 (0.067%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 288 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 123 (8.28%) ServiceNow
3 73 (4.92%) Oracle
4 58 (3.91%) SAP
5 46 (3.10%) Citrix
6 25 (1.68%) Google
7 24 (1.62%) Splunk
8 16 (1.08%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.01%) VMware
10 13 (0.88%) Cisco
10 13 (0.88%) Virgin Media
11 11 (0.74%) Apple
11 11 (0.74%) CyberArk
11 11 (0.74%) Sage
12 10 (0.67%) Ariba
12 10 (0.67%) Remedy
13 9 (0.61%) Adobe
13 9 (0.61%) Alteryx
13 9 (0.61%) Motorola
14 8 (0.54%) Palo Alto