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 during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 8 5
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 2,325 3,202 4,590
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.47% 13.84% 14.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.41% 14.68% 15.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,451 2,198 3,161
10th Percentile £175 £163 £155
25th Percentile £300 £303 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £405
Median % change year-on-year - +4.94% +8.00%
75th Percentile £520 £525 £488
90th Percentile £588 £588 £538
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 240 387
10th Percentile £12.53 £12.50 £11.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.06
Median hourly rate £15.79 £17.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +9.68% +1.64%
75th Percentile £21.37 £22.16 £20.25
90th Percentile £25.05 £32.32 £32.50
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £18.23 £15.74
% change year-on-year -10.56% +15.79% -3.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,742 21,812 29,390
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,203 20,621
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,269 1,109 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 20 May 2024.

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 20 May 2024.

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 20 May 2024. 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
South East -4 509 £450 +4.65% 404
North of England 0 498 £450 - 345
Midlands +1 346 £400 -5.88% 230
Scotland 0 336 £415 -2.29% 78
South West +4 327 £475 - 131
East of England +2 287 £410 +1.23% 129
North West -3 285 £445 +4.76% 199
West Midlands -1 235 £425 -0.35% 147
Yorkshire -4 176 £450 -10.00% 120
East Midlands +5 107 £363 -9.38% 83
North East +10 36 £420 +5.00% 27
Wales -6 26 £388 -3.13% 32
Northern Ireland -9 17 £338 -15.63% 14
South Coast - 2 £500 -
Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, 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.

1 696 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 458 (19.70%) Security Cleared
3 444 (19.10%) Microsoft
4 410 (17.63%) Finance
5 391 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
6 376 (16.17%) Analytical Skills
7 332 (14.28%) Agile
8 306 (13.16%) Customer Service
9 259 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
10 254 (10.92%) ITIL
10 254 (10.92%) Windows
11 244 (10.49%) Cybersecurity
11 244 (10.49%) SC Cleared
12 240 (10.32%) Public Sector
13 223 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
14 222 (9.55%) Degree
15 217 (9.33%) Business Analysis
16 216 (9.29%) DV Cleared
17 213 (9.16%) Business Intelligence
18 203 (8.73%) SQL
19 198 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
20 188 (8.09%) Active Directory
20 188 (8.09%) Power Platform
21 186 (8.00%) Power BI
22 182 (7.83%) Azure
23 175 (7.53%) Incident Management
24 164 (7.05%) Analytics
25 161 (6.92%) Requirements Gathering
26 159 (6.84%) Project Management
27 147 (6.32%) Data Analysis

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 76 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 62 (2.67%) Confluence
3 59 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (0.99%) SAS
5 19 (0.82%) CMS
6 10 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.26%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.17%) Appian
9 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.13%) OpenEdge
11 2 (0.086%) Apache
11 2 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.043%) EPiServer
12 1 (0.043%) IIS
12 1 (0.043%) LiveLink
12 1 (0.043%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.043%) WebSphere
Applications
1 223 (9.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 134 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
3 90 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (1.72%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.30%) SPSS
8 1 (0.043%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.043%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 25 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 18 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.30%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.22%) Maximo
7 5 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.22%) Odoo
7 5 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
8 4 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.17%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.17%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 198 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
2 188 (8.09%) Power Platform
3 182 (7.83%) Azure
4 51 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (2.02%) Snowflake
6 45 (1.94%) AWS
7 29 (1.25%) Entra ID
8 28 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (1.08%) SaaS
10 24 (1.03%) Power Automate
11 20 (0.86%) OCI
12 16 (0.69%) PowerApps
12 16 (0.69%) Yammer
13 14 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
14 13 (0.56%) Collibra
15 12 (0.52%) Azure Stack
15 12 (0.52%) GCP
15 12 (0.52%) OneDrive
15 12 (0.52%) WhatsApp
16 11 (0.47%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 66 (2.84%) Firewall
2 53 (2.28%) Wi-Fi
3 25 (1.08%) Network Security
4 23 (0.99%) DNS
4 23 (0.99%) WAN
5 21 (0.90%) LAN
6 20 (0.86%) DHCP
7 18 (0.77%) VPN
8 16 (0.69%) Wireless
9 13 (0.56%) SAN
10 11 (0.47%) Internet
10 11 (0.47%) TCP/IP
11 10 (0.43%) BGP
12 8 (0.34%) MPLS
13 7 (0.30%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (0.30%) Intranet
14 6 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (0.26%) Skype
15 4 (0.17%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (8.00%) Power BI
2 84 (3.61%) Tableau
3 40 (1.72%) SQL Server
4 28 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (0.86%) Data Lake
5 20 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
6 19 (0.82%) Data Mining
7 15 (0.65%) Big Data
7 15 (0.65%) Qlik Sense
8 12 (0.52%) BigQuery
8 12 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.47%) Relational Database
10 10 (0.43%) GIS
10 10 (0.43%) Metadata
10 10 (0.43%) Power Query
10 10 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 9 (0.39%) Hadoop
11 9 (0.39%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
12 8 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 131 (5.63%) JIRA
2 24 (1.03%) TestRail
3 21 (0.90%) Selenium
4 11 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 10 (0.43%) Visual Studio
6 9 (0.39%) Postman
7 8 (0.34%) Eclipse
8 7 (0.30%) PyCharm
9 6 (0.26%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.22%) Git
10 5 (0.22%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.17%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.17%) Jenkins
11 4 (0.17%) JMeter
11 4 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.17%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.17%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.13%) Cucumber
13 2 (0.086%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.086%) TestComplete
General
1 696 (29.94%) Social Skills
2 410 (17.63%) Finance
3 376 (16.17%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (10.32%) Public Sector
5 99 (4.26%) Retail
6 98 (4.22%) Banking
7 86 (3.70%) Legal
8 76 (3.27%) Manufacturing
9 75 (3.23%) Telecoms
10 74 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
11 59 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
12 47 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
13 45 (1.94%) Marketing
14 31 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 30 (1.29%) Local Government
16 24 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
17 20 (0.86%) Automotive
18 18 (0.77%) Billing
18 18 (0.77%) Publishing
19 14 (0.60%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (0.73%) SailPoint
2 16 (0.69%) .NET
2 16 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (0.56%) XML
4 8 (0.34%) HTML
5 7 (0.30%) D3.js
5 7 (0.30%) LDAP
6 6 (0.26%) JSON
6 6 (0.26%) Middleware
7 4 (0.17%) ADO
7 4 (0.17%) SOAP
7 4 (0.17%) Web Services
8 3 (0.13%) CSS
8 3 (0.13%) IDoc
9 2 (0.086%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (0.086%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.086%) PySpark
9 2 (0.086%) Regular Expression
9 2 (0.086%) REST
10 1 (0.043%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 138 (5.94%) Management Information System
2 66 (2.84%) Security Operations Centre
3 64 (2.75%) Cyber Threat
4 48 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 34 (1.46%) CSOC
5 34 (1.46%) NHS
6 30 (1.29%) Cyber Defence
7 29 (1.25%) Operational Technology
8 28 (1.20%) Credit Risk
8 28 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
9 27 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
11 23 (0.99%) Data Structures
12 22 (0.95%) CMDB
13 21 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 21 (0.90%) Cyberattack
13 21 (0.90%) Private Cloud
14 17 (0.73%) Data Centre
15 16 (0.69%) Driving Licence
15 16 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 254 (10.92%) Windows
2 109 (4.69%) Windows 10
3 68 (2.92%) Linux
4 25 (1.08%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.99%) Unix
6 21 (0.90%) Android
7 20 (0.86%) Apple iOS
8 16 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.52%) Mac OS X
9 12 (0.52%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.22%) Debian
13 5 (0.22%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.043%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 391 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
2 332 (14.28%) Agile
3 306 (13.16%) Customer Service
4 259 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 254 (10.92%) ITIL
6 244 (10.49%) Cybersecurity
7 217 (9.33%) Business Analysis
8 213 (9.16%) Business Intelligence
9 175 (7.53%) Incident Management
10 164 (7.05%) Analytics
11 161 (6.92%) Requirements Gathering
12 159 (6.84%) Project Management
13 147 (6.32%) Data Analysis
14 137 (5.89%) SIEM
15 131 (5.63%) Decision-Making
16 129 (5.55%) Security Operations
17 125 (5.38%) Continuous Improvement
18 122 (5.25%) User Stories
19 119 (5.12%) Migration
20 114 (4.90%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 203 (8.73%) SQL
2 101 (4.34%) Python
3 23 (0.99%) PowerShell
4 22 (0.95%) Java
5 20 (0.86%) R
6 18 (0.77%) JavaScript
7 13 (0.56%) C#
8 12 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 11 (0.47%) VBA
10 9 (0.39%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.39%) VBScript
11 8 (0.34%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.26%) Groovy
12 6 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.22%) C
14 4 (0.17%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.17%) VB
15 3 (0.13%) Bash
15 3 (0.13%) C++
16 2 (0.086%) ProC
Qualifications
1 458 (19.70%) Security Cleared
2 244 (10.49%) SC Cleared
3 222 (9.55%) Degree
4 216 (9.29%) DV Cleared
5 56 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (1.89%) A+ Certification
7 41 (1.76%) MCSA
8 40 (1.72%) MCP
9 39 (1.68%) ISTQB
10 29 (1.25%) CISSP
11 28 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
12 25 (1.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 24 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
13 24 (1.03%) CISM
14 20 (0.86%) ACCA
14 20 (0.86%) CIMA
15 19 (0.82%) ISEB
16 18 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
16 18 (0.77%) SANS
17 17 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (4.00%) PMO
1 93 (4.00%) SLA
2 78 (3.35%) QA
3 73 (3.14%) Data Quality
4 69 (2.97%) GDPR
5 50 (2.15%) NIST
6 46 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 37 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
8 20 (0.86%) NIST 800
9 19 (0.82%) GxP
10 18 (0.77%) Good Clinical Practice
11 14 (0.60%) NCSC
12 12 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.47%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.47%) IFRS
14 10 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
15 9 (0.39%) GAAP
15 9 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 188 (8.09%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (0.34%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
5 5 (0.22%) BitLocker
5 5 (0.22%) Firmware
5 5 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.086%) Terminal Services
7 2 (0.086%) vSphere
8 1 (0.043%) Docker
8 1 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.043%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.043%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.043%) XenApp
8 1 (0.043%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 34 (1.46%) SCCM
2 28 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (0.47%) Nagios
4 8 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (0.34%) Nessus
4 8 (0.34%) NetBackup
5 5 (0.22%) Ansible
5 5 (0.22%) ZABBIX
6 4 (0.17%) IBM BigFix
6 4 (0.17%) Tivoli
7 3 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
7 3 (0.13%) QRadar
7 3 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.13%) Terraform
7 3 (0.13%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 2 (0.086%) Kibana
8 2 (0.086%) logstash
9 1 (0.043%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.043%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 444 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 128 (5.51%) ServiceNow
3 122 (5.25%) SAP
4 97 (4.17%) Oracle
5 78 (3.35%) Citrix
6 49 (2.11%) Splunk
7 46 (1.98%) Alteryx
8 39 (1.68%) VMware
9 37 (1.59%) Salesforce
10 28 (1.20%) LogRhythm
11 26 (1.12%) Atlassian
12 23 (0.99%) Google
13 22 (0.95%) Cisco
13 22 (0.95%) Darktrace
14 21 (0.90%) FireEye
14 21 (0.90%) Sun
15 18 (0.77%) CyberArk
16 16 (0.69%) Apple
17 14 (0.60%) Ariba
17 14 (0.60%) Qualys