Analyst Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £412, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 10 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 -2 -3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 2,079 1,745 2,462
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 11.37% 11.75% 12.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.61% 12.72% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,142 1,675
10th Percentile £195 £190 £167
25th Percentile £313 £300 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £412 £420 £438
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% -4.00% +5.42%
75th Percentile £500 £513 £525
90th Percentile £550 £588 £589
UK median daily rate £450 £472 £475
% change year-on-year -4.69% -0.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 120 206
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.83 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.62 £17.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.46 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -16.12% +21.11% +10.27%
75th Percentile £26.17 £30.00 £21.89
90th Percentile £42.55 £52.50 £43.85
UK median hourly rate £20.75 £24.20 £18.97
% change year-on-year -14.26% +27.60% +9.97%

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 16,483 13,723 18,138
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.17% 92.39% 93.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,121 8,182 11,804
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £371 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,659 774 1,222
10th Percentile £13.88 £15.26 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.60 £20.24 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -29.62% +84.72%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £77.45
UK median hourly rate £25.25 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.48% -26.67% +45.77%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Analyst' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Analyst job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies 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 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst job vacancies 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 24 December 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 24 December 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 -3 535 £400 - 430
South East -3 441 £450 - 570
Midlands -1 379 £370 -12.94% 310
North West -2 264 £390 -5.45% 250
West Midlands -6 231 £400 -12.09% 192
East of England +2 215 £450 -10.00% 151
South West -1 214 £425 +6.25% 155
Yorkshire +2 213 £410 +7.19% 148
Scotland -6 195 £425 +4.94% 89
East Midlands +4 147 £358 -7.01% 114
North East +4 66 £381 +8.93% 36
Wales 0 63 £348 +66.47% 59
Northern Ireland +2 53 £400 +33.33% 18
Channel Islands - 1 - -
Analyst
UK

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 24 December 2025, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 403 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 401 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
3 368 (17.70%) Agile
4 315 (15.15%) Security Cleared
5 293 (14.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 253 (12.17%) Windows
7 245 (11.78%) Microsoft Excel
8 239 (11.50%) Business Analysis
9 230 (11.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 226 (10.87%) SC Cleared
11 223 (10.73%) SQL
12 202 (9.72%) Azure
12 202 (9.72%) Business Intelligence
13 201 (9.67%) Degree
14 199 (9.57%) Customer Service
15 197 (9.48%) Data Analysis
16 193 (9.28%) ITIL
17 192 (9.24%) Power Platform
18 184 (8.85%) Requirements Gathering
19 181 (8.71%) Power BI
20 179 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
21 175 (8.42%) JIRA
22 173 (8.32%) Microsoft 365
23 170 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
23 170 (8.18%) Migration
24 169 (8.13%) Decision-Making
25 162 (7.79%) Analytics
26 157 (7.55%) Active Directory
27 154 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
28 146 (7.02%) Workshop Facilitation

Analyst Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 109 (5.24%) SharePoint
2 104 (5.00%) Confluence
3 48 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (0.67%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
6 7 (0.34%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.29%) SAS
8 5 (0.24%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.19%) HCL Notes
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 3 (0.14%) Camunda
10 3 (0.14%) CMS
10 3 (0.14%) GeoServer
10 3 (0.14%) Smallworld
11 2 (0.096%) Apache
11 2 (0.096%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.096%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.048%) Moodle
12 1 (0.048%) Mule
Applications
1 245 (11.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 154 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
3 90 (4.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 70 (3.37%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.82%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.096%) Trello
9 1 (0.048%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.048%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
4 11 (0.53%) Remedy ITSM
5 9 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
6 8 (0.38%) Unit4 Business World
7 6 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
7 6 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.19%) NetSuite
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Assets
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
10 3 (0.14%) iTrent
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
10 3 (0.14%) SAP FI
10 3 (0.14%) Workday HCM
11 2 (0.096%) BASE24
11 2 (0.096%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 202 (9.72%) Azure
2 192 (9.24%) Power Platform
3 173 (8.32%) Microsoft 365
4 114 (5.48%) AWS
5 47 (2.26%) GCP
6 42 (2.02%) Entra ID
7 39 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (1.11%) SaaS
10 22 (1.06%) Snowflake
11 17 (0.82%) OCI
12 15 (0.72%) Power Automate
12 15 (0.72%) PowerApps
13 14 (0.67%) Datadog
13 14 (0.67%) Google Analytics
13 14 (0.67%) Lucidchart
14 12 (0.58%) Google Tag Manager
15 11 (0.53%) Amazon S3
15 11 (0.53%) Azure Sentinel
15 11 (0.53%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 57 (2.74%) DNS
2 42 (2.02%) TCP/IP
3 33 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
4 32 (1.54%) Firewall
5 29 (1.39%) LAN
5 29 (1.39%) Network Security
6 22 (1.06%) DHCP
6 22 (1.06%) VPN
7 21 (1.01%) FTP
8 19 (0.91%) HTTP
8 19 (0.91%) WAN
9 16 (0.77%) SMTP
9 16 (0.77%) VoIP
10 15 (0.72%) Skype
10 15 (0.72%) SSL
11 14 (0.67%) Wireless
12 13 (0.63%) SSH
12 13 (0.63%) VSAN
13 6 (0.29%) Internet
13 6 (0.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 181 (8.71%) Power BI
2 51 (2.45%) Tableau
3 28 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (1.25%) Power Query
5 25 (1.20%) Metadata
6 24 (1.15%) SQL Server
7 21 (1.01%) BigQuery
8 19 (0.91%) Relational Database
9 16 (0.77%) Looker
9 16 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
10 14 (0.67%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
11 8 (0.38%) Impala
11 8 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (0.34%) Big Data
12 7 (0.34%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.34%) Data Mining
12 7 (0.34%) GIS
12 7 (0.34%) Parquet
12 7 (0.34%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 175 (8.42%) JIRA
2 31 (1.49%) Postman
3 15 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.67%) SoapUI
5 10 (0.48%) Selenium
6 9 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (0.34%) Git
8 6 (0.29%) JMeter
8 6 (0.29%) PVCS
9 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.19%) Gatling
10 4 (0.19%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.19%) Toad
11 3 (0.14%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.096%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.096%) Fiddler
12 2 (0.096%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.096%) TestPartner
12 2 (0.096%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.048%) Appium
General
1 752 (36.17%) Social Skills
2 479 (23.04%) Analytical Skills
3 468 (22.51%) Finance
4 212 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 143 (6.88%) Banking
6 92 (4.43%) Documentation Skills
7 80 (3.85%) Retail
8 79 (3.80%) Manufacturing
9 70 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
10 52 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (2.41%) Legal
12 41 (1.97%) Telecoms
13 38 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 35 (1.68%) Marketing
15 32 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
16 24 (1.15%) Local Government
17 22 (1.06%) Investment Banking
18 20 (0.96%) Romanian Language
19 17 (0.82%) Law
20 16 (0.77%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (1.20%) XML
2 21 (1.01%) LDAP
3 20 (0.96%) JSON
4 15 (0.72%) ADO
4 15 (0.72%) REST
5 14 (0.67%) SailPoint
5 14 (0.67%) SOAP
6 11 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
7 9 (0.43%) SAML
8 8 (0.38%) Flash
8 8 (0.38%) Middleware
8 8 (0.38%) OAuth
8 8 (0.38%) PySpark
9 7 (0.34%) Apache Avro
10 6 (0.29%) .NET
10 6 (0.29%) HTML
10 6 (0.29%) Swagger
11 5 (0.24%) Pandas
11 5 (0.24%) Web Services
12 4 (0.19%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (4.95%) Management Information System
2 92 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 54 (2.60%) Product Ownership
4 53 (2.55%) Security Operations Centre
5 50 (2.41%) Data Centre
5 50 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
6 47 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
7 45 (2.16%) Cyber Threat
8 41 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
9 39 (1.88%) NHS
10 36 (1.73%) CMDB
11 31 (1.49%) Cyberattack
12 30 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
13 25 (1.20%) Data Structures
14 23 (1.11%) Driving Licence
14 23 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
15 21 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
16 19 (0.91%) CSOC
17 17 (0.82%) Security Posture
18 16 (0.77%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 253 (12.17%) Windows
2 86 (4.14%) Linux
3 59 (2.84%) Windows 10
4 41 (1.97%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.15%) Unix
6 16 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
7 14 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.58%) AIX
9 12 (0.58%) Android
10 11 (0.53%) Apple iOS
10 11 (0.53%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.29%) VMS
11 6 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.14%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.096%) zOS
14 1 (0.048%) CentOS
14 1 (0.048%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.048%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (19.29%) Problem-Solving
2 368 (17.70%) Agile
3 293 (14.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 239 (11.50%) Business Analysis
5 230 (11.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 202 (9.72%) Business Intelligence
7 199 (9.57%) Customer Service
8 197 (9.48%) Data Analysis
9 193 (9.28%) ITIL
10 184 (8.85%) Requirements Gathering
11 179 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 170 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
12 170 (8.18%) Migration
13 169 (8.13%) Decision-Making
14 162 (7.79%) Analytics
15 146 (7.02%) Workshop Facilitation
16 136 (6.54%) Change Management
17 125 (6.01%) Process Improvement
18 122 (5.87%) ITSM
19 120 (5.77%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 223 (10.73%) SQL
2 140 (6.73%) Python
3 58 (2.79%) PowerShell
4 17 (0.82%) VBA
5 16 (0.77%) Java
6 14 (0.67%) R
7 13 (0.63%) JavaScript
8 8 (0.38%) Perl
9 7 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.24%) C#
11 5 (0.24%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.19%) Bash
13 2 (0.096%) CLIST
13 2 (0.096%) COBOL
13 2 (0.096%) JCL
13 2 (0.096%) REXX
13 2 (0.096%) Scala
13 2 (0.096%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.096%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 315 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 226 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 201 (9.67%) Degree
4 67 (3.22%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.07%) CISSP
6 39 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 34 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
8 28 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
9 26 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (1.06%) ISTQB
11 20 (0.96%) CISM
11 20 (0.96%) CompTIA CySA+
12 19 (0.91%) GCIH
13 18 (0.87%) CompTIA Security+
13 18 (0.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 16 (0.77%) A+ Certification
14 16 (0.77%) GCIA
15 15 (0.72%) MCP
16 14 (0.67%) GIAC
17 13 (0.63%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 85 (4.09%) GDPR
3 74 (3.56%) PMO
4 61 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 57 (2.74%) NIST
6 56 (2.69%) SLA
7 53 (2.55%) QA
8 24 (1.15%) GRC
9 23 (1.11%) PCI DSS
10 22 (1.06%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 11 (0.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 9 (0.43%) PSD2
14 8 (0.38%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
16 6 (0.29%) ISO 8583
16 6 (0.29%) NIST 800
16 6 (0.29%) P3O
17 4 (0.19%) MiFID
System Software
1 157 (7.55%) Active Directory
2 41 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.15%) vSphere
4 9 (0.43%) NFS
5 8 (0.38%) GPFS
5 8 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.14%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.14%) Firmware
7 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.096%) Docker
8 2 (0.096%) HDFS
8 2 (0.096%) RACF
8 2 (0.096%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.048%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.048%) KVM
9 1 (0.048%) Snort
Systems Management
1 39 (1.88%) SCCM
2 33 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
3 24 (1.15%) vRealize
4 15 (0.72%) Ansible
5 14 (0.67%) VxRail
6 8 (0.38%) Kubernetes
6 8 (0.38%) SCOM
7 7 (0.34%) HP SiteScope
8 6 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 6 (0.29%) Terraform
9 5 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 3 (0.14%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (0.14%) EMC VPLEX
10 3 (0.14%) Grafana
10 3 (0.14%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.14%) QRadar
10 3 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.096%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.096%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.096%) zSecure
Vendors
1 403 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 112 (5.39%) ServiceNow
3 99 (4.76%) Oracle
4 81 (3.90%) SAP
5 71 (3.42%) Salesforce
6 51 (2.45%) Splunk
7 50 (2.41%) Cisco
8 48 (2.31%) IBM
9 46 (2.21%) VMware
10 45 (2.16%) Google
11 36 (1.73%) HP
12 32 (1.54%) Citrix
13 27 (1.30%) Dell
14 21 (1.01%) Apple
15 20 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
15 20 (0.96%) CyberArk
16 16 (0.77%) Databricks
16 16 (0.77%) MobileIron
17 14 (0.67%) AppDynamics
17 14 (0.67%) SolarWinds