Project Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Project Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Project Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 358 407
Rank change year-on-year +33 +49 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Project Analyst 15 34 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.18% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 32
10th Percentile £263 £200 £202
25th Percentile £326 £263 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £435 £400
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +8.75% -
75th Percentile £422 £500 £504
90th Percentile £438 £520 £568
UK median daily rate £394 £475 £519
% change year-on-year -17.11% -8.43% +15.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £42.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -32.00% -

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 11,849 19,126 21,496
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 92.40% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,534 11,597 14,946
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £504 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.05% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,384 1,087
10th Percentile £13.76 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £18.02
Median hourly rate £25.30 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.75% -6.98% +115.00%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.33% -16.67% +87.50%

Project Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Project Analyst in the UK excluding London

Project Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Project Analyst in the UK excluding London

Project Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Analyst in the UK excluding London

Project Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Project Analyst in the UK excluding London

Project 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 Project Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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 +8 6 £358 -26.19% 3
West Midlands +14 4 £425 -5.66%
Midlands +13 4 £425 +21.43%
South East +55 3 £400 -5.88% 4
Yorkshire +16 3 £413 -13.16% 2
North East - 2 £275 -
North West +8 1 £358 -28.40% 1
Scotland +4 1 £375 +32.04%
Northern Ireland -11 1 £375 -
Project Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 2025, Project 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 Project Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Banking
4 4 (26.67%) Business Analysis
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
4 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (20.00%) Azure
5 3 (20.00%) Confluence
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (20.00%) Resource Management
5 3 (20.00%) PMO
5 3 (20.00%) Project Management
5 3 (20.00%) MS Visio
6 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (13.33%) Degree
6 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
6 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
6 2 (13.33%) Change Management
6 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (13.33%) Accounts Payable
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (13.33%) Requirements Workshops

Project 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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (20.00%) MS Visio
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DHCP
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.67%) VPN
1 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (46.67%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Banking
4 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.67%) Life Science
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (26.67%) Business Analysis
2 4 (26.67%) Waterfall
3 3 (20.00%) Project Management
3 3 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (13.33%) Accounts Payable
4 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
4 2 (13.33%) Change Management
4 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (13.33%) Data Analysis
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Project Governance
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (13.33%) Requirements Workshops
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.67%) Cost Management
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) CCNA
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.67%) MCP
2 1 (6.67%) MCSA
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) PMO
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) BMC
2 1 (6.67%) BT
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) Remedy
2 1 (6.67%) Workday