Solutions Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Solution Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Solution Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £379, 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 327 391 453
Rank change year-on-year +64 +62 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Solutions Analyst 9 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.039% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.042% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 9
10th Percentile £316 - £435
25th Percentile £335 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £379 £501 £590
Median % change year-on-year -24.35% -15.08% +18.00%
75th Percentile £456 £575 £618
90th Percentile £475 £587 £631
UK median daily rate £358 £501 £570
% change year-on-year -28.54% -12.11% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.75 - -
Median hourly rate £51.50 - -
75th Percentile £52.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £51.50 - -

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%

Solutions Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Solutions Analyst in the UK excluding London

Solutions Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Solutions Analyst in the UK excluding London

Solutions Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Solutions Analyst in the UK excluding London

Solutions Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Solutions Analyst in the UK excluding London

Solutions 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 Solutions 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 +23 5 £358 - 35
Yorkshire +11 4 £347 - 17
East of England - 2 - - 24
South West +46 1 - - 18
Midlands +22 1 £450 - 30
North West - 1 £400 - 14
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 16
Solutions Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Solutions 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 Solutions Analyst in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Sequence Diagram
2 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (33.33%) Validation
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Retail
2 3 (33.33%) Information Management
2 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (22.22%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (22.22%) Software Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Retail Banking
3 2 (22.22%) WebSphere
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Law
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle
3 2 (22.22%) DB2
3 2 (22.22%) Unix
3 2 (22.22%) Windows

Solutions 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 2 (22.22%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) DB2
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Retail
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Law
2 2 (22.22%) Retail Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
1 2 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 3 (33.33%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 3 (33.33%) Information Management
2 3 (33.33%) Sequence Diagram
2 3 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
2 3 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (22.22%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 2 (22.22%) Domain-Driven Design
3 2 (22.22%) Microservices
3 2 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Software Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) Business Case
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle