Systems Analysis Contracts in the UK excluding London

Systems Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Systems Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Systems Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 364 420
Rank change year-on-year +51 +56 +17
Contract jobs citing Systems Analysis 23 35 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.17% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.20% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 38
10th Percentile £214 £200 £350
25th Percentile £314 £350 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -9.47% +3.26%
75th Percentile £541 £531 £573
90th Percentile £571 £609 £850
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.32 £35.50 -
Median hourly rate £48.82 £36.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +35.60% - -
75th Percentile £52.31 £36.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £48.82 £36.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year +35.60% -28.71% +20.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Systems Analysis falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Systems Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Systems Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Analysis in the UK excluding London

Systems Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Analysis in the UK excluding London

Systems Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Systems Analysis in the UK excluding London

Systems Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Analysis in the UK excluding London

Systems Analysis
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 Systems Analysis 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
Scotland +10 10 £410 -3.53% 8
South East +40 6 £325 -29.34% 50
Midlands +20 3 £507 +19.24% 34
West Midlands +16 3 £507 +19.24% 20
North of England +20 2 £363 +481.72% 39
East of England +29 1 - - 25
North West +17 1 £325 +421.54% 18
Yorkshire - 1 £400 - 17
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 8
Systems Analysis
UK

Systems Analysis
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 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (26.09%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Azure
1 5 (21.74%) IaaS
1 5 (21.74%) PaaS
2 3 (13.04%) SaaS
3 2 (8.70%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) MongoDB
1 5 (21.74%) MySQL
2 3 (13.04%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 3 (13.04%) Redis
2 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Git
1 5 (21.74%) Subversion
2 2 (8.70%) Codeception
2 2 (8.70%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Administrator
2 5 (21.74%) Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (17.39%) Business Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (13.04%) IT Manager
4 3 (13.04%) IT Project Manager
4 3 (13.04%) PHP Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Database Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Resilience Manager
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Database Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Business IT Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
6 1 (4.35%) Integration Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) IT Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) IT Business Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Project Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Laravel
1 5 (21.74%) Phalcon
1 5 (21.74%) Web Services
2 3 (13.04%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (13.04%) Kafka
2 3 (13.04%) RabbitMQ
2 3 (13.04%) React
2 3 (13.04%) RESTful
2 3 (13.04%) Symfony
2 3 (13.04%) Vue
3 2 (8.70%) REST
4 1 (4.35%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.70%) Clustering
2 2 (8.70%) PMI
2 2 (8.70%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) AIX
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (8.70%) Solaris
1 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) SDLC
3 5 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (21.74%) MVC
3 5 (21.74%) OO
3 5 (21.74%) OO PHP
3 5 (21.74%) Performance Management
3 5 (21.74%) Scrum
4 4 (17.39%) ITIL
5 3 (13.04%) API Development
5 3 (13.04%) Business Continuity
5 3 (13.04%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (13.04%) Front End Development
5 3 (13.04%) Microservices
5 3 (13.04%) Migration
5 3 (13.04%) OWASP
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (13.04%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (13.04%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (13.04%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) PHP
2 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) HNC
1 2 (8.70%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.35%) CSPO
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.04%) PMO
3 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (4.35%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
1 2 (8.70%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Data Guard
2 2 (8.70%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Zend
3 2 (8.70%) Dell
3 2 (8.70%) Dynatrace
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.70%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) InterSystems