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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 364 392
Rank change year-on-year +40 +28 +53
Contract jobs citing Systems Analysis 18 36 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.17% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.21% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 37
10th Percentile £303 £199 £350
25th Percentile £315 £200 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £430 £503
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -14.43% +8.06%
75th Percentile £538 £533 £588
90th Percentile £580 £609 £850
UK median daily rate £450 £461 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -16.19% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £70.90 -
UK median hourly rate - £70.90 -

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 11,769 17,348 20,309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.60% 83.29% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,314 10,293 13,934
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 861 2,136 1,244
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.45 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £64.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.70
UK median hourly rate £27.52 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -24.62% +0.69% +41.16%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +2 8 £473 +51.20% 14
South East +45 5 £325 -35.00% 48
North of England +13 3 £325 +421.54% 43
North West +8 2 £313 +401.48% 19
East of England +29 1 - - 26
Midlands +5 1 £333 -21.65% 40
East Midlands +4 1 £333 - 15
Yorkshire - 1 £400 - 19
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 4 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (22.22%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) IaaS
1 2 (11.11%) OCI
1 2 (11.11%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 4 (22.22%) MySQL
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (11.11%) Redis
2 2 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
1 4 (22.22%) JIRA
1 4 (22.22%) Subversion
2 2 (11.11%) Codeception
3 1 (5.56%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Business Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Administrator
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Developer
3 3 (16.67%) PHP Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (11.11%) Database Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Database Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Integration Specialist
5 1 (5.56%) Product Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Laravel
1 4 (22.22%) Phalcon
1 4 (22.22%) Web Services
2 3 (16.67%) RAML
3 2 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (11.11%) Kafka
3 2 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (11.11%) React
3 2 (11.11%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) RESTful
3 2 (11.11%) Symfony
3 2 (11.11%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Clustering
2 2 (11.11%) Replication
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) AIX
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Solaris
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Agile
1 6 (33.33%) SDLC
2 4 (22.22%) MVC
2 4 (22.22%) OO
2 4 (22.22%) OO PHP
2 4 (22.22%) Scrum
3 3 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (11.11%) API Development
4 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 2 (11.11%) Code Quality
4 2 (11.11%) Database Tuning
4 2 (11.11%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (11.11%) Front End Development
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (11.11%) High Availability
4 2 (11.11%) OWASP
4 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) PHP
3 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) CSPO
1 1 (5.56%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.56%) HL7
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Data Guard
2 2 (11.11%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Flashback
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Zend
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Dell
3 2 (11.11%) Dynatrace
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.56%) InterSystems
4 1 (5.56%) SAP