Systems Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

System Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median System Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400, 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 289 337 390
Rank change year-on-year +48 +53 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Analyst 47 62 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.40% 0.32% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 40 59
10th Percentile £305 £250 £200
25th Percentile £360 £269 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -3.13% -6.98%
75th Percentile £525 £500 £497
90th Percentile £588 £535 £581
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 0
10th Percentile £24.22 £17.15 -
25th Percentile £38.00 £17.38 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £18.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +177.78% - -
75th Percentile £52.50 £30.75 -
90th Percentile - £52.80 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £21.90 £62.50
% change year-on-year +128.36% -64.97% +257.14%

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%

Systems Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Systems Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Systems Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Systems Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Systems Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Systems Analyst in the UK excluding London

Systems 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 Systems 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 +30 15 £396 -14.49% 19
South East +36 9 £383 +17.69% 39
Scotland +7 9 £400 -23.08% 8
North West +22 8 £372 -7.13% 8
South West +51 7 £388 - 5
East of England +30 6 £550 +83.33% 14
Yorkshire +12 5 £435 -17.24% 10
North East - 2 £575 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Systems Analyst
UK

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

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

1 15 (31.91%) Agile
1 15 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (29.79%) Management Information System
2 14 (29.79%) SQL
3 13 (27.66%) Oracle
4 11 (23.40%) Finance
5 9 (19.15%) PL/SQL
5 9 (19.15%) Relational Database
5 9 (19.15%) Public Sector
6 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
6 8 (17.02%) Process Improvement
6 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (17.02%) Degree
6 8 (17.02%) Data Analysis
6 8 (17.02%) Information Management
7 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (14.89%) MS Visio
7 7 (14.89%) Back Office
7 7 (14.89%) Change Management
7 7 (14.89%) JIRA
7 7 (14.89%) Git
7 7 (14.89%) Confluence
7 7 (14.89%) DevOps
7 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
7 7 (14.89%) Data Design
7 7 (14.89%) Systems Engineering
8 6 (12.77%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (12.77%) Oracle Database
8 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
8 6 (12.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint

Systems 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 7 (14.89%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) SAS
2 2 (4.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (14.89%) MS Visio
2 6 (12.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (6.38%) iTrent
2 1 (2.13%) ContrOCC
2 1 (2.13%) Elite 3E
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.64%) Azure
2 4 (8.51%) Lucidchart
2 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.13%) Boomi
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.15%) Relational Database
2 6 (12.77%) Oracle Database
2 6 (12.77%) RDBMS
3 4 (8.51%) Power BI
4 2 (4.26%) DB2
5 1 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Git
1 7 (14.89%) JIRA
2 3 (6.38%) Oracle APEX
3 2 (4.26%) eggPlant
3 2 (4.26%) Toad
General
1 11 (23.40%) Finance
2 9 (19.15%) Public Sector
3 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (17.02%) Social Skills
4 7 (14.89%) Back Office
5 4 (8.51%) Manufacturing
6 3 (6.38%) Banking
6 3 (6.38%) Law
7 2 (4.26%) Local Government
8 1 (2.13%) Electronics
8 1 (2.13%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.13%) Legal
8 1 (2.13%) Marketing
8 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Retail
8 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) OAuth
1 4 (8.51%) OpenID
1 4 (8.51%) SAML
2 3 (6.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (6.38%) REST
3 2 (4.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (29.79%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.51%) Operational Technology
3 3 (6.38%) Data Structures
3 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Unix
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
1 2 (4.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) Agile
1 15 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (17.02%) Data Analysis
2 8 (17.02%) Information Management
2 8 (17.02%) Process Improvement
3 7 (14.89%) Change Management
3 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (14.89%) Data Design
3 7 (14.89%) DevOps
3 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (14.89%) Systems Engineering
4 6 (12.77%) Collaborative Working
5 5 (10.64%) Business Analysis
5 5 (10.64%) Data Modelling
5 5 (10.64%) Migration
6 4 (8.51%) Computer Science
6 4 (8.51%) Identity Management
6 4 (8.51%) Risk Management
6 4 (8.51%) Supplier Management
6 4 (8.51%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (29.79%) SQL
2 9 (19.15%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Degree
2 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
3 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) Data Quality
1 2 (4.26%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (4.26%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 13 (27.66%) Oracle
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) Glassbox
3 2 (4.26%) Liquidlogic
3 2 (4.26%) SAP
3 2 (4.26%) Splunk
4 1 (2.13%) Intapp