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 9 August 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
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 337 364
Rank change year-on-year +28 +27 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Analyst 63 33 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 16 39
10th Percentile £215 £303 £280
25th Percentile £305 £434 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £513 £420
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +22.02% -8.70%
75th Percentile £474 £594 £494
90th Percentile £550 £613 £575
UK median daily rate £400 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -18.78% -1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £18.30 £21.55 £22.59
25th Percentile £19.05 £28.38 £22.73
Median hourly rate £21.21 £41.00 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year -48.27% +67.84% +132.64%
75th Percentile £24.27 £54.88 £26.70
90th Percentile £25.57 £62.45 £27.18
UK median hourly rate £21.21 £65.00 £24.43
% change year-on-year -67.37% +166.09% +132.64%

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 13,897 16,803 20,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 92.02% 94.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,509 10,294 14,143
10th Percentile £216 £220 £228
25th Percentile £363 £375 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.32%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,221 1,736 1,143
10th Percentile £13.35 £14.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.41 £18.69 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.11 £45.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.20% +23.29% +71.76%
75th Percentile £54.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

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 9 August 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
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 9 August 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 0 23 £359 -32.42% 14
North West +5 16 £350 - 10
South East +35 14 £538 +2.38% 27
Scotland 0 10 £400 -23.81% 11
Yorkshire -6 7 £400 -13.51% 3
East of England +9 6 - - 11
South West +31 5 £310 +24.00% 12
West Midlands -13 3 £488 -18.75% 13
Midlands -18 3 £488 -4.88% 18
Channel Islands - 2 £640 -
Systems Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 August 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 25 (39.68%) SQL
2 21 (33.33%) Finance
3 14 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 12 (19.05%) Oracle
4 12 (19.05%) Agile
5 10 (15.87%) Data Analysis
5 10 (15.87%) Microsoft Excel
5 10 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (14.29%) Relational Database
6 9 (14.29%) Migration
7 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
7 8 (12.70%) Azure
7 8 (12.70%) DevOps
7 8 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (11.11%) Social Skills
8 7 (11.11%) CI/CD
8 7 (11.11%) Data Design
8 7 (11.11%) Change Control
8 7 (11.11%) Analytics
8 7 (11.11%) Git
8 7 (11.11%) PL/SQL
8 7 (11.11%) Business Continuity
8 7 (11.11%) Back Office
8 7 (11.11%) Workflow
9 6 (9.52%) SAP
9 6 (9.52%) ERP
9 6 (9.52%) RDBMS
9 6 (9.52%) Data Integration
9 6 (9.52%) Oracle Database

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 4 (6.35%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) SAS
2 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (15.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (6.35%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.59%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.59%) iTrent
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.70%) Azure
2 4 (6.35%) Lucidchart
2 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.17%) AWS
3 2 (3.17%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.59%) Boomi
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.59%) DMZ
2 1 (1.59%) Firewall
2 1 (1.59%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 6 (9.52%) Oracle Database
2 6 (9.52%) RDBMS
3 4 (6.35%) Power BI
4 3 (4.76%) Power Query
5 1 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.59%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) JIRA
3 3 (4.76%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (3.17%) eggPlant
General
1 21 (33.33%) Finance
2 14 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Back Office
4 7 (11.11%) Social Skills
5 3 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.76%) Retail
6 2 (3.17%) Banking
6 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Law
7 1 (1.59%) Billing
7 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.59%) Legal
7 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) OAuth
1 4 (6.35%) OpenID
1 4 (6.35%) SAML
2 3 (4.76%) REST
3 2 (3.17%) Web Services
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.59%) Learning Management System
3 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.05%) Agile
2 10 (15.87%) Data Analysis
2 10 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (15.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (14.29%) Migration
4 8 (12.70%) DevOps
5 7 (11.11%) Analytics
5 7 (11.11%) Business Continuity
5 7 (11.11%) Change Control
5 7 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 7 (11.11%) Data Design
5 7 (11.11%) Workflow
6 6 (9.52%) Data Integration
6 6 (9.52%) ERP
6 6 (9.52%) Process Improvement
6 6 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (7.94%) Customer-Centricity
7 5 (7.94%) Performance Metrics
7 5 (7.94%) Performance Monitoring
7 5 (7.94%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.68%) SQL
2 7 (11.11%) PL/SQL
3 4 (6.35%) Bash
3 4 (6.35%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.35%) Python
4 3 (4.76%) VBA
5 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (4.76%) Degree
2 1 (1.59%) CCNA
2 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (1.59%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.17%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (3.17%) GDPR
3 1 (1.59%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.17%) Sysdig
Vendors
1 12 (19.05%) Oracle
2 8 (12.70%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.52%) SAP
4 5 (7.94%) Liquidlogic
5 2 (3.17%) Glassbox
5 2 (3.17%) Splunk
6 1 (1.59%) Ariba
6 1 (1.59%) Intapp
6 1 (1.59%) Workday