Analyst Developer Contract Job Trends

Analyst Developer
UK

The median Analyst Developer daily rate in the UK is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 502 581
Rank change year-on-year -55 +79 +152
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst Developer 24 62 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.066% 0.18% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.19% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 46 23
10th Percentile £355 £363 £420
25th Percentile £453 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £541 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.85% -16.73% +23.81%
75th Percentile £606 £691 £900
90th Percentile £713 £856 £950
UK excluding London median daily rate £411 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -21.71% +16.67% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £30.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 33,137 32,079 41,606
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 92.76% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,987 19,722 27,981
10th Percentile £290 £300 £292
25th Percentile £404 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £644
90th Percentile £723 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,959 1,044 1,467
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.48 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.98 £21.05 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £73.28 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -27.78% +80.00%

Analyst Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Analyst Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Analyst Developer job vacancy trend in the UK

Analyst Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Analyst Developer job vacancies in the UK

Analyst Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst Developer over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst Developer in the UK

Analyst Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Analyst Developer job vacancies in the UK

Analyst Developer
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 14 December 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
England -68 23 £600 +9.09% 7
London -21 20 £600 +4.35% 6
Work from Home +7 5 £304 -43.80% 1
UK excluding London -59 4 £411 -21.71% 3
South West -12 2 £222 -46.21% 1
Northern Ireland -9 1 £600 +14.29%
North of England -40 1 - -
Yorkshire -44 1 - -

Analyst Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Analyst Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Analyst Developer in the job title.

1 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 11 (45.83%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (33.33%) Java
3 8 (33.33%) Power BI
3 8 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 7 (29.17%) Change Control
4 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (29.17%) XML
5 6 (25.00%) Control-M
5 6 (25.00%) IBM
5 6 (25.00%) MQSeries
5 6 (25.00%) RPG
5 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 5 (20.83%) Analytics
6 5 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (20.83%) Integration Testing
6 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Excel
6 5 (20.83%) Portfolio Management
6 5 (20.83%) QA
6 5 (20.83%) Tableau
6 5 (20.83%) Wealth Management
7 4 (16.67%) C#
7 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 4 (16.67%) Power Query
7 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.67%) Python
7 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
7 4 (16.67%) T-SQL
7 4 (16.67%) Visualisation

Analyst Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) MQSeries
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.17%) Endur
1 1 (4.17%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (12.50%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (4.17%) Boomi
4 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) Power BI
2 5 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (20.83%) Tableau
3 4 (16.67%) Power Query
3 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (8.33%) OLAP
4 2 (8.33%) OLAP Cube
4 2 (8.33%) PowerPivot
4 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.17%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (4.17%) Impala
5 1 (4.17%) KDB
5 1 (4.17%) Kdb+
5 1 (4.17%) Parquet
5 1 (4.17%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (4.17%) QlikView
5 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Rational Rhapsody
1 1 (4.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (62.50%) Finance
2 9 (37.50%) Banking
3 6 (25.00%) Private Banking
4 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (20.83%) Financial Institution
5 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
6 3 (12.50%) Investment Banking
7 2 (8.33%) Front Office
7 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
8 1 (4.17%) Back Office
8 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (4.17%) Electronics
8 1 (4.17%) Marketing
8 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 1 (4.17%) Retail
8 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) XML
2 3 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (4.17%) .NET Core
3 1 (4.17%) FHIR
3 1 (4.17%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (4.17%) Kafka
3 1 (4.17%) Middleware
3 1 (4.17%) ODBC
3 1 (4.17%) Pandas
3 1 (4.17%) React
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
3 1 (4.17%) Web Services
3 1 (4.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) AS400
2 2 (8.33%) Equities
2 2 (8.33%) Fixed Income
2 2 (8.33%) iSeries
2 2 (8.33%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Derivative
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Unix
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (29.17%) Change Control
2 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 5 (20.83%) Analytics
4 5 (20.83%) Integration Testing
4 5 (20.83%) Portfolio Management
4 5 (20.83%) Wealth Management
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Visualisation
6 3 (12.50%) Agile
6 3 (12.50%) Business Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 3 (12.50%) Data Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Data Analytics
6 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 3 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 2 (8.33%) ETL
7 2 (8.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) Java
3 6 (25.00%) RPG
4 4 (16.67%) C#
4 4 (16.67%) Python
4 4 (16.67%) T-SQL
5 3 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (8.33%) VBA
7 1 (4.17%) C++
7 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.17%) Perl
7 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
7 1 (4.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 3 (12.50%) MiFID
3 2 (8.33%) EMIR
4 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.17%) DICOM
4 1 (4.17%) HL7
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) IBM
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.17%) CQG
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Dell
4 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.17%) OpenLink
4 1 (4.17%) Oracle
4 1 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) TOWER Software
4 1 (4.17%) UiPath