Analyst
UK

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 9 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 4,934 7,653 11,419
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.39% 12.80% 12.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.28% 13.53% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 5,424 8,070
10th Percentile £213 £213 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +6.45%
75th Percentile £576 £580 £544
90th Percentile £675 £675 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £408
% change year-on-year - +4.29% +8.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 350 297 479
10th Percentile £12.86 £12.50 £11.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.00 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £18.26 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +17.77% -6.20%
75th Percentile £21.66 £25.00 £21.27
90th Percentile £35.05 £56.00 £33.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.79 £17.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year -7.12% +13.33% -1.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,172 56,583 84,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,161 39,538 59,512
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,585 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 -1 4,243 £485 +2.11% 1,748
UK excluding London 0 2,388 £425 - 1,016
London -2 2,131 £525 - 808
Work from Home +1 1,690 £488 +2.63% 671
North of England -1 539 £450 +1.68% 296
South East -4 506 £450 +5.88% 214
Scotland +2 348 £418 - 61
South West +5 343 £475 +2.70% 123
Midlands 0 332 £400 -5.88% 186
North West -2 311 £450 +5.88% 172
East of England +3 289 £410 +5.81% 116
West Midlands -3 225 £425 - 111
Yorkshire -4 187 £450 -10.00% 88
East Midlands +5 104 £363 -9.38% 75
North East +21 42 £415 +3.75% 38
Wales -10 29 £388 -0.64% 35
Northern Ireland -5 20 £330 -12.00% 12
Isle of Man -5 1 £475 - 1

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 1,371 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 1,288 (26.10%) Finance
3 793 (16.07%) Agile
4 791 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
5 762 (15.44%) Microsoft
6 718 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
7 652 (13.21%) Security Cleared
8 606 (12.28%) SQL
9 524 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
10 500 (10.13%) Business Analysis
11 486 (9.85%) Banking
12 470 (9.53%) Degree
13 441 (8.94%) Windows
14 434 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
15 423 (8.57%) Public Sector
16 402 (8.15%) Customer Service
17 399 (8.09%) SC Cleared
17 399 (8.09%) Power Platform
18 397 (8.05%) Data Analysis
19 393 (7.97%) ITIL
20 392 (7.94%) Azure
21 391 (7.92%) Microsoft Excel
22 390 (7.90%) Power BI
23 378 (7.66%) Cybersecurity
24 358 (7.26%) Analytics
25 347 (7.03%) Requirements Gathering
26 329 (6.67%) User Stories
27 316 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
28 311 (6.30%) Project Management
29 304 (6.16%) Python

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 137 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 119 (2.41%) Confluence
3 78 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (0.81%) CMS
5 28 (0.57%) SAS
6 13 (0.26%) Skype for Business
7 10 (0.20%) MTS
7 10 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
8 9 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 7 (0.14%) Apache
9 7 (0.14%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.081%) Appian
11 3 (0.061%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.041%) Camunda
12 2 (0.041%) Moodle
12 2 (0.041%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.041%) WordPress
13 1 (0.020%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 391 (7.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 288 (5.84%) Microsoft Office
3 167 (3.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 131 (2.66%) MS Visio
5 48 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
6 29 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.14%) SPSS
8 4 (0.081%) Trello
9 3 (0.061%) Chatbot
10 2 (0.041%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.041%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.020%) InVision
11 1 (0.020%) OmniGraffle
11 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 49 (0.99%) Endur
2 46 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 26 (0.53%) Oracle EBS
3 26 (0.53%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 23 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 21 (0.43%) Aligne
6 20 (0.41%) Aladdin
7 16 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
8 13 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 12 (0.24%) Loan IQ
10 11 (0.22%) NEC Housing
10 11 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
10 11 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
10 11 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
11 10 (0.20%) EuroRunner
11 10 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
12 9 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
12 9 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
13 8 (0.16%) NetSuite
14 7 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 399 (8.09%) Power Platform
2 392 (7.94%) Azure
3 316 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
4 143 (2.90%) AWS
5 85 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (1.24%) Snowflake
7 57 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
7 57 (1.16%) SaaS
8 53 (1.07%) Entra ID
9 44 (0.89%) Power Automate
10 43 (0.87%) Google Analytics
11 35 (0.71%) OCI
12 32 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
13 28 (0.57%) GCP
13 28 (0.57%) Google Workspace
13 28 (0.57%) PowerApps
14 27 (0.55%) Collibra
15 22 (0.45%) WhatsApp
16 20 (0.41%) OneDrive
17 18 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 96 (1.95%) Firewall
2 53 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
3 44 (0.89%) DNS
4 41 (0.83%) Network Security
4 41 (0.83%) VPN
5 36 (0.73%) Wireless
6 33 (0.67%) DHCP
7 26 (0.53%) WAN
8 25 (0.51%) LAN
9 24 (0.49%) TCP/IP
10 22 (0.45%) Internet
11 13 (0.26%) SAN
11 13 (0.26%) Skype
12 12 (0.24%) Intranet
13 10 (0.20%) BGP
13 10 (0.20%) MPLS
14 8 (0.16%) VLAN
15 7 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (0.14%) Cisco ISE
15 7 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (7.90%) Power BI
2 143 (2.90%) Tableau
3 95 (1.93%) SQL Server
4 89 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 39 (0.79%) Relational Database
6 37 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 37 (0.75%) Metadata
7 30 (0.61%) Big Data
8 29 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
9 28 (0.57%) Data Mining
10 25 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 23 (0.47%) BigQuery
11 23 (0.47%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.43%) Qlik Sense
13 20 (0.41%) Looker
14 19 (0.39%) SAP HANA
15 18 (0.36%) GIS
16 17 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 16 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
18 14 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 267 (5.41%) JIRA
2 48 (0.97%) Selenium
3 38 (0.77%) Postman
4 30 (0.61%) TestRail
4 30 (0.61%) Visual Studio
5 23 (0.47%) Eclipse
6 19 (0.39%) WebDriver
7 16 (0.32%) Git
7 16 (0.32%) Jenkins
8 15 (0.30%) SpecFlow
9 14 (0.28%) SoapUI
10 13 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 11 (0.22%) JMeter
12 10 (0.20%) Subversion
12 10 (0.20%) Zephyr
13 9 (0.18%) TeamCity
14 8 (0.16%) Cucumber
14 8 (0.16%) PyCharm
15 7 (0.14%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.14%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,371 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 1,288 (26.10%) Finance
3 791 (16.03%) Analytical Skills
4 486 (9.85%) Banking
5 423 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 159 (3.22%) Retail
7 151 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 147 (2.98%) Front Office
9 145 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
10 134 (2.72%) Legal
11 122 (2.47%) Telecoms
12 118 (2.39%) Manufacturing
13 114 (2.31%) Marketing
14 112 (2.27%) Investment Banking
15 108 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
16 104 (2.11%) Back Office
17 82 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
18 79 (1.60%) Local Government
19 66 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
20 42 (0.85%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (0.93%) XML
2 45 (0.91%) .NET
3 34 (0.69%) Oracle Fusion
4 32 (0.65%) SailPoint
5 25 (0.51%) JSON
6 24 (0.49%) Middleware
7 19 (0.39%) FIX Protocol
8 16 (0.32%) HTML
9 15 (0.30%) ADO
9 15 (0.30%) REST
10 13 (0.26%) AngularJS
10 13 (0.26%) SOAP
10 13 (0.26%) Web Services
11 12 (0.24%) .NET Framework
12 9 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (0.18%) LDAP
12 9 (0.18%) Swagger
13 7 (0.14%) D3.js
13 7 (0.14%) PySpark
14 6 (0.12%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 214 (4.34%) Management Information System
2 172 (3.49%) Product Ownership
3 102 (2.07%) Derivative
4 92 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
5 74 (1.50%) Hedge funds
6 71 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 70 (1.42%) Security Operations Centre
8 59 (1.20%) Equities
8 59 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 54 (1.09%) Fixed Income
10 53 (1.07%) NHS
11 50 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
12 49 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
13 48 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 46 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
15 45 (0.91%) Credit Risk
16 43 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
16 43 (0.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
17 40 (0.81%) Reinsurance
18 39 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 441 (8.94%) Windows
2 159 (3.22%) Windows 10
3 113 (2.29%) Linux
4 58 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 49 (0.99%) Unix
6 42 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 39 (0.79%) Android
8 26 (0.53%) Mac OS
9 25 (0.51%) Windows 7
10 14 (0.28%) Mac OS X
11 12 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
11 12 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
12 9 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 5 (0.10%) Debian
13 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.081%) VMS
14 4 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.020%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 793 (16.07%) Agile
2 718 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
3 524 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
4 500 (10.13%) Business Analysis
5 434 (8.80%) Business Intelligence
6 402 (8.15%) Customer Service
7 397 (8.05%) Data Analysis
8 393 (7.97%) ITIL
9 378 (7.66%) Cybersecurity
10 358 (7.26%) Analytics
11 347 (7.03%) Requirements Gathering
12 329 (6.67%) User Stories
13 311 (6.30%) Project Management
14 304 (6.16%) Migration
15 290 (5.88%) Change Management
16 262 (5.31%) User Acceptance Testing
17 247 (5.01%) Data Modelling
18 239 (4.84%) Incident Management
19 230 (4.66%) Decision-Making
20 221 (4.48%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 606 (12.28%) SQL
2 304 (6.16%) Python
3 93 (1.88%) C#
4 83 (1.68%) PowerShell
5 70 (1.42%) Java
6 36 (0.73%) R
7 33 (0.67%) JavaScript
8 31 (0.63%) VBA
9 30 (0.61%) C++
10 22 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 21 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 20 (0.41%) PL/SQL
13 19 (0.39%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.26%) VBScript
15 11 (0.22%) C
16 8 (0.16%) Bash
16 8 (0.16%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
17 7 (0.14%) Groovy
17 7 (0.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 652 (13.21%) Security Cleared
2 470 (9.53%) Degree
3 399 (8.09%) SC Cleared
4 244 (4.95%) DV Cleared
5 82 (1.66%) CISSP
6 62 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 60 (1.22%) CISM
8 54 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 51 (1.03%) ISTQB
10 50 (1.01%) MCP
11 49 (0.99%) A+ Certification
12 44 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
13 40 (0.81%) MCSA
14 36 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
15 32 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 29 (0.59%) ACCA
16 29 (0.59%) CIMA
17 25 (0.51%) ISEB
18 24 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
19 23 (0.47%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 226 (4.58%) QA
2 208 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 170 (3.45%) PMO
4 142 (2.88%) SLA
5 96 (1.95%) GDPR
6 85 (1.72%) NIST
7 75 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 43 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
9 25 (0.51%) NIST 800
10 23 (0.47%) MiFID
11 22 (0.45%) EMIR
11 22 (0.45%) GxP
12 21 (0.43%) SEPA
13 20 (0.41%) NCSC
14 19 (0.39%) Accessibility
14 19 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
14 19 (0.39%) GRC
14 19 (0.39%) IFRS
15 18 (0.36%) PCI DSS
16 15 (0.30%) GAAP
System Software
1 289 (5.86%) Active Directory
2 35 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.28%) Hyper-V
3 14 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.22%) Firmware
6 8 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
7 7 (0.14%) Docker
8 5 (0.10%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.10%) vSphere
9 4 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.041%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.020%) Samba
12 1 (0.020%) Snort
12 1 (0.020%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.020%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.020%) XenApp
12 1 (0.020%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 52 (1.05%) SCCM
2 39 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (0.32%) ITRS Geneos
3 16 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
4 14 (0.28%) Ansible
5 12 (0.24%) Nessus
6 11 (0.22%) Nagios
7 10 (0.20%) Kibana
7 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
8 9 (0.18%) Grafana
8 9 (0.18%) logstash
8 9 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (0.16%) NetBackup
10 7 (0.14%) BladeLogic
10 7 (0.14%) HP ALM
10 7 (0.14%) Kubernetes
11 6 (0.12%) ZABBIX
12 5 (0.10%) QRadar
12 5 (0.10%) Tivoli
12 5 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 762 (15.44%) Microsoft
2 257 (5.21%) SAP
3 231 (4.68%) Oracle
4 215 (4.36%) ServiceNow
5 118 (2.39%) Citrix
6 92 (1.86%) Salesforce
7 75 (1.52%) Google
8 66 (1.34%) Splunk
9 65 (1.32%) Alteryx
10 51 (1.03%) Bloomberg
11 46 (0.93%) VMware
12 34 (0.69%) Atlassian
13 31 (0.63%) Apple
13 31 (0.63%) Cisco
14 29 (0.59%) Adobe
15 28 (0.57%) Ariba
15 28 (0.57%) Databricks
16 26 (0.53%) Sun
17 25 (0.51%) LogRhythm
18 23 (0.47%) Darktrace