Analyst Contracts

Analyst
UK

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK is £456, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 3,366 4,896 7,401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.59% 11.38% 12.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.53% 12.27% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,211 3,210 5,251
10th Percentile £250 £213 £213
25th Percentile £358 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £580 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £680
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £425
% change year-on-year - - +3.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 348 288
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.83 £12.73
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.16 £14.19
Median hourly rate £22.05 £16.30 £18.23
Median % change year-on-year +35.28% -10.56% +17.58%
75th Percentile £31.52 £21.50 £25.00
90th Percentile £52.42 £32.73 £45.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.87 £15.79 £17.00
% change year-on-year +32.17% -7.12% +9.68%

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 26,853 39,898 55,060
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 92.77% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,486 25,961 38,445
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,043 2,673 1,534
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.85% -16.67% +88.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.08
% change year-on-year -32.19% -4.94% +110.39%

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 13 May 2025.

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 13 May 2025.

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 13 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
England -4 2,848 £475 -0.26% 3,264
London 0 1,596 £500 -4.76% 1,873
UK excluding London 0 1,536 £425 - 1,974
Work from Home -1 1,181 £475 -2.56% 1,763
North of England 0 372 £400 -11.11% 426
South East +2 326 £450 - 763
Scotland -2 295 £425 +2.29% 136
Midlands -4 219 £425 +6.25% 271
North West -1 210 £375 -16.67% 249
West Midlands -4 158 £475 +11.76% 167
South West -4 153 £400 -15.79% 177
Yorkshire +4 132 £414 -8.00% 142
East of England -4 127 £440 +7.32% 185
East Midlands -3 61 £358 -1.24% 92
North East -7 30 £450 +3.45% 39
Northern Ireland 0 29 £425 +26.39% 40
Wales +3 24 £394 +1.61% 24
Channel Islands - 2 £463 -

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, 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 1,172 (34.82%) Social Skills
2 1,020 (30.30%) Finance
3 699 (20.77%) Agile
4 694 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
5 680 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
6 595 (17.68%) SQL
7 530 (15.75%) Microsoft
8 519 (15.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 479 (14.23%) Business Analysis
10 451 (13.40%) Data Analysis
11 366 (10.87%) Security Cleared
12 363 (10.78%) Banking
13 358 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
14 344 (10.22%) Microsoft Excel
15 338 (10.04%) Python
16 336 (9.98%) Power Platform
17 323 (9.60%) Power BI
18 307 (9.12%) Requirements Gathering
19 300 (8.91%) Analytics
20 293 (8.70%) Degree
21 290 (8.62%) Migration
22 288 (8.56%) Azure
23 287 (8.53%) SC Cleared
24 285 (8.47%) JIRA
25 281 (8.35%) User Stories
26 262 (7.78%) Public Sector
27 256 (7.61%) Windows
28 251 (7.46%) ITIL
29 245 (7.28%) Project Management
30 243 (7.22%) Decision-Making

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
1 170 (5.05%) Confluence
2 135 (4.01%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 33 (0.98%) SAS
5 18 (0.53%) CMS
6 9 (0.27%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.15%) Apache
8 5 (0.15%) IIS
8 5 (0.15%) Mattermost
8 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
9 4 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.12%) IBM Notes
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.089%) Drupal
11 2 (0.059%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.059%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.059%) MQSeries
Applications
1 344 (10.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 178 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
3 170 (5.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 131 (3.89%) MS Visio
5 31 (0.92%) Spreadsheet
6 16 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
7 13 (0.39%) Trello
8 8 (0.24%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.059%) Notepad++
10 1 (0.030%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.030%) EViews
10 1 (0.030%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 52 (1.54%) Aladdin
2 48 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 24 (0.71%) Endur
5 18 (0.53%) thinkFolio
6 12 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.33%) Unit4 Business World
8 10 (0.30%) Loan IQ
8 10 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
9 9 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
10 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
11 7 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.21%) SAP FI
12 6 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
12 6 (0.18%) SAP CO
12 6 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
13 5 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
13 5 (0.15%) SAP SD
13 5 (0.15%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 336 (9.98%) Power Platform
2 288 (8.56%) Azure
3 205 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
4 119 (3.54%) AWS
5 60 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
5 60 (1.78%) GCP
6 55 (1.63%) Entra ID
7 52 (1.54%) SaaS
8 33 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
9 30 (0.89%) Snowflake
10 25 (0.74%) OCI
11 22 (0.65%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (0.62%) Lucidchart
12 21 (0.62%) OneDrive
13 19 (0.56%) PowerApps
14 18 (0.53%) Yammer
15 16 (0.48%) dbt
16 15 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
17 14 (0.42%) Google Workspace
17 14 (0.42%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 46 (1.37%) Firewall
2 45 (1.34%) Broadband
3 44 (1.31%) DNS
4 36 (1.07%) Network Security
5 33 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
6 30 (0.89%) TCP/IP
7 25 (0.74%) VPN
8 24 (0.71%) HTTP
9 21 (0.62%) DHCP
9 21 (0.62%) SMTP
10 20 (0.59%) WebEx
11 18 (0.53%) SSL
12 15 (0.45%) FTP
12 15 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
13 14 (0.42%) Intrusion Detection
13 14 (0.42%) Skype
14 12 (0.36%) LAN
15 11 (0.33%) WAN
16 9 (0.27%) Unified Communications
17 8 (0.24%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 323 (9.60%) Power BI
2 142 (4.22%) Tableau
3 113 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
4 75 (2.23%) SQL Server
5 31 (0.92%) Data Lake
6 27 (0.80%) Relational Database
7 26 (0.77%) Metadata
7 26 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 24 (0.71%) BigQuery
8 24 (0.71%) Looker
9 23 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
10 18 (0.53%) Data Mining
10 18 (0.53%) MS Access
10 18 (0.53%) Power Query
11 15 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 12 (0.36%) Oracle Database
13 11 (0.33%) BusinessObjects
13 11 (0.33%) Qlik Sense
13 11 (0.33%) QlikView
14 10 (0.30%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 285 (8.47%) JIRA
2 25 (0.74%) Git
3 19 (0.56%) Selenium
4 16 (0.48%) Postman
4 16 (0.48%) TestRail
5 13 (0.39%) JMeter
6 11 (0.33%) SoapUI
7 10 (0.30%) Jenkins
7 10 (0.30%) QARun
7 10 (0.30%) WinRunner
8 9 (0.27%) LoadRunner
9 7 (0.21%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.21%) Zephyr
10 6 (0.18%) GitLab
10 6 (0.18%) HP UFT
10 6 (0.18%) Toad
11 5 (0.15%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.15%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.15%) TestComplete
11 5 (0.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 1,172 (34.82%) Social Skills
2 1,020 (30.30%) Finance
3 694 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
4 363 (10.78%) Banking
5 262 (7.78%) Public Sector
6 163 (4.84%) Front Office
7 111 (3.30%) Retail
8 99 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
9 94 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 87 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 85 (2.53%) Investment Banking
12 70 (2.08%) Marketing
13 58 (1.72%) Legal
14 57 (1.69%) Back Office
15 54 (1.60%) Local Government
16 53 (1.57%) Law
17 51 (1.52%) Manufacturing
18 50 (1.49%) General Ledger
19 49 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
20 44 (1.31%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (0.92%) XML
2 27 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
3 24 (0.71%) Web Services
4 17 (0.51%) SailPoint
5 16 (0.48%) FIX Protocol
6 15 (0.45%) .NET
6 15 (0.45%) LDAP
7 14 (0.42%) JSON
8 13 (0.39%) Middleware
8 13 (0.39%) REST
9 12 (0.36%) Kafka
10 11 (0.33%) ADO
11 9 (0.27%) FpML
12 8 (0.24%) SOAP
13 7 (0.21%) HTML
13 7 (0.21%) OAuth
14 6 (0.18%) Playwright
14 6 (0.18%) PySpark
14 6 (0.18%) React
14 6 (0.18%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 146 (4.34%) Management Information System
2 115 (3.42%) Product Ownership
3 98 (2.91%) Fixed Income
4 97 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 96 (2.85%) Derivative
6 72 (2.14%) Hedge funds
7 60 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 53 (1.57%) Data Structures
9 52 (1.54%) Equities
10 49 (1.46%) Social Media
11 48 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
12 45 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
13 41 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 41 (1.22%) Security Operations Centre
14 37 (1.10%) Cyber Threat
14 37 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 36 (1.07%) Data Centre
16 34 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
17 33 (0.98%) Security Posture
18 29 (0.86%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 256 (7.61%) Windows
2 78 (2.32%) Windows 10
3 67 (1.99%) Linux
4 53 (1.57%) Unix
5 45 (1.34%) Windows Server
6 40 (1.19%) Apple iOS
7 21 (0.62%) Android
8 17 (0.51%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.18%) Mac OS X
10 6 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
12 3 (0.089%) CentOS
13 2 (0.059%) Rocky
14 1 (0.030%) Solaris
14 1 (0.030%) SUSE
14 1 (0.030%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.030%) VMS
14 1 (0.030%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (20.77%) Agile
2 680 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
3 519 (15.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 479 (14.23%) Business Analysis
5 451 (13.40%) Data Analysis
6 358 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
7 307 (9.12%) Requirements Gathering
8 300 (8.91%) Analytics
9 290 (8.62%) Migration
10 281 (8.35%) User Stories
11 251 (7.46%) ITIL
12 245 (7.28%) Project Management
13 243 (7.22%) Decision-Making
14 240 (7.13%) User Acceptance Testing
15 221 (6.57%) Process Improvement
15 221 (6.57%) Workshop Facilitation
16 215 (6.39%) Change Management
16 215 (6.39%) Cybersecurity
17 202 (6.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 192 (5.70%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 595 (17.68%) SQL
2 338 (10.04%) Python
3 56 (1.66%) PowerShell
4 46 (1.37%) Java
5 37 (1.10%) R
6 33 (0.98%) VBA
7 30 (0.89%) PL/SQL
8 23 (0.68%) Bash
9 22 (0.65%) JavaScript
10 21 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
11 17 (0.51%) C#
12 15 (0.45%) VB
13 13 (0.39%) Perl
14 12 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 11 (0.33%) Uniface
16 9 (0.27%) C++
16 9 (0.27%) T-SQL
17 4 (0.12%) ABAP
18 3 (0.089%) C
18 3 (0.089%) RPG
Qualifications
1 366 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 293 (8.70%) Degree
3 287 (8.53%) SC Cleared
4 66 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
5 63 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 60 (1.78%) ACCA
7 57 (1.69%) CIMA
8 41 (1.22%) A+ Certification
9 36 (1.07%) ITIL Certification
10 35 (1.04%) CISSP
11 31 (0.92%) CBAP
12 28 (0.83%) ISTQB
12 28 (0.83%) MCSA
13 26 (0.77%) CompTIA Security+
13 26 (0.77%) Master's Degree
14 24 (0.71%) IIBA
15 22 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
15 22 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 20 (0.59%) ISEB
17 19 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (4.90%) QA
2 159 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 88 (2.61%) GDPR
3 88 (2.61%) PMO
4 80 (2.38%) SLA
5 32 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 28 (0.83%) NIST
7 24 (0.71%) MiFID
8 23 (0.68%) EMIR
8 23 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 21 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 20 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
11 18 (0.53%) GRC
12 16 (0.48%) SEPA
13 14 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
13 14 (0.42%) HIPAA
14 12 (0.36%) PCI DSS
15 9 (0.27%) Dodd-Frank
15 9 (0.27%) IFRS
16 8 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 225 (6.68%) Active Directory
2 13 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (0.21%) Hyper-V
3 7 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.18%) vSphere
5 4 (0.12%) BitLocker
5 4 (0.12%) RACF
5 4 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.059%) Docker
6 2 (0.059%) Firmware
6 2 (0.059%) Terminal Services
6 2 (0.059%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 2 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.030%) HDFS
7 1 (0.030%) IAG
7 1 (0.030%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.030%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 45 (1.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (0.77%) SCCM
3 11 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (0.24%) SCOM
5 6 (0.18%) Grafana
5 6 (0.18%) Kubernetes
5 6 (0.18%) QRadar
6 5 (0.15%) AirWatch
6 5 (0.15%) ZABBIX
7 4 (0.12%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.12%) Terraform
8 3 (0.089%) Cisco UCCX
8 3 (0.089%) CSIRT
8 3 (0.089%) Nessus
8 3 (0.089%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.059%) Control-M
9 2 (0.059%) HP Data Protector
9 2 (0.059%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.059%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.059%) WSUS
Vendors
1 530 (15.75%) Microsoft
2 187 (5.56%) SAP
3 172 (5.11%) ServiceNow
4 167 (4.96%) Oracle
5 75 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 63 (1.87%) Citrix
7 62 (1.84%) Google
8 44 (1.31%) Splunk
9 42 (1.25%) BISAM
10 41 (1.22%) Databricks
11 28 (0.83%) VMware
12 26 (0.77%) Cisco
12 26 (0.77%) Workday
13 24 (0.71%) Charles River
14 23 (0.68%) Bloomberg
15 22 (0.65%) Adobe
16 21 (0.62%) Alteryx
17 20 (0.59%) Apple
17 20 (0.59%) Calypso
17 20 (0.59%) SimCorp