Analyst Contracts

Analyst
UK

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK is £460, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 4,421 6,849 11,258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.01% 12.60% 12.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.84% 13.33% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,943 4,842 7,980
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £350 £369 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £438 £414
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.74% +6.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 286 281 430
10th Percentile £12.86 £13.23 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.48 £14.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £18.35 £18.26 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% +4.31% +9.38%
75th Percentile £23.75 £24.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £39.60 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.30 £17.50 £16.40
% change year-on-year -6.86% +6.71% +9.33%

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 37,355 51,390 85,225
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.01% 94.57% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,199 35,553 60,100
10th Percentile £300 £306 £320
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -0.47% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,538 1,903
10th Percentile £13.86 £14.47 £13.17
25th Percentile £18.32 £19.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.03 £43.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -2.26% +67.45% +28.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £67.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.00 £39.55 £21.30
% change year-on-year +8.72% +85.68% +20.00%

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 26 July 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 26 July 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Top 17 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 26 July 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 3,795 £475 -5.00% 769
UK excluding London -2 2,051 £413 -5.71% 715
London -1 1,982 £503 -5.09% 215
Work from Home -3 1,448 £475 - 406
South East -3 484 £450 - 163
North of England -7 442 £438 -2.78% 158
Midlands -3 341 £400 -6.98% 130
Scotland 0 292 £375 -10.18% 63
North West -4 253 £431 +1.47% 100
South West +1 246 £423 -8.65% 91
West Midlands -1 236 £425 -5.56% 87
East of England -1 211 £400 - 55
Yorkshire -9 153 £450 -5.26% 46
East Midlands 0 101 £375 -6.25% 43
Wales +1 46 £162 -56.68% 22
North East +4 36 £420 +5.00% 12
Northern Ireland -9 15 £275 -31.25% 51

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 July 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 1,180 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 1,174 (26.56%) Finance
3 786 (17.78%) Agile
4 728 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
5 723 (16.35%) SQL
6 675 (15.27%) Microsoft
7 622 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
8 551 (12.46%) Security Cleared
9 495 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 460 (10.40%) Business Intelligence
11 449 (10.16%) Business Analysis
12 416 (9.41%) Power Platform
13 406 (9.18%) Banking
14 400 (9.05%) Power BI
15 398 (9.00%) Degree
16 379 (8.57%) SC Cleared
17 368 (8.32%) Azure
17 368 (8.32%) Microsoft Excel
18 366 (8.28%) Public Sector
19 363 (8.21%) Windows
20 362 (8.19%) Analytics
21 359 (8.12%) Python
22 340 (7.69%) Data Analysis
23 333 (7.53%) Customer Service
24 331 (7.49%) Migration
25 316 (7.15%) Requirements Gathering
26 310 (7.01%) ITIL
27 298 (6.74%) User Stories
28 296 (6.70%) Project Management
29 274 (6.20%) Microsoft 365

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
1 147 (3.33%) SharePoint
2 129 (2.92%) Confluence
3 55 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 38 (0.86%) SAS
5 21 (0.48%) Apache
6 20 (0.45%) CMS
7 12 (0.27%) SharePoint Server
8 10 (0.23%) Apache Spark
9 8 (0.18%) ArcGIS
10 7 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 4 (0.090%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.068%) MTS
14 2 (0.045%) Apache Airflow
14 2 (0.045%) LiveLink
14 2 (0.045%) Mendix
14 2 (0.045%) Sitecore CMS
14 2 (0.045%) Skype for Business
15 1 (0.023%) Appian
15 1 (0.023%) Jupyter
Applications
1 368 (8.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 221 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 135 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 95 (2.15%) MS Visio
5 40 (0.90%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.20%) SPSS
8 8 (0.18%) Acrobat
9 6 (0.14%) Trello
10 4 (0.090%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.045%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.023%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.023%) OmniGraffle
12 1 (0.023%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 38 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 36 (0.81%) Endur
3 29 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 28 (0.63%) Aladdin
5 17 (0.38%) Aligne
6 16 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
7 14 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
8 13 (0.29%) NEC Housing
9 11 (0.25%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 10 (0.23%) Maximo
11 9 (0.20%) NetSuite
11 9 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
11 9 (0.20%) SAP ERP
12 8 (0.18%) Markit EDM
12 8 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
13 7 (0.16%) Oracle Cash Management
13 7 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
13 7 (0.16%) SAP FI
14 6 (0.14%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 416 (9.41%) Power Platform
2 368 (8.32%) Azure
3 274 (6.20%) Microsoft 365
4 150 (3.39%) AWS
5 88 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
6 65 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
7 63 (1.43%) Entra ID
8 44 (1.00%) SaaS
9 39 (0.88%) GCP
10 38 (0.86%) Snowflake
11 37 (0.84%) OneDrive
12 36 (0.81%) PowerApps
13 32 (0.72%) Google Analytics
13 32 (0.72%) Power Automate
14 21 (0.48%) dbt
15 20 (0.45%) Collibra
16 19 (0.43%) OCI
17 16 (0.36%) Azure Sentinel
17 16 (0.36%) Cloud Computing
17 16 (0.36%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 85 (1.92%) Firewall
2 56 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
3 32 (0.72%) VPN
4 29 (0.66%) DNS
5 25 (0.57%) Internet
5 25 (0.57%) TCP/IP
6 23 (0.52%) DHCP
7 22 (0.50%) Wireless
8 21 (0.48%) Network Security
9 19 (0.43%) WAN
10 17 (0.38%) LAN
11 10 (0.23%) BGP
12 7 (0.16%) Intrusion Detection
12 7 (0.16%) VLAN
12 7 (0.16%) VoIP
13 6 (0.14%) Remote Desktop
14 5 (0.11%) HTTP
14 5 (0.11%) SAN
14 5 (0.11%) SMTP
14 5 (0.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 400 (9.05%) Power BI
2 180 (4.07%) Tableau
3 85 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
4 84 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 59 (1.33%) Relational Database
6 36 (0.81%) Big Data
7 34 (0.77%) Metadata
8 31 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 31 (0.70%) Data Mining
9 28 (0.63%) BigQuery
10 24 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 23 (0.52%) SAP HANA
11 23 (0.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 22 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
13 21 (0.48%) NoSQL
13 21 (0.48%) Oracle Database
14 18 (0.41%) BusinessObjects
15 17 (0.38%) Looker
15 17 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
16 16 (0.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 262 (5.93%) JIRA
2 61 (1.38%) Selenium
3 60 (1.36%) Postman
4 50 (1.13%) Visual Studio
5 26 (0.59%) WebDriver
6 24 (0.54%) Git
7 22 (0.50%) TestRail
8 21 (0.48%) SpecFlow
9 18 (0.41%) SoapUI
10 16 (0.36%) Eclipse
10 16 (0.36%) Jenkins
11 12 (0.27%) Appium
11 12 (0.27%) JMeter
11 12 (0.27%) LoadRunner
12 9 (0.20%) Octopus Deploy
13 8 (0.18%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.18%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.18%) Rational Performance Tester
13 8 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 7 (0.16%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,180 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 1,174 (26.56%) Finance
3 728 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
4 406 (9.18%) Banking
5 366 (8.28%) Public Sector
6 171 (3.87%) Retail
7 155 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 147 (3.33%) Front Office
9 130 (2.94%) Investment Banking
10 121 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
11 116 (2.62%) Legal
12 112 (2.53%) Telecoms
13 99 (2.24%) Marketing
14 97 (2.19%) Organisational Skills
15 91 (2.06%) Manufacturing
16 89 (2.01%) Back Office
17 79 (1.79%) Local Government
18 52 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
19 50 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
20 44 (1.00%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (1.20%) .NET
2 51 (1.15%) XML
3 22 (0.50%) ADO
3 22 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 19 (0.43%) .NET Framework
4 19 (0.43%) HTML
4 19 (0.43%) JSON
5 17 (0.38%) Web Services
6 15 (0.34%) Middleware
6 15 (0.34%) SOAP
7 14 (0.32%) AngularJS
7 14 (0.32%) PySpark
8 13 (0.29%) FIX Protocol
9 12 (0.27%) REST
10 10 (0.23%) IDoc
11 9 (0.20%) SailPoint
12 7 (0.16%) CSS
12 7 (0.16%) SAP PI
13 6 (0.14%) EDI
13 6 (0.14%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 202 (4.57%) Product Ownership
2 194 (4.39%) Management Information System
3 98 (2.22%) Derivative
4 83 (1.88%) Fixed Income
4 83 (1.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 80 (1.81%) Equities
6 72 (1.63%) Hedge funds
7 69 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 64 (1.45%) Onboarding
9 62 (1.40%) Cyber Threat
10 54 (1.22%) Mobile App
11 50 (1.13%) Security Operations Centre
12 48 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
13 46 (1.04%) NHS
14 44 (1.00%) Credit Risk
15 37 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
16 36 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
16 36 (0.81%) Operational Technology
17 35 (0.79%) Data Structures
18 34 (0.77%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 363 (8.21%) Windows
2 139 (3.14%) Windows 10
3 100 (2.26%) Linux
4 50 (1.13%) Windows Server
5 49 (1.11%) Unix
6 36 (0.81%) Android
7 30 (0.68%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
10 13 (0.29%) Mac OS X
11 11 (0.25%) Windows 7
12 9 (0.20%) VMS
13 7 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 7 (0.16%) Windows Server 2019
14 6 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.045%) VME
16 1 (0.023%) Debian
16 1 (0.023%) Solaris
16 1 (0.023%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.023%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 786 (17.78%) Agile
2 622 (14.07%) Problem-Solving
3 495 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
4 460 (10.40%) Business Intelligence
5 449 (10.16%) Business Analysis
6 362 (8.19%) Analytics
7 340 (7.69%) Data Analysis
8 333 (7.53%) Customer Service
9 331 (7.49%) Migration
10 316 (7.15%) Requirements Gathering
11 310 (7.01%) ITIL
12 298 (6.74%) User Stories
13 296 (6.70%) Project Management
14 259 (5.86%) User Acceptance Testing
15 243 (5.50%) Cybersecurity
16 230 (5.20%) Change Management
17 211 (4.77%) Visualisation
18 209 (4.73%) Data Modelling
19 202 (4.57%) Workshop Facilitation
20 194 (4.39%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 723 (16.35%) SQL
2 359 (8.12%) Python
3 73 (1.65%) C#
3 73 (1.65%) Java
4 53 (1.20%) PowerShell
4 53 (1.20%) R
5 41 (0.93%) JavaScript
5 41 (0.93%) VBA
6 31 (0.70%) PL/SQL
7 30 (0.68%) T-SQL
8 19 (0.43%) C++
9 18 (0.41%) C
9 18 (0.41%) Shell Script
10 16 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 14 (0.32%) Kotlin
12 13 (0.29%) Perl
13 12 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
14 11 (0.25%) ABAP
14 11 (0.25%) VBScript
15 10 (0.23%) VB
Qualifications
1 551 (12.46%) Security Cleared
2 398 (9.00%) Degree
3 379 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 144 (3.26%) DV Cleared
5 68 (1.54%) CISSP
6 60 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 49 (1.11%) CISM
8 43 (0.97%) A+ Certification
9 42 (0.95%) MCSA
10 41 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
10 41 (0.93%) ISTQB
11 39 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
12 33 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
13 31 (0.70%) CISA
14 29 (0.66%) Master's Degree
15 28 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
16 25 (0.57%) CBAP
17 24 (0.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 23 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
19 22 (0.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 206 (4.66%) Data Quality
2 171 (3.87%) QA
3 150 (3.39%) PMO
4 126 (2.85%) SLA
5 85 (1.92%) GDPR
6 75 (1.70%) NIST
7 61 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 28 (0.63%) NIST 800
9 25 (0.57%) Disclosure Scotland
9 25 (0.57%) EMIR
10 24 (0.54%) IFRS
11 23 (0.52%) GRC
12 22 (0.50%) MiFID
13 19 (0.43%) Accessibility
13 19 (0.43%) GxP
14 18 (0.41%) PCI DSS
15 17 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
16 16 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 12 (0.27%) GAAP
System Software
1 228 (5.16%) Active Directory
2 40 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (0.38%) XenApp
4 15 (0.34%) XenDesktop
5 13 (0.29%) vSphere
6 11 (0.25%) Firmware
7 10 (0.23%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
8 9 (0.20%) Docker
9 8 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.068%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.023%) ISA Server
12 1 (0.023%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.023%) ProxySG
12 1 (0.023%) Snort
12 1 (0.023%) VMware NSX
12 1 (0.023%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.023%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 47 (1.06%) SCCM
2 43 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (0.29%) Terraform
4 9 (0.20%) Grafana
4 9 (0.20%) ZABBIX
5 7 (0.16%) Control-M
5 7 (0.16%) ITRS Geneos
5 7 (0.16%) Nessus
5 7 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (0.14%) WSUS
7 5 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
7 5 (0.11%) Kubernetes
7 5 (0.11%) QRadar
8 4 (0.090%) Nagios
8 4 (0.090%) Podman
8 4 (0.090%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 3 (0.068%) IBM BigFix
9 3 (0.068%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.068%) Kibana
9 3 (0.068%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 675 (15.27%) Microsoft
2 226 (5.11%) SAP
3 190 (4.30%) ServiceNow
4 181 (4.09%) Oracle
5 93 (2.10%) Citrix
5 93 (2.10%) Salesforce
6 71 (1.61%) Google
7 52 (1.18%) Splunk
8 51 (1.15%) Bloomberg
9 48 (1.09%) VMware
10 36 (0.81%) Alteryx
11 34 (0.77%) Adobe
11 34 (0.77%) Apple
12 26 (0.59%) Ariba
12 26 (0.59%) Atlassian
12 26 (0.59%) Databricks
13 25 (0.57%) IBM
14 24 (0.54%) BISAM
14 24 (0.54%) Murex
14 24 (0.54%) OpenLink