Analyst
UK

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 December 2023.

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
9 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 9 9 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +5
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 5,563 9,971 11,131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 12.51% 12.97% 12.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 13.39% 13.63% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,874 6,977 7,820
10th Percentile £210 £213 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £538
90th Percentile £660 £650 £614
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £419 £400
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.81% +9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 372 536
10th Percentile £13.41 £11.80 £11.00
25th Percentile £15.16 £13.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £17.14 £15.33
Median % change year-on-year +13.74% +11.81% -9.82%
75th Percentile £25.86 £23.81 £22.37
90th Percentile £49.00 £52.48 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.00 £16.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +12.50% +10.34% -9.38%

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 41,552 73,161 85,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.42% 95.16% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,976 50,990 60,003
10th Percentile £292 £313 £301
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £613
90th Percentile £740 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,472 1,722 2,210
10th Percentile £15.16 £13.25 £12.00
25th Percentile £19.06 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £44.50 £30.00 £20.15
Median % change year-on-year +48.33% +48.90% -15.61%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £46.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.48 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £24.79 £17.64
% change year-on-year +79.51% +40.53% -11.80%

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 9 December 2023.

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 9 December 2023.

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 9 December 2023. 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 0 4,791 £500 +5.26% 2,280
London +6 2,585 £525 - 923
UK excluding London -2 2,532 £438 +4.35% 1,472
Work from Home 0 2,072 £475 - 964
North of England +3 667 £435 +2.35% 392
South East 0 586 £461 +12.50% 335
North West +3 376 £430 +4.24% 225
Scotland -1 368 £416 +0.30% 141
Midlands -5 342 £450 +12.50% 263
Yorkshire +1 259 £450 - 122
South West -3 254 £450 - 162
West Midlands -1 249 £450 +12.50% 174
East of England +3 236 £400 - 176
East Midlands -5 92 £425 +8.97% 89
Wales -1 66 £310 -22.50% 32
North East +22 42 £440 +3.53% 47
Northern Ireland +4 30 £320 -1.54% 10
Isle of Man +7 7 £475 +18.75% 1

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 December 2023, 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 1,502 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 1,487 (26.73%) Finance
3 1,078 (19.38%) Agile
4 858 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
5 812 (14.60%) Microsoft
6 735 (13.21%) SQL
7 707 (12.71%) Business Analysis
8 696 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
9 633 (11.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 592 (10.64%) Degree
11 556 (9.99%) Security Cleared
12 526 (9.46%) Banking
13 506 (9.10%) Public Sector
14 491 (8.83%) Windows
15 483 (8.68%) Azure
16 478 (8.59%) Data Analysis
17 464 (8.34%) Microsoft Excel
18 444 (7.98%) Requirements Gathering
19 443 (7.96%) Business Intelligence
20 427 (7.68%) Power Platform
21 416 (7.48%) Project Management
22 415 (7.46%) Power BI
23 414 (7.44%) SC Cleared
24 404 (7.26%) ITIL
25 400 (7.19%) Customer Service
26 397 (7.14%) User Stories
27 393 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
28 385 (6.92%) Change Management
29 384 (6.90%) JIRA
30 382 (6.87%) Analytics

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
1 196 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 173 (3.11%) Confluence
3 43 (0.77%) CMS
4 31 (0.56%) SAS
5 20 (0.36%) MS Exchange
6 12 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.20%) IIS
8 10 (0.18%) Skype for Business
9 7 (0.13%) Apache
10 5 (0.090%) MS Project Server
10 5 (0.090%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.090%) WebSphere
11 4 (0.072%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.072%) Exchange Server 2013
12 3 (0.054%) Camunda
12 3 (0.054%) MTS
12 3 (0.054%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.054%) WordPress
13 2 (0.036%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.036%) EPiServer
Applications
1 464 (8.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 362 (6.51%) Microsoft Office
3 175 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 137 (2.46%) MS Visio
5 53 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
6 44 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
7 16 (0.29%) Trello
8 12 (0.22%) SPSS
9 9 (0.16%) Stata
10 5 (0.090%) Chatbot
11 3 (0.054%) Camtasia
11 3 (0.054%) Mathematica
11 3 (0.054%) SOLIDWORKS
12 2 (0.036%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.036%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.036%) InCopy
12 2 (0.036%) InDesign
12 2 (0.036%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.018%) Lectora
13 1 (0.018%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 62 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 55 (0.99%) Endur
3 43 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 41 (0.74%) Loan IQ
5 18 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 18 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
6 17 (0.31%) SAP CO
6 17 (0.31%) SAP FI
7 16 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
7 16 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
8 15 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
9 14 (0.25%) assyst
10 13 (0.23%) iTrent
10 13 (0.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 12 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
12 11 (0.20%) Maximo
12 11 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
12 11 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
12 11 (0.20%) SAP SD
13 10 (0.18%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 483 (8.68%) Azure
2 427 (7.68%) Power Platform
3 393 (7.06%) Microsoft 365
4 155 (2.79%) AWS
5 103 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
6 95 (1.71%) Dynamics 365
7 86 (1.55%) GCP
8 70 (1.26%) SaaS
9 47 (0.84%) Entra ID
10 39 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
10 39 (0.70%) OCI
11 31 (0.56%) Power Automate
12 29 (0.52%) PaaS
13 28 (0.50%) Snowflake
13 28 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
13 28 (0.50%) WhatsApp
14 27 (0.49%) Google Analytics
15 26 (0.47%) Salesforce Service Cloud
16 25 (0.45%) OneDrive
17 22 (0.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 140 (2.52%) Firewall
2 69 (1.24%) Network Security
3 47 (0.84%) VPN
4 42 (0.75%) LAN
5 40 (0.72%) DNS
6 38 (0.68%) TCP/IP
6 38 (0.68%) WAN
7 35 (0.63%) Internet
8 33 (0.59%) Wireless
9 23 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
9 23 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (0.34%) VoIP
11 17 (0.31%) DHCP
12 16 (0.29%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.23%) Intranet
13 13 (0.23%) SAN
13 13 (0.23%) VLAN
14 12 (0.22%) HTTPS
15 11 (0.20%) FTP
15 11 (0.20%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 415 (7.46%) Power BI
2 122 (2.19%) Tableau
3 100 (1.80%) SQL Server
4 93 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 63 (1.13%) Relational Database
6 44 (0.79%) Big Data
7 37 (0.67%) Power Query
8 31 (0.56%) Data Lake
9 30 (0.54%) BusinessObjects
10 24 (0.43%) Data Mining
10 24 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
11 23 (0.41%) BigQuery
11 23 (0.41%) Electronic Patient Records
11 23 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
11 23 (0.41%) SAP HANA
12 21 (0.38%) GIS
12 21 (0.38%) Metadata
12 21 (0.38%) MS Access
12 21 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 16 (0.29%) Looker
Development Applications
1 384 (6.90%) JIRA
2 48 (0.86%) Selenium
3 32 (0.58%) Git
4 25 (0.45%) Jenkins
5 24 (0.43%) Postman
5 24 (0.43%) TestRail
6 22 (0.40%) Visual Studio
7 21 (0.38%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 12 (0.22%) Eclipse
9 12 (0.22%) SpecFlow
10 11 (0.20%) JMeter
11 10 (0.18%) LoadRunner
11 10 (0.18%) Subversion
12 9 (0.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 8 (0.14%) Team Foundation Server
14 7 (0.13%) JUnit
14 7 (0.13%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.13%) WebDriver
15 6 (0.11%) IntelliJ
General
1 1,502 (27.00%) Social Skills
2 1,487 (26.73%) Finance
3 858 (15.42%) Analytical Skills
4 526 (9.46%) Banking
5 506 (9.10%) Public Sector
6 178 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 178 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
7 177 (3.18%) Legal
8 172 (3.09%) Retail
9 158 (2.84%) Front Office
10 134 (2.41%) Investment Banking
11 123 (2.21%) Marketing
11 123 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
12 99 (1.78%) Manufacturing
13 98 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
14 96 (1.73%) Law
15 93 (1.67%) Telecoms
16 83 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
17 80 (1.44%) Back Office
18 67 (1.20%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (0.95%) XML
2 45 (0.81%) .NET
3 42 (0.75%) JSON
4 40 (0.72%) Oracle Fusion
5 24 (0.43%) HTML
5 24 (0.43%) REST
6 20 (0.36%) Middleware
6 20 (0.36%) Web Services
7 18 (0.32%) FIX Protocol
8 15 (0.27%) Swagger
9 11 (0.20%) CSS
9 11 (0.20%) Kafka
9 11 (0.20%) OpenAPI
9 11 (0.20%) SailPoint
9 11 (0.20%) SOAP
10 10 (0.18%) ADO
11 9 (0.16%) Playwright
12 8 (0.14%) EDI
12 8 (0.14%) Gherkin
12 8 (0.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 219 (3.94%) Management Information System
2 171 (3.07%) Product Ownership
3 117 (2.10%) Onboarding
4 88 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
5 83 (1.49%) Derivative
6 76 (1.37%) NHS
7 74 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 64 (1.15%) Market Risk
9 60 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
10 59 (1.06%) Equities
10 59 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
11 51 (0.92%) Data Centre
12 46 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
13 42 (0.75%) Operational Technology
14 41 (0.74%) Credit Risk
14 41 (0.74%) Fixed Income
15 39 (0.70%) Cyberattack
16 37 (0.67%) Data Structures
17 36 (0.65%) Life Science
18 35 (0.63%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 491 (8.83%) Windows
2 200 (3.60%) Windows 10
3 123 (2.21%) Linux
4 84 (1.51%) Windows Server
5 57 (1.02%) Unix
6 51 (0.92%) Apple iOS
7 46 (0.83%) Windows 7
8 35 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 23 (0.41%) Android
10 21 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
11 20 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
12 18 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 8 (0.14%) Mac OS X
14 7 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
15 6 (0.11%) HPUX
16 5 (0.090%) Solaris
17 4 (0.072%) SUSE
17 4 (0.072%) Ubuntu
17 4 (0.072%) Windows Server 2008
18 3 (0.054%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,078 (19.38%) Agile
2 707 (12.71%) Business Analysis
3 696 (12.51%) Problem-Solving
4 633 (11.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 478 (8.59%) Data Analysis
6 444 (7.98%) Requirements Gathering
7 443 (7.96%) Business Intelligence
8 416 (7.48%) Project Management
9 404 (7.26%) ITIL
10 400 (7.19%) Customer Service
11 397 (7.14%) User Stories
12 385 (6.92%) Change Management
13 382 (6.87%) Analytics
14 369 (6.63%) Migration
15 318 (5.72%) Cybersecurity
16 293 (5.27%) User Acceptance Testing
17 267 (4.80%) Workshop Facilitation
18 260 (4.67%) Risk Management
19 254 (4.57%) Data Modelling
20 243 (4.37%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 735 (13.21%) SQL
2 297 (5.34%) Python
3 99 (1.78%) C#
4 98 (1.76%) Java
5 73 (1.31%) PowerShell
6 60 (1.08%) R
7 58 (1.04%) VBA
8 48 (0.86%) C++
9 35 (0.63%) JavaScript
10 33 (0.59%) T-SQL
11 29 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 27 (0.49%) Shell Script
12 27 (0.49%) VB
13 24 (0.43%) PL/SQL
14 20 (0.36%) Perl
15 17 (0.31%) MATLAB
15 17 (0.31%) PHP
16 14 (0.25%) VBScript
17 12 (0.22%) Bash
18 5 (0.090%) Scala
Qualifications
1 592 (10.64%) Degree
2 556 (9.99%) Security Cleared
3 414 (7.44%) SC Cleared
4 136 (2.44%) DV Cleared
5 121 (2.18%) CISSP
6 100 (1.80%) CISM
7 79 (1.42%) MCP
8 60 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
9 51 (0.92%) ISTQB
10 46 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
11 41 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 41 (0.74%) CCNP
11 41 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
12 36 (0.65%) Master's Degree
13 34 (0.61%) ISEB
13 34 (0.61%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 32 (0.58%) CISA
14 32 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 30 (0.54%) CLAS
16 29 (0.52%) CESG Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 258 (4.64%) QA
2 216 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 177 (3.18%) PMO
4 147 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 134 (2.41%) SLA
6 129 (2.32%) NIST
7 67 (1.20%) GDPR
8 41 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
8 41 (0.74%) NCSC
9 40 (0.72%) PCI DSS
10 35 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 32 (0.58%) Accessibility
11 32 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
11 32 (0.58%) JSP 440
12 31 (0.56%) RMADS
13 30 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 27 (0.49%) EMIR
14 27 (0.49%) GRC
14 27 (0.49%) MiFID
15 17 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 291 (5.23%) Active Directory
2 29 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (0.14%) Docker
4 8 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.13%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.13%) ProxySG
6 6 (0.11%) BitLocker
6 6 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (0.11%) vSphere
7 4 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.036%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 2 (0.036%) IAG
8 2 (0.036%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.036%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.018%) Firmware
9 1 (0.018%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.018%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.018%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.018%) Samba
Systems Management
1 66 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 64 (1.15%) SCCM
3 15 (0.27%) Ansible
4 13 (0.23%) Nessus
5 12 (0.22%) CSIRT
5 12 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
6 11 (0.20%) Terraform
7 10 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 9 (0.16%) Kibana
9 8 (0.14%) HP Quality Center
9 8 (0.14%) ITRS Geneos
10 7 (0.13%) Control-M
10 7 (0.13%) Kubernetes
11 6 (0.11%) Grafana
11 6 (0.11%) Host Intrusion Detection System
11 6 (0.11%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.090%) Nmap
13 4 (0.072%) BladeLogic
13 4 (0.072%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.072%) Nagios
Vendors
1 812 (14.60%) Microsoft
2 294 (5.28%) SAP
3 266 (4.78%) ServiceNow
4 196 (3.52%) Oracle
5 147 (2.64%) Salesforce
6 104 (1.87%) Google
7 90 (1.62%) Splunk
8 82 (1.47%) Citrix
9 70 (1.26%) Cisco
10 47 (0.84%) LogRhythm
11 46 (0.83%) VMware
12 39 (0.70%) Sun
12 39 (0.70%) Workday
13 35 (0.63%) IBM
14 33 (0.59%) iManage
15 30 (0.54%) Apple
16 29 (0.52%) Darktrace
16 29 (0.52%) HP
16 29 (0.52%) OpenLink
17 27 (0.49%) Alteryx