Systems Analysis Contracts

Systems Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Systems Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Systems Analysis over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 593 660
Rank change year-on-year +67 +67 -122
Contract jobs citing Systems Analysis 60 105 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.18% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 84 147
10th Percentile £200 £363 £355
25th Percentile £402 £459 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +10.53% +10.21%
75th Percentile £563 £596 £555
90th Percentile £609 £675 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £430 £475 £460
% change year-on-year -9.47% +3.26% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.50 - £41.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £42.00
75th Percentile £42.63 - £52.25
90th Percentile £46.30 - £57.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 - £59.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Systems Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Systems Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Systems Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Systems Analysis in the UK

Systems Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Systems Analysis in the UK

Systems Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Systems Analysis over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Systems Analysis in the UK

Systems Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Systems Analysis in the UK

Systems Analysis
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 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 +59 39 £472 -11.79% 41
UK excluding London +50 34 £430 -9.47% 26
Work from Home +101 22 £515 +3.00% 15
London +66 17 £550 - 16
Scotland +52 14 £313 -17.76% 2
South East +18 12 £460 -1.61% 11
Midlands +30 5 £425 - 3
East Midlands +24 4 - - 1
East of England +2 2 - - 9
North West +18 1 £62 -89.61% 2
West Midlands +15 1 £425 -23.08% 2
North of England +14 1 £62 -87.54% 2

Systems Analysis
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 2 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) OpenEdge
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.67%) Simulink
3 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (5.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) iTrent
2 1 (1.67%) MFGPRO
2 1 (1.67%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.67%) AWS
2 2 (3.33%) Azure
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle CX
2 2 (3.33%) Oracle Service Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.67%) Google Workspace
3 1 (1.67%) Serverless
3 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.67%) BGP
1 1 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (1.67%) Firewall
1 1 (1.67%) Internet
1 1 (1.67%) MPLS
1 1 (1.67%) Multicast
1 1 (1.67%) NX-OS
1 1 (1.67%) VXLAN
1 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.33%) Big Data
1 2 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
1 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (3.33%) GIS
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.67%) DB2
2 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (13.33%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (26.67%) Finance
3 11 (18.33%) Public Sector
4 6 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 4 (6.67%) Games
6 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Automotive
7 2 (3.33%) Back Office
7 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Local Government
7 2 (3.33%) Military
7 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.67%) Banking
8 1 (1.67%) Danish Language
8 1 (1.67%) Front Office
8 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (51.67%) Analyst
2 14 (23.33%) Business Analyst
2 14 (23.33%) Senior
3 12 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
4 10 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
5 6 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Administrator
7 4 (6.67%) Developer
7 4 (6.67%) Digital Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Digital Business Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) C++ Developer
8 3 (5.00%) Customer Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Designer
8 3 (5.00%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Software Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Software Product Analyst
8 3 (5.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) ADO
2 2 (3.33%) Spring
3 1 (1.67%) .NET
3 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.67%) Blazor
3 1 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.67%) Augmented Reality
3 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.67%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.33%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (3.33%) Freedom of Information Act
4 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.67%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.67%) Derivative
5 1 (1.67%) Equities
5 1 (1.67%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.67%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Linux
1 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.67%) HPUX
2 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (41.67%) Agile
2 14 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (23.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 12 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 10 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 8 (13.33%) SDLC
6 7 (11.67%) Data Protection
6 7 (11.67%) Software Engineering
7 6 (10.00%) Backlog Management
7 6 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 6 (10.00%) CRM
7 6 (10.00%) Data Analysis
7 6 (10.00%) Data Modelling
7 6 (10.00%) Project Management
7 6 (10.00%) Roadmaps
7 6 (10.00%) User Stories
7 6 (10.00%) Waterfall
8 5 (8.33%) Business Case
8 5 (8.33%) Project Delivery
8 5 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.33%) C++
1 5 (8.33%) Python
2 4 (6.67%) MATLAB
2 4 (6.67%) SQL
3 3 (5.00%) Java
4 2 (3.33%) C
4 2 (3.33%) VB
5 1 (1.67%) Bicep
5 1 (1.67%) C#
5 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Degree
1 13 (21.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.33%) ISEB
4 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) HNC
5 1 (1.67%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.67%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.67%) GDPR
2 1 (1.67%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.67%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.67%) Genesys
3 3 (5.00%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.67%) Avaya
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco
5 1 (1.67%) HP
5 1 (1.67%) IBM
5 1 (1.67%) Progress
5 1 (1.67%) QAD
5 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.67%) VMware