Technical Analyst Contracts

Technical Analyst
UK

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 324 426
Rank change year-on-year -3 +102 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 199 294 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.67% 0.51%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.73% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 177 212
10th Percentile £300 £215 £335
25th Percentile £400 £363 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £510
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +2.94% +2.00%
75th Percentile £561 £605 £588
90th Percentile £665 £743 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £375 £488
% change year-on-year +22.00% -23.08% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 18 8
10th Percentile - - £14.78
25th Percentile £14.99 - £19.50
Median hourly rate £15.14 £14.00 £22.86
Median % change year-on-year +8.14% -38.76% +57.66%
75th Percentile £15.44 £23.75 £39.59
90th Percentile £26.00 £24.36 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.14 £14.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +8.14% -22.22% +24.14%

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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Technical Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Analyst over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Analyst over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical Analyst
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -8 153 £488 -7.14% 95
UK excluding London +46 105 £458 +22.00% 38
London -13 79 £525 -12.50% 60
Work from Home -19 56 £450 -18.18% 58
Scotland +20 31 £465 -2.21% 1
East of England +33 27 £550 +66.67% 2
North of England +18 18 £400 -11.89% 9
South East +49 14 £419 -9.46% 10
Yorkshire +9 9 £513 -2.38% 2
North West +8 9 £320 -28.89% 7
Midlands +13 6 £606 +61.67% 6
South West +38 5 £438 +90.22% 8
West Midlands +8 4 £750 +172.73% 4
Wales +7 3 £423 +69.00% 4
East Midlands +7 2 £463 -15.91% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -

Technical Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Technical 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 Technical Analyst in the job title.

1 68 (34.17%) Social Skills
2 57 (28.64%) Agile
3 51 (25.63%) Finance
4 48 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (22.61%) Business Analysis
6 38 (19.10%) Microsoft
7 31 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
8 30 (15.08%) User Stories
8 30 (15.08%) JIRA
8 30 (15.08%) Azure
9 29 (14.57%) ITIL
9 29 (14.57%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (14.07%) Active Directory
10 28 (14.07%) Requirements Gathering
11 27 (13.57%) SQL
12 26 (13.07%) Microsoft Excel
12 26 (13.07%) Security Cleared
13 25 (12.56%) Data Modelling
14 24 (12.06%) Migration
14 24 (12.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
15 23 (11.56%) Data Analysis
15 23 (11.56%) Scrum
15 23 (11.56%) Customer Service
15 23 (11.56%) Microsoft 365
15 23 (11.56%) Process Improvement
16 21 (10.55%) ServiceNow
16 21 (10.55%) Banking
16 21 (10.55%) Confluence
17 20 (10.05%) SC Cleared
18 19 (9.55%) Incident Management

Technical 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 21 (10.55%) Confluence
2 8 (4.02%) CMS
3 5 (2.51%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.01%) Drupal
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) CICS
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
Applications
1 26 (13.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (12.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (5.53%) MS Visio
4 6 (3.02%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) SAP LE
1 3 (1.51%) SAP WM
2 2 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.50%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.50%) Shopify
3 1 (0.50%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 30 (15.08%) Azure
2 23 (11.56%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (8.04%) Power Platform
4 14 (7.04%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.52%) AWS
6 6 (3.02%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.51%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.51%) Lucidchart
9 2 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.01%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (1.01%) GCP
9 2 (1.01%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.50%) BigCommerce
10 1 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.50%) Collibra
10 1 (0.50%) GitHub
10 1 (0.50%) Miro
10 1 (0.50%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.50%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.05%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.51%) DHCP
2 3 (1.51%) DNS
2 3 (1.51%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.01%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.01%) LAN
3 2 (1.01%) WAN
4 1 (0.50%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) Intranet
4 1 (0.50%) Softphone
4 1 (0.50%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.50%) VoIP
4 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.04%) Power BI
2 6 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (3.02%) SQL Server
3 5 (2.51%) Tableau
4 3 (1.51%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.01%) Power Query
5 2 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.50%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.50%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.50%) DbVisualizer
6 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.50%) Metadata
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (15.08%) JIRA
2 5 (2.51%) Postman
3 1 (0.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.50%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (0.50%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.50%) MLflow
3 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.50%) Subversion
General
1 68 (34.17%) Social Skills
2 51 (25.63%) Finance
3 31 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (10.55%) Banking
5 10 (5.03%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (4.52%) Front Office
6 9 (4.52%) Retail
7 7 (3.52%) Public Sector
8 6 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.02%) Marketing
9 5 (2.51%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.01%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.01%) Legal
11 3 (1.51%) Back Office
11 3 (1.51%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.01%) French Language
12 2 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.02%) Web Services
2 5 (2.51%) XML
3 4 (2.01%) RESTful
4 3 (1.51%) .NET
4 3 (1.51%) JSON
4 3 (1.51%) SAP PI
5 2 (1.01%) OAuth
5 2 (1.01%) OpenID
5 2 (1.01%) SAML
6 1 (0.50%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.50%) ADO
6 1 (0.50%) FpML
6 1 (0.50%) Gherkin
6 1 (0.50%) ISPF
6 1 (0.50%) Middleware
6 1 (0.50%) REST
6 1 (0.50%) SOAP
6 1 (0.50%) Swagger
6 1 (0.50%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.04%) Management Information System
2 12 (6.03%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.02%) CMDB
3 6 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.51%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.51%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.01%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.51%) EPoS
6 3 (1.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.01%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.01%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.01%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.01%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.01%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.01%) PMI
8 1 (0.50%) IoT
8 1 (0.50%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.05%) Unix
2 15 (7.54%) Windows
3 12 (6.03%) Linux
4 6 (3.02%) Windows 10
5 4 (2.01%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.51%) Android
7 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (28.64%) Agile
2 48 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (22.61%) Business Analysis
4 30 (15.08%) User Stories
5 29 (14.57%) ITIL
5 29 (14.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 28 (14.07%) Requirements Gathering
7 25 (12.56%) Data Modelling
8 24 (12.06%) Migration
9 23 (11.56%) Customer Service
9 23 (11.56%) Data Analysis
9 23 (11.56%) Process Improvement
9 23 (11.56%) Scrum
10 19 (9.55%) DevOps
10 19 (9.55%) Incident Management
11 18 (9.05%) Mathematics
11 18 (9.05%) Service Delivery
12 17 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
12 17 (8.54%) Validation
13 16 (8.04%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (13.57%) SQL
2 19 (9.55%) Python
3 10 (5.03%) Perl
4 3 (1.51%) PL/SQL
5 2 (1.01%) Java
6 1 (0.50%) JCL
6 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (13.07%) Security Cleared
2 20 (10.05%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.55%) A+ Certification
3 19 (9.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (9.05%) MCSA
5 13 (6.53%) Degree
6 5 (2.51%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.01%) CBAP
8 2 (1.01%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.01%) IIBA
8 2 (1.01%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.01%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.50%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.50%) ECDL
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.50%) MCP
9 1 (0.50%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.04%) QA
2 5 (2.51%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.01%) MiFID
3 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.01%) PMO
4 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.50%) EMIR
4 1 (0.50%) GDPR
4 1 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 28 (14.07%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.01%) RACF
3 1 (0.50%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.50%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 5 (2.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (1.51%) SCCM
3 2 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.50%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 38 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 21 (10.55%) ServiceNow
3 18 (9.05%) Citrix
4 10 (5.03%) Oracle
5 8 (4.02%) CyberArk
6 7 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 7 (3.52%) SAP
7 2 (1.01%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.01%) Databricks
7 2 (1.01%) IBM
7 2 (1.01%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.50%) Ariba
8 1 (0.50%) Aruba
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco
8 1 (0.50%) Fiserv
8 1 (0.50%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.50%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.50%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.50%) Workday
8 1 (0.50%) Zscaler