Technical Analyst Contracts

Technical Analyst
UK

The median Technical Analyst daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

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
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 412 373
Rank change year-on-year +108 -39 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 292 294 615
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.52% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.55% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 209 390
10th Percentile £215 £313 £350
25th Percentile £345 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £485
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +5.15% +7.78%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £726 £661 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -27.84% +7.78% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 24
10th Percentile - £14.78 £14.08
25th Percentile - £19.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £14.00 £22.86 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.76% +52.40% -11.76%
75th Percentile £23.75 £27.28 £17.00
90th Percentile - £41.29 £37.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.00 £18.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% +24.14% -14.71%

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 39,578 53,370 83,505
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.62% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,754 37,256 58,766
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,746 1,484 1,999
10th Percentile £12.81 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.86%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.95 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 25 May 2024.

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
Top 15 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 25 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 +63 223 £525 +5.00% 83
London +68 131 £595 +8.18% 43
Work from Home +107 119 £550 +7.84% 39
UK excluding London +61 113 £350 -27.84% 53
Scotland +50 27 £425 +25.93% 1
East of England +20 26 £330 -32.31% 7
North of England +25 24 £450 -1.37% 11
Midlands +30 16 £375 -23.08% 8
Yorkshire +13 14 £475 +58.33% 4
South West +12 13 £230 -54.90% 6
West Midlands +8 11 £275 -47.62% 8
North West +15 10 £425 -15.00% 7
South East +2 6 £463 +15.63% 18
East Midlands +15 5 £550 +15.79%
Wales - 1 £250 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 25 May 2024, 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 92 (31.51%) Finance
2 82 (28.08%) Social Skills
3 79 (27.05%) Agile
4 61 (20.89%) Banking
5 53 (18.15%) SQL
6 51 (17.47%) User Stories
7 39 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (13.01%) Azure
9 37 (12.67%) JIRA
10 36 (12.33%) ITIL
10 36 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
11 33 (11.30%) Microsoft
11 33 (11.30%) Requirements Gathering
12 32 (10.96%) Degree
13 31 (10.62%) Windows
14 30 (10.27%) Python
14 30 (10.27%) Back Office
15 29 (9.93%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (9.93%) Data Modelling
16 28 (9.59%) Customer Service
17 27 (9.25%) Asset Management
17 27 (9.25%) Front Office
17 27 (9.25%) Acceptance Criteria
18 26 (8.90%) DevOps
18 26 (8.90%) Business Analysis
19 25 (8.56%) Security Cleared
19 25 (8.56%) Scrum
19 25 (8.56%) AWS
19 25 (8.56%) Microsoft 365
20 23 (7.88%) Active Directory

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 17 (5.82%) Confluence
2 15 (5.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.37%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.37%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.34%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) JBoss
4 1 (0.34%) nginx
4 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 19 (6.51%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (2.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.71%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.03%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Shopify
2 2 (0.68%) Endur
2 2 (0.68%) ION Anvil
2 2 (0.68%) ION MarketView
2 2 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.34%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.34%) Maximo
3 1 (0.34%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.34%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.34%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (13.01%) Azure
2 25 (8.56%) AWS
2 25 (8.56%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (4.45%) Power Platform
4 4 (1.37%) Entra ID
5 3 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.03%) BigCommerce
6 2 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (0.68%) Lucidchart
6 2 (0.68%) OneDrive
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle CX
6 2 (0.68%) Oracle Service Cloud
6 2 (0.68%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.34%) Apigee
7 1 (0.34%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.34%) GCP
7 1 (0.34%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.34%) Serverless
7 1 (0.34%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.74%) WAN
2 5 (1.71%) LAN
3 4 (1.37%) Firewall
3 4 (1.37%) Skype
4 2 (0.68%) DNS
4 2 (0.68%) NAS
4 2 (0.68%) Network Security
5 1 (0.34%) DHCP
5 1 (0.34%) Internet
5 1 (0.34%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.45%) Power BI
2 12 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.08%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (2.05%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.71%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
6 5 (1.71%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (1.37%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.03%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.03%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.03%) Tableau
9 2 (0.68%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.34%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.34%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.34%) Big Data
10 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.34%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 37 (12.67%) JIRA
2 10 (3.42%) Postman
2 10 (3.42%) SoapUI
3 5 (1.71%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.34%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 92 (31.51%) Finance
2 82 (28.08%) Social Skills
3 61 (20.89%) Banking
4 36 (12.33%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (10.27%) Back Office
6 27 (9.25%) Front Office
7 12 (4.11%) Public Sector
8 9 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.74%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.40%) Retail
11 6 (2.05%) Marketing
12 4 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
13 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.03%) German Language
14 2 (0.68%) Billing
14 2 (0.68%) Local Government
15 1 (0.34%) Law
15 1 (0.34%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.74%) SOAP
2 6 (2.05%) Swagger
2 6 (2.05%) XML
3 5 (1.71%) OpenAPI
3 5 (1.71%) REST
3 5 (1.71%) Web Services
4 4 (1.37%) FIX Protocol
5 3 (1.03%) ADO
5 3 (1.03%) OAuth
5 3 (1.03%) React
5 3 (1.03%) VML
6 2 (0.68%) Middleware
6 2 (0.68%) OpenID
7 1 (0.34%) .NET
7 1 (0.34%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.34%) IBM Integration Bus
7 1 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.34%) PySpark
7 1 (0.34%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.34%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.19%) Derivative
2 20 (6.85%) Hedge funds
3 11 (3.77%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.42%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.08%) Learning Management System
6 8 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.71%) CMDB
7 5 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.71%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.37%) Digital Media
8 4 (1.37%) iPhone
8 4 (1.37%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.03%) AS400
9 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.68%) EPoS
10 2 (0.68%) Fixed Income
10 2 (0.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (10.62%) Windows
2 11 (3.77%) Mac OS
3 9 (3.08%) Android
4 7 (2.40%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.40%) Windows 10
5 6 (2.05%) Unix
6 5 (1.71%) Linux
7 4 (1.37%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.34%) VMS
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (27.05%) Agile
2 51 (17.47%) User Stories
3 39 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (12.33%) ITIL
5 33 (11.30%) Requirements Gathering
6 29 (9.93%) Data Modelling
6 29 (9.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (9.59%) Customer Service
8 27 (9.25%) Acceptance Criteria
8 27 (9.25%) Asset Management
9 26 (8.90%) Business Analysis
9 26 (8.90%) DevOps
10 25 (8.56%) Scrum
11 22 (7.53%) Use Case
12 21 (7.19%) Investment Management
13 20 (6.85%) Epics
13 20 (6.85%) ITSM
13 20 (6.85%) Mentoring
14 19 (6.51%) Data Analysis
15 18 (6.16%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (18.15%) SQL
2 30 (10.27%) Python
3 23 (7.88%) C#
4 9 (3.08%) Java
5 6 (2.05%) PL/SQL
6 5 (1.71%) XPath
6 5 (1.71%) XQuery
7 4 (1.37%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.68%) R
9 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.34%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (10.96%) Degree
2 25 (8.56%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.82%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (3.42%) MCP
6 8 (2.74%) CCNA
7 3 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.68%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.68%) CCENT
8 2 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.68%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.68%) MCSA
8 2 (0.68%) MCSD
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CBAP
9 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.77%) QA
2 6 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.71%) NIST
4 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.68%) MiFID
5 2 (0.68%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) GDPR
6 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (7.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (2.74%) SCCM
3 4 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.34%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.82%) SAP
3 12 (4.11%) Oracle
4 11 (3.77%) Citrix
5 9 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.05%) Cisco
7 5 (1.71%) Apple
7 5 (1.71%) Atlassian
7 5 (1.71%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.03%) Adobe
8 3 (1.03%) Databricks
8 3 (1.03%) Genesys
8 3 (1.03%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.68%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.68%) Dell
9 2 (0.68%) Intel
9 2 (0.68%) ION Trading
9 2 (0.68%) Workday
10 1 (0.34%) CA Agile Central
10 1 (0.34%) Optimizely