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 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 335 404
Rank change year-on-year +9 +69 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Analyst 206 270 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.62% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.74% 0.67% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 175 215
10th Percentile £310 £221 £305
25th Percentile £400 £345 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.71%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £578
90th Percentile £669 £675 £655
UK excluding London median daily rate £444 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +18.33% -16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.33 £22.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.87% +7.14% +35.48%
75th Percentile £23.50 £23.75 £26.00
90th Percentile £24.80 £27.75 £37.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.14 £18.25 £14.50
% change year-on-year -17.04% +25.86% -6.45%

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 27,810 40,484 52,424
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.93% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,834 26,012 36,485
10th Percentile £288 £281 £313
25th Percentile £402 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,203 2,914 1,505
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.39 £16.38 £19.06
Median hourly rate £27.13 £37.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.67% -12.79% +68.63%
75th Percentile £56.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

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 June 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 25 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Analyst in the UK

Technical 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 Technical Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 25 June 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 +40 169 £475 -5.00% 146
UK excluding London +40 98 £444 +18.33% 64
London +22 97 £525 -4.55% 95
Work from Home -4 52 £456 -13.92% 69
East of England +30 25 £550 +66.67% 8
Scotland +3 25 £288 -32.35% 3
North of England +17 19 £413 -8.33% 15
South East +43 14 £456 +1.39% 18
North West +6 10 £406 +8.33% 11
Yorkshire +2 9 £469 -1.26% 4
Midlands +5 6 £500 +53.85% 10
South West +46 5 £438 +82.29% 7
West Midlands +2 4 £625 +127.27% 6
East Midlands +3 2 £463 -15.91% 4
Channel Islands - 2 £640 -
Wales +5 1 - - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 £350 -

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

For the 6 months to 25 June 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 64 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 62 (30.10%) Finance
3 61 (29.61%) Agile
4 47 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (21.84%) Business Analysis
6 44 (21.36%) Microsoft
7 38 (18.45%) Banking
8 35 (16.99%) JIRA
8 35 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
9 32 (15.53%) SQL
10 31 (15.05%) Migration
11 30 (14.56%) Active Directory
11 30 (14.56%) Microsoft 365
12 29 (14.08%) User Stories
12 29 (14.08%) Requirements Gathering
12 29 (14.08%) Data Analysis
13 27 (13.11%) Security Cleared
14 26 (12.62%) ITIL
14 26 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (11.65%) Azure
15 24 (11.65%) Microsoft Excel
15 24 (11.65%) ServiceNow
16 23 (11.17%) Python
16 23 (11.17%) Scrum
17 22 (10.68%) Data Modelling
18 21 (10.19%) SC Cleared
18 21 (10.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
18 21 (10.19%) Customer Service
19 20 (9.71%) DevOps
19 20 (9.71%) Windows

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 19 (9.22%) Confluence
2 9 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.43%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.94%) CMS
4 4 (1.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) CICS
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 24 (11.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (10.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (4.85%) MS Visio
4 5 (2.43%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Loan IQ
1 3 (1.46%) SAP LE
1 3 (1.46%) SAP WM
2 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.49%) Shopify
2 1 (0.49%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 30 (14.56%) Microsoft 365
2 24 (11.65%) Azure
3 18 (8.74%) Power Platform
4 11 (5.34%) AWS
5 9 (4.37%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.43%) OneDrive
8 4 (1.94%) Lucidchart
8 4 (1.94%) PowerApps
9 3 (1.46%) GCP
9 3 (1.46%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.97%) Collibra
11 1 (0.49%) Azure AKS
11 1 (0.49%) Azure API Management
11 1 (0.49%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.49%) Azure Service Bus
11 1 (0.49%) BigCommerce
11 1 (0.49%) IaaS
11 1 (0.49%) iPaaS
11 1 (0.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.25%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (2.91%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.43%) DNS
4 4 (1.94%) DHCP
5 3 (1.46%) Firewall
5 3 (1.46%) VPN
5 3 (1.46%) WAN
6 2 (0.97%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.97%) LAN
6 2 (0.97%) VoIP
6 2 (0.97%) Wireless
7 1 (0.49%) Broadband
7 1 (0.49%) Intranet
7 1 (0.49%) MPLS
7 1 (0.49%) Softphone
7 1 (0.49%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.77%) Power BI
2 8 (3.88%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.91%) Tableau
4 5 (2.43%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.46%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.97%) Metadata
6 2 (0.97%) MySQL
6 2 (0.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.49%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.49%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.49%) DbVisualizer
7 1 (0.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.49%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.49%) Power Query
7 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.49%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 35 (16.99%) JIRA
2 5 (2.43%) IBM UrbanCode
2 5 (2.43%) Postman
3 2 (0.97%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.49%) AdminStudio
4 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.49%) MLflow
General
1 64 (31.07%) Social Skills
2 62 (30.10%) Finance
3 38 (18.45%) Banking
4 35 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.85%) Front Office
6 9 (4.37%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.40%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.91%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.43%) Marketing
10 4 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.94%) Legal
10 4 (1.94%) Retail
11 3 (1.46%) Back Office
11 3 (1.46%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.46%) French Language
11 3 (1.46%) Games
11 3 (1.46%) Law
11 3 (1.46%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.43%) XML
2 4 (1.94%) Web Services
3 3 (1.46%) ADO
3 3 (1.46%) FpML
3 3 (1.46%) RESTful
3 3 (1.46%) SAP PI
4 2 (0.97%) .NET
4 2 (0.97%) JSON
4 2 (0.97%) OAuth
4 2 (0.97%) OpenID
4 2 (0.97%) SAML
4 2 (0.97%) SOAP
4 2 (0.97%) Swagger
5 1 (0.49%) ISPF
5 1 (0.49%) LangChain
5 1 (0.49%) REST
5 1 (0.49%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.49%) VML
5 1 (0.49%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.28%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.37%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (3.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 6 (2.91%) CMDB
5 5 (2.43%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.43%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.94%) Fixed Income
6 4 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.46%) DTCC
7 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.97%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.97%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.97%) Derivative
8 2 (0.97%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.97%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.97%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.97%) PMI
9 1 (0.49%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.71%) Windows
2 10 (4.85%) Linux
3 9 (4.37%) Unix
3 9 (4.37%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.46%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.97%) Android
5 2 (0.97%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.49%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (29.61%) Agile
2 47 (22.82%) Problem-Solving
3 45 (21.84%) Business Analysis
4 31 (15.05%) Migration
5 29 (14.08%) Data Analysis
5 29 (14.08%) Requirements Gathering
5 29 (14.08%) User Stories
6 26 (12.62%) ITIL
6 26 (12.62%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (11.17%) Scrum
8 22 (10.68%) Data Modelling
9 21 (10.19%) Customer Service
10 20 (9.71%) DevOps
11 19 (9.22%) Project Management
11 19 (9.22%) User Acceptance Testing
11 19 (9.22%) Validation
12 18 (8.74%) Incident Management
13 17 (8.25%) Service Delivery
14 16 (7.77%) Mathematics
15 15 (7.28%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (15.53%) SQL
2 23 (11.17%) Python
3 9 (4.37%) Perl
4 1 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.49%) Java
4 1 (0.49%) JCL
4 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
4 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 21 (10.19%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (8.25%) A+ Certification
4 17 (8.25%) MCSA
5 14 (6.80%) Degree
6 6 (2.91%) CBAP
6 6 (2.91%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.46%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.46%) IIBA
8 2 (0.97%) MCP
8 2 (0.97%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.97%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.49%) CCNA
9 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.49%) ECDL
9 1 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.49%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.31%) QA
2 5 (2.43%) ISO 20022
2 5 (2.43%) MiFID
3 4 (1.94%) EMIR
3 4 (1.94%) SEPA
4 3 (1.46%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.97%) GDPR
5 2 (0.97%) PMO
6 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 30 (14.56%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.43%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 1 (0.49%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.49%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 6 (2.91%) SCCM
2 5 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.43%) Tivoli
3 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.49%) CA Endevor
4 1 (0.49%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (0.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 44 (21.36%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.65%) ServiceNow
3 19 (9.22%) Citrix
4 14 (6.80%) Oracle
5 7 (3.40%) SAP
6 6 (2.91%) IBM
6 6 (2.91%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.46%) Databricks
8 2 (0.97%) BMC
8 2 (0.97%) Cisco
8 2 (0.97%) FIS
8 2 (0.97%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.49%) Adobe
9 1 (0.49%) Ariba
9 1 (0.49%) JDA
9 1 (0.49%) Murex
9 1 (0.49%) Nexthink
9 1 (0.49%) Remedy
9 1 (0.49%) SunGard
9 1 (0.49%) Toshiba