Analyst Contracts with Work from Home Options

Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Analyst daily rate in Work from Home is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,595 2,842 5,214
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.88% 11.63% 11.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.64% 12.21% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,108 2,058 3,798
10th Percentile £269 £250 £250
25th Percentile £375 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £538
90th Percentile £688 £675 £619
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 69 107
10th Percentile £12.90 £12.66 £11.21
25th Percentile £14.71 £16.19 £12.44
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.49 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.78% +5.35% +15.63%
75th Percentile £26.75 £25.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £42.60 £33.00
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £18.14 £15.50
% change year-on-year -10.14% +17.03% -4.62%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,707 23,282 42,199
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.29% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,257 16,477 30,548
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 537 589
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.17 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.35
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +50.00% +48.94%
75th Percentile £64.53 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.17
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Analyst trend for jobs with a WFH option

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Analyst.

Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Analyst over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Analyst.

Analyst hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Analyst over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Analyst hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 492 (30.85%) Finance
2 427 (26.77%) Social Skills
3 326 (20.44%) Agile
4 273 (17.12%) SQL
5 256 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
6 215 (13.48%) Banking
7 201 (12.60%) Business Analysis
8 193 (12.10%) Microsoft
9 186 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
10 181 (11.35%) Business Intelligence
11 172 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 171 (10.72%) Power Platform
13 165 (10.34%) Power BI
14 163 (10.22%) User Stories
15 151 (9.47%) Public Sector
16 145 (9.09%) Data Analysis
17 144 (9.03%) Degree
18 136 (8.53%) Analytics
19 133 (8.34%) Requirements Gathering
20 128 (8.03%) Azure
20 128 (8.03%) Python
21 125 (7.84%) Migration
22 123 (7.71%) Security Cleared
23 120 (7.52%) JIRA
24 117 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
25 106 (6.65%) User Acceptance Testing
26 97 (6.08%) QA
26 97 (6.08%) Change Management
27 95 (5.96%) Project Management
28 92 (5.77%) SC Cleared

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 54 (3.39%) Confluence
2 35 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.50%) SAS
5 6 (0.38%) Apache
5 6 (0.38%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.25%) MTS
7 3 (0.19%) Appian
7 3 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.13%) Camunda
8 2 (0.13%) CMS
8 2 (0.13%) LiveLink
9 1 (0.063%) Alfresco
9 1 (0.063%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.063%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.063%) nginx
9 1 (0.063%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 117 (7.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (3.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (2.76%) MS Visio
5 9 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.19%) Trello
8 2 (0.13%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.063%) InVision
9 1 (0.063%) Sketch
9 1 (0.063%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (0.75%) Endur
3 12 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (0.38%) Aligne
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.31%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.25%) Academy Housing
8 4 (0.25%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 4 (0.25%) EuroRunner
8 4 (0.25%) Maximo
8 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 171 (10.72%) Power Platform
2 128 (8.03%) Azure
3 63 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (3.89%) AWS
5 31 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (1.69%) SaaS
7 23 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
8 17 (1.07%) GCP
9 16 (1.00%) Entra ID
9 16 (1.00%) Google Analytics
10 14 (0.88%) Power Automate
11 13 (0.82%) OCI
11 13 (0.82%) PowerApps
12 12 (0.75%) OneDrive
13 9 (0.56%) Adobe Analytics
14 8 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (0.44%) PaaS
15 7 (0.44%) Snowflake
15 7 (0.44%) SuccessFactors
16 6 (0.38%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.19%) Firewall
2 13 (0.82%) VPN
3 11 (0.69%) Internet
4 10 (0.63%) Network Security
5 9 (0.56%) DNS
6 7 (0.44%) DHCP
6 7 (0.44%) TCP/IP
7 6 (0.38%) VLAN
8 5 (0.31%) FIX Connectivity
8 5 (0.31%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.19%) Intranet
11 2 (0.13%) HTTP
11 2 (0.13%) NAS
11 2 (0.13%) PuTTY
11 2 (0.13%) VoIP
11 2 (0.13%) WAN
11 2 (0.13%) WinSCP
11 2 (0.13%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.063%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (10.34%) Power BI
2 47 (2.95%) Tableau
3 36 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 30 (1.88%) SQL Server
5 17 (1.07%) BigQuery
5 17 (1.07%) Relational Database
6 15 (0.94%) Big Data
7 14 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 12 (0.75%) Oracle Reports
8 12 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 10 (0.63%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.56%) Looker
10 9 (0.56%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.50%) GIS
11 8 (0.50%) Hadoop
11 8 (0.50%) Metadata
11 8 (0.50%) SAP HANA
12 6 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
12 6 (0.38%) Power Query
12 6 (0.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 120 (7.52%) JIRA
2 18 (1.13%) Postman
3 16 (1.00%) Selenium
4 12 (0.75%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.56%) Git
5 9 (0.56%) TestRail
6 8 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 6 (0.38%) JMeter
7 6 (0.38%) SoapUI
7 6 (0.38%) WebDriver
8 5 (0.31%) SpecFlow
8 5 (0.31%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.25%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.25%) Jenkins
9 4 (0.25%) Subversion
9 4 (0.25%) TestComplete
9 4 (0.25%) Toad
9 4 (0.25%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.19%) LoadRunner
11 2 (0.13%) ERwin
General
1 492 (30.85%) Finance
2 427 (26.77%) Social Skills
3 256 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
4 215 (13.48%) Banking
5 151 (9.47%) Public Sector
6 63 (3.95%) Front Office
7 61 (3.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (3.07%) Back Office
9 48 (3.01%) Marketing
10 44 (2.76%) Retail
11 41 (2.57%) Telecoms
12 38 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
13 35 (2.19%) Manufacturing
14 29 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
15 28 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
16 27 (1.69%) Legal
17 22 (1.38%) Investment Banking
18 20 (1.25%) Local Government
19 17 (1.07%) Billing
20 14 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.32%) XML
2 19 (1.19%) .NET
3 13 (0.82%) Oracle Fusion
4 12 (0.75%) JSON
5 9 (0.56%) HTML
5 9 (0.56%) Web Services
6 8 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (0.44%) Middleware
7 7 (0.44%) REST
8 6 (0.38%) Swagger
9 5 (0.31%) ADO
9 5 (0.31%) IDoc
9 5 (0.31%) OpenAPI
10 4 (0.25%) .NET Framework
10 4 (0.25%) AngularJS
10 4 (0.25%) OAuth
10 4 (0.25%) PySpark
11 3 (0.19%) SailPoint
11 3 (0.19%) SAP PI
11 3 (0.19%) SAP XI
Miscellaneous
1 68 (4.26%) Product Ownership
2 53 (3.32%) Derivative
3 48 (3.01%) Management Information System
4 42 (2.63%) Hedge funds
5 31 (1.94%) Equities
6 28 (1.76%) Fixed Income
7 24 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 24 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (1.07%) Mobile App
8 17 (1.07%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 16 (1.00%) Onboarding
9 16 (1.00%) Reinsurance
10 14 (0.88%) NHS
11 13 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (0.82%) Data Structures
12 12 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (0.63%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.56%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (0.56%) Learning Management System
14 9 (0.56%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 83 (5.20%) Windows
2 29 (1.82%) Windows 10
3 17 (1.07%) Linux
4 15 (0.94%) Unix
5 11 (0.69%) Android
6 9 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.50%) Windows 7
8 5 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.19%) VMS
11 1 (0.063%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.063%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.063%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (20.44%) Agile
2 201 (12.60%) Business Analysis
3 186 (11.66%) Problem-Solving
4 181 (11.35%) Business Intelligence
5 172 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 163 (10.22%) User Stories
7 145 (9.09%) Data Analysis
8 136 (8.53%) Analytics
9 133 (8.34%) Requirements Gathering
10 125 (7.84%) Migration
11 106 (6.65%) User Acceptance Testing
12 97 (6.08%) Change Management
13 95 (5.96%) Project Management
14 83 (5.20%) Data Modelling
14 83 (5.20%) Visualisation
15 78 (4.89%) Acceptance Criteria
15 78 (4.89%) Customer Service
16 76 (4.76%) Scrum
17 75 (4.70%) Service Management
18 74 (4.64%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 273 (17.12%) SQL
2 128 (8.03%) Python
3 49 (3.07%) C#
4 23 (1.44%) Java
5 22 (1.38%) R
6 16 (1.00%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.88%) VBA
8 13 (0.82%) C++
9 12 (0.75%) PowerShell
10 9 (0.56%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.50%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.44%) C
12 7 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (0.44%) Perl
13 5 (0.31%) ABAP
13 5 (0.31%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.25%) VB
14 4 (0.25%) VBScript
15 3 (0.19%) Bash
Qualifications
1 144 (9.03%) Degree
2 123 (7.71%) Security Cleared
3 92 (5.77%) SC Cleared
4 29 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 25 (1.57%) CISSP
6 24 (1.50%) CISM
7 18 (1.13%) ISTQB
8 16 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (0.69%) ISEB
9 11 (0.69%) Numerate Degree
10 10 (0.63%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 9 (0.56%) CISA
12 8 (0.50%) CBAP
12 8 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.44%) APMP
13 7 (0.44%) CRISC
13 7 (0.44%) DBS Check
14 6 (0.38%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (6.08%) QA
2 67 (4.20%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.45%) PMO
4 31 (1.94%) SLA
5 22 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.19%) NIST
7 17 (1.07%) GDPR
8 13 (0.82%) Disclosure Scotland
9 10 (0.63%) MiFID
9 10 (0.63%) SEPA
10 8 (0.50%) EMIR
11 7 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.44%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.38%) GRC
12 6 (0.38%) GxP
13 5 (0.31%) Accessibility
13 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.31%) GAAP
13 5 (0.31%) IFRS
14 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 58 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
2 3 (0.19%) Docker
2 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.19%) vSphere
3 2 (0.13%) Firmware
3 2 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.063%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.063%) Samba
4 1 (0.063%) Snort
4 1 (0.063%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.063%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.063%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (0.38%) SCCM
3 5 (0.31%) Nessus
4 4 (0.25%) Ansible
5 3 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
5 3 (0.19%) Kubernetes
5 3 (0.19%) ZABBIX
6 2 (0.13%) BladeLogic
6 2 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.13%) Nmap
6 2 (0.13%) QRadar
6 2 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.063%) CASB
7 1 (0.063%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.063%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.063%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.063%) Terraform
7 1 (0.063%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 193 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 80 (5.02%) Oracle
3 78 (4.89%) SAP
4 55 (3.45%) ServiceNow
5 28 (1.76%) Salesforce
6 23 (1.44%) Google
7 20 (1.25%) Splunk
8 17 (1.07%) Qualys
9 16 (1.00%) Adobe
10 13 (0.82%) Ariba
11 12 (0.75%) Bloomberg
11 12 (0.75%) Databricks
12 11 (0.69%) Alteryx
13 8 (0.50%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.50%) Cisco
13 8 (0.50%) IFS
14 7 (0.44%) Cadence
14 7 (0.44%) Citrix
14 7 (0.44%) NEC
14 7 (0.44%) Varonis