Analyst Contracts in England

Analyst
UK > England

The median Analyst daily rate in England is £476 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 4,211 6,435 9,389
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 11.46% 13.14% 13.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.36% 13.89% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,818 4,592 6,643
10th Percentile £213 £220 £205
25th Percentile £363 £369 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £480 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% +3.78% +8.82%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £550
90th Percentile £683 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +6.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 263 442
10th Percentile £12.86 £13.02 £11.01
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.13 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £19.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +22.58% -4.50%
75th Percentile £21.46 £25.94 £22.00
90th Percentile £28.53 £57.50 £33.75
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £18.18 £15.50
% change year-on-year -10.35% +17.31% -6.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in England

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in England

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in England

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in England

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in England

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London -1 2,152 £525 - 850
South East -4 509 £450 +4.65% 254
North of England +1 507 £450 +1.12% 283
Midlands -1 335 £400 -5.88% 209
South West +2 329 £475 - 111
East of England +3 289 £410 +2.50% 127
North West -2 287 £450 +5.88% 151
West Midlands -2 227 £425 - 126
Yorkshire -4 182 £450 -10.00% 106
East Midlands +5 105 £363 -9.38% 83
North East +12 37 £435 +8.75% 28
South Coast - 2 £500 -
Analyst
UK

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 10 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 job ads across the England region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 1,163 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 1,124 (26.69%) Finance
3 676 (16.05%) Agile
4 645 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
5 627 (14.89%) Microsoft
6 610 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
7 586 (13.92%) Security Cleared
8 556 (13.20%) SQL
9 441 (10.47%) Banking
10 439 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 408 (9.69%) Business Analysis
12 407 (9.67%) Windows
13 396 (9.40%) Degree
14 372 (8.83%) Business Intelligence
15 355 (8.43%) Customer Service
16 353 (8.38%) Azure
17 348 (8.26%) ITIL
18 347 (8.24%) SC Cleared
19 333 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
20 332 (7.88%) Power Platform
21 327 (7.77%) Power BI
22 326 (7.74%) Data Analysis
23 323 (7.67%) Analytics
24 305 (7.24%) Requirements Gathering
25 299 (7.10%) Microsoft Excel
26 297 (7.05%) Python
27 286 (6.79%) Public Sector
28 272 (6.46%) User Stories
29 269 (6.39%) Migration
30 263 (6.25%) Project Management

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 100 (2.37%) Confluence
1 100 (2.37%) SharePoint
2 71 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 40 (0.95%) CMS
4 30 (0.71%) SAS
5 10 (0.24%) MTS
5 10 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
5 10 (0.24%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 8 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 8 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.14%) Apache
9 4 (0.095%) Appian
10 3 (0.071%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.071%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.047%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.047%) Camunda
12 1 (0.024%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.024%) LiveLink
12 1 (0.024%) OpenStack
Applications
1 299 (7.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 238 (5.65%) Microsoft Office
3 121 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 108 (2.56%) MS Visio
5 45 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
6 23 (0.55%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.19%) SPSS
8 4 (0.095%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.071%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.047%) Trello
11 1 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.024%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 42 (1.00%) Endur
2 39 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
3 27 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 26 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 21 (0.50%) Aladdin
5 21 (0.50%) Aligne
6 18 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
7 14 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
8 12 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
9 11 (0.26%) Loan IQ
9 11 (0.26%) NEC Housing
9 11 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
10 10 (0.24%) EuroRunner
10 10 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
10 10 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
11 9 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
12 8 (0.19%) NetSuite
12 8 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
13 7 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
13 7 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 353 (8.38%) Azure
2 332 (7.88%) Power Platform
3 263 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 131 (3.11%) AWS
5 75 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
6 55 (1.31%) SaaS
7 53 (1.26%) Snowflake
8 47 (1.12%) Entra ID
9 42 (1.00%) Dynamics 365
10 37 (0.88%) Google Analytics
11 29 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 29 (0.69%) Collibra
12 28 (0.66%) Google Workspace
13 25 (0.59%) Power Automate
14 23 (0.55%) OCI
14 23 (0.55%) WhatsApp
15 22 (0.52%) GCP
16 20 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
17 17 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
17 17 (0.40%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 87 (2.07%) Firewall
2 54 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
3 37 (0.88%) DNS
4 34 (0.81%) Network Security
5 33 (0.78%) Wireless
6 32 (0.76%) VPN
7 29 (0.69%) DHCP
7 29 (0.69%) WAN
8 25 (0.59%) LAN
9 18 (0.43%) Internet
9 18 (0.43%) TCP/IP
10 12 (0.28%) Intranet
10 12 (0.28%) SAN
11 11 (0.26%) MPLS
12 10 (0.24%) BGP
12 10 (0.24%) Skype
13 7 (0.17%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (0.17%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 327 (7.77%) Power BI
2 133 (3.16%) Tableau
3 85 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
3 85 (2.02%) SQL Server
4 39 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 36 (0.85%) Metadata
6 33 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 32 (0.76%) Big Data
8 28 (0.66%) Data Mining
9 24 (0.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 23 (0.55%) Qlik Sense
11 22 (0.52%) BigQuery
11 22 (0.52%) SAP HANA
12 21 (0.50%) Oracle Database
12 21 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
13 16 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 15 (0.36%) Looker
14 15 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
15 13 (0.31%) Elasticsearch
16 12 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 201 (4.77%) JIRA
2 44 (1.04%) Selenium
3 38 (0.90%) Postman
4 32 (0.76%) Visual Studio
5 26 (0.62%) TestRail
6 19 (0.45%) WebDriver
7 17 (0.40%) Eclipse
8 14 (0.33%) Jenkins
8 14 (0.33%) SoapUI
8 14 (0.33%) SpecFlow
9 13 (0.31%) Git
10 10 (0.24%) JMeter
10 10 (0.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 8 (0.19%) Appium
11 8 (0.19%) PyCharm
11 8 (0.19%) Subversion
12 7 (0.17%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.17%) LoadRunner
12 7 (0.17%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.14%) Zephyr
General
1 1,163 (27.62%) Social Skills
2 1,124 (26.69%) Finance
3 645 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 441 (10.47%) Banking
5 286 (6.79%) Public Sector
6 158 (3.75%) Retail
7 151 (3.59%) Front Office
8 138 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 126 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
10 118 (2.80%) Legal
11 112 (2.66%) Back Office
12 111 (2.64%) Investment Banking
13 107 (2.54%) Telecoms
14 95 (2.26%) Manufacturing
15 94 (2.23%) Marketing
16 91 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
17 74 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
18 73 (1.73%) Local Government
19 52 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
20 37 (0.88%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (1.09%) XML
2 39 (0.93%) .NET
3 23 (0.55%) SailPoint
4 22 (0.52%) Middleware
4 22 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
5 20 (0.47%) JSON
6 18 (0.43%) HTML
7 16 (0.38%) FIX Protocol
8 14 (0.33%) SOAP
9 13 (0.31%) AngularJS
10 12 (0.28%) .NET Framework
11 10 (0.24%) ADO
11 10 (0.24%) IDoc
11 10 (0.24%) LDAP
12 8 (0.19%) PySpark
12 8 (0.19%) REST
12 8 (0.19%) SAP PI
12 8 (0.19%) Web Services
13 7 (0.17%) D3.js
14 6 (0.14%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 189 (4.49%) Management Information System
2 152 (3.61%) Product Ownership
3 107 (2.54%) Derivative
4 84 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
5 73 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 73 (1.73%) Hedge funds
6 71 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
7 65 (1.54%) Equities
8 60 (1.42%) Fixed Income
9 57 (1.35%) Onboarding
10 43 (1.02%) Mobile App
10 43 (1.02%) NHS
11 42 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
11 42 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
11 42 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 41 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
13 40 (0.95%) Credit Risk
14 39 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
15 38 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 35 (0.83%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 407 (9.67%) Windows
2 145 (3.44%) Windows 10
3 114 (2.71%) Linux
4 55 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.04%) Unix
6 38 (0.90%) Android
7 28 (0.66%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.45%) Windows 7
10 13 (0.31%) Mac OS X
11 10 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (0.12%) Debian
14 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
15 4 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
16 3 (0.071%) VMS
17 2 (0.047%) Windows Server 2008
18 1 (0.024%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 676 (16.05%) Agile
2 610 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
3 439 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 408 (9.69%) Business Analysis
5 372 (8.83%) Business Intelligence
6 355 (8.43%) Customer Service
7 348 (8.26%) ITIL
8 333 (7.91%) Cybersecurity
9 326 (7.74%) Data Analysis
10 323 (7.67%) Analytics
11 305 (7.24%) Requirements Gathering
12 272 (6.46%) User Stories
13 269 (6.39%) Migration
14 263 (6.25%) Project Management
15 229 (5.44%) Change Management
16 221 (5.25%) User Acceptance Testing
17 209 (4.96%) Data Modelling
18 206 (4.89%) Incident Management
19 196 (4.65%) Decision-Making
20 186 (4.42%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 556 (13.20%) SQL
2 297 (7.05%) Python
3 96 (2.28%) C#
4 75 (1.78%) PowerShell
5 62 (1.47%) Java
6 39 (0.93%) R
7 29 (0.69%) C++
7 29 (0.69%) VBA
8 27 (0.64%) JavaScript
9 19 (0.45%) PL/SQL
9 19 (0.45%) T-SQL
10 18 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 17 (0.40%) Shell Script
12 13 (0.31%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.24%) C
13 10 (0.24%) VBScript
14 9 (0.21%) ABAP
15 8 (0.19%) Bash
15 8 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 586 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 396 (9.40%) Degree
3 347 (8.24%) SC Cleared
4 239 (5.68%) DV Cleared
5 66 (1.57%) CISSP
6 58 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 48 (1.14%) A+ Certification
8 46 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 44 (1.04%) CISM
10 43 (1.02%) MCSA
11 42 (1.00%) ISTQB
12 38 (0.90%) MCP
13 33 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
13 33 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
14 25 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 23 (0.55%) ACCA
15 23 (0.55%) CIMA
16 22 (0.52%) ITIL Certification
17 21 (0.50%) CBAP
17 21 (0.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (4.37%) Data Quality
2 173 (4.11%) QA
3 131 (3.11%) PMO
3 131 (3.11%) SLA
4 93 (2.21%) GDPR
5 81 (1.92%) NIST
6 62 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (0.59%) NIST 800
7 25 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 20 (0.47%) EMIR
8 20 (0.47%) GxP
8 20 (0.47%) NCSC
9 19 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
9 19 (0.45%) MiFID
10 18 (0.43%) GRC
11 17 (0.40%) SEPA
12 16 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
13 15 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
13 15 (0.36%) GAAP
13 15 (0.36%) IFRS
System Software
1 259 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 34 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.26%) Firmware
5 11 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
7 5 (0.12%) Docker
8 4 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.095%) vSphere
9 3 (0.071%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.047%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.047%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.024%) Snort
11 1 (0.024%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.024%) XenApp
11 1 (0.024%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 41 (0.97%) SCCM
2 33 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (0.36%) ITRS Geneos
4 13 (0.31%) Ansible
5 12 (0.28%) Nessus
6 11 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
7 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
7 10 (0.24%) Nagios
8 8 (0.19%) Grafana
8 8 (0.19%) NetBackup
9 7 (0.17%) BladeLogic
9 7 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.14%) Control-M
10 6 (0.14%) Kibana
10 6 (0.14%) logstash
10 6 (0.14%) QRadar
10 6 (0.14%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.12%) IBM BigFix
11 5 (0.12%) Kubernetes
11 5 (0.12%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 627 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 226 (5.37%) SAP
3 193 (4.58%) ServiceNow
4 186 (4.42%) Oracle
5 109 (2.59%) Citrix
6 78 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 65 (1.54%) Google
8 60 (1.42%) Splunk
9 53 (1.26%) Alteryx
10 51 (1.21%) Bloomberg
11 44 (1.04%) VMware
12 30 (0.71%) Cisco
13 29 (0.69%) Databricks
14 27 (0.64%) Apple
15 25 (0.59%) Adobe
15 25 (0.59%) LogRhythm
16 24 (0.57%) Ariba
16 24 (0.57%) Sun
17 23 (0.55%) Darktrace
18 22 (0.52%) Refinitiv