IT Analyst Contracts in England

IT Analyst
UK > England

The median IT Analyst daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 294 300
Rank change year-on-year -28 +6 +36
Contract jobs requiring an IT Analyst 229 436 655
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.62% 0.87% 0.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.92% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 284 433
10th Percentile £156 £138 £135
25th Percentile £193 £184 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £350
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £500
90th Percentile £675 £579 £625
UK median daily rate £425 £275 £350
% change year-on-year +54.55% -21.43% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 37 67
10th Percentile £12.23 £13.09 £11.71
25th Percentile £18.29 £14.52 £13.63
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.63 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% +33.12% +10.57%
75th Percentile £40.00 £27.25 £19.35
90th Percentile - £32.38 £24.75
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £22.63 £17.00
% change year-on-year -4.99% +33.12% +11.48%

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 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

IT Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Analyst in England

IT Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for IT Analyst in England

IT Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Analyst in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Analyst in England

IT Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Analyst in England

IT Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Analyst in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Analyst in England

IT 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 IT Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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 +45 133 £538 +16.85% 47
South East -4 32 £446 +158.41% 26
North of England -3 28 £210 -13.85% 25
South West +14 24 £175 - 16
Yorkshire +15 17 £210 +5.00% 12
North West +3 11 £281 -19.64% 11
Midlands -2 7 £350 - 19
West Midlands 0 5 £413 - 12
East of England -7 4 £180 -11.66% 12
East Midlands +11 2 £135 +8.00% 7
IT Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, IT 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 IT Analyst in the job title.

1 84 (36.68%) Social Skills
2 76 (33.19%) Windows
3 59 (25.76%) Active Directory
4 57 (24.89%) Finance
5 48 (20.96%) Banking
6 44 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
7 43 (18.78%) Microsoft
7 43 (18.78%) ITIL
7 43 (18.78%) Microsoft 365
8 40 (17.47%) ITSM
9 39 (17.03%) Service Management
9 39 (17.03%) Change Management
10 38 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (16.16%) Windows 10
12 33 (14.41%) Degree
13 30 (13.10%) Agile
14 29 (12.66%) Customer Service
15 26 (11.35%) DevOps
15 26 (11.35%) Microsoft Office
16 24 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
17 23 (10.04%) Business Analysis
17 23 (10.04%) Azure
18 22 (9.61%) Asset Management
18 22 (9.61%) PowerShell
18 22 (9.61%) Project Management
19 18 (7.86%) DNS
20 17 (7.42%) Microsoft Exchange
20 17 (7.42%) DHCP
21 16 (6.99%) Citrix
21 16 (6.99%) Security Cleared

IT 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 17 (7.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.75%) Skype for Business
3 2 (0.87%) Confluence
4 1 (0.44%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 26 (11.35%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.31%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) Aligne
2 1 (0.44%) assyst
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.44%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 43 (18.78%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (10.04%) Azure
3 11 (4.80%) SaaS
4 9 (3.93%) AWS
5 8 (3.49%) PaaS
6 4 (1.75%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.75%) Google Workspace
7 3 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.31%) Slack
7 3 (1.31%) WhatsApp
8 2 (0.87%) Asana
8 2 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.87%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.44%) Collibra
9 1 (0.44%) IaaS
9 1 (0.44%) Miro
9 1 (0.44%) Power Platform
9 1 (0.44%) Serverless
9 1 (0.44%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.86%) DNS
2 17 (7.42%) DHCP
3 10 (4.37%) LAN
3 10 (4.37%) WAN
4 9 (3.93%) MPLS
4 9 (3.93%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (3.49%) SAN
6 4 (1.75%) Skype
6 4 (1.75%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.31%) VPN
7 3 (1.31%) Wireless
8 2 (0.87%) Firewall
8 2 (0.87%) Intranet
9 1 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.44%) Internet
9 1 (0.44%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.44%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.93%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.75%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.44%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.44%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.44%) GIS
3 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.44%) Metadata
3 1 (0.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (3.06%) JIRA
2 1 (0.44%) Appium
2 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
2 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.44%) JMeter
2 1 (0.44%) LoadRunner
2 1 (0.44%) MSI
2 1 (0.44%) Postman
2 1 (0.44%) Rational Performance Tester
2 1 (0.44%) Selenium
2 1 (0.44%) SpecFlow
2 1 (0.44%) Subversion
2 1 (0.44%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.44%) WebDriver
General
1 84 (36.68%) Social Skills
2 57 (24.89%) Finance
3 48 (20.96%) Banking
4 44 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (6.11%) Manufacturing
6 9 (3.93%) Aerospace
6 9 (3.93%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.18%) Billing
8 5 (2.18%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.18%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.75%) Law
9 4 (1.75%) Local Government
9 4 (1.75%) Marketing
9 4 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.31%) Advertising
10 3 (1.31%) Retail
11 2 (0.87%) International Banking
11 2 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.44%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.75%) Middleware
2 1 (0.44%) .NET
2 1 (0.44%) ADO
2 1 (0.44%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (0.44%) Gherkin
2 1 (0.44%) JSON
2 1 (0.44%) Playwright
2 1 (0.44%) pytest
2 1 (0.44%) RESTful
2 1 (0.44%) Web Services
2 1 (0.44%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.49%) Client/Server
1 8 (3.49%) Clustering
1 8 (3.49%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.06%) CMDB
2 7 (3.06%) iPhone
3 6 (2.62%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.62%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.18%) Cyberattack
5 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.75%) IoT
5 4 (1.75%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (1.31%) Derivative
6 3 (1.31%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.31%) iPad
6 3 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.87%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.87%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.87%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 76 (33.19%) Windows
2 37 (16.16%) Windows 10
3 14 (6.11%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.80%) Apple iOS
5 9 (3.93%) Unix
6 4 (1.75%) Android
6 4 (1.75%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.31%) Linux
8 2 (0.87%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.44%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (18.78%) ITIL
2 40 (17.47%) ITSM
3 39 (17.03%) Change Management
3 39 (17.03%) Service Management
4 38 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (13.10%) Agile
6 29 (12.66%) Customer Service
7 26 (11.35%) DevOps
8 24 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 23 (10.04%) Business Analysis
10 22 (9.61%) Asset Management
10 22 (9.61%) Project Management
11 15 (6.55%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (6.55%) Data Protection
11 15 (6.55%) Requirements Gathering
12 13 (5.68%) Business Case
12 13 (5.68%) Decision-Making
12 13 (5.68%) Migration
13 12 (5.24%) Requirements Management
14 11 (4.80%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (9.61%) PowerShell
2 13 (5.68%) Python
3 5 (2.18%) SQL
4 2 (0.87%) C#
4 2 (0.87%) Java
5 1 (0.44%) Bash
5 1 (0.44%) C++
5 1 (0.44%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 33 (14.41%) Degree
2 16 (6.99%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.93%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.49%) CISM
4 8 (3.49%) CISSP
5 7 (3.06%) CISA
6 5 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.18%) CRISC
7 3 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.87%) CCNA
8 2 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.87%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.44%) CCNP
9 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.44%) MBA
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.06%) QA
2 5 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.75%) SLA
4 3 (1.31%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.87%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) NIST
6 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.44%) GAAP
6 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.44%) PMO
System Software
1 59 (25.76%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.80%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.93%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (3.49%) VMware Workstation
5 2 (0.87%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.44%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.44%) XenApp
6 1 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 15 (6.55%) SCCM
2 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (3.93%) Nagios
3 8 (3.49%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (3.49%) NetBackup
4 5 (2.18%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.44%) Ansible
5 1 (0.44%) BladeLogic
5 1 (0.44%) CASB
5 1 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 43 (18.78%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.99%) Citrix
3 13 (5.68%) ServiceNow
4 11 (4.80%) VMware
5 9 (3.93%) Apple
5 9 (3.93%) SAP
6 8 (3.49%) Hitachi
6 8 (3.49%) NetApp
7 4 (1.75%) Google
7 4 (1.75%) SmartStream
8 3 (1.31%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.87%) Dell
9 2 (0.87%) Granicus
9 2 (0.87%) Okta
9 2 (0.87%) Oracle
9 2 (0.87%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.87%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.44%) Avaya
10 1 (0.44%) HP
10 1 (0.44%) Progress