Analyst Contracts in the North of England

Analyst
England > North of England

The median Analyst daily rate in the North of England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 7 7
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 507 783 1,018
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 10.53% 14.35% 14.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.34% 15.05% 14.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 332 534 682
10th Percentile £190 £200 £159
25th Percentile £313 £350 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +13.01%
75th Percentile £513 £538 £500
90th Percentile £588 £600 £543
England median daily rate £475 £488 £470
% change year-on-year -2.56% +3.72% +10.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 39 77
10th Percentile £10.95 £14.19 £11.75
25th Percentile £11.07 £16.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £19.89 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.54% +13.63% -2.23%
75th Percentile £18.75 £27.25 £21.88
90th Percentile £23.53 £30.50 £27.25
England median hourly rate £16.30 £19.00 £15.74
% change year-on-year -14.21% +20.71% -3.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,470 5,202 6,914
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 95.33% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,715 3,644 5,048
10th Percentile £263 £264 £206
25th Percentile £388 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £569
90th Percentile £668 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 163 271
10th Percentile £11.11 £14.05 £11.30
25th Percentile £13.02 £17.60 £14.57
Median hourly rate £23.48 £27.20 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.69% +36.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £48.00 £43.75 £34.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £58.90 £63.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
North West -3 294 £441 +3.65% 212
Yorkshire -3 172 £450 -10.00% 91
North East +7 40 £435 +8.75% 36
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 North of England region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 176 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 90 (17.75%) Microsoft
3 81 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
4 79 (15.58%) Windows
5 78 (15.38%) Agile
6 75 (14.79%) Customer Service
7 67 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 65 (12.82%) Finance
9 63 (12.43%) SQL
10 62 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
10 62 (12.23%) Requirements Gathering
11 59 (11.64%) Public Sector
12 57 (11.24%) Business Analysis
13 56 (11.05%) Active Directory
14 52 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
15 51 (10.06%) Degree
15 51 (10.06%) Microsoft Office
16 50 (9.86%) Power Platform
16 50 (9.86%) Power BI
17 48 (9.47%) Data Analysis
18 47 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
19 45 (8.88%) Windows 10
20 43 (8.48%) Microsoft Excel
21 41 (8.09%) Migration
21 41 (8.09%) Security Cleared
22 37 (7.30%) Project Management
23 34 (6.71%) Workshop Facilitation
24 33 (6.51%) ITIL
24 33 (6.51%) SAP
25 32 (6.31%) SC Cleared

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 21 (4.14%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.97%) Confluence
2 10 (1.97%) SAS
3 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.39%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.20%) LiveLink
5 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 51 (10.06%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (8.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (2.17%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (1.18%) SAP PM
3 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP PP
4 1 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 52 (10.26%) Microsoft 365
2 50 (9.86%) Power Platform
3 31 (6.11%) Azure
4 10 (1.97%) Snowflake
5 9 (1.78%) Google Analytics
6 8 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
6 8 (1.58%) Entra ID
6 8 (1.58%) SaaS
7 7 (1.38%) AWS
7 7 (1.38%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (1.38%) Collibra
7 7 (1.38%) GCP
8 6 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (1.18%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.79%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (0.79%) IaaS
10 2 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.39%) BrowserStack
10 2 (0.39%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.20%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.18%) WAN
2 5 (0.99%) DHCP
2 5 (0.99%) DNS
3 3 (0.59%) Intranet
3 3 (0.59%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.39%) Network Security
4 2 (0.39%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.20%) Broadband
5 1 (0.20%) Internet
5 1 (0.20%) LAN
5 1 (0.20%) PSTN
5 1 (0.20%) Skype
5 1 (0.20%) VPN
5 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (9.86%) Power BI
2 21 (4.14%) Tableau
3 13 (2.56%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.58%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.38%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.38%) Qlik Sense
7 6 (1.18%) Ataccama
8 5 (0.99%) Data Mining
8 5 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.59%) Data Vault
9 3 (0.59%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.59%) GIS
9 3 (0.59%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.39%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.39%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (4.73%) JIRA
2 7 (1.38%) Selenium
3 6 (1.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.79%) Postman
5 2 (0.39%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.39%) PyCharm
5 2 (0.39%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.39%) WebDriver
5 2 (0.39%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.20%) Git
6 1 (0.20%) JMeter
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
General
1 176 (34.71%) Social Skills
2 65 (12.82%) Finance
3 62 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (11.64%) Public Sector
5 28 (5.52%) Banking
5 28 (5.52%) Pharmaceutical
6 19 (3.75%) Retail
7 18 (3.55%) Manufacturing
8 12 (2.37%) Legal
9 10 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.78%) Marketing
10 9 (1.78%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.99%) Law
13 4 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.59%) Billing
14 3 (0.59%) Local Government
15 2 (0.39%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.58%) SailPoint
2 4 (0.79%) .NET
3 3 (0.59%) JSON
3 3 (0.59%) JSON Schema
4 2 (0.39%) CSS
4 2 (0.39%) HTML
4 2 (0.39%) Middleware
4 2 (0.39%) XML
5 1 (0.20%) EDI
5 1 (0.20%) jQuery
5 1 (0.20%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.20%) OAuth
5 1 (0.20%) OpenID
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.20%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (0.20%) SOAP
5 1 (0.20%) Visualforce
5 1 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (2.56%) Product Ownership
2 12 (2.37%) NHS
3 11 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (1.97%) Management Information System
5 9 (1.78%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.38%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.18%) Driving Licence
8 5 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (0.99%) Industry 4.0
8 5 (0.99%) IoT
8 5 (0.99%) Robotics
8 5 (0.99%) Virtual Team
9 4 (0.79%) CMDB
9 4 (0.79%) EPoS
10 3 (0.59%) Cloud Native
10 3 (0.59%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.39%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 2 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.39%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 79 (15.58%) Windows
2 45 (8.88%) Windows 10
3 9 (1.78%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.99%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.59%) Linux
6 2 (0.39%) Android
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (15.38%) Agile
3 75 (14.79%) Customer Service
4 67 (13.21%) Stakeholder Management
5 62 (12.23%) Requirements Gathering
6 57 (11.24%) Business Analysis
7 48 (9.47%) Data Analysis
8 47 (9.27%) Business Intelligence
9 41 (8.09%) Migration
10 37 (7.30%) Project Management
11 34 (6.71%) Workshop Facilitation
12 33 (6.51%) ITIL
13 32 (6.31%) Waterfall
14 31 (6.11%) Visualisation
15 30 (5.92%) Cybersecurity
15 30 (5.92%) User Stories
16 29 (5.72%) Data Protection
16 29 (5.72%) Decision-Making
17 23 (4.54%) Data Visualisation
17 23 (4.54%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 63 (12.43%) SQL
2 30 (5.92%) Python
3 7 (1.38%) C#
4 5 (0.99%) Java
4 5 (0.99%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.79%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.79%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.39%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.20%) ABAP
7 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.20%) Bash
7 1 (0.20%) Groovy
7 1 (0.20%) R
7 1 (0.20%) SOQL
7 1 (0.20%) Tcl
7 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (10.06%) Degree
2 41 (8.09%) Security Cleared
3 32 (6.31%) SC Cleared
4 10 (1.97%) CISSP
5 8 (1.58%) CISM
6 6 (1.18%) CBAP
6 6 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (0.99%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 5 (0.99%) IIBA
7 5 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.79%) CISA
8 4 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.59%) CCNA
9 3 (0.59%) HNC
9 3 (0.59%) ISSAP
9 3 (0.59%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.59%) MCP
9 3 (0.59%) Numerate Degree
10 2 (0.39%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.92%) QA
2 24 (4.73%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.75%) SLA
4 18 (3.55%) GDPR
5 16 (3.16%) Disclosure Scotland
6 14 (2.76%) NIST
7 13 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 10 (1.97%) PMO
9 6 (1.18%) Good Clinical Practice
9 6 (1.18%) GxP
9 6 (1.18%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.99%) GRC
11 4 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.59%) COBIT
12 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.59%) IASME
12 3 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
13 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
13 2 (0.39%) NIST 800
System Software
1 56 (11.05%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.39%) Firmware
4 2 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.99%) SCCM
2 5 (0.99%) ZABBIX
3 3 (0.59%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 2 (0.39%) Nagios
5 1 (0.20%) Grafana
5 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 90 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.51%) SAP
3 27 (5.33%) ServiceNow
4 10 (1.97%) Google
4 10 (1.97%) VMware
5 9 (1.78%) Salesforce
6 8 (1.58%) CyberArk
7 7 (1.38%) Citrix
8 6 (1.18%) Alteryx
8 6 (1.18%) Ariba
8 6 (1.18%) Dataiku
8 6 (1.18%) Trillium
9 4 (0.79%) Oracle
9 4 (0.79%) Splunk
10 3 (0.59%) Apple
10 3 (0.59%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.59%) Brio
10 3 (0.59%) F5
10 3 (0.59%) HP
10 3 (0.59%) Kofax