Analyst Contracts in the South West

Analyst
England > South West

The median Analyst daily rate in the South West is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +4
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 323 315 377
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 10.25% 9.08% 10.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.01% 9.82% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 245 281
10th Percentile £172 £182 £163
25th Percentile £263 £375 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -
75th Percentile £576 £538 £523
90th Percentile £626 £612 £588
England median daily rate £475 £480 £463
% change year-on-year -1.04% +3.78% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 18
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.13 £12.45
25th Percentile £14.41 £13.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.61 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.32% -46.82% +40.00%
75th Percentile £40.00 £70.56 £64.79
90th Percentile - £77.53 £77.96
England median hourly rate £16.00 £19.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -15.79% +22.58% -4.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 2,934 3,207 3,469
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 92.39% 95.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,860 2,398 2,482
10th Percentile £213 £275 £225
25th Percentile £400 £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £719 £666
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 254 207
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.09 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £50.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.57 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.82% +35.94% +11.76%
75th Percentile £71.25 £72.53 £64.38
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £69.09
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.23
% change year-on-year -17.38% +93.72% +5.59%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the South West

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the South West

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the South West

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the South West

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the South West

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Wiltshire +9 168 £500 +5.26% 17
Bristol -5 61 £475 - 42
Gloucestershire +3 29 £450 -7.69% 12
Somerset +5 22 £250 -44.44% 21
Dorset +6 21 £173 -22.25% 10
Devon -4 10 £145 -53.76% 10
Cornwall +1 7 £180 -62.11% 1
Analyst
England

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 16 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 South West region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 169 (52.32%) Security Cleared
2 148 (45.82%) DV Cleared
3 98 (30.34%) Social Skills
4 92 (28.48%) Cybersecurity
5 83 (25.70%) SIEM
6 70 (21.67%) Security Operations
7 67 (20.74%) Threat Intelligence
8 65 (20.12%) Microsoft
9 57 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
10 56 (17.34%) SOAR
11 54 (16.72%) Incident Response
12 52 (16.10%) Use Case
13 50 (15.48%) ITIL
13 50 (15.48%) MITRE ATT&CK
13 50 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
13 50 (15.48%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
14 48 (14.86%) Azure
15 44 (13.62%) Management Information System
16 42 (13.00%) Finance
16 42 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 41 (12.69%) SC Cleared
18 38 (11.76%) Windows
18 38 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
19 37 (11.46%) Active Directory
20 35 (10.84%) Security Operations Centre
21 34 (10.53%) SLA
22 33 (10.22%) Public Sector
22 33 (10.22%) CSOC
23 31 (9.60%) OSINT
23 31 (9.60%) Open Source

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 22 (6.81%) SharePoint
2 19 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (4.02%) Confluence
4 10 (3.10%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.62%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 15 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.31%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (0.31%) Magento
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.31%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.86%) Azure
2 19 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (3.41%) Azure Stack
4 9 (2.79%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.17%) Entra ID
6 6 (1.86%) WhatsApp
7 3 (0.93%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.31%) AWS
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.31%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.31%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.31%) GCP
8 1 (0.31%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.31%) OCI
8 1 (0.31%) SaaS
8 1 (0.31%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.02%) Firewall
2 11 (3.41%) DHCP
2 11 (3.41%) DNS
3 10 (3.10%) BGP
4 9 (2.79%) LAN
4 9 (2.79%) WAN
5 8 (2.48%) MPLS
5 8 (2.48%) SAN
5 8 (2.48%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.55%) Wireless
7 4 (1.24%) Network Security
8 2 (0.62%) Skype
8 2 (0.62%) VPN
9 1 (0.31%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.31%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.31%) VLAN
9 1 (0.31%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.79%) Power BI
2 8 (2.48%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.93%) Data Vault
3 3 (0.93%) Metadata
4 2 (0.62%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.62%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.62%) Tableau
5 1 (0.31%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.31%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.31%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (7.74%) JIRA
2 2 (0.62%) Selenium
3 1 (0.31%) TestRail
3 1 (0.31%) Zephyr
General
1 98 (30.34%) Social Skills
2 57 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (13.00%) Finance
4 33 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 11 (3.41%) Aerospace
6 10 (3.10%) Banking
6 10 (3.10%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (3.10%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.17%) Legal
7 7 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.17%) Military
8 6 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (1.55%) Marketing
10 4 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.93%) Electronics
11 3 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.93%) Retail Banking
12 2 (0.62%) Aviation
12 2 (0.62%) Back Office
13 1 (0.31%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.55%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (13.62%) Management Information System
2 38 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
3 35 (10.84%) Security Operations Centre
4 33 (10.22%) CSOC
5 21 (6.50%) Private Cloud
6 14 (4.33%) Cyber Defence
7 11 (3.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 10 (3.10%) Data Centre
9 9 (2.79%) Operational Technology
10 8 (2.48%) Client/Server
10 8 (2.48%) Clustering
11 7 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (0.93%) CMDB
12 3 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (0.93%) iPhone
12 3 (0.93%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.93%) SCADA
12 3 (0.93%) Security Posture
13 2 (0.62%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.62%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 38 (11.76%) Windows
2 15 (4.64%) Windows 10
3 8 (2.48%) Android
3 8 (2.48%) Unix
4 6 (1.86%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 3 (0.93%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (28.48%) Cybersecurity
2 83 (25.70%) SIEM
3 70 (21.67%) Security Operations
4 67 (20.74%) Threat Intelligence
5 56 (17.34%) SOAR
6 54 (16.72%) Incident Response
7 52 (16.10%) Use Case
8 50 (15.48%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 50 (15.48%) ITIL
8 50 (15.48%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 50 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
9 42 (13.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (9.60%) Incident Management
10 31 (9.60%) Open Source
10 31 (9.60%) OSINT
11 28 (8.67%) Cyber Intelligence
12 26 (8.05%) Information Security
12 26 (8.05%) Malware Analysis
13 25 (7.74%) Analytics
14 23 (7.12%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 11 (3.41%) PowerShell
2 8 (2.48%) SQL
3 2 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
3 2 (0.62%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.31%) Python
Qualifications
1 169 (52.32%) Security Cleared
2 148 (45.82%) DV Cleared
3 41 (12.69%) SC Cleared
4 30 (9.29%) Degree
5 18 (5.57%) SANS
6 5 (1.55%) CISSP
7 3 (0.93%) CCNA
7 3 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (0.93%) OSCP
8 1 (0.31%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.31%) CEH
8 1 (0.31%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.31%) GIAC
8 1 (0.31%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.31%) MCP
8 1 (0.31%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.31%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (10.53%) SLA
2 16 (4.95%) GDPR
3 14 (4.33%) NCSC
4 13 (4.02%) NIST
5 11 (3.41%) NIST 800
6 10 (3.10%) Government Security Classifications
7 9 (2.79%) PMO
8 7 (2.17%) QA
9 3 (0.93%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.31%) SEPA
10 1 (0.31%) TARGET2
System Software
1 37 (11.46%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.48%) Virtual Servers
3 8 (2.48%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (0.31%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 14 (4.33%) SCCM
2 8 (2.48%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (2.48%) Nagios
2 8 (2.48%) NetBackup
3 7 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.24%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.93%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 65 (20.12%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.02%) Citrix
3 12 (3.72%) Atlassian
4 11 (3.41%) Splunk
5 10 (3.10%) VMware
6 8 (2.48%) Hitachi
6 8 (2.48%) NetApp
7 6 (1.86%) SAP
8 4 (1.24%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.24%) Oracle
9 3 (0.93%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.93%) Google
9 3 (0.93%) Refinitiv
9 3 (0.93%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.93%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.62%) Apple
10 2 (0.62%) Dell
11 1 (0.31%) Ceridian
11 1 (0.31%) Planview
11 1 (0.31%) Workday