Analyst Contracts in the Thames Valley

Analyst
South East > Thames Valley

The median Analyst daily rate in the Thames Valley is £445 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 300 394 528
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.36% 13.76% 14.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.26% 14.57% 15.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 269 342
10th Percentile £165 £224 £157
25th Percentile £283 £334 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £450 £410
Median % change year-on-year -1.11% +9.76% +2.50%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £475
90th Percentile £575 £616 £530
South East median daily rate £450 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +5.88% - +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 46
10th Percentile £17.51 £16.25 -
25th Percentile £17.64 £20.50 £10.77
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.16 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.43% +116.62% -
75th Percentile £22.52 £51.15 £17.50
90th Percentile £42.99 £79.19 £22.50
South East median hourly rate £19.38 £21.58 £15.63
% change year-on-year -10.22% +38.11% +11.61%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,447 2,705 3,444
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.45% 96.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,370 1,838 2,370
10th Percentile £213 £300 £205
25th Percentile £375 £403 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 82 100
10th Percentile £15.85 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.16 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.95 £49.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +182.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £87.46 £78.97 £57.86
South East median hourly rate £48.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% +150.00% -20.00%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the Thames Valley

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the Thames Valley

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the Thames Valley

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the Thames Valley

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the Thames Valley

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire -10 185 £488 -2.50% 39
Buckinghamshire +5 90 £400 - 27
Oxfordshire +2 25 £401 +16.30% 20
Analyst
South East

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 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 Thames Valley region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 84 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 82 (27.33%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (26.00%) Finance
4 71 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
5 51 (17.00%) Security Cleared
6 47 (15.67%) Agile
7 43 (14.33%) Microsoft
8 42 (14.00%) Telecoms
8 42 (14.00%) Tableau
9 40 (13.33%) Analytics
10 38 (12.67%) Business Intelligence
10 38 (12.67%) Power Platform
11 37 (12.33%) Decision-Making
11 37 (12.33%) SQL
12 36 (12.00%) Degree
13 35 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
13 35 (11.67%) Power BI
14 34 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (11.00%) Azure
16 32 (10.67%) SC Cleared
17 29 (9.67%) Business Analysis
18 27 (9.00%) ITIL
18 27 (9.00%) Actionable Insight
19 26 (8.67%) Project Management
20 24 (8.00%) Legal
20 24 (8.00%) Alteryx
21 23 (7.67%) Snowflake
21 23 (7.67%) DevOps
21 23 (7.67%) Data Analysis
21 23 (7.67%) Python

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 11 (3.67%) Confluence
2 9 (3.00%) SAS
3 3 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.00%) Appian
3 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 35 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.33%) SPSS
4 6 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.00%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (4.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 7 (2.33%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.00%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.67%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.33%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.33%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.33%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.33%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 38 (12.67%) Power Platform
2 33 (11.00%) Azure
3 23 (7.67%) Snowflake
4 19 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (3.67%) AWS
6 9 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.00%) Power Automate
8 3 (1.00%) PowerApps
9 2 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (0.67%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.67%) PaaS
9 2 (0.67%) SaaS
9 2 (0.67%) Veeva
10 1 (0.33%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.33%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.33%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.33%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.00%) Network Security
2 8 (2.67%) Firewall
3 6 (2.00%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
4 4 (1.33%) VPN
5 3 (1.00%) Radio Access Network
5 3 (1.00%) SAN
5 3 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.67%) Wireless
7 1 (0.33%) DHCP
7 1 (0.33%) DNS
7 1 (0.33%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.33%) VLAN
7 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (14.00%) Tableau
2 35 (11.67%) Power BI
3 8 (2.67%) Big Data
4 7 (2.33%) Qlik Sense
5 6 (2.00%) PowerPivot
6 5 (1.67%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.33%) Data Mining
7 4 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.33%) Power Query
8 2 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.67%) GIS
8 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.33%) Looker
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 21 (7.00%) JIRA
2 4 (1.33%) Selenium
3 3 (1.00%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.00%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.33%) JMeter
5 1 (0.33%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.33%) Maven
5 1 (0.33%) MSI
5 1 (0.33%) Postman
5 1 (0.33%) SoapUI
General
1 84 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 82 (27.33%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (26.00%) Finance
4 42 (14.00%) Telecoms
5 24 (8.00%) Legal
6 19 (6.33%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (5.33%) Public Sector
7 16 (5.33%) Retail
8 14 (4.67%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (4.00%) Automotive
10 11 (3.67%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (2.67%) Marketing
12 6 (2.00%) Banking
13 4 (1.33%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (1.33%) German Language
13 4 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.00%) Billing
14 3 (1.00%) Local Government
15 2 (0.67%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.33%) D3.js
2 2 (0.67%) ADO
2 2 (0.67%) HTML
3 1 (0.33%) Gherkin
3 1 (0.33%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.33%) PySpark
3 1 (0.33%) SOAP
3 1 (0.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (7.00%) Credit Risk
2 14 (4.67%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.67%) Mainframe
5 5 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.33%) Client/Server
6 4 (1.33%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.33%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.00%) IoT
8 2 (0.67%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.67%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.67%) Life Science
8 2 (0.67%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.67%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.33%) Biopharmaceutical
9 1 (0.33%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.67%) Windows
2 13 (4.33%) Linux
3 5 (1.67%) Debian
3 5 (1.67%) Ubuntu
4 4 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.33%) Windows 7
4 4 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.67%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.67%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (23.67%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (15.67%) Agile
3 40 (13.33%) Analytics
4 38 (12.67%) Business Intelligence
5 37 (12.33%) Decision-Making
6 34 (11.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 29 (9.67%) Business Analysis
8 27 (9.00%) Actionable Insight
8 27 (9.00%) ITIL
9 26 (8.67%) Project Management
10 23 (7.67%) Data Analysis
10 23 (7.67%) DevOps
11 22 (7.33%) Customer Service
11 22 (7.33%) Dashboard Development
12 20 (6.67%) Change Management
12 20 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
12 20 (6.67%) User Stories
13 17 (5.67%) Procure-to-Pay
13 17 (5.67%) Roadmaps
13 17 (5.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 37 (12.33%) SQL
2 23 (7.67%) Python
3 8 (2.67%) R
4 4 (1.33%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.33%) VBA
4 4 (1.33%) VBScript
5 3 (1.00%) Java
6 1 (0.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.33%) JCL
6 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 36 (12.00%) Degree
3 32 (10.67%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.00%) ICAEW
6 6 (2.00%) CCNP
6 6 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (1.67%) ACCA
7 5 (1.67%) CIMA
7 5 (1.67%) CISM
8 3 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.00%) ISEB
9 2 (0.67%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.67%) NVQ Level 3
9 2 (0.67%) PMP
10 1 (0.33%) APMP
10 1 (0.33%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.33%) Data Quality
1 13 (4.33%) PMO
1 13 (4.33%) QA
2 10 (3.33%) IFRS
3 9 (3.00%) GAAP
4 8 (2.67%) GDPR
4 8 (2.67%) SLA
5 2 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.67%) ITGC
5 2 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.33%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 6 (2.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.00%) Firmware
3 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.33%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.33%) XenApp
4 1 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (2.00%) Nessus
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.67%) SCCM
3 1 (0.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 43 (14.33%) Microsoft
2 24 (8.00%) Alteryx
3 19 (6.33%) Oracle
4 18 (6.00%) Salesforce
5 13 (4.33%) ServiceNow
6 11 (3.67%) SAP
7 9 (3.00%) VMware
8 7 (2.33%) Cisco
9 6 (2.00%) Juniper
9 6 (2.00%) Palo Alto
9 6 (2.00%) ScienceLogic
9 6 (2.00%) Splunk
10 5 (1.67%) Adobe
10 5 (1.67%) Apple
10 5 (1.67%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.33%) Databricks
12 3 (1.00%) Concur
12 3 (1.00%) Workday
13 2 (0.67%) Ceridian
13 2 (0.67%) IFS