Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 8 5
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 2,335 3,233 4,544
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.40% 13.84% 14.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.32% 14.67% 15.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,454 2,221 3,128
10th Percentile £173 £164 £154
25th Percentile £300 £303 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £407
Median % change year-on-year - +4.42% +8.53%
75th Percentile £523 £525 £488
90th Percentile £588 £588 £538
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 300 243 390
10th Percentile £12.53 £12.50 £11.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.92
Median hourly rate £15.79 £17.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +9.68% -
75th Percentile £21.37 £22.08 £20.25
90th Percentile £23.88 £32.46 £31.85
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £18.23 £15.50
% change year-on-year -10.56% +17.58% -5.34%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East -4 509 £450 +4.65% 272
North of England +1 508 £450 +1.40% 291
Scotland +1 341 £416 -1.95% 61
Midlands -1 335 £400 -5.88% 213
South West +1 329 £475 - 116
East of England +3 289 £410 +2.50% 125
North West -2 287 £450 +5.88% 156
West Midlands -2 227 £425 - 127
Yorkshire -4 183 £450 -10.00% 110
East Midlands +5 105 £363 -9.38% 86
North East +12 37 £435 +8.75% 27
Wales -9 26 £388 -1.90% 32
Northern Ireland -6 18 £336 -15.94% 15
South Coast - 2 £500 -
Analyst
UK

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 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 UK excluding London region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 692 (29.64%) Social Skills
2 459 (19.66%) Security Cleared
3 445 (19.06%) Microsoft
4 414 (17.73%) Finance
5 392 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
6 378 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
7 331 (14.18%) Agile
8 306 (13.10%) Customer Service
9 260 (11.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 259 (11.09%) ITIL
11 257 (11.01%) Windows
12 244 (10.45%) SC Cleared
13 243 (10.41%) Cybersecurity
13 243 (10.41%) Public Sector
14 223 (9.55%) Degree
15 218 (9.34%) DV Cleared
16 217 (9.29%) Business Analysis
17 216 (9.25%) Microsoft Excel
18 207 (8.87%) Business Intelligence
19 200 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
20 199 (8.52%) SQL
21 190 (8.14%) Active Directory
22 186 (7.97%) Power Platform
22 186 (7.97%) Power BI
23 178 (7.62%) Azure
24 175 (7.49%) Incident Management
25 164 (7.02%) Analytics
26 163 (6.98%) Requirements Gathering
27 158 (6.77%) Project Management
28 149 (6.38%) Data Analysis

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 78 (3.34%) SharePoint
2 61 (2.61%) Confluence
2 61 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 22 (0.94%) SAS
4 17 (0.73%) CMS
5 10 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (0.26%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.17%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.17%) Appian
8 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.13%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.086%) Apache
10 2 (0.086%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.043%) EPiServer
11 1 (0.043%) LiveLink
11 1 (0.043%) Moodle
11 1 (0.043%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.043%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.043%) WordPress
Applications
1 216 (9.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 138 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
3 91 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (1.63%) MS Visio
5 20 (0.86%) Spreadsheet
6 15 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.30%) SPSS
8 1 (0.043%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.043%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 26 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 18 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
5 8 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
6 7 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.30%) SAP PM
7 5 (0.21%) Maximo
7 5 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 5 (0.21%) Odoo
7 5 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
7 5 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
8 4 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
8 4 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.17%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.17%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
9 3 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 200 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
2 186 (7.97%) Power Platform
3 178 (7.62%) Azure
4 48 (2.06%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (2.06%) Snowflake
5 45 (1.93%) AWS
6 29 (1.24%) Entra ID
7 27 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (1.03%) Power Automate
8 24 (1.03%) SaaS
9 19 (0.81%) OCI
10 16 (0.69%) Yammer
11 15 (0.64%) Azure Sentinel
12 13 (0.56%) Collibra
12 13 (0.56%) PowerApps
13 12 (0.51%) Azure Stack
13 12 (0.51%) OneDrive
13 12 (0.51%) WhatsApp
14 11 (0.47%) GCP
14 11 (0.47%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 63 (2.70%) Firewall
2 51 (2.18%) Wi-Fi
3 25 (1.07%) Network Security
4 23 (0.99%) DNS
4 23 (0.99%) WAN
5 22 (0.94%) LAN
6 20 (0.86%) DHCP
7 18 (0.77%) VPN
8 17 (0.73%) Wireless
9 13 (0.56%) SAN
10 11 (0.47%) TCP/IP
11 10 (0.43%) BGP
12 8 (0.34%) Internet
12 8 (0.34%) MPLS
13 7 (0.30%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (0.30%) Cisco ISE
13 7 (0.30%) Intranet
14 6 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (0.26%) Skype
15 4 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 186 (7.97%) Power BI
2 83 (3.55%) Tableau
3 38 (1.63%) SQL Server
4 27 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (0.86%) Data Lake
6 19 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
7 18 (0.77%) Data Mining
8 15 (0.64%) Big Data
8 15 (0.64%) Qlik Sense
9 11 (0.47%) BigQuery
9 11 (0.47%) GIS
9 11 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (0.43%) Metadata
10 10 (0.43%) Power Query
11 9 (0.39%) Hadoop
11 9 (0.39%) Relational Database
11 9 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.34%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.30%) PowerPivot
13 7 (0.30%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 130 (5.57%) JIRA
2 25 (1.07%) TestRail
3 20 (0.86%) Selenium
4 11 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 9 (0.39%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.34%) Eclipse
6 8 (0.34%) Postman
7 7 (0.30%) PyCharm
8 6 (0.26%) Robot Framework
9 5 (0.21%) Git
9 5 (0.21%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.17%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.17%) Jenkins
10 4 (0.17%) JMeter
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.13%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.13%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.13%) WebDriver
12 2 (0.086%) Bitbucket
12 2 (0.086%) GoogleTest
General
1 692 (29.64%) Social Skills
2 414 (17.73%) Finance
3 378 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
4 243 (10.41%) Public Sector
5 99 (4.24%) Banking
5 99 (4.24%) Retail
6 85 (3.64%) Legal
7 78 (3.34%) Telecoms
8 77 (3.30%) Manufacturing
9 75 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
10 62 (2.66%) Pharmaceutical
11 49 (2.10%) Presentation Skills
12 41 (1.76%) Marketing
13 32 (1.37%) Local Government
14 29 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 23 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (0.90%) Automotive
17 17 (0.73%) Publishing
18 16 (0.69%) Billing
19 14 (0.60%) Aerospace
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (0.73%) SailPoint
2 16 (0.69%) .NET
3 15 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 14 (0.60%) XML
5 8 (0.34%) HTML
5 8 (0.34%) JSON
6 7 (0.30%) D3.js
6 7 (0.30%) LDAP
7 6 (0.26%) Middleware
8 5 (0.21%) SOAP
9 4 (0.17%) REST
9 4 (0.17%) Web Services
10 3 (0.13%) CSS
10 3 (0.13%) IDoc
11 2 (0.086%) ADO
11 2 (0.086%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.086%) FIX Protocol
11 2 (0.086%) PySpark
11 2 (0.086%) YAML
12 1 (0.043%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 141 (6.04%) Management Information System
2 65 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
3 63 (2.70%) Security Operations Centre
4 48 (2.06%) Product Ownership
5 34 (1.46%) CSOC
6 33 (1.41%) NHS
7 31 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
8 29 (1.24%) Operational Technology
9 28 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (1.16%) Credit Risk
10 27 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (0.99%) Data Structures
13 22 (0.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 21 (0.90%) CMDB
14 21 (0.90%) Cyberattack
14 21 (0.90%) Private Cloud
15 18 (0.77%) Data Centre
15 18 (0.77%) Driving Licence
16 16 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 257 (11.01%) Windows
2 109 (4.67%) Windows 10
3 67 (2.87%) Linux
4 25 (1.07%) Windows Server
5 24 (1.03%) Unix
6 20 (0.86%) Android
7 19 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 15 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
9 12 (0.51%) Windows 7
10 11 (0.47%) Mac OS X
11 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.21%) Debian
13 5 (0.21%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.043%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
2 331 (14.18%) Agile
3 306 (13.10%) Customer Service
4 260 (11.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 259 (11.09%) ITIL
6 243 (10.41%) Cybersecurity
7 217 (9.29%) Business Analysis
8 207 (8.87%) Business Intelligence
9 175 (7.49%) Incident Management
10 164 (7.02%) Analytics
11 163 (6.98%) Requirements Gathering
12 158 (6.77%) Project Management
13 149 (6.38%) Data Analysis
14 136 (5.82%) SIEM
15 129 (5.52%) Decision-Making
16 126 (5.40%) Security Operations
17 120 (5.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 120 (5.14%) User Stories
18 115 (4.93%) Migration
19 114 (4.88%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 199 (8.52%) SQL
2 97 (4.15%) Python
3 22 (0.94%) PowerShell
4 20 (0.86%) Java
4 20 (0.86%) R
5 17 (0.73%) JavaScript
6 13 (0.56%) C#
7 12 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (0.47%) VBA
9 9 (0.39%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.34%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.30%) VBScript
12 6 (0.26%) Groovy
12 6 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.17%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.13%) Bash
14 3 (0.13%) C
14 3 (0.13%) C++
15 2 (0.086%) ProC
15 2 (0.086%) VB
Qualifications
1 459 (19.66%) Security Cleared
2 244 (10.45%) SC Cleared
3 223 (9.55%) Degree
4 218 (9.34%) DV Cleared
5 58 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 46 (1.97%) MCP
7 44 (1.88%) A+ Certification
8 41 (1.76%) MCSA
9 40 (1.71%) ISTQB
10 30 (1.28%) CISSP
11 29 (1.24%) Cisco Certification
12 26 (1.11%) CISM
12 26 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 24 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
14 22 (0.94%) ACCA
14 22 (0.94%) CIMA
15 19 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
15 19 (0.81%) ISEB
16 18 (0.77%) SANS
17 17 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (4.11%) PMO
2 94 (4.03%) SLA
3 77 (3.30%) QA
4 76 (3.25%) Data Quality
5 68 (2.91%) GDPR
6 52 (2.23%) NIST
7 47 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (1.54%) Disclosure Scotland
9 21 (0.90%) NIST 800
10 18 (0.77%) Good Clinical Practice
10 18 (0.77%) GxP
11 15 (0.64%) NCSC
12 12 (0.51%) IFRS
13 11 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
14 10 (0.43%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.39%) GAAP
15 9 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
16 6 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 190 (8.14%) Active Directory
2 33 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.39%) Hyper-V
3 9 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
5 6 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.21%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.17%) Firmware
8 3 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.086%) Terminal Services
9 2 (0.086%) vSphere
10 1 (0.043%) Docker
10 1 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.043%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.043%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.043%) XenApp
10 1 (0.043%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (1.50%) SCCM
2 28 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (0.43%) Nagios
4 8 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (0.34%) Nessus
4 8 (0.34%) NetBackup
5 5 (0.21%) Ansible
5 5 (0.21%) IBM BigFix
5 5 (0.21%) Tivoli
6 4 (0.17%) ZABBIX
7 3 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
7 3 (0.13%) QRadar
7 3 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.13%) Terraform
7 3 (0.13%) Thomson Reuters DACS
8 2 (0.086%) Kibana
8 2 (0.086%) logstash
9 1 (0.043%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.043%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 445 (19.06%) Microsoft
2 130 (5.57%) ServiceNow
3 128 (5.48%) SAP
4 94 (4.03%) Oracle
5 80 (3.43%) Citrix
6 47 (2.01%) Splunk
7 46 (1.97%) Alteryx
8 40 (1.71%) VMware
9 34 (1.46%) Salesforce
10 26 (1.11%) LogRhythm
11 25 (1.07%) Atlassian
12 24 (1.03%) Google
13 23 (0.99%) Cisco
13 23 (0.99%) Sun
14 20 (0.86%) Darktrace
15 19 (0.81%) FireEye
16 18 (0.77%) CyberArk
17 16 (0.69%) Apple
18 14 (0.60%) Ariba
18 14 (0.60%) Qualys