Functional Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Functional Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Functional Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 379 418 505
Rank change year-on-year +39 +87 -76
Contract jobs requiring a Functional Analyst 20 20 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.096% 0.088% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.093% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 7
10th Percentile £415 £345 £449
25th Percentile £459 £400 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +22.35%
75th Percentile £603 £550 £553
90th Percentile £638 £583 £585
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £498
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.53% +2.37%

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 19,202 21,479 29,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.24% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,609 14,946 20,475
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,077 1,407
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.02
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.06
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Functional Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Functional Analyst in the UK excluding London

Functional Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Functional Analyst in the UK excluding London

Functional Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Functional Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Functional Analyst in the UK excluding London

Functional Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Functional Analyst in the UK excluding London

Functional 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 Functional Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Scotland +41 6 £500 +17.65%
Northern Ireland - 5 - -
North of England +24 4 £460 -8.00%
South East +7 4 £625 +16.28%
North West +20 2 £500 -9.09%
North East +11 2 £408 +1.88%
South West +9 1 £450 -14.29% 2
Functional Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Functional 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 Functional Analyst in the job title.

1 8 (40.00%) Migration
2 7 (35.00%) SAP
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 4 (20.00%) Product Backlog
5 4 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
5 4 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
5 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) ISTQB
5 4 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 4 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (20.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) C#
5 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 4 (20.00%) ETL
5 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (20.00%) Oracle
6 3 (15.00%) Validation
6 3 (15.00%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (15.00%) Backlog Management
6 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (15.00%) Functional Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Kanban
7 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
7 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement

Functional 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (5.00%) SAP PP
2 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (10.00%) IaaS
2 2 (10.00%) PaaS
2 2 (10.00%) SaaS
3 1 (5.00%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (5.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Selenium
2 2 (10.00%) Subversion
2 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) EDI
2 1 (5.00%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Migration
2 6 (30.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (20.00%) ETL
3 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (20.00%) Product Backlog
3 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
3 4 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
3 4 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (15.00%) Backlog Management
4 3 (15.00%) Functional Testing
4 3 (15.00%) Kanban
4 3 (15.00%) Validation
5 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (10.00%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (10.00%) C++
2 2 (10.00%) Java
2 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) VBA
2 2 (10.00%) VBScript
3 1 (5.00%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (10.00%) ISEB
2 2 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) SAP
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow