Software Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £363, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 347 395 491
Rank change year-on-year +48 +96 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Software Analyst 22 18 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.086% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.092% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 11
10th Percentile £270 £353 £275
25th Percentile £275 - £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +12.50% +10.34%
75th Percentile £494 £543 £500
90th Percentile £496 £559 -
UK median daily rate £425 £450 £420
% change year-on-year -5.56% +7.14% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 3
10th Percentile - £20.49 -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - £20.58 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +17.60% -
75th Percentile - £31.69 £20.63
90th Percentile - £65.00 £21.75
UK median hourly rate £147.50 £20.58 £17.50
% change year-on-year +616.72% +17.60% -31.37%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 15,430 19,609 28,575
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 93.93% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 13,032 20,128
10th Percentile £220 £213 £215
25th Percentile £375 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 1,268 1,341
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.25 £12.48
25th Percentile £19.41 £18.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.73% +89.36% +31.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £45.00 £27.73
% change year-on-year -15.56% +62.28% +38.65%

Software Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Analyst in the UK excluding London

Software Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Analyst in the UK excluding London

Software Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Analyst in the UK excluding London

Software Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Analyst in the UK excluding London

Software 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 Software Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 +54 15 £325 -40.37% 3
North of England +27 4 £562 - 7
North West +23 4 £562 - 2
Wales - 2 £375 -
West Midlands +1 1 £363 -1.69% 2
Midlands -1 1 £363 -19.44% 6
Software Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Software 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 Software Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (50.00%) Software Licensing
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
3 5 (22.73%) Software Asset Management
3 5 (22.73%) Software License Management
3 5 (22.73%) Virtual Team
3 5 (22.73%) Snow
3 5 (22.73%) Asset Management
3 5 (22.73%) Data Analysis
3 5 (22.73%) Process Improvement
3 5 (22.73%) ServiceNow
4 4 (18.18%) Agile
4 4 (18.18%) SQL
4 4 (18.18%) Windows
5 3 (13.64%) Linux
5 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
5 3 (13.64%) User Stories
5 3 (13.64%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
5 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
5 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
6 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (9.09%) npm
6 2 (9.09%) React
6 2 (9.09%) GCP
6 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (9.09%) Playwright
6 2 (9.09%) Git

Software 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 1 (4.55%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.09%) Azure
1 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (9.09%) GCP
1 2 (9.09%) npm
2 1 (4.55%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) MySQL
1 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.09%) Relational Database
1 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (9.09%) Maven
3 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
3 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) TestCafe
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Playwright
1 2 (9.09%) React
2 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Software Licensing
2 5 (22.73%) Asset Management
2 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
2 5 (22.73%) Data Analysis
2 5 (22.73%) Process Improvement
2 5 (22.73%) Software Asset Management
2 5 (22.73%) Software License Management
3 4 (18.18%) Agile
4 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
4 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
4 3 (13.64%) Test Automation
4 3 (13.64%) User Stories
5 2 (9.09%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Functional Testing
5 2 (9.09%) Software Testing
6 1 (4.55%) Customer Service
6 1 (4.55%) Order Management
6 1 (4.55%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (4.55%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) Perl
4 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) ServiceNow
1 5 (22.73%) Snow
2 2 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle