Analyst Contracts with Work from Home Options

Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Analyst daily rate in Work from Home is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 1,615 2,880 5,269
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.97% 11.62% 11.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.73% 12.20% 12.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,124 2,078 3,837
10th Percentile £275 £250 £252
25th Percentile £380 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £538
90th Percentile £684 £663 £619
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 70 107
10th Percentile £12.90 £12.66 £11.21
25th Percentile £14.71 £16.24 £12.44
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.75 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.92% +6.76% +15.63%
75th Percentile £26.75 £26.73 £23.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £41.68 £33.75
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £18.23 £15.74
% change year-on-year -10.56% +15.79% -3.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,766 23,608 42,537
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,304 16,691 30,789
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 541 595
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.71 £19.45
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.19 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Analyst trend for jobs with a WFH option

Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Analyst.

Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Analyst over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Analyst.

Analyst hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Analyst over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Analyst hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 20 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 489 (30.28%) Finance
2 437 (27.06%) Social Skills
3 328 (20.31%) Agile
4 271 (16.78%) SQL
5 258 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
6 216 (13.37%) Banking
7 205 (12.69%) Business Analysis
8 198 (12.26%) Microsoft
9 194 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
10 179 (11.08%) Business Intelligence
11 172 (10.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 170 (10.53%) Power Platform
13 166 (10.28%) User Stories
14 164 (10.15%) Power BI
15 151 (9.35%) Data Analysis
16 150 (9.29%) Public Sector
17 147 (9.10%) Degree
18 139 (8.61%) Analytics
19 136 (8.42%) Requirements Gathering
20 132 (8.17%) Azure
21 129 (7.99%) Security Cleared
22 127 (7.86%) Python
23 125 (7.74%) Migration
24 121 (7.49%) JIRA
25 120 (7.43%) Microsoft Excel
26 105 (6.50%) User Acceptance Testing
27 102 (6.32%) Change Management
28 100 (6.19%) QA
29 99 (6.13%) Project Management
30 98 (6.07%) SC Cleared

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 53 (3.28%) Confluence
2 34 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.43%) SAS
5 6 (0.37%) Apache
5 6 (0.37%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 4 (0.25%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.25%) MTS
7 3 (0.19%) Appian
7 3 (0.19%) OpenEdge
7 3 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.12%) CMS
8 2 (0.12%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.062%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.062%) IIS
9 1 (0.062%) JBoss
9 1 (0.062%) LiveLink
9 1 (0.062%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.062%) WebSphere
Applications
1 120 (7.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (3.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (2.85%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.19%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.19%) Trello
8 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.062%) InVision
9 1 (0.062%) Sketch
9 1 (0.062%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 18 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.87%) Endur
3 12 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
3 12 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 11 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (0.37%) Aligne
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
7 5 (0.31%) NEC Housing
8 4 (0.25%) Academy Housing
8 4 (0.25%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 4 (0.25%) EuroRunner
8 4 (0.25%) Maximo
8 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Cash Management
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
8 4 (0.25%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 170 (10.53%) Power Platform
2 132 (8.17%) Azure
3 64 (3.96%) AWS
4 62 (3.84%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (1.67%) SaaS
7 22 (1.36%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (1.11%) GCP
9 16 (0.99%) Google Analytics
10 15 (0.93%) Entra ID
11 14 (0.87%) OCI
11 14 (0.87%) Power Automate
12 13 (0.80%) PowerApps
13 12 (0.74%) OneDrive
14 10 (0.62%) Adobe Analytics
15 8 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (0.43%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (0.43%) PaaS
16 7 (0.43%) Snowflake
16 7 (0.43%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 18 (1.11%) Firewall
2 13 (0.80%) VPN
3 12 (0.74%) Internet
4 10 (0.62%) DNS
4 10 (0.62%) Network Security
5 8 (0.50%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.43%) DHCP
7 6 (0.37%) VLAN
8 5 (0.31%) FIX Connectivity
8 5 (0.31%) SD-WAN
9 4 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
10 3 (0.19%) Intranet
11 2 (0.12%) HTTP
11 2 (0.12%) NAS
11 2 (0.12%) PuTTY
11 2 (0.12%) VoIP
11 2 (0.12%) WAN
11 2 (0.12%) WinSCP
11 2 (0.12%) Wireshark
12 1 (0.062%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 164 (10.15%) Power BI
2 48 (2.97%) Tableau
3 37 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
4 29 (1.80%) SQL Server
5 18 (1.11%) BigQuery
6 16 (0.99%) Relational Database
7 14 (0.87%) Big Data
7 14 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (0.56%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.56%) Looker
10 9 (0.56%) NoSQL
11 8 (0.50%) GIS
11 8 (0.50%) Metadata
11 8 (0.50%) SAP HANA
12 7 (0.43%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.37%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 121 (7.49%) JIRA
2 19 (1.18%) Postman
3 16 (0.99%) Selenium
4 12 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.56%) Eclipse
5 9 (0.56%) Git
5 9 (0.56%) TestRail
6 6 (0.37%) JMeter
6 6 (0.37%) SoapUI
6 6 (0.37%) WebDriver
7 5 (0.31%) SpecFlow
7 5 (0.31%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.31%) Zephyr
8 4 (0.25%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.25%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.25%) Subversion
8 4 (0.25%) TestComplete
8 4 (0.25%) Toad
9 3 (0.19%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Forms
General
1 489 (30.28%) Finance
2 437 (27.06%) Social Skills
3 258 (15.98%) Analytical Skills
4 216 (13.37%) Banking
5 150 (9.29%) Public Sector
6 62 (3.84%) Front Office
7 60 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 49 (3.03%) Back Office
8 49 (3.03%) Marketing
9 42 (2.60%) Retail
10 41 (2.54%) Telecoms
11 37 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (2.04%) Manufacturing
13 29 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
14 28 (1.73%) Legal
15 27 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
16 21 (1.30%) Investment Banking
17 20 (1.24%) Local Government
18 17 (1.05%) Billing
19 14 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.24%) .NET
1 20 (1.24%) XML
2 14 (0.87%) Oracle Fusion
3 13 (0.80%) JSON
4 10 (0.62%) Web Services
5 9 (0.56%) HTML
6 8 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
7 7 (0.43%) Middleware
7 7 (0.43%) REST
7 7 (0.43%) Swagger
8 5 (0.31%) ADO
8 5 (0.31%) IDoc
8 5 (0.31%) OpenAPI
9 4 (0.25%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.25%) AngularJS
9 4 (0.25%) OAuth
9 4 (0.25%) PySpark
10 3 (0.19%) Django
10 3 (0.19%) SailPoint
10 3 (0.19%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 70 (4.33%) Product Ownership
2 52 (3.22%) Derivative
3 49 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 41 (2.54%) Hedge funds
5 30 (1.86%) Equities
6 27 (1.67%) Fixed Income
7 23 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 23 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (1.05%) Mobile App
8 17 (1.05%) Onboarding
8 17 (1.05%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 16 (0.99%) Reinsurance
10 15 (0.93%) Data Structures
10 15 (0.93%) NHS
11 13 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
13 11 (0.68%) Learning Management System
14 10 (0.62%) Security Posture
15 9 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (0.56%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 84 (5.20%) Windows
2 31 (1.92%) Windows 10
3 16 (0.99%) Linux
4 15 (0.93%) Unix
5 11 (0.68%) Android
6 9 (0.56%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.50%) Windows 7
8 5 (0.31%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.19%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.19%) VMS
11 1 (0.062%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.062%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (20.31%) Agile
2 205 (12.69%) Business Analysis
3 194 (12.01%) Problem-Solving
4 179 (11.08%) Business Intelligence
5 172 (10.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 166 (10.28%) User Stories
7 151 (9.35%) Data Analysis
8 139 (8.61%) Analytics
9 136 (8.42%) Requirements Gathering
10 125 (7.74%) Migration
11 105 (6.50%) User Acceptance Testing
12 102 (6.32%) Change Management
13 99 (6.13%) Project Management
14 87 (5.39%) Data Modelling
15 86 (5.33%) Visualisation
16 82 (5.08%) Customer Service
17 79 (4.89%) Service Management
18 76 (4.71%) Acceptance Criteria
18 76 (4.71%) Scrum
19 75 (4.64%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 271 (16.78%) SQL
2 127 (7.86%) Python
3 48 (2.97%) C#
4 23 (1.42%) Java
5 22 (1.36%) R
6 16 (0.99%) JavaScript
7 14 (0.87%) VBA
8 13 (0.80%) C++
9 12 (0.74%) PowerShell
10 9 (0.56%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.50%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.43%) C
12 7 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (0.43%) Perl
12 7 (0.43%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.31%) ABAP
13 5 (0.31%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.25%) VB
15 3 (0.19%) Bash
15 3 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 147 (9.10%) Degree
2 129 (7.99%) Security Cleared
3 98 (6.07%) SC Cleared
4 31 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 25 (1.55%) CISSP
6 24 (1.49%) CISM
7 19 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.11%) ISTQB
9 13 (0.80%) ISEB
10 11 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
11 10 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 9 (0.56%) CISA
13 8 (0.50%) CBAP
13 8 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (0.43%) APMP
14 7 (0.43%) CRISC
14 7 (0.43%) DBS Check
14 7 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.19%) QA
2 66 (4.09%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.41%) PMO
4 31 (1.92%) SLA
5 22 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.18%) NIST
7 17 (1.05%) GDPR
8 14 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
9 10 (0.62%) MiFID
9 10 (0.62%) SEPA
10 8 (0.50%) EMIR
11 7 (0.43%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 7 (0.43%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.37%) GRC
12 6 (0.37%) GxP
13 5 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.31%) GAAP
13 5 (0.31%) IFRS
14 3 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 59 (3.65%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
2 3 (0.19%) Docker
2 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (0.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (0.19%) vSphere
3 2 (0.12%) Firmware
3 2 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.062%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.062%) Samba
4 1 (0.062%) Snort
4 1 (0.062%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.062%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (0.31%) Ansible
2 5 (0.31%) SCCM
3 4 (0.25%) Nessus
4 3 (0.19%) HP Quality Center
4 3 (0.19%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.19%) ZABBIX
5 2 (0.12%) BladeLogic
5 2 (0.12%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.12%) ITRS Geneos
5 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.12%) Nmap
5 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.062%) CASB
6 1 (0.062%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.062%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.062%) QRadar
6 1 (0.062%) Terraform
6 1 (0.062%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 198 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 81 (5.02%) Oracle
3 80 (4.95%) SAP
4 57 (3.53%) ServiceNow
5 29 (1.80%) Salesforce
6 24 (1.49%) Google
7 21 (1.30%) Splunk
8 17 (1.05%) Adobe
8 17 (1.05%) Qualys
9 13 (0.80%) Ariba
10 12 (0.74%) Alteryx
10 12 (0.74%) Bloomberg
10 12 (0.74%) Databricks
11 8 (0.50%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.50%) Cisco
12 7 (0.43%) Cadence
12 7 (0.43%) LogRhythm
12 7 (0.43%) NEC
12 7 (0.43%) Varonis
12 7 (0.43%) Workday