Analyst Contracts in England

Analyst
UK > England

The median Analyst daily rate in England is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 4,206 6,145 9,476
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 11.29% 12.98% 13.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.17% 13.73% 13.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,828 4,420 6,750
10th Percentile £213 £220 £210
25th Percentile £363 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £468
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +4.22% +10.06%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 241 426
10th Percentile £12.86 £13.00 £11.36
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.00 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £19.00 £15.52
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +22.46% -4.52%
75th Percentile £21.50 £25.88 £22.36
90th Percentile £35.60 £41.50 £35.00
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £18.14 £15.53
% change year-on-year -10.14% +16.81% -5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,568 44,755 67,840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.56% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,698 31,838 48,568
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.68% +6.10%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,604 1,309 1,790
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.34 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.79
Median hourly rate £38.14 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -15.26% +88.21% +11.73%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.70%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in England

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in England

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in England

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in England

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in England

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London -1 2,116 £520 -0.95% 739
South East -3 527 £450 +5.88% 269
North of England 0 512 £450 - 348
Midlands 0 364 £400 -5.88% 179
South West +6 317 £475 - 138
North West -2 296 £439 +3.29% 220
East of England +3 283 £410 +5.81% 110
West Midlands 0 249 £423 -6.11% 100
Yorkshire -5 175 £450 -10.00% 97
East Midlands +2 111 £363 -9.38% 79
North East +6 40 £435 +8.75% 34
South Coast - 2 £500 -
Analyst
UK

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 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 England region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 1,160 (27.58%) Social Skills
2 1,100 (26.15%) Finance
3 704 (16.74%) Agile
4 654 (15.55%) Analytical Skills
5 617 (14.67%) Microsoft
6 603 (14.34%) SQL
7 592 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
8 575 (13.67%) Security Cleared
9 463 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
10 426 (10.13%) Business Analysis
11 425 (10.10%) Banking
12 405 (9.63%) Degree
13 396 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
14 394 (9.37%) Windows
15 356 (8.46%) Power Platform
16 353 (8.39%) Azure
17 349 (8.30%) Customer Service
18 347 (8.25%) SC Cleared
19 346 (8.23%) ITIL
19 346 (8.23%) Power BI
20 345 (8.20%) Analytics
21 335 (7.96%) Python
22 316 (7.51%) Data Analysis
23 314 (7.47%) Microsoft Excel
24 313 (7.44%) Cybersecurity
25 309 (7.35%) Requirements Gathering
26 302 (7.18%) Public Sector
27 290 (6.89%) Migration
28 283 (6.73%) User Stories
29 266 (6.32%) Project Management

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 110 (2.62%) Confluence
2 107 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (0.95%) SAS
5 38 (0.90%) CMS
6 10 (0.24%) Apache
6 10 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
7 9 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 8 (0.19%) ArcGIS
8 8 (0.19%) MTS
8 8 (0.19%) Skype for Business
9 7 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.095%) Appian
11 3 (0.071%) OpenEdge
12 2 (0.048%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.048%) LiveLink
12 2 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.024%) Alfresco
13 1 (0.024%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.024%) OpenStack
Applications
1 314 (7.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 215 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
3 116 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 98 (2.33%) MS Visio
5 50 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
6 18 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.26%) SPSS
8 4 (0.095%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.095%) Trello
9 3 (0.071%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.024%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.024%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 38 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (0.71%) Endur
3 26 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 24 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 20 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 19 (0.45%) Aladdin
6 19 (0.45%) Aligne
7 13 (0.31%) NEC Housing
8 12 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (0.26%) Loan IQ
10 8 (0.19%) EuroRunner
10 8 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.17%) NetSuite
11 7 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
11 7 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
11 7 (0.17%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.17%) thinkFolio
12 6 (0.14%) SAP CO
12 6 (0.14%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 356 (8.46%) Power Platform
2 353 (8.39%) Azure
3 261 (6.21%) Microsoft 365
4 129 (3.07%) AWS
5 78 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (1.47%) SaaS
7 55 (1.31%) Snowflake
8 49 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
9 47 (1.12%) Entra ID
10 40 (0.95%) Google Analytics
11 28 (0.67%) Power Automate
12 27 (0.64%) Collibra
12 27 (0.64%) Google Workspace
13 25 (0.59%) PowerApps
14 24 (0.57%) OCI
15 23 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
15 23 (0.55%) GCP
16 21 (0.50%) WhatsApp
17 19 (0.45%) OneDrive
18 17 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 87 (2.07%) Firewall
2 60 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
3 34 (0.81%) DNS
4 32 (0.76%) WAN
5 31 (0.74%) VPN
5 31 (0.74%) Wireless
6 27 (0.64%) DHCP
6 27 (0.64%) Network Security
7 26 (0.62%) LAN
8 17 (0.40%) Internet
9 16 (0.38%) TCP/IP
10 12 (0.29%) SAN
11 11 (0.26%) Intranet
11 11 (0.26%) MPLS
12 10 (0.24%) BGP
13 8 (0.19%) Skype
14 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.14%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (0.14%) FIX Connectivity
14 6 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 346 (8.23%) Power BI
2 147 (3.50%) Tableau
3 90 (2.14%) SQL Server
4 88 (2.09%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (1.05%) Relational Database
6 36 (0.86%) Data Lake
7 35 (0.83%) Big Data
7 35 (0.83%) Metadata
8 29 (0.69%) Data Mining
8 29 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 24 (0.57%) Qlik Sense
10 22 (0.52%) BigQuery
10 22 (0.52%) Oracle Database
10 22 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 21 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
12 19 (0.45%) SAP HANA
13 17 (0.40%) Looker
14 15 (0.36%) GIS
14 15 (0.36%) NoSQL
15 13 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 212 (5.04%) JIRA
2 47 (1.12%) Selenium
3 43 (1.02%) Postman
4 34 (0.81%) Visual Studio
5 22 (0.52%) TestRail
6 19 (0.45%) WebDriver
7 16 (0.38%) Git
7 16 (0.38%) SoapUI
8 15 (0.36%) Jenkins
9 13 (0.31%) Eclipse
9 13 (0.31%) SpecFlow
10 12 (0.29%) JMeter
10 12 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 8 (0.19%) Appium
11 8 (0.19%) PyCharm
11 8 (0.19%) Subversion
12 7 (0.17%) Artifactory
12 7 (0.17%) LoadRunner
12 7 (0.17%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.14%) Robot Framework
General
1 1,160 (27.58%) Social Skills
2 1,100 (26.15%) Finance
3 654 (15.55%) Analytical Skills
4 425 (10.10%) Banking
5 302 (7.18%) Public Sector
6 158 (3.76%) Retail
7 148 (3.52%) Front Office
8 142 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 121 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
10 116 (2.76%) Legal
11 115 (2.73%) Investment Banking
12 104 (2.47%) Telecoms
13 101 (2.40%) Back Office
13 101 (2.40%) Marketing
14 97 (2.31%) Manufacturing
15 80 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
16 74 (1.76%) Local Government
17 68 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
18 50 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
19 40 (0.95%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (1.05%) XML
2 39 (0.93%) .NET
3 23 (0.55%) Middleware
4 22 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
5 21 (0.50%) SailPoint
6 20 (0.48%) HTML
7 16 (0.38%) JSON
8 15 (0.36%) FIX Protocol
9 14 (0.33%) ADO
10 13 (0.31%) .NET Framework
10 13 (0.31%) AngularJS
10 13 (0.31%) SOAP
11 11 (0.26%) LDAP
12 10 (0.24%) IDoc
13 9 (0.21%) PySpark
14 8 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
15 7 (0.17%) CSS
15 7 (0.17%) D3.js
15 7 (0.17%) OAuth
15 7 (0.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 193 (4.59%) Management Information System
2 154 (3.66%) Product Ownership
3 108 (2.57%) Derivative
4 81 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
5 75 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 71 (1.69%) Hedge funds
7 69 (1.64%) Equities
7 69 (1.64%) Security Operations Centre
8 68 (1.62%) Fixed Income
9 54 (1.28%) Onboarding
10 50 (1.19%) Mobile App
11 47 (1.12%) Credit Risk
11 47 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
13 42 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
13 42 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 39 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
14 39 (0.93%) NHS
15 35 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
15 35 (0.83%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 394 (9.37%) Windows
2 136 (3.23%) Windows 10
3 112 (2.66%) Linux
4 54 (1.28%) Windows Server
5 47 (1.12%) Unix
6 41 (0.97%) Android
7 26 (0.62%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.43%) Windows 7
9 17 (0.40%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.31%) Mac OS X
11 11 (0.26%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
13 6 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (0.12%) Debian
14 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.095%) VMS
16 2 (0.048%) Windows Server 2008
17 1 (0.024%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 704 (16.74%) Agile
2 592 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
3 463 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
4 426 (10.13%) Business Analysis
5 396 (9.42%) Business Intelligence
6 349 (8.30%) Customer Service
7 346 (8.23%) ITIL
8 345 (8.20%) Analytics
9 316 (7.51%) Data Analysis
10 313 (7.44%) Cybersecurity
11 309 (7.35%) Requirements Gathering
12 290 (6.89%) Migration
13 283 (6.73%) User Stories
14 266 (6.32%) Project Management
15 234 (5.56%) User Acceptance Testing
16 212 (5.04%) Change Management
17 205 (4.87%) Incident Management
18 200 (4.76%) Data Modelling
19 195 (4.64%) Decision-Making
20 190 (4.52%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 603 (14.34%) SQL
2 335 (7.96%) Python
3 80 (1.90%) C#
4 70 (1.66%) PowerShell
5 67 (1.59%) Java
6 43 (1.02%) R
7 37 (0.88%) JavaScript
8 32 (0.76%) VBA
9 28 (0.67%) C++
10 22 (0.52%) T-SQL
11 20 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 17 (0.40%) Shell Script
13 14 (0.33%) C
14 13 (0.31%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.26%) VBScript
16 10 (0.24%) ABAP
17 9 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.19%) Bash
18 8 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 575 (13.67%) Security Cleared
2 405 (9.63%) Degree
3 347 (8.25%) SC Cleared
4 216 (5.14%) DV Cleared
5 57 (1.36%) CISSP
5 57 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (1.05%) A+ Certification
6 44 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
7 43 (1.02%) MCSA
8 40 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 37 (0.88%) ISTQB
10 33 (0.78%) CISM
11 30 (0.71%) MCP
12 29 (0.69%) Cisco Certification
13 26 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
14 24 (0.57%) Master's Degree
15 21 (0.50%) CBAP
15 21 (0.50%) CIMA
15 21 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 21 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (4.78%) Data Quality
2 175 (4.16%) QA
3 130 (3.09%) SLA
4 122 (2.90%) PMO
5 94 (2.23%) GDPR
6 71 (1.69%) NIST
7 58 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (0.59%) NIST 800
9 23 (0.55%) GxP
10 21 (0.50%) EMIR
11 20 (0.48%) PCI DSS
12 19 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
12 19 (0.45%) MiFID
13 18 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
14 17 (0.40%) SEPA
15 16 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
15 16 (0.38%) GRC
16 15 (0.36%) GAAP
16 15 (0.36%) IFRS
16 15 (0.36%) NCSC
System Software
1 249 (5.92%) Active Directory
2 36 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.33%) Firmware
5 13 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
8 7 (0.17%) Docker
8 7 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.12%) vSphere
9 5 (0.12%) XenApp
10 4 (0.095%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.095%) XenDesktop
11 2 (0.048%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.024%) Snort
12 1 (0.024%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 41 (0.97%) SCCM
2 33 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (0.33%) ITRS Geneos
4 13 (0.31%) Ansible
5 12 (0.29%) Nessus
6 11 (0.26%) Nagios
7 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
8 9 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
9 8 (0.19%) Grafana
9 8 (0.19%) Kibana
9 8 (0.19%) logstash
9 8 (0.19%) NetBackup
9 8 (0.19%) Terraform
9 8 (0.19%) ZABBIX
10 7 (0.17%) BladeLogic
10 7 (0.17%) Control-M
10 7 (0.17%) QRadar
11 5 (0.12%) CSIRT
11 5 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 617 (14.67%) Microsoft
2 216 (5.14%) SAP
3 192 (4.56%) ServiceNow
4 179 (4.26%) Oracle
5 99 (2.35%) Citrix
6 88 (2.09%) Salesforce
7 65 (1.55%) Google
8 57 (1.36%) Alteryx
9 53 (1.26%) Splunk
10 52 (1.24%) Bloomberg
11 45 (1.07%) VMware
12 30 (0.71%) Apple
13 27 (0.64%) Adobe
13 27 (0.64%) Cisco
14 25 (0.59%) Databricks
15 24 (0.57%) Ariba
15 24 (0.57%) LogRhythm
16 21 (0.50%) Darktrace
17 20 (0.48%) Sun
18 19 (0.45%) FireEye