Analyst
UK

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 9 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 4,896 7,401 11,343
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.38% 12.72% 12.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.27% 13.44% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,210 5,251 8,009
10th Percentile £213 £213 £206
25th Percentile £363 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +6.01%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £545
90th Percentile £675 £680 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £409
% change year-on-year - +3.98% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 348 288 459
10th Percentile £12.83 £12.73 £11.15
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.19 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £18.23 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% +17.58% -6.06%
75th Percentile £21.50 £25.00 £22.39
90th Percentile £32.73 £45.10 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.79 £17.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +9.68% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 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
England -1 4,212 £476 -0.78% 1,883
UK excluding London -1 2,335 £425 - 1,091
London -1 2,152 £525 - 850
Work from Home +1 1,654 £488 +2.63% 804
South East -4 509 £450 +4.65% 269
North of England +1 508 £450 +1.68% 287
Scotland +1 341 £416 -2.24% 64
Midlands -1 335 £400 -5.88% 218
South West +1 329 £475 - 112
East of England +3 289 £410 +2.50% 123
North West -2 287 £450 +5.88% 157
West Midlands -2 227 £425 - 134
Yorkshire -4 183 £450 -10.00% 104
East Midlands +5 105 £363 -9.38% 84
North East +11 37 £435 +8.75% 27
Wales -9 26 £388 -1.90% 31
Northern Ireland -6 18 £336 -15.94% 17

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 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 featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 1,374 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 1,290 (26.35%) Finance
3 811 (16.56%) Agile
4 790 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
5 759 (15.50%) Microsoft
6 711 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
7 642 (13.11%) Security Cleared
8 620 (12.66%) SQL
9 510 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
10 496 (10.13%) Banking
11 493 (10.07%) Business Analysis
12 462 (9.44%) Degree
13 442 (9.03%) Windows
14 441 (9.01%) Business Intelligence
15 404 (8.25%) Azure
16 403 (8.23%) Public Sector
17 402 (8.21%) Power Platform
18 396 (8.09%) Power BI
19 394 (8.05%) SC Cleared
19 394 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
20 390 (7.97%) Customer Service
21 386 (7.88%) ITIL
22 378 (7.72%) Data Analysis
23 375 (7.66%) Analytics
23 375 (7.66%) Cybersecurity
24 347 (7.09%) Requirements Gathering
25 331 (6.76%) User Stories
26 321 (6.56%) Python
27 311 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
28 307 (6.27%) Project Management

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 136 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 122 (2.49%) Confluence
3 81 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (0.82%) CMS
5 31 (0.63%) SAS
6 13 (0.27%) Skype for Business
7 10 (0.20%) Apache
7 10 (0.20%) MTS
7 10 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
8 9 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.082%) Appian
10 3 (0.061%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.041%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.041%) Camunda
11 2 (0.041%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.020%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.020%) OpenStack
Applications
1 394 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 262 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
3 161 (3.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 128 (2.61%) MS Visio
5 49 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.16%) SPSS
8 5 (0.10%) Trello
9 4 (0.082%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.061%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.041%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.020%) InVision
12 1 (0.020%) OmniGraffle
12 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 46 (0.94%) Endur
2 45 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 29 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 27 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
6 21 (0.43%) Aladdin
6 21 (0.43%) Aligne
7 17 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
8 14 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
9 12 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
10 11 (0.22%) Loan IQ
10 11 (0.22%) NEC Housing
10 11 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
10 11 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
11 10 (0.20%) EuroRunner
11 10 (0.20%) Oracle Assets
12 9 (0.18%) NetSuite
12 9 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
13 8 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
14 7 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 404 (8.25%) Azure
2 402 (8.21%) Power Platform
3 311 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
4 151 (3.08%) AWS
5 88 (1.80%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (1.29%) Snowflake
7 61 (1.25%) SaaS
8 58 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
9 56 (1.14%) Entra ID
10 43 (0.88%) Google Analytics
10 43 (0.88%) Power Automate
11 34 (0.69%) OCI
12 33 (0.67%) GCP
13 32 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
14 29 (0.59%) Collibra
14 29 (0.59%) PowerApps
15 28 (0.57%) Google Workspace
16 23 (0.47%) OneDrive
16 23 (0.47%) WhatsApp
17 20 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 96 (1.96%) Firewall
2 55 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
3 43 (0.88%) DNS
4 40 (0.82%) Network Security
5 37 (0.76%) VPN
6 33 (0.67%) DHCP
6 33 (0.67%) Wireless
7 30 (0.61%) WAN
8 26 (0.53%) LAN
9 23 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 22 (0.45%) Internet
11 13 (0.27%) Intranet
11 13 (0.27%) SAN
11 13 (0.27%) Skype
12 11 (0.22%) MPLS
13 10 (0.20%) BGP
14 8 (0.16%) VLAN
15 7 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (0.14%) Cisco ISE
15 7 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (8.09%) Power BI
2 152 (3.10%) Tableau
3 93 (1.90%) SQL Server
4 90 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 37 (0.76%) Metadata
7 35 (0.71%) Big Data
8 34 (0.69%) Data Lake
9 32 (0.65%) Data Mining
10 29 (0.59%) BigQuery
11 27 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
12 25 (0.51%) SAP HANA
12 25 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 23 (0.47%) Oracle Database
13 23 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
14 22 (0.45%) Looker
15 19 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 17 (0.35%) GIS
17 16 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
17 16 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 265 (5.41%) JIRA
2 49 (1.00%) Postman
2 49 (1.00%) Selenium
3 35 (0.71%) Visual Studio
4 28 (0.57%) TestRail
5 22 (0.45%) WebDriver
6 21 (0.43%) Eclipse
7 16 (0.33%) Git
7 16 (0.33%) Jenkins
7 16 (0.33%) SoapUI
8 15 (0.31%) SpecFlow
9 12 (0.25%) JMeter
10 11 (0.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 10 (0.20%) Subversion
12 9 (0.18%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.18%) Zephyr
13 8 (0.16%) Appium
13 8 (0.16%) LoadRunner
13 8 (0.16%) PyCharm
14 7 (0.14%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,374 (28.06%) Social Skills
2 1,290 (26.35%) Finance
3 790 (16.14%) Analytical Skills
4 496 (10.13%) Banking
5 403 (8.23%) Public Sector
6 166 (3.39%) Retail
7 155 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 154 (3.15%) Front Office
9 139 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 138 (2.82%) Legal
11 122 (2.49%) Back Office
12 116 (2.37%) Investment Banking
13 115 (2.35%) Telecoms
14 114 (2.33%) Marketing
15 111 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
16 109 (2.23%) Manufacturing
17 80 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
18 78 (1.59%) Local Government
19 63 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
20 43 (0.88%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (1.02%) XML
2 46 (0.94%) .NET
3 31 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
4 30 (0.61%) SailPoint
5 26 (0.53%) Middleware
6 24 (0.49%) JSON
7 18 (0.37%) HTML
8 17 (0.35%) FIX Protocol
9 15 (0.31%) SOAP
10 14 (0.29%) ADO
10 14 (0.29%) Web Services
11 13 (0.27%) AngularJS
11 13 (0.27%) REST
12 12 (0.25%) .NET Framework
13 10 (0.20%) IDoc
13 10 (0.20%) LDAP
14 9 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (0.18%) PySpark
14 9 (0.18%) Swagger
15 8 (0.16%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 214 (4.37%) Management Information System
2 184 (3.76%) Product Ownership
3 109 (2.23%) Derivative
4 92 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
5 77 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 74 (1.51%) Hedge funds
7 73 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
8 65 (1.33%) Equities
9 62 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 60 (1.23%) Fixed Income
11 58 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
12 55 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
13 47 (0.96%) Credit Risk
13 47 (0.96%) Mobile App
13 47 (0.96%) NHS
14 45 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 44 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
16 42 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
17 41 (0.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 40 (0.82%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 442 (9.03%) Windows
2 163 (3.33%) Windows 10
3 116 (2.37%) Linux
4 59 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 49 (1.00%) Unix
6 44 (0.90%) Android
7 40 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 22 (0.45%) Windows 7
10 15 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (0.29%) Mac OS X
12 12 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 9 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (0.10%) Debian
14 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.082%) VMS
16 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.020%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (16.56%) Agile
2 711 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
3 510 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 493 (10.07%) Business Analysis
5 441 (9.01%) Business Intelligence
6 390 (7.97%) Customer Service
7 386 (7.88%) ITIL
8 378 (7.72%) Data Analysis
9 375 (7.66%) Analytics
9 375 (7.66%) Cybersecurity
10 347 (7.09%) Requirements Gathering
11 331 (6.76%) User Stories
12 307 (6.27%) Project Management
13 306 (6.25%) Migration
14 283 (5.78%) Change Management
15 274 (5.60%) User Acceptance Testing
16 237 (4.84%) Data Modelling
17 231 (4.72%) Incident Management
18 226 (4.62%) Decision-Making
19 218 (4.45%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 620 (12.66%) SQL
2 321 (6.56%) Python
3 100 (2.04%) C#
4 78 (1.59%) PowerShell
5 69 (1.41%) Java
6 43 (0.88%) R
7 33 (0.67%) JavaScript
8 32 (0.65%) VBA
9 31 (0.63%) C++
10 22 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 21 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 20 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 20 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.29%) C
14 13 (0.27%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.27%) VBScript
15 9 (0.18%) ABAP
16 8 (0.16%) Bash
16 8 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 642 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 462 (9.44%) Degree
3 394 (8.05%) SC Cleared
4 244 (4.98%) DV Cleared
5 82 (1.67%) CISSP
6 66 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 58 (1.18%) CISM
8 53 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (0.98%) A+ Certification
9 48 (0.98%) ISTQB
10 46 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 46 (0.94%) MCP
11 43 (0.88%) MCSA
12 38 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
13 29 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 28 (0.57%) ACCA
14 28 (0.57%) CIMA
15 25 (0.51%) ISEB
15 25 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
16 24 (0.49%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (4.39%) QA
2 192 (3.92%) Data Quality
3 161 (3.29%) PMO
4 141 (2.88%) SLA
5 99 (2.02%) GDPR
6 85 (1.74%) NIST
7 75 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
9 27 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 25 (0.51%) NIST 800
11 24 (0.49%) GxP
12 22 (0.45%) EMIR
13 21 (0.43%) MiFID
14 20 (0.41%) NCSC
14 20 (0.41%) SEPA
15 19 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
15 19 (0.39%) GRC
16 18 (0.37%) Accessibility
17 16 (0.33%) IFRS
18 15 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 288 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 35 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.29%) Hyper-V
3 14 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.22%) Firmware
6 8 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
7 6 (0.12%) Docker
8 5 (0.10%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.10%) vSphere
9 3 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.041%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.020%) Samba
11 1 (0.020%) Snort
11 1 (0.020%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.020%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.020%) XenApp
11 1 (0.020%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (0.94%) SCCM
2 39 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
4 14 (0.29%) Ansible
4 14 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
5 13 (0.27%) Nessus
6 10 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (0.20%) Nagios
7 9 (0.18%) Kibana
7 9 (0.18%) logstash
7 9 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.16%) Grafana
8 8 (0.16%) NetBackup
9 7 (0.14%) BladeLogic
10 6 (0.12%) Control-M
10 6 (0.12%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.12%) Kubernetes
10 6 (0.12%) QRadar
10 6 (0.12%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 759 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 256 (5.23%) SAP
3 227 (4.64%) Oracle
4 212 (4.33%) ServiceNow
5 114 (2.33%) Citrix
6 91 (1.86%) Salesforce
7 77 (1.57%) Google
8 67 (1.37%) Splunk
9 64 (1.31%) Alteryx
10 53 (1.08%) Bloomberg
11 46 (0.94%) VMware
12 35 (0.71%) Apple
13 31 (0.63%) Ariba
13 31 (0.63%) Atlassian
13 31 (0.63%) Cisco
13 31 (0.63%) Databricks
14 29 (0.59%) Adobe
15 26 (0.53%) LogRhythm
16 24 (0.49%) Sun
17 23 (0.47%) HP