IT Analyst Contracts

IT Analyst
UK

The median IT Analyst daily rate in the UK is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 303 317
Rank change year-on-year -19 +14 +42
Contract jobs requiring an IT Analyst 267 490 768
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.86% 0.88%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.91% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 327 519
10th Percentile £155 £137 £143
25th Percentile £185 £180 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £300 £350
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £556 £488 £494
90th Percentile £653 £571 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £200 £208 £250
% change year-on-year -3.61% -17.00% +37.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 35 61
10th Percentile £12.48 £13.06 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.55 £14.24 £13.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.63 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% +29.31% +13.82%
75th Percentile £40.00 £27.38 £19.44
90th Percentile - £32.42 £24.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £18.23 £17.50
% change year-on-year +17.97% +4.14% +15.70%

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 39,476 54,050 83,442
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,679 37,739 58,629
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% +10.35%
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 2,653 1,507 2,053
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.88
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.70 £76.10 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

IT Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Analyst in the UK

IT Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Analyst in the UK

IT Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Analyst over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Analyst in the UK

IT Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Analyst in the UK

IT Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Analyst over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Analyst in the UK

IT Analyst
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 -35 223 £450 +28.57% 125
London +35 130 £538 +16.85% 30
UK excluding London -57 127 £200 -3.61% 99
Work from Home +28 81 £469 +44.23% 42
Scotland +31 32 £190 +5.56% 4
South East -5 32 £459 +166.23% 19
North of England -16 24 £230 -5.64% 24
South West +12 22 £175 -7.89% 18
Yorkshire +13 14 £256 +27.88% 10
Midlands +5 10 £165 -48.24% 26
North West -5 10 £188 -46.43% 13
West Midlands -1 8 £258 -35.63% 15
East of England -9 4 £180 -10.00% 5
Wales +20 2 £190 -7.32% 4
East Midlands +8 2 £135 +8.00% 11
Northern Ireland +1 1 - -

IT Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 May 2024, IT 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 IT Analyst in the job title.

1 104 (38.95%) Social Skills
2 88 (32.96%) Windows
3 73 (27.34%) Active Directory
4 63 (23.60%) Microsoft
4 63 (23.60%) Microsoft 365
5 60 (22.47%) Finance
6 59 (22.10%) ITIL
7 51 (19.10%) Banking
8 50 (18.73%) Windows 10
9 49 (18.35%) ITSM
10 45 (16.85%) Change Management
10 45 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
11 40 (14.98%) Service Management
12 38 (14.23%) Customer Service
12 38 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
13 35 (13.11%) Agile
14 34 (12.73%) Microsoft Office
15 33 (12.36%) Degree
16 29 (10.86%) Business Analysis
16 29 (10.86%) Stakeholder Management
17 27 (10.11%) DevOps
18 26 (9.74%) Project Management
19 24 (8.99%) Asset Management
20 23 (8.61%) PowerShell
20 23 (8.61%) Microsoft Exchange
20 23 (8.61%) Azure
21 20 (7.49%) ServiceNow
21 20 (7.49%) SCCM
22 19 (7.12%) Citrix
22 19 (7.12%) Apple iOS

IT 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 23 (8.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.62%) Skype for Business
4 3 (1.12%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.37%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 34 (12.73%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (5.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.25%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.37%) InVision
6 1 (0.37%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Aligne
2 1 (0.37%) assyst
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 63 (23.60%) Microsoft 365
2 23 (8.61%) Azure
3 11 (4.12%) SaaS
4 8 (3.00%) AWS
4 8 (3.00%) PaaS
5 7 (2.62%) OneDrive
6 5 (1.87%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.50%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.12%) WhatsApp
8 3 (1.12%) Yammer
9 2 (0.75%) Slack
10 1 (0.37%) Asana
10 1 (0.37%) Collibra
10 1 (0.37%) Figma
10 1 (0.37%) IaaS
10 1 (0.37%) Miro
10 1 (0.37%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.37%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 16 (5.99%) DHCP
1 16 (5.99%) DNS
2 11 (4.12%) LAN
3 10 (3.75%) WAN
4 9 (3.37%) MPLS
4 9 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (3.00%) SAN
6 7 (2.62%) Skype
7 3 (1.12%) Firewall
7 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.12%) VPN
7 3 (1.12%) Wireless
8 2 (0.75%) Intranet
9 1 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.37%) Internet
9 1 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (0.37%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.37%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.37%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.37%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.37%) GIS
3 1 (0.37%) Metadata
3 1 (0.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (2.62%) JIRA
2 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.37%) Balsamiq
2 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.37%) MSI
2 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 104 (38.95%) Social Skills
2 60 (22.47%) Finance
3 51 (19.10%) Banking
4 45 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.99%) Manufacturing
7 12 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (3.75%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.37%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.87%) Billing
11 5 (1.87%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.50%) Advertising
12 4 (1.50%) Law
12 4 (1.50%) Local Government
12 4 (1.50%) Marketing
13 3 (1.12%) Retail
14 2 (0.75%) International Banking
14 2 (0.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.75%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.50%) Middleware
2 2 (0.75%) .NET
3 1 (0.37%) ADO
3 1 (0.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.75%) CMDB
1 10 (3.75%) iPhone
2 8 (3.00%) Client/Server
2 8 (3.00%) Clustering
2 8 (3.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.25%) Cyberattack
3 6 (2.25%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.25%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.50%) IoT
5 4 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.12%) Derivative
6 3 (1.12%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.12%) iPad
6 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.75%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.75%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.75%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 88 (32.96%) Windows
2 50 (18.73%) Windows 10
3 19 (7.12%) Apple iOS
4 15 (5.62%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (3.37%) Android
6 9 (3.37%) Unix
7 4 (1.50%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.12%) Windows 7
9 2 (0.75%) Linux
10 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (22.10%) ITIL
2 49 (18.35%) ITSM
3 45 (16.85%) Change Management
4 40 (14.98%) Service Management
5 38 (14.23%) Customer Service
5 38 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (13.11%) Agile
7 29 (10.86%) Business Analysis
7 29 (10.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 27 (10.11%) DevOps
9 26 (9.74%) Project Management
10 24 (8.99%) Asset Management
11 16 (5.99%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (5.99%) Data Protection
11 16 (5.99%) Migration
12 14 (5.24%) Data Analysis
12 14 (5.24%) Decision-Making
12 14 (5.24%) Requirements Gathering
13 13 (4.87%) Business Case
13 13 (4.87%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.61%) PowerShell
2 12 (4.49%) Python
3 4 (1.50%) SQL
4 1 (0.37%) Bash
4 1 (0.37%) C#
4 1 (0.37%) C++
4 1 (0.37%) Google Apps Script
4 1 (0.37%) Java
Qualifications
1 33 (12.36%) Degree
2 16 (5.99%) Security Cleared
3 9 (3.37%) CISM
3 9 (3.37%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.00%) CISSP
5 7 (2.62%) CISA
6 5 (1.87%) CRISC
6 5 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.75%) CCNA
9 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.75%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.75%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.37%) CCNP
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.37%) MBA
10 1 (0.37%) MCITP
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.37%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.12%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (3.37%) QA
3 8 (3.00%) SLA
4 7 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.75%) GDPR
5 2 (0.75%) NIST
5 2 (0.75%) PMO
6 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.37%) GAAP
6 1 (0.37%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 73 (27.34%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.37%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (3.00%) VMware Workstation
5 3 (1.12%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.37%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.37%) XenApp
6 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 20 (7.49%) SCCM
2 10 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (3.37%) Nagios
4 8 (3.00%) Jamf Pro
4 8 (3.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 8 (3.00%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.37%) Ansible
6 1 (0.37%) BladeLogic
6 1 (0.37%) CASB
6 1 (0.37%) ITRS Geneos
6 1 (0.37%) Nessus
6 1 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.37%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 63 (23.60%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.49%) ServiceNow
3 19 (7.12%) Citrix
4 12 (4.49%) Apple
5 11 (4.12%) VMware
6 8 (3.00%) Hitachi
6 8 (3.00%) NetApp
6 8 (3.00%) SAP
7 4 (1.50%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.50%) Google
7 4 (1.50%) SmartStream
8 3 (1.12%) Mitel
8 3 (1.12%) Okta
9 2 (0.75%) Dell
9 2 (0.75%) Granicus
9 2 (0.75%) Oracle
10 1 (0.37%) ForeScout
10 1 (0.37%) IFS
10 1 (0.37%) Tanium
10 1 (0.37%) Zscaler