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 9 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
9 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 4,178 6,123 9,386
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 11.23% 13.01% 13.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.10% 13.77% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,809 4,396 6,703
10th Percentile £213 £220 £211
25th Percentile £363 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £470
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +3.72% +10.59%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £451
% change year-on-year - +5.44% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 244 419
10th Percentile £12.86 £13.04 £11.47
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.99 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £19.00 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +20.71% -3.14%
75th Percentile £21.50 £25.91 £22.45
90th Percentile £35.45 £41.28 £35.00
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £18.23 £15.75
% change year-on-year -10.56% +15.71% -3.08%

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 34,518 44,474 67,322
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,601 31,623 48,168
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
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% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,625 1,324 1,768
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.38 £12.74
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 2,097 £520 -0.95% 730
South East -4 528 £450 +2.86% 274
North of England -2 507 £450 - 340
Midlands -1 364 £400 -5.88% 179
South West +6 312 £475 - 147
North West -3 294 £441 +3.65% 213
East of England +3 284 £410 +7.19% 112
West Midlands -1 248 £423 -6.11% 97
Yorkshire -3 172 £450 -10.00% 94
East Midlands +1 112 £363 -9.38% 82
North East +7 40 £435 +8.75% 37
South Coast - 2 £500 -
Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 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 1,153 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 1,085 (25.97%) Finance
3 698 (16.71%) Agile
4 653 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 615 (14.72%) Microsoft
6 600 (14.36%) SQL
7 591 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
8 573 (13.71%) Security Cleared
9 459 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
10 423 (10.12%) Business Analysis
11 417 (9.98%) Banking
12 404 (9.67%) Degree
13 393 (9.41%) Windows
14 392 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
15 354 (8.47%) Power Platform
16 353 (8.45%) Azure
17 347 (8.31%) Customer Service
18 345 (8.26%) SC Cleared
19 343 (8.21%) Analytics
19 343 (8.21%) Power BI
20 342 (8.19%) ITIL
21 333 (7.97%) Python
22 315 (7.54%) Microsoft Excel
22 315 (7.54%) Data Analysis
23 314 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
24 308 (7.37%) Requirements Gathering
25 301 (7.20%) Public Sector
26 286 (6.85%) Migration
27 281 (6.73%) User Stories
28 266 (6.37%) 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
1 111 (2.66%) Confluence
2 109 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 39 (0.93%) CMS
4 39 (0.93%) SAS
5 10 (0.24%) Apache
5 10 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
6 9 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.17%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.17%) MTS
7 7 (0.17%) Skype for Business
8 4 (0.096%) Appian
9 3 (0.072%) OpenEdge
10 2 (0.048%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.048%) LiveLink
10 2 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.024%) Alfresco
11 1 (0.024%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.024%) OpenStack
Applications
1 315 (7.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 214 (5.12%) Microsoft Office
3 115 (2.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 98 (2.35%) MS Visio
5 50 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.26%) SPSS
8 4 (0.096%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.096%) Trello
9 3 (0.072%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.024%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.024%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 38 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (0.67%) Endur
3 26 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 24 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 19 (0.45%) Aladdin
6 18 (0.43%) Aligne
6 18 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
7 13 (0.31%) NEC Housing
8 12 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (0.26%) Loan IQ
10 8 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
11 7 (0.17%) EuroRunner
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
1 354 (8.47%) Power Platform
2 353 (8.45%) Azure
3 261 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
4 129 (3.09%) AWS
5 77 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
6 62 (1.48%) SaaS
7 55 (1.32%) Snowflake
8 49 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
9 47 (1.12%) Entra ID
10 40 (0.96%) Google Analytics
11 29 (0.69%) Power Automate
12 27 (0.65%) Collibra
12 27 (0.65%) Google Workspace
13 25 (0.60%) PowerApps
14 24 (0.57%) OCI
15 23 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
16 22 (0.53%) GCP
17 21 (0.50%) OneDrive
17 21 (0.50%) WhatsApp
18 17 (0.41%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 87 (2.08%) Firewall
2 61 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
3 35 (0.84%) DNS
4 32 (0.77%) WAN
5 31 (0.74%) Wireless
6 30 (0.72%) VPN
7 27 (0.65%) DHCP
7 27 (0.65%) Network Security
8 26 (0.62%) LAN
9 17 (0.41%) Internet
10 16 (0.38%) TCP/IP
11 12 (0.29%) SAN
12 11 (0.26%) Intranet
12 11 (0.26%) MPLS
13 10 (0.24%) BGP
14 7 (0.17%) HTTP
14 7 (0.17%) Skype
15 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.14%) FIX Connectivity
15 6 (0.14%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 343 (8.21%) Power BI
2 147 (3.52%) Tableau
3 89 (2.13%) SQL Server
4 86 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
5 44 (1.05%) Relational Database
6 36 (0.86%) Data Lake
7 35 (0.84%) Metadata
8 34 (0.81%) Big Data
9 29 (0.69%) Data Mining
9 29 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 24 (0.57%) Qlik Sense
11 23 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 22 (0.53%) Oracle Database
13 21 (0.50%) BigQuery
13 21 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
14 19 (0.45%) SAP HANA
15 16 (0.38%) Looker
16 15 (0.36%) NoSQL
17 14 (0.34%) GIS
18 13 (0.31%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 211 (5.05%) JIRA
2 47 (1.12%) Selenium
3 43 (1.03%) Postman
4 34 (0.81%) Visual Studio
5 22 (0.53%) 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 1,153 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 1,085 (25.97%) Finance
3 653 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 417 (9.98%) Banking
5 301 (7.20%) Public Sector
6 158 (3.78%) Retail
7 146 (3.49%) Front Office
8 142 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 121 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
10 116 (2.78%) Legal
11 112 (2.68%) Investment Banking
12 104 (2.49%) Telecoms
13 100 (2.39%) Back Office
13 100 (2.39%) Marketing
14 97 (2.32%) Manufacturing
15 79 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
16 74 (1.77%) Local Government
17 67 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
18 51 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
19 39 (0.93%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (1.08%) XML
2 40 (0.96%) .NET
3 23 (0.55%) Middleware
4 22 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
5 20 (0.48%) HTML
5 20 (0.48%) SailPoint
6 16 (0.38%) JSON
7 15 (0.36%) FIX Protocol
8 14 (0.34%) ADO
9 13 (0.31%) .NET Framework
9 13 (0.31%) AngularJS
9 13 (0.31%) SOAP
10 12 (0.29%) LDAP
11 10 (0.24%) IDoc
12 9 (0.22%) PySpark
13 8 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
14 7 (0.17%) CSS
14 7 (0.17%) D3.js
14 7 (0.17%) SAP PI
14 7 (0.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 192 (4.60%) Management Information System
2 153 (3.66%) Product Ownership
3 106 (2.54%) Derivative
4 80 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
5 74 (1.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 70 (1.68%) Hedge funds
6 70 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
7 67 (1.60%) Equities
8 66 (1.58%) Fixed Income
9 53 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 50 (1.20%) Mobile App
11 48 (1.15%) Credit Risk
12 47 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
13 44 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
14 42 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
14 42 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 39 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
15 39 (0.93%) NHS
16 35 (0.84%) CSOC
17 34 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 393 (9.41%) Windows
2 134 (3.21%) Windows 10
3 113 (2.70%) Linux
4 53 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 47 (1.12%) Unix
6 42 (1.01%) Android
7 24 (0.57%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.43%) Windows 7
9 16 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.31%) Mac OS X
11 10 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
12 6 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 5 (0.12%) Debian
13 5 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.096%) VMS
15 2 (0.048%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.024%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 698 (16.71%) Agile
2 591 (14.15%) Problem-Solving
3 459 (10.99%) Stakeholder Management
4 423 (10.12%) Business Analysis
5 392 (9.38%) Business Intelligence
6 347 (8.31%) Customer Service
7 343 (8.21%) Analytics
8 342 (8.19%) ITIL
9 315 (7.54%) Data Analysis
10 314 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
11 308 (7.37%) Requirements Gathering
12 286 (6.85%) Migration
13 281 (6.73%) User Stories
14 266 (6.37%) Project Management
15 235 (5.62%) User Acceptance Testing
16 206 (4.93%) Change Management
17 204 (4.88%) Incident Management
18 200 (4.79%) Data Modelling
19 197 (4.72%) Decision-Making
20 187 (4.48%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 600 (14.36%) SQL
2 333 (7.97%) Python
3 80 (1.91%) C#
4 70 (1.68%) PowerShell
5 65 (1.56%) Java
6 42 (1.01%) R
7 36 (0.86%) JavaScript
8 32 (0.77%) VBA
9 27 (0.65%) C++
10 22 (0.53%) T-SQL
11 20 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 17 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 17 (0.41%) Shell Script
13 14 (0.34%) C
14 13 (0.31%) Kotlin
15 11 (0.26%) VBScript
16 10 (0.24%) ABAP
17 9 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
18 8 (0.19%) Bash
18 8 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 573 (13.71%) Security Cleared
2 404 (9.67%) Degree
3 345 (8.26%) SC Cleared
4 214 (5.12%) 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 (1.03%) MCSA
8 40 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 37 (0.89%) ISTQB
10 33 (0.79%) CISM
11 30 (0.72%) 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%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 20 (0.48%) CIMA
16 20 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (4.81%) Data Quality
2 174 (4.16%) QA
3 131 (3.14%) SLA
4 120 (2.87%) PMO
5 94 (2.25%) GDPR
6 71 (1.70%) NIST
7 58 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (0.60%) NIST 800
9 23 (0.55%) GxP
10 20 (0.48%) EMIR
10 20 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
11 19 (0.45%) MiFID
12 18 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
13 17 (0.41%) SEPA
14 16 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
14 16 (0.38%) GRC
14 16 (0.38%) IFRS
15 15 (0.36%) NCSC
16 14 (0.34%) GAAP
System Software
1 247 (5.91%) Active Directory
2 36 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.34%) 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 (0.096%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.096%) 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 39 (0.93%) SCCM
2 33 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (0.34%) ITRS Geneos
4 13 (0.31%) Ansible
5 12 (0.29%) Nessus
6 11 (0.26%) Nagios
7 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (0.19%) Grafana
8 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
8 8 (0.19%) Kibana
8 8 (0.19%) logstash
8 8 (0.19%) NetBackup
8 8 (0.19%) Terraform
8 8 (0.19%) ZABBIX
9 7 (0.17%) BladeLogic
9 7 (0.17%) Control-M
9 7 (0.17%) QRadar
10 5 (0.12%) CSIRT
10 5 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 615 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 216 (5.17%) SAP
3 191 (4.57%) ServiceNow
4 179 (4.28%) Oracle
5 97 (2.32%) Citrix
6 87 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 64 (1.53%) Google
8 57 (1.36%) Alteryx
9 54 (1.29%) Splunk
10 52 (1.24%) Bloomberg
11 45 (1.08%) VMware
12 28 (0.67%) Apple
13 27 (0.65%) Adobe
13 27 (0.65%) Cisco
14 25 (0.60%) Databricks
14 25 (0.60%) LogRhythm
15 24 (0.57%) Ariba
16 22 (0.53%) Darktrace
17 20 (0.48%) FireEye
18 19 (0.45%) Sun