Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425 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 8 8 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 2,348 3,069 4,509
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.13% 13.51% 14.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.04% 14.34% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,470 2,108 3,089
10th Percentile £175 £163 £156
25th Percentile £289 £303 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% +10.00%
75th Percentile £515 £525 £494
90th Percentile £588 £588 £550
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £451
% change year-on-year - +5.44% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 305 231 378
10th Percentile £12.53 £12.67 £11.19
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.21 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% +11.03% +1.64%
75th Percentile £21.37 £21.67 £20.56
90th Percentile £25.23 £30.24 £32.88
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 19,497 21,400 29,228
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.21% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,649 14,865 20,542
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £575
90th Percentile £684 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,477 1,094 1,390
10th Percentile £12.53 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £46.42
90th Percentile £74.15 £75.50 £61.71
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the UK excluding London

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East -4 528 £450 +2.86% 276
North of England -2 507 £450 - 338
Midlands -1 364 £400 -5.88% 179
Scotland +1 327 £400 -4.19% 98
South West +6 312 £475 - 146
North West -3 294 £441 +3.65% 212
East of England +3 284 £410 +7.19% 111
West Midlands -1 248 £423 -6.11% 96
Yorkshire -3 172 £450 -10.00% 93
East Midlands +1 112 £363 -9.38% 83
North East +7 40 £435 +8.75% 37
Wales +2 35 £190 -51.28% 29
Northern Ireland -12 16 £338 -15.63% 11
South Coast - 2 £500 -
Analyst
UK

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 690 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 442 (18.82%) Security Cleared
3 436 (18.57%) Microsoft
4 408 (17.38%) Finance
5 395 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
6 392 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
7 332 (14.14%) Agile
8 313 (13.33%) Customer Service
9 267 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
10 256 (10.90%) Windows
11 252 (10.73%) ITIL
12 240 (10.22%) Public Sector
13 237 (10.09%) SC Cleared
14 228 (9.71%) Degree
15 226 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
15 226 (9.63%) Microsoft Excel
16 220 (9.37%) SQL
17 214 (9.11%) Business Intelligence
18 211 (8.99%) Business Analysis
19 206 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
20 193 (8.22%) DV Cleared
20 193 (8.22%) Active Directory
20 193 (8.22%) Power Platform
21 190 (8.09%) Power BI
22 187 (7.96%) Azure
23 172 (7.33%) Analytics
23 172 (7.33%) Incident Management
24 160 (6.81%) Project Management
25 154 (6.56%) Requirements Gathering
26 153 (6.52%) Data Analysis

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 82 (3.49%) SharePoint
2 62 (2.64%) Confluence
3 57 (2.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (1.15%) SAS
5 18 (0.77%) CMS
6 10 (0.43%) SharePoint Server
7 7 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.26%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.17%) Appian
9 4 (0.17%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.13%) Apache Spark
10 3 (0.13%) OpenEdge
11 2 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.043%) Apache
12 1 (0.043%) LiveLink
Applications
1 226 (9.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 128 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
3 86 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (1.53%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.94%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
7 7 (0.30%) SPSS
8 2 (0.085%) Trello
9 1 (0.043%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.043%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 24 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
3 16 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 12 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
5 9 (0.38%) Maximo
6 8 (0.34%) Oracle Receivables
7 7 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 6 (0.26%) SAP PM
9 5 (0.21%) Odoo
9 5 (0.21%) Oracle Cash Management
10 4 (0.17%) Infor SunSystems
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Financials
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
10 4 (0.17%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.17%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
10 4 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
11 3 (0.13%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 206 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
2 193 (8.22%) Power Platform
3 187 (7.96%) Azure
4 52 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (2.00%) Snowflake
6 44 (1.87%) AWS
7 31 (1.32%) Entra ID
8 30 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (1.11%) SaaS
10 25 (1.06%) Power Automate
11 18 (0.77%) PowerApps
12 16 (0.68%) OCI
12 16 (0.68%) Yammer
13 15 (0.64%) OneDrive
14 14 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
15 13 (0.55%) Collibra
15 13 (0.55%) GCP
16 12 (0.51%) Google Analytics
17 11 (0.47%) Azure Stack
18 10 (0.43%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 63 (2.68%) Firewall
2 57 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
3 26 (1.11%) WAN
4 25 (1.06%) DNS
5 22 (0.94%) LAN
6 21 (0.89%) DHCP
7 19 (0.81%) Network Security
8 18 (0.77%) VPN
9 16 (0.68%) Wireless
10 12 (0.51%) SAN
11 10 (0.43%) BGP
11 10 (0.43%) TCP/IP
12 9 (0.38%) Internet
13 8 (0.34%) Intranet
13 8 (0.34%) MPLS
14 6 (0.26%) Cisco ASA
14 6 (0.26%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (0.26%) Remote Desktop
14 6 (0.26%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (8.09%) Power BI
2 88 (3.75%) Tableau
3 41 (1.75%) SQL Server
4 33 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (0.94%) Data Lake
6 19 (0.81%) Data Mining
6 19 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
7 15 (0.64%) Big Data
7 15 (0.64%) Qlik Sense
8 13 (0.55%) BigQuery
8 13 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 12 (0.51%) Relational Database
9 12 (0.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 11 (0.47%) GIS
10 11 (0.47%) Power Query
11 10 (0.43%) Metadata
12 8 (0.34%) BusinessObjects
12 8 (0.34%) Hadoop
12 8 (0.34%) Oracle Database
12 8 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 131 (5.58%) JIRA
2 23 (0.98%) Selenium
3 22 (0.94%) TestRail
4 12 (0.51%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 12 (0.51%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.38%) Postman
6 8 (0.34%) Eclipse
7 7 (0.30%) PyCharm
8 6 (0.26%) Robot Framework
9 5 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.21%) Git
9 5 (0.21%) JMeter
9 5 (0.21%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.17%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.17%) Jenkins
10 4 (0.17%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.17%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.17%) WebDriver
11 3 (0.13%) MSI
12 2 (0.085%) ERwin
General
1 690 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 408 (17.38%) Finance
3 395 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
4 240 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 98 (4.17%) Retail
6 93 (3.96%) Legal
7 91 (3.88%) Banking
8 78 (3.32%) Manufacturing
9 76 (3.24%) Telecoms
10 68 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
11 58 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
12 45 (1.92%) Marketing
13 41 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
14 39 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 34 (1.45%) Local Government
16 25 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
17 23 (0.98%) Automotive
18 18 (0.77%) Publishing
19 16 (0.68%) Back Office
19 16 (0.68%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (0.72%) SailPoint
2 16 (0.68%) .NET
3 14 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
4 11 (0.47%) XML
5 9 (0.38%) HTML
5 9 (0.38%) LDAP
6 8 (0.34%) JSON
7 7 (0.30%) D3.js
8 6 (0.26%) ADO
9 5 (0.21%) Middleware
10 4 (0.17%) CSS
10 4 (0.17%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (0.13%) Gherkin
11 3 (0.13%) IDoc
11 3 (0.13%) JSON Schema
11 3 (0.13%) SOAP
11 3 (0.13%) Web Services
12 2 (0.085%) FIX Protocol
12 2 (0.085%) PySpark
12 2 (0.085%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 144 (6.13%) Management Information System
2 64 (2.73%) Security Operations Centre
3 61 (2.60%) Cyber Threat
4 44 (1.87%) Product Ownership
5 34 (1.45%) CSOC
6 33 (1.41%) Credit Risk
7 32 (1.36%) Cyber Defence
7 32 (1.36%) NHS
8 30 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
9 28 (1.19%) Operational Technology
10 26 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
12 23 (0.98%) CMDB
12 23 (0.98%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 21 (0.89%) Data Structures
13 21 (0.89%) Private Cloud
14 19 (0.81%) Cyberattack
15 18 (0.77%) Mobile App
16 17 (0.72%) Data Centre
17 16 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 256 (10.90%) Windows
2 108 (4.60%) Windows 10
3 66 (2.81%) Linux
4 26 (1.11%) Unix
4 26 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 23 (0.98%) Android
6 22 (0.94%) Apple iOS
7 17 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (0.51%) Windows 7
9 11 (0.47%) Mac OS X
10 8 (0.34%) Mac OS
11 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 7 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 5 (0.21%) Debian
13 5 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.043%) VMS
15 1 (0.043%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.043%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (16.70%) Problem-Solving
2 332 (14.14%) Agile
3 313 (13.33%) Customer Service
4 267 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 252 (10.73%) ITIL
6 226 (9.63%) Cybersecurity
7 214 (9.11%) Business Intelligence
8 211 (8.99%) Business Analysis
9 172 (7.33%) Analytics
9 172 (7.33%) Incident Management
10 160 (6.81%) Project Management
11 154 (6.56%) Requirements Gathering
12 153 (6.52%) Data Analysis
13 127 (5.41%) Decision-Making
14 124 (5.28%) Migration
15 123 (5.24%) SIEM
16 121 (5.15%) Continuous Improvement
17 119 (5.07%) User Stories
18 114 (4.86%) Security Operations
19 109 (4.64%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 220 (9.37%) SQL
2 109 (4.64%) Python
3 24 (1.02%) Java
4 23 (0.98%) R
5 22 (0.94%) PowerShell
6 21 (0.89%) JavaScript
7 12 (0.51%) C#
8 11 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 11 (0.47%) VBA
8 11 (0.47%) VBScript
9 9 (0.38%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.34%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.30%) C
12 6 (0.26%) Groovy
12 6 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (0.17%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.17%) VB
14 3 (0.13%) Bash
14 3 (0.13%) C++
15 2 (0.085%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 442 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 237 (10.09%) SC Cleared
3 228 (9.71%) Degree
4 193 (8.22%) DV Cleared
5 51 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (1.87%) A+ Certification
7 41 (1.75%) MCSA
8 36 (1.53%) ISTQB
9 30 (1.28%) MCP
10 25 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.06%) CISSP
11 24 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
12 22 (0.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 20 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
13 20 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
14 19 (0.81%) ACCA
14 19 (0.81%) CIMA
15 18 (0.77%) CISM
15 18 (0.77%) ISEB
15 18 (0.77%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (4.05%) SLA
2 91 (3.88%) PMO
3 81 (3.45%) QA
4 77 (3.28%) Data Quality
5 69 (2.94%) GDPR
6 51 (2.17%) NIST
7 47 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
9 22 (0.94%) NIST 800
10 19 (0.81%) GxP
11 18 (0.77%) Good Clinical Practice
12 14 (0.60%) NCSC
13 11 (0.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.47%) IFRS
14 10 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
14 10 (0.43%) HIPAA
15 9 (0.38%) GAAP
15 9 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 6 (0.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 193 (8.22%) Active Directory
2 34 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
4 8 (0.34%) Hyper-V
4 8 (0.34%) VMware Workstation
5 7 (0.30%) Firmware
5 7 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.17%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.17%) vSphere
8 3 (0.13%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.13%) XenApp
8 3 (0.13%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.085%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.043%) Docker
10 1 (0.043%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.043%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.043%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 31 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
1 31 (1.32%) SCCM
2 11 (0.47%) Nagios
3 8 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
3 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (0.34%) Nessus
3 8 (0.34%) NetBackup
4 6 (0.26%) ZABBIX
5 4 (0.17%) Ansible
5 4 (0.17%) IBM BigFix
5 4 (0.17%) Kibana
5 4 (0.17%) logstash
5 4 (0.17%) Tivoli
6 3 (0.13%) HP Quality Center
6 3 (0.13%) Terraform
6 3 (0.13%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 2 (0.085%) QRadar
7 2 (0.085%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.043%) Grafana
8 1 (0.043%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 436 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 133 (5.66%) ServiceNow
3 118 (5.03%) SAP
4 90 (3.83%) Oracle
5 73 (3.11%) Citrix
6 47 (2.00%) Alteryx
6 47 (2.00%) Splunk
7 42 (1.79%) VMware
8 39 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 26 (1.11%) Atlassian
9 26 (1.11%) LogRhythm
10 25 (1.06%) Google
11 21 (0.89%) Cisco
11 21 (0.89%) Darktrace
12 20 (0.85%) FireEye
13 19 (0.81%) Sun
14 18 (0.77%) CyberArk
15 17 (0.72%) Apple
16 14 (0.60%) Ariba
17 13 (0.55%) IFS