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 1 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
1 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 4,179 6,176 9,412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 11.33% 13.01% 13.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.21% 13.76% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,806 4,430 6,711
10th Percentile £213 £220 £210
25th Percentile £363 £373 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £465
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +4.84% +9.41%
75th Percentile £587 £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 315 242 424
10th Percentile £12.86 £13.00 £11.36
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.97 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £19.00 £15.52
Median % change year-on-year -14.21% +22.46% -4.41%
75th Percentile £21.50 £25.84 £22.56
90th Percentile £35.00 £41.43 £35.00
UK median hourly rate £16.30 £18.14 £15.74
% change year-on-year -10.14% +15.25% -3.14%

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 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
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% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £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% +12.28%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 2,109 £525 - 765
South East -4 521 £450 +5.88% 262
North of England -1 503 £450 - 349
Midlands 0 356 £400 -5.88% 179
South West +5 318 £475 - 147
North West -4 292 £450 +5.88% 219
East of England +3 288 £410 +4.13% 110
West Midlands 0 243 £425 -5.56% 106
Yorkshire -4 175 £450 -10.00% 101
East Midlands +2 109 £363 -9.38% 73
North East +7 35 £420 +5.00% 35
South Coast - 2 £500 -
Analyst
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 1,143 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 1,093 (26.15%) Finance
3 689 (16.49%) Agile
4 645 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
5 611 (14.62%) Microsoft
6 592 (14.17%) SQL
7 591 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
8 577 (13.81%) Security Cleared
9 458 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 426 (10.19%) Banking
11 418 (10.00%) Business Analysis
12 403 (9.64%) Degree
13 393 (9.40%) Windows
14 391 (9.36%) Business Intelligence
15 353 (8.45%) Azure
16 352 (8.42%) Power Platform
17 348 (8.33%) Customer Service
18 347 (8.30%) SC Cleared
19 344 (8.23%) ITIL
20 342 (8.18%) Power BI
21 341 (8.16%) Analytics
22 328 (7.85%) Python
23 321 (7.68%) Cybersecurity
24 317 (7.59%) Data Analysis
25 312 (7.47%) Microsoft Excel
26 305 (7.30%) Requirements Gathering
27 296 (7.08%) Public Sector
28 289 (6.92%) Migration
29 274 (6.56%) User Stories
30 260 (6.22%) 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
1 104 (2.49%) Confluence
1 104 (2.49%) SharePoint
2 63 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 40 (0.96%) CMS
4 38 (0.91%) SAS
5 10 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
6 9 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 9 (0.22%) Apache
6 9 (0.22%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.19%) ArcGIS
7 8 (0.19%) MTS
8 7 (0.17%) Apache Spark
9 4 (0.096%) Appian
10 3 (0.072%) OpenEdge
11 2 (0.048%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.048%) LiveLink
11 2 (0.048%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.024%) Camunda
12 1 (0.024%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.024%) OpenStack
Applications
1 312 (7.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 216 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
3 118 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 104 (2.49%) MS Visio
5 48 (1.15%) Spreadsheet
6 19 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.26%) SPSS
8 4 (0.096%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.072%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.048%) Trello
11 1 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.024%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 38 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (0.77%) Endur
3 26 (0.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 24 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 19 (0.45%) Aladdin
5 19 (0.45%) Aligne
6 16 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
7 12 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
8 11 (0.26%) Loan IQ
8 11 (0.26%) NEC Housing
9 8 (0.19%) EuroRunner
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
10 7 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
10 7 (0.17%) thinkFolio
11 6 (0.14%) Markit EDM
11 6 (0.14%) NetSuite
11 6 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
11 6 (0.14%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 353 (8.45%) Azure
2 352 (8.42%) Power Platform
3 256 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
4 133 (3.18%) AWS
5 78 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
6 61 (1.46%) SaaS
7 55 (1.32%) Snowflake
8 47 (1.12%) Entra ID
9 46 (1.10%) Dynamics 365
10 40 (0.96%) Google Analytics
11 29 (0.69%) Collibra
12 27 (0.65%) Google Workspace
12 27 (0.65%) Power Automate
13 25 (0.60%) PowerApps
14 23 (0.55%) Azure Sentinel
14 23 (0.55%) OCI
15 22 (0.53%) GCP
16 21 (0.50%) WhatsApp
17 18 (0.43%) OneDrive
18 16 (0.38%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 88 (2.11%) Firewall
2 60 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
3 34 (0.81%) 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 9 (0.22%) Skype
15 7 (0.17%) Intrusion Detection
16 6 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
16 6 (0.14%) Cisco ISE
16 6 (0.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 342 (8.18%) Power BI
2 143 (3.42%) Tableau
3 89 (2.13%) SQL Server
4 86 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (1.03%) Relational Database
6 37 (0.89%) Metadata
7 35 (0.84%) Data Lake
8 34 (0.81%) Big Data
9 29 (0.69%) Data Mining
9 29 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 23 (0.55%) Qlik Sense
11 22 (0.53%) Oracle Database
11 22 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 21 (0.50%) BigQuery
12 21 (0.50%) Oracle Reports
13 19 (0.45%) SAP HANA
14 17 (0.41%) Looker
15 14 (0.34%) GIS
16 13 (0.31%) Hadoop
16 13 (0.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 205 (4.91%) 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%) SoapUI
8 15 (0.36%) Git
8 15 (0.36%) Jenkins
9 13 (0.31%) Eclipse
9 13 (0.31%) SpecFlow
10 12 (0.29%) JMeter
11 11 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 8 (0.19%) Appium
12 8 (0.19%) PyCharm
12 8 (0.19%) Subversion
13 7 (0.17%) Artifactory
13 7 (0.17%) LoadRunner
13 7 (0.17%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.14%) Robot Framework
General
1 1,143 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 1,093 (26.15%) Finance
3 645 (15.43%) Analytical Skills
4 426 (10.19%) Banking
5 296 (7.08%) Public Sector
6 160 (3.83%) Retail
7 149 (3.57%) Front Office
8 141 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 122 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
10 113 (2.70%) Investment Banking
11 112 (2.68%) Legal
12 103 (2.46%) Back Office
12 103 (2.46%) Telecoms
13 99 (2.37%) Manufacturing
14 98 (2.35%) Marketing
15 80 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
16 72 (1.72%) Local Government
17 69 (1.65%) Pharmaceutical
18 52 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
19 40 (0.96%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (1.05%) XML
2 39 (0.93%) .NET
3 23 (0.55%) Middleware
4 21 (0.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 21 (0.50%) SailPoint
5 19 (0.45%) HTML
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 11 (0.26%) LDAP
11 10 (0.24%) IDoc
12 9 (0.22%) PySpark
13 8 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
14 7 (0.17%) D3.js
14 7 (0.17%) SAP PI
14 7 (0.17%) Web Services
15 6 (0.14%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 187 (4.47%) Management Information System
2 155 (3.71%) Product Ownership
3 107 (2.56%) Derivative
4 80 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
5 75 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 72 (1.72%) Security Operations Centre
7 70 (1.68%) Hedge funds
8 66 (1.58%) Equities
9 65 (1.56%) Fixed Income
10 54 (1.29%) Onboarding
11 51 (1.22%) Mobile App
12 45 (1.08%) Credit Risk
13 43 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
13 43 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
14 42 (1.01%) Cyber Defence
15 41 (0.98%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 40 (0.96%) NHS
17 39 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 35 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
18 35 (0.84%) CSOC
Operating Systems
1 393 (9.40%) Windows
2 136 (3.25%) Windows 10
3 113 (2.70%) Linux
4 55 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 46 (1.10%) Unix
6 41 (0.98%) Android
7 27 (0.65%) Apple iOS
8 18 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 18 (0.43%) Windows 7
9 14 (0.34%) Mac OS X
10 11 (0.26%) 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 3 (0.072%) VMS
15 2 (0.048%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.024%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (16.49%) Agile
2 591 (14.14%) Problem-Solving
3 458 (10.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 418 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 391 (9.36%) Business Intelligence
6 348 (8.33%) Customer Service
7 344 (8.23%) ITIL
8 341 (8.16%) Analytics
9 321 (7.68%) Cybersecurity
10 317 (7.59%) Data Analysis
11 305 (7.30%) Requirements Gathering
12 289 (6.92%) Migration
13 274 (6.56%) User Stories
14 260 (6.22%) Project Management
15 229 (5.48%) User Acceptance Testing
16 211 (5.05%) Change Management
17 205 (4.91%) Incident Management
18 203 (4.86%) Data Modelling
19 193 (4.62%) Decision-Making
20 188 (4.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 592 (14.17%) SQL
2 328 (7.85%) Python
3 85 (2.03%) C#
4 73 (1.75%) PowerShell
5 69 (1.65%) Java
6 41 (0.98%) R
7 36 (0.86%) JavaScript
8 31 (0.74%) VBA
9 28 (0.67%) C++
10 22 (0.53%) T-SQL
11 19 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 18 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 17 (0.41%) Shell Script
14 14 (0.34%) C
15 13 (0.31%) Kotlin
16 12 (0.29%) VBScript
17 10 (0.24%) ABAP
18 9 (0.22%) Kusto Query Language
19 8 (0.19%) Bash
19 8 (0.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 577 (13.81%) Security Cleared
2 403 (9.64%) Degree
3 347 (8.30%) SC Cleared
4 219 (5.24%) DV Cleared
5 61 (1.46%) CISSP
6 57 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 44 (1.05%) A+ Certification
7 44 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
8 43 (1.03%) MCSA
9 38 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
10 37 (0.89%) CISM
10 37 (0.89%) ISTQB
11 32 (0.77%) MCP
12 30 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
13 24 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
13 24 (0.57%) Master's Degree
14 21 (0.50%) ACCA
14 21 (0.50%) CIMA
14 21 (0.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 21 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 198 (4.74%) Data Quality
2 175 (4.19%) QA
3 129 (3.09%) SLA
4 121 (2.90%) PMO
5 93 (2.23%) GDPR
6 76 (1.82%) NIST
7 57 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 26 (0.62%) NIST 800
9 23 (0.55%) GxP
10 21 (0.50%) EMIR
10 21 (0.50%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
11 19 (0.45%) MiFID
12 18 (0.43%) NCSC
13 17 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
14 16 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
14 16 (0.38%) GRC
14 16 (0.38%) SEPA
15 15 (0.36%) GAAP
15 15 (0.36%) IFRS
System Software
1 247 (5.91%) Active Directory
2 33 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.34%) Firmware
5 13 (0.31%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 8 (0.19%) Docker
7 8 (0.19%) VMware Workstation
8 6 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.096%) vSphere
10 3 (0.072%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.072%) XenApp
11 2 (0.048%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.048%) XenDesktop
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%) Jamf Pro
7 10 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
8 8 (0.19%) Kibana
8 8 (0.19%) logstash
8 8 (0.19%) NetBackup
8 8 (0.19%) Terraform
9 7 (0.17%) BladeLogic
9 7 (0.17%) Control-M
9 7 (0.17%) Grafana
9 7 (0.17%) QRadar
9 7 (0.17%) ZABBIX
10 5 (0.12%) Kubernetes
10 5 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 611 (14.62%) Microsoft
2 212 (5.07%) SAP
3 192 (4.59%) ServiceNow
4 180 (4.31%) Oracle
5 99 (2.37%) Citrix
6 87 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 64 (1.53%) Google
8 59 (1.41%) Splunk
9 56 (1.34%) Alteryx
10 51 (1.22%) Bloomberg
11 43 (1.03%) VMware
12 31 (0.74%) Apple
13 27 (0.65%) Cisco
13 27 (0.65%) LogRhythm
14 26 (0.62%) Adobe
15 25 (0.60%) Databricks
16 24 (0.57%) Ariba
17 23 (0.55%) Darktrace
18 21 (0.50%) FireEye
19 20 (0.48%) Sun