Analyst Contracts in the North of England

Analyst
England > North of England

The median Analyst daily rate in the North of England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 9 6
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 501 783 1,002
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 10.82% 14.04% 14.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.63% 14.71% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 531 667
10th Percentile £191 £200 £159
25th Percentile £313 £350 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £404
Median % change year-on-year - +11.39% +12.22%
75th Percentile £516 £538 £500
90th Percentile £580 £600 £546
England median daily rate £475 £488 £463
% change year-on-year -2.56% +5.41% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 36 80
10th Percentile £10.95 £14.10 £11.36
25th Percentile £11.07 £16.25 £13.47
Median hourly rate £15.23 £19.64 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.43% +12.20% -
75th Percentile £18.75 £27.25 £21.88
90th Percentile £22.70 £30.90 £26.50
England median hourly rate £16.00 £19.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -15.79% +22.58% -4.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,308 5,322 6,838
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 95.44% 96.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,698 3,719 4,995
10th Percentile £263 £280 £200
25th Percentile £388 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £563
90th Percentile £670 £686 £644
England median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 157 288
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.15 £11.24
25th Percentile £12.70 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.43 £29.30 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.86% +54.21% +8.57%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.40 £33.79
90th Percentile £63.75 £66.28 £58.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analyst in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the North of England

Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 23 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
North West -1 290 £450 +5.88% 194
Yorkshire -3 174 £450 -10.00% 108
North East +10 36 £420 +5.00% 22
Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 across the North of England region featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 172 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 92 (18.36%) Microsoft
3 81 (16.17%) Agile
4 80 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
5 77 (15.37%) Windows
6 76 (15.17%) Customer Service
7 73 (14.57%) Finance
8 66 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
8 66 (13.17%) Requirements Gathering
9 62 (12.38%) Business Analysis
10 60 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
11 59 (11.78%) SQL
12 56 (11.18%) Active Directory
12 56 (11.18%) Public Sector
13 55 (10.98%) Microsoft Office
14 51 (10.18%) Degree
15 48 (9.58%) Power Platform
15 48 (9.58%) Power BI
16 47 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
17 46 (9.18%) Business Intelligence
17 46 (9.18%) Windows 10
18 44 (8.78%) Data Analysis
19 42 (8.38%) Microsoft Excel
20 40 (7.98%) Security Cleared
21 38 (7.58%) Migration
22 36 (7.19%) Banking
22 36 (7.19%) Waterfall
23 35 (6.99%) ITIL
24 34 (6.79%) Project Management
24 34 (6.79%) Workshop Facilitation

Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 18 (3.59%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.00%) SAS
3 8 (1.60%) Confluence
4 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.60%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.20%) LiveLink
6 1 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 55 (10.98%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (8.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (2.99%) MS Visio
4 12 (2.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (2.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.40%) SAP PM
3 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 48 (9.58%) Power Platform
2 47 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
3 30 (5.99%) Azure
4 10 (2.00%) Entra ID
4 10 (2.00%) Snowflake
5 9 (1.80%) Google Analytics
6 8 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (1.40%) Collibra
7 7 (1.40%) GCP
7 7 (1.40%) SaaS
8 6 (1.20%) AWS
8 6 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (1.20%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.80%) Google Tag Manager
9 4 (0.80%) IaaS
10 2 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.40%) BrowserStack
10 2 (0.40%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.20%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.00%) DHCP
1 5 (1.00%) DNS
2 4 (0.80%) WAN
3 3 (0.60%) Intranet
3 3 (0.60%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.40%) Network Security
4 2 (0.40%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.20%) Broadband
5 1 (0.20%) Firewall
5 1 (0.20%) Internet
5 1 (0.20%) LAN
5 1 (0.20%) PSTN
5 1 (0.20%) Skype
5 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (9.58%) Power BI
2 21 (4.19%) Tableau
3 13 (2.59%) SQL Server
4 10 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.60%) Data Lake
6 7 (1.40%) BigQuery
6 7 (1.40%) Qlik Sense
7 6 (1.20%) Ataccama
8 5 (1.00%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.60%) Data Vault
9 3 (0.60%) Geospatial Data
9 3 (0.60%) GIS
9 3 (0.60%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.40%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
10 2 (0.40%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.20%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (4.19%) JIRA
2 7 (1.40%) Selenium
3 6 (1.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (0.80%) Postman
5 2 (0.40%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.40%) PyCharm
5 2 (0.40%) SoapUI
5 2 (0.40%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.40%) WebDriver
5 2 (0.40%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.20%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.20%) Git
6 1 (0.20%) JMeter
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.20%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 172 (34.33%) Social Skills
2 73 (14.57%) Finance
3 60 (11.98%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (11.18%) Public Sector
5 36 (7.19%) Banking
6 28 (5.59%) Pharmaceutical
7 20 (3.99%) Retail
8 17 (3.39%) Manufacturing
9 12 (2.40%) Legal
9 12 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (2.00%) Marketing
11 9 (1.80%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.20%) Law
14 5 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
15 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (0.60%) Billing
16 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 3 (0.60%) Local Government
17 2 (0.40%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.60%) SailPoint
2 4 (0.80%) .NET
3 2 (0.40%) Middleware
4 1 (0.20%) CSS
4 1 (0.20%) EDI
4 1 (0.20%) HTML
4 1 (0.20%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (0.20%) OAuth
4 1 (0.20%) OpenID
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.20%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.20%) SOAP
4 1 (0.20%) Visualforce
4 1 (0.20%) Web Services
4 1 (0.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (2.59%) Product Ownership
2 11 (2.20%) NHS
3 10 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (1.80%) Data Structures
4 9 (1.80%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.20%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.00%) CMDB
6 5 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (1.00%) Industry 4.0
6 5 (1.00%) IoT
6 5 (1.00%) Robotics
6 5 (1.00%) Virtual Team
7 4 (0.80%) EPoS
7 4 (0.80%) Mobile App
8 3 (0.60%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.60%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (0.60%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.40%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.40%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 77 (15.37%) Windows
2 46 (9.18%) Windows 10
3 10 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 5 (1.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.60%) Linux
6 2 (0.40%) Android
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (16.17%) Agile
2 80 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
3 76 (15.17%) Customer Service
4 66 (13.17%) Requirements Gathering
4 66 (13.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 62 (12.38%) Business Analysis
6 46 (9.18%) Business Intelligence
7 44 (8.78%) Data Analysis
8 38 (7.58%) Migration
9 36 (7.19%) Waterfall
10 35 (6.99%) ITIL
11 34 (6.79%) Project Management
11 34 (6.79%) Workshop Facilitation
12 33 (6.59%) User Stories
13 31 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
14 30 (5.99%) Decision-Making
14 30 (5.99%) Visualisation
15 28 (5.59%) Data Protection
16 27 (5.39%) Service Management
17 26 (5.19%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 59 (11.78%) SQL
2 30 (5.99%) Python
3 7 (1.40%) C#
4 5 (1.00%) Java
4 5 (1.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (0.60%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (0.40%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.20%) ABAP
8 1 (0.20%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.20%) Bash
8 1 (0.20%) Groovy
8 1 (0.20%) R
8 1 (0.20%) SOQL
8 1 (0.20%) VBA
Qualifications
1 51 (10.18%) Degree
2 40 (7.98%) Security Cleared
3 32 (6.39%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.00%) CISSP
5 8 (1.60%) CISM
6 6 (1.20%) CBAP
6 6 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (1.00%) IIBA
7 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.80%) CISA
8 4 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.80%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.60%) CCNA
9 3 (0.60%) HNC
9 3 (0.60%) ISSAP
9 3 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.60%) MCP
10 2 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (5.99%) QA
2 24 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.79%) GDPR
3 19 (3.79%) SLA
4 16 (3.19%) Disclosure Scotland
5 13 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.59%) NIST
6 12 (2.40%) PMO
7 6 (1.20%) Good Clinical Practice
7 6 (1.20%) GxP
7 6 (1.20%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.00%) GRC
9 4 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.60%) COBIT
10 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.60%) IASME
10 3 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.20%) COREP
11 1 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 56 (11.18%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.40%) Firmware
3 2 (0.40%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 14 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (1.00%) ZABBIX
3 4 (0.80%) SCCM
4 3 (0.60%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 2 (0.40%) Nagios
6 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 92 (18.36%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.39%) SAP
3 28 (5.59%) ServiceNow
4 10 (2.00%) Google
4 10 (2.00%) VMware
5 8 (1.60%) CyberArk
5 8 (1.60%) Salesforce
6 7 (1.40%) Citrix
7 6 (1.20%) Alteryx
7 6 (1.20%) Ariba
7 6 (1.20%) Dataiku
7 6 (1.20%) Trillium
8 4 (0.80%) Oracle
8 4 (0.80%) Splunk
9 3 (0.60%) Apple
9 3 (0.60%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.60%) ESRI
9 3 (0.60%) Kofax
9 3 (0.60%) Refinitiv
10 2 (0.40%) Meraki