Analyst
UK

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 9 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 4,871 7,400 11,406
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.39% 12.72% 12.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.28% 13.44% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,192 5,250 8,046
10th Percentile £213 £213 £206
25th Percentile £363 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +6.38%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £547
90th Percentile £675 £680 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £410
% change year-on-year - +3.66% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 288 467
10th Percentile £12.82 £12.73 £11.14
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.19 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £18.23 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% +17.58% -6.06%
75th Percentile £21.50 £25.00 £22.32
90th Percentile £33.05 £45.10 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.79 £17.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +9.68% -

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 39,665 55,057 84,118
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,784 38,442 59,095
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% +10.53%
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 2,665 1,534 2,069
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.26 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +3.98%

Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analyst over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analyst over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analyst in the UK

Analyst
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 13 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 -1 4,192 £475 -1.04% 1,943
UK excluding London -1 2,320 £425 - 1,117
London -1 2,143 £525 - 882
Work from Home +1 1,641 £489 +2.91% 805
South East -4 506 £450 +4.65% 284
North of England +1 503 £450 +1.68% 291
Scotland +1 338 £415 -2.29% 68
Midlands -1 334 £400 -5.88% 214
South West +3 327 £475 - 114
East of England +3 289 £410 +2.50% 133
North West -2 285 £445 +4.76% 155
West Midlands -2 225 £425 - 129
Yorkshire -4 180 £450 -10.00% 107
East Midlands +5 105 £363 -9.38% 85
North East +11 37 £435 +8.75% 30
Wales -7 26 £388 -1.90% 29
Northern Ireland -5 17 £338 -15.63% 13

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 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 featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 1,369 (28.11%) Social Skills
2 1,280 (26.28%) Finance
3 806 (16.55%) Agile
4 785 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
5 755 (15.50%) Microsoft
6 708 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
7 641 (13.16%) Security Cleared
8 618 (12.69%) SQL
9 505 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
10 490 (10.06%) Banking
11 489 (10.04%) Business Analysis
12 459 (9.42%) Degree
13 442 (9.07%) Business Intelligence
14 440 (9.03%) Windows
15 404 (8.29%) Azure
16 402 (8.25%) Power Platform
16 402 (8.25%) Public Sector
17 396 (8.13%) Power BI
18 393 (8.07%) SC Cleared
19 390 (8.01%) Microsoft Excel
20 387 (7.94%) Customer Service
21 384 (7.88%) ITIL
22 375 (7.70%) Analytics
22 375 (7.70%) Cybersecurity
23 373 (7.66%) Data Analysis
24 345 (7.08%) Requirements Gathering
25 329 (6.75%) User Stories
26 321 (6.59%) Python
27 309 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
28 306 (6.28%) Migration

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
1 135 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 122 (2.50%) Confluence
3 81 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (0.82%) CMS
5 31 (0.64%) SAS
6 13 (0.27%) Skype for Business
7 10 (0.21%) Apache
7 10 (0.21%) MTS
7 10 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
8 9 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.18%) Apache Spark
8 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.082%) Appian
10 3 (0.062%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.062%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.041%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.041%) Camunda
11 2 (0.041%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.021%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.021%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 390 (8.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 258 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
3 158 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 127 (2.61%) MS Visio
5 49 (1.01%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.16%) SPSS
8 5 (0.10%) Trello
9 4 (0.082%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.062%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.041%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.021%) InVision
12 1 (0.021%) OmniGraffle
12 1 (0.021%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 46 (0.94%) Endur
2 45 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
3 29 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 27 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
6 21 (0.43%) Aladdin
6 21 (0.43%) Aligne
7 17 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
8 14 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
9 12 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
10 11 (0.23%) Loan IQ
10 11 (0.23%) NEC Housing
10 11 (0.23%) Oracle Cash Management
10 11 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
11 10 (0.21%) EuroRunner
11 10 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
12 9 (0.18%) NetSuite
12 9 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
13 8 (0.16%) Salesforce CRM
14 7 (0.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 404 (8.29%) Azure
2 402 (8.25%) Power Platform
3 309 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
4 150 (3.08%) AWS
5 88 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (1.29%) Snowflake
7 61 (1.25%) SaaS
8 58 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
9 56 (1.15%) Entra ID
10 44 (0.90%) Google Analytics
11 43 (0.88%) Power Automate
12 34 (0.70%) OCI
13 33 (0.68%) GCP
14 32 (0.66%) Azure Sentinel
15 29 (0.60%) Collibra
15 29 (0.60%) PowerApps
16 28 (0.57%) Google Workspace
17 23 (0.47%) OneDrive
17 23 (0.47%) WhatsApp
18 20 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 96 (1.97%) Firewall
2 55 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
3 43 (0.88%) DNS
4 40 (0.82%) Network Security
5 37 (0.76%) VPN
6 33 (0.68%) DHCP
6 33 (0.68%) Wireless
7 30 (0.62%) WAN
8 26 (0.53%) LAN
9 23 (0.47%) TCP/IP
10 22 (0.45%) Internet
11 13 (0.27%) Intranet
11 13 (0.27%) SAN
11 13 (0.27%) Skype
12 11 (0.23%) MPLS
13 10 (0.21%) BGP
14 8 (0.16%) VLAN
15 7 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (0.14%) Cisco ISE
15 7 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 396 (8.13%) Power BI
2 153 (3.14%) Tableau
3 93 (1.91%) SQL Server
4 90 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 37 (0.76%) Metadata
7 34 (0.70%) Big Data
7 34 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 32 (0.66%) Data Mining
9 29 (0.60%) BigQuery
10 27 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
11 25 (0.51%) SAP HANA
11 25 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 23 (0.47%) Looker
12 23 (0.47%) Oracle Database
12 23 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
13 19 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 16 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
14 16 (0.33%) GIS
14 16 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 265 (5.44%) JIRA
2 49 (1.01%) Postman
2 49 (1.01%) Selenium
3 35 (0.72%) Visual Studio
4 28 (0.57%) TestRail
5 22 (0.45%) WebDriver
6 21 (0.43%) Eclipse
7 16 (0.33%) Git
7 16 (0.33%) Jenkins
7 16 (0.33%) SoapUI
8 15 (0.31%) SpecFlow
9 12 (0.25%) JMeter
10 11 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 10 (0.21%) Subversion
12 9 (0.18%) TeamCity
12 9 (0.18%) Zephyr
13 8 (0.16%) Appium
13 8 (0.16%) LoadRunner
13 8 (0.16%) PyCharm
14 7 (0.14%) Artifactory
General
1 1,369 (28.11%) Social Skills
2 1,280 (26.28%) Finance
3 785 (16.12%) Analytical Skills
4 490 (10.06%) Banking
5 402 (8.25%) Public Sector
6 166 (3.41%) Retail
7 155 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 154 (3.16%) Front Office
9 138 (2.83%) Legal
10 137 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
11 121 (2.48%) Back Office
12 115 (2.36%) Investment Banking
12 115 (2.36%) Marketing
13 114 (2.34%) Telecoms
14 110 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
15 108 (2.22%) Manufacturing
16 78 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
17 76 (1.56%) Local Government
18 62 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
19 43 (0.88%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (1.03%) XML
2 46 (0.94%) .NET
3 31 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 29 (0.60%) SailPoint
5 26 (0.53%) Middleware
6 24 (0.49%) JSON
7 18 (0.37%) HTML
8 17 (0.35%) FIX Protocol
9 15 (0.31%) SOAP
10 14 (0.29%) ADO
10 14 (0.29%) Web Services
11 13 (0.27%) AngularJS
11 13 (0.27%) REST
12 12 (0.25%) .NET Framework
13 10 (0.21%) IDoc
13 10 (0.21%) LDAP
14 9 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (0.18%) PySpark
14 9 (0.18%) Swagger
15 8 (0.16%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 212 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 183 (3.76%) Product Ownership
3 108 (2.22%) Derivative
4 92 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
5 77 (1.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 73 (1.50%) Hedge funds
6 73 (1.50%) Security Operations Centre
7 65 (1.33%) Equities
8 62 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 60 (1.23%) Fixed Income
10 58 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
11 55 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
12 47 (0.96%) Mobile App
12 47 (0.96%) NHS
13 46 (0.94%) Credit Risk
14 45 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 44 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
16 42 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
17 41 (0.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 40 (0.82%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 440 (9.03%) Windows
2 162 (3.33%) Windows 10
3 116 (2.38%) Linux
4 59 (1.21%) Windows Server
5 49 (1.01%) Unix
6 44 (0.90%) Android
7 40 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 22 (0.45%) Windows 7
10 15 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (0.29%) Mac OS X
12 12 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
13 9 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 5 (0.10%) Debian
14 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.082%) VMS
16 1 (0.021%) Windows Phone
16 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 806 (16.55%) Agile
2 708 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
3 505 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
4 489 (10.04%) Business Analysis
5 442 (9.07%) Business Intelligence
6 387 (7.94%) Customer Service
7 384 (7.88%) ITIL
8 375 (7.70%) Analytics
8 375 (7.70%) Cybersecurity
9 373 (7.66%) Data Analysis
10 345 (7.08%) Requirements Gathering
11 329 (6.75%) User Stories
12 306 (6.28%) Migration
13 305 (6.26%) Project Management
14 280 (5.75%) Change Management
15 274 (5.63%) User Acceptance Testing
16 237 (4.87%) Data Modelling
17 231 (4.74%) Incident Management
18 225 (4.62%) Decision-Making
19 218 (4.48%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 618 (12.69%) SQL
2 321 (6.59%) Python
3 99 (2.03%) C#
4 78 (1.60%) PowerShell
5 69 (1.42%) Java
6 43 (0.88%) R
7 33 (0.68%) JavaScript
8 32 (0.66%) VBA
9 30 (0.62%) C++
10 22 (0.45%) Shell Script
11 21 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 20 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 20 (0.41%) T-SQL
13 14 (0.29%) C
14 13 (0.27%) Kotlin
14 13 (0.27%) VBScript
15 9 (0.18%) ABAP
16 8 (0.16%) Bash
16 8 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 641 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 459 (9.42%) Degree
3 393 (8.07%) SC Cleared
4 244 (5.01%) DV Cleared
5 82 (1.68%) CISSP
6 66 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 58 (1.19%) CISM
8 53 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (0.99%) A+ Certification
9 48 (0.99%) ISTQB
10 46 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 45 (0.92%) MCP
12 43 (0.88%) MCSA
13 38 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
14 29 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 27 (0.55%) ACCA
15 27 (0.55%) CIMA
16 25 (0.51%) ISEB
17 24 (0.49%) CCNA
17 24 (0.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (4.41%) QA
2 192 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 157 (3.22%) PMO
4 140 (2.87%) SLA
5 98 (2.01%) GDPR
6 85 (1.75%) NIST
7 75 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 36 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
9 27 (0.55%) PCI DSS
10 25 (0.51%) NIST 800
11 24 (0.49%) GxP
12 22 (0.45%) EMIR
13 21 (0.43%) MiFID
14 20 (0.41%) NCSC
14 20 (0.41%) SEPA
15 19 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
15 19 (0.39%) GRC
16 16 (0.33%) Accessibility
16 16 (0.33%) IFRS
17 15 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 287 (5.89%) Active Directory
2 35 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.29%) Hyper-V
3 14 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
5 11 (0.23%) Firmware
6 8 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
7 6 (0.12%) Docker
8 5 (0.10%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
8 5 (0.10%) vSphere
9 3 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.041%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.021%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.021%) Samba
11 1 (0.021%) Snort
11 1 (0.021%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.021%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.021%) XenApp
11 1 (0.021%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 46 (0.94%) SCCM
2 39 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
4 14 (0.29%) Ansible
4 14 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
5 13 (0.27%) Nessus
6 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (0.21%) Nagios
7 9 (0.18%) Kibana
7 9 (0.18%) logstash
7 9 (0.18%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (0.16%) Grafana
8 8 (0.16%) NetBackup
9 7 (0.14%) BladeLogic
10 6 (0.12%) Control-M
10 6 (0.12%) HP ALM
10 6 (0.12%) Kubernetes
10 6 (0.12%) QRadar
10 6 (0.12%) ZABBIX
11 5 (0.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 755 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 252 (5.17%) SAP
3 227 (4.66%) Oracle
4 212 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 114 (2.34%) Citrix
6 91 (1.87%) Salesforce
7 77 (1.58%) Google
8 67 (1.38%) Splunk
9 64 (1.31%) Alteryx
10 53 (1.09%) Bloomberg
11 46 (0.94%) VMware
12 35 (0.72%) Apple
13 31 (0.64%) Ariba
13 31 (0.64%) Atlassian
13 31 (0.64%) Cisco
14 30 (0.62%) Databricks
15 29 (0.60%) Adobe
16 26 (0.53%) LogRhythm
17 23 (0.47%) Darktrace
17 23 (0.47%) Sun