Junior Analyst Contracts

Junior Analyst
UK

The median Junior Analyst daily rate in the UK is £290, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 615 749
Rank change year-on-year +62 +134 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Junior Analyst 31 82 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.071% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.076% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 59 62
10th Percentile £200 £136 £126
25th Percentile £270 £160 £168
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £270 £270
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% - +3.85%
75th Percentile £313 £350 £389
90th Percentile £340 £408 £498
UK excluding London median daily rate £290 £213 £180
% change year-on-year +36.47% +18.06% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 7
10th Percentile - £12.30 £12.55
25th Percentile - £13.03 £15.37
Median hourly rate £12.30 £14.62 £19.46
Median % change year-on-year -15.87% -24.87% -10.49%
75th Percentile £14.50 £18.06 £21.70
90th Percentile £15.33 £21.88 £22.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.30 £15.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -18.00% -25.00% +15.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Junior Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior Analyst in the UK

Junior Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Junior Analyst in the UK

Junior Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior Analyst over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Junior Analyst in the UK

Junior Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior Analyst in the UK

Junior Analyst
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +34 21 £290 +7.41% 27
UK excluding London -1 20 £290 +36.47% 20
London +62 10 £300 +9.29% 9
Work from Home +105 9 £310 -8.82% 12
Scotland +51 8 £200 +73.91% 2
Midlands +6 3 £245 -18.33% 5
South East +6 3 £253 +71.19% 3
East of England -4 3 £290 +7.41% 4
West Midlands +11 2 £290 +45.00% 2
North of England +13 1 £325 +62.50% 5
Yorkshire +13 1 £325 +116.67%
East Midlands +3 1 £200 -42.86% 3
South West +1 1 - - 3
Wales - 1 - -

Junior Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Junior 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 Junior Analyst in the job title.

1 11 (35.48%) Microsoft Excel
1 11 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (29.03%) Data Analysis
2 9 (29.03%) Degree
3 7 (22.58%) Back Office
3 7 (22.58%) Finance
4 6 (19.35%) Agile
4 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
5 5 (16.13%) Business Strategy
5 5 (16.13%) SQL
5 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
5 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (12.90%) Visualisation
6 4 (12.90%) Linux
6 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (9.68%) Darktrace
7 3 (9.68%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (9.68%) Incident Response
7 3 (9.68%) CMS
7 3 (9.68%) Change Management
7 3 (9.68%) Validation
7 3 (9.68%) Windows
7 3 (9.68%) LDAP
7 3 (9.68%) Symantec
7 3 (9.68%) SMTP
7 3 (9.68%) FTP
7 3 (9.68%) HTTP

Junior 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 3 (9.68%) CMS
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.23%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.23%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.68%) DNS
1 3 (9.68%) FTP
1 3 (9.68%) HTTP
1 3 (9.68%) SMTP
1 3 (9.68%) SSL
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Power BI
2 1 (3.23%) Data Mining
2 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.23%) MySQL
2 1 (3.23%) Power Query
2 1 (3.23%) SAP HANA
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (3.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
1 1 (3.23%) JIRA
1 1 (3.23%) Selenium
General
1 7 (22.58%) Back Office
1 7 (22.58%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Legal
4 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Automotive
5 1 (3.23%) Electronics
5 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.23%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) LDAP
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.68%) Cyberattack
1 3 (9.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.23%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 3 (9.68%) Windows
3 1 (3.23%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (29.03%) Data Analysis
3 6 (19.35%) Agile
4 5 (16.13%) Business Strategy
5 4 (12.90%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (12.90%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (12.90%) Visualisation
6 3 (9.68%) Change Management
6 3 (9.68%) Incident Response
6 3 (9.68%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (9.68%) User Experience
6 3 (9.68%) Validation
7 2 (6.45%) Analytics
7 2 (6.45%) Data Collection
7 2 (6.45%) Data Visualisation
7 2 (6.45%) Statistics
7 2 (6.45%) Supplier Management
7 2 (6.45%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.13%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) Python
2 2 (6.45%) VBA
3 1 (3.23%) Java
3 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (29.03%) Degree
2 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) HIPAA
2 1 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.23%) NIST
2 1 (3.23%) PMO
2 1 (3.23%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Darktrace
1 3 (9.68%) FireEye
1 3 (9.68%) IronPort
1 3 (9.68%) LogRhythm
1 3 (9.68%) Splunk
1 3 (9.68%) Symantec
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.23%) SAP
3 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow