Analyst
UK

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475 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 8 8
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +3
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 4,842 7,179 11,317
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.39% 12.69% 12.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.27% 13.42% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,175 5,101 8,002
10th Percentile £213 £213 £209
25th Percentile £363 £367 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +6.19%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £548
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £426 £407
% change year-on-year -0.23% +4.67% +8.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 281 451
10th Percentile £12.75 £12.67 £11.15
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.00 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £18.14 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +17.03% -4.62%
75th Percentile £21.64 £24.00 £22.39
90th Percentile £31.34 £39.60 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.79 £17.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -7.12% +9.68% +0.32%

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 39,467 53,505 83,509
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.60% 95.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,700 37,347 58,712
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
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% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,724 1,494 2,029
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.95 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%

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 23 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 23 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 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
England -1 4,181 £475 -2.56% 1,919
UK excluding London 0 2,325 £425 -0.23% 1,145
London -1 2,118 £525 - 825
Work from Home +1 1,595 £488 +2.63% 807
South East -5 511 £450 +4.65% 278
North of England 0 501 £450 - 332
Midlands +1 346 £400 -5.88% 202
Scotland 0 332 £415 -2.35% 74
South West +3 324 £475 - 125
North West -1 290 £450 +5.88% 191
East of England +1 289 £410 +1.23% 118
West Midlands 0 237 £425 -5.56% 118
Yorkshire -3 174 £450 -10.00% 108
East Midlands +2 105 £363 -9.38% 84
North East +10 36 £420 +5.00% 36
Wales -5 27 £388 -8.82% 27
Northern Ireland -10 16 £338 -14.29% 16

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

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 featuring Analyst in the job title.

1 1,358 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 1,271 (26.25%) Finance
3 820 (16.94%) Agile
4 787 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
5 747 (15.43%) Microsoft
6 703 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
7 637 (13.16%) SQL
8 621 (12.83%) Security Cleared
9 518 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 489 (10.10%) Business Analysis
11 487 (10.06%) Banking
12 457 (9.44%) Business Intelligence
13 456 (9.42%) Degree
14 437 (9.03%) Windows
15 416 (8.59%) Power Platform
16 407 (8.41%) Power BI
17 405 (8.36%) Microsoft Excel
17 405 (8.36%) Azure
18 398 (8.22%) Public Sector
19 382 (7.89%) Analytics
19 382 (7.89%) Customer Service
20 381 (7.87%) ITIL
21 377 (7.79%) SC Cleared
22 370 (7.64%) Data Analysis
23 362 (7.48%) Cybersecurity
24 346 (7.15%) Requirements Gathering
25 345 (7.13%) Python
26 327 (6.75%) User Stories
27 319 (6.59%) Migration
28 307 (6.34%) Microsoft 365

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
1 142 (2.93%) SharePoint
2 131 (2.71%) Confluence
3 80 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 41 (0.85%) CMS
5 34 (0.70%) SAS
6 13 (0.27%) Skype for Business
7 11 (0.23%) Apache
8 10 (0.21%) MTS
8 10 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
9 9 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 8 (0.17%) ArcGIS
11 4 (0.083%) Appian
12 3 (0.062%) Camunda
12 3 (0.062%) OpenEdge
12 3 (0.062%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.041%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.041%) LiveLink
14 1 (0.021%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.021%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 405 (8.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 253 (5.23%) Microsoft Office
3 161 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 126 (2.60%) MS Visio
5 48 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
6 20 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.17%) SPSS
8 5 (0.10%) Trello
9 4 (0.083%) 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 43 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (0.81%) Endur
3 29 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 27 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
6 21 (0.43%) Aligne
7 19 (0.39%) Aladdin
8 17 (0.35%) Oracle Financials
9 12 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
10 11 (0.23%) Loan IQ
10 11 (0.23%) NEC Housing
11 10 (0.21%) EuroRunner
11 10 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
12 9 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
13 8 (0.17%) NetSuite
13 8 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
13 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
14 7 (0.14%) SAP PM
14 7 (0.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 416 (8.59%) Power Platform
2 405 (8.36%) Azure
3 307 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
4 152 (3.14%) AWS
5 93 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
6 64 (1.32%) SaaS
6 64 (1.32%) Snowflake
7 63 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
8 56 (1.16%) Entra ID
9 46 (0.95%) Google Analytics
9 46 (0.95%) Power Automate
10 35 (0.72%) GCP
10 35 (0.72%) PowerApps
11 33 (0.68%) OCI
12 29 (0.60%) Collibra
13 28 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
14 27 (0.56%) Google Workspace
14 27 (0.56%) OneDrive
15 23 (0.48%) WhatsApp
16 17 (0.35%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 101 (2.09%) Firewall
2 58 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
3 43 (0.89%) DNS
4 38 (0.78%) Network Security
5 36 (0.74%) VPN
6 33 (0.68%) DHCP
6 33 (0.68%) Wireless
7 29 (0.60%) WAN
8 25 (0.52%) LAN
9 23 (0.48%) Internet
9 23 (0.48%) TCP/IP
10 13 (0.27%) Skype
11 12 (0.25%) Intranet
11 12 (0.25%) SAN
12 11 (0.23%) MPLS
13 10 (0.21%) BGP
14 7 (0.14%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (0.14%) Cisco ISE
14 7 (0.14%) Intrusion Detection
14 7 (0.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 407 (8.41%) Power BI
2 161 (3.33%) Tableau
3 93 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 87 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 47 (0.97%) Relational Database
6 37 (0.76%) Metadata
7 36 (0.74%) Big Data
8 34 (0.70%) Data Lake
8 34 (0.70%) Data Mining
9 30 (0.62%) BigQuery
10 28 (0.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 27 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
12 24 (0.50%) Looker
12 24 (0.50%) Oracle Database
13 23 (0.48%) Qlik Sense
13 23 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 22 (0.45%) SAP HANA
15 16 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
15 16 (0.33%) GIS
16 15 (0.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 272 (5.62%) JIRA
2 51 (1.05%) Postman
2 51 (1.05%) Selenium
3 35 (0.72%) Visual Studio
4 26 (0.54%) TestRail
5 22 (0.45%) WebDriver
6 18 (0.37%) Eclipse
7 17 (0.35%) Git
7 17 (0.35%) Jenkins
7 17 (0.35%) SoapUI
8 14 (0.29%) JMeter
8 14 (0.29%) SpecFlow
9 11 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.21%) Subversion
11 9 (0.19%) Cucumber
11 9 (0.19%) TeamCity
12 8 (0.17%) Appium
12 8 (0.17%) Cypress.io
12 8 (0.17%) PyCharm
12 8 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 1,358 (28.05%) Social Skills
2 1,271 (26.25%) Finance
3 787 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
4 487 (10.06%) Banking
5 398 (8.22%) Public Sector
6 171 (3.53%) Retail
7 158 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 155 (3.20%) Front Office
9 138 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
10 137 (2.83%) Legal
11 122 (2.52%) Back Office
12 116 (2.40%) Investment Banking
12 116 (2.40%) Marketing
13 111 (2.29%) Telecoms
14 109 (2.25%) Manufacturing
15 103 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
16 77 (1.59%) Local Government
17 72 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
18 61 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
19 47 (0.97%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (0.97%) XML
2 44 (0.91%) .NET
3 30 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
4 29 (0.60%) SailPoint
5 27 (0.56%) Middleware
6 19 (0.39%) JSON
7 18 (0.37%) HTML
8 17 (0.35%) ADO
8 17 (0.35%) FIX Protocol
9 13 (0.27%) AngularJS
9 13 (0.27%) SOAP
10 12 (0.25%) .NET Framework
10 12 (0.25%) Web Services
11 11 (0.23%) LDAP
12 10 (0.21%) IDoc
12 10 (0.21%) PySpark
12 10 (0.21%) REST
13 9 (0.19%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (0.17%) SAP PI
15 7 (0.14%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 208 (4.30%) Management Information System
2 179 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 111 (2.29%) Derivative
4 88 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
5 80 (1.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 73 (1.51%) Security Operations Centre
7 72 (1.49%) Hedge funds
8 67 (1.38%) Equities
9 62 (1.28%) Fixed Income
10 60 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
11 58 (1.20%) Onboarding
12 55 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
13 52 (1.07%) Credit Risk
14 50 (1.03%) Mobile App
15 44 (0.91%) NHS
15 44 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 42 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
17 41 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
18 39 (0.81%) Cyber Kill Chain
19 38 (0.78%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 437 (9.03%) Windows
2 156 (3.22%) Windows 10
3 117 (2.42%) Linux
4 60 (1.24%) Windows Server
5 48 (0.99%) Unix
6 46 (0.95%) Android
7 42 (0.87%) Apple iOS
8 22 (0.45%) Windows 7
9 21 (0.43%) Mac OS
10 16 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
11 15 (0.31%) Mac OS X
12 13 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
15 5 (0.10%) Debian
15 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.083%) VMS
17 1 (0.021%) Windows Phone
17 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 820 (16.94%) Agile
2 703 (14.52%) Problem-Solving
3 518 (10.70%) Stakeholder Management
4 489 (10.10%) Business Analysis
5 457 (9.44%) Business Intelligence
6 382 (7.89%) Analytics
6 382 (7.89%) Customer Service
7 381 (7.87%) ITIL
8 370 (7.64%) Data Analysis
9 362 (7.48%) Cybersecurity
10 346 (7.15%) Requirements Gathering
11 327 (6.75%) User Stories
12 319 (6.59%) Migration
13 303 (6.26%) Project Management
14 276 (5.70%) User Acceptance Testing
15 270 (5.58%) Change Management
16 226 (4.67%) Incident Management
17 221 (4.56%) Data Modelling
18 220 (4.54%) Decision-Making
19 219 (4.52%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 637 (13.16%) SQL
2 345 (7.13%) Python
3 94 (1.94%) C#
4 78 (1.61%) PowerShell
5 77 (1.59%) Java
6 47 (0.97%) R
7 38 (0.78%) JavaScript
8 34 (0.70%) VBA
9 30 (0.62%) C++
10 23 (0.48%) T-SQL
11 22 (0.45%) PL/SQL
11 22 (0.45%) Shell Script
12 20 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 17 (0.35%) C
13 17 (0.35%) VBScript
14 13 (0.27%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.21%) ABAP
16 9 (0.19%) VB
17 8 (0.17%) Kusto Query Language
17 8 (0.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 621 (12.83%) Security Cleared
2 456 (9.42%) Degree
3 377 (7.79%) SC Cleared
4 232 (4.79%) DV Cleared
5 81 (1.67%) CISSP
6 62 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 55 (1.14%) CISM
8 49 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
10 46 (0.95%) A+ Certification
10 46 (0.95%) ISTQB
11 43 (0.89%) MCSA
12 37 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
12 37 (0.76%) MCP
13 27 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 26 (0.54%) ACCA
14 26 (0.54%) CIMA
14 26 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
14 26 (0.54%) Master's Degree
15 24 (0.50%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (4.38%) QA
2 195 (4.03%) Data Quality
3 156 (3.22%) PMO
4 138 (2.85%) SLA
5 98 (2.02%) GDPR
6 78 (1.61%) NIST
7 71 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 35 (0.72%) Disclosure Scotland
9 25 (0.52%) GxP
9 25 (0.52%) PCI DSS
10 23 (0.48%) NIST 800
11 22 (0.45%) EMIR
12 21 (0.43%) MiFID
13 19 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
13 19 (0.39%) SEPA
14 18 (0.37%) NCSC
15 17 (0.35%) GRC
16 16 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
16 16 (0.33%) IFRS
17 15 (0.31%) GAAP
System Software
1 280 (5.78%) Active Directory
2 34 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (0.29%) Firmware
3 14 (0.29%) Hyper-V
3 14 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
5 9 (0.19%) Docker
6 8 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
7 5 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.10%) vSphere
8 4 (0.083%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.062%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.062%) XenApp
10 2 (0.041%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.041%) XenDesktop
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
Systems Management
1 50 (1.03%) SCCM
2 41 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
3 15 (0.31%) Nessus
4 14 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
5 13 (0.27%) Ansible
6 11 (0.23%) Nagios
7 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
7 10 (0.21%) Terraform
8 9 (0.19%) Kibana
8 9 (0.19%) logstash
9 8 (0.17%) Grafana
9 8 (0.17%) NetBackup
9 8 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.14%) BladeLogic
10 7 (0.14%) Control-M
10 7 (0.14%) QRadar
10 7 (0.14%) ZABBIX
11 6 (0.12%) Kubernetes
12 5 (0.10%) WSUS
Vendors
1 747 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 237 (4.89%) SAP
3 224 (4.63%) Oracle
4 208 (4.30%) ServiceNow
5 113 (2.33%) Citrix
6 92 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 78 (1.61%) Google
8 66 (1.36%) Alteryx
8 66 (1.36%) Splunk
9 54 (1.12%) Bloomberg
10 45 (0.93%) VMware
11 39 (0.81%) Apple
12 32 (0.66%) Atlassian
13 30 (0.62%) Adobe
13 30 (0.62%) Ariba
13 30 (0.62%) Cisco
14 28 (0.58%) LogRhythm
15 27 (0.56%) Databricks
16 24 (0.50%) Darktrace
17 23 (0.48%) Qualys