Analyst
UK

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 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 4,893 7,384 11,244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.36% 12.73% 12.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.25% 13.45% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,204 5,244 7,935
10th Percentile £213 £213 £206
25th Percentile £363 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +6.57%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £544
90th Percentile £675 £675 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £410
% change year-on-year - +3.66% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 290 463
10th Percentile £12.84 £12.66 £11.15
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.06 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £18.18 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.35% +17.31% -5.34%
75th Percentile £21.50 £25.00 £22.00
90th Percentile £32.40 £55.00 £34.75
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 39,936 54,901 83,261
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.65% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 38,348 58,485
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 2,673 1,536 2,031
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.13 £64.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
% change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 4,207 £478 -0.26% 1,793
UK excluding London -1 2,332 £425 - 1,028
London -1 2,150 £525 - 823
Work from Home +1 1,657 £488 +2.63% 743
North of England +1 510 £450 +1.12% 281
South East -4 506 £450 +4.65% 239
Scotland +1 342 £418 - 59
Midlands -1 334 £400 -5.88% 206
South West +2 329 £475 - 104
East of England +3 287 £410 +4.13% 121
North West -1 287 £450 +5.88% 153
West Midlands -3 226 £425 - 121
Yorkshire -4 184 £450 -10.00% 103
East Midlands +4 105 £363 -9.38% 85
North East +12 38 £420 +5.00% 27
Wales -8 26 £388 -3.13% 28
Northern Ireland -6 18 £336 -15.94% 18

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 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 1,372 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 1,288 (26.32%) Finance
3 808 (16.51%) Agile
4 787 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
5 755 (15.43%) Microsoft
6 709 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
7 643 (13.14%) Security Cleared
8 619 (12.65%) SQL
9 509 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
10 493 (10.08%) Business Analysis
11 491 (10.03%) Banking
12 465 (9.50%) Degree
13 443 (9.05%) Windows
14 442 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
15 403 (8.24%) Power Platform
16 402 (8.22%) Public Sector
17 401 (8.20%) Azure
18 397 (8.11%) Power BI
19 395 (8.07%) SC Cleared
20 394 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
21 392 (8.01%) Customer Service
22 385 (7.87%) ITIL
23 380 (7.77%) Data Analysis
24 378 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
25 373 (7.62%) Analytics
26 346 (7.07%) Requirements Gathering
27 327 (6.68%) User Stories
28 320 (6.54%) Python
29 309 (6.32%) Project Management
30 308 (6.29%) 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
1 135 (2.76%) SharePoint
2 121 (2.47%) Confluence
3 80 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
4 40 (0.82%) CMS
5 31 (0.63%) SAS
6 13 (0.27%) Skype for Business
7 10 (0.20%) MTS
7 10 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
8 9 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.18%) Apache
8 9 (0.18%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.16%) Apache Spark
10 4 (0.082%) Appian
11 3 (0.061%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.041%) Apache Airflow
12 2 (0.041%) Camunda
12 2 (0.041%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.020%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.020%) OpenStack
Applications
1 394 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 263 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
3 162 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 129 (2.64%) MS Visio
5 48 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
6 26 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.16%) SPSS
8 5 (0.10%) Trello
9 4 (0.082%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.061%) Photoshop
11 2 (0.041%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.020%) InVision
12 1 (0.020%) OmniGraffle
12 1 (0.020%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 47 (0.96%) Endur
2 41 (0.84%) SAP S/4HANA
3 29 (0.59%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 27 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
5 23 (0.47%) 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 (0.22%) Loan IQ
10 11 (0.22%) NEC Housing
10 11 (0.22%) Oracle Cash Management
10 11 (0.22%) Oracle General Ledger
11 10 (0.20%) EuroRunner
11 10 (0.20%) 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
1 403 (8.24%) Power Platform
2 401 (8.20%) Azure
3 308 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
4 150 (3.07%) AWS
5 87 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (1.29%) Snowflake
7 60 (1.23%) SaaS
8 58 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
9 55 (1.12%) Entra ID
10 43 (0.88%) Google Analytics
11 42 (0.86%) Power Automate
12 33 (0.67%) OCI
13 32 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
13 32 (0.65%) GCP
14 29 (0.59%) Collibra
15 28 (0.57%) Google Workspace
15 28 (0.57%) PowerApps
16 23 (0.47%) WhatsApp
17 22 (0.45%) OneDrive
18 20 (0.41%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 96 (1.96%) Firewall
2 55 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
3 43 (0.88%) DNS
4 40 (0.82%) Network Security
5 37 (0.76%) VPN
6 33 (0.67%) DHCP
6 33 (0.67%) Wireless
7 30 (0.61%) 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 (0.22%) MPLS
13 10 (0.20%) 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
1 397 (8.11%) Power BI
2 152 (3.11%) Tableau
3 94 (1.92%) SQL Server
4 90 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
5 43 (0.88%) Relational Database
6 37 (0.76%) Metadata
7 34 (0.69%) Big Data
7 34 (0.69%) Data Lake
8 32 (0.65%) Data Mining
9 28 (0.57%) BigQuery
10 27 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
10 27 (0.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 24 (0.49%) SAP HANA
12 23 (0.47%) Oracle Database
12 23 (0.47%) Qlik Sense
13 22 (0.45%) Looker
14 18 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 17 (0.35%) GIS
16 16 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
16 16 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 263 (5.38%) JIRA
2 48 (0.98%) Postman
3 46 (0.94%) Selenium
4 34 (0.69%) Visual Studio
5 28 (0.57%) TestRail
6 21 (0.43%) Eclipse
7 20 (0.41%) WebDriver
8 16 (0.33%) Git
9 15 (0.31%) Jenkins
9 15 (0.31%) SoapUI
9 15 (0.31%) SpecFlow
10 13 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 12 (0.25%) JMeter
12 10 (0.20%) Subversion
13 9 (0.18%) TeamCity
13 9 (0.18%) Zephyr
14 8 (0.16%) PyCharm
15 7 (0.14%) Artifactory
15 7 (0.14%) Cucumber
15 7 (0.14%) Cypress.io
General
1 1,372 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 1,288 (26.32%) Finance
3 787 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
4 491 (10.03%) Banking
5 402 (8.22%) Public Sector
6 167 (3.41%) Retail
7 156 (3.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 155 (3.17%) Front Office
9 139 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
10 138 (2.82%) Legal
11 121 (2.47%) Back Office
12 116 (2.37%) Investment Banking
13 115 (2.35%) Telecoms
14 114 (2.33%) Marketing
15 111 (2.27%) Manufacturing
16 108 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
17 80 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
18 79 (1.61%) Local Government
19 63 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
20 43 (0.88%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (0.98%) XML
2 45 (0.92%) .NET
3 31 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 31 (0.63%) SailPoint
4 26 (0.53%) Middleware
5 25 (0.51%) JSON
6 18 (0.37%) FIX Protocol
7 17 (0.35%) HTML
8 14 (0.29%) SOAP
8 14 (0.29%) Web Services
9 13 (0.27%) ADO
9 13 (0.27%) AngularJS
9 13 (0.27%) REST
10 12 (0.25%) .NET Framework
11 10 (0.20%) LDAP
12 9 (0.18%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (0.18%) PySpark
12 9 (0.18%) Swagger
13 8 (0.16%) SAP PI
14 7 (0.14%) IDoc
Miscellaneous
1 212 (4.33%) Management Information System
2 181 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 108 (2.21%) Derivative
4 92 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
5 76 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 74 (1.51%) Hedge funds
7 73 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
8 64 (1.31%) Equities
9 62 (1.27%) Onboarding
10 59 (1.21%) Fixed Income
11 58 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
12 55 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
13 47 (0.96%) Credit Risk
13 47 (0.96%) Mobile App
13 47 (0.96%) NHS
14 46 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 44 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
16 43 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
17 41 (0.84%) Cyber Kill Chain
18 40 (0.82%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 443 (9.05%) Windows
2 165 (3.37%) Windows 10
3 116 (2.37%) Linux
4 60 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 49 (1.00%) Unix
6 44 (0.90%) Android
7 40 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.47%) Mac OS
8 23 (0.47%) Windows 7
9 15 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
10 14 (0.29%) Mac OS X
11 12 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
12 9 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 5 (0.10%) Debian
13 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.082%) VMS
15 1 (0.020%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.020%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 808 (16.51%) Agile
2 709 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
3 509 (10.40%) Stakeholder Management
4 493 (10.08%) Business Analysis
5 442 (9.03%) Business Intelligence
6 392 (8.01%) Customer Service
7 385 (7.87%) ITIL
8 380 (7.77%) Data Analysis
9 378 (7.73%) Cybersecurity
10 373 (7.62%) Analytics
11 346 (7.07%) Requirements Gathering
12 327 (6.68%) User Stories
13 309 (6.32%) Project Management
14 307 (6.27%) Migration
15 284 (5.80%) Change Management
16 269 (5.50%) User Acceptance Testing
17 239 (4.88%) Data Modelling
18 231 (4.72%) Incident Management
19 227 (4.64%) Decision-Making
20 218 (4.46%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 619 (12.65%) SQL
2 320 (6.54%) Python
3 98 (2.00%) C#
4 78 (1.59%) PowerShell
5 68 (1.39%) Java
6 43 (0.88%) R
7 32 (0.65%) JavaScript
7 32 (0.65%) VBA
8 31 (0.63%) C++
9 22 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 21 (0.43%) PL/SQL
11 20 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 20 (0.41%) T-SQL
12 14 (0.29%) C
13 13 (0.27%) Kotlin
13 13 (0.27%) VBScript
14 9 (0.18%) ABAP
15 8 (0.16%) Bash
15 8 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
15 8 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 643 (13.14%) Security Cleared
2 465 (9.50%) Degree
3 395 (8.07%) SC Cleared
4 244 (4.99%) DV Cleared
5 81 (1.66%) CISSP
6 66 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (1.16%) CISM
8 53 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 48 (0.98%) A+ Certification
9 48 (0.98%) ISTQB
9 48 (0.98%) MCP
10 47 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 43 (0.88%) MCSA
12 38 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
13 29 (0.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 28 (0.57%) ACCA
14 28 (0.57%) CIMA
15 25 (0.51%) ISEB
15 25 (0.51%) ITIL Certification
16 24 (0.49%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 219 (4.48%) QA
2 193 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 162 (3.31%) PMO
4 142 (2.90%) SLA
5 99 (2.02%) GDPR
6 85 (1.74%) NIST
7 75 (1.53%) 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 18 (0.37%) Accessibility
17 16 (0.33%) IFRS
18 15 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 286 (5.85%) 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 (0.22%) 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 (0.061%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.041%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.020%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.020%) Samba
11 1 (0.020%) Snort
11 1 (0.020%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.020%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.020%) XenApp
11 1 (0.020%) 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 (0.20%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (0.20%) 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 (15.43%) Microsoft
2 253 (5.17%) SAP
3 226 (4.62%) Oracle
4 211 (4.31%) ServiceNow
5 116 (2.37%) Citrix
6 92 (1.88%) Salesforce
7 77 (1.57%) Google
8 67 (1.37%) Splunk
9 64 (1.31%) Alteryx
10 54 (1.10%) Bloomberg
11 46 (0.94%) VMware
12 34 (0.69%) Apple
13 31 (0.63%) Atlassian
13 31 (0.63%) Cisco
13 31 (0.63%) Databricks
14 29 (0.59%) Adobe
14 29 (0.59%) Ariba
15 26 (0.53%) LogRhythm
16 24 (0.49%) OpenLink
16 24 (0.49%) Sun