Analyst
UK

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 9 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 4,835 7,211 11,324
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.33% 12.71% 12.92%
As % of the Job Titles category 12.21% 13.43% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,169 5,127 8,010
10th Percentile £213 £213 £210
25th Percentile £363 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +6.64%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £410
% change year-on-year - +3.66% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 278 448
10th Percentile £12.75 £12.65 £11.24
25th Percentile £14.16 £13.97 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £18.14 £15.64
Median % change year-on-year -10.14% +16.02% -3.78%
75th Percentile £21.64 £23.94 £22.81
90th Percentile £31.24 £39.72 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.84 £17.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year -6.82% +9.68% +0.16%

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 39,595 53,688 83,596
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.62% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,759 37,488 58,802
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% +7.69%
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% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,752 1,485 1,990
10th Percentile £12.79 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +7.26%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.94 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +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 26 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 26 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 26 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 4,182 £475 -2.56% 2,312
UK excluding London +1 2,318 £425 - 1,475
London -1 2,119 £525 - 1,121
Work from Home 0 1,588 £488 +2.63% 920
South East -4 508 £450 +4.65% 519
North of England 0 503 £450 - 362
Midlands +1 348 £400 -5.88% 215
Scotland +1 325 £413 -2.94% 84
South West +3 323 £475 - 126
North West -1 294 £450 +5.88% 216
East of England +2 289 £410 +2.50% 148
West Midlands -1 239 £425 -5.56% 126
Yorkshire -4 172 £450 -10.00% 119
East Midlands +4 105 £363 -9.38% 82
North East +9 36 £420 +5.00% 30
Wales -6 27 £388 -3.13% 30
Northern Ireland -11 16 £338 -15.63% 22

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 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 1,350 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 1,264 (26.14%) Finance
3 818 (16.92%) Agile
4 784 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
5 745 (15.41%) Microsoft
6 697 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
7 642 (13.28%) SQL
8 620 (12.82%) Security Cleared
9 520 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
10 488 (10.09%) Banking
10 488 (10.09%) Business Analysis
11 456 (9.43%) Degree
12 449 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
13 438 (9.06%) Windows
14 410 (8.48%) Power Platform
15 401 (8.29%) Power BI
16 400 (8.27%) Azure
17 399 (8.25%) Microsoft Excel
18 394 (8.15%) Public Sector
19 384 (7.94%) Customer Service
19 384 (7.94%) Analytics
20 381 (7.88%) ITIL
21 377 (7.80%) SC Cleared
22 373 (7.71%) Data Analysis
23 355 (7.34%) Cybersecurity
24 349 (7.22%) Python
24 349 (7.22%) Requirements Gathering
25 326 (6.74%) User Stories
26 320 (6.62%) Migration
27 304 (6.29%) Project Management

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
1 141 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 129 (2.67%) Confluence
3 78 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 41 (0.85%) CMS
5 36 (0.74%) 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%) OpenEdge
13 2 (0.041%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.041%) Camunda
13 2 (0.041%) LiveLink
13 2 (0.041%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.021%) Jupyter
14 1 (0.021%) OpenStack
Applications
1 399 (8.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 251 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
3 161 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 126 (2.61%) MS Visio
5 48 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
6 20 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
7 9 (0.19%) 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%) OmniGraffle
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 11 (0.23%) Loan IQ
9 11 (0.23%) NEC Housing
9 11 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 10 (0.21%) EuroRunner
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle General Ledger
11 9 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
12 8 (0.17%) NetSuite
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle EBS R12
13 7 (0.14%) Oracle Assets
13 7 (0.14%) SAP PM
13 7 (0.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 410 (8.48%) Power Platform
2 400 (8.27%) Azure
3 304 (6.29%) Microsoft 365
4 152 (3.14%) AWS
5 91 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
6 66 (1.37%) SaaS
7 64 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
7 64 (1.32%) Snowflake
8 55 (1.14%) Entra ID
9 46 (0.95%) Google Analytics
9 46 (0.95%) Power Automate
10 35 (0.72%) GCP
11 34 (0.70%) PowerApps
12 32 (0.66%) OCI
13 29 (0.60%) Collibra
14 27 (0.56%) Azure Sentinel
14 27 (0.56%) Google Workspace
14 27 (0.56%) OneDrive
15 23 (0.48%) WhatsApp
16 16 (0.33%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 98 (2.03%) Firewall
2 58 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
3 43 (0.89%) DNS
4 37 (0.77%) Network Security
5 36 (0.74%) VPN
6 33 (0.68%) DHCP
6 33 (0.68%) Wireless
7 30 (0.62%) 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%) Intrusion Detection
14 7 (0.14%) VLAN
15 6 (0.12%) Cisco ASA
15 6 (0.12%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 401 (8.29%) Power BI
2 162 (3.35%) Tableau
3 94 (1.94%) SQL Server
4 87 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 48 (0.99%) Relational Database
6 37 (0.77%) 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 26 (0.54%) 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 21 (0.43%) SAP HANA
15 17 (0.35%) GIS
16 16 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
17 15 (0.31%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 270 (5.58%) JIRA
2 51 (1.05%) Postman
2 51 (1.05%) Selenium
3 35 (0.72%) Visual Studio
4 26 (0.54%) TestRail
5 22 (0.46%) 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 1,350 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 1,264 (26.14%) Finance
3 784 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 488 (10.09%) Banking
5 394 (8.15%) Public Sector
6 170 (3.52%) Retail
7 158 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 154 (3.19%) Front Office
9 137 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
10 136 (2.81%) Legal
11 122 (2.52%) Back Office
12 119 (2.46%) Investment Banking
13 113 (2.34%) Marketing
14 110 (2.28%) Telecoms
15 109 (2.25%) Manufacturing
16 101 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
17 77 (1.59%) Local Government
18 72 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
19 58 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
20 48 (0.99%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (0.97%) XML
2 43 (0.89%) .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
2 177 (3.66%) Product Ownership
3 110 (2.28%) Derivative
4 88 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
5 79 (1.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 73 (1.51%) Security Operations Centre
7 71 (1.47%) Hedge funds
8 66 (1.37%) Equities
9 61 (1.26%) Fixed Income
10 60 (1.24%) Onboarding
10 60 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
11 55 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
12 50 (1.03%) Credit Risk
13 49 (1.01%) Mobile App
14 44 (0.91%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 43 (0.89%) NHS
16 42 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
17 41 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
18 39 (0.81%) Cyber Kill Chain
19 38 (0.79%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 438 (9.06%) Windows
2 156 (3.23%) Windows 10
3 118 (2.44%) Linux
4 59 (1.22%) Windows Server
5 48 (0.99%) Unix
6 46 (0.95%) Android
7 41 (0.85%) Apple iOS
8 22 (0.46%) 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 Server 2003
17 1 (0.021%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 818 (16.92%) Agile
2 697 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
3 520 (10.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 488 (10.09%) Business Analysis
5 449 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
6 384 (7.94%) Analytics
6 384 (7.94%) Customer Service
7 381 (7.88%) ITIL
8 373 (7.71%) Data Analysis
9 355 (7.34%) Cybersecurity
10 349 (7.22%) Requirements Gathering
11 326 (6.74%) User Stories
12 320 (6.62%) Migration
13 304 (6.29%) Project Management
14 276 (5.71%) User Acceptance Testing
15 267 (5.52%) Change Management
16 227 (4.69%) Incident Management
17 223 (4.61%) Data Modelling
18 220 (4.55%) Decision-Making
19 219 (4.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 642 (13.28%) SQL
2 349 (7.22%) Python
3 94 (1.94%) C#
4 79 (1.63%) PowerShell
5 77 (1.59%) Java
6 48 (0.99%) R
7 38 (0.79%) JavaScript
8 34 (0.70%) VBA
9 30 (0.62%) C++
10 23 (0.48%) T-SQL
11 22 (0.46%) PL/SQL
11 22 (0.46%) 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
1 620 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 456 (9.43%) Degree
3 377 (7.80%) SC Cleared
4 231 (4.78%) DV Cleared
5 73 (1.51%) CISSP
6 62 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 50 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (0.95%) CISM
9 46 (0.95%) ISTQB
10 45 (0.93%) A+ Certification
11 43 (0.89%) MCSA
12 37 (0.77%) MCP
13 36 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
14 27 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 26 (0.54%) ACCA
15 26 (0.54%) CIMA
15 26 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
15 26 (0.54%) Master's Degree
16 24 (0.50%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (4.38%) QA
2 198 (4.10%) Data Quality
3 157 (3.25%) PMO
4 138 (2.85%) SLA
5 98 (2.03%) GDPR
6 76 (1.57%) NIST
7 69 (1.43%) 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 (0.46%) 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
1 278 (5.75%) 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 48 (0.99%) SCCM
2 41 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (0.31%) ITRS Geneos
4 14 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
4 14 (0.29%) Nessus
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
1 745 (15.41%) Microsoft
2 237 (4.90%) SAP
3 224 (4.63%) Oracle
4 208 (4.30%) ServiceNow
5 110 (2.28%) Citrix
6 94 (1.94%) Salesforce
7 78 (1.61%) Google
8 66 (1.37%) Alteryx
8 66 (1.37%) Splunk
9 53 (1.10%) Bloomberg
10 45 (0.93%) VMware
11 39 (0.81%) Apple
12 32 (0.66%) Atlassian
13 30 (0.62%) Ariba
14 29 (0.60%) Adobe
14 29 (0.60%) Cisco
15 28 (0.58%) LogRhythm
16 26 (0.54%) Databricks
17 24 (0.50%) Darktrace
18 21 (0.43%) FireEye