Analyst Contracts

Analyst
UK

The median Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 9 8
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +2
Contract jobs requiring an Analyst 4,824 7,023 11,246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.14% 12.64% 12.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 11.99% 13.37% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,175 5,000 7,983
10th Percentile £213 £213 £213
25th Percentile £358 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £451
Median % change year-on-year - +5.44% +6.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £700 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £413
% change year-on-year - +3.03% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 273 441
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.00 £11.36
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.00 £13.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £18.23 £15.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% +15.71% -3.08%
75th Percentile £21.66 £23.75 £22.40
90th Percentile £35.50 £39.03 £35.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.00 £17.21 £15.50
% change year-on-year -7.03% +11.03% +1.64%

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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
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% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

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 June 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 June 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 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 -1 4,178 £475 -2.56% 1,836
UK excluding London 0 2,348 £425 - 1,165
London -1 2,097 £520 -0.95% 730
Work from Home -1 1,574 £475 - 784
South East -4 528 £450 +2.86% 274
North of England -2 507 £450 - 340
Midlands -1 364 £400 -5.88% 179
Scotland +1 327 £400 -4.19% 99
South West +6 312 £475 - 147
North West -3 294 £441 +3.65% 213
East of England +3 284 £410 +7.19% 112
West Midlands -1 248 £423 -6.11% 97
Yorkshire -3 172 £450 -10.00% 94
East Midlands +1 112 £363 -9.38% 82
North East +7 40 £435 +8.75% 37
Wales +2 35 £190 -51.28% 29
Northern Ireland -12 16 £338 -15.63% 11

Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 1,341 (27.80%) Social Skills
2 1,244 (25.79%) Finance
3 831 (17.23%) Agile
4 789 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
5 732 (15.17%) Microsoft
6 692 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
7 666 (13.81%) SQL
8 619 (12.83%) Security Cleared
9 529 (10.97%) Stakeholder Management
10 491 (10.18%) Business Analysis
11 472 (9.78%) Banking
12 464 (9.62%) Degree
13 457 (9.47%) Business Intelligence
14 425 (8.81%) Windows
15 414 (8.58%) Power Platform
16 403 (8.35%) Azure
16 403 (8.35%) Public Sector
17 402 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
17 402 (8.33%) Power BI
18 394 (8.17%) Analytics
19 386 (8.00%) Customer Service
20 382 (7.92%) SC Cleared
21 380 (7.88%) ITIL
22 362 (7.50%) Data Analysis
23 356 (7.38%) Python
24 349 (7.23%) Requirements Gathering
25 347 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
26 335 (6.94%) User Stories
27 321 (6.65%) Migration
28 312 (6.47%) 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
1 146 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 133 (2.76%) Confluence
3 73 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 41 (0.85%) SAS
5 39 (0.81%) CMS
6 13 (0.27%) Apache
7 10 (0.21%) SharePoint Server
7 10 (0.21%) Skype for Business
8 9 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 9 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 8 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 7 (0.15%) MTS
11 4 (0.083%) Appian
12 3 (0.062%) OpenEdge
13 2 (0.041%) Apache Airflow
13 2 (0.041%) LiveLink
13 2 (0.041%) Oracle Workflow
14 1 (0.021%) Alfresco
14 1 (0.021%) nginx
14 1 (0.021%) Tomcat
Applications
1 402 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 239 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
3 152 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 113 (2.34%) MS Visio
5 52 (1.08%) Spreadsheet
6 18 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
7 11 (0.23%) SPSS
8 8 (0.17%) Trello
9 4 (0.083%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.062%) Acrobat
10 3 (0.062%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.021%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.021%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 42 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (0.66%) Endur
3 26 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 25 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
5 24 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
6 19 (0.39%) Aladdin
7 18 (0.37%) Aligne
8 13 (0.27%) NEC Housing
8 13 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
9 11 (0.23%) Loan IQ
9 11 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
10 10 (0.21%) Maximo
11 9 (0.19%) NetSuite
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle Cash Management
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
12 8 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
13 7 (0.15%) EuroRunner
13 7 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
13 7 (0.15%) SAP ERP
13 7 (0.15%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 414 (8.58%) Power Platform
2 403 (8.35%) Azure
3 309 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
4 146 (3.03%) AWS
5 92 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
6 68 (1.41%) SaaS
7 65 (1.35%) Snowflake
8 62 (1.29%) Dynamics 365
9 59 (1.22%) Entra ID
10 47 (0.97%) Google Analytics
10 47 (0.97%) Power Automate
11 37 (0.77%) PowerApps
12 33 (0.68%) GCP
13 31 (0.64%) OCI
14 30 (0.62%) OneDrive
15 27 (0.56%) Collibra
15 27 (0.56%) Google Workspace
16 26 (0.54%) Azure Sentinel
17 21 (0.44%) WhatsApp
18 17 (0.35%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 94 (1.95%) Firewall
2 62 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
3 40 (0.83%) DNS
4 36 (0.75%) VPN
5 33 (0.68%) WAN
6 32 (0.66%) Network Security
7 31 (0.64%) DHCP
7 31 (0.64%) Wireless
8 27 (0.56%) LAN
9 23 (0.48%) Internet
10 20 (0.41%) TCP/IP
11 13 (0.27%) Intranet
12 12 (0.25%) SAN
13 11 (0.23%) MPLS
14 10 (0.21%) BGP
14 10 (0.21%) Skype
15 7 (0.15%) HTTP
15 7 (0.15%) VLAN
16 6 (0.12%) Cisco ASA
16 6 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 402 (8.33%) Power BI
2 167 (3.46%) Tableau
3 96 (1.99%) SQL Server
4 92 (1.91%) Data Warehouse
5 49 (1.02%) Relational Database
6 37 (0.77%) Big Data
6 37 (0.77%) Data Lake
7 35 (0.73%) Metadata
8 33 (0.68%) Data Mining
9 30 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 28 (0.58%) BigQuery
11 26 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
11 26 (0.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 24 (0.50%) Oracle Database
12 24 (0.50%) Qlik Sense
13 23 (0.48%) Looker
14 20 (0.41%) SAP HANA
15 18 (0.37%) GIS
15 18 (0.37%) NoSQL
16 17 (0.35%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 274 (5.68%) JIRA
2 51 (1.06%) Postman
2 51 (1.06%) Selenium
3 37 (0.77%) Visual Studio
4 24 (0.50%) TestRail
5 22 (0.46%) WebDriver
6 20 (0.41%) Git
7 18 (0.37%) SoapUI
8 17 (0.35%) Eclipse
8 17 (0.35%) Jenkins
9 14 (0.29%) JMeter
9 14 (0.29%) SpecFlow
10 13 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 10 (0.21%) Subversion
12 9 (0.19%) TeamCity
13 8 (0.17%) Appium
13 8 (0.17%) Cucumber
13 8 (0.17%) Cypress.io
13 8 (0.17%) LoadRunner
13 8 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 1,341 (27.80%) Social Skills
2 1,244 (25.79%) Finance
3 789 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
4 472 (9.78%) Banking
5 403 (8.35%) Public Sector
6 165 (3.42%) Retail
7 160 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 148 (3.07%) Front Office
9 141 (2.92%) Legal
10 130 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
11 119 (2.47%) Investment Banking
12 118 (2.45%) Marketing
13 115 (2.38%) Back Office
14 111 (2.30%) Manufacturing
15 109 (2.26%) Telecoms
16 99 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
17 80 (1.66%) Local Government
18 73 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
19 59 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
20 42 (0.87%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (0.97%) .NET
2 46 (0.95%) XML
3 29 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
4 27 (0.56%) SailPoint
5 26 (0.54%) Middleware
6 20 (0.41%) HTML
6 20 (0.41%) JSON
7 18 (0.37%) ADO
8 16 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
9 14 (0.29%) SOAP
10 13 (0.27%) .NET Framework
10 13 (0.27%) AngularJS
11 12 (0.25%) LDAP
11 12 (0.25%) Web Services
12 11 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
13 10 (0.21%) IDoc
13 10 (0.21%) PySpark
13 10 (0.21%) REST
14 7 (0.15%) CSS
14 7 (0.15%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 221 (4.58%) Management Information System
2 177 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 108 (2.24%) Derivative
4 88 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
5 78 (1.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 71 (1.47%) Security Operations Centre
7 70 (1.45%) Hedge funds
8 67 (1.39%) Equities
9 66 (1.37%) Fixed Income
10 61 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
11 58 (1.20%) Onboarding
12 56 (1.16%) Credit Risk
12 56 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
13 54 (1.12%) Mobile App
14 45 (0.93%) Cyber Defence
14 45 (0.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
15 42 (0.87%) Cyber Kill Chain
16 40 (0.83%) NHS
17 37 (0.77%) Data Structures
18 35 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 425 (8.81%) Windows
2 153 (3.17%) Windows 10
3 115 (2.38%) Linux
4 58 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 50 (1.04%) Unix
6 48 (1.00%) Android
7 37 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 21 (0.44%) Windows 7
9 17 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
10 16 (0.33%) Mac OS
11 14 (0.29%) Mac OS X
12 13 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 7 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
14 5 (0.10%) Debian
14 5 (0.10%) Ubuntu
14 5 (0.10%) VMS
14 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2003
15 1 (0.021%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 831 (17.23%) Agile
2 692 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
3 529 (10.97%) Stakeholder Management
4 491 (10.18%) Business Analysis
5 457 (9.47%) Business Intelligence
6 394 (8.17%) Analytics
7 386 (8.00%) Customer Service
8 380 (7.88%) ITIL
9 362 (7.50%) Data Analysis
10 349 (7.23%) Requirements Gathering
11 347 (7.19%) Cybersecurity
12 335 (6.94%) User Stories
13 321 (6.65%) Migration
14 312 (6.47%) Project Management
15 280 (5.80%) User Acceptance Testing
16 254 (5.27%) Change Management
17 227 (4.71%) Incident Management
18 224 (4.64%) Decision-Making
19 223 (4.62%) Data Modelling
20 217 (4.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 666 (13.81%) SQL
2 356 (7.38%) Python
3 85 (1.76%) C#
4 74 (1.53%) PowerShell
5 70 (1.45%) Java
6 46 (0.95%) R
7 39 (0.81%) JavaScript
8 36 (0.75%) VBA
9 29 (0.60%) C++
10 24 (0.50%) PL/SQL
11 23 (0.48%) T-SQL
12 22 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 20 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 18 (0.37%) C
15 15 (0.31%) VBScript
16 13 (0.27%) Kotlin
17 10 (0.21%) ABAP
18 9 (0.19%) Kusto Query Language
18 9 (0.19%) VB
19 8 (0.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 619 (12.83%) Security Cleared
2 464 (9.62%) Degree
3 382 (7.92%) SC Cleared
4 219 (4.54%) DV Cleared
5 67 (1.39%) CISSP
6 59 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 51 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 44 (0.91%) A+ Certification
10 43 (0.89%) ISTQB
10 43 (0.89%) MCSA
11 40 (0.83%) CISM
12 34 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
13 30 (0.62%) MCP
14 28 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
15 25 (0.52%) ACCA
15 25 (0.52%) CIMA
15 25 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 25 (0.52%) Master's Degree
16 24 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (4.33%) QA
2 208 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 150 (3.11%) PMO
4 144 (2.99%) SLA
5 100 (2.07%) GDPR
6 72 (1.49%) NIST
7 68 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 33 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
9 27 (0.56%) GxP
10 25 (0.52%) NIST 800
11 22 (0.46%) EMIR
11 22 (0.46%) PCI DSS
12 21 (0.44%) MiFID
13 20 (0.41%) SEPA
14 19 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
14 19 (0.39%) Good Clinical Practice
15 17 (0.35%) IFRS
16 16 (0.33%) GRC
17 15 (0.31%) NCSC
18 14 (0.29%) GAAP
System Software
1 282 (5.85%) Active Directory
2 37 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (0.29%) Firmware
4 14 (0.29%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (0.17%) Docker
6 8 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 8 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
7 6 (0.12%) vSphere
8 5 (0.10%) XenApp
9 4 (0.083%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.083%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.083%) XenDesktop
10 2 (0.041%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.021%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.021%) Snort
11 1 (0.021%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.021%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 46 (0.95%) SCCM
2 41 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 14 (0.29%) ITRS Geneos
4 13 (0.27%) Ansible
4 13 (0.27%) Nessus
5 11 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
5 11 (0.23%) Kibana
5 11 (0.23%) logstash
5 11 (0.23%) Nagios
6 10 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (0.21%) Terraform
7 8 (0.17%) Grafana
7 8 (0.17%) NetBackup
7 8 (0.17%) ZABBIX
8 7 (0.15%) BladeLogic
8 7 (0.15%) Control-M
8 7 (0.15%) QRadar
8 7 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.10%) CSIRT
9 5 (0.10%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 732 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 240 (4.98%) SAP
3 215 (4.46%) Oracle
4 208 (4.31%) ServiceNow
5 102 (2.11%) Citrix
6 98 (2.03%) Salesforce
7 77 (1.60%) Google
8 68 (1.41%) Alteryx
9 60 (1.24%) Splunk
10 54 (1.12%) Bloomberg
11 48 (1.00%) VMware
12 37 (0.77%) Apple
13 32 (0.66%) Atlassian
14 31 (0.64%) Adobe
15 30 (0.62%) Ariba
16 28 (0.58%) Cisco
17 26 (0.54%) Databricks
17 26 (0.54%) LogRhythm
18 22 (0.46%) Darktrace
19 20 (0.41%) FireEye