Analytical Skills Contracts

Analytical Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,422 4,196 5,805
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.94% 7.44% 6.61%
As % of the General category 13.82% 12.71% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,193 2,766 3,716
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 120 157
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.00 £12.83
25th Percentile £13.25 £22.23 £16.27
Median hourly rate £18.35 £44.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.30% +23.94% +65.12%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.82 £52.56
90th Percentile £47.09 £72.55 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.11 £51.15 £29.11
% change year-on-year -66.55% +75.70% +57.35%

All General Skills
UK

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,760 33,009 49,869
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.46% 58.55% 56.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,551 22,901 34,679
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,985 984 1,388
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.40 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +44.00% +4.65%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.06
90th Percentile £67.38 £72.50 £59.11
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £28.07 £19.50
% change year-on-year +1.25% +43.95% +2.63%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +5 2,919 £525 -1.87% 4,167
UK excluding London +3 1,624 £500 - 2,643
London +4 1,429 £550 -4.35% 1,589
Work from Home +4 1,085 £500 -4.76% 1,454
South East -2 448 £530 -3.64% 605
North of England +2 332 £500 +2.88% 724
South West +16 252 £525 - 376
Midlands +2 243 £513 +7.89% 489
Scotland 0 202 £463 -3.65% 151
West Midlands +1 184 £525 +9.38% 292
North West +2 165 £475 - 425
Yorkshire +11 143 £500 -4.76% 223
East of England -3 113 £488 +22.33% 287
East Midlands -1 54 £450 -2.70% 200
Wales +12 33 £500 +53.85% 51
North East +15 22 £590 +45.23% 89
Northern Ireland -1 12 £513 +79.82% 45
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 5

Analytical Skills
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
1 143 (4.18%) Confluence
2 96 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 65 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 55 (1.61%) Apache Spark
5 35 (1.02%) Apache
6 23 (0.67%) SAS
7 19 (0.56%) CMS
8 15 (0.44%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.26%) nginx
9 9 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
10 8 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
10 8 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
10 8 (0.23%) IIS
10 8 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
11 7 (0.20%) JBoss
12 5 (0.15%) Appian
12 5 (0.15%) CICS
12 5 (0.15%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 314 (9.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 197 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
3 98 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (1.81%) Microsoft Project
4 62 (1.81%) MS Visio
5 54 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.32%) SPSS
7 10 (0.29%) Sketch
8 8 (0.23%) Acrobat
9 6 (0.18%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.15%) InVision
11 4 (0.12%) MicroStation
11 4 (0.12%) Windchill
12 3 (0.088%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.088%) Trello
13 2 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.058%) Autodesk Inventor
13 2 (0.058%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.058%) Mingle
13 2 (0.058%) Revit
Business Applications
1 67 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
3 27 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
4 23 (0.67%) Endur
4 23 (0.67%) Oracle EBS R12
4 23 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
5 18 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
6 17 (0.50%) Maximo
7 16 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
7 16 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
7 16 (0.47%) SAP CO
7 16 (0.47%) SAP FI
7 16 (0.47%) SAP FI/CO
8 15 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 15 (0.44%) SAP SD
9 14 (0.41%) Oracle AGIS
10 13 (0.38%) Aligne
10 13 (0.38%) SAP HCM
10 13 (0.38%) Teamcenter
11 11 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 524 (15.31%) Azure
2 352 (10.29%) Power Platform
3 279 (8.15%) AWS
4 152 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
5 120 (3.51%) GCP
6 115 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
8 70 (2.05%) PowerApps
9 64 (1.87%) Power Automate
10 61 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
11 57 (1.67%) GitHub
12 54 (1.58%) Snowflake
13 48 (1.40%) Serverless
14 45 (1.32%) Entra ID
15 39 (1.14%) SaaS
16 36 (1.05%) OCI
17 34 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
18 28 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 28 (0.82%) Azure Functions
19 27 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 115 (3.36%) Firewall
2 88 (2.57%) Network Security
3 78 (2.28%) DNS
4 74 (2.16%) VPN
5 51 (1.49%) WAN
6 48 (1.40%) LAN
7 47 (1.37%) DHCP
8 40 (1.17%) TCP/IP
9 37 (1.08%) Wireless
10 33 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
11 31 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
12 30 (0.88%) BGP
13 27 (0.79%) MPLS
14 26 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
14 26 (0.76%) VLAN
15 25 (0.73%) OSPF
16 23 (0.67%) HTTP
16 23 (0.67%) Internet
17 21 (0.61%) SAN
18 19 (0.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (9.79%) Power BI
2 167 (4.88%) Tableau
3 153 (4.47%) SQL Server
4 103 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
5 102 (2.98%) Big Data
6 100 (2.92%) Relational Database
7 85 (2.48%) Data Lake
8 69 (2.02%) NoSQL
9 48 (1.40%) Hadoop
10 44 (1.29%) Metadata
11 41 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
12 37 (1.08%) MongoDB
13 33 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
13 33 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 32 (0.94%) Data Mining
15 28 (0.82%) RDBMS
16 27 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 26 (0.76%) Oracle Database
18 21 (0.61%) MySQL
19 20 (0.58%) GIS
Development Applications
1 300 (8.77%) JIRA
2 134 (3.92%) Git
3 94 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 62 (1.81%) Selenium
5 61 (1.78%) GitLab
6 42 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 30 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 30 (0.88%) Bitbucket
8 28 (0.82%) TeamCity
9 25 (0.73%) REST Assured
10 24 (0.70%) SonarQube
11 21 (0.61%) Cypress.io
12 17 (0.50%) JUnit
12 17 (0.50%) webpack
13 15 (0.44%) Postman
14 14 (0.41%) Maven
14 14 (0.41%) Visual Studio
15 12 (0.35%) Appium
15 12 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
15 12 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,887 (55.14%) Social Skills
2 960 (28.05%) Finance
3 311 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 244 (7.13%) Banking
5 195 (5.70%) Presentation Skills
6 147 (4.30%) Marketing
7 131 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
8 126 (3.68%) Legal
9 124 (3.62%) Retail
10 102 (2.98%) Manufacturing
11 89 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
11 89 (2.60%) Telecoms
12 84 (2.45%) Front Office
13 57 (1.67%) Investment Banking
14 49 (1.43%) General Ledger
15 46 (1.34%) Law
16 43 (1.26%) Military
17 42 (1.23%) Local Government
18 41 (1.20%) Financial Institution
19 40 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 784 (22.91%) Analyst
2 411 (12.01%) Developer
3 265 (7.74%) Architect
4 255 (7.45%) Senior
5 246 (7.19%) Consultant
6 229 (6.69%) Business Analyst
7 209 (6.11%) Lead
8 175 (5.11%) Data Analyst
9 138 (4.03%) Project Manager
10 106 (3.10%) Data Engineer
11 104 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
12 80 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
13 67 (1.96%) Network Engineer
14 65 (1.90%) IT Engineer
15 64 (1.87%) Full Stack Developer
16 56 (1.64%) Java Developer
17 54 (1.58%) Support Engineer
18 52 (1.52%) Service Analyst
19 51 (1.49%) Administrator
19 51 (1.49%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (3.01%) React
2 101 (2.95%) .NET
3 98 (2.86%) REST
4 96 (2.81%) HTML
5 89 (2.60%) CSS
6 66 (1.93%) XML
7 63 (1.84%) Kafka
8 61 (1.78%) AngularJS
9 57 (1.67%) Web Services
10 53 (1.55%) RESTful
11 47 (1.37%) JSON
12 45 (1.32%) Middleware
13 35 (1.02%) .NET Core
14 34 (0.99%) PySpark
14 34 (0.99%) Spring
15 32 (0.94%) Node.js
16 28 (0.82%) SOAP
17 25 (0.73%) Java EE
17 25 (0.73%) Spring Boot
18 24 (0.70%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 263 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 178 (5.20%) Analytical Mindset
3 147 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 132 (3.86%) Product Ownership
5 98 (2.86%) Data Structures
6 75 (2.19%) Algorithms
7 61 (1.78%) Data Centre
8 50 (1.46%) Cyber Defence
9 47 (1.37%) Derivative
10 43 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 37 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
11 37 (1.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 34 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
12 34 (0.99%) Fixed Income
13 32 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
14 31 (0.91%) Credit Risk
14 31 (0.91%) Security Posture
15 30 (0.88%) Virtual Team
16 29 (0.85%) Distributed Applications
16 29 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 306 (8.94%) Windows
2 221 (6.46%) Linux
3 129 (3.77%) Unix
4 98 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 42 (1.23%) Windows 10
6 36 (1.05%) Apple iOS
7 35 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 35 (1.02%) Windows Server 2012
8 34 (0.99%) Windows 7
9 32 (0.94%) Android
10 19 (0.56%) Mac OS
11 11 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (0.20%) AIX
13 7 (0.20%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.20%) zOS
14 5 (0.15%) Solaris
15 3 (0.088%) VMS
16 2 (0.058%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,934 (56.52%) Problem-Solving
2 837 (24.46%) Agile
3 495 (14.47%) Project Management
4 428 (12.51%) Business Intelligence
5 408 (11.92%) Analytics
6 344 (10.05%) Computer Science
7 343 (10.02%) Decision-Making
8 341 (9.96%) DevOps
9 327 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 325 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 275 (8.04%) Data Modelling
12 252 (7.36%) Data Analysis
13 231 (6.75%) Migration
14 213 (6.22%) Visualisation
15 206 (6.02%) Change Management
16 202 (5.90%) Customer Service
17 201 (5.87%) Roadmaps
18 200 (5.84%) Cybersecurity
19 199 (5.82%) ITIL
20 198 (5.79%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 602 (17.59%) SQL
2 453 (13.24%) Python
3 251 (7.33%) Java
4 153 (4.47%) PowerShell
5 151 (4.41%) JavaScript
6 128 (3.74%) C#
7 60 (1.75%) R
8 59 (1.72%) TypeScript
9 58 (1.69%) PL/SQL
10 52 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 49 (1.43%) Scala
12 44 (1.29%) C++
13 38 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 34 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 31 (0.91%) Perl
16 24 (0.70%) C
16 24 (0.70%) Go
17 23 (0.67%) Bash
18 18 (0.53%) VBScript
19 17 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 745 (21.77%) Degree
2 560 (16.36%) Security Cleared
3 347 (10.14%) SC Cleared
4 237 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
5 192 (5.61%) DV Cleared
6 134 (3.92%) Master's Degree
7 79 (2.31%) CISSP
7 79 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 70 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
9 54 (1.58%) PMP
10 52 (1.52%) PMI Certification
11 47 (1.37%) MCSE
12 44 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 43 (1.26%) CISM
14 41 (1.20%) CCNA
15 35 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
16 33 (0.96%) Numerate Degree
17 32 (0.94%) CCNP
18 31 (0.91%) Azure Certification
18 31 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 185 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 181 (5.29%) QA
3 113 (3.30%) SLA
4 101 (2.95%) GDPR
5 88 (2.57%) PMO
6 56 (1.64%) NIST
7 46 (1.34%) Accessibility
8 39 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 39 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 24 (0.70%) PCI DSS
10 16 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 15 (0.44%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.41%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 12 (0.35%) EMIR
14 12 (0.35%) GAAP
15 11 (0.32%) GRC
16 10 (0.29%) ISO 20022
17 9 (0.26%) MiFID
18 8 (0.23%) GxP
System Software
1 156 (4.56%) Active Directory
2 92 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 69 (2.02%) Docker
4 19 (0.56%) VMware NSX
5 17 (0.50%) vSphere
6 13 (0.38%) HDFS
7 12 (0.35%) Firmware
7 12 (0.35%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 10 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
11 5 (0.15%) Snort
12 4 (0.12%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.12%) KVM
13 3 (0.088%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.088%) OpenIDM
13 3 (0.088%) SRDF
14 2 (0.058%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 99 (2.89%) Ansible
2 97 (2.83%) Kubernetes
3 67 (1.96%) Terraform
4 54 (1.58%) SCCM
5 33 (0.96%) Puppet
6 27 (0.79%) Grafana
6 27 (0.79%) NetBackup
7 26 (0.76%) Prometheus
8 24 (0.70%) Kibana
9 23 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
10 21 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
11 20 (0.58%) PowerCLI
12 18 (0.53%) logstash
13 14 (0.41%) Podman
13 14 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
14 11 (0.32%) Consul
14 11 (0.32%) Progress Chef
15 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
15 10 (0.29%) Nagios
16 8 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 695 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 274 (8.01%) Oracle
3 216 (6.31%) SAP
4 114 (3.33%) VMware
5 88 (2.57%) Cisco
6 85 (2.48%) Google
7 70 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 66 (1.93%) Salesforce
9 54 (1.58%) Databricks
9 54 (1.58%) Splunk
10 47 (1.37%) Alteryx
11 43 (1.26%) IBM
12 37 (1.08%) Dell
13 33 (0.96%) Atlassian
14 31 (0.91%) F5
15 30 (0.88%) HP
15 30 (0.88%) Red Hat
16 29 (0.85%) Adobe
17 27 (0.79%) Citrix
18 23 (0.67%) Juniper