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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,407 4,164 5,823
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.96% 7.40% 6.60%
As % of the General category 13.79% 12.64% 11.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,190 2,751 3,729
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 120 164
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.00 £12.83
25th Percentile £13.25 £22.16 £18.59
Median hourly rate £18.00 £43.86 £38.33
Median % change year-on-year -58.96% +14.43% +82.51%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £46.48 £72.55 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.11 £49.79 £32.13
% change year-on-year -65.63% +54.97% +73.65%

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 24,705 32,951 49,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.69% 58.56% 56.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,577 22,850 34,658
10th Percentile £275 £313 £323
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
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 £769 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,967 996 1,421
10th Percentile £12.77 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.60 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.40 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +44.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £66.84 £72.50 £59.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.13 £27.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.27% +41.03% +0.52%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 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 +5 2,906 £525 -2.10% 4,013
UK excluding London +2 1,603 £500 - 2,655
London +4 1,432 £550 -4.35% 1,410
Work from Home +4 1,088 £500 -4.76% 1,424
South East -2 435 £533 -3.18% 616
North of England +4 333 £500 +3.09% 746
South West +17 253 £525 - 330
Midlands +2 239 £513 +7.89% 526
Scotland -1 200 £465 -3.13% 140
West Midlands +1 184 £525 +9.38% 317
North West -1 167 £475 +5.56% 432
Yorkshire +10 142 £500 -4.76% 234
East of England -1 111 £494 +30.79% 304
East Midlands +1 50 £450 -2.70% 212
Wales +8 32 £500 +33.33% 55
North East +15 22 £590 +45.23% 89
Northern Ireland +1 11 £513 +44.37% 33
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
1 142 (4.17%) Confluence
2 94 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 53 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 32 (0.94%) Apache
6 22 (0.65%) SAS
7 18 (0.53%) 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 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 7 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
11 7 (0.21%) JBoss
12 5 (0.15%) Appian
12 5 (0.15%) CICS
12 5 (0.15%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 311 (9.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 202 (5.93%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (1.82%) MS Visio
5 61 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
6 53 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.32%) SPSS
8 10 (0.29%) Sketch
9 8 (0.23%) Acrobat
10 6 (0.18%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.15%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.15%) InVision
12 4 (0.12%) MicroStation
12 4 (0.12%) Revit
12 4 (0.12%) Windchill
13 2 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.059%) Autodesk Inventor
13 2 (0.059%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.059%) Mingle
14 1 (0.029%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 65 (1.91%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
3 27 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
4 23 (0.68%) Endur
4 23 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
4 23 (0.68%) 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
8 15 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 15 (0.44%) SAP CO
8 15 (0.44%) SAP FI
8 15 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
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 10 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 517 (15.17%) Azure
2 352 (10.33%) Power Platform
3 274 (8.04%) AWS
4 147 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
5 116 (3.40%) GCP
6 114 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
7 81 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
8 70 (2.05%) PowerApps
9 65 (1.91%) Power Automate
10 62 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
11 57 (1.67%) GitHub
12 53 (1.56%) Snowflake
13 50 (1.47%) Serverless
14 48 (1.41%) Entra ID
15 40 (1.17%) SaaS
16 35 (1.03%) OCI
17 34 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
18 29 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 29 (0.85%) Azure Functions
19 28 (0.82%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 110 (3.23%) Firewall
2 89 (2.61%) Network Security
3 76 (2.23%) DNS
4 75 (2.20%) VPN
5 51 (1.50%) WAN
6 48 (1.41%) LAN
7 44 (1.29%) DHCP
8 40 (1.17%) TCP/IP
9 38 (1.12%) Wireless
10 30 (0.88%) BGP
10 30 (0.88%) Intrusion Detection
10 30 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (0.79%) MPLS
12 26 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
12 26 (0.76%) VLAN
13 25 (0.73%) OSPF
14 23 (0.68%) Internet
15 22 (0.65%) HTTP
15 22 (0.65%) SAN
16 18 (0.53%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 337 (9.89%) Power BI
2 171 (5.02%) Tableau
3 150 (4.40%) SQL Server
4 99 (2.91%) Big Data
4 99 (2.91%) Relational Database
5 98 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
6 82 (2.41%) Data Lake
7 69 (2.03%) NoSQL
8 49 (1.44%) Hadoop
9 45 (1.32%) Metadata
10 40 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
11 36 (1.06%) MongoDB
12 34 (1.00%) Data Mining
12 34 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
13 33 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 28 (0.82%) RDBMS
15 26 (0.76%) Oracle Database
16 25 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 21 (0.62%) BigQuery
17 21 (0.62%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 296 (8.69%) JIRA
2 133 (3.90%) Git
3 95 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 63 (1.85%) Selenium
5 60 (1.76%) GitLab
6 42 (1.23%) Cucumber
7 31 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 30 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 29 (0.85%) TeamCity
10 25 (0.73%) REST Assured
11 24 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 22 (0.65%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.50%) JUnit
13 17 (0.50%) webpack
14 15 (0.44%) Maven
15 14 (0.41%) Postman
15 14 (0.41%) Visual Studio
16 13 (0.38%) Appium
17 12 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
17 12 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,875 (55.03%) Social Skills
2 960 (28.18%) Finance
3 312 (9.16%) Public Sector
4 241 (7.07%) Banking
5 191 (5.61%) Presentation Skills
6 146 (4.29%) Marketing
7 132 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
8 128 (3.76%) Legal
9 123 (3.61%) Retail
10 99 (2.91%) Manufacturing
11 92 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
12 88 (2.58%) Telecoms
13 84 (2.47%) Front Office
14 56 (1.64%) Investment Banking
15 48 (1.41%) General Ledger
16 47 (1.38%) Law
17 42 (1.23%) Financial Institution
17 42 (1.23%) Military
18 41 (1.20%) Local Government
19 40 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 784 (23.01%) Analyst
2 403 (11.83%) Developer
3 261 (7.66%) Architect
4 258 (7.57%) Senior
5 246 (7.22%) Consultant
6 231 (6.78%) Business Analyst
7 210 (6.16%) Lead
8 172 (5.05%) Data Analyst
9 139 (4.08%) Project Manager
10 106 (3.11%) Data Engineer
11 103 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
12 81 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
13 68 (2.00%) Network Engineer
14 65 (1.91%) Full Stack Developer
15 64 (1.88%) IT Engineer
16 55 (1.61%) Java Developer
16 55 (1.61%) Support Engineer
17 54 (1.58%) Service Analyst
18 51 (1.50%) Administrator
19 50 (1.47%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (3.08%) React
2 100 (2.94%) .NET
3 97 (2.85%) REST
4 96 (2.82%) HTML
5 89 (2.61%) CSS
6 66 (1.94%) XML
7 62 (1.82%) AngularJS
8 60 (1.76%) Kafka
9 55 (1.61%) Web Services
10 48 (1.41%) RESTful
11 47 (1.38%) JSON
12 43 (1.26%) Middleware
13 35 (1.03%) .NET Core
14 33 (0.97%) Node.js
14 33 (0.97%) PySpark
15 32 (0.94%) Spring
16 28 (0.82%) SOAP
17 25 (0.73%) Java EE
18 23 (0.68%) .NET Framework
18 23 (0.68%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 265 (7.78%) Management Information System
2 180 (5.28%) Analytical Mindset
3 146 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
4 134 (3.93%) Product Ownership
5 97 (2.85%) Data Structures
6 76 (2.23%) Algorithms
7 62 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 47 (1.38%) Cyber Defence
8 47 (1.38%) Derivative
9 45 (1.32%) Onboarding
10 38 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
11 37 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 34 (1.00%) Fixed Income
13 33 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
14 32 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
15 31 (0.91%) Credit Risk
16 30 (0.88%) Security Posture
17 29 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
17 29 (0.85%) Virtual Team
18 28 (0.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 306 (8.98%) Windows
2 218 (6.40%) Linux
3 127 (3.73%) Unix
4 96 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.29%) Windows 10
6 35 (1.03%) Apple iOS
6 35 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 35 (1.03%) Windows 7
7 33 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
8 29 (0.85%) Android
9 21 (0.62%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (0.21%) AIX
12 7 (0.21%) Kali Linux
12 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.21%) zOS
13 5 (0.15%) Solaris
14 3 (0.088%) VMS
15 2 (0.059%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,926 (56.53%) Problem-Solving
2 842 (24.71%) Agile
3 499 (14.65%) Project Management
4 429 (12.59%) Business Intelligence
5 401 (11.77%) Analytics
6 345 (10.13%) Computer Science
7 342 (10.04%) DevOps
8 340 (9.98%) Decision-Making
9 329 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 325 (9.54%) Stakeholder Management
11 275 (8.07%) Data Modelling
12 251 (7.37%) Data Analysis
13 231 (6.78%) Migration
14 217 (6.37%) Visualisation
15 209 (6.13%) Change Management
16 206 (6.05%) Customer Service
17 205 (6.02%) ITIL
18 200 (5.87%) CI/CD
18 200 (5.87%) Roadmaps
19 198 (5.81%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 594 (17.43%) SQL
2 451 (13.24%) Python
3 248 (7.28%) Java
4 153 (4.49%) JavaScript
5 149 (4.37%) PowerShell
6 128 (3.76%) C#
7 63 (1.85%) R
8 60 (1.76%) TypeScript
9 58 (1.70%) PL/SQL
10 51 (1.50%) Shell Script
11 49 (1.44%) Scala
12 41 (1.20%) C++
13 38 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 35 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 31 (0.91%) Perl
16 24 (0.70%) Bash
17 23 (0.68%) Go
18 22 (0.65%) C
19 17 (0.50%) VBA
19 17 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 743 (21.81%) Degree
2 556 (16.32%) Security Cleared
3 349 (10.24%) SC Cleared
4 238 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 188 (5.52%) DV Cleared
6 134 (3.93%) Master's Degree
7 79 (2.32%) CISSP
8 76 (2.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 70 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 53 (1.56%) PMP
11 52 (1.53%) PMI Certification
12 45 (1.32%) MCSE
13 44 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
13 44 (1.29%) CISM
14 41 (1.20%) CCNA
15 35 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
16 32 (0.94%) CCNP
16 32 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
17 31 (0.91%) Azure Certification
18 30 (0.88%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (5.34%) QA
2 181 (5.31%) Data Quality
3 118 (3.46%) SLA
4 97 (2.85%) GDPR
5 89 (2.61%) PMO
6 55 (1.61%) NIST
7 46 (1.35%) Accessibility
8 38 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 36 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
10 23 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
12 14 (0.41%) 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%) GxP
17 9 (0.26%) MiFID
System Software
1 154 (4.52%) Active Directory
2 87 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (2.00%) Docker
4 18 (0.53%) VMware NSX
5 15 (0.44%) vSphere
6 12 (0.35%) Firmware
6 12 (0.35%) HDFS
6 12 (0.35%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 10 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
9 8 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.15%) Snort
11 4 (0.12%) KVM
12 3 (0.088%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.088%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.088%) OpenIDM
12 3 (0.088%) SRDF
13 2 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 100 (2.94%) Ansible
2 97 (2.85%) Kubernetes
3 65 (1.91%) Terraform
4 55 (1.61%) SCCM
5 33 (0.97%) Puppet
6 28 (0.82%) NetBackup
7 27 (0.79%) Grafana
8 26 (0.76%) Prometheus
9 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 24 (0.70%) Kibana
11 21 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
12 20 (0.59%) PowerCLI
13 18 (0.53%) logstash
14 15 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
15 14 (0.41%) Podman
16 11 (0.32%) Progress Chef
17 10 (0.29%) Consul
17 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
17 10 (0.29%) Nagios
18 8 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 681 (19.99%) Microsoft
2 274 (8.04%) Oracle
3 214 (6.28%) SAP
4 110 (3.23%) VMware
5 87 (2.55%) Cisco
6 81 (2.38%) Google
7 73 (2.14%) ServiceNow
8 62 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 54 (1.58%) Databricks
9 54 (1.58%) Splunk
10 46 (1.35%) Alteryx
11 43 (1.26%) IBM
12 37 (1.09%) Dell
13 34 (1.00%) Atlassian
14 31 (0.91%) F5
15 30 (0.88%) Adobe
15 30 (0.88%) HP
16 27 (0.79%) Citrix
16 27 (0.79%) Red Hat
17 23 (0.68%) Juniper