Analytics Contracts

Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytics over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 38 33
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,101 2,963 5,434
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.91% 5.27% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.72% 5.87% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 2,079 3,808
10th Percentile £356 £356 £400
25th Percentile £438 £458 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £670
90th Percentile £788 £800 £772
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £517 £510
% change year-on-year +1.06% +1.37% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 53 74
10th Percentile £15.29 £21.00 £13.10
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.16 £29.06
Median hourly rate £29.19 £32.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.64% -7.71% +29.63%
75th Percentile £43.75 £56.50 £51.31
90th Percentile £71.38 £78.95 £67.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £22.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.82% -36.69% +55.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
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 Analytics 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 -2 1,782 £550 - 2,145
London -2 1,049 £575 -4.17% 1,073
Work from Home +5 798 £550 +2.33% 988
UK excluding London +2 774 £523 +1.06% 1,104
South East +2 199 £550 +10.00% 246
North of England -5 173 £504 -7.57% 355
Midlands +4 139 £550 +6.28% 201
West Midlands +9 108 £550 +4.76% 120
North West +8 106 £500 -4.76% 233
Scotland +17 104 £491 -1.11% 78
South West +26 101 £531 -1.16% 107
Yorkshire -15 63 £507 -7.82% 86
East of England +9 50 £500 - 92
East Midlands +3 31 £475 - 82
Wales +22 18 £550 -3.46% 23
North East +5 7 - - 39
Northern Ireland +9 5 £400 -5.88% 19

Analytics
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 68 (3.24%) Apache Spark
2 56 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 47 (2.24%) Confluence
4 42 (2.00%) SAS
5 39 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
6 36 (1.71%) Apache
7 35 (1.67%) CMS
8 28 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
9 13 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.43%) WordPress
11 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
12 4 (0.19%) govService
13 3 (0.14%) Drupal
13 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.095%) ArcGIS
14 2 (0.095%) CICS
14 2 (0.095%) GeoServer
14 2 (0.095%) Jupyter
14 2 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
15 1 (0.048%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 78 (3.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (0.71%) Chatbot
4 15 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (0.71%) MS Visio
5 8 (0.38%) SPSS
6 7 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.29%) Sketch
8 5 (0.24%) CPLEX
8 5 (0.24%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.095%) Simulink
10 2 (0.095%) Trello
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.048%) InVision
11 1 (0.048%) Stata
11 1 (0.048%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 44 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 19 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.48%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 10 (0.48%) SAP FI-AP
5 8 (0.38%) Shopify
6 7 (0.33%) Endur
6 7 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 6 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.29%) SAP BPC
7 6 (0.29%) SAP ERP
8 5 (0.24%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle 11i
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
9 4 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.19%) ION MarketView
9 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 4 (0.19%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.19%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 521 (24.80%) Azure
2 325 (15.47%) Power Platform
3 319 (15.18%) AWS
4 166 (7.90%) GCP
5 110 (5.24%) Azure Data Factory
5 110 (5.24%) Google Analytics
6 93 (4.43%) Snowflake
7 81 (3.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 72 (3.43%) Serverless
9 64 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
9 64 (3.05%) Azure Monitor
10 46 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
11 45 (2.14%) GitHub
12 44 (2.09%) Amazon S3
13 41 (1.95%) SaaS
14 39 (1.86%) dbt
15 33 (1.57%) Entra ID
15 33 (1.57%) PaaS
16 32 (1.52%) Adobe Analytics
17 31 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 52 (2.48%) Firewall
2 34 (1.62%) DNS
3 32 (1.52%) Network Security
4 29 (1.38%) DHCP
4 29 (1.38%) WAN
5 24 (1.14%) VPN
6 21 (1.00%) LAN
7 20 (0.95%) VoIP
8 18 (0.86%) Intranet
9 11 (0.52%) Internet
9 11 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
10 9 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
10 9 (0.43%) CTI
10 9 (0.43%) MPLS
10 9 (0.43%) PBX
10 9 (0.43%) SD-WAN
10 9 (0.43%) WLAN
11 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
12 6 (0.29%) HTTP
12 6 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 318 (15.14%) Power BI
2 239 (11.38%) Data Warehouse
3 180 (8.57%) Tableau
4 143 (6.81%) Big Data
5 134 (6.38%) Data Lake
6 81 (3.86%) SQL Server
7 63 (3.00%) Relational Database
8 62 (2.95%) Amazon Redshift
9 60 (2.86%) BigQuery
10 53 (2.52%) NoSQL
11 52 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 44 (2.09%) Looker
12 44 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
13 39 (1.86%) KDB
13 39 (1.86%) MySQL
14 37 (1.76%) Hadoop
15 34 (1.62%) Amazon Athena
16 30 (1.43%) Metadata
17 28 (1.33%) Data Mining
18 26 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 101 (4.81%) JIRA
2 84 (4.00%) Git
3 59 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.00%) GitLab
5 18 (0.86%) Postman
6 17 (0.81%) Cypress.io
7 14 (0.67%) JMeter
8 13 (0.62%) Selenium
9 11 (0.52%) Subversion
9 11 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.43%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.38%) JUnit
11 8 (0.38%) MLflow
11 8 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 6 (0.29%) Appium
12 6 (0.29%) ERwin
12 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.24%) Robot Framework
General
1 607 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 508 (24.18%) Finance
3 401 (19.09%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 146 (6.95%) Marketing
6 129 (6.14%) Banking
7 95 (4.52%) Retail
8 92 (4.38%) Front Office
9 77 (3.66%) Legal
10 71 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
11 60 (2.86%) Telecoms
12 53 (2.52%) Manufacturing
13 43 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
13 43 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
14 42 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 42 (2.00%) Investment Banking
15 24 (1.14%) Advertising
16 15 (0.71%) German Language
16 15 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
17 14 (0.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 389 (18.51%) Analyst
2 295 (14.04%) Developer
3 246 (11.71%) Architect
4 214 (10.19%) Data Engineer
5 197 (9.38%) Senior
6 163 (7.76%) Data Analyst
7 161 (7.66%) Lead
8 105 (5.00%) Consultant
9 94 (4.47%) Data Architect
10 74 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
11 70 (3.33%) Project Manager
12 66 (3.14%) Business Analyst
13 62 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
14 53 (2.52%) Senior Analyst
15 52 (2.48%) Software Engineer
16 48 (2.28%) Azure Data Engineer
17 43 (2.05%) Analytics Manager
18 42 (2.00%) Product Owner
19 40 (1.90%) Product Manager
20 38 (1.81%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 74 (3.52%) PySpark
2 73 (3.47%) HTML
3 60 (2.86%) .NET
4 57 (2.71%) CSS
4 57 (2.71%) React
5 55 (2.62%) Middleware
6 53 (2.52%) REST
7 50 (2.38%) Web Services
8 41 (1.95%) JSON
9 40 (1.90%) Kafka
10 37 (1.76%) Pandas
11 34 (1.62%) XML
12 32 (1.52%) ARM Templates
13 27 (1.29%) .NET Core
14 25 (1.19%) NumPy
14 25 (1.19%) RESTful
15 24 (1.14%) AngularJS
16 22 (1.05%) gRPC
16 22 (1.05%) Node.js
17 19 (0.90%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 114 (5.43%) Product Ownership
2 113 (5.38%) Management Information System
3 69 (3.28%) Fixed Income
4 62 (2.95%) Data Structures
5 61 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
6 56 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 54 (2.57%) Derivative
8 52 (2.48%) Algorithms
8 52 (2.48%) Equities
9 41 (1.95%) Credit Risk
10 39 (1.86%) Hedge funds
11 38 (1.81%) Social Media
12 34 (1.62%) Onboarding
13 31 (1.48%) Data Centre
13 31 (1.48%) Security Operations Centre
14 28 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
15 27 (1.29%) Cloud Native
15 27 (1.29%) Distributed Systems
16 25 (1.19%) CSOC
17 24 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 126 (6.00%) Windows
2 120 (5.71%) Linux
3 46 (2.19%) Unix
4 44 (2.09%) Windows Server
5 22 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
6 19 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 14 (0.67%) Android
8 12 (0.57%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.38%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.14%) zOS
12 2 (0.095%) VMS
12 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.048%) AIX
13 1 (0.048%) CentOS
13 1 (0.048%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.048%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (25.08%) Agile
2 451 (21.47%) Business Intelligence
2 451 (21.47%) Data Analytics
3 371 (17.66%) Data Modelling
4 355 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
5 283 (13.47%) ETL
6 245 (11.66%) Visualisation
7 235 (11.19%) DevOps
8 211 (10.04%) Data Science
9 202 (9.61%) Data Analysis
10 201 (9.57%) Data Management
11 197 (9.38%) Decision-Making
12 176 (8.38%) Data Pipeline
13 172 (8.19%) Roadmaps
14 171 (8.14%) CI/CD
15 170 (8.09%) Computer Science
15 170 (8.09%) Data Engineering
16 168 (8.00%) Project Management
17 166 (7.90%) Data Governance
18 164 (7.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 603 (28.70%) SQL
2 483 (22.99%) Python
3 146 (6.95%) Java
4 118 (5.62%) JavaScript
5 101 (4.81%) C#
6 72 (3.43%) PowerShell
7 53 (2.52%) TypeScript
8 48 (2.28%) R
9 47 (2.24%) Scala
10 45 (2.14%) C++
11 32 (1.52%) Bicep
12 31 (1.48%) Bash
13 30 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 23 (1.09%) T-SQL
15 21 (1.00%) VB
16 20 (0.95%) ABAP
17 19 (0.90%) VBScript
18 16 (0.76%) PL/SQL
19 15 (0.71%) Perl
19 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 332 (15.80%) Degree
2 278 (13.23%) Security Cleared
3 206 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 97 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 82 (3.90%) DV Cleared
6 73 (3.47%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 28 (1.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 26 (1.24%) SANS
10 24 (1.14%) CISSP
11 21 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
12 16 (0.76%) PMI Certification
13 15 (0.71%) AWS Certification
13 15 (0.71%) PMP
14 13 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
15 12 (0.57%) PhD
16 11 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 10 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
18 9 (0.43%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (9.66%) Data Quality
2 98 (4.66%) QA
3 49 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 48 (2.28%) GDPR
5 23 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
6 22 (1.05%) PMO
7 16 (0.76%) SLA
8 14 (0.67%) HIPAA
8 14 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.62%) NIST
10 12 (0.57%) GxP
10 12 (0.57%) IFRS
11 10 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
12 8 (0.38%) NCSC
12 8 (0.38%) SOC 2
13 7 (0.33%) IFRS 9
13 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.24%) GAMP
System Software
1 51 (2.43%) Active Directory
2 44 (2.09%) Docker
3 30 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
4 26 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.24%) HDFS
7 4 (0.19%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.048%) NFS
10 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 88 (4.19%) Terraform
2 69 (3.28%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.67%) Grafana
4 29 (1.38%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (1.29%) Ansible
6 26 (1.24%) SCOM
7 21 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 21 (1.00%) SCCM
7 21 (1.00%) WSUS
8 10 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
9 9 (0.43%) BladeLogic
10 6 (0.29%) Nagios
10 6 (0.29%) Prometheus
11 5 (0.24%) SysTrack
12 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.19%) Trend Micro Deep Security
13 3 (0.14%) Graylog
13 3 (0.14%) Kibana
13 3 (0.14%) Matomo
13 3 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 364 (17.33%) Microsoft
2 173 (8.23%) Google
3 162 (7.71%) Databricks
4 129 (6.14%) SAP
5 117 (5.57%) Oracle
6 73 (3.47%) Adobe
7 48 (2.28%) Salesforce
8 44 (2.09%) Alteryx
9 35 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 30 (1.43%) Atlassian
10 30 (1.43%) Splunk
11 27 (1.29%) Cisco
12 23 (1.09%) Informatica
12 23 (1.09%) Talend
13 21 (1.00%) Optimizely
14 20 (0.95%) Ariba
15 19 (0.90%) Denodo
16 17 (0.81%) OpenAI
17 16 (0.76%) Citrix
17 16 (0.76%) Red Hat