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

6 months to
29 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 3,413 4,172 5,792
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.95% 7.43% 6.61%
As % of the General category 13.80% 12.69% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,192 2,750 3,710
10th Percentile £300 £312 £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 - +7.64% +8.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 120 164
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.00 £12.83
25th Percentile £13.25 £22.16 £18.59
Median hourly rate £18.00 £43.93 £38.33
Median % change year-on-year -59.03% +14.62% +82.51%
75th Percentile £28.51 £58.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £46.47 £72.55 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.29 £50.00 £32.13
% change year-on-year -65.43% +55.64% +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 24,727 32,883 49,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.62% 58.56% 56.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,561 22,792 34,447
10th Percentile £275 £313 £324
25th Percentile £413 £440 £426
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,973 991 1,415
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.56 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +2.27%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £66.74 £72.50 £59.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +0.57% +42.77% +0.31%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 2,911 £525 -2.33% 3,900
UK excluding London +2 1,615 £500 - 2,606
London +4 1,427 £550 -4.35% 1,339
Work from Home +4 1,089 £500 -4.76% 1,370
South East -3 439 £530 -3.64% 599
North of England +3 333 £500 +2.88% 739
South West +16 251 £525 - 326
Midlands +1 246 £525 +10.53% 508
Scotland -1 201 £464 -3.39% 142
West Midlands +1 188 £525 +9.38% 299
North West -3 166 £475 +3.54% 425
Yorkshire +12 143 £500 -4.76% 234
East of England -2 112 £488 +28.29% 300
East Midlands -2 53 £450 -2.70% 212
Wales +13 32 £500 +42.86% 52
North East +13 22 £590 +45.23% 89
Northern Ireland +1 12 £513 +44.37% 36
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 (4.16%) Confluence
2 94 (2.75%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 53 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 33 (0.97%) Apache
6 22 (0.64%) 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
1 312 (9.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 202 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
3 97 (2.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
5 61 (1.79%) MS Visio
6 54 (1.58%) 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
13 2 (0.059%) Trello
Business Applications
1 66 (1.93%) 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 10 (0.29%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 514 (15.06%) Azure
2 349 (10.23%) Power Platform
3 274 (8.03%) AWS
4 150 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
5 115 (3.37%) GCP
6 114 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
7 81 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
8 69 (2.02%) PowerApps
9 64 (1.88%) Power Automate
10 60 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
11 57 (1.67%) GitHub
12 53 (1.55%) Snowflake
13 47 (1.38%) Serverless
14 45 (1.32%) Entra ID
15 39 (1.14%) SaaS
16 35 (1.03%) OCI
17 33 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
18 27 (0.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 27 (0.79%) Azure Functions
19 26 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 113 (3.31%) Firewall
2 90 (2.64%) Network Security
3 76 (2.23%) DNS
4 75 (2.20%) VPN
5 51 (1.49%) WAN
6 48 (1.41%) LAN
7 44 (1.29%) DHCP
8 39 (1.14%) TCP/IP
9 37 (1.08%) Wireless
10 32 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
11 30 (0.88%) BGP
11 30 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (0.79%) MPLS
13 26 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
13 26 (0.76%) VLAN
14 25 (0.73%) OSPF
15 23 (0.67%) Internet
16 22 (0.64%) HTTP
17 21 (0.62%) SAN
18 19 (0.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 334 (9.79%) Power BI
2 172 (5.04%) Tableau
3 150 (4.39%) SQL Server
4 101 (2.96%) Big Data
5 100 (2.93%) Relational Database
6 98 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
7 82 (2.40%) Data Lake
8 68 (1.99%) NoSQL
9 49 (1.44%) Hadoop
10 45 (1.32%) Metadata
11 40 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
12 36 (1.05%) MongoDB
13 34 (1.00%) Data Mining
13 34 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
14 33 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 28 (0.82%) RDBMS
16 26 (0.76%) Oracle Database
17 25 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 21 (0.62%) MySQL
18 21 (0.62%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 297 (8.70%) JIRA
2 130 (3.81%) Git
3 94 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 62 (1.82%) 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 21 (0.62%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.50%) JUnit
13 17 (0.50%) webpack
14 14 (0.41%) Maven
14 14 (0.41%) Postman
14 14 (0.41%) Visual Studio
15 13 (0.38%) Appium
16 12 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
16 12 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,882 (55.14%) Social Skills
2 959 (28.10%) Finance
3 311 (9.11%) Public Sector
4 241 (7.06%) Banking
5 192 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
6 146 (4.28%) Marketing
7 132 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
8 127 (3.72%) Legal
9 124 (3.63%) Retail
10 99 (2.90%) Manufacturing
11 92 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
12 88 (2.58%) Telecoms
13 84 (2.46%) Front Office
14 56 (1.64%) Investment Banking
15 48 (1.41%) General Ledger
16 47 (1.38%) Law
17 42 (1.23%) Local Government
17 42 (1.23%) Military
18 40 (1.17%) Financial Institution
18 40 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 782 (22.91%) Analyst
2 405 (11.87%) Developer
3 264 (7.74%) Architect
4 255 (7.47%) Senior
5 247 (7.24%) Consultant
6 229 (6.71%) Business Analyst
7 209 (6.12%) Lead
8 174 (5.10%) Data Analyst
9 140 (4.10%) Project Manager
10 104 (3.05%) Data Engineer
11 103 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
12 80 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
13 68 (1.99%) Network Engineer
14 65 (1.90%) IT Engineer
15 63 (1.85%) Full Stack Developer
16 56 (1.64%) Java Developer
17 55 (1.61%) Support Engineer
18 53 (1.55%) Service Analyst
19 51 (1.49%) Administrator
19 51 (1.49%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (3.02%) React
2 100 (2.93%) .NET
3 97 (2.84%) HTML
3 97 (2.84%) REST
4 90 (2.64%) CSS
5 66 (1.93%) XML
6 61 (1.79%) AngularJS
7 60 (1.76%) Kafka
8 55 (1.61%) Web Services
9 48 (1.41%) RESTful
10 47 (1.38%) JSON
11 44 (1.29%) Middleware
12 35 (1.03%) .NET Core
13 32 (0.94%) Node.js
13 32 (0.94%) PySpark
13 32 (0.94%) Spring
14 28 (0.82%) SOAP
15 25 (0.73%) Java EE
16 23 (0.67%) .NET Framework
16 23 (0.67%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 265 (7.76%) Management Information System
2 178 (5.22%) Analytical Mindset
3 146 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
4 132 (3.87%) Product Ownership
5 97 (2.84%) Data Structures
6 76 (2.23%) Algorithms
7 62 (1.82%) Data Centre
8 49 (1.44%) Cyber Defence
9 47 (1.38%) Derivative
10 45 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 37 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
11 37 (1.08%) 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%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 306 (8.97%) Windows
2 220 (6.45%) Linux
3 128 (3.75%) Unix
4 95 (2.78%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.29%) Windows 10
6 37 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 35 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 34 (1.00%) Windows 7
9 33 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
10 31 (0.91%) Android
11 21 (0.62%) Mac OS
12 11 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (0.21%) AIX
14 7 (0.21%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.21%) zOS
15 5 (0.15%) Solaris
16 3 (0.088%) VMS
17 2 (0.059%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,932 (56.61%) Problem-Solving
2 832 (24.38%) Agile
3 497 (14.56%) Project Management
4 428 (12.54%) Business Intelligence
5 403 (11.81%) Analytics
6 346 (10.14%) Computer Science
7 341 (9.99%) DevOps
8 340 (9.96%) Decision-Making
9 327 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 327 (9.58%) Stakeholder Management
10 276 (8.09%) Data Modelling
11 255 (7.47%) Data Analysis
12 230 (6.74%) Migration
13 217 (6.36%) Visualisation
14 208 (6.09%) Change Management
14 208 (6.09%) Customer Service
15 205 (6.01%) ITIL
16 201 (5.89%) Roadmaps
17 200 (5.86%) Cybersecurity
18 195 (5.71%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 596 (17.46%) SQL
2 448 (13.13%) Python
3 247 (7.24%) Java
4 153 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 150 (4.39%) PowerShell
6 127 (3.72%) C#
7 62 (1.82%) R
8 59 (1.73%) TypeScript
9 58 (1.70%) PL/SQL
10 51 (1.49%) Shell Script
11 49 (1.44%) Scala
12 42 (1.23%) C++
13 38 (1.11%) T-SQL
14 35 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 30 (0.88%) Perl
16 24 (0.70%) Bash
16 24 (0.70%) C
17 22 (0.64%) Go
18 18 (0.53%) VBScript
19 17 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 748 (21.92%) Degree
2 558 (16.35%) Security Cleared
3 348 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 241 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 190 (5.57%) DV Cleared
6 134 (3.93%) Master's Degree
7 80 (2.34%) CISSP
8 77 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 70 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
10 53 (1.55%) PMP
11 52 (1.52%) PMI Certification
12 45 (1.32%) MCSE
13 44 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
14 43 (1.26%) CISM
15 41 (1.20%) CCNA
16 35 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
17 32 (0.94%) CCNP
17 32 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
18 31 (0.91%) Azure Certification
19 30 (0.88%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (5.36%) QA
2 181 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 117 (3.43%) SLA
4 99 (2.90%) GDPR
5 89 (2.61%) PMO
6 56 (1.64%) NIST
7 45 (1.32%) Accessibility
8 39 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 38 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
10 24 (0.70%) 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%) MiFID
18 8 (0.23%) GxP
System Software
1 154 (4.51%) Active Directory
2 88 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 68 (1.99%) 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 Machines
8 9 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
9 5 (0.15%) Snort
10 4 (0.12%) BitLocker
10 4 (0.12%) KVM
11 3 (0.088%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.088%) OpenIDM
11 3 (0.088%) SRDF
12 2 (0.059%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 99 (2.90%) Ansible
2 95 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 66 (1.93%) Terraform
4 56 (1.64%) SCCM
5 33 (0.97%) Puppet
6 27 (0.79%) NetBackup
7 26 (0.76%) Grafana
8 25 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 25 (0.73%) Prometheus
9 24 (0.70%) Kibana
10 21 (0.62%) Docker Swarm
11 20 (0.59%) PowerCLI
12 18 (0.53%) logstash
13 15 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
14 14 (0.41%) Podman
15 11 (0.32%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.29%) Consul
16 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
16 10 (0.29%) Nagios
17 8 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 687 (20.13%) Microsoft
2 274 (8.03%) Oracle
3 215 (6.30%) SAP
4 111 (3.25%) VMware
5 87 (2.55%) Cisco
6 80 (2.34%) Google
7 72 (2.11%) ServiceNow
8 63 (1.85%) Salesforce
9 55 (1.61%) Splunk
10 53 (1.55%) Databricks
11 46 (1.35%) Alteryx
12 43 (1.26%) IBM
13 37 (1.08%) Dell
14 34 (1.00%) Atlassian
15 31 (0.91%) F5
16 30 (0.88%) Adobe
16 30 (0.88%) HP
17 29 (0.85%) Red Hat
18 27 (0.79%) Citrix
19 23 (0.67%) Juniper