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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 39 33
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,100 2,947 5,394
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.89% 5.25% 6.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% 5.85% 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,430 2,067 3,784
10th Percentile £356 £356 £400
25th Percentile £438 £460 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £670
90th Percentile £788 £800 £774
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £516 £510
% change year-on-year +0.78% +1.18% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 55 73
10th Percentile £15.29 £21.00 £12.90
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.16 £29.25
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 £51.75
90th Percentile £71.38 £78.71 £67.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £25.16 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.64% -28.11% +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 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
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 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +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 29 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 29 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 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 -2 1,780 £550 - 2,045
London -3 1,045 £575 -4.17% 1,014
Work from Home +6 794 £550 +2.33% 957
UK excluding London +4 779 £520 +0.78% 1,065
South East -1 201 £550 +10.00% 234
North of England -8 172 £501 -8.17% 344
Midlands +7 141 £550 +4.76% 194
West Midlands +14 109 £550 +4.76% 118
Scotland +13 106 £491 -1.55% 78
North West -1 105 £495 -5.71% 225
South West +30 101 £531 +1.19% 100
Yorkshire -13 63 £507 -7.40% 82
East of England +9 49 £500 - 90
East Midlands +2 32 £475 - 77
Wales +27 18 £550 -3.46% 22
North East +3 7 - - 40
Northern Ireland +7 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 45 (2.14%) Confluence
4 43 (2.05%) SAS
5 35 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
6 34 (1.62%) Apache
6 34 (1.62%) CMS
7 29 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.43%) WordPress
10 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.19%) govService
12 3 (0.14%) Drupal
12 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.095%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.095%) CICS
13 2 (0.095%) GeoServer
13 2 (0.095%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.048%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 76 (3.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.43%) 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 43 (2.05%) 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 ERP
8 5 (0.24%) OpenLink RightAngle
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle 11i
8 5 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.24%) SAP BPC
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 (24.81%) Azure
2 326 (15.52%) Power Platform
3 314 (14.95%) AWS
4 162 (7.71%) GCP
5 110 (5.24%) Azure Data Factory
5 110 (5.24%) Google Analytics
6 93 (4.43%) Snowflake
7 80 (3.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 72 (3.43%) Serverless
9 66 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
10 65 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
11 47 (2.24%) Microsoft 365
12 45 (2.14%) Amazon S3
12 45 (2.14%) GitHub
13 41 (1.95%) SaaS
14 36 (1.71%) dbt
15 35 (1.67%) Entra ID
16 33 (1.57%) PaaS
17 31 (1.48%) Azure Storage
17 31 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 54 (2.57%) Firewall
2 35 (1.67%) DNS
3 34 (1.62%) Network Security
4 30 (1.43%) DHCP
4 30 (1.43%) WAN
5 25 (1.19%) VPN
6 21 (1.00%) LAN
7 20 (0.95%) VoIP
8 18 (0.86%) Intranet
9 13 (0.62%) Intrusion Detection
10 11 (0.52%) Internet
11 10 (0.48%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
12 9 (0.43%) CTI
12 9 (0.43%) MPLS
12 9 (0.43%) PBX
12 9 (0.43%) WLAN
13 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
14 6 (0.29%) HTTP
14 6 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (15.19%) Power BI
2 242 (11.52%) Data Warehouse
3 180 (8.57%) Tableau
4 142 (6.76%) Big Data
5 134 (6.38%) Data Lake
6 82 (3.90%) SQL Server
7 63 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 63 (3.00%) Relational Database
8 60 (2.86%) BigQuery
9 54 (2.57%) NoSQL
10 52 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 44 (2.10%) Looker
12 43 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
13 40 (1.90%) MySQL
14 38 (1.81%) KDB
15 37 (1.76%) Hadoop
16 31 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
16 31 (1.48%) Metadata
17 30 (1.43%) Data Mining
18 26 (1.24%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 99 (4.71%) 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 (28.90%) Social Skills
2 505 (24.05%) Finance
3 403 (19.19%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 142 (6.76%) Marketing
6 127 (6.05%) Banking
7 95 (4.52%) Retail
8 88 (4.19%) Front Office
9 76 (3.62%) Legal
10 72 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (2.81%) Telecoms
12 54 (2.57%) Manufacturing
13 44 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
14 42 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 39 (1.86%) Investment Banking
15 39 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
16 24 (1.14%) Advertising
17 15 (0.71%) German Language
18 14 (0.67%) Local Government
18 14 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 390 (18.57%) Analyst
2 292 (13.90%) Developer
3 249 (11.86%) Architect
4 211 (10.05%) Data Engineer
5 195 (9.29%) Senior
6 164 (7.81%) Data Analyst
7 157 (7.48%) Lead
8 105 (5.00%) Consultant
9 96 (4.57%) Data Architect
10 75 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
11 70 (3.33%) Project Manager
12 66 (3.14%) Business Analyst
13 63 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
14 52 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
15 49 (2.33%) Software Engineer
16 48 (2.29%) Azure Data Engineer
17 44 (2.10%) 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 73 (3.48%) HTML
1 73 (3.48%) PySpark
2 60 (2.86%) .NET
3 57 (2.71%) CSS
3 57 (2.71%) React
4 55 (2.62%) Middleware
5 53 (2.52%) REST
6 50 (2.38%) Web Services
7 41 (1.95%) JSON
7 41 (1.95%) Kafka
8 34 (1.62%) Pandas
8 34 (1.62%) XML
9 33 (1.57%) ARM Templates
10 27 (1.29%) .NET Core
11 25 (1.19%) RESTful
12 24 (1.14%) AngularJS
13 22 (1.05%) Node.js
13 22 (1.05%) NumPy
14 19 (0.90%) FastAPI
14 19 (0.90%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 116 (5.52%) Management Information System
2 115 (5.48%) Product Ownership
3 69 (3.29%) Fixed Income
4 62 (2.95%) Data Structures
4 62 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
5 56 (2.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 54 (2.57%) Derivative
7 52 (2.48%) Algorithms
8 51 (2.43%) Equities
9 42 (2.00%) 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
1 129 (6.14%) Windows
2 124 (5.90%) Linux
3 47 (2.24%) Unix
4 45 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
7 16 (0.76%) Android
8 14 (0.67%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.38%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.14%) VMS
11 3 (0.14%) zOS
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 (25.10%) Agile
2 457 (21.76%) Data Analytics
3 453 (21.57%) Business Intelligence
4 370 (17.62%) Data Modelling
5 354 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
6 282 (13.43%) ETL
7 243 (11.57%) Visualisation
8 236 (11.24%) DevOps
9 213 (10.14%) Data Science
10 207 (9.86%) Data Analysis
11 201 (9.57%) Data Management
12 196 (9.33%) Decision-Making
13 175 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
14 171 (8.14%) Roadmaps
15 170 (8.10%) CI/CD
15 170 (8.10%) Data Engineering
16 169 (8.05%) Computer Science
17 166 (7.90%) Project Management
18 164 (7.81%) Data Governance
18 164 (7.81%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 605 (28.81%) SQL
2 478 (22.76%) Python
3 140 (6.67%) Java
4 115 (5.48%) JavaScript
5 101 (4.81%) C#
6 73 (3.48%) PowerShell
7 50 (2.38%) TypeScript
8 48 (2.29%) R
9 46 (2.19%) Scala
10 45 (2.14%) C++
11 33 (1.57%) Bicep
12 31 (1.48%) Bash
13 30 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 24 (1.14%) T-SQL
15 22 (1.05%) VB
16 20 (0.95%) ABAP
16 20 (0.95%) VBScript
17 17 (0.81%) PL/SQL
18 15 (0.71%) Perl
18 15 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 332 (15.81%) Degree
2 279 (13.29%) Security Cleared
3 204 (9.71%) SC Cleared
4 97 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 86 (4.10%) DV Cleared
6 74 (3.52%) Master's Degree
7 38 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 29 (1.38%) 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 (9.67%) Data Quality
2 98 (4.67%) QA
3 49 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 47 (2.24%) GDPR
5 25 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
6 22 (1.05%) PMO
7 16 (0.76%) SLA
8 15 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.67%) HIPAA
9 14 (0.67%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.62%) NIST
11 12 (0.57%) IFRS
12 11 (0.52%) GxP
13 10 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
14 8 (0.38%) NCSC
14 8 (0.38%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.33%) IFRS 9
15 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 5 (0.24%) GAMP
System Software
1 53 (2.52%) Active Directory
2 44 (2.10%) Docker
3 31 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.24%) HDFS
6 5 (0.24%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.048%) NFS
9 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 88 (4.19%) Terraform
2 70 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.67%) Grafana
4 30 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (1.29%) Ansible
5 27 (1.29%) SCOM
6 22 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 22 (1.05%) SCCM
6 22 (1.05%) WSUS
7 10 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
8 9 (0.43%) BladeLogic
9 6 (0.29%) Nagios
9 6 (0.29%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.24%) SysTrack
11 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.19%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 3 (0.14%) Graylog
12 3 (0.14%) Kibana
12 3 (0.14%) Matomo
12 3 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 362 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 173 (8.24%) Google
3 161 (7.67%) Databricks
4 129 (6.14%) SAP
5 119 (5.67%) Oracle
6 71 (3.38%) Adobe
7 48 (2.29%) Salesforce
8 44 (2.10%) Alteryx
9 35 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 30 (1.43%) Atlassian
10 30 (1.43%) Splunk
11 27 (1.29%) Cisco
12 23 (1.10%) Talend
13 22 (1.05%) Informatica
14 21 (1.00%) Optimizely
15 20 (0.95%) Ariba
16 19 (0.90%) Denodo
17 18 (0.86%) Red Hat
18 17 (0.81%) OpenAI
19 16 (0.76%) Citrix