Analytical Skills Contracts in England

Analytical Skills
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,943 3,673 4,620
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.96% 7.27% 6.50%
As % of the General category 13.63% 12.27% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,927 2,417 3,000
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +1.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 117 170
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.00 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median hourly rate £18.50 £35.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.89% -5.33% +78.57%
75th Percentile £31.71 £56.47 £50.52
90th Percentile £46.42 £66.00 £63.85
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £43.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -58.14% +21.13% +51.26%

All General Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,593 29,947 40,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.42% 59.25% 56.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,921 20,994 27,954
10th Percentile £275 £313 £315
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 988 1,324
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.46 £18.44 £14.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
Median % change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%
75th Percentile £51.50 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.26 £57.97
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +4 1,483 £550 -4.35% 1,362
South East 0 412 £538 +0.23% 603
North of England +6 354 £500 +6.10% 780
South West +23 255 £525 - 365
Midlands 0 228 £538 +16.01% 458
North West +3 190 £475 +8.57% 458
West Midlands -1 173 £550 +15.79% 283
Yorkshire +15 138 £514 -2.10% 255
East of England -3 114 £494 +36.21% 302
East Midlands -2 49 £456 +7.35% 174
North East +27 25 £590 +125.84% 76
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 131 (4.45%) Confluence
2 71 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 62 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 44 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 32 (1.09%) Apache
6 19 (0.65%) Tomcat
7 18 (0.61%) SAS
8 15 (0.51%) CMS
9 14 (0.48%) IIS
10 9 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
11 8 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
11 8 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
11 8 (0.27%) nginx
12 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.17%) JBoss
13 5 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.14%) Appian
14 4 (0.14%) IBM Domino
15 3 (0.10%) CICS
15 3 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 273 (9.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 211 (7.17%) Microsoft Office
3 85 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (2.17%) MS Visio
5 52 (1.77%) Microsoft Project
6 43 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.31%) Sketch
7 9 (0.31%) SPSS
8 5 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.14%) Revit
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.10%) InVision
10 3 (0.10%) MicroStation
10 3 (0.10%) Windchill
11 2 (0.068%) Mingle
12 1 (0.034%) Abaqus
12 1 (0.034%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.034%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 48 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (0.92%) Dynamics AX
3 21 (0.71%) Endur
4 17 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
6 13 (0.44%) Aligne
6 13 (0.44%) SAP HCM
6 13 (0.44%) Teamcenter
7 12 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 12 (0.41%) SAP CO
7 12 (0.41%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
8 11 (0.37%) Maximo
8 11 (0.37%) SAP SD
9 10 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.34%) SAP ERP
9 10 (0.34%) SAP HR
10 9 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
11 7 (0.24%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 433 (14.71%) Azure
2 301 (10.23%) Power Platform
3 248 (8.43%) AWS
4 135 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
5 100 (3.40%) Azure DevOps
6 87 (2.96%) GCP
7 68 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
8 63 (2.14%) PowerApps
9 56 (1.90%) Power Automate
10 55 (1.87%) Serverless
11 47 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 47 (1.60%) Snowflake
12 46 (1.56%) GitHub
13 38 (1.29%) SaaS
14 37 (1.26%) Entra ID
15 35 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
16 27 (0.92%) Amazon S3
17 25 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 24 (0.82%) AWS Lambda
19 23 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 85 (2.89%) Firewall
2 72 (2.45%) VPN
3 69 (2.34%) Network Security
4 68 (2.31%) DNS
5 57 (1.94%) WAN
6 49 (1.66%) LAN
7 40 (1.36%) Wireless
8 38 (1.29%) DHCP
9 34 (1.16%) TCP/IP
10 33 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.95%) BGP
12 27 (0.92%) HTTP
13 24 (0.82%) MPLS
13 24 (0.82%) OSPF
14 22 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
15 21 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
16 17 (0.58%) VLAN
17 15 (0.51%) Internet
18 14 (0.48%) IPsec
19 13 (0.44%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 288 (9.79%) Power BI
2 137 (4.66%) Tableau
3 134 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 92 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 85 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
6 84 (2.85%) Big Data
7 68 (2.31%) Data Lake
8 57 (1.94%) NoSQL
9 41 (1.39%) MongoDB
10 40 (1.36%) PostgreSQL
11 37 (1.26%) Hadoop
12 35 (1.19%) Metadata
13 34 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 31 (1.05%) Data Mining
15 26 (0.88%) RDBMS
15 26 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 20 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 17 (0.58%) BigQuery
18 16 (0.54%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 16 (0.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 278 (9.45%) JIRA
2 102 (3.47%) Git
3 82 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.73%) GitLab
5 49 (1.66%) Selenium
6 37 (1.26%) Cucumber
7 36 (1.22%) TeamCity
8 31 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 26 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 25 (0.85%) REST Assured
11 24 (0.82%) SonarQube
12 23 (0.78%) Cypress.io
12 23 (0.78%) webpack
13 19 (0.65%) Maven
14 13 (0.44%) JUnit
14 13 (0.44%) Visual Studio
15 11 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
16 10 (0.34%) Appium
16 10 (0.34%) Burp Suite
16 10 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1,617 (54.94%) Social Skills
2 815 (27.69%) Finance
3 239 (8.12%) Public Sector
4 207 (7.03%) Banking
5 167 (5.67%) Presentation Skills
6 132 (4.49%) Marketing
7 109 (3.70%) Retail
8 108 (3.67%) Legal
9 106 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
10 105 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
11 102 (3.47%) Front Office
12 95 (3.23%) Manufacturing
13 91 (3.09%) Telecoms
14 61 (2.07%) Investment Banking
15 45 (1.53%) Law
16 43 (1.46%) Military
17 37 (1.26%) Financial Institution
18 36 (1.22%) General Ledger
19 35 (1.19%) Aerospace
20 34 (1.16%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 649 (22.05%) Analyst
2 357 (12.13%) Developer
3 213 (7.24%) Architect
4 212 (7.20%) Consultant
5 208 (7.07%) Business Analyst
6 196 (6.66%) Senior
7 185 (6.29%) Lead
8 129 (4.38%) Data Analyst
9 125 (4.25%) Project Manager
10 96 (3.26%) Data Engineer
11 77 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
12 58 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
13 57 (1.94%) Service Analyst
14 55 (1.87%) Network Engineer
15 54 (1.83%) Support Engineer
16 53 (1.80%) IT Engineer
17 50 (1.70%) Full Stack Developer
17 50 (1.70%) Java Developer
18 48 (1.63%) Administrator
19 46 (1.56%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (3.43%) React
2 94 (3.19%) REST
3 87 (2.96%) HTML
4 86 (2.92%) .NET
4 86 (2.92%) CSS
5 63 (2.14%) AngularJS
6 48 (1.63%) Kafka
6 48 (1.63%) XML
7 42 (1.43%) Node.js
8 37 (1.26%) JSON
9 36 (1.22%) Web Services
10 33 (1.12%) RESTful
11 31 (1.05%) .NET Core
12 29 (0.99%) PySpark
12 29 (0.99%) WebSockets
13 25 (0.85%) Java EE
14 24 (0.82%) Spring
15 23 (0.78%) Middleware
16 22 (0.75%) RxJS
17 19 (0.65%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 221 (7.51%) Management Information System
2 162 (5.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 119 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
4 115 (3.91%) Product Ownership
5 87 (2.96%) Data Structures
6 70 (2.38%) Algorithms
7 46 (1.56%) Data Centre
8 45 (1.53%) Derivative
9 43 (1.46%) Cyber Defence
10 41 (1.39%) Onboarding
11 38 (1.29%) Fixed Income
12 34 (1.16%) Virtual Team
13 33 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
14 32 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
15 31 (1.05%) CMDB
16 29 (0.99%) PKI
17 27 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 27 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
18 26 (0.88%) Distributed Applications
18 26 (0.88%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 285 (9.68%) Windows
2 203 (6.90%) Linux
3 104 (3.53%) Unix
4 75 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 49 (1.66%) Windows 10
6 40 (1.36%) Windows 7
7 37 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 36 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 29 (0.99%) Apple iOS
10 28 (0.95%) Android
11 13 (0.44%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
13 10 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.24%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.17%) zOS
16 3 (0.10%) AIX
16 3 (0.10%) Solaris
16 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
17 1 (0.034%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,671 (56.78%) Problem-Solving
2 746 (25.35%) Agile
3 444 (15.09%) Project Management
4 374 (12.71%) Business Intelligence
5 335 (11.38%) Analytics
6 323 (10.98%) Decision-Making
7 313 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
8 283 (9.62%) DevOps
9 281 (9.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 242 (8.22%) Computer Science
11 240 (8.15%) Data Modelling
12 236 (8.02%) Data Analysis
13 207 (7.03%) ITIL
14 204 (6.93%) Change Management
14 204 (6.93%) Customer Service
15 199 (6.76%) Migration
16 184 (6.25%) Roadmaps
16 184 (6.25%) Visualisation
17 167 (5.67%) CI/CD
18 165 (5.61%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 489 (16.62%) SQL
2 370 (12.57%) Python
3 227 (7.71%) Java
4 141 (4.79%) JavaScript
5 125 (4.25%) C#
6 116 (3.94%) PowerShell
7 71 (2.41%) TypeScript
8 55 (1.87%) Scala
9 54 (1.83%) R
10 39 (1.33%) PL/SQL
11 35 (1.19%) C++
11 35 (1.19%) Shell Script
11 35 (1.19%) T-SQL
12 29 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 22 (0.75%) Perl
14 19 (0.65%) Bash
15 18 (0.61%) Go
16 17 (0.58%) C
16 17 (0.58%) VBScript
17 15 (0.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 607 (20.63%) Degree
2 518 (17.60%) Security Cleared
3 330 (11.21%) SC Cleared
4 167 (5.67%) DV Cleared
5 156 (5.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 83 (2.82%) Master's Degree
7 61 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
8 58 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 51 (1.73%) CISSP
10 43 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 39 (1.33%) PMI Certification
12 37 (1.26%) CCNP
12 37 (1.26%) PMP
13 35 (1.19%) CCNA
14 32 (1.09%) MCSE
15 29 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
16 27 (0.92%) CISM
16 27 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 26 (0.88%) Azure Certification
18 21 (0.71%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (5.84%) Data Quality
2 153 (5.20%) QA
3 108 (3.67%) SLA
4 77 (2.62%) PMO
5 66 (2.24%) GDPR
6 35 (1.19%) NIST
7 34 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 29 (0.99%) Accessibility
9 23 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 19 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.48%) EMIR
12 11 (0.37%) MiFID
13 10 (0.34%) GRC
13 10 (0.34%) NIST 800
14 9 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
15 8 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.27%) GxP
15 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.27%) ISO 9001
16 7 (0.24%) IFRS
System Software
1 135 (4.59%) Active Directory
2 82 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (1.73%) Docker
4 22 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.41%) vSphere
6 11 (0.37%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
7 10 (0.34%) HDFS
8 9 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
9 8 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 8 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.24%) Firmware
11 4 (0.14%) KVM
11 4 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (0.10%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.10%) OpenIDM
12 3 (0.10%) SRDF
13 2 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.068%) NFS
13 2 (0.068%) Snort
Systems Management
1 92 (3.13%) Ansible
2 75 (2.55%) Kubernetes
3 50 (1.70%) Terraform
4 41 (1.39%) SCCM
5 32 (1.09%) Puppet
6 25 (0.85%) NetBackup
7 23 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (0.75%) Grafana
9 20 (0.68%) PowerCLI
10 19 (0.65%) Prometheus
11 18 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
12 15 (0.51%) Kibana
12 15 (0.51%) Progress Chef
13 13 (0.44%) Podman
13 13 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.41%) logstash
15 10 (0.34%) FortiGate
15 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
15 10 (0.34%) Nagios
16 8 (0.27%) Consul
Vendors
1 569 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 189 (6.42%) Oracle
3 185 (6.29%) SAP
4 105 (3.57%) VMware
5 86 (2.92%) Cisco
6 75 (2.55%) ServiceNow
7 64 (2.17%) Google
8 51 (1.73%) Salesforce
9 50 (1.70%) Databricks
10 40 (1.36%) Atlassian
11 37 (1.26%) Splunk
12 35 (1.19%) Alteryx
13 32 (1.09%) Red Hat
14 30 (1.02%) HP
15 29 (0.99%) Dell
15 29 (0.99%) IBM
16 28 (0.95%) Citrix
17 25 (0.85%) Juniper
18 21 (0.71%) Palo Alto
19 20 (0.68%) F5