Analytical Skills Contracts in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 21 28
Rank change year-on-year +4 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 242 248 234
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.06% 8.44% 6.71%
As % of the General category 16.24% 13.49% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 186 141
10th Percentile £263 £350 £325
25th Percentile £400 £425 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £624 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £538 £540 £495
% change year-on-year -0.51% +9.14% +4.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 7
10th Percentile £18.90 £24.66 £11.37
25th Percentile £22.58 £24.90 £12.15
Median hourly rate £24.43 £26.58 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +112.64% -3.70%
75th Percentile £53.75 £29.06 £13.00
90th Percentile £60.20 £29.77 £39.96
South East median hourly rate £18.18 £53.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year -66.03% +38.96% +43.31%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,490 1,838 2,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 55.76% 62.56% 59.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 787 1,238 1,315
10th Percentile £205 £304 £205
25th Percentile £325 £400 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £467
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +7.07% +2.64%
75th Percentile £589 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £640
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 41 74
10th Percentile £17.89 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £22.86 £22.50 £12.31
Median hourly rate £48.40 £32.30 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.85% +84.57% -22.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £21.85
90th Percentile £75.77 £75.75 £31.45
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -20.98%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 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
Berkshire 0 186 £575 +9.52% 101
Buckinghamshire +12 47 £370 -26.00% 55
Oxfordshire +4 9 £488 -25.00% 68
Analytical Skills
South East

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 8 (3.31%) Confluence
1 8 (3.31%) SAS
2 4 (1.65%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.24%) Appian
3 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) nginx
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 30 (12.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (11.16%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (2.48%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.24%) SPSS
5 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.41%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 11 (4.55%) Oracle EBS R12
2 10 (4.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 6 (2.48%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (2.48%) Primavera
4 5 (2.07%) Maximo
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.83%) Sage X3
6 1 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.41%) Epicor Tropos
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.41%) PeopleSoft HRMS
6 1 (0.41%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.41%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (22.73%) Azure
2 23 (9.50%) Snowflake
3 20 (8.26%) Power Platform
4 18 (7.44%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (6.61%) AWS
6 13 (5.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 13 (5.37%) Azure Monitor
7 10 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (4.13%) Serverless
8 9 (3.72%) Azure Functions
9 8 (3.31%) Entra ID
9 8 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.07%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.07%) Smartsheet
11 4 (1.65%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 4 (1.65%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (1.24%) PowerApps
12 3 (1.24%) SaaS
12 3 (1.24%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.89%) VPN
2 6 (2.48%) Firewall
2 6 (2.48%) WAN
3 4 (1.65%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (1.24%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.24%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.24%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.83%) 2G
5 2 (0.83%) 3G
5 2 (0.83%) 4G
5 2 (0.83%) 5G
5 2 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (0.83%) SAN
5 2 (0.83%) Wireless
6 1 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.41%) MPLS
6 1 (0.41%) Network Security
6 1 (0.41%) SSL
6 1 (0.41%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (12.40%) Tableau
2 20 (8.26%) Power BI
3 9 (3.72%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.07%) Data Mining
4 5 (2.07%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.65%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.24%) MySQL
6 3 (1.24%) Power Query
6 3 (1.24%) Qlik Sense
7 2 (0.83%) Big Data
7 2 (0.83%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.41%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.41%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 1 (0.41%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.41%) Impala
8 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.41%) OLAP
8 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 30 (12.40%) Selenium
2 25 (10.33%) Cucumber
2 25 (10.33%) Jenkins
3 24 (9.92%) JIRA
3 24 (9.92%) REST Assured
3 24 (9.92%) SonarQube
4 14 (5.79%) Git
5 13 (5.37%) GitLab
6 9 (3.72%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.24%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.83%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.41%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.41%) ERwin
9 1 (0.41%) MLflow
9 1 (0.41%) Postman
9 1 (0.41%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.41%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.41%) Xcode
General
1 125 (51.65%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.25%) Finance
3 31 (12.81%) Legal
4 21 (8.68%) Telecoms
5 20 (8.26%) Law
6 14 (5.79%) Retail
7 13 (5.37%) Police
8 12 (4.96%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.31%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.89%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.24%) Banking
12 3 (1.24%) Marketing
13 2 (0.83%) Automotive
13 2 (0.83%) Environmental Health
13 2 (0.83%) General Ledger
13 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.83%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 75 (30.99%) Analyst
2 31 (12.81%) Lead
3 24 (9.92%) Consultant
3 24 (9.92%) Developer
4 19 (7.85%) Functional Consultant
5 18 (7.44%) Data Analyst
6 17 (7.02%) Java Engineer
6 17 (7.02%) Senior
7 13 (5.37%) Oracle Consultant
7 13 (5.37%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 11 (4.55%) Project Manager
9 10 (4.13%) Full Stack Developer
10 9 (3.72%) Azure Developer
10 9 (3.72%) Financial Analyst
11 8 (3.31%) Architect
11 8 (3.31%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.31%) Oracle P2P Consultant
12 7 (2.89%) Designer
12 7 (2.89%) Product Analyst
13 6 (2.48%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.33%) Java EE
1 25 (10.33%) REST
2 12 (4.96%) ARM Templates
2 12 (4.96%) HTML
3 11 (4.55%) CSS
3 11 (4.55%) React
4 6 (2.48%) AngularJS
4 6 (2.48%) Node.js
5 5 (2.07%) EDI
6 4 (1.65%) .NET
7 3 (1.24%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.24%) D3.js
7 3 (1.24%) XML
8 2 (0.83%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (0.83%) OLE
8 2 (0.83%) PySpark
9 1 (0.41%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.41%) NumPy
9 1 (0.41%) Smarty
9 1 (0.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.02%) Credit Risk
1 17 (7.02%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.79%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.89%) Client/Server
4 6 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.07%) CCTV
6 4 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.65%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.24%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.24%) Life Science
7 3 (1.24%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.24%) SCADA
7 3 (1.24%) Wiki
8 2 (0.83%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.83%) PMI
8 2 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.41%) Biopharmaceutical
9 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.74%) Windows
2 13 (5.37%) Linux
3 9 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (3.72%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.07%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.65%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (1.24%) Android
7 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (58.68%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (26.45%) Agile
3 63 (26.03%) Decision-Making
4 62 (25.62%) DevOps
5 38 (15.70%) Test Automation
6 37 (15.29%) Analytics
7 28 (11.57%) Project Management
7 28 (11.57%) Technical Leadership
8 26 (10.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (10.74%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (10.33%) Software Architecture
10 24 (9.92%) Actionable Insight
11 23 (9.50%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (9.50%) Software Engineering
12 19 (7.85%) Dashboard Development
13 18 (7.44%) Scrum
14 17 (7.02%) Change Management
14 17 (7.02%) CI/CD
14 17 (7.02%) Project Delivery
14 17 (7.02%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (11.57%) Java
2 25 (10.33%) Python
3 23 (9.50%) SQL
4 11 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 9 (3.72%) PowerShell
6 8 (3.31%) VBScript
7 5 (2.07%) PHP
8 4 (1.65%) R
8 4 (1.65%) VBA
9 3 (1.24%) C
10 2 (0.83%) C#
10 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.83%) Scala
11 1 (0.41%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (23.55%) Security Cleared
2 45 (18.60%) Degree
3 39 (16.12%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.44%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.48%) ACCA
5 6 (2.48%) CIMA
6 4 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.65%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.65%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.24%) A+ Certification
7 3 (1.24%) CCNA
7 3 (1.24%) CCNP
7 3 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.24%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.83%) MBA
8 2 (0.83%) MCITP
8 2 (0.83%) PgMP
8 2 (0.83%) PMP
9 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.20%) QA
2 8 (3.31%) GDPR
3 6 (2.48%) SLA
4 4 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.24%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.41%) IFRS
6 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (5.37%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.96%) Docker
3 10 (4.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (9.92%) Ansible
2 13 (5.37%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.37%) Terraform
3 12 (4.96%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (4.96%) Podman
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.83%) PaperCut
4 2 (0.83%) SCCM
4 2 (0.83%) SCOM
Vendors
1 41 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.92%) Alteryx
3 17 (7.02%) Oracle
4 12 (4.96%) VMware
5 10 (4.13%) Salesforce
6 6 (2.48%) Cisco
6 6 (2.48%) OneTrust
7 4 (1.65%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.65%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.65%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.24%) Databricks
8 3 (1.24%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.24%) Splunk
9 2 (0.83%) Aruba
9 2 (0.83%) BT
9 2 (0.83%) HP
9 2 (0.83%) Sage
9 2 (0.83%) SAP
9 2 (0.83%) Veeam
9 2 (0.83%) WatchGuard