Analytics Contracts in the Thames Valley

Analytics
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 42 48
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 0
Contract jobs citing Analytics 120 149 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.51% 5.14% 4.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.19% 5.60% 4.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 104 99
10th Percentile £263 £340 £404
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -
75th Percentile £608 £600 £578
90th Percentile £615 £675 £613
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £503
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.55% +1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 1
10th Percentile - £24.56 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £30.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £43.65 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -12.70% +17.65%
75th Percentile £48.19 £79.19 £52.50
90th Percentile £56.18 - -
South East median hourly rate £51.75 £32.30 £50.00
% change year-on-year +60.22% -35.40% +3.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,313 2,661 3,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.02% 91.82% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 1,850 2,115
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £576
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 64 87
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.88 £12.15
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.51%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the Thames Valley

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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 Analytics within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 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
Berkshire +5 93 £575 +9.52% 41
Buckinghamshire -2 20 £600 +33.33% 29
Oxfordshire +3 7 £313 -37.50% 31
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South East

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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 20 (16.67%) SAS
2 17 (14.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.83%) Drupal
5 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.83%) Moodle
5 1 (0.83%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.33%) SPSS
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.83%) Sketch
3 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 38 (31.67%) Azure
2 26 (21.67%) Snowflake
3 19 (15.83%) Entra ID
4 18 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
4 18 (15.00%) Power Platform
5 17 (14.17%) Azure Storage
5 17 (14.17%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (6.67%) AWS
6 8 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.17%) Azure Functions
8 5 (4.17%) Serverless
8 5 (4.17%) Smartsheet
9 3 (2.50%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.50%) Azure Stack
9 3 (2.50%) Figma
10 2 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.67%) IaaS
10 2 (1.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (16.67%) Firewall
2 18 (15.00%) DNS
3 17 (14.17%) DHCP
4 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (28.33%) Tableau
2 18 (15.00%) Power BI
3 10 (8.33%) Crystal Reports
4 8 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (5.00%) Big Data
6 5 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.33%) Qlik Sense
7 4 (3.33%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.50%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.50%) Impala
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.67%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.67%) Power Query
9 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.67%) Sqoop
10 1 (0.83%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (5.83%) JIRA
2 3 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (0.83%) Axure RP
3 1 (0.83%) ERwin
3 1 (0.83%) MLflow
General
1 38 (31.67%) Analytical Skills
2 37 (30.83%) Social Skills
3 34 (28.33%) Finance
4 22 (18.33%) Legal
5 20 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 8 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.83%) Retail
8 4 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.50%) Banking
9 3 (2.50%) Marketing
10 2 (1.67%) German Language
10 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.67%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (32.50%) Analyst
2 21 (17.50%) Data Analyst
2 21 (17.50%) Lead
3 17 (14.17%) Developer
4 16 (13.33%) Active Directory Support
5 15 (12.50%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (11.67%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (11.67%) Support Specialist
7 12 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) Project Manager
8 8 (6.67%) Senior
9 7 (5.83%) IFS Developer
10 6 (5.00%) Data Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) HR Manager
10 6 (5.00%) Lead Data Analyst
11 5 (4.17%) Data Modeller
11 5 (4.17%) Product Manager
12 4 (3.33%) Architect
12 4 (3.33%) Report Developer
12 4 (3.33%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.17%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.17%) XML
3 4 (3.33%) D3.js
3 4 (3.33%) PySpark
4 3 (2.50%) Kafka
5 2 (1.67%) CSS
5 2 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.67%) HTML
5 2 (1.67%) NumPy
5 2 (1.67%) Pandas
6 1 (0.83%) CSS3
6 1 (0.83%) HTML5
6 1 (0.83%) React
6 1 (0.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 19 (15.83%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (14.17%) PKI
4 5 (4.17%) Smart Meter
5 4 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.33%) Life Science
5 4 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.50%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.67%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.67%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.67%) Robotics
8 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.83%) BYOD
8 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.83%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.17%) Windows
2 22 (18.33%) Linux
3 16 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 16 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 16 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.67%) Agile
2 33 (27.50%) Decision-Making
2 33 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (23.33%) Data Analytics
4 27 (22.50%) Actionable Insight
5 26 (21.67%) Data Modelling
6 25 (20.83%) DevOps
7 23 (19.17%) CI/CD
8 19 (15.83%) Identity Management
9 18 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (15.00%) ITIL
9 18 (15.00%) Log Analytics
9 18 (15.00%) Release Management
9 18 (15.00%) Service Management
10 17 (14.17%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (14.17%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 17 (14.17%) Privileged Identity Management
10 17 (14.17%) RBAC
11 16 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
12 15 (12.50%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 38 (31.67%) SQL
2 18 (15.00%) PowerShell
3 17 (14.17%) Bicep
3 17 (14.17%) C#
3 17 (14.17%) VB
3 17 (14.17%) VBScript
4 11 (9.17%) Python
5 5 (4.17%) R
6 2 (1.67%) Java
6 2 (1.67%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.83%) Bash
7 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (42.50%) Degree
2 19 (15.83%) DV Cleared
2 19 (15.83%) SC Cleared
2 19 (15.83%) Security Cleared
3 17 (14.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.67%) IFRS
1 8 (6.67%) IFRS 9
2 5 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.17%) GDPR
3 2 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 19 (15.83%) Active Directory
2 17 (14.17%) Virtual Desktop
2 17 (14.17%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 19 (15.83%) Kubernetes
2 18 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (15.00%) SCCM
3 17 (14.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (14.17%) SCOM
3 17 (14.17%) WSUS
4 3 (2.50%) Terraform
5 2 (1.67%) Ansible
5 2 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.83%) Grafana
6 1 (0.83%) Graylog
6 1 (0.83%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (20.00%) Alteryx
2 23 (19.17%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.33%) IFS
4 5 (4.17%) Ab Initio
5 3 (2.50%) Databricks
5 3 (2.50%) Informatica
5 3 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.67%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.67%) Oracle
7 1 (0.83%) Blackboard
7 1 (0.83%) BMC
7 1 (0.83%) Facebook
7 1 (0.83%) Google
7 1 (0.83%) Remedy
7 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.83%) Splunk
7 1 (0.83%) Twitter
7 1 (0.83%) Workday