Analytical Skills Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 20 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,581 1,842 1,933
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.76% 7.84% 6.31%
As % of the General category 14.26% 13.87% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 986 1,241 1,260
10th Percentile £273 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £485 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +4.70% +9.00%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £550
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 67 127
10th Percentile £11.69 £20.79 £12.30
25th Percentile £12.75 £22.95 £14.78
Median hourly rate £17.39 £49.57 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -64.91% +52.99% +72.80%
75th Percentile £25.29 £58.67 £51.45
90th Percentile £43.75 £66.00 £57.12
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £43.86 £38.50
% change year-on-year -58.96% +13.92% +67.39%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,090 13,277 17,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.42% 56.49% 55.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,304 9,083 11,757
10th Percentile £205 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,641 766 1,031
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £29.00 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +55.08% -4.10%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.68 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.74 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
% change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
South East -2 413 £534 -0.12% 582
North of England +4 324 £500 +5.26% 672
South West +21 260 £525 - 344
Midlands +1 230 £525 +10.53% 490
Scotland +1 214 £470 -1.05% 141
West Midlands +1 173 £538 +13.26% 297
North West -1 164 £488 +11.11% 359
Yorkshire +13 136 £514 -2.10% 243
East of England -6 108 £500 +33.33% 259
East Midlands +6 52 £450 - 194
Wales +12 32 £525 +13.51% 68
North East +21 23 £590 +124.76% 76
Northern Ireland 0 12 £500 +17.65% 38
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 5
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 83 (5.25%) Confluence
2 42 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 38 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.70%) Apache
5 11 (0.70%) SAS
6 8 (0.51%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.44%) CMS
7 7 (0.44%) IIS
8 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.25%) Appian
9 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.19%) Drupal
9 3 (0.19%) IBM HTTP Server
9 3 (0.19%) nginx
9 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.19%) WebSphere Portal
10 2 (0.13%) Mule
10 2 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 186 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 122 (7.72%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (2.97%) Microsoft Project
4 45 (2.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (2.34%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (1.39%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.51%) Acrobat
8 5 (0.32%) Sketch
9 4 (0.25%) SPSS
10 3 (0.19%) MicroStation
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.13%) InVision
12 1 (0.063%) Abaqus
12 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.063%) Autodesk Inventor
12 1 (0.063%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.063%) Simulink
12 1 (0.063%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 35 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.89%) Oracle EBS R12
3 13 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.63%) SAP HCM
6 9 (0.57%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.57%) SAP HR
6 9 (0.57%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.51%) Maximo
7 8 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.44%) Primavera
8 7 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.44%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
10 5 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
10 5 (0.32%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.32%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.25%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 187 (11.83%) Azure
2 169 (10.69%) Power Platform
3 102 (6.45%) AWS
4 64 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
5 46 (2.91%) Snowflake
6 38 (2.40%) GCP
7 37 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
8 33 (2.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 26 (1.64%) OCI
10 25 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (1.27%) Entra ID
12 19 (1.20%) PowerApps
13 18 (1.14%) SaaS
14 16 (1.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 16 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
15 15 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (0.89%) Serverless
17 12 (0.76%) GitHub
17 12 (0.76%) Power Automate
18 10 (0.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.80%) Network Security
2 45 (2.85%) Firewall
3 43 (2.72%) DNS
4 35 (2.21%) VPN
5 33 (2.09%) WAN
6 29 (1.83%) DHCP
6 29 (1.83%) LAN
7 26 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (1.33%) SAN
8 21 (1.33%) TCP/IP
9 19 (1.20%) Intrusion Detection
10 18 (1.14%) VLAN
11 17 (1.08%) Internet
11 17 (1.08%) MPLS
12 15 (0.95%) Wireless
13 14 (0.89%) HTTP
14 11 (0.70%) BGP
14 11 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (0.57%) OSPF
15 9 (0.57%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (10.31%) Power BI
2 90 (5.69%) Tableau
3 53 (3.35%) SQL Server
4 38 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (2.15%) Big Data
6 28 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 23 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
8 22 (1.39%) Data Lake
9 21 (1.33%) Data Mining
10 19 (1.20%) NoSQL
10 19 (1.20%) Oracle Database
11 18 (1.14%) Metadata
11 18 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 15 (0.95%) Hadoop
14 14 (0.89%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 12 (0.76%) GIS
16 10 (0.63%) Power Query
17 9 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
18 8 (0.51%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 148 (9.36%) JIRA
2 62 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 42 (2.66%) Selenium
4 38 (2.40%) Git
5 26 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 26 (1.64%) Cucumber
6 24 (1.52%) REST Assured
6 24 (1.52%) SonarQube
7 22 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 22 (1.39%) GitLab
8 14 (0.89%) Oracle APEX
9 10 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (0.44%) Travis CI
11 6 (0.38%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.38%) Robot Framework
11 6 (0.38%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.32%) JMeter
12 5 (0.32%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.25%) JUnit
14 3 (0.19%) ERwin
General
1 906 (57.31%) Social Skills
2 334 (21.13%) Finance
3 188 (11.89%) Public Sector
4 93 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 85 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
6 84 (5.31%) Legal
7 67 (4.24%) Manufacturing
8 56 (3.54%) Banking
8 56 (3.54%) Telecoms
9 47 (2.97%) Marketing
10 42 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
10 42 (2.66%) Retail
11 35 (2.21%) Aerospace
11 35 (2.21%) Military
12 27 (1.71%) Law
13 24 (1.52%) Local Government
14 23 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
15 22 (1.39%) Police
16 17 (1.08%) Electronics
16 17 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 380 (24.04%) Analyst
2 134 (8.48%) Lead
3 120 (7.59%) Architect
4 117 (7.40%) Developer
5 116 (7.34%) Senior
6 90 (5.69%) Data Analyst
7 77 (4.87%) Business Analyst
8 76 (4.81%) Consultant
9 69 (4.36%) Project Manager
10 51 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
11 48 (3.04%) Data Engineer
12 45 (2.85%) IT Engineer
13 39 (2.47%) Network Engineer
14 38 (2.40%) Service Analyst
15 34 (2.15%) Support Engineer
16 33 (2.09%) Service Desk Analyst
17 32 (2.02%) Field Engineer
18 31 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
19 30 (1.90%) Field Service Engineer
20 29 (1.83%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (3.10%) REST
2 40 (2.53%) .NET
3 29 (1.83%) HTML
4 27 (1.71%) CSS
5 25 (1.58%) Java EE
6 24 (1.52%) React
7 22 (1.39%) .NET Core
8 20 (1.27%) Kafka
9 16 (1.01%) Apache NiFi
9 16 (1.01%) Web Services
9 16 (1.01%) XML
10 13 (0.82%) JSON
11 12 (0.76%) ARM Templates
11 12 (0.76%) Middleware
11 12 (0.76%) PySpark
12 10 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
13 9 (0.57%) .NET Framework
13 9 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (0.51%) AngularJS
14 8 (0.51%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 157 (9.93%) Management Information System
2 91 (5.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 75 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 73 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
5 37 (2.34%) Cyber Defence
5 37 (2.34%) Data Centre
6 27 (1.71%) Data Structures
7 24 (1.52%) Credit Risk
7 24 (1.52%) Virtual Team
8 22 (1.39%) Client/Server
8 22 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 21 (1.33%) Distributed Applications
9 21 (1.33%) Operational Technology
9 21 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
10 20 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (1.27%) PKI
10 20 (1.27%) Replication
11 18 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (1.01%) Clustering
12 16 (1.01%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 185 (11.70%) Windows
2 119 (7.53%) Linux
3 57 (3.61%) Unix
4 53 (3.35%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.71%) Apple iOS
5 27 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 23 (1.45%) Windows Server 2012
7 21 (1.33%) Android
8 19 (1.20%) Windows 10
9 15 (0.95%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.95%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.38%) AIX
10 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.25%) Solaris
11 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.19%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.063%) CentOS
14 1 (0.063%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 923 (58.38%) Problem-Solving
2 370 (23.40%) Agile
3 257 (16.26%) Project Management
4 194 (12.27%) Business Intelligence
5 175 (11.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 169 (10.69%) Decision-Making
7 167 (10.56%) Analytics
8 159 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 143 (9.04%) DevOps
10 124 (7.84%) Customer Service
11 120 (7.59%) ITIL
12 117 (7.40%) Cybersecurity
13 116 (7.34%) Computer Science
14 111 (7.02%) Change Management
15 109 (6.89%) Data Analysis
16 95 (6.01%) Service Management
17 94 (5.95%) Migration
18 92 (5.82%) Project Delivery
19 86 (5.44%) Roadmaps
19 86 (5.44%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 204 (12.90%) SQL
2 151 (9.55%) Python
3 91 (5.76%) Java
4 73 (4.62%) PowerShell
5 41 (2.59%) JavaScript
6 24 (1.52%) C#
7 23 (1.45%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.20%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.01%) R
10 15 (0.95%) Scala
11 14 (0.89%) C
11 14 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 14 (0.89%) VBScript
12 11 (0.70%) Bash
13 9 (0.57%) Perl
13 9 (0.57%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.57%) VBA
14 8 (0.51%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.38%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 388 (24.54%) Security Cleared
2 307 (19.42%) Degree
3 227 (14.36%) SC Cleared
4 148 (9.36%) DV Cleared
5 75 (4.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 50 (3.16%) Cisco Certification
6 50 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 41 (2.59%) Master's Degree
8 38 (2.40%) MCSE
9 34 (2.15%) CCNA
10 29 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
11 26 (1.64%) CISSP
11 26 (1.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 25 (1.58%) APMP
12 25 (1.58%) CCNP
13 20 (1.27%) PMI Certification
14 19 (1.20%) MCSA
15 18 (1.14%) PMP
16 16 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
17 14 (0.89%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (4.68%) QA
2 68 (4.30%) SLA
3 56 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 52 (3.29%) PMO
5 43 (2.72%) GDPR
6 23 (1.45%) Accessibility
7 19 (1.20%) Actionable Recommendations
7 19 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
8 14 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.89%) NIST
9 9 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.51%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.44%) GRC
11 7 (0.44%) GxP
12 6 (0.38%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.32%) GAMP
14 4 (0.25%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.25%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 4 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 84 (5.31%) Active Directory
2 67 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.39%) Docker
4 16 (1.01%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.57%) VMware Workstation
6 9 (0.57%) vSphere
7 6 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.25%) Firmware
9 3 (0.19%) HDFS
9 3 (0.19%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.19%) OpenIDM
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.19%) SRDF
10 2 (0.13%) KVM
10 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.063%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.063%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 78 (4.93%) Ansible
2 38 (2.40%) SCCM
3 32 (2.02%) Kubernetes
4 31 (1.96%) Terraform
5 26 (1.64%) NetBackup
6 24 (1.52%) Puppet
7 20 (1.27%) PowerCLI
8 18 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
9 15 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.76%) Podman
11 11 (0.70%) Kibana
12 10 (0.63%) Grafana
13 9 (0.57%) Nagios
13 9 (0.57%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.57%) Prometheus
14 8 (0.51%) logstash
14 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Clustering
15 6 (0.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 6 (0.38%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.32%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 309 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 105 (6.64%) SAP
3 96 (6.07%) Oracle
4 82 (5.19%) VMware
5 53 (3.35%) Cisco
6 39 (2.47%) ServiceNow
7 34 (2.15%) Alteryx
8 32 (2.02%) Atlassian
8 32 (2.02%) Dell
8 32 (2.02%) Splunk
9 30 (1.90%) Salesforce
10 29 (1.83%) Google
11 26 (1.64%) HP
12 23 (1.45%) Red Hat
13 19 (1.20%) Citrix
14 18 (1.14%) Veritas
15 17 (1.08%) IBM
15 17 (1.08%) Juniper
16 15 (0.95%) Aruba
16 15 (0.95%) Brocade