Analytical Thinking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Analytical Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 360 374
Rank change year-on-year +25 +14 -10
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 59 89 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.39% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.43% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 51 97
10th Percentile £176 £290 £320
25th Percentile £413 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £659 £594 £575
90th Percentile £761 £713 £619
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £523
% change year-on-year - +0.48% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 9
10th Percentile £17.85 - £12.25
25th Percentile £22.33 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £24.65 - £18.50
75th Percentile £65.00 - £31.85
90th Percentile £68.05 - £35.64
UK median hourly rate £24.65 £43.86 £18.50
% change year-on-year -43.80% +137.08% -61.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,127 20,595 27,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.40% 89.52% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,220 18,919
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,061 1,259 1,357
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking
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 Thinking within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Midlands +36 30 £475 +5.56% 29
West Midlands +33 25 £525 +16.67% 20
North of England +27 13 £475 -13.64% 48
North West +25 11 £475 -3.80% 24
South East -8 7 £325 -33.33% 32
East Midlands +15 5 £173 - 9
East of England +6 5 £700 +27.27% 11
Scotland +23 2 £490 -6.67% 8
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 18
South West +6 1 - - 18
Wales - 1 £425 - 2
North East - 1 - - 10
Analytical Thinking
UK

Analytical Thinking
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 2 (3.39%) Confluence
1 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.69%) Appian
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.69%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (13.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (11.86%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (10.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (3.39%) MS Visio
4 2 (3.39%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.69%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 6 (10.17%) SAP S/4HANA
1 6 (10.17%) SAP SD
2 5 (8.47%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (5.08%) SAP CO
3 3 (5.08%) SAP FI
3 3 (5.08%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (3.39%) SAP ERP
5 1 (1.69%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (1.69%) SAP MM
5 1 (1.69%) SAP SCM
5 1 (1.69%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.47%) OCI
1 5 (8.47%) Oracle Service Cloud
1 5 (8.47%) Power Platform
2 2 (3.39%) AWS
3 1 (1.69%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.69%) Azure
3 1 (1.69%) BrowserStack
3 1 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.69%) OneDrive
3 1 (1.69%) SaaS
3 1 (1.69%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (1.69%) Serverless
3 1 (1.69%) SpeedCurve
3 1 (1.69%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) Network Security
2 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.47%) Power BI
2 4 (6.78%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.78%) JIRA
2 2 (3.39%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.69%) Git
3 1 (1.69%) GoCD
3 1 (1.69%) Pa11y
3 1 (1.69%) TestCafe
General
1 59 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (54.24%) Social Skills
3 20 (33.90%) Finance
4 6 (10.17%) German Language
5 5 (8.47%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (8.47%) Telecoms
6 4 (6.78%) Legal
6 4 (6.78%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.78%) Publishing
7 3 (5.08%) French Language
7 3 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.39%) Law
9 1 (1.69%) Banking
9 1 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.69%) Marketing
9 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.69%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (30.51%) Analyst
2 10 (16.95%) Senior
3 7 (11.86%) Architect
4 6 (10.17%) Business Analyst
4 6 (10.17%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.47%) Insight Analyst
5 5 (8.47%) Report Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Process Analyst
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Consultant
7 3 (5.08%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.39%) SAP CO Consultant
8 2 (3.39%) SAP FI/CO Consultant
8 2 (3.39%) Senior Business Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Support Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Systems Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) Middleware
2 3 (5.08%) React
3 2 (3.39%) Jest
3 2 (3.39%) Node.js
4 1 (1.69%) .NET
4 1 (1.69%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.69%) HTML
4 1 (1.69%) JSON
4 1 (1.69%) Kafka
4 1 (1.69%) RESTful
4 1 (1.69%) SOAP
4 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.69%) Web Services
4 1 (1.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.47%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.47%) Industry 4.0
2 5 (8.47%) IoT
2 5 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.47%) SCADA
2 5 (8.47%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.78%) Taxonomies
4 3 (5.08%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.69%) Clustering
6 1 (1.69%) CMDB
6 1 (1.69%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.69%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.69%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.69%) PMI
6 1 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.47%) Unix
2 3 (5.08%) Windows
3 2 (3.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.29%) Agile
2 19 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (23.73%) Computer Science
5 12 (20.34%) ITIL
6 11 (18.64%) Project Management
7 10 (16.95%) Roadmaps
7 10 (16.95%) Service Management
8 9 (15.25%) Business Transformation
9 8 (13.56%) Change Management
9 8 (13.56%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (13.56%) Customer Service
9 8 (13.56%) Decision-Making
9 8 (13.56%) ERP
9 8 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (11.86%) Coaching
10 7 (11.86%) Critical Thinking
10 7 (11.86%) Project Delivery
11 6 (10.17%) Test Automation
11 6 (10.17%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
2 2 (3.39%) Java
3 1 (1.69%) C#
3 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.69%) PHP
3 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (35.59%) Degree
2 4 (6.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.08%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.08%) SAP Certification
4 2 (3.39%) MCSE
4 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.69%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.69%) APMG
5 1 (1.69%) CCNA
5 1 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.69%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.69%) PMP
5 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.78%) SLA
3 3 (5.08%) PMO
4 1 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.69%) GDPR
4 1 (1.69%) GxP
4 1 (1.69%) IFRS
4 1 (1.69%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.69%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (1.69%) Grafana
1 1 (1.69%) Kibana
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (23.73%) SAP
2 10 (16.95%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.47%) BMC
3 5 (8.47%) Oracle
4 2 (3.39%) Adobe
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) OpenText
5 1 (1.69%) Pega
5 1 (1.69%) VMware