Analytical Skills Contracts

Analytical Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies. 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 30
Rank change year-on-year +5 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,483 4,303 5,738
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.04% 7.19% 6.46%
As % of the General category 13.81% 12.30% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,263 2,796 3,709
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £769
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £480 £464
% change year-on-year +4.38% +3.45% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 125 184
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.10 £12.30
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.75 £17.23
Median hourly rate £18.00 £43.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.14% +21.13% +51.26%
75th Percentile £26.98 £58.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £46.79 £72.98 £63.44
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £48.65 £31.68
% change year-on-year -64.03% +53.59% +51.56%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,217 34,983 49,764
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.24% 58.49% 56.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,921 24,245 34,457
10th Percentile £270 £313 £319
25th Percentile £413 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.90% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,927 1,077 1,444
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.46 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.48 £18.13 £14.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.75 £61.25 £46.13
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.51 £30.54 £18.50
% change year-on-year -9.93% +65.08% -7.50%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 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
England +5 2,943 £538 +0.84% 3,875
UK excluding London +4 1,613 £501 +4.38% 2,657
London +4 1,483 £550 -4.35% 1,365
Work from Home +7 1,166 £500 -4.76% 1,376
South East 0 412 £538 +0.23% 604
North of England +6 354 £500 +6.10% 776
South West +23 255 £525 - 368
Midlands 0 228 £538 +16.01% 459
Scotland +3 217 £475 - 138
North West +3 190 £475 +8.57% 455
West Midlands -1 173 £550 +15.79% 283
Yorkshire +15 138 £514 -2.10% 254
East of England -3 114 £494 +36.21% 301
East Midlands -2 49 £456 +7.35% 175
Wales +6 32 £525 +16.67% 71
North East +27 25 £590 +125.84% 76
Northern Ireland +4 15 £338 -20.59% 39
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 4

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 142 (4.08%) Confluence
2 95 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 54 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 39 (1.12%) Apache
6 24 (0.69%) Tomcat
7 19 (0.55%) SAS
8 16 (0.46%) CMS
8 16 (0.46%) IIS
9 11 (0.32%) nginx
10 9 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 9 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
11 8 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
11 8 (0.23%) JBoss
11 8 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.14%) CICS
14 4 (0.11%) Appian
14 4 (0.11%) IBM Domino
15 3 (0.086%) Anypoint
Applications
1 325 (9.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 221 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
3 104 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 71 (2.04%) MS Visio
5 56 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
6 43 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
7 12 (0.34%) Sketch
8 11 (0.32%) SPSS
9 8 (0.23%) Acrobat
10 6 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
11 5 (0.14%) AutoCAD
11 5 (0.14%) InVision
12 4 (0.11%) Revit
13 3 (0.086%) MicroStation
13 3 (0.086%) Windchill
14 2 (0.057%) Mingle
15 1 (0.029%) Abaqus
15 1 (0.029%) Simulink
15 1 (0.029%) Trello
Business Applications
1 58 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 29 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
3 28 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
4 25 (0.72%) Endur
5 24 (0.69%) Oracle EBS R12
6 20 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
7 17 (0.49%) Maximo
8 16 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
9 15 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
9 15 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
9 15 (0.43%) SAP HCM
10 14 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 14 (0.40%) SAP CO
10 14 (0.40%) SAP FI
10 14 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
10 14 (0.40%) SAP SD
11 13 (0.37%) Aligne
11 13 (0.37%) Oracle AGIS
11 13 (0.37%) Teamcenter
12 12 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 499 (14.33%) Azure
2 351 (10.08%) Power Platform
3 289 (8.30%) AWS
4 154 (4.42%) Microsoft 365
5 113 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
6 103 (2.96%) GCP
7 77 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
8 73 (2.10%) PowerApps
9 67 (1.92%) Power Automate
10 58 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
11 57 (1.64%) Snowflake
12 56 (1.61%) Serverless
13 51 (1.46%) GitHub
14 44 (1.26%) SaaS
15 37 (1.06%) Entra ID
16 36 (1.03%) OCI
17 35 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
18 28 (0.80%) Amazon S3
18 28 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
19 25 (0.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 116 (3.33%) Firewall
2 95 (2.73%) Network Security
3 78 (2.24%) VPN
4 77 (2.21%) DNS
5 57 (1.64%) WAN
6 52 (1.49%) LAN
7 44 (1.26%) TCP/IP
8 43 (1.23%) Wireless
9 42 (1.21%) DHCP
10 34 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (0.92%) BGP
11 32 (0.92%) HTTP
12 30 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
13 27 (0.78%) OSPF
14 24 (0.69%) Internet
14 24 (0.69%) MPLS
15 23 (0.66%) VLAN
16 22 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
17 20 (0.57%) SAN
18 14 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 333 (9.56%) Power BI
2 164 (4.71%) Tableau
3 151 (4.34%) SQL Server
4 103 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
5 102 (2.93%) Relational Database
6 98 (2.81%) Big Data
7 79 (2.27%) Data Lake
8 62 (1.78%) NoSQL
9 49 (1.41%) Metadata
10 45 (1.29%) Hadoop
11 44 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
12 41 (1.18%) MongoDB
13 39 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 35 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
15 34 (0.98%) Data Mining
16 30 (0.86%) RDBMS
17 27 (0.78%) Oracle Database
17 27 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 22 (0.63%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 21 (0.60%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 311 (8.93%) JIRA
2 115 (3.30%) Git
3 88 (2.53%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.64%) GitLab
5 55 (1.58%) Selenium
6 40 (1.15%) Cucumber
7 36 (1.03%) TeamCity
8 33 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 25 (0.72%) REST Assured
11 24 (0.69%) Cypress.io
11 24 (0.69%) SonarQube
12 23 (0.66%) webpack
13 19 (0.55%) Maven
14 15 (0.43%) Oracle APEX
15 14 (0.40%) Visual Studio
16 13 (0.37%) JUnit
17 12 (0.34%) Oracle Forms
17 12 (0.34%) Postman
18 10 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 1,911 (54.87%) Social Skills
2 949 (27.25%) Finance
3 321 (9.22%) Public Sector
4 234 (6.72%) Banking
5 190 (5.46%) Presentation Skills
6 147 (4.22%) Marketing
7 142 (4.08%) Legal
8 138 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
9 120 (3.45%) Retail
10 112 (3.22%) Influencing Skills
11 105 (3.01%) Front Office
11 105 (3.01%) Manufacturing
12 96 (2.76%) Telecoms
13 64 (1.84%) Investment Banking
14 51 (1.46%) Law
15 45 (1.29%) General Ledger
16 44 (1.26%) Military
17 42 (1.21%) Local Government
18 38 (1.09%) Financial Institution
19 35 (1.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 791 (22.71%) Analyst
2 403 (11.57%) Developer
3 269 (7.72%) Architect
4 252 (7.24%) Business Analyst
5 247 (7.09%) Senior
6 246 (7.06%) Consultant
7 228 (6.55%) Lead
8 162 (4.65%) Data Analyst
9 146 (4.19%) Project Manager
10 106 (3.04%) Data Engineer
10 106 (3.04%) Solutions Architect
11 70 (2.01%) IT Engineer
12 66 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
13 63 (1.81%) Service Analyst
14 61 (1.75%) Network Engineer
15 60 (1.72%) Support Engineer
16 57 (1.64%) Administrator
17 55 (1.58%) IT Analyst
18 53 (1.52%) Java Developer
19 52 (1.49%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (3.13%) React
2 100 (2.87%) REST
3 98 (2.81%) CSS
4 96 (2.76%) HTML
5 89 (2.56%) .NET
6 66 (1.89%) AngularJS
7 57 (1.64%) Kafka
8 56 (1.61%) XML
9 47 (1.35%) Node.js
10 45 (1.29%) Web Services
11 40 (1.15%) JSON
11 40 (1.15%) RESTful
12 32 (0.92%) .NET Core
12 32 (0.92%) Middleware
12 32 (0.92%) PySpark
13 31 (0.89%) Spring
14 30 (0.86%) WebSockets
15 25 (0.72%) Java EE
16 22 (0.63%) RxJS
17 21 (0.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 275 (7.90%) Management Information System
2 191 (5.48%) Analytical Mindset
3 141 (4.05%) Self-Motivation
4 128 (3.67%) Product Ownership
5 91 (2.61%) Data Structures
6 76 (2.18%) Algorithms
7 53 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 46 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
8 46 (1.32%) Derivative
9 45 (1.29%) Onboarding
10 42 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
11 38 (1.09%) Fixed Income
12 36 (1.03%) Virtual Team
13 35 (1.00%) Security Operations Centre
14 32 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
15 31 (0.89%) CMDB
15 31 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
15 31 (0.89%) PKI
15 31 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
16 30 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 331 (9.50%) Windows
2 227 (6.52%) Linux
3 131 (3.76%) Unix
4 89 (2.56%) Windows Server
5 50 (1.44%) Windows 10
6 42 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 41 (1.18%) Windows 7
8 36 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
9 30 (0.86%) Apple iOS
10 28 (0.80%) Android
11 20 (0.57%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
13 10 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.20%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
14 7 (0.20%) zOS
15 6 (0.17%) AIX
16 4 (0.11%) Solaris
17 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
18 1 (0.029%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,994 (57.25%) Problem-Solving
2 866 (24.86%) Agile
3 533 (15.30%) Project Management
4 430 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
5 409 (11.74%) Analytics
6 367 (10.54%) Decision-Making
7 354 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 334 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 322 (9.24%) Computer Science
10 316 (9.07%) DevOps
11 277 (7.95%) Data Modelling
12 276 (7.92%) Data Analysis
13 231 (6.63%) Customer Service
14 230 (6.60%) ITIL
14 230 (6.60%) Migration
15 226 (6.49%) Change Management
16 220 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
17 219 (6.29%) Visualisation
18 200 (5.74%) Roadmaps
19 192 (5.51%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 573 (16.45%) SQL
2 412 (11.83%) Python
3 246 (7.06%) Java
4 155 (4.45%) JavaScript
5 130 (3.73%) C#
5 130 (3.73%) PowerShell
6 73 (2.10%) TypeScript
7 64 (1.84%) Scala
8 61 (1.75%) PL/SQL
9 57 (1.64%) R
10 42 (1.21%) Shell Script
11 37 (1.06%) C++
11 37 (1.06%) T-SQL
12 34 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 30 (0.86%) Perl
14 20 (0.57%) Bash
15 19 (0.55%) Go
15 19 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
16 17 (0.49%) C
16 17 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 751 (21.56%) Degree
2 598 (17.17%) Security Cleared
3 401 (11.51%) SC Cleared
4 220 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 179 (5.14%) DV Cleared
6 117 (3.36%) Master's Degree
7 86 (2.47%) CISSP
8 77 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 73 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
10 57 (1.64%) PMP
11 56 (1.61%) PMI Certification
12 47 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 46 (1.32%) CISM
14 45 (1.29%) CCNA
15 43 (1.23%) MCSE
16 42 (1.21%) Azure Certification
17 39 (1.12%) CCNP
18 35 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
19 27 (0.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 25 (0.72%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (5.46%) Data Quality
2 179 (5.14%) QA
3 113 (3.24%) SLA
4 85 (2.44%) PMO
5 83 (2.38%) GDPR
6 48 (1.38%) NIST
7 47 (1.35%) Accessibility
8 35 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
9 31 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 19 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
10 19 (0.55%) PCI DSS
11 14 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 14 (0.40%) EMIR
12 13 (0.37%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.34%) GAAP
14 11 (0.32%) MiFID
15 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.29%) GRC
15 10 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 9 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 139 (3.99%) Active Directory
2 84 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 52 (1.49%) Docker
4 23 (0.66%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.34%) vSphere
6 11 (0.32%) HDFS
6 11 (0.32%) Virtual Servers
7 10 (0.29%) Firmware
8 9 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 9 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
9 8 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.14%) Snort
11 4 (0.11%) KVM
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
12 3 (0.086%) NFS
12 3 (0.086%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.086%) OpenIDM
12 3 (0.086%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 96 (2.76%) Ansible
2 79 (2.27%) Kubernetes
3 55 (1.58%) Terraform
4 51 (1.46%) SCCM
5 32 (0.92%) Puppet
6 27 (0.78%) NetBackup
7 26 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (0.69%) Grafana
9 21 (0.60%) Kibana
9 21 (0.60%) Prometheus
10 20 (0.57%) PowerCLI
11 18 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
12 15 (0.43%) logstash
12 15 (0.43%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
13 13 (0.37%) Podman
14 11 (0.32%) FortiGate
14 11 (0.32%) Nagios
15 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
16 8 (0.23%) Consul
Vendors
1 682 (19.58%) Microsoft
2 279 (8.01%) Oracle
3 215 (6.17%) SAP
4 108 (3.10%) VMware
5 92 (2.64%) Cisco
6 80 (2.30%) ServiceNow
7 79 (2.27%) Google
8 60 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 55 (1.58%) Databricks
10 48 (1.38%) Splunk
11 45 (1.29%) Atlassian
12 44 (1.26%) Alteryx
13 37 (1.06%) IBM
13 37 (1.06%) Red Hat
14 36 (1.03%) Dell
15 31 (0.89%) Adobe
15 31 (0.89%) HP
16 28 (0.80%) Citrix
17 27 (0.78%) Juniper
18 22 (0.63%) Fortinet