Analytics Contracts

Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 38 31
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,086 3,251 5,536
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.82% 5.44% 6.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.58% 6.05% 6.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,403 2,277 3,840
10th Percentile £358 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £460 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £653
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +1.94% +3.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 56 64
10th Percentile £15.32 £20.78 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.16 £24.01
Median hourly rate £30.37 £32.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.54% -8.14% +29.63%
75th Percentile £46.25 £53.69 £46.53
90th Percentile £71.00 £78.00 £65.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.83 £35.00
% change year-on-year -10.17% -20.49% +52.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics 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 -3 1,746 £550 - 1,948
London -3 1,025 £575 -4.17% 994
Work from Home +6 826 £550 +1.85% 871
UK excluding London +2 772 £525 +1.94% 1,020
South East +4 197 £550 +12.24% 202
North of England -7 161 £500 -6.98% 337
Midlands +5 144 £585 +10.27% 179
Scotland +12 117 £500 +4.38% 72
West Midlands +10 117 £583 +8.36% 108
North West +2 103 £500 -2.44% 228
South West +25 96 £513 -6.82% 107
Yorkshire -22 53 £500 -7.41% 77
East of England -6 47 £500 -9.09% 96
East Midlands +6 27 £613 +28.95% 71
Wales +23 20 £550 -4.30% 32
North East +9 10 £477 -17.04% 35
Northern Ireland +6 3 £400 -3.03% 16

Analytics
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 59 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 53 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 47 (2.25%) Confluence
4 42 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
5 37 (1.77%) CMS
6 33 (1.58%) SAS
7 31 (1.49%) Apache
8 22 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.38%) WordPress
11 4 (0.19%) Drupal
11 4 (0.19%) govService
12 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.096%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.096%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.096%) CICS
13 2 (0.096%) GeoServer
13 2 (0.096%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 72 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 39 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.77%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.38%) SPSS
7 5 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.19%) Sketch
9 2 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.096%) Simulink
10 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.048%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.048%) InVision
10 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
3 19 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
5 11 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
6 10 (0.48%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 10 (0.48%) SAP FI-AP
7 8 (0.38%) Shopify
8 7 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
8 7 (0.34%) Endur
8 7 (0.34%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.34%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.29%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.19%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.19%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 506 (24.26%) Azure
2 346 (16.59%) Power Platform
3 300 (14.38%) AWS
4 154 (7.38%) GCP
5 115 (5.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 115 (5.51%) Google Analytics
6 89 (4.27%) Snowflake
7 80 (3.84%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 69 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
9 66 (3.16%) Serverless
10 62 (2.97%) Azure Monitor
11 45 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
12 42 (2.01%) dbt
12 42 (2.01%) GitHub
13 41 (1.97%) Adobe Analytics
14 39 (1.87%) SaaS
15 37 (1.77%) Amazon S3
16 33 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
16 33 (1.58%) PowerApps
17 31 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.64%) Firewall
2 35 (1.68%) Network Security
3 31 (1.49%) DNS
4 25 (1.20%) DHCP
5 21 (1.01%) Intranet
5 21 (1.01%) VPN
5 21 (1.01%) WAN
6 19 (0.91%) LAN
7 13 (0.62%) Internet
8 11 (0.53%) VoIP
9 10 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
10 9 (0.43%) MPLS
10 9 (0.43%) PBX
10 9 (0.43%) WLAN
11 8 (0.38%) Cisco ISE
12 7 (0.34%) TCP/IP
13 5 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (0.24%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (0.24%) LTE
13 5 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 333 (15.96%) Power BI
2 240 (11.51%) Data Warehouse
3 164 (7.86%) Tableau
4 119 (5.70%) Big Data
5 117 (5.61%) Data Lake
6 76 (3.64%) SQL Server
7 54 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
8 53 (2.54%) NoSQL
9 52 (2.49%) BigQuery
10 49 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
10 49 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
11 46 (2.21%) Relational Database
12 45 (2.16%) Looker
13 38 (1.82%) Metadata
14 34 (1.63%) MySQL
15 32 (1.53%) KDB
16 28 (1.34%) Amazon Athena
17 26 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 24 (1.15%) Delta Lake
18 24 (1.15%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 97 (4.65%) JIRA
2 69 (3.31%) Git
3 50 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.67%) Cypress.io
4 14 (0.67%) GitLab
4 14 (0.67%) Postman
5 12 (0.58%) JMeter
6 11 (0.53%) Subversion
7 9 (0.43%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio
7 9 (0.43%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 8 (0.38%) MLflow
9 6 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.29%) ERwin
9 6 (0.29%) LoadRunner
9 6 (0.29%) Maven
9 6 (0.29%) Selenium
9 6 (0.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.24%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.19%) Cucumber
General
1 574 (27.52%) Social Skills
2 491 (23.54%) Finance
3 409 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.05%) Marketing
6 119 (5.70%) Banking
7 91 (4.36%) Front Office
8 88 (4.22%) Retail
9 70 (3.36%) Legal
10 67 (3.21%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (2.83%) Manufacturing
12 55 (2.64%) Telecoms
13 48 (2.30%) Investment Banking
14 37 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 34 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.63%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (1.01%) Advertising
17 17 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
18 16 (0.77%) Local Government
19 15 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 358 (17.16%) Analyst
2 305 (14.62%) Developer
3 237 (11.36%) Architect
4 218 (10.45%) Data Engineer
5 203 (9.73%) Senior
6 155 (7.43%) Lead
7 152 (7.29%) Data Analyst
8 98 (4.70%) Consultant
9 97 (4.65%) Data Architect
10 80 (3.84%) Project Manager
11 76 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
12 62 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
13 57 (2.73%) Business Analyst
14 53 (2.54%) Software Engineer
15 49 (2.35%) Azure Data Engineer
15 49 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
16 48 (2.30%) Analytics Manager
17 43 (2.06%) Data Manager
18 40 (1.92%) Data Analytics Manager
18 40 (1.92%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (3.26%) PySpark
2 67 (3.21%) HTML
3 59 (2.83%) REST
4 57 (2.73%) React
5 54 (2.59%) .NET
6 53 (2.54%) CSS
7 44 (2.11%) JSON
8 37 (1.77%) Web Services
9 35 (1.68%) Pandas
9 35 (1.68%) XML
10 31 (1.49%) Kafka
10 31 (1.49%) Middleware
11 26 (1.25%) ARM Templates
11 26 (1.25%) Node.js
11 26 (1.25%) NumPy
12 25 (1.20%) gRPC
13 22 (1.05%) Protocol Buffers
14 20 (0.96%) .NET Core
14 20 (0.96%) AngularJS
14 20 (0.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 107 (5.13%) Management Information System
2 101 (4.84%) Product Ownership
3 62 (2.97%) Fixed Income
4 59 (2.83%) Algorithms
5 58 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 53 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
7 51 (2.44%) Equities
8 50 (2.40%) Derivative
9 47 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 41 (1.97%) Security Operations Centre
11 39 (1.87%) Credit Risk
12 37 (1.77%) Onboarding
13 33 (1.58%) Social Media
14 32 (1.53%) Hedge funds
15 31 (1.49%) Data Centre
15 31 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
16 30 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
17 28 (1.34%) Security Posture
18 25 (1.20%) CSOC
18 25 (1.20%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 115 (5.51%) Windows
2 102 (4.89%) Linux
3 40 (1.92%) Unix
3 40 (1.92%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (0.62%) Android
7 11 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.48%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.14%) zOS
11 2 (0.096%) VMS
11 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.048%) CentOS
12 1 (0.048%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 489 (23.44%) Agile
2 478 (22.91%) Business Intelligence
3 435 (20.85%) Data Analytics
4 379 (18.17%) Data Modelling
5 344 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
6 289 (13.85%) ETL
7 245 (11.74%) Visualisation
8 213 (10.21%) DevOps
9 202 (9.68%) Data Analysis
10 201 (9.64%) Data Management
11 198 (9.49%) Decision-Making
12 194 (9.30%) Data Science
13 180 (8.63%) Project Management
14 177 (8.49%) Migration
15 172 (8.25%) Roadmaps
16 170 (8.15%) Data Engineering
17 162 (7.77%) Data Pipeline
18 156 (7.48%) Actionable Insight
18 156 (7.48%) Stakeholder Management
19 151 (7.24%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 564 (27.04%) SQL
2 450 (21.57%) Python
3 146 (7.00%) Java
4 123 (5.90%) JavaScript
5 97 (4.65%) C#
6 69 (3.31%) PowerShell
7 53 (2.54%) Scala
7 53 (2.54%) TypeScript
8 45 (2.16%) C++
8 45 (2.16%) R
9 34 (1.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 28 (1.34%) Bash
11 27 (1.29%) Bicep
12 23 (1.10%) T-SQL
13 20 (0.96%) Kusto Query Language
14 19 (0.91%) Shell Script
15 18 (0.86%) ABAP
16 16 (0.77%) VB
16 16 (0.77%) VBScript
17 14 (0.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 301 (14.43%) Degree
2 283 (13.57%) Security Cleared
3 221 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 85 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 59 (2.83%) Master's Degree
7 36 (1.73%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.63%) CISSP
9 26 (1.25%) SANS
10 25 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 19 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
12 18 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.77%) PMI Certification
14 14 (0.67%) Numerate Degree
14 14 (0.67%) PMP
15 13 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.43%) CCIE
16 9 (0.43%) CISM
16 9 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (8.96%) Data Quality
2 91 (4.36%) QA
3 44 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 34 (1.63%) GDPR
5 24 (1.15%) PMO
6 20 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
7 16 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.72%) SLA
9 13 (0.62%) NIST
10 12 (0.58%) IFRS
11 11 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
12 10 (0.48%) GxP
13 8 (0.38%) IFRS 9
13 8 (0.38%) NCSC
14 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.24%) GAMP
15 5 (0.24%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.19%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 44 (2.11%) Docker
2 41 (1.97%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) HDFS
7 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.096%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.096%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.096%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.048%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.048%) NFS
9 1 (0.048%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.048%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.048%) XenApp
9 1 (0.048%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 76 (3.64%) Terraform
2 65 (3.12%) Kubernetes
3 34 (1.63%) Grafana
4 26 (1.25%) Ansible
4 26 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.01%) SCOM
6 19 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 19 (0.91%) SCCM
7 17 (0.81%) WSUS
8 11 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
9 9 (0.43%) BladeLogic
10 8 (0.38%) Prometheus
11 6 (0.29%) SysTrack
12 5 (0.24%) Nagios
13 4 (0.19%) Graylog
13 4 (0.19%) Trend Micro Deep Security
14 3 (0.14%) Kibana
14 3 (0.14%) Matomo
14 3 (0.14%) Nessus
14 3 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 357 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 166 (7.96%) Databricks
3 164 (7.86%) Google
4 136 (6.52%) SAP
5 127 (6.09%) Oracle
6 79 (3.79%) Adobe
7 48 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 43 (2.06%) Splunk
9 37 (1.77%) Alteryx
10 35 (1.68%) Informatica
11 34 (1.63%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.39%) Atlassian
13 23 (1.10%) Optimizely
14 22 (1.05%) Dynatrace
15 21 (1.01%) Ariba
16 19 (0.91%) Cisco
17 18 (0.86%) OpenAI
17 18 (0.86%) Talend
18 17 (0.81%) Citrix
18 17 (0.81%) Red Hat