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 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 37 39 31
Rank change year-on-year +2 -8 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,086 3,162 5,554
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.83% 5.35% 6.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.60% 5.96% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,412 2,210 3,852
10th Percentile £358 £350 £400
25th Percentile £449 £458 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £659
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 55 67
10th Percentile £15.26 £21.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.16 £25.00
Median hourly rate £30.37 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -8.57% +29.63%
75th Percentile £43.75 £54.63 £46.94
90th Percentile £68.75 £78.00 £65.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.26% -22.14% +49.29%

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 37,268 53,074 80,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.35% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,016 36,805 56,451
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,749 1,911
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 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
England -1 1,755 £550 - 2,489
London -5 1,027 £575 -4.17% 1,406
Work from Home +6 822 £550 +2.33% 1,117
UK excluding London +4 775 £525 +0.96% 1,153
South East +3 200 £550 +10.00% 290
North of England -7 160 £500 -7.41% 335
Midlands +10 152 £575 +9.52% 213
West Midlands +10 120 £575 +6.88% 122
Scotland +11 110 £486 -0.31% 76
North West +3 103 £495 -1.00% 228
South West +31 97 £538 -2.27% 108
Yorkshire -23 52 £500 -7.41% 77
East of England +4 47 £498 -9.55% 101
East Midlands +11 32 £550 +15.79% 91
Wales +20 19 £550 -6.38% 26
North East +7 10 £477 -17.04% 32
Northern Ireland +5 3 £400 -3.03% 23

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 57 (2.73%) Apache Spark
1 57 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 45 (2.16%) Confluence
3 38 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
3 38 (1.82%) CMS
4 33 (1.58%) SAS
5 31 (1.49%) Apache
6 23 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
7 16 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 7 (0.34%) WordPress
9 4 (0.19%) govService
10 3 (0.14%) Drupal
10 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.096%) Apache Solr
11 2 (0.096%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.096%) CICS
11 2 (0.096%) GeoServer
11 2 (0.096%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.096%) Sitecore CMS
11 2 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 43 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (0.86%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.38%) SPSS
7 5 (0.24%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.19%) Sketch
9 3 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.096%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.096%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.096%) Simulink
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe Premiere
11 1 (0.048%) Adobe XD
11 1 (0.048%) InVision
11 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 47 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
3 19 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.48%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 10 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
4 10 (0.48%) SAP FI-AP
5 9 (0.43%) Oracle 11i
6 8 (0.38%) Endur
6 8 (0.38%) Shopify
7 7 (0.34%) Adobe Campaign
7 7 (0.34%) NetSuite
7 7 (0.34%) SAP BPC
7 7 (0.34%) SAP ERP
8 6 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
9 4 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
9 4 (0.19%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 4 (0.19%) SAP MM
9 4 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 4 (0.19%) WebTrends
10 3 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 507 (24.30%) Azure
2 338 (16.20%) Power Platform
3 303 (14.53%) AWS
4 148 (7.09%) GCP
5 119 (5.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 112 (5.37%) Google Analytics
7 89 (4.27%) Snowflake
8 84 (4.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 70 (3.36%) Serverless
10 68 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
11 60 (2.88%) Azure Monitor
12 46 (2.21%) Microsoft 365
13 45 (2.16%) GitHub
14 39 (1.87%) Adobe Analytics
15 38 (1.82%) dbt
16 36 (1.73%) SaaS
17 34 (1.63%) Amazon S3
18 32 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
18 32 (1.53%) PowerApps
19 29 (1.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.64%) Firewall
2 34 (1.63%) Network Security
3 32 (1.53%) DNS
4 27 (1.29%) 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 12 (0.58%) VoIP
9 10 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
10 9 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
10 9 (0.43%) MPLS
10 9 (0.43%) PBX
10 9 (0.43%) WLAN
11 8 (0.38%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (0.24%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (0.24%) LTE
12 5 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 329 (15.77%) Power BI
2 246 (11.79%) Data Warehouse
3 165 (7.91%) Tableau
4 126 (6.04%) Big Data
5 121 (5.80%) Data Lake
6 75 (3.60%) SQL Server
7 56 (2.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 55 (2.64%) NoSQL
9 51 (2.44%) BigQuery
9 51 (2.44%) Relational Database
10 49 (2.35%) Azure SQL Database
11 48 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
12 46 (2.21%) Looker
13 39 (1.87%) MySQL
14 36 (1.73%) Metadata
15 33 (1.58%) KDB
16 28 (1.34%) Hadoop
17 24 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
17 24 (1.15%) Delta Lake
17 24 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 96 (4.60%) JIRA
2 77 (3.69%) Git
3 49 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.67%) Cypress.io
4 14 (0.67%) GitLab
4 14 (0.67%) Postman
5 13 (0.62%) JMeter
6 11 (0.53%) Subversion
7 9 (0.43%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.43%) Selenium
7 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.38%) MLflow
8 8 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
9 6 (0.29%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.29%) ERwin
9 6 (0.29%) LoadRunner
9 6 (0.29%) Maven
10 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 584 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 502 (24.07%) Finance
3 412 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 147 (7.05%) Marketing
6 120 (5.75%) Banking
7 89 (4.27%) Retail
8 88 (4.22%) Front Office
9 72 (3.45%) Legal
10 68 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (2.83%) Manufacturing
12 54 (2.59%) Telecoms
13 43 (2.06%) Investment Banking
14 37 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 36 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
16 35 (1.68%) Pharmaceutical
17 22 (1.05%) Advertising
18 16 (0.77%) Local Government
19 15 (0.72%) German Language
19 15 (0.72%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 364 (17.45%) Analyst
2 300 (14.38%) Developer
3 241 (11.55%) Architect
4 221 (10.59%) Data Engineer
5 202 (9.68%) Senior
6 155 (7.43%) Data Analyst
6 155 (7.43%) Lead
7 100 (4.79%) Data Architect
8 96 (4.60%) Consultant
9 81 (3.88%) Project Manager
10 78 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
11 61 (2.92%) Business Analyst
12 58 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
13 54 (2.59%) Azure Data Engineer
14 52 (2.49%) Software Engineer
15 51 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
16 47 (2.25%) Analytics Manager
17 41 (1.97%) Data Manager
18 40 (1.92%) Product Owner
19 39 (1.87%) Data Analytics Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (3.50%) PySpark
2 70 (3.36%) HTML
3 58 (2.78%) REST
4 57 (2.73%) .NET
5 56 (2.68%) CSS
5 56 (2.68%) React
6 45 (2.16%) JSON
7 39 (1.87%) Web Services
8 36 (1.73%) Middleware
9 35 (1.68%) XML
10 32 (1.53%) Pandas
11 30 (1.44%) Kafka
12 27 (1.29%) ARM Templates
13 24 (1.15%) Node.js
14 23 (1.10%) .NET Core
14 23 (1.10%) NumPy
15 22 (1.05%) gRPC
15 22 (1.05%) RESTful
16 21 (1.01%) AngularJS
17 20 (0.96%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 106 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 103 (4.94%) Product Ownership
3 61 (2.92%) Fixed Income
4 59 (2.83%) Algorithms
5 58 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 56 (2.68%) Data Structures
7 50 (2.40%) Derivative
7 50 (2.40%) Equities
8 47 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 40 (1.92%) Onboarding
10 39 (1.87%) Security Operations Centre
11 38 (1.82%) Credit Risk
12 33 (1.58%) Hedge funds
13 32 (1.53%) Social Media
14 31 (1.49%) Data Centre
15 29 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
16 28 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
17 26 (1.25%) Security Posture
18 25 (1.20%) CSOC
19 24 (1.15%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 119 (5.70%) Windows
2 103 (4.94%) Linux
3 41 (1.97%) Unix
3 41 (1.97%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (0.62%) Android
7 11 (0.53%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.14%) zOS
10 2 (0.096%) VMS
10 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2008
10 2 (0.096%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.048%) CentOS
11 1 (0.048%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (23.25%) Agile
2 476 (22.82%) Business Intelligence
3 444 (21.28%) Data Analytics
4 378 (18.12%) Data Modelling
5 348 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
6 287 (13.76%) ETL
7 247 (11.84%) Visualisation
8 218 (10.45%) DevOps
9 201 (9.64%) Data Analysis
10 199 (9.54%) Data Management
11 195 (9.35%) Decision-Making
12 193 (9.25%) Data Science
13 177 (8.49%) Project Management
14 175 (8.39%) Migration
15 173 (8.29%) Data Engineering
16 170 (8.15%) Data Pipeline
17 167 (8.01%) Roadmaps
18 154 (7.38%) CI/CD
18 154 (7.38%) Machine Learning
19 153 (7.33%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 568 (27.23%) SQL
2 456 (21.86%) Python
3 146 (7.00%) Java
4 117 (5.61%) JavaScript
5 102 (4.89%) C#
6 68 (3.26%) PowerShell
7 54 (2.59%) Scala
7 54 (2.59%) TypeScript
8 46 (2.21%) R
9 44 (2.11%) C++
10 31 (1.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 29 (1.39%) Bash
11 29 (1.39%) Bicep
12 26 (1.25%) T-SQL
13 19 (0.91%) ABAP
14 18 (0.86%) Kusto Query Language
14 18 (0.86%) Shell Script
15 17 (0.81%) VB
15 17 (0.81%) VBScript
16 12 (0.58%) Perl
Qualifications
1 304 (14.57%) Degree
2 287 (13.76%) Security Cleared
3 226 (10.83%) SC Cleared
4 88 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (3.40%) DV Cleared
6 63 (3.02%) Master's Degree
7 33 (1.58%) Azure Certification
8 32 (1.53%) CISSP
9 26 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 26 (1.25%) SANS
10 17 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
10 17 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (0.77%) PMI Certification
12 14 (0.67%) PMP
13 13 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
14 12 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
15 10 (0.48%) PhD
16 9 (0.43%) CCIE
16 9 (0.43%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (9.25%) Data Quality
2 96 (4.60%) QA
3 48 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 38 (1.82%) GDPR
5 22 (1.05%) PMO
6 20 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
7 16 (0.77%) SLA
8 13 (0.62%) IFRS
8 13 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 13 (0.62%) NIST
9 12 (0.58%) Disclosure Scotland
10 11 (0.53%) GxP
11 8 (0.38%) IFRS 9
11 8 (0.38%) NCSC
12 7 (0.34%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.29%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 5 (0.24%) GAMP
15 4 (0.19%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 45 (2.16%) Docker
2 43 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 24 (1.15%) 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%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.048%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.048%) NFS
9 1 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
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 77 (3.69%) Terraform
2 69 (3.31%) Kubernetes
3 39 (1.87%) Grafana
4 29 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (1.29%) Ansible
6 22 (1.05%) SCOM
7 21 (1.01%) SCCM
8 19 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 19 (0.91%) WSUS
9 11 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
10 9 (0.43%) BladeLogic
11 7 (0.34%) Prometheus
12 6 (0.29%) SysTrack
13 5 (0.24%) Nagios
14 4 (0.19%) Graylog
14 4 (0.19%) Trend Micro Deep Security
15 3 (0.14%) Kibana
15 3 (0.14%) Matomo
15 3 (0.14%) Nessus
15 3 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 354 (16.97%) Microsoft
2 171 (8.20%) Databricks
3 157 (7.53%) Google
4 137 (6.57%) SAP
5 120 (5.75%) Oracle
6 77 (3.69%) Adobe
7 46 (2.21%) Salesforce
8 42 (2.01%) Splunk
9 40 (1.92%) ServiceNow
10 37 (1.77%) Alteryx
11 33 (1.58%) Informatica
12 29 (1.39%) Atlassian
13 25 (1.20%) Talend
14 22 (1.05%) Ariba
15 21 (1.01%) Cisco
15 21 (1.01%) Optimizely
16 19 (0.91%) Dynatrace
17 18 (0.86%) Denodo
17 18 (0.86%) OpenAI
18 17 (0.81%) Citrix