Sentiment Analysis Contracts

Sentiment Analysis (Sentiment Analytics, Opinion Mining)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Sentiment Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Sentiment Analysis over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 685 823
Rank change year-on-year +102 +138 -134
Contract jobs citing Sentiment Analysis 3 8 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.014% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.015% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 24
10th Percentile - £325 -
25th Percentile £406 £400 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -15.38% +19.27%
75th Percentile £419 £775 £700
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £506
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Sentiment Analysis 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 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
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 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Sentiment Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sentiment Analysis in the UK

Sentiment Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sentiment Analysis in the UK

Sentiment Analysis
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sentiment Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +86 3 £413 -25.00% 5
Work from Home - 2 - - 5
UK excluding London +71 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

Sentiment Analysis
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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon SageMaker
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Data Scientist
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Scientist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Data Science
2 2 (66.67%) Predictive Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) Statistics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Collection
3 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) MLOps
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (33.33%) People Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Recommender Systems
3 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) R
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Anaplan
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft