Analytics Contracts with Work from Home Options

Analytics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 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 33 40 33
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytics 824 1,312 2,701
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 5.46% 5.22% 6.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.20% 5.82% 6.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 573 960 1,898
10th Percentile £364 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £458 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £788 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 22 16
10th Percentile £13.50 - £12.21
25th Percentile £22.13 £21.00 £23.41
Median hourly rate £37.75 £22.16 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +70.35% -49.35% +94.44%
75th Percentile £46.48 £34.50 £66.38
90th Percentile £60.82 £55.20 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £29.19 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.80% -8.57% +29.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Analytics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Analytics trend for jobs with a WFH option

Analytics
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Analytics.

Analytics daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Analytics over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Analytics daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Analytics.

Analytics hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Analytics over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Analytics hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Analytics
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 27 (3.28%) Apache Spark
2 23 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
3 19 (2.31%) Confluence
4 18 (2.18%) CMS
4 18 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.94%) SharePoint
6 14 (1.70%) Apache
6 14 (1.70%) SAS
7 6 (0.73%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.36%) WordPress
9 2 (0.24%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.24%) Sitecore CMS
9 2 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.12%) CICS
10 1 (0.12%) Drupal
10 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.12%) IBM Notes
10 1 (0.12%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.12%) Moodle
10 1 (0.12%) WebLogic
Applications
1 24 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (0.97%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.61%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.36%) SPSS
7 2 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.24%) Sketch
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.12%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.12%) InVision
8 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 20 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.58%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.97%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 8 (0.97%) SAP FI-AP
4 7 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.85%) Oracle 11i
4 7 (0.85%) Oracle EBS R12
5 6 (0.73%) NetSuite
6 5 (0.61%) Endur
6 5 (0.61%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.49%) Shopify
7 4 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.36%) MIS ActiveH
8 3 (0.36%) NEC Housing
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Cash Management
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.24%) OpenLink RightAngle
9 2 (0.24%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 216 (26.21%) Azure
2 161 (19.54%) AWS
3 119 (14.44%) Power Platform
4 82 (9.95%) GCP
5 49 (5.95%) Google Analytics
6 45 (5.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (3.88%) Azure Monitor
7 32 (3.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 31 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (3.76%) Serverless
9 28 (3.40%) Snowflake
10 25 (3.03%) dbt
11 21 (2.55%) Microsoft 365
12 20 (2.43%) Azure Storage
13 19 (2.31%) Entra ID
13 19 (2.31%) SaaS
14 18 (2.18%) GitHub
15 17 (2.06%) Adobe Analytics
15 17 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
16 15 (1.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.79%) Firewall
2 17 (2.06%) DNS
3 16 (1.94%) DHCP
4 9 (1.09%) LAN
4 9 (1.09%) WAN
5 7 (0.85%) Network Security
5 7 (0.85%) VPN
6 6 (0.73%) VoIP
7 4 (0.49%) 3GPP
7 4 (0.49%) 4G
7 4 (0.49%) 5G
7 4 (0.49%) 5G NR
7 4 (0.49%) LTE
7 4 (0.49%) Radio Access Network
7 4 (0.49%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.36%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (0.36%) CTI
8 3 (0.36%) MPLS
8 3 (0.36%) PBX
8 3 (0.36%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (13.83%) Power BI
2 98 (11.89%) Data Warehouse
3 46 (5.58%) Tableau
4 36 (4.37%) Big Data
4 36 (4.37%) Data Lake
5 35 (4.25%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
7 24 (2.91%) BigQuery
8 23 (2.79%) Looker
9 22 (2.67%) NoSQL
10 21 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (1.94%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
13 14 (1.70%) Amazon Athena
13 14 (1.70%) Relational Database
14 11 (1.33%) Delta Lake
15 10 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
15 10 (1.21%) Hadoop
15 10 (1.21%) KDB
15 10 (1.21%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 45 (5.46%) JIRA
2 34 (4.13%) Git
3 22 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.46%) JMeter
5 9 (1.09%) Postman
6 8 (0.97%) GitLab
7 7 (0.85%) MLflow
8 6 (0.73%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.61%) Selenium
9 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.49%) Appium
10 4 (0.49%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.49%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.49%) Maven
10 4 (0.49%) Subversion
11 3 (0.36%) LoadRunner
11 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.24%) Bugzilla
12 2 (0.24%) JUnit
12 2 (0.24%) TestNG
General
1 229 (27.79%) Social Skills
2 204 (24.76%) Finance
3 132 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 57 (6.92%) Front Office
6 54 (6.55%) Banking
7 43 (5.22%) Marketing
8 34 (4.13%) Retail
9 31 (3.76%) Manufacturing
10 25 (3.03%) Investment Banking
11 23 (2.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.43%) Telecoms
13 19 (2.31%) Legal
14 16 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
15 10 (1.21%) Advertising
16 6 (0.73%) Automotive
16 6 (0.73%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.61%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 136 (16.50%) Analyst
2 127 (15.41%) Developer
3 113 (13.71%) Data Engineer
4 91 (11.04%) Architect
5 79 (9.59%) Senior
6 62 (7.52%) Data Analyst
7 60 (7.28%) Lead
8 45 (5.46%) Consultant
9 39 (4.73%) Data Architect
10 36 (4.37%) Business Analyst
11 33 (4.00%) Software Engineer
12 29 (3.52%) Project Manager
13 28 (3.40%) Azure Engineer
14 25 (3.03%) Product Manager
15 22 (2.67%) Developer/Software Engineer
16 21 (2.55%) Azure Data Engineer
16 21 (2.55%) Product Owner
17 19 (2.31%) Lead Data Engineer
17 19 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
18 18 (2.18%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (3.88%) PySpark
2 24 (2.91%) Middleware
3 22 (2.67%) HTML
3 22 (2.67%) React
4 21 (2.55%) JSON
4 21 (2.55%) Node.js
5 20 (2.43%) REST
5 20 (2.43%) Web Services
6 19 (2.31%) .NET
6 19 (2.31%) ARM Templates
7 18 (2.18%) Pandas
8 17 (2.06%) CSS
9 16 (1.94%) gRPC
10 15 (1.82%) Material-UI
10 15 (1.82%) Protocol Buffers
11 14 (1.70%) XML
12 13 (1.58%) GraphQL
13 12 (1.46%) AngularJS
13 12 (1.46%) FastAPI
13 12 (1.46%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 44 (5.34%) Product Ownership
2 39 (4.73%) Derivative
3 38 (4.61%) Fixed Income
4 34 (4.13%) Equities
4 34 (4.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 31 (3.76%) Self-Motivation
6 28 (3.40%) Hedge funds
6 28 (3.40%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.91%) Algorithms
8 19 (2.31%) Mobile App
9 18 (2.18%) Data Structures
10 16 (1.94%) PKI
11 13 (1.58%) Public Cloud
12 12 (1.46%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.33%) Reference Data
13 11 (1.33%) Social Media
14 9 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
14 9 (1.09%) Equity Derivative
14 9 (1.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 56 (6.80%) Windows
2 45 (5.46%) Linux
3 29 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 17 (2.06%) Windows Server 2016
5 16 (1.94%) Unix
5 16 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.24%) Android
6 2 (0.24%) VMS
6 2 (0.24%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.24%) zOS
7 1 (0.12%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (28.03%) Agile
2 180 (21.84%) Business Intelligence
3 160 (19.42%) Data Analytics
4 156 (18.93%) Data Modelling
5 116 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
6 110 (13.35%) ETL
7 102 (12.38%) DevOps
8 91 (11.04%) Visualisation
9 84 (10.19%) Data Management
10 81 (9.83%) Data Science
11 76 (9.22%) CI/CD
11 76 (9.22%) Roadmaps
12 74 (8.98%) Data Pipeline
13 68 (8.25%) Machine Learning
13 68 (8.25%) Software Engineering
14 66 (8.01%) Data Analysis
14 66 (8.01%) Data Engineering
15 62 (7.52%) Decision-Making
16 57 (6.92%) Artificial Intelligence
17 55 (6.67%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 245 (29.73%) SQL
2 209 (25.36%) Python
3 75 (9.10%) Java
4 61 (7.40%) JavaScript
5 51 (6.19%) C#
6 33 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 33 (4.00%) TypeScript
7 30 (3.64%) Scala
8 22 (2.67%) Bicep
9 19 (2.31%) C++
9 19 (2.31%) R
10 16 (1.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 16 (1.94%) VB
10 16 (1.94%) VBScript
11 14 (1.70%) ABAP
12 11 (1.33%) Bash
13 10 (1.21%) Ruby
14 9 (1.09%) Kotlin
14 9 (1.09%) Perl
15 8 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (14.93%) Security Cleared
2 112 (13.59%) SC Cleared
3 92 (11.17%) Degree
4 29 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.79%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.43%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 9 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.85%) CISSP
10 6 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.73%) PMP
11 5 (0.61%) CISM
11 5 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
11 5 (0.61%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.49%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
13 3 (0.36%) CCIE
13 3 (0.36%) CCIE Data Center
13 3 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (9.71%) Data Quality
2 47 (5.70%) QA
3 18 (2.18%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (0.97%) GDPR
5 8 (0.97%) NIST
6 7 (0.85%) NCSC
7 6 (0.73%) Disclosure Scotland
7 6 (0.73%) IFRS
7 6 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.73%) PMO
8 5 (0.61%) IFRS 9
8 5 (0.61%) SLA
9 3 (0.36%) COBIT
9 3 (0.36%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.36%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.36%) WCAG
10 2 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.24%) GxP
10 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 21 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
3 16 (1.94%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (1.70%) Docker
5 2 (0.24%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.12%) HDFS
6 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.12%) XenApp
6 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.16%) Terraform
3 20 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (2.31%) SCOM
5 17 (2.06%) SCCM
6 16 (1.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 16 (1.94%) WSUS
7 15 (1.82%) Ansible
8 14 (1.70%) Grafana
9 4 (0.49%) BladeLogic
9 4 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
9 4 (0.49%) Trend Micro Deep Security
10 2 (0.24%) Kibana
10 2 (0.24%) Nessus
10 2 (0.24%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.24%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.12%) Graylog
11 1 (0.12%) Matomo
11 1 (0.12%) QRadar
11 1 (0.12%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 139 (16.87%) Microsoft
2 73 (8.86%) Databricks
3 69 (8.37%) Google
4 55 (6.67%) SAP
5 53 (6.43%) Oracle
6 30 (3.64%) Adobe
7 19 (2.31%) Splunk
8 16 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.58%) Dynatrace
10 12 (1.46%) Ariba
11 9 (1.09%) Cisco
11 9 (1.09%) Informatica
11 9 (1.09%) OpenAI
11 9 (1.09%) OpenText
11 9 (1.09%) ServiceNow
12 8 (0.97%) Optimizely
13 7 (0.85%) Talend
14 6 (0.73%) Facebook
14 6 (0.73%) IFS
14 6 (0.73%) Twitter