Analytical Thinking Contracts in Berkshire

Analytical Thinking
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 106 106
Rank change year-on-year +28 0 +1
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 17 8 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.44% 0.47% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 0.54% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 10
10th Percentile £340 - £391
25th Percentile £390 £315 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £365 £550
Median % change year-on-year +36.99% -33.64% +72.55%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £697
90th Percentile £628 £613 £883
South East median daily rate £500 £360 £460
% change year-on-year +38.89% -21.74% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £72.00
Median % change year-on-year - -9.72% -
South East median hourly rate - £65.00 £58.50
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Analytical Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,080 1,483 1,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.76% 86.42% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 782 995
10th Percentile £350 £325 £312
25th Percentile £420 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.18% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £517 £520
% change year-on-year -3.34% -0.53% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 75 57
10th Percentile £14.75 £16.10 £18.10
25th Percentile £17.30 £41.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.97% +2.67% +130.77%
75th Percentile £62.24 £72.04 £72.00
90th Percentile £87.25 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £23.00 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.90% +14.70% +80.31%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Analytical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in Berkshire

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Analytical Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in Berkshire

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Analytical Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Thinking within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +31 12 £500 +47.06% 6
Wokingham - 4 £380 - 3
Analytical Thinking
South East

Analytical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP QM
1 1 (5.88%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) Network Security
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) JIRA
General
1 17 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (82.35%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Law
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Cloud Engineer
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) SIEM Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Information Security Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Information Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Support
4 1 (5.88%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) SAP QM Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cyber Security Posture
1 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
3 1 (5.88%) Clustering
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (41.18%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (35.29%) End-to-End Testing
3 6 (35.29%) High Availability
3 6 (35.29%) Load Testing
3 6 (35.29%) Performance Testing
3 6 (35.29%) Risk Analysis
3 6 (35.29%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (35.29%) SIEM
3 6 (35.29%) Test Automation
3 6 (35.29%) Test Scripting
3 6 (35.29%) Validation
3 6 (35.29%) Verification and Validation
4 5 (29.41%) Incident Response
5 4 (23.53%) Risk Management
5 4 (23.53%) Threat Detection
6 3 (17.65%) Security Architecture
7 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Python
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 10 (58.82%) SC Cleared
3 6 (35.29%) AWS Certification
3 6 (35.29%) CISSP
4 5 (29.41%) CEH
4 5 (29.41%) GIAC
5 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
6 1 (5.88%) CCNA
6 1 (5.88%) CFCE
6 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (5.88%) Degree
6 1 (5.88%) GCFA
6 1 (5.88%) GCIA
6 1 (5.88%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) NCSC
3 1 (5.88%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) NIST
3 1 (5.88%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) QRadar
2 1 (5.88%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
2 1 (5.88%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (5.88%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) ArcSight
1 5 (29.41%) Splunk
2 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) FireEye
3 2 (11.76%) Tanium
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.88%) LogRhythm
4 1 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds