Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Analytical Skills
South West > Bristol

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in Bristol. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 22 24
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 +17
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 67 45 59
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 7.96% 7.14% 6.13%
As % of the General category 15.30% 11.72% 11.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 21 41
10th Percentile £350 £140 £375
25th Percentile £453 £320 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £680
90th Percentile £688 £738 -
South West median daily rate £581 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +10.71% -8.70% +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 3
10th Percentile - £11.75 £49.96
25th Percentile £6.00 £18.50 £55.32
Median hourly rate £62.50 £27.13 £68.50
Median % change year-on-year +130.41% -60.40% +30.99%
75th Percentile £67.25 £33.00 £78.70
90th Percentile - £37.00 £82.27
South West median hourly rate £50.75 £27.13 £45.00
% change year-on-year +87.10% -39.72% -18.18%

All General Skills
Bristol

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 438 384 509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 52.02% 60.95% 52.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 197 331
10th Percentile £261 £190 £231
25th Percentile £411 £320 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £590 £650
90th Percentile £696 £714 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 39 71
10th Percentile £15.61 £25.26 £33.00
25th Percentile £18.09 £49.00 £48.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.38% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.00 £84.65
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £62.50 £56.39
% change year-on-year -59.76% +10.84% -10.66%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in Bristol

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in Bristol over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Bristol

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bristol

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in Bristol over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Bristol

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (7.46%) Oracle Application Server
1 5 (7.46%) SharePoint
1 5 (7.46%) Skype for Business
2 1 (1.49%) Apache
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) Confluence
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (14.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.45%) AWS
2 6 (8.96%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.46%) Snowflake
4 2 (2.99%) GCP
5 1 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.49%) Azure
5 1 (1.49%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.49%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (1.49%) OCI
5 1 (1.49%) PaaS
5 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.46%) DHCP
1 5 (7.46%) DNS
1 5 (7.46%) Skype
1 5 (7.46%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.49%) BGP
2 1 (1.49%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.49%) LAN
2 1 (1.49%) OSPF
2 1 (1.49%) TACACS
2 1 (1.49%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.49%) WAN
2 1 (1.49%) Wireless
2 1 (1.49%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.96%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (8.96%) Power BI
2 5 (7.46%) Oracle ODI
2 5 (7.46%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (7.46%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (7.46%) Star Schema
3 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.49%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.49%) Looker
3 1 (1.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) JIRA
2 5 (7.46%) DBeaver
3 2 (2.99%) Git
4 1 (1.49%) Rational DOORS
General
1 27 (40.30%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.42%) Finance
3 10 (14.93%) Public Sector
4 9 (13.43%) Electronics
5 4 (5.97%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.99%) Publishing
6 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.49%) Aviation
7 1 (1.49%) French Language
7 1 (1.49%) Law
7 1 (1.49%) Local Government
7 1 (1.49%) Marketing
7 1 (1.49%) Military
7 1 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (25.37%) Analyst
2 9 (13.43%) Embedded Engineer
2 9 (13.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 9 (13.43%) Software Engineer
3 7 (10.45%) Business Analyst
4 6 (8.96%) Data Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Pricing Analyst
5 5 (7.46%) Quality Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Wintel Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Performance Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Senior
7 3 (4.48%) Coordinator
7 3 (4.48%) ETL Tester
7 3 (4.48%) Project Coordinator
7 3 (4.48%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.48%) Project Support Coordinator
7 3 (4.48%) Tester
8 2 (2.99%) Project Change Manager
8 2 (2.99%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.46%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 3 (4.48%) REST
3 2 (2.99%) JSON
4 1 (1.49%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.49%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.49%) D3.js
4 1 (1.49%) FastAPI
4 1 (1.49%) Kafka
4 1 (1.49%) OAuth
4 1 (1.49%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.49%) PrimeNG
4 1 (1.49%) RxJS
4 1 (1.49%) Shiny
4 1 (1.49%) SOAP
4 1 (1.49%) XML
4 1 (1.49%) XSD
4 1 (1.49%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (7.46%) AS400
2 5 (7.46%) PKI
2 5 (7.46%) Replication
3 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.48%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.48%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.94%) Windows
2 5 (7.46%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.49%) Android
3 1 (1.49%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.34%) Agile
2 19 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (22.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (20.90%) Validation
5 12 (17.91%) Analytics
6 10 (14.93%) Decision-Making
6 10 (14.93%) Software Engineering
6 10 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (13.43%) Systems Engineering
8 8 (11.94%) Collaborative Culture
8 8 (11.94%) ERP
8 8 (11.94%) ITIL
8 8 (11.94%) Project Management
9 6 (8.96%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (8.96%) CI/CD
9 6 (8.96%) Customer Requirements
9 6 (8.96%) Service Management
10 5 (7.46%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (7.46%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.88%) SQL
2 9 (13.43%) C
2 9 (13.43%) Python
3 6 (8.96%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.48%) Java
5 1 (1.49%) Go
5 1 (1.49%) Perl
5 1 (1.49%) R
5 1 (1.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (25.37%) Security Cleared
2 16 (23.88%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (10.45%) Degree
5 6 (8.96%) MCSE
6 5 (7.46%) CCNA
6 5 (7.46%) CCNP
6 5 (7.46%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (7.46%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (7.46%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.49%) CISSP
7 1 (1.49%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (1.49%) HND
7 1 (1.49%) IIBA
7 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) Def Stans
1 9 (13.43%) DO-178B
1 9 (13.43%) MISRA
2 5 (7.46%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.99%) COBIT
4 2 (2.99%) GDPR
4 2 (2.99%) NIST
4 2 (2.99%) PMO
5 1 (1.49%) PERC
5 1 (1.49%) QA
System Software
1 9 (13.43%) Firmware
2 5 (7.46%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 5 (7.46%) Virtual Servers
2 5 (7.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (10.45%) SCCM
2 5 (7.46%) WSUS
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (25.37%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.96%) Cisco
2 6 (8.96%) Oracle
2 6 (8.96%) SolarWinds
3 5 (7.46%) Salesforce
3 5 (7.46%) Splunk
3 5 (7.46%) Veeam
3 5 (7.46%) VMware
4 1 (1.49%) Aruba
4 1 (1.49%) Facebook
4 1 (1.49%) Google
4 1 (1.49%) IBM
4 1 (1.49%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.49%) Planview