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 24 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 15 35
Rank change year-on-year -15 +20 -16
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 67 70 43
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 4.94% 9.62% 4.77%
As % of the General category 11.11% 16.06% 8.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 44 17
10th Percentile £182 £250 £140
25th Percentile £325 £308 £177
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +2.27% -26.67%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £638
90th Percentile £600 £613 £753
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 16 6
10th Percentile £25.75 - -
25th Percentile £42.30 - £11.75
Median hourly rate £53.53 £6.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +792.21% -55.56% -70.00%
75th Percentile £54.85 £33.75 £25.56
90th Percentile £70.00 - £28.99
South West median hourly rate £20.64 £6.00 £19.83
% change year-on-year +244.00% -69.74% -63.05%

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 603 436 488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 44.47% 59.89% 54.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 218 244
10th Percentile £326 £235 £213
25th Percentile £438 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% -2.63% -11.63%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £679 £696
South West median daily rate £525 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 78 94
10th Percentile £16.07 £6.00 £31.97
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.13 £55.75
Median hourly rate £44.73 £32.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.62% -51.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £65.56 £53.47 £72.50
90th Percentile £77.25 £73.75 £79.25
South West median hourly rate £35.71 £23.17 £65.00
% change year-on-year +54.12% -64.35% +15.47%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) CMS
2 1 (1.49%) Moodle
2 1 (1.49%) Totara
Applications
1 10 (14.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.48%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.49%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.49%) Maximo
2 1 (1.49%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.37%) Power Platform
2 7 (10.45%) Azure
2 7 (10.45%) Power Automate
3 5 (7.46%) PowerApps
4 3 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.99%) AWS
5 2 (2.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.99%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.99%) GCP
5 2 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (2.99%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.49%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.49%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.49%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (1.49%) GitHub
6 1 (1.49%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) Firewall
1 3 (4.48%) SAN
2 2 (2.99%) BGP
2 2 (2.99%) WAN
3 1 (1.49%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (1.49%) DHCP
3 1 (1.49%) DMZ
3 1 (1.49%) DNS
3 1 (1.49%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.49%) Internet
3 1 (1.49%) Network Security
3 1 (1.49%) RS-232
3 1 (1.49%) RS-422
3 1 (1.49%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (22.39%) Power BI
2 4 (5.97%) GIS
2 4 (5.97%) Tableau
3 2 (2.99%) Power Query
3 2 (2.99%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.49%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.49%) Metadata
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.49%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) JIRA
2 2 (2.99%) Rational Rhapsody
3 1 (1.49%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.49%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.49%) Gatling
3 1 (1.49%) Git
3 1 (1.49%) GitLab
3 1 (1.49%) Gradle
3 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.49%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.49%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (52.24%) Social Skills
2 11 (16.42%) Finance
3 7 (10.45%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.97%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.97%) Military
4 4 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Banking
5 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.99%) Aviation
6 2 (2.99%) Local Government
7 1 (1.49%) Avionics
7 1 (1.49%) Billing
7 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (26.87%) Analyst
2 5 (7.46%) Business Analyst
2 5 (7.46%) Data Analyst
2 5 (7.46%) Senior
3 4 (5.97%) Architect
3 4 (5.97%) Consultant
3 4 (5.97%) Developer
3 4 (5.97%) PMO Analyst
4 3 (4.48%) Business Architect
4 3 (4.48%) Field Engineer
4 3 (4.48%) Field Service Engineer
4 3 (4.48%) IT Engineer
4 3 (4.48%) Lead
4 3 (4.48%) Project Manager
4 3 (4.48%) Report Analyst
4 3 (4.48%) Security Consultant
4 3 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Consultant
5 2 (2.99%) Performance Officer
5 2 (2.99%) Senior Performance Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) HTML
2 3 (4.48%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (4.48%) Terraform
3 2 (2.99%) Middleware
3 2 (2.99%) REST
4 1 (1.49%) .NET
4 1 (1.49%) JDBC
4 1 (1.49%) JSON
4 1 (1.49%) Node.js
4 1 (1.49%) OAuth
4 1 (1.49%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.49%) OpenID
4 1 (1.49%) React
4 1 (1.49%) RESTful
4 1 (1.49%) SAML
4 1 (1.49%) SOAP
4 1 (1.49%) Spring
4 1 (1.49%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.49%) Web Services
4 1 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (8.96%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.48%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.48%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.49%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.49%) CMDB
4 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.49%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.49%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.49%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.49%) PMI
4 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.94%) Windows
2 4 (5.97%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.99%) Android
3 2 (2.99%) Linux
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.79%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (35.82%) Continuous Improvement
3 19 (28.36%) Decision-Making
4 17 (25.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (23.88%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (22.39%) Analytics
7 11 (16.42%) Visualisation
8 10 (14.93%) Agile
9 8 (11.94%) Project Delivery
9 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (11.94%) Validation
10 7 (10.45%) AI
10 7 (10.45%) Customer Service
10 7 (10.45%) Data Analysis
10 7 (10.45%) Data Visualisation
10 7 (10.45%) ITIL
10 7 (10.45%) Risk Management
11 6 (8.96%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 6 (8.96%) Migration
11 6 (8.96%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.87%) SQL
2 9 (13.43%) Python
3 5 (7.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.48%) C++
5 3 (4.48%) Java
6 2 (2.99%) C
7 1 (1.49%) Ada
7 1 (1.49%) Ada 95
7 1 (1.49%) Bash
7 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.49%) R
Qualifications
1 20 (29.85%) Security Cleared
2 19 (28.36%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.46%) A+ Certification
3 5 (7.46%) Degree
3 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (4.48%) CCNA
4 3 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.48%) MCSE
4 3 (4.48%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.49%) CEH
5 1 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.42%) Data Quality
2 8 (11.94%) QA
3 6 (8.96%) PMO
4 5 (7.46%) GDPR
5 2 (2.99%) SLA
6 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.49%) GRC
6 1 (1.49%) MIL-STD-1553
6 1 (1.49%) NIST
6 1 (1.49%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (5.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.99%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.49%) Ansible
3 1 (1.49%) Istio
3 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.49%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (1.49%) PingFederate
3 1 (1.49%) PTC Integrity
3 1 (1.49%) SCCM
3 1 (1.49%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (1.49%) WMI
3 1 (1.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (28.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.97%) Oracle
2 4 (5.97%) SAP
3 3 (4.48%) Apple
3 3 (4.48%) Dell
3 3 (4.48%) IBM
4 2 (2.99%) Cisco
4 2 (2.99%) Databricks
4 2 (2.99%) HP
4 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.99%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.49%) Ariba
5 1 (1.49%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (1.49%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.49%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.49%) McAfee
5 1 (1.49%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.49%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.49%) Sage
5 1 (1.49%) webMethods