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 22 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 28 54
Rank change year-on-year +5 +26 -17
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 77 30 28
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.00% 5.23% 2.66%
As % of the General category 13.65% 9.40% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 25 18
10th Percentile £121 £268 £335
25th Percentile £325 £442 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £621
90th Percentile £588 £613 £638
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 3
10th Percentile - - £17.40
25th Percentile £14.10 £31.25 £25.88
Median hourly rate £40.65 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.08% -18.75% -32.37%
75th Percentile £61.01 £43.88 £43.20
90th Percentile £67.25 £49.95 £45.11
South West median hourly rate £16.89 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -48.03% -18.75% -34.59%

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 564 319 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 43.96% 55.57% 50.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 181 286
10th Percentile £325 £213 £241
25th Percentile £425 £355 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £518
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -13.04% -1.43%
75th Percentile £575 £561 £625
90th Percentile £651 £650 £688
South West median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 32 134
10th Percentile £14.46 £18.13 £36.25
25th Percentile £19.33 £29.82 £43.75
Median hourly rate £55.00 £56.12 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +1.58% -11.60%
75th Percentile £67.25 £66.38 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £52.67 £46.39
% change year-on-year -38.30% +13.54% -22.68%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 3 (3.90%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.60%) Apache
2 2 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.30%) InfoPath
4 1 (1.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.09%) Azure
1 7 (9.09%) GCP
2 5 (6.49%) AWS
2 5 (6.49%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.60%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.30%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.30%) GitHub
4 1 (1.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (1.30%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (1.30%) OCI
4 1 (1.30%) PaaS
4 1 (1.30%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) 5G
1 6 (7.79%) LTE
1 6 (7.79%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (7.79%) SAN
2 2 (2.60%) 2G
2 2 (2.60%) 3G
2 2 (2.60%) 4G
2 2 (2.60%) 5G NR
2 2 (2.60%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.30%) Firewall
3 1 (1.30%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (5.19%) Power BI
2 2 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.60%) Tableau
3 1 (1.30%) Big Data
3 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.30%) Looker
3 1 (1.30%) Metadata
3 1 (1.30%) Power Query
3 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.49%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) Git
3 2 (2.60%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.30%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.30%) Gatling
4 1 (1.30%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) Gradle
4 1 (1.30%) HP UFT
4 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.30%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.30%) MLflow
4 1 (1.30%) Mockito
4 1 (1.30%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.30%) Selenium
4 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.30%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (37.66%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.18%) Finance
3 6 (7.79%) Electronics
3 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.49%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.90%) Aviation
5 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.60%) Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Publishing
6 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.30%) Law
7 1 (1.30%) Local Government
7 1 (1.30%) Retail
7 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (18.18%) Analyst
2 7 (9.09%) Developer
3 6 (7.79%) Business Analyst
3 6 (7.79%) Field Engineer
3 6 (7.79%) Field Service Engineer
3 6 (7.79%) IT Engineer
4 5 (6.49%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.19%) Administrator
5 4 (5.19%) Change Manager
5 4 (5.19%) Coordinator
5 4 (5.19%) Embedded Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 4 (5.19%) Project Change Manager
5 4 (5.19%) Project Coordinator
5 4 (5.19%) Project Support Coordinator
5 4 (5.19%) Senior
5 4 (5.19%) Software Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (3.90%) Data Analyst
6 3 (3.90%) Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.90%) REST
2 2 (2.60%) JAX-RS
2 2 (2.60%) JSON
2 2 (2.60%) Kafka
2 2 (2.60%) OAuth
2 2 (2.60%) OAuth2
2 2 (2.60%) Pandas
2 2 (2.60%) RESTful
2 2 (2.60%) SOAP
2 2 (2.60%) Spring
2 2 (2.60%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.60%) Web Services
2 2 (2.60%) XML
3 1 (1.30%) Flash
3 1 (1.30%) JDBC
3 1 (1.30%) Middleware
3 1 (1.30%) Node.js
3 1 (1.30%) NumPy
3 1 (1.30%) XSD
3 1 (1.30%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.58%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (11.69%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.79%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.49%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.19%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (3.90%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.60%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.30%) Clustering
8 1 (1.30%) CMDB
8 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.30%) Market Risk
8 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.30%) PKI
8 1 (1.30%) SCADA
8 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Linux
1 1 (1.30%) Windows
1 1 (1.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (44.16%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (32.47%) Continuous Improvement
3 23 (29.87%) Decision-Making
4 14 (18.18%) Agile
4 14 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (14.29%) Project Management
6 8 (10.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (9.09%) Analytics
7 7 (9.09%) Business Case
7 7 (9.09%) Customer Service
7 7 (9.09%) Data Modelling
7 7 (9.09%) DevOps
7 7 (9.09%) Validation
8 6 (7.79%) AI
8 6 (7.79%) Break/Fix
8 6 (7.79%) Data Engineering
8 6 (7.79%) Data Science
8 6 (7.79%) Resource Management
9 5 (6.49%) Data Governance
9 5 (6.49%) Performance Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (19.48%) SQL
2 8 (10.39%) Python
3 5 (6.49%) Java
4 4 (5.19%) C
5 3 (3.90%) R
6 2 (2.60%) Go
7 1 (1.30%) Bash
7 1 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.30%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (22.08%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.78%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.09%) A+ Certification
3 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (7.79%) CCNA
4 6 (7.79%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (7.79%) MCSE
4 6 (7.79%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (2.60%) Degree
6 1 (1.30%) CEH
6 1 (1.30%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.19%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.19%) Def Stans
2 4 (5.19%) DO-178B
2 4 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.19%) MISRA
3 3 (3.90%) GDPR
4 2 (2.60%) COBIT
4 2 (2.60%) NIST
4 2 (2.60%) QA
5 1 (1.30%) PERC
5 1 (1.30%) PMO
5 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) Firmware
2 2 (2.60%) Docker
3 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (6.49%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.19%) Terraform
3 1 (1.30%) Ansible
3 1 (1.30%) Istio
3 1 (1.30%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.30%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) Dell
3 4 (5.19%) Huawei
4 2 (2.60%) Actix
4 2 (2.60%) Civica
4 2 (2.60%) Databricks
4 2 (2.60%) Ericsson
4 2 (2.60%) Google
4 2 (2.60%) Nokia
4 2 (2.60%) Oracle
4 2 (2.60%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.30%) Facebook
5 1 (1.30%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.30%) SAP
5 1 (1.30%) VMware
5 1 (1.30%) webMethods