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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 16 45
Rank change year-on-year -9 +29 -21
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 67 66 31
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 4.96% 9.59% 3.33%
As % of the General category 11.17% 15.79% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 40 13
10th Percentile £139 £246 £147
25th Percentile £285 £306 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £446 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% -0.89% -14.29%
75th Percentile £541 £565 £638
90th Percentile £600 £645 £768
South West median daily rate £480 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -8.57% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 4
10th Percentile £25.75 - -
25th Percentile £34.03 - £11.75
Median hourly rate £42.30 £6.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +605.00% -55.56% -75.68%
75th Percentile £62.00 £33.75 £15.25
90th Percentile £70.00 - -
South West median hourly rate £15.00 £6.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +150.00% -68.42% -64.60%

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 600 418 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 44.38% 60.76% 52.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 216 258
10th Percentile £332 £235 £227
25th Percentile £438 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £482
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -6.54% -10.21%
75th Percentile £604 £588 £608
90th Percentile £675 £681 £691
South West median daily rate £525 £495 £505
% change year-on-year +6.06% -1.98% -6.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 59 99
10th Percentile £16.62 £6.00 £31.97
25th Percentile £25.75 £16.80 £58.63
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.28 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.23% -61.07% +8.87%
75th Percentile £67.25 £56.19 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.50 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £38.50 £22.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +71.11% -65.38% +21.12%

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 2 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 2 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%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.49%) CMS
2 1 (1.49%) Moodle
2 1 (1.49%) Totara
Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.96%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (4.48%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 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 14 (20.90%) Power Platform
2 8 (11.94%) Azure
3 6 (8.96%) Power Automate
4 5 (7.46%) PowerApps
5 3 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.48%) GCP
6 2 (2.99%) AWS
6 2 (2.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (2.99%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.99%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.49%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.49%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.49%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (1.49%) GitHub
7 1 (1.49%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.46%) SAN
2 3 (4.48%) Firewall
3 2 (2.99%) BGP
3 2 (2.99%) WAN
4 1 (1.49%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (1.49%) DMZ
4 1 (1.49%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.49%) Internet
4 1 (1.49%) RS-232
4 1 (1.49%) RS-422
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.91%) Power BI
2 4 (5.97%) GIS
2 4 (5.97%) Tableau
3 2 (2.99%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.49%) Big 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%) Power Query
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%) HP UFT
3 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.49%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.49%) MLflow
3 1 (1.49%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.49%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.49%) Selenium
3 1 (1.49%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.49%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (53.73%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.40%) Finance
3 6 (8.96%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.97%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.97%) Banking
4 4 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Local Government
6 2 (2.99%) Aviation
6 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.49%) Avionics
7 1 (1.49%) Billing
7 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Military
7 1 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.49%) Retail
7 1 (1.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (25.37%) Analyst
2 6 (8.96%) Business Analyst
2 6 (8.96%) Consultant
2 6 (8.96%) Data Analyst
3 5 (7.46%) Field Engineer
3 5 (7.46%) Field Service Engineer
3 5 (7.46%) IT Engineer
3 5 (7.46%) Senior
4 3 (4.48%) Architect
4 3 (4.48%) Business Architect
4 3 (4.48%) Developer
4 3 (4.48%) Development Consultant
4 3 (4.48%) Implementation Consultant
4 3 (4.48%) Project Manager
4 3 (4.48%) Security Consultant
4 3 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (2.99%) Insight Analyst
5 2 (2.99%) Senior Performance Analyst
5 2 (2.99%) Software Team Leader
5 2 (2.99%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) HTML
2 3 (4.48%) Terraform
3 2 (2.99%) Middleware
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%) NumPy
4 1 (1.49%) OAuth
4 1 (1.49%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.49%) OpenID
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.49%) Pandas
4 1 (1.49%) REST
4 1 (1.49%) RESTful
4 1 (1.49%) SAML
4 1 (1.49%) SOAP
4 1 (1.49%) Spring
4 1 (1.49%) Web Services
4 1 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (7.46%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.46%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.97%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.99%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.49%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.49%) CMDB
5 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.49%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.49%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.49%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.49%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.49%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.49%) PMI
5 1 (1.49%) SCADA
5 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
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 23 (34.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 21 (31.34%) Decision-Making
4 15 (22.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (19.40%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (16.42%) Analytics
7 9 (13.43%) Customer Service
7 9 (13.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 8 (11.94%) Agile
8 8 (11.94%) Visualisation
9 7 (10.45%) AI
9 7 (10.45%) Project Delivery
9 7 (10.45%) Risk Management
9 7 (10.45%) Validation
10 6 (8.96%) Business Case
10 6 (8.96%) Data Governance
10 6 (8.96%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 6 (8.96%) ITIL
10 6 (8.96%) Project Management
10 6 (8.96%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (25.37%) SQL
2 9 (13.43%) Python
3 5 (7.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 5 (7.46%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.48%) C++
4 3 (4.48%) Java
5 2 (2.99%) C
5 2 (2.99%) R
6 1 (1.49%) Ada
6 1 (1.49%) Ada 95
6 1 (1.49%) Bash
6 1 (1.49%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (20.90%) SC Cleared
1 14 (20.90%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.45%) A+ Certification
2 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (7.46%) CCNA
3 5 (7.46%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (7.46%) Degree
3 5 (7.46%) MCSE
3 5 (7.46%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.49%) CEH
5 1 (1.49%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) Data Quality
2 7 (10.45%) QA
3 5 (7.46%) GDPR
4 2 (2.99%) PMO
4 2 (2.99%) SLA
5 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.49%) GRC
5 1 (1.49%) MIL-STD-1553
5 1 (1.49%) NIST
5 1 (1.49%) PERC
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.99%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.49%) Ansible
3 1 (1.49%) Istio
3 1 (1.49%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.49%) PingFederate
3 1 (1.49%) PTC Integrity
3 1 (1.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (29.85%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.46%) Dell
3 3 (4.48%) Apple
3 3 (4.48%) Databricks
3 3 (4.48%) IBM
3 3 (4.48%) SAP
4 2 (2.99%) Civica
4 2 (2.99%) HP
4 2 (2.99%) Oracle
4 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.99%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.49%) Ariba
5 1 (1.49%) Blackboard
5 1 (1.49%) Cisco
5 1 (1.49%) Green Hills
5 1 (1.49%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.49%) PTC
5 1 (1.49%) Sage
5 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.49%) webMethods