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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 33 48
Rank change year-on-year +14 +15 -9
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 78 29 29
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.16% 5.10% 2.75%
As % of the General category 14.00% 9.29% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 24 19
10th Percentile £121 £252 £320
25th Percentile £325 £435 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +1.19% +10.53%
75th Percentile £541 £573 £616
90th Percentile £610 £613 £638
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 3
10th Percentile - - £17.40
25th Percentile £14.10 £31.25 £25.88
Median hourly rate £42.30 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.15% -18.75% -23.51%
75th Percentile £67.25 £43.88 £43.20
90th Percentile - £49.95 £45.11
South West median hourly rate £17.95 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -44.78% -18.75% -28.95%

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 557 312 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 43.96% 54.83% 50.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 174 286
10th Percentile £325 £213 £241
25th Percentile £425 £355 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £570 £560 £625
90th Percentile £639 £660 £688
South West median daily rate £511 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.86% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 32 136
10th Percentile £14.50 £18.13 £36.25
25th Percentile £19.29 £31.00 £43.75
Median hourly rate £57.35 £57.37 £58.39
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% -1.75% -5.82%
75th Percentile £67.25 £66.38 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £57.25 £46.39
% change year-on-year -43.23% +23.40% -23.13%

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 16 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 16 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 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.56%) Apache
2 2 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.28%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.28%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.28%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.97%) GCP
2 6 (7.69%) Azure
3 5 (6.41%) AWS
3 5 (6.41%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.28%) GitHub
5 1 (1.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.28%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.28%) OCI
5 1 (1.28%) PaaS
5 1 (1.28%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.28%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.28%) SaaS
5 1 (1.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.69%) 5G
1 6 (7.69%) LTE
1 6 (7.69%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (7.69%) SAN
2 2 (2.56%) 2G
2 2 (2.56%) 3G
2 2 (2.56%) 4G
2 2 (2.56%) 5G NR
2 2 (2.56%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.28%) Firewall
3 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.28%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (5.13%) Power BI
2 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.56%) Tableau
3 1 (1.28%) Big Data
3 1 (1.28%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.28%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.28%) Looker
3 1 (1.28%) Metadata
3 1 (1.28%) Power Query
3 1 (1.28%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.28%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (3.85%) Git
3 2 (2.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.28%) Burp Suite
4 1 (1.28%) Gatling
4 1 (1.28%) GitLab
4 1 (1.28%) Gradle
4 1 (1.28%) HP UFT
4 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.28%) LoadRunner
4 1 (1.28%) MLflow
4 1 (1.28%) Mockito
4 1 (1.28%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.28%) Selenium
4 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.28%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.28%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (37.18%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.23%) Finance
3 8 (10.26%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.97%) Electronics
5 4 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.85%) Aviation
6 3 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.56%) Banking
7 2 (2.56%) Local Government
7 2 (2.56%) Publishing
7 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.28%) Law
8 1 (1.28%) Military
8 1 (1.28%) Retail
8 1 (1.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (16.67%) Analyst
2 8 (10.26%) Developer
3 7 (8.97%) Business Analyst
4 6 (7.69%) Field Engineer
4 6 (7.69%) Field Service Engineer
4 6 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Embedded Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 5 (6.41%) Project Manager
5 5 (6.41%) Senior
5 5 (6.41%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.13%) Administrator
6 4 (5.13%) Change Manager
6 4 (5.13%) Coordinator
6 4 (5.13%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.13%) Project Change Manager
6 4 (5.13%) Project Coordinator
6 4 (5.13%) Project Support Coordinator
7 3 (3.85%) Consultant
7 3 (3.85%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.85%) JSON
1 3 (3.85%) REST
2 2 (2.56%) JAX-RS
2 2 (2.56%) Kafka
2 2 (2.56%) OAuth
2 2 (2.56%) OAuth2
2 2 (2.56%) Pandas
2 2 (2.56%) RESTful
2 2 (2.56%) SOAP
2 2 (2.56%) Spring
2 2 (2.56%) Spring Boot
2 2 (2.56%) Web Services
2 2 (2.56%) XML
3 1 (1.28%) Flash
3 1 (1.28%) JDBC
3 1 (1.28%) JPA
3 1 (1.28%) Middleware
3 1 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.28%) XSD
3 1 (1.28%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.41%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (6.41%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.13%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.28%) Clustering
7 1 (1.28%) CMDB
7 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.28%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.28%) PKI
7 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.56%) Linux
2 1 (1.28%) Android
2 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (28.21%) Continuous Improvement
2 22 (28.21%) Decision-Making
3 17 (21.79%) Agile
4 12 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (14.10%) Project Management
6 8 (10.26%) DevOps
6 8 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (8.97%) Data Modelling
7 7 (8.97%) Validation
8 6 (7.69%) AI
8 6 (7.69%) Analytics
8 6 (7.69%) Break/Fix
8 6 (7.69%) Business Case
8 6 (7.69%) Customer Service
8 6 (7.69%) Data Engineering
8 6 (7.69%) Data Science
8 6 (7.69%) Migration
8 6 (7.69%) Resource Management
9 5 (6.41%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.51%) SQL
2 8 (10.26%) Python
3 6 (7.69%) Java
4 5 (6.41%) C
5 3 (3.85%) R
6 2 (2.56%) Go
6 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.28%) Bash
7 1 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.28%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 17 (21.79%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.69%) A+ Certification
3 6 (7.69%) CCNA
3 6 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (7.69%) MCSE
3 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (2.56%) Degree
5 1 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.41%) Def Stans
2 5 (6.41%) DO-178B
2 5 (6.41%) MISRA
3 4 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.85%) GDPR
5 2 (2.56%) COBIT
5 2 (2.56%) NIST
5 2 (2.56%) QA
6 1 (1.28%) PERC
6 1 (1.28%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (6.41%) Firmware
2 2 (2.56%) Docker
3 1 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.28%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (6.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.13%) Terraform
3 1 (1.28%) Ansible
3 1 (1.28%) Istio
3 1 (1.28%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.28%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (11.54%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.69%) Dell
3 4 (5.13%) Huawei
4 2 (2.56%) Actix
4 2 (2.56%) Civica
4 2 (2.56%) Databricks
4 2 (2.56%) Ericsson
4 2 (2.56%) Google
4 2 (2.56%) Nokia
4 2 (2.56%) Oracle
4 2 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.28%) Facebook
5 1 (1.28%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.28%) SAP
5 1 (1.28%) VMware
5 1 (1.28%) webMethods