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 17 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 32 39
Rank change year-on-year +15 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 76 22 40
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.37% 4.10% 3.86%
As % of the General category 14.50% 7.48% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 21 29
10th Percentile £166 £335 £345
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% +21.05%
75th Percentile £549 £562 £638
90th Percentile £608 £588 £680
South West median daily rate £570 £550 £530
% change year-on-year +3.64% +3.77% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 3
10th Percentile - - £17.40
25th Percentile £14.10 £25.26 £25.88
Median hourly rate £52.75 £27.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.47% -32.19% -41.18%
75th Percentile £67.25 £28.99 £43.20
90th Percentile - - £45.11
South West median hourly rate £23.50 £27.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year -13.36% -32.19% -41.18%

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 524 294 543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 43.92% 54.85% 52.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 171 315
10th Percentile £250 £213 £228
25th Percentile £414 £338 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £575 £560 £634
90th Percentile £650 £668 £695
South West median daily rate £500 £501 £525
% change year-on-year -0.20% -4.57% -3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 29 106
10th Percentile £14.50 £18.13 £35.63
25th Percentile £17.69 £31.00 £43.75
Median hourly rate £57.35 £64.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.39% +16.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.74 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £60.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -45.83% +50.00% -34.96%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 (3.95%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.63%) Apache
2 2 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.32%) Confluence
3 1 (1.32%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.32%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 6 (7.89%) AWS
1 6 (7.89%) GCP
1 6 (7.89%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.58%) Azure
3 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.32%) Google Analytics
4 1 (1.32%) Google Tag Manager
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.32%) OCI
4 1 (1.32%) PaaS
4 1 (1.32%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.32%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.32%) SaaS
4 1 (1.32%) Serverless
4 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) 5G
1 6 (7.89%) LTE
1 6 (7.89%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (6.58%) SAN
3 2 (2.63%) 2G
3 2 (2.63%) 3G
3 2 (2.63%) 4G
3 2 (2.63%) 5G NR
3 2 (2.63%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.32%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (6.58%) Power BI
2 2 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.63%) Tableau
3 1 (1.32%) Big Data
3 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.32%) Looker
3 1 (1.32%) Metadata
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.32%) Power Query
3 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.32%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (6.58%) JIRA
2 2 (2.63%) Git
3 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.32%) DBeaver
3 1 (1.32%) GitLab
3 1 (1.32%) HP UFT
3 1 (1.32%) MLflow
3 1 (1.32%) Mockito
3 1 (1.32%) Selenium
3 1 (1.32%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.11%) Finance
3 8 (10.53%) Electronics
3 8 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Local Government
6 2 (2.63%) Publishing
6 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.32%) Aviation
7 1 (1.32%) Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Law
7 1 (1.32%) Marketing
7 1 (1.32%) Military
7 1 (1.32%) Retail
7 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (17.11%) Analyst
2 8 (10.53%) Business Analyst
2 8 (10.53%) Developer
3 6 (7.89%) Embedded Engineer
3 6 (7.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 6 (7.89%) Software Engineer
4 5 (6.58%) Field Engineer
4 5 (6.58%) Field Service Engineer
4 5 (6.58%) IT Engineer
4 5 (6.58%) Senior
5 4 (5.26%) Administrator
5 4 (5.26%) Change Manager
5 4 (5.26%) Coordinator
5 4 (5.26%) Java Developer
5 4 (5.26%) Project Change Manager
5 4 (5.26%) Project Coordinator
5 4 (5.26%) Project Support Coordinator
6 3 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Data Engineer
6 3 (3.95%) Development Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.95%) JSON
1 3 (3.95%) REST
2 2 (2.63%) JAX-RS
2 2 (2.63%) Kafka
2 2 (2.63%) OAuth
2 2 (2.63%) OAuth2
2 2 (2.63%) Pandas
2 2 (2.63%) RESTful
2 2 (2.63%) SOAP
2 2 (2.63%) Web Services
2 2 (2.63%) XML
3 1 (1.32%) Flash
3 1 (1.32%) JDBC
3 1 (1.32%) JPA
3 1 (1.32%) Middleware
3 1 (1.32%) NumPy
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.32%) Spring
3 1 (1.32%) XSD
3 1 (1.32%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.47%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (9.21%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.89%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.89%) Embedded Systems
4 5 (6.58%) Mobile App
4 5 (6.58%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.32%) Clustering
6 1 (1.32%) CMDB
6 1 (1.32%) Replication
6 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.32%) Android
1 1 (1.32%) Linux
1 1 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.05%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 17 (22.37%) Agile
3 17 (22.37%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (13.16%) Project Management
5 10 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (11.84%) Validation
7 8 (10.53%) Analytics
7 8 (10.53%) Data Modelling
7 8 (10.53%) DevOps
8 7 (9.21%) Data Science
8 7 (9.21%) Software Engineering
9 6 (7.89%) Business Case
9 6 (7.89%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (7.89%) Containerisation
9 6 (7.89%) Microservices
9 6 (7.89%) Migration
9 6 (7.89%) Strategic Thinking
10 5 (6.58%) Break/Fix
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.68%) SQL
2 8 (10.53%) Python
3 6 (7.89%) C
3 6 (7.89%) Java
4 3 (3.95%) R
5 2 (2.63%) Go
5 2 (2.63%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 15 (19.74%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.89%) MCSE
3 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (6.58%) A+ Certification
4 5 (6.58%) CCNA
4 5 (6.58%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (6.58%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (3.95%) Degree
6 1 (1.32%) CISSP
6 1 (1.32%) HND
6 1 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.21%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.89%) Def Stans
2 6 (7.89%) DO-178B
2 6 (7.89%) MISRA
3 4 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.95%) GDPR
5 2 (2.63%) COBIT
5 2 (2.63%) NIST
5 2 (2.63%) QA
6 1 (1.32%) PERC
6 1 (1.32%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (7.89%) Firmware
2 2 (2.63%) Docker
3 1 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.95%) Terraform
3 1 (1.32%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.58%) Dell
3 4 (5.26%) Huawei
4 3 (3.95%) Oracle
5 2 (2.63%) Actix
5 2 (2.63%) Civica
5 2 (2.63%) Databricks
5 2 (2.63%) Ericsson
5 2 (2.63%) Google
5 2 (2.63%) Nokia
6 1 (1.32%) Facebook
6 1 (1.32%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.32%) Planview
6 1 (1.32%) SAP
6 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.32%) VMware
6 1 (1.32%) webMethods