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 28 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 15 51
Rank change year-on-year -9 +36 -26
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 72 62 24
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.53% 8.87% 2.40%
As % of the General category 12.54% 15.27% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 38 14
10th Percentile £130 £205 £287
25th Percentile £287 £259 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £562 £638
90th Percentile £575 £620 £708
South West median daily rate £506 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -5.86% +2.38% -1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.10 - £11.75
Median hourly rate £19.93 £6.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +232.08% -55.56% -54.68%
75th Percentile £42.30 £33.75 £21.44
90th Percentile £45.81 - £32.58
South West median hourly rate £14.10 £6.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +135.00% -80.00% -44.10%

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 574 406 519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 44.12% 58.08% 52.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 208 276
10th Percentile £349 £228 £232
25th Percentile £431 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -10.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £585 £562 £600
90th Percentile £652 £639 £688
South West median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 53 134
10th Percentile £14.50 £6.00 £35.38
25th Percentile £22.42 £18.13 £44.06
Median hourly rate £48.50 £30.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.33% -53.46% +4.84%
75th Percentile £66.13 £57.50 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.20 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £40.86 £22.74 £47.50
% change year-on-year +79.70% -52.14% -15.62%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) CMS
2 1 (1.39%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.39%) Moodle
2 1 (1.39%) Totara
Applications
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.39%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.39%) Maximo
1 1 (1.39%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.89%) Power Platform
2 8 (11.11%) Azure
3 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.17%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.78%) AWS
4 2 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.78%) GCP
4 2 (2.78%) PowerApps
4 2 (2.78%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.39%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.39%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.39%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.39%) Intacct
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
5 1 (1.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.33%) 5G
1 6 (8.33%) LTE
1 6 (8.33%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (8.33%) SAN
2 3 (4.17%) Firewall
3 2 (2.78%) 2G
3 2 (2.78%) 3G
3 2 (2.78%) 4G
3 2 (2.78%) 5G NR
3 2 (2.78%) BGP
3 2 (2.78%) WAN
3 2 (2.78%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.39%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (1.39%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.39%) RS-232
4 1 (1.39%) RS-422
4 1 (1.39%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.11%) Power BI
2 3 (4.17%) Tableau
3 2 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.78%) Power Query
4 1 (1.39%) Big Data
4 1 (1.39%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.39%) GIS
4 1 (1.39%) Metadata
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.39%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.39%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.39%) Gatling
2 1 (1.39%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) GitLab
2 1 (1.39%) Gradle
2 1 (1.39%) HP UFT
2 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.39%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.39%) MLflow
2 1 (1.39%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.39%) REST Assured
2 1 (1.39%) Selenium
2 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.39%) WebDriver
General
1 35 (48.61%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.83%) Finance
3 6 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.56%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Banking
5 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.78%) Aviation
6 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Electronics
7 1 (1.39%) Avionics
7 1 (1.39%) Billing
7 1 (1.39%) Local Government
7 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.39%) Retail
7 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (25.00%) Analyst
2 8 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 6 (8.33%) Consultant
3 6 (8.33%) Field Engineer
3 6 (8.33%) Field Service Engineer
3 6 (8.33%) IT Engineer
4 5 (6.94%) Data Analyst
5 4 (5.56%) Administrator
5 4 (5.56%) Developer
5 4 (5.56%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.17%) Development Consultant
6 3 (4.17%) Implementation Consultant
6 3 (4.17%) Security Consultant
7 2 (2.78%) Azure Consultant
7 2 (2.78%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) Firewall Consultant
7 2 (2.78%) Optimisation Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) RAN Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) Salesforce Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.78%) Middleware
1 2 (2.78%) Pandas
2 1 (1.39%) HTML
2 1 (1.39%) JDBC
2 1 (1.39%) JSON
2 1 (1.39%) Node.js
2 1 (1.39%) NumPy
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.39%) Playwright
2 1 (1.39%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.39%) Quarkus
2 1 (1.39%) React
2 1 (1.39%) REST
2 1 (1.39%) RESTful
2 1 (1.39%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.39%) SOAP
2 1 (1.39%) Spring
2 1 (1.39%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.39%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.94%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.78%) CMDB
5 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.39%) Clustering
6 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.39%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.39%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.39%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.39%) PKI
6 1 (1.39%) PMI
6 1 (1.39%) SCADA
6 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.94%) Windows
2 3 (4.17%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.78%) Linux
4 1 (1.39%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (27.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (23.61%) Decision-Making
4 13 (18.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (12.50%) Agile
5 9 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 9 (12.50%) Customer Service
6 8 (11.11%) Analytics
7 7 (9.72%) ITIL
7 7 (9.72%) Risk Management
7 7 (9.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (9.72%) Validation
8 6 (8.33%) AI
8 6 (8.33%) Break/Fix
8 6 (8.33%) Project Delivery
8 6 (8.33%) Time Management
9 5 (6.94%) Business Case
9 5 (6.94%) Data Modelling
9 5 (6.94%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 5 (6.94%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (19.44%) SQL
2 8 (11.11%) Python
3 3 (4.17%) Java
4 2 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.78%) R
5 1 (1.39%) Ada
5 1 (1.39%) Ada 95
5 1 (1.39%) Bash
5 1 (1.39%) C++
5 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.39%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) SC Cleared
1 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.11%) A+ Certification
2 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (8.33%) CCNA
3 6 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (8.33%) MCSE
3 6 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (4.17%) Degree
5 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.39%) CEH
6 1 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.89%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.78%) GDPR
3 2 (2.78%) PMO
3 2 (2.78%) QA
3 2 (2.78%) SLA
4 1 (1.39%) GRC
4 1 (1.39%) MIL-STD-1553
4 1 (1.39%) NIST
4 1 (1.39%) PERC
System Software
1 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.39%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (4.17%) Terraform
2 2 (2.78%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.39%) Ansible
3 1 (1.39%) Istio
3 1 (1.39%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.39%) PTC Integrity
3 1 (1.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.33%) Dell
3 4 (5.56%) Huawei
4 3 (4.17%) SAP
5 2 (2.78%) Actix
5 2 (2.78%) Apple
5 2 (2.78%) Civica
5 2 (2.78%) Databricks
5 2 (2.78%) Ericsson
5 2 (2.78%) Nokia
5 2 (2.78%) Oracle
5 2 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.78%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.39%) Green Hills
6 1 (1.39%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.39%) PTC
6 1 (1.39%) VMware
6 1 (1.39%) webMethods