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 8 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 29 36
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 76 31 50
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 6.99% 5.77% 4.72%
As % of the General category 14.56% 10.13% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 21 37
10th Percentile £406 £140 £365
25th Percentile £450 £320 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £578 £564 £660
90th Percentile £638 £688 £680
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 5 2
10th Percentile - - £40.64
25th Percentile £14.10 £25.26 £41.60
Median hourly rate £62.50 £27.13 £43.20
Median % change year-on-year +130.41% -37.20% -34.55%
75th Percentile £67.25 £37.00 £44.79
90th Percentile - - £45.75
South West median hourly rate £50.75 £27.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year +87.10% -32.19% -39.39%

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 522 306 562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 48.02% 56.98% 53.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 175 318
10th Percentile £280 £190 £225
25th Percentile £413 £303 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £569 £571 £638
90th Percentile £653 £685 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.23% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 33 113
10th Percentile £15.62 £26.80 £40.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £36.00 £45.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £64.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +16.36% -15.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £62.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -46.40% +38.89% -26.83%

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 8 March 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 8 March 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 4 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.95%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (3.95%) Skype for Business
3 2 (2.63%) Apache
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.32%) Confluence
4 1 (1.32%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.32%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.21%) AWS
2 6 (7.89%) Power Platform
3 5 (6.58%) GCP
4 3 (3.95%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.63%) Azure
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.32%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.32%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.32%) OCI
6 1 (1.32%) PaaS
6 1 (1.32%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.32%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.32%) SaaS
6 1 (1.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) 5G
1 6 (7.89%) LTE
1 6 (7.89%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (3.95%) DHCP
2 3 (3.95%) DNS
2 3 (3.95%) Skype
2 3 (3.95%) Unified Communications
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%) BGP
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.32%) OSPF
4 1 (1.32%) SAN
4 1 (1.32%) TACACS
4 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.32%) VSAN
4 1 (1.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.89%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (6.58%) Power BI
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle ODI
3 3 (3.95%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.95%) Star Schema
4 2 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.32%) Looker
5 1 (1.32%) Power Query
5 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.58%) JIRA
2 3 (3.95%) DBeaver
3 2 (2.63%) Git
4 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.32%) GitLab
4 1 (1.32%) Mockito
4 1 (1.32%) Rational DOORS
General
1 26 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.11%) Finance
3 12 (15.79%) Electronics
4 9 (11.84%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.63%) Law
7 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.63%) Publishing
8 1 (1.32%) Aviation
8 1 (1.32%) French Language
8 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Local Government
8 1 (1.32%) Marketing
8 1 (1.32%) Military
8 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (19.74%) Analyst
2 10 (13.16%) Embedded Engineer
2 10 (13.16%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 10 (13.16%) Software Engineer
3 9 (11.84%) Business Analyst
4 6 (7.89%) Developer
5 5 (6.58%) Data Engineer
5 5 (6.58%) Senior
6 4 (5.26%) Administrator
6 4 (5.26%) Change Manager
6 4 (5.26%) Java Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Performance Analyst
6 4 (5.26%) Project Change Manager
6 4 (5.26%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Coordinator
7 3 (3.95%) Project Coordinator
7 3 (3.95%) Project Support Coordinator
7 3 (3.95%) Quality Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.95%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (2.63%) JAX-RS
2 2 (2.63%) JSON
2 2 (2.63%) Kafka
2 2 (2.63%) OAuth
2 2 (2.63%) OAuth2
2 2 (2.63%) REST
3 1 (1.32%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.32%) Flash
3 1 (1.32%) JPA
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.32%) Pandas
3 1 (1.32%) RESTful
3 1 (1.32%) SOAP
3 1 (1.32%) Spring
3 1 (1.32%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.32%) Web Services
3 1 (1.32%) XML
3 1 (1.32%) XSD
3 1 (1.32%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Embedded Systems
2 6 (7.89%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (6.58%) Mobile App
3 5 (6.58%) Onboarding
4 4 (5.26%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.95%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.95%) PKI
5 3 (3.95%) Replication
6 2 (2.63%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.32%) Clustering
7 1 (1.32%) CMDB
7 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Windows
2 3 (3.95%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.32%) Android
3 1 (1.32%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (35.53%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (27.63%) Agile
3 16 (21.05%) Validation
4 14 (18.42%) Decision-Making
5 13 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (14.47%) Analytics
6 11 (14.47%) Software Engineering
7 10 (13.16%) Project Management
7 10 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (11.84%) Systems Engineering
9 8 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
9 8 (10.53%) DevOps
10 6 (7.89%) Business Case
10 6 (7.89%) Containerisation
10 6 (7.89%) Data Modelling
10 6 (7.89%) ITIL
10 6 (7.89%) Microservices
10 6 (7.89%) Migration
10 6 (7.89%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.37%) SQL
2 10 (13.16%) C
3 8 (10.53%) Python
4 5 (6.58%) Java
4 5 (6.58%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.63%) Go
6 1 (1.32%) Perl
6 1 (1.32%) R
6 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 17 (22.37%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.89%) Degree
4 5 (6.58%) MCSE
4 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.26%) CCNA
5 4 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.95%) CCNP
6 3 (3.95%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (3.95%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.32%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.32%) CISSP
7 1 (1.32%) HND
7 1 (1.32%) IIBA
7 1 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.32%) PMP
7 1 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.16%) Def Stans
1 10 (13.16%) DO-178B
1 10 (13.16%) MISRA
2 6 (7.89%) Data Quality
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 10 (13.16%) Firmware
2 4 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (3.95%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.32%) Docker
4 1 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (3.95%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.95%) SCCM
1 3 (3.95%) Terraform
1 3 (3.95%) WSUS
2 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.26%) Cisco
2 4 (5.26%) Huawei
2 4 (5.26%) Oracle
2 4 (5.26%) SolarWinds
2 4 (5.26%) VMware
3 3 (3.95%) Splunk
3 3 (3.95%) Veeam
4 2 (2.63%) Actix
4 2 (2.63%) Ericsson
4 2 (2.63%) Google
4 2 (2.63%) Nokia
5 1 (1.32%) Aruba
5 1 (1.32%) Dell
5 1 (1.32%) Facebook
5 1 (1.32%) IBM
5 1 (1.32%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.32%) Planview
5 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow