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 15 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 24 31
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 +12
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 69 41 56
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 7.00% 6.94% 5.37%
As % of the General category 14.68% 11.71% 10.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 24 43
10th Percentile £413 £140 £377
25th Percentile £451 £320 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £581 £566 £668
90th Percentile £638 £701 £680
South West median daily rate £588 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +9.30% -2.27% +2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £36.51 - £41.28
25th Percentile £61.25 £25.26 £43.20
Median hourly rate £66.50 £27.13 £46.39
Median % change year-on-year +145.16% -41.53% +6.28%
75th Percentile £67.25 £37.00 £59.57
90th Percentile - - £67.48
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £27.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year +130.41% -32.19% -32.98%

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 470 350 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 47.67% 59.22% 52.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 187 332
10th Percentile £269 £190 £250
25th Percentile £413 £303 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £530
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -10.38% +3.36%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £646
90th Percentile £681 £700 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 32 91
10th Percentile £15.62 £26.28 £33.00
25th Percentile £19.06 £35.75 £42.50
Median hourly rate £39.50 £64.00 £55.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.28% +15.32% -14.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £71.25
90th Percentile £71.13 £75.00 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £61.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -45.31% +37.64% -27.64%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (7.25%) SharePoint
1 5 (7.25%) Skype for Business
2 4 (5.80%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (2.90%) Apache
3 2 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.90%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.45%) Confluence
4 1 (1.45%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (11.59%) AWS
2 6 (8.70%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.25%) GCP
4 4 (5.80%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (2.90%) Azure
6 1 (1.45%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.45%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.45%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.45%) OCI
6 1 (1.45%) PaaS
6 1 (1.45%) SaaS
6 1 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) DHCP
1 5 (7.25%) DNS
1 5 (7.25%) Skype
1 5 (7.25%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.45%) BGP
2 1 (1.45%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (1.45%) LAN
2 1 (1.45%) OSPF
2 1 (1.45%) TACACS
2 1 (1.45%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.45%) WAN
2 1 (1.45%) Wireless
2 1 (1.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.14%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (8.70%) Power BI
3 4 (5.80%) Oracle ODI
3 4 (5.80%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (5.80%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.80%) Star Schema
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.45%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.45%) Looker
5 1 (1.45%) Power Query
5 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.25%) JIRA
2 4 (5.80%) DBeaver
3 2 (2.90%) Git
4 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.45%) GitLab
4 1 (1.45%) Mockito
4 1 (1.45%) Rational DOORS
General
1 24 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.39%) Finance
3 11 (15.94%) Public Sector
4 10 (14.49%) Electronics
5 4 (5.80%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.90%) Law
6 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.90%) Publishing
6 2 (2.90%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.45%) Aviation
7 1 (1.45%) French Language
7 1 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Local Government
7 1 (1.45%) Marketing
7 1 (1.45%) Military
7 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (20.29%) Analyst
2 10 (14.49%) Business Analyst
2 10 (14.49%) Embedded Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 10 (14.49%) Software Engineer
3 6 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.25%) Developer
4 5 (7.25%) Senior
4 5 (7.25%) Wintel Engineer
5 4 (5.80%) Change Manager
5 4 (5.80%) Java Developer
5 4 (5.80%) Performance Analyst
5 4 (5.80%) Project Change Manager
5 4 (5.80%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.80%) Quality Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (4.35%) ETL Tester
6 3 (4.35%) Project Coordinator
6 3 (4.35%) Project Support Coordinator
6 3 (4.35%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.80%) Oracle GoldenGate
2 2 (2.90%) JAX-RS
2 2 (2.90%) JSON
2 2 (2.90%) Kafka
2 2 (2.90%) OAuth
2 2 (2.90%) OAuth2
2 2 (2.90%) REST
3 1 (1.45%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.45%) JPA
3 1 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.45%) Pandas
3 1 (1.45%) RESTful
3 1 (1.45%) Shiny
3 1 (1.45%) SOAP
3 1 (1.45%) Spring
3 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.45%) Web Services
3 1 (1.45%) XML
3 1 (1.45%) XSD
3 1 (1.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (7.25%) Mobile App
2 5 (7.25%) PKI
3 4 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.80%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.80%) Replication
4 3 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.90%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.45%) CMDB
6 1 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.70%) Windows
2 5 (7.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.45%) Android
3 1 (1.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.88%) Agile
2 20 (28.99%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (23.19%) Validation
4 14 (20.29%) Decision-Making
5 13 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (17.39%) Analytics
6 12 (17.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (15.94%) Software Engineering
8 10 (14.49%) Project Management
8 10 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (13.04%) ITIL
9 9 (13.04%) Systems Engineering
10 8 (11.59%) Collaborative Culture
10 8 (11.59%) DevOps
11 7 (10.14%) Collaborative Working
11 7 (10.14%) Service Management
12 6 (8.70%) Business Case
12 6 (8.70%) CI/CD
12 6 (8.70%) Containerisation
12 6 (8.70%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.99%) SQL
2 10 (14.49%) C
3 9 (13.04%) Python
4 6 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 5 (7.25%) Java
6 2 (2.90%) Go
7 1 (1.45%) Perl
7 1 (1.45%) R
7 1 (1.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 19 (27.54%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) Degree
3 6 (8.70%) MCSE
3 6 (8.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (7.25%) CCNA
4 5 (7.25%) CCNP
4 5 (7.25%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (7.25%) ITIL Certification
4 5 (7.25%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.45%) CISSP
5 1 (1.45%) HND
5 1 (1.45%) IIBA
5 1 (1.45%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.49%) Def Stans
1 10 (14.49%) DO-178B
1 10 (14.49%) MISRA
2 7 (10.14%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.35%) GDPR
5 2 (2.90%) COBIT
5 2 (2.90%) NIST
5 2 (2.90%) PMO
5 2 (2.90%) QA
6 1 (1.45%) PERC
System Software
1 10 (14.49%) Firmware
2 5 (7.25%) Active Directory
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 5 (7.25%) Virtual Servers
2 5 (7.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (7.25%) SCCM
1 5 (7.25%) WSUS
2 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (18.84%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.70%) Cisco
2 6 (8.70%) SolarWinds
3 5 (7.25%) Oracle
3 5 (7.25%) Splunk
3 5 (7.25%) Veeam
3 5 (7.25%) VMware
4 2 (2.90%) Google
5 1 (1.45%) Aruba
5 1 (1.45%) Facebook
5 1 (1.45%) IBM
5 1 (1.45%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.45%) Planview
5 1 (1.45%) ServiceNow