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 6 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 14 48
Rank change year-on-year -11 +34 -26
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 70 62 26
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.34% 9.05% 2.69%
As % of the General category 11.99% 15.54% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 37 13
10th Percentile £127 £210 £285
25th Percentile £269 £285 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £534 £562 £638
90th Percentile £575 £623 £718
South West median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.10 - £11.75
Median hourly rate £25.75 £6.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +329.17% -55.56% -54.68%
75th Percentile £42.30 £33.75 £15.25
90th Percentile £44.64 - £30.10
South West median hourly rate £14.10 £6.00 £23.26
% change year-on-year +135.00% -74.20% -57.70%

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 584 399 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 44.58% 58.25% 52.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 205 263
10th Percentile £348 £235 £232
25th Percentile £434 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -11.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £599 £575 £600
90th Percentile £657 £650 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 53 129
10th Percentile £14.26 £6.00 £31.97
25th Percentile £22.42 £15.48 £43.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -54.20% +2.75%
75th Percentile £66.13 £54.01 £73.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £38.00 £22.63 £47.83
% change year-on-year +67.92% -52.69% -15.03%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.43%) CMS
2 1 (1.43%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.43%) Moodle
2 1 (1.43%) Totara
Applications
1 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.86%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.43%) InfoPath
4 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.43%) Maximo
2 1 (1.43%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 8 (11.43%) Azure
3 4 (5.71%) Power Automate
4 3 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.29%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.86%) AWS
5 2 (2.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.86%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.86%) GCP
5 2 (2.86%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.43%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.43%) ChatGPT
6 1 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.57%) 5G
1 6 (8.57%) LTE
1 6 (8.57%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (8.57%) SAN
2 3 (4.29%) Firewall
3 2 (2.86%) 2G
3 2 (2.86%) 3G
3 2 (2.86%) 4G
3 2 (2.86%) 5G NR
3 2 (2.86%) BGP
3 2 (2.86%) WAN
3 2 (2.86%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.43%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (1.43%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.43%) RS-232
4 1 (1.43%) RS-422
4 1 (1.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.43%) Power BI
2 3 (4.29%) Tableau
3 2 (2.86%) GIS
4 1 (1.43%) Big Data
4 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.43%) Metadata
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.43%) Power Query
4 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) JIRA
2 1 (1.43%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.43%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.43%) Gatling
2 1 (1.43%) Git
2 1 (1.43%) GitLab
2 1 (1.43%) Gradle
2 1 (1.43%) HP UFT
2 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.43%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.43%) MLflow
2 1 (1.43%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (1.43%) REST Assured
2 1 (1.43%) Selenium
2 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.43%) WebDriver
General
1 36 (51.43%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.71%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.86%) Aviation
6 2 (2.86%) Electronics
7 1 (1.43%) Avionics
7 1 (1.43%) Billing
7 1 (1.43%) Local Government
7 1 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.43%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (21.43%) Analyst
2 6 (8.57%) Consultant
2 6 (8.57%) Field Engineer
2 6 (8.57%) Field Service Engineer
2 6 (8.57%) IT Engineer
3 5 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 4 (5.71%) Administrator
4 4 (5.71%) Data Analyst
4 4 (5.71%) Developer
4 4 (5.71%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.29%) Development Consultant
5 3 (4.29%) Implementation Consultant
5 3 (4.29%) Security Consultant
6 2 (2.86%) Architect
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Consultant
6 2 (2.86%) Business Architect
6 2 (2.86%) IT Support
6 2 (2.86%) RAN Engineer
6 2 (2.86%) Service Analyst
6 2 (2.86%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) HTML
1 2 (2.86%) Middleware
1 2 (2.86%) Pandas
2 1 (1.43%) JDBC
2 1 (1.43%) JSON
2 1 (1.43%) Node.js
2 1 (1.43%) NumPy
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.43%) Playwright
2 1 (1.43%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.43%) Quarkus
2 1 (1.43%) React
2 1 (1.43%) REST
2 1 (1.43%) RESTful
2 1 (1.43%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.43%) SOAP
2 1 (1.43%) Spring
2 1 (1.43%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.43%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (21.43%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (8.57%) Data Centre
3 5 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.43%) Clustering
5 1 (1.43%) CMDB
5 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.43%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.43%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.43%) PKI
5 1 (1.43%) PMI
5 1 (1.43%) SCADA
5 1 (1.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.57%) Windows
2 4 (5.71%) Windows 10
3 2 (2.86%) Android
3 2 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (45.71%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (25.71%) Decision-Making
4 13 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (14.29%) Customer Service
6 9 (12.86%) Analytics
6 9 (12.86%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (11.43%) Agile
8 7 (10.00%) Risk Management
9 6 (8.57%) AI
9 6 (8.57%) Break/Fix
9 6 (8.57%) ITIL
9 6 (8.57%) Project Delivery
9 6 (8.57%) Project Management
9 6 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (8.57%) Time Management
9 6 (8.57%) Validation
10 5 (7.14%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 4 (5.71%) Storage Management
11 4 (5.71%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.00%) SQL
2 8 (11.43%) Python
3 3 (4.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 3 (4.29%) Java
3 3 (4.29%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.86%) R
5 1 (1.43%) Ada
5 1 (1.43%) Ada 95
5 1 (1.43%) Bash
5 1 (1.43%) C++
5 1 (1.43%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (18.57%) SC Cleared
1 13 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.43%) A+ Certification
2 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (8.57%) CCNA
3 6 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (8.57%) MCSE
3 6 (8.57%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (5.71%) Degree
5 2 (2.86%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.43%) CEH
6 1 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.29%) GDPR
4 2 (2.86%) PMO
4 2 (2.86%) QA
4 2 (2.86%) SLA
5 1 (1.43%) GRC
5 1 (1.43%) MIL-STD-1553
5 1 (1.43%) NIST
5 1 (1.43%) PERC
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (4.29%) Terraform
2 2 (2.86%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.43%) Ansible
3 1 (1.43%) Istio
3 1 (1.43%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.43%) PTC Integrity
3 1 (1.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.57%) Dell
3 4 (5.71%) Huawei
4 3 (4.29%) Apple
4 3 (4.29%) SAP
5 2 (2.86%) Actix
5 2 (2.86%) Civica
5 2 (2.86%) Databricks
5 2 (2.86%) Ericsson
5 2 (2.86%) HP
5 2 (2.86%) Nokia
5 2 (2.86%) Oracle
5 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.86%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.43%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.43%) PTC
6 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.43%) VMware
6 1 (1.43%) webMethods