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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 37 36
Rank change year-on-year +22 -1 -4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 81 19 42
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 7.13% 3.60% 4.00%
As % of the General category 15.49% 6.62% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 18 29
10th Percentile £200 £266 £345
25th Percentile £413 £345 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% -14.58% +20.00%
75th Percentile £553 £564 £660
90th Percentile £628 £603 £680
South West median daily rate £573 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +4.09% +2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 1 3
10th Percentile - - £17.40
25th Percentile £14.10 £25.26 £25.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £27.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.41% -32.19% -39.39%
75th Percentile £67.25 £28.99 £43.20
90th Percentile - - £45.11
South West median hourly rate £37.50 £27.13 £40.00
% change year-on-year +38.25% -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 523 287 552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 46.04% 54.36% 52.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 166 317
10th Percentile £249 £209 £229
25th Percentile £413 £336 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £556 £564 £638
90th Percentile £638 £671 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £530
% change year-on-year -2.44% -3.30% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 28 108
10th Percentile £15.61 £25.60 £35.88
25th Percentile £17.69 £55.22 £43.75
Median hourly rate £57.35 £64.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.09% +17.27% -13.04%
75th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £71.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.11 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £33.00 £62.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -47.20% +56.25% -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 2 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 2 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 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.47%) Apache
2 2 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.47%) Oracle Application Server
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.23%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 8 (9.88%) AWS
2 6 (7.41%) GCP
2 6 (7.41%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.94%) Azure
4 2 (2.47%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.47%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.23%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.23%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.23%) OCI
5 1 (1.23%) PaaS
5 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.23%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.23%) SaaS
5 1 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.41%) 5G
1 6 (7.41%) LTE
1 6 (7.41%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (4.94%) SAN
3 2 (2.47%) 2G
3 2 (2.47%) 3G
3 2 (2.47%) 4G
3 2 (2.47%) 5G NR
3 2 (2.47%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.23%) BGP
4 1 (1.23%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (1.23%) LAN
4 1 (1.23%) OSPF
4 1 (1.23%) TACACS
4 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.23%) VSAN
4 1 (1.23%) WAN
4 1 (1.23%) Wireless
4 1 (1.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (6.17%) Power BI
2 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (2.47%) Oracle ODI
2 2 (2.47%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.47%) Star Schema
2 2 (2.47%) Tableau
3 1 (1.23%) Big Data
3 1 (1.23%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.23%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.23%) Looker
3 1 (1.23%) Metadata
3 1 (1.23%) Power Query
3 1 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.17%) JIRA
2 2 (2.47%) DBeaver
2 2 (2.47%) Git
3 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.23%) GitLab
3 1 (1.23%) HP UFT
3 1 (1.23%) MLflow
3 1 (1.23%) Mockito
3 1 (1.23%) Selenium
3 1 (1.23%) WebDriver
General
1 26 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.05%) Finance
3 9 (11.11%) Electronics
4 8 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.94%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.47%) Local Government
7 2 (2.47%) Publishing
8 1 (1.23%) Aviation
8 1 (1.23%) Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.23%) French Language
8 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Law
8 1 (1.23%) Marketing
8 1 (1.23%) Military
8 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Retail
8 1 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (22.22%) Analyst
2 10 (12.35%) Business Analyst
3 7 (8.64%) Developer
3 7 (8.64%) Embedded Engineer
3 7 (8.64%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 7 (8.64%) Software Engineer
4 5 (6.17%) Senior
5 4 (4.94%) Administrator
5 4 (4.94%) Change Manager
5 4 (4.94%) Coordinator
5 4 (4.94%) Data Engineer
5 4 (4.94%) Field Engineer
5 4 (4.94%) Field Service Engineer
5 4 (4.94%) IT Engineer
5 4 (4.94%) Java Developer
5 4 (4.94%) Performance Analyst
5 4 (4.94%) Project Change Manager
5 4 (4.94%) Project Coordinator
5 4 (4.94%) Project Manager
5 4 (4.94%) Project Support Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.47%) JAX-RS
1 2 (2.47%) JSON
1 2 (2.47%) Kafka
1 2 (2.47%) OAuth
1 2 (2.47%) OAuth2
1 2 (2.47%) Oracle GoldenGate
1 2 (2.47%) Pandas
1 2 (2.47%) REST
2 1 (1.23%) Flash
2 1 (1.23%) JPA
2 1 (1.23%) NumPy
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.23%) RESTful
2 1 (1.23%) SOAP
2 1 (1.23%) Spring
2 1 (1.23%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.23%) Web Services
2 1 (1.23%) XML
2 1 (1.23%) XSD
2 1 (1.23%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (8.64%) Embedded Systems
2 7 (8.64%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.41%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.17%) Mobile App
4 5 (6.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.47%) Distributed Computing
5 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.47%) Replication
6 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.23%) Clustering
6 1 (1.23%) CMDB
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.23%) Android
1 1 (1.23%) Linux
1 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (24.69%) Agile
2 20 (24.69%) Decision-Making
3 16 (19.75%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (16.05%) Validation
5 12 (14.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 11 (13.58%) Analytics
6 11 (13.58%) Project Management
7 10 (12.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (9.88%) DevOps
8 8 (9.88%) Software Engineering
9 7 (8.64%) Business Case
9 7 (8.64%) Data Modelling
9 7 (8.64%) Data Science
9 7 (8.64%) Migration
10 6 (7.41%) Collaborative Culture
10 6 (7.41%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (7.41%) Containerisation
10 6 (7.41%) Strategic Thinking
10 6 (7.41%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.99%) SQL
2 10 (12.35%) Python
3 7 (8.64%) C
4 5 (6.17%) Java
5 3 (3.70%) R
6 2 (2.47%) Go
6 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.23%) Perl
7 1 (1.23%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 16 (19.75%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.52%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.17%) MCSE
3 5 (6.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (4.94%) A+ Certification
4 4 (4.94%) CCNA
4 4 (4.94%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.94%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (3.70%) Degree
6 1 (1.23%) CISSP
6 1 (1.23%) HND
6 1 (1.23%) IIBA
6 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.23%) PMP
6 1 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) Data Quality
1 7 (8.64%) Def Stans
1 7 (8.64%) DO-178B
1 7 (8.64%) MISRA
2 4 (4.94%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.70%) GDPR
4 2 (2.47%) COBIT
4 2 (2.47%) NIST
4 2 (2.47%) QA
5 1 (1.23%) PERC
5 1 (1.23%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (8.64%) Firmware
2 2 (2.47%) Docker
3 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (4.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.70%) Terraform
3 1 (1.23%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.23%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (12.35%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.94%) Dell
2 4 (4.94%) Huawei
3 3 (3.70%) Oracle
4 2 (2.47%) Actix
4 2 (2.47%) Civica
4 2 (2.47%) Databricks
4 2 (2.47%) Ericsson
4 2 (2.47%) Google
4 2 (2.47%) Nokia
5 1 (1.23%) Aruba
5 1 (1.23%) Cisco
5 1 (1.23%) Facebook
5 1 (1.23%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.23%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.23%) Planview
5 1 (1.23%) SAP
5 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.23%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.23%) VMware