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

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 23 58
Rank change year-on-year -7 +35 -25
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 70 42 23
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 5.28% 6.95% 2.07%
As % of the General category 12.48% 11.90% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 30 16
10th Percentile £121 £205 £325
25th Percentile £324 £259 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £446 £488
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% -8.51% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £562 £602
90th Percentile £580 £613 £638
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 2
10th Percentile - - £14.58
25th Percentile - £31.25 £18.81
Median hourly rate £14.10 £32.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -56.62% +21.50% -48.85%
75th Percentile £40.65 £33.75 £33.81
90th Percentile £42.30 £43.88 £37.53
South West median hourly rate £14.55 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -55.23% -18.75% -28.01%

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 561 353 550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 42.28% 58.44% 49.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 279 186 297
10th Percentile £325 £213 £250
25th Percentile £431 £318 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £435 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £560 £625
90th Percentile £652 £650 £684
South West median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 36 137
10th Percentile £14.46 £18.13 £31.97
25th Percentile £19.33 £26.15 £43.75
Median hourly rate £49.50 £36.67 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.99% -33.33% -11.29%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.25 £80.00
South West median hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +9.38% -28.89% -21.74%

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 June 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 June 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 2 (2.86%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.43%) Apache
2 1 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.43%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (1.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.43%) InfoPath
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Maximo
1 1 (1.43%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.00%) Azure
2 5 (7.14%) GCP
2 5 (7.14%) Power Platform
3 4 (5.71%) AWS
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.43%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.43%) GitHub
5 1 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (1.43%) Intacct
5 1 (1.43%) OCI
5 1 (1.43%) PaaS
5 1 (1.43%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.43%) PowerApps
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 2 (2.86%) 2G
2 2 (2.86%) 3G
2 2 (2.86%) 4G
2 2 (2.86%) 5G NR
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.43%) BGP
3 1 (1.43%) VSAN
3 1 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.71%) Power BI
2 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.43%) Big Data
3 1 (1.43%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.43%) Metadata
3 1 (1.43%) Power Query
3 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (1.43%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.43%) Gatling
3 1 (1.43%) GitLab
3 1 (1.43%) Gradle
3 1 (1.43%) HP UFT
3 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.43%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.43%) MLflow
3 1 (1.43%) Mockito
3 1 (1.43%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.43%) Selenium
3 1 (1.43%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.43%) WebDriver
General
1 31 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (8.57%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Aviation
5 3 (4.29%) Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Electronics
6 2 (2.86%) Aerospace
6 2 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.43%) Billing
7 1 (1.43%) Law
7 1 (1.43%) Local Government
7 1 (1.43%) Retail
7 1 (1.43%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (20.00%) Analyst
2 7 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 6 (8.57%) Developer
3 6 (8.57%) Field Engineer
3 6 (8.57%) Field Service Engineer
3 6 (8.57%) IT Engineer
4 5 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.71%) Administrator
5 4 (5.71%) Consultant
6 3 (4.29%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.29%) Development Consultant
6 3 (4.29%) Implementation Consultant
6 3 (4.29%) Java Developer
7 2 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) Business Manager
7 2 (2.86%) Business Project Manager
7 2 (2.86%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (2.86%) Project Coordinator
7 2 (2.86%) Project Support Coordinator
7 2 (2.86%) RAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.86%) JAX-RS
1 2 (2.86%) JSON
1 2 (2.86%) Middleware
1 2 (2.86%) OAuth
1 2 (2.86%) OAuth2
1 2 (2.86%) Pandas
1 2 (2.86%) REST
1 2 (2.86%) RESTful
1 2 (2.86%) SOAP
1 2 (2.86%) Spring
1 2 (2.86%) Spring Boot
1 2 (2.86%) Web Services
1 2 (2.86%) XML
2 1 (1.43%) JPA
2 1 (1.43%) Playwright
2 1 (1.43%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.43%) Quarkus
2 1 (1.43%) React
2 1 (1.43%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.43%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (18.57%) Analytical Mindset
2 7 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 6 (8.57%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.29%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.29%) 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%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
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
5 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Windows
2 1 (1.43%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.14%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 20 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 14 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (17.14%) Agile
5 8 (11.43%) Project Management
5 8 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 6 (8.57%) Analytics
7 6 (8.57%) Break/Fix
7 6 (8.57%) Data Modelling
7 6 (8.57%) DevOps
7 6 (8.57%) Migration
7 6 (8.57%) Risk Management
7 6 (8.57%) Time Management
7 6 (8.57%) Validation
8 5 (7.14%) AI
8 5 (7.14%) Data Engineering
8 5 (7.14%) ITIL
8 5 (7.14%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.57%) SQL
2 6 (8.57%) Python
3 5 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (2.86%) Go
4 2 (2.86%) R
5 1 (1.43%) Bash
5 1 (1.43%) C
5 1 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.43%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.43%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (18.57%) SC Cleared
1 13 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.00%) A+ Certification
2 7 (10.00%) 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 2 (2.86%) Degree
5 1 (1.43%) CEH
5 1 (1.43%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.43%) PMI Certification
5 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%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.86%) COBIT
4 2 (2.86%) NIST
4 2 (2.86%) QA
5 1 (1.43%) Def Stans
5 1 (1.43%) DO-178B
5 1 (1.43%) GDPR
5 1 (1.43%) MISRA
5 1 (1.43%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) Firmware
2 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (5.71%) Terraform
3 1 (1.43%) Ansible
3 1 (1.43%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.43%) Istio
3 1 (1.43%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.43%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.57%) Dell
3 4 (5.71%) Huawei
4 2 (2.86%) Actix
4 2 (2.86%) Civica
4 2 (2.86%) Databricks
4 2 (2.86%) Ericsson
4 2 (2.86%) Nokia
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle
4 2 (2.86%) SAP
4 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.43%) Ariba
5 1 (1.43%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.43%) Google
5 1 (1.43%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.43%) Sage
5 1 (1.43%) VMware
5 1 (1.43%) webMethods
5 1 (1.43%) Zscaler