Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends in England

Analytical Skills
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,865 3,036 2,948
As % of all contract jobs in England 8.58% 11.20% 7.98%
As % of the General category 15.52% 17.54% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,327 1,923 1,880
10th Percentile £313 £293 £300
25th Percentile £408 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £650
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 118 171
10th Percentile £14.82 £13.77 £11.77
25th Percentile £18.88 £18.50 £14.26
Median hourly rate £35.50 £33.19 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% +70.21% -51.25%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.75 £33.41
90th Percentile £78.23 £75.75 £46.48
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £34.48 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.96% +76.82% -55.68%

All General Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 24,910 17,305 21,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 55.31% 63.84% 57.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,047 11,096 13,517
10th Percentile £313 £285 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £533
Median % change year-on-year +1.98% -3.41% -3.09%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,799 887 1,721
10th Percentile £14.40 £13.25 £13.18
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.39 £16.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £27.21 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +21.28% -17.72% +8.28%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.08 £56.25
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.17 £32.50
% change year-on-year +19.63% -16.41% +6.42%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in England

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in England over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in England over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the England region over the 6 months to 11 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -10 1,786 £525 -4.09% 1,017
South East 0 652 £500 - 567
North of England -13 564 £445 -2.14% 399
Midlands -11 409 £469 +10.35% 266
West Midlands -12 297 £450 - 150
North West -12 286 £446 -4.85% 221
Yorkshire -12 242 £450 - 133
South West -12 236 £525 -3.67% 192
East of England -12 138 £509 +4.01% 151
East Midlands -1 106 £498 +32.67% 115
North East -4 40 £413 -2.94% 51
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 192 (4.97%) Confluence
2 70 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.58%) Apache Spark
4 51 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (0.83%) Apache
6 28 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.70%) CMS
8 22 (0.57%) SAS
9 14 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 14 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 14 (0.36%) WebLogic
9 14 (0.36%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.16%) Appian
11 6 (0.16%) IIS
11 6 (0.16%) Oracle Self-Service HR
11 6 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
12 5 (0.13%) OpenStack
13 3 (0.078%) Camunda
14 2 (0.052%) Ethereum
Applications
1 361 (9.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 170 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
3 104 (2.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 100 (2.59%) MS Visio
5 68 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.13%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.078%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.078%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.078%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.052%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.052%) Notion
10 2 (0.052%) Sketch
11 1 (0.026%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.026%) CATIA
11 1 (0.026%) Lectora
11 1 (0.026%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.026%) SOLIDWORKS
11 1 (0.026%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 83 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
3 24 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
4 18 (0.47%) iTrent
5 16 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 15 (0.39%) Aladdin
6 15 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 13 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
7 13 (0.34%) Primavera
7 13 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
7 13 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 10 (0.26%) Finacle
8 10 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 9 (0.23%) Fidessa
10 7 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
10 7 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
10 7 (0.18%) SAP ERP
11 6 (0.16%) Loan IQ
11 6 (0.16%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 679 (17.57%) Azure
2 480 (12.42%) AWS
3 432 (11.18%) Power Platform
4 173 (4.48%) GCP
5 166 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
6 150 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
7 117 (3.03%) SaaS
8 112 (2.90%) GitHub
9 110 (2.85%) Entra ID
10 69 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
11 62 (1.60%) Snowflake
12 59 (1.53%) Serverless
13 58 (1.50%) Amazon S3
14 47 (1.22%) dbt
14 47 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
15 46 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
16 44 (1.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 42 (1.09%) Power Automate
18 40 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
19 34 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 110 (2.85%) Firewall
2 88 (2.28%) DNS
3 68 (1.76%) Network Security
4 65 (1.68%) VPN
5 64 (1.66%) WAN
6 58 (1.50%) TCP/IP
7 54 (1.40%) SAN
8 45 (1.16%) DHCP
9 43 (1.11%) LAN
10 36 (0.93%) BGP
11 28 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
12 27 (0.70%) SD-WAN
13 26 (0.67%) MPLS
13 26 (0.67%) VLAN
14 23 (0.60%) Wireless
15 22 (0.57%) OSPF
16 19 (0.49%) Internet
17 18 (0.47%) 5G
18 17 (0.44%) HTTP
19 16 (0.41%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 390 (10.09%) Power BI
2 197 (5.10%) Data Warehouse
3 175 (4.53%) SQL Server
4 124 (3.21%) Tableau
5 110 (2.85%) Relational Database
6 108 (2.79%) Metadata
7 94 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
8 63 (1.63%) NoSQL
9 60 (1.55%) Data Lake
10 53 (1.37%) MongoDB
11 50 (1.29%) Big Data
12 40 (1.03%) Power Query
13 37 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 33 (0.85%) MySQL
15 30 (0.78%) Oracle Database
15 30 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
16 29 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
16 29 (0.75%) BigQuery
17 28 (0.72%) RDBMS
18 27 (0.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 396 (10.25%) JIRA
2 174 (4.50%) Git
3 83 (2.15%) Jenkins
4 53 (1.37%) Selenium
5 46 (1.19%) GitLab
6 37 (0.96%) Postman
7 29 (0.75%) JUnit
8 26 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 24 (0.62%) REST Assured
10 21 (0.54%) Cucumber
11 18 (0.47%) JMeter
11 18 (0.47%) WebDriver
12 17 (0.44%) ERwin
12 17 (0.44%) SonarQube
13 16 (0.41%) Maven
13 16 (0.41%) Mockito
14 15 (0.39%) Bitbucket
14 15 (0.39%) Gradle
14 15 (0.39%) Zephyr
15 11 (0.28%) MLflow
General
1 1,858 (48.07%) Social Skills
2 1,185 (30.66%) Finance
3 386 (9.99%) Public Sector
4 361 (9.34%) Banking
5 195 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
6 176 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
7 152 (3.93%) Legal
8 129 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
9 117 (3.03%) Marketing
9 117 (3.03%) Retail
10 110 (2.85%) Manufacturing
11 105 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
12 97 (2.51%) Telecoms
13 87 (2.25%) Front Office
14 78 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 62 (1.60%) Law
16 61 (1.58%) Investment Banking
17 49 (1.27%) Financial Institution
17 49 (1.27%) Local Government
18 40 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 959 (24.81%) Analyst
2 421 (10.89%) Business Analyst
3 330 (8.54%) Developer
4 311 (8.05%) Senior
5 296 (7.66%) Lead
6 273 (7.06%) Architect
7 205 (5.30%) Consultant
8 204 (5.28%) Data Analyst
9 188 (4.86%) Data Engineer
10 102 (2.64%) Project Manager
11 86 (2.23%) Senior Analyst
12 77 (1.99%) Data Scientist
13 75 (1.94%) Administrator
14 73 (1.89%) Support Engineer
15 57 (1.47%) Solutions Architect
16 56 (1.45%) Python Developer
16 56 (1.45%) Technical Analyst
17 54 (1.40%) IT Support
17 54 (1.40%) Tester
18 52 (1.35%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (4.19%) REST
2 95 (2.46%) .NET
3 75 (1.94%) RESTful
4 73 (1.89%) XML
5 69 (1.79%) Kafka
5 69 (1.79%) Middleware
6 67 (1.73%) JSON
7 65 (1.68%) SOAP
8 59 (1.53%) HTML
9 57 (1.47%) Spring
10 53 (1.37%) Pandas
11 49 (1.27%) CSS
11 49 (1.27%) Web Services
12 48 (1.24%) PySpark
12 48 (1.24%) Spring Boot
13 47 (1.22%) React
14 39 (1.01%) AngularJS
15 38 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
16 37 (0.96%) Node.js
17 34 (0.88%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 347 (8.98%) Analytical Mindset
2 201 (5.20%) Product Ownership
3 180 (4.66%) Onboarding
4 142 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
5 134 (3.47%) Data Structures
6 117 (3.03%) Management Information System
7 110 (2.85%) Data Centre
8 108 (2.79%) Cloud Native
9 86 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
10 81 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
11 71 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
12 60 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
13 56 (1.45%) Algorithms
14 53 (1.37%) Security Posture
15 47 (1.22%) Operational Technology
16 41 (1.06%) CMDB
17 40 (1.03%) Virtual Team
18 39 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 35 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
19 35 (0.91%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 294 (7.61%) Windows
2 150 (3.88%) Linux
3 62 (1.60%) Unix
4 58 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 42 (1.09%) Android
6 37 (0.96%) Apple iOS
7 35 (0.91%) Windows 10
8 34 (0.88%) Mac OS
9 12 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.26%) AIX
10 10 (0.26%) Solaris
11 8 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.13%) VMS
13 4 (0.10%) SUSE
13 4 (0.10%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
14 3 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
14 3 (0.078%) OpenVMS
14 3 (0.078%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,973 (51.05%) Problem-Solving
2 973 (25.17%) Agile
3 843 (21.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 765 (19.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 646 (16.71%) Decision-Making
6 582 (15.06%) Analytics
7 531 (13.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 506 (13.09%) AI
9 463 (11.98%) Validation
10 456 (11.80%) Data Modelling
11 452 (11.69%) Business Intelligence
12 423 (10.94%) DevOps
13 421 (10.89%) CI/CD
14 410 (10.61%) Migration
15 319 (8.25%) Data Analysis
16 310 (8.02%) Roadmaps
17 299 (7.74%) ITIL
17 299 (7.74%) Project Management
18 296 (7.66%) Workshop Facilitation
19 292 (7.55%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 865 (22.38%) SQL
2 675 (17.46%) Python
3 209 (5.41%) Java
4 166 (4.29%) PowerShell
5 124 (3.21%) C#
6 116 (3.00%) JavaScript
7 60 (1.55%) Bash
7 60 (1.55%) TypeScript
8 57 (1.47%) PL/SQL
9 52 (1.35%) R
10 51 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 50 (1.29%) C++
12 39 (1.01%) T-SQL
13 26 (0.67%) Scala
14 21 (0.54%) C
15 19 (0.49%) Apex Code
15 19 (0.49%) Shell Script
15 19 (0.49%) VBA
16 17 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
17 14 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 727 (18.81%) Security Cleared
2 489 (12.65%) Degree
3 483 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 123 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 122 (3.16%) DV Cleared
6 109 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 88 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
8 87 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 76 (1.97%) CISSP
10 63 (1.63%) PMP
11 62 (1.60%) PMI Certification
12 54 (1.40%) CCNA
12 54 (1.40%) Master's Degree
13 48 (1.24%) A+ Certification
14 45 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
15 42 (1.09%) MCSE
16 39 (1.01%) CISM
17 38 (0.98%) ACCA
18 37 (0.96%) Azure Certification
18 37 (0.96%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 427 (11.05%) Data Quality
2 269 (6.96%) QA
3 161 (4.17%) PMO
4 157 (4.06%) GDPR
5 103 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 88 (2.28%) SLA
7 83 (2.15%) NIST
8 63 (1.63%) Accessibility
9 42 (1.09%) GRC
10 39 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
11 36 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 28 (0.72%) PCI DSS
13 26 (0.67%) COBIT
14 18 (0.47%) IFRS
15 16 (0.41%) ISO 20022
16 15 (0.39%) GxP
17 14 (0.36%) NCSC
18 13 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
19 12 (0.31%) HIPAA
19 12 (0.31%) PSD2
System Software
1 172 (4.45%) Active Directory
2 146 (3.78%) Docker
3 53 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.41%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.41%) vSphere
6 13 (0.34%) Firmware
6 13 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.31%) Hyper-V
7 12 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.26%) IAG
9 7 (0.18%) Postfix
9 7 (0.18%) vCloud
10 6 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.10%) NFS
12 2 (0.052%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.052%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.052%) Squid
12 2 (0.052%) SRDF
13 1 (0.026%) UAG
Systems Management
1 144 (3.73%) Kubernetes
2 124 (3.21%) Terraform
3 80 (2.07%) Ansible
4 68 (1.76%) Grafana
5 57 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
6 39 (1.01%) SCCM
7 37 (0.96%) Prometheus
8 27 (0.70%) Control-M
8 27 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
9 24 (0.62%) Nessus
10 18 (0.47%) IBM Guardium
11 16 (0.41%) vCenter Server
12 15 (0.39%) Kibana
12 15 (0.39%) SCOM
13 12 (0.31%) FortiGate
13 12 (0.31%) HP ALM
14 7 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 7 (0.18%) vMotion
15 6 (0.16%) Data Guard
15 6 (0.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 621 (16.07%) Microsoft
2 283 (7.32%) Oracle
3 245 (6.34%) SAP
4 220 (5.69%) ServiceNow
5 123 (3.18%) Databricks
6 110 (2.85%) Google
7 105 (2.72%) Salesforce
8 99 (2.56%) VMware
9 72 (1.86%) Workday
10 69 (1.79%) Cisco
11 66 (1.71%) Splunk
12 40 (1.03%) Dell
12 40 (1.03%) Dynatrace
13 39 (1.01%) IBM
14 33 (0.85%) Tenable
15 32 (0.83%) CyberArk
16 30 (0.78%) Apple
17 29 (0.75%) Informatica
18 27 (0.70%) Fortinet
18 27 (0.70%) Juniper