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 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 15 22
Rank change year-on-year -2 +7 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,152 2,856 2,925
As % of all contract jobs in England 10.14% 9.82% 7.78%
As % of the General category 16.33% 16.03% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,944 1,676 1,883
10th Percentile £309 £294 £282
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 97 119
10th Percentile £15.98 £15.22 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.60 £19.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £34.00 £25.00 £31.71
Median % change year-on-year +36.00% -21.16% -20.73%
75th Percentile £50.00 £37.00 £52.04
90th Percentile £70.85 £66.50 £65.02
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £24.18 £32.41
% change year-on-year +34.41% -25.39% -7.40%

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 common skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 19,304 17,812 22,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 62.07% 61.26% 59.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,225 10,778 15,181
10th Percentile £280 £300 £285
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £665
90th Percentile £738 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,268 631 1,002
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.49 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.03 £17.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.21 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.21% -8.45% +28.35%
75th Percentile £46.00 £58.51 £60.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.75
% change year-on-year -14.27% -16.03% +31.00%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 0 1,543 £510 -7.27% 768
South East 0 440 £450 -12.20% 4,173
North of England 0 413 £469 +4.22% 6,674
Midlands -6 304 £450 -5.26% 3,090
South West +8 238 £575 +6.98% 2,382
West Midlands -3 236 £488 -4.88% 1,918
North West -2 235 £458 +3.68% 3,206
Yorkshire +1 163 £492 -1.60% 2,305
East of England -5 132 £545 +14.74% 3,115
East Midlands -1 67 £406 -1.93% 1,168
North East -14 20 £450 -21.74% 1,288
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
1 165 (5.23%) Confluence
2 130 (4.12%) SharePoint
3 69 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 41 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 33 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (0.70%) Apache
6 22 (0.70%) SAS
7 21 (0.67%) Skype for Business
8 17 (0.54%) CMS
9 9 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
10 8 (0.25%) Anypoint
11 7 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2013
12 5 (0.16%) HCL Notes
12 5 (0.16%) IIS
12 5 (0.16%) Jupyter
12 5 (0.16%) NetWeaver
12 5 (0.16%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.16%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 4 (0.13%) Resin
Applications
1 324 (10.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 196 (6.22%) Microsoft Office
3 109 (3.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 92 (2.92%) Microsoft Project
5 91 (2.89%) MS Visio
6 13 (0.41%) Chatbot
7 12 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
8 11 (0.35%) Siemens NX
9 9 (0.29%) Trello
10 8 (0.25%) ProjectWise
11 5 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
11 5 (0.16%) Photoshop
12 4 (0.13%) PTC Creo
12 4 (0.13%) Revit
13 3 (0.095%) Navisworks
13 3 (0.095%) Sketch
14 2 (0.063%) Adobe XD
14 2 (0.063%) Autodesk Smoke
14 2 (0.063%) Notion
14 2 (0.063%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 56 (1.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 18 (0.57%) Payment Gateway
3 18 (0.57%) Teamcenter
4 17 (0.54%) Oracle EBS
5 15 (0.48%) NetSuite
5 15 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
6 14 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 14 (0.44%) Workday HCM
7 13 (0.41%) Endur
7 13 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
8 12 (0.38%) Oracle EBS R12
8 12 (0.38%) SAP HR
9 10 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
9 10 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
10 9 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
10 9 (0.29%) SAP HCM
10 9 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
11 8 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
11 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 470 (14.91%) Azure
2 404 (12.82%) AWS
3 322 (10.22%) Power Platform
4 177 (5.62%) GCP
5 126 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 90 (2.86%) SaaS
7 87 (2.76%) Azure DevOps
8 75 (2.38%) Entra ID
9 74 (2.35%) GitHub
10 55 (1.74%) Snowflake
11 52 (1.65%) OCI
12 49 (1.55%) Amazon S3
12 49 (1.55%) Serverless
13 44 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
14 43 (1.36%) IaaS
15 38 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
16 36 (1.14%) PowerApps
17 35 (1.11%) AWS Lambda
18 34 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
18 34 (1.08%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 124 (3.93%) Firewall
2 110 (3.49%) DNS
3 99 (3.14%) Network Security
4 67 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 64 (2.03%) DHCP
5 64 (2.03%) VPN
6 48 (1.52%) LAN
7 37 (1.17%) VLAN
7 37 (1.17%) WAN
8 34 (1.08%) HTTP
9 32 (1.02%) SSL
10 30 (0.95%) BGP
11 27 (0.86%) Skype
12 25 (0.79%) Wireshark
13 19 (0.60%) OSPF
14 18 (0.57%) FTP
14 18 (0.57%) Wireless
15 15 (0.48%) SD-WAN
15 15 (0.48%) SMTP
16 14 (0.44%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 301 (9.55%) Power BI
2 125 (3.97%) Data Warehouse
3 114 (3.62%) Tableau
4 93 (2.95%) SQL Server
5 84 (2.66%) Relational Database
6 72 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
7 54 (1.71%) Metadata
8 49 (1.55%) NoSQL
9 41 (1.30%) Data Lake
10 40 (1.27%) Big Data
10 40 (1.27%) MongoDB
10 40 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
11 37 (1.17%) Power Query
12 35 (1.11%) Oracle Database
13 30 (0.95%) DB2
14 26 (0.82%) BigQuery
14 26 (0.82%) Hadoop
15 22 (0.70%) Star Schema
16 21 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 20 (0.63%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 308 (9.77%) JIRA
2 130 (4.12%) Git
3 63 (2.00%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.62%) GitLab
5 27 (0.86%) JUnit
6 21 (0.67%) Selenium
7 17 (0.54%) Cucumber
7 17 (0.54%) Postman
8 13 (0.41%) Bitbucket
8 13 (0.41%) Rational DOORS
9 12 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
10 11 (0.35%) Burp Suite
10 11 (0.35%) Metasploit
11 9 (0.29%) JMeter
12 8 (0.25%) DBeaver
13 7 (0.22%) Appium
13 7 (0.22%) Cypress.io
13 7 (0.22%) Maven
13 7 (0.22%) webpack
14 6 (0.19%) PVCS
General
1 1,750 (55.52%) Social Skills
2 921 (29.22%) Finance
3 281 (8.91%) Public Sector
4 280 (8.88%) Banking
5 131 (4.16%) Marketing
6 128 (4.06%) Legal
7 120 (3.81%) Documentation Skills
8 111 (3.52%) Organisational Skills
9 110 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
10 97 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
11 84 (2.66%) Manufacturing
12 77 (2.44%) Telecoms
13 75 (2.38%) Investment Banking
14 74 (2.35%) Retail
15 61 (1.94%) Military
16 47 (1.49%) Back Office
16 47 (1.49%) Front Office
17 45 (1.43%) Financial Institution
18 44 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 35 (1.11%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 791 (25.10%) Analyst
2 316 (10.03%) Business Analyst
3 285 (9.04%) Developer
4 274 (8.69%) Senior
5 247 (7.84%) Architect
6 175 (5.55%) Consultant
7 163 (5.17%) Lead
8 160 (5.08%) Data Analyst
9 101 (3.20%) Project Manager
10 93 (2.95%) Data Engineer
11 77 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
12 72 (2.28%) Support Analyst
13 59 (1.87%) Solutions Architect
14 58 (1.84%) Senior Developer
15 54 (1.71%) Java Developer
16 52 (1.65%) Support Engineer
17 48 (1.52%) Technical Analyst
18 43 (1.36%) Tester
19 42 (1.33%) Data Scientist
19 42 (1.33%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 145 (4.60%) REST
2 77 (2.44%) Kafka
3 73 (2.32%) JSON
4 62 (1.97%) SOAP
5 59 (1.87%) XML
6 54 (1.71%) HTML
7 51 (1.62%) RESTful
8 49 (1.55%) .NET
9 48 (1.52%) React
10 46 (1.46%) Spring
11 40 (1.27%) OAuth
12 39 (1.24%) CSS
12 39 (1.24%) Web Services
13 37 (1.17%) Node.js
14 35 (1.11%) SAML
15 31 (0.98%) Middleware
16 30 (0.95%) AngularJS
17 29 (0.92%) LDAP
18 28 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
18 28 (0.89%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 330 (10.47%) Analytical Mindset
2 165 (5.23%) Product Ownership
3 155 (4.92%) Management Information System
4 123 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 109 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
6 82 (2.60%) Data Structures
7 75 (2.38%) Data Centre
8 59 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
9 55 (1.74%) Security Posture
10 53 (1.68%) Algorithms
10 53 (1.68%) Cloud Native
11 51 (1.62%) Enterprise Software
12 49 (1.55%) PKI
13 41 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
14 40 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
15 35 (1.11%) CMDB
16 33 (1.05%) Derivative
17 32 (1.02%) NHS
18 28 (0.89%) Equities
19 27 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 207 (6.57%) Windows
2 178 (5.65%) Linux
3 62 (1.97%) Unix
4 50 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 29 (0.92%) Windows 10
6 23 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (0.60%) Apple iOS
8 17 (0.54%) Android
9 14 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 11 (0.35%) VMS
11 10 (0.32%) CentOS
12 9 (0.29%) Solaris
13 8 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.22%) AIX
14 7 (0.22%) Kali Linux
15 4 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
17 2 (0.063%) Ubuntu
17 2 (0.063%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,675 (53.14%) Problem-Solving
2 870 (27.60%) Agile
3 551 (17.48%) Stakeholder Management
4 467 (14.82%) Analytics
4 467 (14.82%) Decision-Making
5 409 (12.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 381 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 360 (11.42%) Business Intelligence
8 308 (9.77%) Data Modelling
9 304 (9.64%) CI/CD
10 288 (9.14%) Project Management
11 280 (8.88%) DevOps
12 272 (8.63%) Migration
13 269 (8.53%) AI
14 266 (8.44%) Data Analysis
15 264 (8.38%) Validation
16 242 (7.68%) Change Management
17 232 (7.36%) Analytical Thinking
18 229 (7.27%) Computer Science
18 229 (7.27%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 608 (19.29%) SQL
2 603 (19.13%) Python
3 199 (6.31%) PowerShell
4 181 (5.74%) Java
5 127 (4.03%) JavaScript
6 83 (2.63%) Bash
7 67 (2.13%) C#
8 55 (1.74%) R
9 43 (1.36%) Shell Script
10 42 (1.33%) TypeScript
11 37 (1.17%) C++
12 33 (1.05%) PL/SQL
13 29 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
14 28 (0.89%) VBA
15 26 (0.82%) Go
16 24 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 23 (0.73%) Perl
18 22 (0.70%) C
19 17 (0.54%) ABAP
20 16 (0.51%) Scala
Qualifications
1 638 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 534 (16.94%) Degree
3 502 (15.93%) SC Cleared
4 145 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 90 (2.86%) DV Cleared
6 82 (2.60%) Master's Degree
7 79 (2.51%) CISSP
8 72 (2.28%) PMI Certification
9 59 (1.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 58 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
11 52 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 52 (1.65%) PMP
12 42 (1.33%) AWS Certification
13 40 (1.27%) CCNP
14 39 (1.24%) CEH
14 39 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
15 36 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
16 31 (0.98%) CISM
17 30 (0.95%) CIMA
18 28 (0.89%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 224 (7.11%) Data Quality
2 210 (6.66%) QA
3 126 (4.00%) GDPR
4 79 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 71 (2.25%) NIST
6 70 (2.22%) PMO
7 65 (2.06%) Accessibility
8 54 (1.71%) SLA
9 44 (1.40%) PCI DSS
10 39 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 24 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
12 21 (0.67%) GRC
13 15 (0.48%) PSD2
13 15 (0.48%) WCAG
14 12 (0.38%) HIPAA
15 11 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 10 (0.32%) EMIR
16 10 (0.32%) IFRS
17 9 (0.29%) DO-178B
17 9 (0.29%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 135 (4.28%) Active Directory
2 117 (3.71%) Docker
3 67 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.54%) Hyper-V
5 14 (0.44%) Firmware
6 10 (0.32%) HDFS
6 10 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.29%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 8 (0.25%) zsh
9 7 (0.22%) vSphere
10 5 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.13%) ProxySG
12 3 (0.095%) KVM
12 3 (0.095%) RACF
12 3 (0.095%) Squid
12 3 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.063%) ACF2
Systems Management
1 146 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 94 (2.98%) Terraform
3 80 (2.54%) Ansible
4 45 (1.43%) SCCM
5 40 (1.27%) Grafana
6 33 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
7 32 (1.02%) OPNET
8 27 (0.86%) Prometheus
9 24 (0.76%) Kibana
10 18 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
11 17 (0.54%) Nessus
12 14 (0.44%) Puppet
13 13 (0.41%) CSIRT
14 11 (0.35%) Nmap
14 11 (0.35%) QRadar
15 10 (0.32%) Control-M
15 10 (0.32%) IBM Guardium
15 10 (0.32%) SCOM
16 9 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 9 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 586 (18.59%) Microsoft
2 211 (6.69%) Oracle
3 185 (5.87%) ServiceNow
4 182 (5.77%) SAP
5 106 (3.36%) Salesforce
6 102 (3.24%) Google
6 102 (3.24%) Splunk
7 88 (2.79%) VMware
8 73 (2.32%) Cisco
9 72 (2.28%) Databricks
10 56 (1.78%) Atlassian
11 48 (1.52%) Remedy
12 43 (1.36%) Workday
13 37 (1.17%) F5
14 33 (1.05%) CyberArk
15 32 (1.02%) IBM
16 30 (0.95%) MuleSoft
17 29 (0.92%) Palo Alto
18 25 (0.79%) Adobe
18 25 (0.79%) HP