Analytical Skills Contracts 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 20 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,760 2,907 3,538
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 11.39% 7.91% 7.45%
As % of the General category 17.78% 13.71% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,772 1,889 2,368
10th Percentile £296 £300 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% +1.90%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £663
90th Percentile £762 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 192 111
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.75 £21.00
25th Percentile £18.51 £13.50 £22.16
Median hourly rate £31.50 £19.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -55.81% +21.99%
75th Percentile £55.25 £30.43 £58.67
90th Percentile £75.00 £46.13 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £18.35 £44.00
% change year-on-year +85.26% -58.30% +23.94%

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 15,525 21,200 28,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 64.07% 57.67% 59.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,023 13,624 19,796
10th Percentile £285 £280 £315
25th Percentile £406 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £794
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 701 1,809 896
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.98 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.50 £17.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.50 £31.96
Median % change year-on-year -8.20% -4.57% +48.65%
75th Percentile £53.75 £51.91 £60.22
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.74 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.67% -7.69% +44.44%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in England.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in England.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in England over the 6 months to 31 May 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 31 May 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 +6 1,480 £550 - 3,736
North of England +10 352 £475 -5.00% 936
South East +6 304 £511 -3.54% 778
Midlands +4 239 £438 -15.66% 580
North West +13 222 £492 +3.58% 569
South West +6 183 £554 +5.52% 431
West Midlands +2 176 £455 -13.33% 361
Yorkshire +2 118 £450 -10.00% 275
East of England +17 115 £500 +2.56% 337
East Midlands +9 61 £400 -11.11% 207
North East -7 13 £420 -28.81% 101
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 116 (4.20%) Confluence
2 59 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 49 (1.78%) SharePoint
4 23 (0.83%) Apache
5 18 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
6 14 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.47%) IBM Domino
8 12 (0.43%) WebSphere
9 10 (0.36%) SAS
10 9 (0.33%) Jupyter
11 8 (0.29%) GemFire
11 8 (0.29%) Oracle Coherence
12 7 (0.25%) CMS
12 7 (0.25%) WebSphere Application Server
13 6 (0.22%) Oracle Self-Service HR
13 6 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
14 5 (0.18%) IBM Notes
14 5 (0.18%) JBoss
15 4 (0.14%) IIS
15 4 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 213 (7.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 146 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
3 96 (3.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 60 (2.17%) MS Visio
5 26 (0.94%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.54%) Trello
7 11 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.33%) Oracle Smart View
9 7 (0.25%) Chatbot
10 6 (0.22%) Maya
11 5 (0.18%) AutoCAD
12 4 (0.14%) Adobe Captivate
13 3 (0.11%) NUKE
13 3 (0.11%) Revit
13 3 (0.11%) UserZoom
14 2 (0.072%) Adobe XD
14 2 (0.072%) InfoPath
14 2 (0.072%) Notepad++
14 2 (0.072%) Simulink
14 2 (0.072%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 60 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
3 24 (0.87%) Oracle EBS R12
4 18 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
5 15 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
6 14 (0.51%) Maximo
7 13 (0.47%) Oracle BPM
8 12 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
9 11 (0.40%) SAP HR
10 10 (0.36%) Oracle ASCP
10 10 (0.36%) Oracle Assets
10 10 (0.36%) SAP Payroll
11 9 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
11 9 (0.33%) Workday HCM
12 8 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
12 8 (0.29%) Salesforce CRM
12 8 (0.29%) SAP ERP
12 8 (0.29%) SAP FI
13 7 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
13 7 (0.25%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 402 (14.57%) Azure
2 351 (12.72%) AWS
3 249 (9.02%) Power Platform
4 125 (4.53%) GCP
5 79 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
6 78 (2.83%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (2.25%) SaaS
8 55 (1.99%) Serverless
9 49 (1.78%) Amazon S3
10 45 (1.63%) GitHub
11 44 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
12 41 (1.49%) Entra ID
13 39 (1.41%) PowerApps
14 37 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
14 37 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
15 36 (1.30%) Power Automate
16 29 (1.05%) dbt
16 29 (1.05%) Snowflake
17 26 (0.94%) SuccessFactors
18 24 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 108 (3.91%) Firewall
2 86 (3.12%) Network Security
3 76 (2.75%) VPN
4 53 (1.92%) DNS
5 46 (1.67%) BGP
6 43 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 36 (1.30%) OSPF
8 31 (1.12%) WAN
9 28 (1.01%) LAN
10 27 (0.98%) SSL
11 24 (0.87%) DHCP
11 24 (0.87%) EIGRP
12 22 (0.80%) HTTP
13 20 (0.72%) MPLS
14 19 (0.69%) VLAN
14 19 (0.69%) Wireless
14 19 (0.69%) Wireshark
15 15 (0.54%) IPsec
15 15 (0.54%) SSH
15 15 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 222 (8.04%) Power BI
2 126 (4.57%) Tableau
3 114 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
4 73 (2.64%) Relational Database
5 72 (2.61%) SQL Server
6 60 (2.17%) Big Data
7 58 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
8 48 (1.74%) Hadoop
9 36 (1.30%) Data Lake
9 36 (1.30%) Metadata
10 35 (1.27%) MongoDB
11 34 (1.23%) NoSQL
12 29 (1.05%) Oracle Database
13 28 (1.01%) Oracle Reports
14 26 (0.94%) DB2
15 25 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (0.83%) MySQL
16 23 (0.83%) Power Query
17 22 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
17 22 (0.80%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 232 (8.41%) JIRA
2 139 (5.04%) Git
3 133 (4.82%) Jenkins
4 62 (2.25%) Selenium
5 44 (1.59%) JUnit
6 42 (1.52%) GitLab
7 28 (1.01%) SonarQube
8 27 (0.98%) Cucumber
9 24 (0.87%) Maven
9 24 (0.87%) REST Assured
10 21 (0.76%) JMeter
11 16 (0.58%) Postman
12 15 (0.54%) Bitbucket
13 14 (0.51%) Cypress.io
13 14 (0.51%) LoadRunner
14 13 (0.47%) Bitbucket Server
14 13 (0.47%) ERwin
14 13 (0.47%) TeamCity
15 11 (0.40%) IntelliJ
16 10 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,648 (59.71%) Social Skills
2 828 (30.00%) Finance
3 348 (12.61%) Banking
4 204 (7.39%) Public Sector
5 137 (4.96%) Investment Banking
6 117 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
7 108 (3.91%) Marketing
8 105 (3.80%) Legal
9 103 (3.73%) Presentation Skills
9 103 (3.73%) Retail
10 92 (3.33%) Front Office
11 84 (3.04%) Telecoms
12 78 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 67 (2.43%) Manufacturing
14 66 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
15 59 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
16 55 (1.99%) Financial Institution
17 38 (1.38%) Automotive
18 37 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
19 35 (1.27%) Military
Job Titles
1 621 (22.50%) Analyst
2 351 (12.72%) Developer
3 267 (9.67%) Business Analyst
4 246 (8.91%) Senior
5 219 (7.93%) Architect
6 170 (6.16%) Lead
7 156 (5.65%) Consultant
8 127 (4.60%) Data Analyst
9 92 (3.33%) Project Manager
10 84 (3.04%) Java Developer
11 83 (3.01%) Data Engineer
12 65 (2.36%) Senior Developer
13 57 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
14 55 (1.99%) Solutions Architect
15 53 (1.92%) Support Engineer
16 51 (1.85%) C# Developer
17 50 (1.81%) Network Engineer
18 40 (1.45%) SAP Consultant
19 38 (1.38%) Tester
20 37 (1.34%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (4.35%) .NET
2 82 (2.97%) HTML
2 82 (2.97%) Kafka
3 74 (2.68%) REST
4 63 (2.28%) CSS
5 61 (2.21%) AngularJS
6 58 (2.10%) Web Services
7 57 (2.07%) React
8 46 (1.67%) RESTful
9 44 (1.59%) ASP.NET
10 37 (1.34%) Spring
11 33 (1.20%) PySpark
12 32 (1.16%) TensorFlow
13 31 (1.12%) LDAP
14 28 (1.01%) JSON
14 28 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
15 27 (0.98%) Middleware
16 26 (0.94%) .NET Core
16 26 (0.94%) FastAPI
17 25 (0.91%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 150 (5.43%) Management Information System
2 131 (4.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 96 (3.48%) Product Ownership
4 83 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
5 77 (2.79%) Data Structures
6 75 (2.72%) Algorithms
7 68 (2.46%) Onboarding
8 64 (2.32%) Data Centre
9 59 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 49 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 41 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
12 40 (1.45%) Equities
13 38 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
14 34 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
15 30 (1.09%) Market Risk
16 29 (1.05%) Security Posture
17 28 (1.01%) Reference Data
18 25 (0.91%) Cloud Native
19 24 (0.87%) Derivative
19 24 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 178 (6.45%) Windows
2 148 (5.36%) Linux
3 50 (1.81%) Unix
4 42 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 41 (1.49%) Windows 10
6 30 (1.09%) Windows Server
7 26 (0.94%) Android
8 16 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.43%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.25%) zOS
13 6 (0.22%) Check Point GAiA
14 5 (0.18%) CatOS
14 5 (0.18%) Solaris
14 5 (0.18%) Windows 8
14 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.18%) Windows XP
15 4 (0.14%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,591 (57.64%) Problem-Solving
2 705 (25.54%) Agile
3 387 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
4 357 (12.93%) Analytics
5 345 (12.50%) Project Management
6 326 (11.81%) Decision-Making
6 326 (11.81%) DevOps
7 303 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 292 (10.58%) Data Analysis
9 279 (10.11%) CI/CD
10 273 (9.89%) Computer Science
11 270 (9.78%) Business Intelligence
12 257 (9.31%) Migration
13 239 (8.66%) ITIL
14 214 (7.75%) Risk Management
15 211 (7.64%) Data Modelling
16 193 (6.99%) Visualisation
17 187 (6.78%) Validation
18 175 (6.34%) Service Management
19 173 (6.27%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 576 (20.87%) SQL
2 466 (16.88%) Python
3 269 (9.75%) Java
4 137 (4.96%) JavaScript
5 128 (4.64%) C#
6 90 (3.26%) PowerShell
7 64 (2.32%) TypeScript
8 61 (2.21%) C++
9 55 (1.99%) Bash
10 51 (1.85%) PL/SQL
11 49 (1.78%) R
12 39 (1.41%) Shell Script
13 36 (1.30%) Scala
14 25 (0.91%) VBA
15 20 (0.72%) C
16 14 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 9 (0.33%) T-SQL
18 8 (0.29%) ABAP
18 8 (0.29%) Haskell
18 8 (0.29%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 495 (17.93%) Degree
2 436 (15.80%) Security Cleared
3 349 (12.64%) SC Cleared
4 154 (5.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 91 (3.30%) Master's Degree
6 87 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
7 62 (2.25%) CCNP
8 60 (2.17%) DV Cleared
9 57 (2.07%) CISSP
10 55 (1.99%) PMI Certification
11 54 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
12 50 (1.81%) PMP
13 46 (1.67%) AWS Certification
14 44 (1.59%) CCNA
15 40 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
16 36 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 34 (1.23%) ISTQB
18 32 (1.16%) Azure Certification
19 27 (0.98%) CISM
20 25 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 192 (6.96%) QA
2 160 (5.80%) Data Quality
3 87 (3.15%) GDPR
4 64 (2.32%) SLA
5 49 (1.78%) NIST
6 42 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 41 (1.49%) PMO
8 33 (1.20%) Accessibility
9 25 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
9 25 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 23 (0.83%) PCI DSS
11 18 (0.65%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.51%) GRC
13 12 (0.43%) GxP
13 12 (0.43%) MiFID
14 10 (0.36%) NCSC
15 9 (0.33%) SEPA
16 8 (0.29%) EMIR
16 8 (0.29%) JSP 440
17 7 (0.25%) RMADS
System Software
1 103 (3.73%) Docker
2 97 (3.51%) Active Directory
3 39 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 15 (0.54%) VMware NSX
7 8 (0.29%) GridGain
7 8 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.25%) Firmware
9 6 (0.22%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.22%) RACF
10 5 (0.18%) Postfix
11 3 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.11%) vSphere
12 2 (0.072%) OpenAM
12 2 (0.072%) OpenDJ
12 2 (0.072%) OpenIDM
12 2 (0.072%) zsh
Systems Management
1 113 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 98 (3.55%) Ansible
3 79 (2.86%) Terraform
4 29 (1.05%) SCCM
5 27 (0.98%) Grafana
6 24 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (0.54%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.51%) Puppet
9 14 (0.51%) vCenter Server
10 12 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
11 10 (0.36%) Podman
11 10 (0.36%) WSUS
12 9 (0.33%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (0.33%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.29%) Argo
14 7 (0.25%) Istio
15 6 (0.22%) SCOM
16 5 (0.18%) Kibana
16 5 (0.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 422 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 251 (9.09%) Oracle
3 185 (6.70%) SAP
4 132 (4.78%) ServiceNow
5 101 (3.66%) Cisco
6 86 (3.12%) Google
7 74 (2.68%) Salesforce
8 52 (1.88%) IBM
9 47 (1.70%) Databricks
10 46 (1.67%) VMware
11 38 (1.38%) Atlassian
12 34 (1.23%) Splunk
13 33 (1.20%) Adobe
14 32 (1.16%) Workday
15 28 (1.01%) Fortinet
16 27 (0.98%) Apple
17 24 (0.87%) Citrix
17 24 (0.87%) Juniper
18 22 (0.80%) CheckPoint
19 19 (0.69%) HP