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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,892 3,533 4,723
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.96% 7.36% 6.65%
As % of the General category 13.67% 12.42% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,887 2,353 3,037
10th Percentile £306 £312 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% +1.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £659 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 112 159
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.00 £12.70
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.16 £18.81
Median hourly rate £18.43 £40.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.94% +1.27% +92.68%
75th Percentile £31.97 £57.63 £53.16
90th Percentile £46.45 £66.00 £65.39
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £43.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -58.14% +8.86% +75.56%

All General Skills
England

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,160 28,446 40,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.21% 59.26% 56.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,647 19,981 28,262
10th Percentile £281 £315 £318
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,773 927 1,316
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.00 £21.89
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +46.17% -0.49%
75th Percentile £51.91 £60.31 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.25 £70.51 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% +0.21%

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 21 May 2024.

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 21 May 2024.

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 21 May 2024. 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 +3 1,441 £550 -4.35% 1,593
South East -2 419 £533 -3.18% 772
North of England +2 333 £500 +5.26% 751
South West +22 257 £525 - 327
Midlands +2 236 £513 +7.89% 516
West Midlands 0 180 £525 +10.53% 309
North West -1 168 £475 +6.74% 394
Yorkshire +15 141 £505 -3.81% 272
East of England +1 106 £500 +33.33% 289
East Midlands +1 51 £450 -1.37% 208
North East +15 22 £590 +45.23% 90
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
1 136 (4.70%) Confluence
2 71 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 64 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 45 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.93%) Apache
6 19 (0.66%) SAS
7 16 (0.55%) CMS
8 12 (0.41%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
9 8 (0.28%) IIS
9 8 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
10 7 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
11 6 (0.21%) Apache Airflow
11 6 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.21%) nginx
12 5 (0.17%) Appian
12 5 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 5 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.14%) Drupal
13 4 (0.14%) JBoss
Applications
1 263 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 194 (6.71%) Microsoft Office
3 77 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
5 56 (1.94%) MS Visio
6 53 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.31%) SPSS
8 7 (0.24%) Sketch
9 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.14%) Revit
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.10%) InVision
11 3 (0.10%) MicroStation
11 3 (0.10%) Windchill
12 2 (0.069%) Mingle
13 1 (0.035%) Abaqus
13 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.035%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.035%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 57 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (0.90%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (0.69%) Endur
3 20 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
4 17 (0.59%) Oracle EBS R12
5 14 (0.48%) SAP CO
5 14 (0.48%) SAP FI
5 14 (0.48%) SAP FI/CO
6 13 (0.45%) Aligne
6 13 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
6 13 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 13 (0.45%) SAP SD
6 13 (0.45%) Teamcenter
7 12 (0.41%) SAP HCM
8 11 (0.38%) Maximo
9 9 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
9 9 (0.31%) SAP ERP
10 8 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
10 8 (0.28%) Primavera
10 8 (0.28%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 448 (15.49%) Azure
2 312 (10.79%) Power Platform
3 237 (8.20%) AWS
4 134 (4.63%) Microsoft 365
5 106 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
6 101 (3.49%) GCP
7 73 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
8 64 (2.21%) PowerApps
9 56 (1.94%) Power Automate
10 52 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
11 49 (1.69%) Serverless
12 48 (1.66%) GitHub
13 45 (1.56%) Snowflake
14 41 (1.42%) Entra ID
15 37 (1.28%) SaaS
16 33 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
17 27 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 27 (0.93%) Azure Functions
18 22 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
19 20 (0.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 74 (2.56%) Firewall
2 69 (2.39%) DNS
3 65 (2.25%) VPN
4 62 (2.14%) Network Security
5 51 (1.76%) WAN
6 47 (1.63%) LAN
7 41 (1.42%) DHCP
8 33 (1.14%) TCP/IP
8 33 (1.14%) Wireless
9 28 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (0.93%) MPLS
11 26 (0.90%) BGP
12 23 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
13 22 (0.76%) OSPF
14 21 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
15 20 (0.69%) HTTP
15 20 (0.69%) VLAN
16 15 (0.52%) SSL
17 14 (0.48%) Internet
18 13 (0.45%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 300 (10.37%) Power BI
2 144 (4.98%) Tableau
3 138 (4.77%) SQL Server
4 87 (3.01%) Relational Database
5 86 (2.97%) Big Data
6 79 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
7 70 (2.42%) Data Lake
8 64 (2.21%) NoSQL
9 39 (1.35%) Hadoop
10 38 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
11 36 (1.24%) MongoDB
12 31 (1.07%) Data Mining
12 31 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 30 (1.04%) Metadata
14 25 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 22 (0.76%) RDBMS
16 19 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
16 19 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 18 (0.62%) BigQuery
17 18 (0.62%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 270 (9.34%) JIRA
2 114 (3.94%) Git
3 89 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.97%) GitLab
5 54 (1.87%) Selenium
6 38 (1.31%) Cucumber
7 30 (1.04%) Bitbucket
7 30 (1.04%) TeamCity
8 29 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 25 (0.86%) REST Assured
10 24 (0.83%) SonarQube
11 22 (0.76%) Cypress.io
12 18 (0.62%) webpack
13 15 (0.52%) JUnit
13 15 (0.52%) Maven
14 13 (0.45%) Appium
14 13 (0.45%) Postman
14 13 (0.45%) Visual Studio
15 12 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
16 11 (0.38%) CircleCI
General
1 1,606 (55.53%) Social Skills
2 837 (28.94%) Finance
3 233 (8.06%) Public Sector
4 215 (7.43%) Banking
5 165 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
6 129 (4.46%) Marketing
7 114 (3.94%) Retail
8 105 (3.63%) Legal
9 101 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
10 89 (3.08%) Front Office
10 89 (3.08%) Manufacturing
11 88 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
12 80 (2.77%) Telecoms
13 57 (1.97%) Investment Banking
14 43 (1.49%) Law
15 42 (1.45%) Military
16 41 (1.42%) Financial Institution
17 39 (1.35%) General Ledger
18 35 (1.21%) Aerospace
19 33 (1.14%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 646 (22.34%) Analyst
2 365 (12.62%) Developer
3 214 (7.40%) Architect
4 210 (7.26%) Consultant
5 207 (7.16%) Senior
6 197 (6.81%) Business Analyst
7 175 (6.05%) Lead
8 139 (4.81%) Data Analyst
9 123 (4.25%) Project Manager
10 93 (3.22%) Data Engineer
11 78 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
12 71 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
13 60 (2.07%) Full Stack Developer
14 57 (1.97%) Network Engineer
15 51 (1.76%) Support Engineer
16 49 (1.69%) Java Developer
16 49 (1.69%) Service Analyst
17 47 (1.63%) IT Engineer
18 44 (1.52%) Functional Consultant
19 43 (1.49%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (3.22%) React
2 90 (3.11%) .NET
3 89 (3.08%) REST
4 80 (2.77%) HTML
5 73 (2.52%) CSS
6 58 (2.01%) AngularJS
7 56 (1.94%) XML
8 48 (1.66%) Kafka
9 43 (1.49%) Web Services
10 42 (1.45%) JSON
11 39 (1.35%) RESTful
12 31 (1.07%) .NET Core
12 31 (1.07%) Node.js
13 29 (1.00%) Middleware
13 29 (1.00%) PySpark
14 25 (0.86%) Java EE
15 24 (0.83%) Spring
15 24 (0.83%) WebSockets
16 22 (0.76%) SOAP
17 19 (0.66%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 217 (7.50%) Management Information System
2 149 (5.15%) Analytical Mindset
3 121 (4.18%) Self-Motivation
4 120 (4.15%) Product Ownership
5 90 (3.11%) Data Structures
6 70 (2.42%) Algorithms
7 50 (1.73%) Data Centre
8 46 (1.59%) Derivative
9 42 (1.45%) Cyber Defence
10 41 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 35 (1.21%) Fixed Income
12 34 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 32 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
14 31 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
15 29 (1.00%) Virtual Team
16 28 (0.97%) PKI
17 26 (0.90%) Hedge funds
18 25 (0.86%) CMDB
18 25 (0.86%) NHS
18 25 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 262 (9.06%) Windows
2 192 (6.64%) Linux
3 100 (3.46%) Unix
4 80 (2.77%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.52%) Windows 10
6 35 (1.21%) Windows 7
7 34 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
8 31 (1.07%) Apple iOS
8 31 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 27 (0.93%) Android
10 12 (0.41%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (0.24%) Kali Linux
12 7 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
14 5 (0.17%) zOS
15 4 (0.14%) AIX
15 4 (0.14%) Solaris
16 2 (0.069%) CentOS
16 2 (0.069%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,619 (55.98%) Problem-Solving
2 734 (25.38%) Agile
3 427 (14.76%) Project Management
4 382 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
5 336 (11.62%) Analytics
6 301 (10.41%) DevOps
7 295 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
7 295 (10.20%) Decision-Making
8 270 (9.34%) Stakeholder Management
9 259 (8.96%) Computer Science
10 242 (8.37%) Data Modelling
11 220 (7.61%) Data Analysis
12 198 (6.85%) Migration
13 194 (6.71%) Change Management
14 191 (6.60%) Visualisation
15 181 (6.26%) Customer Service
16 180 (6.22%) Roadmaps
17 178 (6.15%) ITIL
18 175 (6.05%) CI/CD
19 164 (5.67%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 515 (17.81%) SQL
2 396 (13.69%) Python
3 228 (7.88%) Java
4 136 (4.70%) JavaScript
4 136 (4.70%) PowerShell
5 125 (4.32%) C#
6 61 (2.11%) TypeScript
7 54 (1.87%) R
8 47 (1.63%) Scala
9 45 (1.56%) Shell Script
10 40 (1.38%) C++
10 40 (1.38%) PL/SQL
11 37 (1.28%) T-SQL
12 32 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 23 (0.80%) Bash
14 22 (0.76%) C
14 22 (0.76%) Perl
15 20 (0.69%) Go
16 17 (0.59%) VBScript
17 16 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 595 (20.57%) Degree
2 486 (16.80%) Security Cleared
3 295 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 174 (6.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 173 (5.98%) DV Cleared
6 94 (3.25%) Master's Degree
7 59 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
8 57 (1.97%) Cisco Certification
9 52 (1.80%) CISSP
10 39 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 36 (1.24%) MCSE
12 35 (1.21%) PMI Certification
13 34 (1.18%) PMP
14 32 (1.11%) CCNP
15 31 (1.07%) CISM
16 30 (1.04%) CCNA
17 29 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
18 28 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 25 (0.86%) APMP
20 23 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 167 (5.77%) Data Quality
2 153 (5.29%) QA
3 113 (3.91%) SLA
4 81 (2.80%) PMO
5 80 (2.77%) GDPR
6 41 (1.42%) NIST
7 34 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 30 (1.04%) Accessibility
9 28 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 22 (0.76%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.45%) EMIR
12 12 (0.41%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.38%) GRC
13 11 (0.38%) NIST 800
14 10 (0.35%) MiFID
15 9 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
15 9 (0.31%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.28%) GxP
17 6 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 143 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 85 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 65 (2.25%) Docker
4 17 (0.59%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.45%) vSphere
6 11 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.35%) HDFS
7 10 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 9 (0.31%) Firmware
8 9 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
9 8 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.14%) KVM
12 3 (0.10%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.10%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.10%) OpenIDM
12 3 (0.10%) SRDF
13 2 (0.069%) Snort
13 2 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 96 (3.32%) Ansible
2 89 (3.08%) Kubernetes
3 55 (1.90%) Terraform
4 44 (1.52%) SCCM
5 34 (1.18%) Puppet
6 26 (0.90%) NetBackup
7 24 (0.83%) Grafana
8 23 (0.80%) Prometheus
9 21 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
9 21 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (0.69%) PowerCLI
11 18 (0.62%) Kibana
12 15 (0.52%) logstash
13 14 (0.48%) Podman
14 13 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
15 12 (0.41%) Progress Chef
16 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
16 10 (0.35%) Nagios
17 9 (0.31%) Consul
18 8 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 579 (20.02%) Microsoft
2 198 (6.85%) Oracle
3 186 (6.43%) SAP
4 106 (3.67%) VMware
5 76 (2.63%) Cisco
6 66 (2.28%) Google
7 64 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 52 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 50 (1.73%) Databricks
10 40 (1.38%) Splunk
11 36 (1.24%) Alteryx
12 35 (1.21%) IBM
13 31 (1.07%) Atlassian
14 29 (1.00%) HP
15 28 (0.97%) Dell
15 28 (0.97%) F5
16 26 (0.90%) Citrix
17 24 (0.83%) Red Hat
18 22 (0.76%) Juniper
19 20 (0.69%) Bloomberg