Analytical Thinking Contracts in England

Analytical Thinking
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 410 473
Rank change year-on-year +40 +63 +41
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 115 132 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.35% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.41% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 91 97
10th Percentile £303 £305 £400
25th Percentile £405 £422 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £612 £675 £638
90th Percentile £750 £725 £838
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -5.68% +6.02% +1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 5
10th Percentile £49.20 £18.97 £23.60
25th Percentile £51.38 £22.33 £30.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £24.65 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year +143.41% -43.80% +137.08%
75th Percentile £75.13 £63.75 -
90th Percentile £81.20 £67.91 £61.04
UK median hourly rate £49.50 £24.65 £43.86
% change year-on-year +100.81% -43.80% +137.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Analytical Thinking falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in England

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Thinking in England

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in England

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Thinking in England

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Thinking in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in England

Analytical Thinking
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 Thinking within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +30 58 £508 -13.62% 288
North of England +20 16 £600 +26.32% 111
North West +17 13 £561 +18.16% 60
South East +52 12 £590 +81.54% 130
Midlands +4 12 £414 -12.84% 92
West Midlands -3 8 £565 +7.62% 49
East of England +32 7 £540 -22.86% 68
South West +48 5 £540 +20.94% 56
East Midlands +9 4 £412 +138.84% 37
Yorkshire +9 2 £700 - 41
North East 0 1 - - 10
Analytical Thinking
UK

Analytical Thinking
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 15 (13.04%) Confluence
2 5 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.87%) Apache
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.87%) CMS
4 1 (0.87%) JBoss
4 1 (0.87%) MS Project Server
4 1 (0.87%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.87%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.87%) WebSphere
Applications
1 13 (11.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (6.96%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.74%) Sprinklr
2 2 (1.74%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.87%) Murex MxG2000
3 1 (0.87%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.87%) Shopify
3 1 (0.87%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 12 (10.43%) AWS
2 11 (9.57%) Power Platform
3 10 (8.70%) Azure
4 5 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (4.35%) GCP
4 5 (4.35%) GitHub
4 5 (4.35%) Snowflake
5 4 (3.48%) dbt
6 3 (2.61%) Alation
7 2 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (1.74%) Collibra
7 2 (1.74%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.74%) Google Data Studio
7 2 (1.74%) OCI
8 1 (0.87%) Datadog
8 1 (0.87%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.87%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.87%) Internet
1 1 (0.87%) Network Security
1 1 (0.87%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (0.87%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.57%) Power BI
2 7 (6.09%) Tableau
3 6 (5.22%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.48%) Data Vault
5 3 (2.61%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.74%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.74%) Looker
6 2 (1.74%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.87%) Big Data
7 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.87%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.87%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.87%) IDMS
7 1 (0.87%) MySQL
7 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.87%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.96%) JIRA
2 7 (6.09%) ERwin
2 7 (6.09%) PowerDesigner
3 3 (2.61%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.74%) IntelliJ
4 2 (1.74%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.87%) Git
5 1 (0.87%) GitLab
5 1 (0.87%) Hudson
5 1 (0.87%) JMeter
5 1 (0.87%) Maven
5 1 (0.87%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.87%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.87%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.87%) Zephyr
General
1 115 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 79 (68.70%) Social Skills
3 39 (33.91%) Finance
4 12 (10.43%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (9.57%) Banking
6 10 (8.70%) Marketing
7 8 (6.96%) Investment Banking
7 8 (6.96%) Retail
8 6 (5.22%) Legal
9 5 (4.35%) Automotive
9 5 (4.35%) Billing
9 5 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (3.48%) Advertising
10 4 (3.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (3.48%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.61%) Telecoms
12 2 (1.74%) Aviation
12 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 29 (25.22%) Analyst
2 20 (17.39%) Business Analyst
3 16 (13.91%) Architect
4 9 (7.83%) Lead
4 9 (7.83%) Senior
5 7 (6.09%) Developer
6 6 (5.22%) Data Modeller
7 5 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.48%) Coordinator
8 4 (3.48%) Data Architect
8 4 (3.48%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (3.48%) Product Owner
8 4 (3.48%) Quantitative Developer
8 4 (3.48%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (2.61%) Financial Analyst
9 3 (2.61%) Project Coordinator
9 3 (2.61%) Project Manager
9 3 (2.61%) Risk Analyst
9 3 (2.61%) Senior Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.61%) Kafka
1 3 (2.61%) Middleware
2 2 (1.74%) RESTful
2 2 (1.74%) Spring
2 2 (1.74%) Spring Boot
3 1 (0.87%) .NET
3 1 (0.87%) Ajax
3 1 (0.87%) CSS
3 1 (0.87%) Hibernate
3 1 (0.87%) HTML
3 1 (0.87%) J2EE
3 1 (0.87%) JAX-WS
3 1 (0.87%) JMS
3 1 (0.87%) jQuery
3 1 (0.87%) JSP
3 1 (0.87%) Servlets
3 1 (0.87%) SOAP
3 1 (0.87%) Spring MVC
3 1 (0.87%) Struts
3 1 (0.87%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.83%) Management Information System
1 9 (7.83%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.09%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.22%) IoT
3 6 (5.22%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.35%) Digital Media
4 5 (4.35%) Industry 4.0
5 4 (3.48%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.48%) Derivative
5 4 (3.48%) Life Science
5 4 (3.48%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.61%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.61%) LIMS
6 3 (2.61%) Replication
7 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.74%) Data Fabric
7 2 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.74%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.09%) Linux
2 4 (3.48%) Windows
3 3 (2.61%) HPUX
3 3 (2.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.61%) Solaris
4 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (35.65%) Agile
3 32 (27.83%) Stakeholder Management
4 26 (22.61%) Analytics
5 25 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (19.13%) Project Management
7 20 (17.39%) Risk Management
8 19 (16.52%) Roadmaps
9 17 (14.78%) Data Analysis
9 17 (14.78%) Decision-Making
10 16 (13.91%) Actionable Insight
10 16 (13.91%) Change Management
10 16 (13.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (13.91%) User Acceptance Testing
11 14 (12.17%) Data Management
12 12 (10.43%) Data Architecture
12 12 (10.43%) Data Modelling
12 12 (10.43%) DevOps
12 12 (10.43%) Strategic Thinking
13 11 (9.57%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.70%) Python
1 10 (8.70%) SQL
2 4 (3.48%) Haskell
2 4 (3.48%) Java
2 4 (3.48%) OCaml
2 4 (3.48%) Scala
3 3 (2.61%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.61%) VBA
4 2 (1.74%) C#
4 2 (1.74%) C++
4 2 (1.74%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.87%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.87%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (19.13%) Degree
2 9 (7.83%) PMP
3 7 (6.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.09%) Security Cleared
4 6 (5.22%) PMI Certification
5 4 (3.48%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.61%) CBAP
7 2 (1.74%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.74%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.87%) CCIE
8 1 (0.87%) CCNP
8 1 (0.87%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.87%) CISSP
8 1 (0.87%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.87%) MBA
8 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.87%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.87%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.04%) QA
2 12 (10.43%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.35%) PMO
4 4 (3.48%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.61%) GxP
5 3 (2.61%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.74%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.74%) COBIT
6 2 (1.74%) GDPR
6 2 (1.74%) NIST
7 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.87%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.87%) GRC
7 1 (0.87%) IFRS
7 1 (0.87%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.87%) NCSC
7 1 (0.87%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.87%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.74%) Docker
2 1 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (4.35%) Terraform
2 2 (1.74%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.87%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (13.91%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.70%) SAP
3 7 (6.09%) Sparx
4 4 (3.48%) IBM
5 3 (2.61%) comScore
5 3 (2.61%) Databricks
5 3 (2.61%) Facebook
5 3 (2.61%) Google
5 3 (2.61%) MicroStrategy
5 3 (2.61%) Sun
6 2 (1.74%) Adobe
6 2 (1.74%) HP
6 2 (1.74%) Oracle
6 2 (1.74%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.74%) Unisys
6 2 (1.74%) Workday
6 2 (1.74%) Wrike
6 2 (1.74%) YouTube
7 1 (0.87%) Instagram