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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 409 467
Rank change year-on-year +43 +58 +34
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 112 133 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.36% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.42% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 92 94
10th Percentile £303 £289 £399
25th Percentile £400 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +2.38% +0.24%
75th Percentile £638 £677 £684
90th Percentile £750 £725 £838
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile £49.20 £18.97 £26.46
25th Percentile £51.38 £22.33 £37.65
Median hourly rate £60.00 £24.65 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year +143.41% -43.80% +121.85%
75th Percentile £75.13 £63.75 £51.02
90th Percentile £81.20 £67.91 £63.91
UK median hourly rate £54.75 £24.65 £43.86
% change year-on-year +122.11% -43.80% +121.85%

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 22,009 31,610 44,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.21% 86.47% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,381 20,692 31,129
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £446
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 £764
UK median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.62% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 927 2,241 1,561
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.87 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.17 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% -2.25% +49.36%
75th Percentile £62.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.17 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.84% +1.39% +40.19%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +40 56 £500 -13.04% 360
North of England +23 16 £600 +26.32% 97
North West +15 13 £561 +18.16% 59
Midlands -5 13 £410 -9.00% 63
South East +54 12 £590 +81.54% 123
West Midlands -6 8 £315 -40.00% 40
South West +45 5 £540 - 48
East of England +27 5 £750 +7.14% 78
East Midlands +5 5 £410 +137.68% 19
Yorkshire +13 2 £700 - 28
North East -3 1 - - 12
Analytical Thinking
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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 10 (8.93%) Confluence
2 3 (2.68%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.89%) Apache
3 1 (0.89%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.89%) CMS
3 1 (0.89%) JBoss
3 1 (0.89%) MS Project Server
3 1 (0.89%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.89%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (9.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (7.14%) MS Visio
3 7 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.79%) Sprinklr
2 2 (1.79%) Temenos T24
2 2 (1.79%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.89%) Murex MxG2000
3 1 (0.89%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.89%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.39%) AWS
2 11 (9.82%) Azure
2 11 (9.82%) Power Platform
3 5 (4.46%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (4.46%) GCP
3 5 (4.46%) GitHub
3 5 (4.46%) Snowflake
4 4 (3.57%) dbt
5 3 (2.68%) Alation
5 3 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (1.79%) Collibra
6 2 (1.79%) Datadog
6 2 (1.79%) Google Analytics
6 2 (1.79%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.89%) Azure Storage
7 1 (0.89%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.89%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.89%) Internet
1 1 (0.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.82%) Power BI
2 6 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (4.46%) Tableau
4 4 (3.57%) Data Vault
5 3 (2.68%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.68%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.68%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (1.79%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.79%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.79%) Looker
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.89%) Big Data
7 1 (0.89%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.89%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.89%) MySQL
7 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.89%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (7.14%) JIRA
2 4 (3.57%) ERwin
2 4 (3.57%) PowerDesigner
3 3 (2.68%) IntelliJ
3 3 (2.68%) Terragrunt
4 2 (1.79%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.79%) JMeter
5 1 (0.89%) Git
5 1 (0.89%) GitLab
5 1 (0.89%) Hudson
5 1 (0.89%) Maven
5 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.89%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.89%) Zephyr
General
1 112 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 75 (66.96%) Social Skills
3 42 (37.50%) Finance
4 13 (11.61%) Banking
5 10 (8.93%) Marketing
6 9 (8.04%) Investment Banking
6 9 (8.04%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (7.14%) Retail
8 6 (5.36%) Billing
9 5 (4.46%) Automotive
9 5 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (4.46%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (4.46%) Legal
10 4 (3.57%) Advertising
10 4 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (2.68%) Public Sector
12 2 (1.79%) Aviation
12 2 (1.79%) Front Office
12 2 (1.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (24.11%) Analyst
2 19 (16.96%) Business Analyst
3 12 (10.71%) Architect
4 9 (8.04%) Lead
4 9 (8.04%) Senior
5 7 (6.25%) Developer
6 5 (4.46%) Data Engineer
6 5 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.57%) Coordinator
7 4 (3.57%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (3.57%) Product Owner
7 4 (3.57%) Quantitative Developer
7 4 (3.57%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (2.68%) Data Modeller
8 3 (2.68%) Financial Analyst
8 3 (2.68%) PMO Analyst
8 3 (2.68%) Project Coordinator
8 3 (2.68%) Project Manager
8 3 (2.68%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (2.68%) Senior Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.57%) Kafka
2 3 (2.68%) Middleware
2 3 (2.68%) Spring
2 3 (2.68%) Spring Boot
3 2 (1.79%) RESTful
4 1 (0.89%) Ajax
4 1 (0.89%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.89%) CSS3
4 1 (0.89%) Hibernate
4 1 (0.89%) HTML5
4 1 (0.89%) JAX-WS
4 1 (0.89%) JMS
4 1 (0.89%) jQuery
4 1 (0.89%) React
4 1 (0.89%) REST
4 1 (0.89%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.89%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.89%) Spring MVC
4 1 (0.89%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.89%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.82%) Management Information System
2 9 (8.04%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.36%) IoT
5 5 (4.46%) Digital Media
5 5 (4.46%) Industry 4.0
5 5 (4.46%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.57%) Derivative
6 4 (3.57%) Life Science
7 3 (2.68%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.68%) LIMS
7 3 (2.68%) Replication
8 2 (1.79%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.79%) Data Fabric
8 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.79%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.25%) Linux
2 4 (3.57%) Windows
3 3 (2.68%) HPUX
3 3 (2.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.68%) Solaris
4 1 (0.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (47.32%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (33.04%) Agile
3 29 (25.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 25 (22.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (18.75%) Analytics
5 21 (18.75%) Project Management
6 19 (16.96%) Data Analysis
6 19 (16.96%) Risk Management
7 18 (16.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 15 (13.39%) Change Management
9 15 (13.39%) Decision-Making
9 15 (13.39%) DevOps
10 14 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (11.61%) Actionable Insight
12 12 (10.71%) Process Management
12 12 (10.71%) Strategic Thinking
13 11 (9.82%) Data Management
14 9 (8.04%) Artificial Intelligence
14 9 (8.04%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.71%) SQL
2 10 (8.93%) Python
3 5 (4.46%) Java
4 4 (3.57%) Haskell
4 4 (3.57%) OCaml
4 4 (3.57%) Scala
5 3 (2.68%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.79%) C#
6 2 (1.79%) C++
6 2 (1.79%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.79%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.89%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.89%) TypeScript
7 1 (0.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (19.64%) Degree
2 10 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 9 (8.04%) PMP
4 7 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.36%) PMI Certification
5 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.68%) AWS Certification
6 3 (2.68%) CBAP
6 3 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.79%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.89%) CISSP
8 1 (0.89%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.89%) MBA
8 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.89%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (0.89%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.89%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.18%) QA
2 9 (8.04%) Data Quality
3 6 (5.36%) PMO
4 4 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.68%) GxP
5 3 (2.68%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.79%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.79%) COBIT
6 2 (1.79%) GDPR
6 2 (1.79%) NCSC
6 2 (1.79%) NIST
7 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.89%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.89%) GRC
7 1 (0.89%) IFRS
7 1 (0.89%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.89%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.89%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (1.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (4.46%) Terraform
2 2 (1.79%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.89%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.82%) SAP
3 4 (3.57%) IBM
3 4 (3.57%) Sparx
4 3 (2.68%) comScore
4 3 (2.68%) Databricks
4 3 (2.68%) Facebook
4 3 (2.68%) Google
4 3 (2.68%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (2.68%) Sun
5 2 (1.79%) Adobe
5 2 (1.79%) Ariba
5 2 (1.79%) HP
5 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.79%) Unisys
5 2 (1.79%) Workday
5 2 (1.79%) Wrike
5 2 (1.79%) YouTube
6 1 (0.89%) Instagram
766 Analytical Thinking jobs Nationwide