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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,942 3,689 4,629
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.90% 7.24% 6.48%
As % of the General category 13.53% 12.19% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,928 2,410 3,014
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +1.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £657 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £784 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 124 179
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.00 £12.46
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.50 £16.99
Median hourly rate £18.50 £37.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.34% +4.93% +69.45%
75th Percentile £31.71 £56.73 £49.64
90th Percentile £46.89 £66.00 £62.93
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £41.50 £34.50
% change year-on-year -56.63% +20.29% +47.28%

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 21,747 30,254 40,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.42% 59.38% 56.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,055 21,129 28,004
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,772 1,020 1,337
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.16 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £18.49 £14.62
Median hourly rate £29.83 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.79% +62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £51.25 £61.25 £45.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £71.32 £57.93
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £21.84
% change year-on-year -18.57% +60.27% -2.94%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +4 1,487 £550 -4.35% 1,355
South East +1 417 £536 +2.13% 615
North of England +8 350 £500 +11.11% 794
South West +21 254 £530 +0.95% 372
Midlands +2 223 £525 +13.51% 455
North West +2 188 £488 +10.80% 464
West Midlands +1 168 £525 +9.95% 282
Yorkshire +14 136 £507 -3.43% 257
East of England +4 118 £481 +37.50% 309
East Midlands -3 49 £456 +14.06% 173
North East +30 25 £590 +126.92% 84
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
1 130 (4.42%) Confluence
2 71 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 63 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 47 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 34 (1.16%) Apache
6 21 (0.71%) Tomcat
7 19 (0.65%) SAS
8 15 (0.51%) CMS
9 14 (0.48%) IIS
10 9 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
11 8 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
11 8 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
11 8 (0.27%) nginx
12 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.17%) JBoss
13 5 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.14%) Appian
14 4 (0.14%) IBM Domino
15 3 (0.10%) CICS
15 3 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 270 (9.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 214 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
3 88 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 65 (2.21%) MS Visio
5 47 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
6 39 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.31%) Sketch
7 9 (0.31%) SPSS
8 5 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.14%) Revit
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.10%) InVision
10 3 (0.10%) MicroStation
10 3 (0.10%) Windchill
11 2 (0.068%) Mingle
12 1 (0.034%) Abaqus
12 1 (0.034%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.034%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 48 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (0.92%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.75%) Endur
4 17 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.54%) Oracle EBS R12
6 13 (0.44%) Aligne
6 13 (0.44%) SAP HCM
6 13 (0.44%) Teamcenter
7 12 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 12 (0.41%) SAP CO
7 12 (0.41%) SAP FI
7 12 (0.41%) SAP FI/CO
8 11 (0.37%) Maximo
8 11 (0.37%) SAP SD
9 10 (0.34%) Oracle Payables
9 10 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.34%) SAP ERP
9 10 (0.34%) SAP HR
10 9 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
11 8 (0.27%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 422 (14.34%) Azure
2 290 (9.86%) Power Platform
3 251 (8.53%) AWS
4 138 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
5 97 (3.30%) Azure DevOps
6 89 (3.03%) GCP
7 69 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
8 62 (2.11%) PowerApps
9 55 (1.87%) Power Automate
10 54 (1.84%) Serverless
11 47 (1.60%) GitHub
11 47 (1.60%) Snowflake
12 42 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
13 37 (1.26%) Entra ID
13 37 (1.26%) SaaS
14 35 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
15 29 (0.99%) Amazon S3
16 25 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
17 24 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 24 (0.82%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 85 (2.89%) Firewall
2 70 (2.38%) VPN
3 69 (2.35%) DNS
4 66 (2.24%) Network Security
5 53 (1.80%) WAN
6 48 (1.63%) LAN
7 42 (1.43%) Wireless
8 38 (1.29%) DHCP
9 34 (1.16%) TCP/IP
10 33 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (0.92%) HTTP
12 26 (0.88%) BGP
13 22 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
13 22 (0.75%) OSPF
14 20 (0.68%) Intrusion Detection
15 19 (0.65%) MPLS
16 16 (0.54%) VLAN
17 15 (0.51%) Internet
18 14 (0.48%) Cisco ASA
18 14 (0.48%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 277 (9.42%) Power BI
2 138 (4.69%) Tableau
3 132 (4.49%) SQL Server
4 91 (3.09%) Relational Database
5 88 (2.99%) Big Data
6 86 (2.92%) Data Warehouse
7 68 (2.31%) Data Lake
8 55 (1.87%) NoSQL
9 43 (1.46%) Hadoop
10 40 (1.36%) MongoDB
11 39 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
12 35 (1.19%) Metadata
13 34 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 30 (1.02%) Data Mining
15 26 (0.88%) RDBMS
15 26 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 20 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 17 (0.58%) BigQuery
18 16 (0.54%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 16 (0.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 275 (9.35%) JIRA
2 102 (3.47%) Git
3 83 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 51 (1.73%) GitLab
5 48 (1.63%) Selenium
6 38 (1.29%) Cucumber
7 36 (1.22%) TeamCity
8 31 (1.05%) Bitbucket
9 26 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 25 (0.85%) REST Assured
10 25 (0.85%) webpack
11 24 (0.82%) SonarQube
12 23 (0.78%) Cypress.io
13 19 (0.65%) Maven
14 14 (0.48%) Visual Studio
15 13 (0.44%) JUnit
16 11 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
17 10 (0.34%) Burp Suite
17 10 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
18 9 (0.31%) Appium
General
1 1,605 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 809 (27.50%) Finance
3 235 (7.99%) Public Sector
4 207 (7.04%) Banking
5 162 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
6 130 (4.42%) Marketing
7 109 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
7 109 (3.70%) Retail
8 108 (3.67%) Legal
9 106 (3.60%) Front Office
10 105 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
11 98 (3.33%) Manufacturing
12 93 (3.16%) Telecoms
13 61 (2.07%) Investment Banking
14 45 (1.53%) Law
15 43 (1.46%) Military
16 38 (1.29%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.26%) General Ledger
18 35 (1.19%) Aerospace
19 34 (1.16%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 648 (22.03%) Analyst
2 360 (12.24%) Developer
3 216 (7.34%) Architect
4 213 (7.24%) Business Analyst
5 210 (7.14%) Consultant
6 194 (6.59%) Senior
7 180 (6.12%) Lead
8 126 (4.28%) Project Manager
9 125 (4.25%) Data Analyst
10 100 (3.40%) Data Engineer
11 80 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
12 60 (2.04%) Service Analyst
13 56 (1.90%) Senior Analyst
14 54 (1.84%) Support Engineer
15 53 (1.80%) IT Engineer
16 50 (1.70%) Data Architect
16 50 (1.70%) Data Scientist
17 49 (1.67%) Full Stack Developer
17 49 (1.67%) Java Developer
17 49 (1.67%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (3.50%) React
2 95 (3.23%) REST
3 88 (2.99%) HTML
4 87 (2.96%) .NET
4 87 (2.96%) CSS
5 66 (2.24%) AngularJS
6 50 (1.70%) Kafka
6 50 (1.70%) XML
7 41 (1.39%) Node.js
8 39 (1.33%) JSON
9 36 (1.22%) Web Services
10 33 (1.12%) RESTful
11 32 (1.09%) WebSockets
12 31 (1.05%) .NET Core
13 28 (0.95%) PySpark
14 25 (0.85%) Java EE
14 25 (0.85%) Spring
15 24 (0.82%) RxJS
16 23 (0.78%) Middleware
17 19 (0.65%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 217 (7.38%) Management Information System
2 166 (5.64%) Analytical Mindset
3 117 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
4 113 (3.84%) Product Ownership
5 85 (2.89%) Data Structures
6 73 (2.48%) Algorithms
7 47 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 46 (1.56%) Derivative
9 42 (1.43%) Onboarding
10 41 (1.39%) Cyber Defence
11 40 (1.36%) Fixed Income
12 35 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 34 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
14 33 (1.12%) CMDB
14 33 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
15 30 (1.02%) PKI
16 28 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 27 (0.92%) Hedge funds
17 27 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
17 27 (0.92%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 289 (9.82%) Windows
2 197 (6.70%) Linux
3 104 (3.54%) Unix
4 76 (2.58%) Windows Server
5 52 (1.77%) Windows 10
6 43 (1.46%) Windows 7
7 37 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 36 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 28 (0.95%) Apple iOS
10 25 (0.85%) Android
11 13 (0.44%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
13 10 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.24%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.17%) zOS
16 3 (0.10%) AIX
16 3 (0.10%) Solaris
16 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
17 1 (0.034%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,666 (56.63%) Problem-Solving
2 741 (25.19%) Agile
3 436 (14.82%) Project Management
4 365 (12.41%) Business Intelligence
5 331 (11.25%) Analytics
6 315 (10.71%) Decision-Making
7 311 (10.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 282 (9.59%) DevOps
9 280 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
10 245 (8.33%) Data Modelling
11 242 (8.23%) Computer Science
12 238 (8.09%) Data Analysis
13 210 (7.14%) ITIL
14 208 (7.07%) Customer Service
15 204 (6.93%) Change Management
16 203 (6.90%) Migration
17 184 (6.25%) Visualisation
18 179 (6.08%) Roadmaps
19 171 (5.81%) Scrum
20 168 (5.71%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 489 (16.62%) SQL
2 364 (12.37%) Python
3 228 (7.75%) Java
4 144 (4.89%) JavaScript
5 127 (4.32%) C#
6 112 (3.81%) PowerShell
7 75 (2.55%) TypeScript
8 57 (1.94%) R
9 55 (1.87%) Scala
10 39 (1.33%) PL/SQL
11 35 (1.19%) C++
11 35 (1.19%) Shell Script
12 33 (1.12%) T-SQL
13 27 (0.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 21 (0.71%) Perl
15 18 (0.61%) Bash
15 18 (0.61%) Go
16 17 (0.58%) C
16 17 (0.58%) VBScript
17 15 (0.51%) VBA
Qualifications
1 607 (20.63%) Degree
2 519 (17.64%) Security Cleared
3 336 (11.42%) SC Cleared
4 162 (5.51%) DV Cleared
5 159 (5.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 75 (2.55%) Master's Degree
7 58 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 54 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
9 50 (1.70%) CISSP
10 43 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
11 36 (1.22%) CCNP
12 35 (1.19%) PMI Certification
13 34 (1.16%) CCNA
13 34 (1.16%) PMP
14 32 (1.09%) MCSE
15 29 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
16 27 (0.92%) CISM
17 25 (0.85%) Azure Certification
17 25 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 20 (0.68%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (5.91%) Data Quality
2 159 (5.40%) QA
3 108 (3.67%) SLA
4 73 (2.48%) PMO
5 66 (2.24%) GDPR
6 33 (1.12%) NIST
7 30 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
8 28 (0.95%) Accessibility
9 23 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 19 (0.65%) PCI DSS
11 15 (0.51%) EMIR
12 12 (0.41%) MiFID
13 10 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
13 10 (0.34%) GRC
14 9 (0.31%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.31%) NIST 800
15 8 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.27%) GxP
15 8 (0.27%) ISO 9001
16 7 (0.24%) IFRS
System Software
1 136 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 80 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 50 (1.70%) Docker
4 22 (0.75%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.41%) vSphere
6 11 (0.37%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
7 10 (0.34%) HDFS
8 9 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
9 8 (0.27%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 7 (0.24%) Firmware
11 6 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.14%) KVM
12 4 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
13 3 (0.10%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.10%) OpenIDM
13 3 (0.10%) SRDF
13 3 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
14 2 (0.068%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.068%) NFS
Systems Management
1 89 (3.03%) Ansible
2 76 (2.58%) Kubernetes
3 52 (1.77%) Terraform
4 42 (1.43%) SCCM
5 32 (1.09%) Puppet
6 25 (0.85%) NetBackup
7 23 (0.78%) Grafana
7 23 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
8 20 (0.68%) PowerCLI
8 20 (0.68%) Prometheus
9 18 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
10 17 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
11 16 (0.54%) Progress Chef
12 15 (0.51%) Kibana
13 13 (0.44%) Podman
14 12 (0.41%) logstash
15 10 (0.34%) Nagios
16 9 (0.31%) FortiGate
16 9 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
17 8 (0.27%) Consul
Vendors
1 568 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 188 (6.39%) Oracle
3 185 (6.29%) SAP
4 103 (3.50%) VMware
5 79 (2.69%) ServiceNow
6 78 (2.65%) Cisco
7 64 (2.18%) Google
8 49 (1.67%) Databricks
8 49 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 40 (1.36%) Atlassian
10 36 (1.22%) Splunk
11 35 (1.19%) Alteryx
12 31 (1.05%) Red Hat
13 29 (0.99%) Dell
13 29 (0.99%) HP
14 27 (0.92%) IBM
15 25 (0.85%) Citrix
15 25 (0.85%) Juniper
16 21 (0.71%) Bloomberg
16 21 (0.71%) Palo Alto