Analytical Thinking Contracts in England

Analytical Thinking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Analytical Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 415 474 523
Rank change year-on-year +59 +49 -27
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 133 182 279
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.36% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.40% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 98 174
10th Percentile £289 £392 £327
25th Percentile £413 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £634
90th Percentile £725 £838 £742
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 9
10th Percentile £18.97 £26.46 £12.25
25th Percentile £22.33 £37.65 £12.75
Median hourly rate £24.65 £43.86 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.80% +137.08% -61.49%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.02 £31.85
90th Percentile £67.91 £63.91 £35.64
UK median hourly rate £24.65 £43.86 £18.50
% change year-on-year -43.80% +137.08% -61.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Analytical Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,103 45,050 64,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,075 31,613 45,917
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,592 1,754
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.42
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 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 +93 69 £575 +2.22% 91
Midlands +35 30 £475 +11.76% 14
West Midlands +22 25 £525 +23.53% 12
North of England +28 13 £475 -13.64% 35
North West +33 11 £475 +8.57% 17
South East 0 6 £325 -33.33% 21
East Midlands +21 5 £173 - 2
East of England +1 5 £700 +27.27% 8
South West +21 3 £447 -14.95% 20
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 14
North East - 1 - - 7
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 4 (3.01%) Confluence
1 4 (3.01%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.50%) SAS
3 1 (0.75%) Appian
Applications
1 13 (9.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (9.02%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (6.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.26%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.50%) Mingle
5 2 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.75%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.75%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (6.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (5.26%) SAP SD
3 5 (3.76%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (2.26%) SAP CO
4 3 (2.26%) SAP FI
4 3 (2.26%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (2.26%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (1.50%) Endur
5 2 (1.50%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.50%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.75%) Eikon
6 1 (0.75%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.75%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.75%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.75%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 14 (10.53%) Azure
2 12 (9.02%) AWS
2 12 (9.02%) Power Platform
3 7 (5.26%) GCP
4 5 (3.76%) OCI
4 5 (3.76%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 5 (3.76%) PaaS
5 4 (3.01%) SaaS
6 3 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.26%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (1.50%) Adobe Analytics
7 2 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.50%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.50%) Figma
7 2 (1.50%) IaaS
7 2 (1.50%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (0.75%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.75%) SpeedCurve
8 1 (0.75%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.26%) Network Security
2 2 (1.50%) DNS
2 2 (1.50%) Firewall
2 2 (1.50%) Intranet
2 2 (1.50%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.50%) VPN
3 1 (0.75%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 12 (9.02%) Power BI
3 5 (3.76%) Relational Database
3 5 (3.76%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.01%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (3.01%) Tableau
5 3 (2.26%) PostHog
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.75%) Big Data
6 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.75%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.75%) Impala
6 1 (0.75%) MS Access
6 1 (0.75%) MySQL
6 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.75%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.75%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.75%) SQL Navigator
6 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (8.27%) JIRA
2 9 (6.77%) Git
3 3 (2.26%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.50%) Axure RP
4 2 (1.50%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.50%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.50%) FitNesse
4 2 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.50%) Maven
4 2 (1.50%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.50%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.75%) GoCD
5 1 (0.75%) Pa11y
5 1 (0.75%) TestCafe
5 1 (0.75%) Toad
General
1 133 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 77 (57.89%) Social Skills
3 39 (29.32%) Finance
4 8 (6.02%) Manufacturing
5 7 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.51%) Banking
6 6 (4.51%) German Language
6 6 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.51%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.76%) Legal
8 4 (3.01%) French Language
8 4 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.01%) Marketing
8 4 (3.01%) Publishing
9 3 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.26%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.26%) Retail
10 2 (1.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (21.05%) Analyst
2 14 (10.53%) Architect
2 14 (10.53%) Business Analyst
3 13 (9.77%) Developer
4 12 (9.02%) Senior
5 9 (6.77%) Site Engineer
5 9 (6.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 9 (6.77%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (6.02%) Consultant
6 8 (6.02%) Lead
7 7 (5.26%) Python Engineer
8 5 (3.76%) Business IT Analyst
8 5 (3.76%) Incident Manager
8 5 (3.76%) Insight Analyst
8 5 (3.76%) IT Analyst
8 5 (3.76%) IT Business Analyst
8 5 (3.76%) Java Developer
8 5 (3.76%) Report Analyst
9 4 (3.01%) Senior Test Engineer
9 4 (3.01%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.52%) RESTful
2 9 (6.77%) HTML
3 8 (6.02%) Kafka
3 8 (6.02%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (5.26%) CSS
4 7 (5.26%) JSON
4 7 (5.26%) Middleware
5 5 (3.76%) XML
6 4 (3.01%) .NET
6 4 (3.01%) Node.js
6 4 (3.01%) Spring
6 4 (3.01%) Swagger
7 3 (2.26%) Django
7 3 (2.26%) Flask
7 3 (2.26%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.26%) React
8 2 (1.50%) LDAP
8 2 (1.50%) Regular Expression
8 2 (1.50%) REST
8 2 (1.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.02%) Management Information System
1 12 (9.02%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (6.77%) Algorithms
2 9 (6.77%) Data Structures
2 9 (6.77%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (6.02%) IoT
3 8 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.76%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.76%) Industry 4.0
4 5 (3.76%) SCADA
4 5 (3.76%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.26%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.50%) Credit Risk
6 2 (1.50%) Derivative
6 2 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.50%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.02%) Linux
2 5 (3.76%) Unix
2 5 (3.76%) Windows
3 4 (3.01%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (33.83%) Agile
3 27 (20.30%) Computer Science
3 27 (20.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (16.54%) Critical Thinking
4 22 (16.54%) Project Management
5 18 (13.53%) Decision-Making
5 18 (13.53%) Roadmaps
6 17 (12.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (11.28%) ERP
8 14 (10.53%) ITIL
9 13 (9.77%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (9.77%) Microservices
10 12 (9.02%) Change Management
10 12 (9.02%) DevOps
10 12 (9.02%) Risk Management
11 11 (8.27%) Collaborative Working
11 11 (8.27%) Project Delivery
12 10 (7.52%) Customer Service
12 10 (7.52%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 18 (13.53%) Java
2 16 (12.03%) SQL
3 15 (11.28%) Python
4 11 (8.27%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.02%) Shell Script
6 7 (5.26%) C++
6 7 (5.26%) Go
7 4 (3.01%) C#
8 3 (2.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.26%) PHP
8 3 (2.26%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.50%) Perl
9 2 (1.50%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.50%) R
10 1 (0.75%) ABAP
10 1 (0.75%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 37 (27.82%) Degree
2 14 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.76%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.01%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.26%) CISSP
5 3 (2.26%) SAP Certification
5 3 (2.26%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.50%) MBA
6 2 (1.50%) MCSE
6 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.50%) PhD
7 1 (0.75%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.75%) CCNA
7 1 (0.75%) CIMA
7 1 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.75%) MCP
7 1 (0.75%) MCSA
7 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.75%) PMP
7 1 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.51%) Accessibility
1 6 (4.51%) QA
1 6 (4.51%) SLA
2 5 (3.76%) PMO
3 1 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.75%) GDPR
3 1 (0.75%) GxP
3 1 (0.75%) IFRS
3 1 (0.75%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 8 (6.02%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 3 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.50%) Docker
4 1 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.75%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 9 (6.77%) Grafana
2 8 (6.02%) Consul
2 8 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.02%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.50%) PingFederate
3 2 (1.50%) Podman
3 2 (1.50%) SCCM
3 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.75%) Kibana
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (21.05%) Microsoft
2 24 (18.05%) SAP
3 11 (8.27%) Oracle
4 8 (6.02%) SaltStack
5 5 (3.76%) BMC
6 3 (2.26%) Adobe
6 3 (2.26%) CA
6 3 (2.26%) VMware
7 2 (1.50%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.50%) OpenText
7 2 (1.50%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.50%) Qualys
7 2 (1.50%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.50%) Splunk
8 1 (0.75%) Ariba
8 1 (0.75%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.75%) IBM
8 1 (0.75%) Pega
8 1 (0.75%) Reuters
8 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow