Analytical Skills Contracts in Reading

Analytical Skills
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills 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 4 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +7 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 116 140 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 19.43% 11.74% 12.01%
As % of the General category 28.71% 19.39% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 72 93
10th Percentile £456 £429 £363
25th Percentile £525 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £601 £619 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +12.50% +15.79%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £638
90th Percentile £650 - £710
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £575 £525
% change year-on-year - +9.52% +14.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £44.50 £53.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.21% +115.00% -68.91%

All General Skills
Reading

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 404 722 649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 67.67% 60.57% 62.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 341 397
10th Percentile £319 £205 £363
25th Percentile £450 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £650 £608 £675
90th Percentile £700 £675 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +0.70% -2.91% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 41 9
10th Percentile - £42.00 £39.70
25th Percentile - £52.90 £52.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £61.60 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -52.92% -4.75% +130.98%
75th Percentile - £76.99 £66.21
90th Percentile - £87.53 £70.80
Berkshire median hourly rate £57.50 £59.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% +161.59%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in Reading

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in Reading

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in Reading

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in Reading

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.86%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (5.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 26 (22.41%) Oracle EBS
2 21 (18.10%) Oracle EBS R12
3 12 (10.34%) Maximo
3 12 (10.34%) Oracle ASCP
4 4 (3.45%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (3.45%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (1.72%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.86%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.86%) Primavera
6 1 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 32 (27.59%) Azure
2 25 (21.55%) AWS
3 7 (6.03%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 6 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (5.17%) Entra ID
4 6 (5.17%) GCP
5 5 (4.31%) Azure Functions
5 5 (4.31%) OCI
5 5 (4.31%) Serverless
6 4 (3.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 4 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.59%) Azure API Management
8 2 (1.72%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.86%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (0.86%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.86%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.17%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.31%) BGP
2 5 (4.31%) MPLS
2 5 (4.31%) VLAN
3 4 (3.45%) Diameter Protocol
3 4 (3.45%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (2.59%) Broadband
5 2 (1.72%) 3G
5 2 (1.72%) 3GPP
5 2 (1.72%) 4G
5 2 (1.72%) Firewall
5 2 (1.72%) HTTP
5 2 (1.72%) LTE
5 2 (1.72%) MVNO
5 2 (1.72%) SIGTRAN
5 2 (1.72%) SMS
5 2 (1.72%) SS7
5 2 (1.72%) VoLTE
5 2 (1.72%) VoWiFi
5 2 (1.72%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (3.45%) NoSQL
1 4 (3.45%) Power BI
2 3 (2.59%) Power Query
2 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.59%) SSDT
3 2 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.86%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.86%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.86%) Big Data
4 1 (0.86%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.86%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.86%) HBase
4 1 (0.86%) HDInsight
4 1 (0.86%) Impala
4 1 (0.86%) Metadata
4 1 (0.86%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.62%) JIRA
2 9 (7.76%) Selenium
3 8 (6.90%) Cucumber
3 8 (6.90%) Git
4 7 (6.03%) Jenkins
4 7 (6.03%) SonarQube
5 6 (5.17%) GitLab
5 6 (5.17%) REST Assured
6 5 (4.31%) Robot Framework
7 2 (1.72%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.72%) Metasploit
7 2 (1.72%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.86%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.86%) jMock
8 1 (0.86%) JUnit
8 1 (0.86%) Maven
8 1 (0.86%) Mockito
8 1 (0.86%) Oracle Forms
General
1 72 (62.07%) Social Skills
2 33 (28.45%) Telecoms
3 24 (20.69%) Finance
4 19 (16.38%) Retail
5 9 (7.76%) Billing
6 6 (5.17%) Legal
7 5 (4.31%) Law
7 5 (4.31%) Marketing
8 4 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.45%) Police
9 2 (1.72%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (18.10%) Consultant
2 20 (17.24%) Oracle Consultant
3 17 (14.66%) Functional Consultant
3 17 (14.66%) Oracle Functional Consultant
4 15 (12.93%) Analyst
5 14 (12.07%) IT Manager
5 14 (12.07%) Senior
6 12 (10.34%) IT Operations Manager
6 12 (10.34%) Operations Manager
7 11 (9.48%) Performance Manager
8 10 (8.62%) Developer
9 8 (6.90%) Resilience Manager
10 7 (6.03%) Data Manager
10 7 (6.03%) Tester
11 5 (4.31%) Automation Tester
11 5 (4.31%) Data Analyst
11 5 (4.31%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Java Software Engineer
11 5 (4.31%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (4.31%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.03%) ARM Templates
1 7 (6.03%) REST
2 6 (5.17%) Java EE
3 4 (3.45%) OAuth
3 4 (3.45%) React
3 4 (3.45%) Web Services
4 3 (2.59%) CSS
4 3 (2.59%) HTML
4 3 (2.59%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (2.59%) YAML
5 2 (1.72%) Playwright
6 1 (0.86%) AngularJS
6 1 (0.86%) Bootstrap
6 1 (0.86%) Kafka
6 1 (0.86%) PowerMock
6 1 (0.86%) PySpark
6 1 (0.86%) Spring Batch
6 1 (0.86%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.86%) Spring Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.62%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.31%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.59%) Cyberattack
5 3 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.72%) IoT
6 2 (1.72%) Podcast
6 2 (1.72%) Social Media
7 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.86%) CMDB
7 1 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.86%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.86%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) SCADA
7 1 (0.86%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.86%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.86%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.31%) Linux
2 4 (3.45%) Windows
3 3 (2.59%) Unix
4 2 (1.72%) AIX
5 1 (0.86%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (60.34%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (18.10%) DevOps
2 21 (18.10%) Project Delivery
3 15 (12.93%) Agile
3 15 (12.93%) Containerisation
3 15 (12.93%) Test Automation
4 11 (9.48%) CI/CD
4 11 (9.48%) E-business
5 10 (8.62%) Actionable Insight
5 10 (8.62%) Data Analysis
5 10 (8.62%) DataOps
5 10 (8.62%) Project Management
5 10 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (7.76%) Configuration Management
6 9 (7.76%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (7.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (7.76%) Logistics
7 8 (6.90%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (6.90%) Product Backlog
7 8 (6.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.07%) Python
2 12 (10.34%) Java
3 7 (6.03%) SQL
4 4 (3.45%) C#
4 4 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 3 (2.59%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.59%) VBA
6 2 (1.72%) C
6 2 (1.72%) C++
6 2 (1.72%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.72%) Ruby
7 1 (0.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.48%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.03%) Degree
4 5 (4.31%) ACCA
5 4 (3.45%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.45%) CISSP
6 3 (2.59%) CIMA
6 3 (2.59%) CISM
7 2 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.72%) GPEN
7 2 (1.72%) GWAPT
7 2 (1.72%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.72%) OSCE
7 2 (1.72%) OSCP
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.86%) CFCE
8 1 (0.86%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.86%) GCIH
8 1 (0.86%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.31%) QA
2 3 (2.59%) NIST
3 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.72%) GDPR
3 2 (1.72%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.72%) IFRS
3 2 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.72%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.86%) NCSC
4 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (12.07%) Docker
2 6 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.72%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.86%) Apache Flume
5 1 (0.86%) Postfix
5 1 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (12.93%) Kubernetes
2 13 (11.21%) Ansible
3 9 (7.76%) Terraform
4 6 (5.17%) Docker Swarm
4 6 (5.17%) Podman
5 3 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.72%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.72%) Puppet
6 2 (1.72%) SCCM
7 1 (0.86%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.86%) Grafana
7 1 (0.86%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (25.86%) Oracle
2 15 (12.93%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.93%) Splunk
3 10 (8.62%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.45%) VMware
5 3 (2.59%) IFS
5 3 (2.59%) SAP
5 3 (2.59%) UiPath
6 2 (1.72%) Remedy
6 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.86%) BMC
7 1 (0.86%) Cisco
7 1 (0.86%) Cramer
7 1 (0.86%) Darktrace
7 1 (0.86%) Google
7 1 (0.86%) Infoblox
7 1 (0.86%) Kenna
7 1 (0.86%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.86%) StreamSets