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

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 13 11
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +12
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 92 126 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 15.38% 11.06% 11.28%
As % of the General category 24.93% 19.66% 18.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 66 87
10th Percentile £451 £406 £404
25th Percentile £475 £500 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +8.70% +27.78%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £524 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.67% +9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.75 £14.50 -
Median hourly rate £28.50 £15.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% - -
75th Percentile £30.25 £15.50 -
90th Percentile - £19.55 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +50.28% -14.00% -

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 369 641 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 61.71% 56.28% 60.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 297 386
10th Percentile £350 £240 £323
25th Percentile £450 £448 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £698 £713
Berkshire median daily rate £508 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 32 11
10th Percentile - £14.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £50.89 £51.25
Median hourly rate £20.75 £61.60 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -66.31% -4.75% +130.98%
75th Percentile £38.42 £87.46 £68.88
90th Percentile £60.50 £87.50 £74.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.18 £61.60 £49.73
% change year-on-year -47.76% +23.87% +121.02%

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 August 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 8 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (10.87%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (9.78%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (9.78%) Oracle EBS R12
3 6 (6.52%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (2.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (1.09%) Primavera
5 1 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (1.09%) SAP QM
5 1 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.52%) AWS
2 18 (19.57%) Azure
3 9 (9.78%) SaaS
4 8 (8.70%) GCP
5 7 (7.61%) OCI
5 7 (7.61%) Power Platform
6 4 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (4.35%) dbt
6 4 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (1.09%) AWS KMS
9 1 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.09%) GitHub
9 1 (1.09%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.35%) Firewall
1 4 (4.35%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (3.26%) Network Security
3 2 (2.17%) 5G
3 2 (2.17%) Broadband
3 2 (2.17%) Diameter Protocol
3 2 (2.17%) SIGTRAN
3 2 (2.17%) SMS
3 2 (2.17%) SS7
3 2 (2.17%) VoLTE
3 2 (2.17%) VoWiFi
3 2 (2.17%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.61%) Power BI
2 5 (5.43%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 4 (4.35%) Tableau
4 3 (3.26%) Power Query
5 1 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (15.22%) JIRA
2 8 (8.70%) Cucumber
3 7 (7.61%) Jenkins
3 7 (7.61%) SonarQube
4 6 (6.52%) Git
4 6 (6.52%) GitLab
4 6 (6.52%) REST Assured
4 6 (6.52%) Selenium
5 2 (2.17%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.09%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.09%) DbUnit
6 1 (1.09%) jMock
6 1 (1.09%) JUnit
6 1 (1.09%) Maven
6 1 (1.09%) Metasploit
6 1 (1.09%) Mockito
6 1 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
General
1 52 (56.52%) Social Skills
2 22 (23.91%) Telecoms
3 20 (21.74%) Finance
4 6 (6.52%) Law
5 4 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.35%) Legal
5 4 (4.35%) Police
5 4 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.26%) Billing
7 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (25.00%) Analyst
2 10 (10.87%) Senior
3 8 (8.70%) Resilience Manager
4 7 (7.61%) Architect
4 7 (7.61%) Developer
5 6 (6.52%) Security Architect
6 5 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Java Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Java Software Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Junior
6 5 (5.43%) Junior Analyst
6 5 (5.43%) Junior Support Analyst
6 5 (5.43%) Portfolio Analyst
6 5 (5.43%) Software Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Support Analyst
7 4 (4.35%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Lead
7 4 (4.35%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.61%) REST
2 6 (6.52%) ARM Templates
2 6 (6.52%) Java EE
3 3 (3.26%) Google JAX
3 3 (3.26%) JAX
3 3 (3.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 3 (3.26%) PyTorch
3 3 (3.26%) scikit-learn
3 3 (3.26%) TensorFlow
3 3 (3.26%) Web Services
4 2 (2.17%) CSS
4 2 (2.17%) HTML
4 2 (2.17%) OAuth
4 2 (2.17%) Playwright
5 1 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.09%) JPA
5 1 (1.09%) OpenID
5 1 (1.09%) RESTful
5 1 (1.09%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.09%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.52%) Management Information System
1 6 (6.52%) Security Posture
1 6 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.26%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.26%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.26%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.17%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (2.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.17%) Cyberattack
4 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.17%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.09%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.26%) Linux
2 2 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (58.70%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (21.74%) DevOps
3 15 (16.30%) Decision-Making
3 15 (16.30%) Disaster Recovery
3 15 (16.30%) Test Automation
3 15 (16.30%) Validation
4 12 (13.04%) CI/CD
4 12 (13.04%) SIEM
5 11 (11.96%) Agile
6 10 (10.87%) Analytical Thinking
6 10 (10.87%) ERP
6 10 (10.87%) Security Architecture
6 10 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (10.87%) Workflow
7 9 (9.78%) Configuration Management
7 9 (9.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (9.78%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (9.78%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (9.78%) Roadmaps
7 9 (9.78%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.57%) SQL
2 17 (18.48%) Python
3 11 (11.96%) Java
4 4 (4.35%) C
4 4 (4.35%) C++
4 4 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.26%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.26%) R
5 3 (3.26%) VBA
6 2 (2.17%) C#
6 2 (2.17%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (1.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.78%) Degree
4 8 (8.70%) AWS Certification
5 7 (7.61%) CISSP
6 5 (5.43%) Master's Degree
7 4 (4.35%) GCIH
8 3 (3.26%) ACCA
8 3 (3.26%) CIMA
8 3 (3.26%) CISM
8 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.26%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.26%) GCFA
8 3 (3.26%) GCIA
9 2 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.17%) CCSP
9 2 (2.17%) CEH
9 2 (2.17%) CFCE
9 2 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (2.17%) ECSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (7.61%) GDPR
2 7 (7.61%) QA
2 7 (7.61%) SLA
3 6 (6.52%) NIST
3 6 (6.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 5 (5.43%) Data Quality
5 3 (3.26%) EU AI Act
5 3 (3.26%) NCSC
5 3 (3.26%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.17%) HIPAA
6 2 (2.17%) PSD2
System Software
1 9 (9.78%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.09%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 11 (11.96%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.61%) Terraform
3 6 (6.52%) Ansible
3 6 (6.52%) Docker Swarm
3 6 (6.52%) Podman
4 2 (2.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
5 1 (1.09%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (1.09%) CSIRT
5 1 (1.09%) Grafana
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (19.57%) Oracle
2 17 (18.48%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.70%) IFS
4 6 (6.52%) Splunk
5 4 (4.35%) SAP
6 3 (3.26%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.17%) IBM
7 2 (2.17%) Remedy
8 1 (1.09%) ArcSight
8 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.09%) Cisco
8 1 (1.09%) Cramer
8 1 (1.09%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.09%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.09%) Jaspersoft
8 1 (1.09%) Kenna
8 1 (1.09%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.09%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow