Analytical Thinking Contracts in Reading

Analytical Thinking
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 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 59 - 81
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.17% - 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% - 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £374
25th Percentile £475 - £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £463
Median % change year-on-year - - +42.31%
75th Percentile £525 - £546
90th Percentile - - £560
Berkshire median daily rate £500 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +50.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 555 1,075 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 92.96% 90.18% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 581 620
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £619 £660
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 46 23
10th Percentile £33.82 £27.58 £45.50
25th Percentile £41.05 £53.74 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £62.07 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.46% -4.50% +132.14%
75th Percentile £65.14 £82.55 £74.40
90th Percentile £72.37 £87.50 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £61.50 £61.60 £57.82
% change year-on-year -0.17% +6.54% +174.67%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in Reading

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Thinking in Reading

Analytical Thinking
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA