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

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 83 89
Rank change year-on-year +31 +6 +4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 12 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.04% 0.54% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 0.63% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 1
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £475 £315 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £340 £575
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% -40.87% +76.92%
75th Percentile £534 £419 £588
90th Percentile £688 £513 -
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £365 £550
% change year-on-year +36.99% -33.64% +72.55%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 539 954 977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 91.82% 85.95% 88.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 518 646
10th Percentile £355 £350 £319
25th Percentile £450 £467 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £584 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.82% +6.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £516 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.18% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 32 21
10th Percentile - £14.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.75 £51.93 £53.50
Median hourly rate £20.38 £61.60 £65.13
Median % change year-on-year -66.92% -5.41% +150.48%
75th Percentile £38.42 £75.40 £74.00
90th Percentile £59.13 £87.46 £75.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -47.97% +2.67% +130.77%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Analytical Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in Reading over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP QM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 12 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Information Security Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Information Specialist
3 2 (16.67%) Security Specialist
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Support
4 1 (8.33%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Procurement Officer
4 1 (8.33%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) SAP QM Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
3 1 (8.33%) Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (58.33%) DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 6 (50.00%) High Availability
3 6 (50.00%) Load Testing
3 6 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 6 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
3 6 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 6 (50.00%) Validation
3 6 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
4 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 3 (25.00%) Security Architecture
6 2 (16.67%) Information Assurance
6 2 (16.67%) Information Security
6 2 (16.67%) Security Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
1 7 (58.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) CISSP
5 1 (8.33%) CCNA
5 1 (8.33%) CEH
5 1 (8.33%) CFCE
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (8.33%) Degree
5 1 (8.33%) GCFA
5 1 (8.33%) GCIA
5 1 (8.33%) GCIH
5 1 (8.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (58.33%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) NCSC
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
1 1 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) ArcSight
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (8.33%) FireEye
2 1 (8.33%) LogRhythm
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) Tanium