Analytical Skills Contracts in the South East

Analytical Skills
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 19 31
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 412 501 507
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 7.46% 8.59% 6.53%
As % of the General category 14.64% 14.70% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 370 326
10th Percentile £270 £323 £258
25th Percentile £405 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £536 £495
Median % change year-on-year +0.23% +8.33% +4.21%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £588
90th Percentile £725 £784 £675
England median daily rate £538 £533 £525
% change year-on-year +0.84% +1.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 27 28
10th Percentile £7.43 £19.49 £12.25
25th Percentile £13.05 £22.16 £14.53
Median hourly rate £18.18 £53.50 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.03% +38.96% +43.31%
75th Percentile £24.28 £58.67 £46.88
90th Percentile £53.88 £62.40 £58.65
England median hourly rate £18.50 £35.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -47.89% -5.33% +78.57%

All General Skills
South East

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,814 3,408 4,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 50.93% 58.47% 54.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,539 2,321 2,793
10th Percentile £205 £245 £213
25th Percentile £355 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +9.29%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £660
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 166 220
10th Percentile £12.91 £18.50 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.67 £25.00 £14.45
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £32.56
90th Percentile £70.29 £73.11 £48.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the South East

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the South East

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the South East

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the South East

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the South East

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Thames Valley +2 242 £525 - 224
Berkshire +1 186 £575 +9.52% 103
Hampshire -4 103 £608 +10.45% 132
Buckinghamshire +13 47 £370 -26.00% 55
Surrey -6 37 £463 -19.57% 66
West Sussex +3 10 £425 -5.56% 34
Kent +2 10 £533 +34.81% 53
Oxfordshire +5 9 £488 -25.00% 68
East Sussex +4 8 £313 -55.36% 29
Middlesex +4 4 £275 -64.52% 3
Sussex - 1 £600 - 3
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 22 (5.34%) Confluence
2 12 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.94%) SAS
4 5 (1.21%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.73%) Appian
6 2 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.49%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.49%) nginx
6 2 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.24%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
Applications
1 36 (8.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (7.28%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.73%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.73%) Sketch
5 3 (0.73%) SPSS
6 2 (0.49%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.24%) Abaqus
Business Applications
1 11 (2.67%) Oracle EBS R12
2 10 (2.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (1.70%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.46%) Primavera
4 6 (1.46%) SAP ERP
5 5 (1.21%) Maximo
6 3 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.49%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.24%) Epicor Tropos
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.24%) SAP PM
8 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (19.17%) Azure
2 30 (7.28%) Power Platform
3 28 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (6.55%) AWS
4 27 (6.55%) Snowflake
5 17 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (3.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 13 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
7 13 (3.16%) Entra ID
8 11 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (2.67%) Serverless
9 9 (2.18%) Azure Functions
10 5 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.21%) Power Automate
10 5 (1.21%) Smartsheet
11 4 (0.97%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 4 (0.97%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (0.97%) Figma
11 4 (0.97%) PowerApps
11 4 (0.97%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.91%) Firewall
2 10 (2.43%) DNS
2 10 (2.43%) Network Security
3 9 (2.18%) DHCP
3 9 (2.18%) VPN
3 9 (2.18%) WAN
4 6 (1.46%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (0.97%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (0.97%) Internet
5 4 (0.97%) MPLS
5 4 (0.97%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (0.97%) Wireless
6 3 (0.73%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.49%) 4G
7 2 (0.49%) 5G
7 2 (0.49%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (0.49%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.77%) Tableau
2 30 (7.28%) Power BI
3 13 (3.16%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.67%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.21%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.97%) Power Query
6 4 (0.97%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 3 (0.73%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.73%) MySQL
7 3 (0.73%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.73%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (0.49%) Big Data
8 2 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.49%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.24%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (9.47%) JIRA
2 36 (8.74%) Selenium
3 27 (6.55%) Jenkins
4 26 (6.31%) Cucumber
5 24 (5.83%) REST Assured
5 24 (5.83%) SonarQube
6 15 (3.64%) Git
6 15 (3.64%) GitLab
7 9 (2.18%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (1.46%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.49%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.49%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.24%) ERwin
10 1 (0.24%) JUnit
10 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.24%) TestNG
10 1 (0.24%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.24%) Xcode
General
1 230 (55.83%) Social Skills
2 78 (18.93%) Finance
3 37 (8.98%) Legal
4 23 (5.58%) Telecoms
5 20 (4.85%) Law
6 19 (4.61%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (4.37%) Retail
8 14 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (3.16%) Military
9 13 (3.16%) Police
9 13 (3.16%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.91%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.70%) Marketing
13 6 (1.46%) Billing
14 4 (0.97%) Local Government
15 3 (0.73%) Banking
15 3 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.73%) Electronics
16 2 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 94 (22.82%) Analyst
2 41 (9.95%) Lead
3 40 (9.71%) Developer
4 39 (9.47%) Architect
5 29 (7.04%) Consultant
6 28 (6.80%) Solutions Architect
7 27 (6.55%) Java Architect
8 24 (5.83%) Java Solutions Architect
8 24 (5.83%) Senior
9 21 (5.10%) Data Analyst
10 19 (4.61%) Functional Consultant
11 18 (4.37%) Project Manager
12 17 (4.13%) Java Engineer
13 15 (3.64%) Full Stack Developer
14 14 (3.40%) Test Engineer
15 13 (3.16%) Oracle Consultant
15 13 (3.16%) Oracle Functional Consultant
16 11 (2.67%) Business Analyst
16 11 (2.67%) Integration Engineer
16 11 (2.67%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (7.04%) REST
2 25 (6.07%) Java EE
3 19 (4.61%) HTML
4 16 (3.88%) CSS
5 12 (2.91%) .NET
5 12 (2.91%) ARM Templates
5 12 (2.91%) React
6 11 (2.67%) AngularJS
7 8 (1.94%) ASP.NET
8 7 (1.70%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (1.70%) Node.js
9 5 (1.21%) EDI
9 5 (1.21%) XML
10 4 (0.97%) Web Services
11 3 (0.73%) .NET Framework
11 3 (0.73%) D3.js
11 3 (0.73%) JSON
11 3 (0.73%) PySpark
11 3 (0.73%) SOAP
12 2 (0.49%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 45 (10.92%) Product Ownership
2 25 (6.07%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.13%) Credit Risk
4 13 (3.16%) Client/Server
4 13 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 9 (2.18%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.18%) PKI
6 6 (1.46%) CCTV
6 6 (1.46%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (0.97%) Mobile App
8 4 (0.97%) Operational Technology
8 4 (0.97%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.73%) Cyberattack
9 3 (0.73%) Life Science
9 3 (0.73%) SCADA
9 3 (0.73%) Wiki
10 2 (0.49%) Graphic Design
10 2 (0.49%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 58 (14.08%) Windows
2 33 (8.01%) Linux
3 30 (7.28%) Windows Server
4 20 (4.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.91%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (2.67%) Unix
7 5 (1.21%) Windows 7
7 5 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.97%) Android
9 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.49%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.49%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (62.14%) Problem-Solving
2 110 (26.70%) Agile
3 79 (19.17%) DevOps
4 77 (18.69%) Decision-Making
5 49 (11.89%) Project Management
6 47 (11.41%) Analytics
7 46 (11.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 45 (10.92%) Test Automation
9 42 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
10 33 (8.01%) Business Intelligence
10 33 (8.01%) Customer Service
11 29 (7.04%) Continuous Integration
12 28 (6.80%) Data Analysis
13 27 (6.55%) Actionable Insight
13 27 (6.55%) GAP Analysis
13 27 (6.55%) Translating Business Requirements
14 25 (6.07%) Software Architecture
14 25 (6.07%) Software Engineering
14 25 (6.07%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (5.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 55 (13.35%) Java
2 49 (11.89%) SQL
3 41 (9.95%) Python
4 21 (5.10%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.85%) PowerShell
6 14 (3.40%) VBScript
7 12 (2.91%) C#
8 10 (2.43%) C
9 7 (1.70%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.46%) PHP
11 5 (1.21%) ProC
11 5 (1.21%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.21%) VBA
12 4 (0.97%) R
13 3 (0.73%) Scala
14 2 (0.49%) Ada
14 2 (0.49%) Bash
14 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.49%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 117 (28.40%) Security Cleared
2 86 (20.87%) Degree
3 60 (14.56%) SC Cleared
4 49 (11.89%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (2.18%) MCSA
8 9 (2.18%) MCSE
9 8 (1.94%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.70%) CCNP
11 6 (1.46%) ACCA
11 6 (1.46%) CIMA
12 5 (1.21%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.97%) A+ Certification
13 4 (0.97%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.97%) Postgraduate
14 3 (0.73%) CCIE
14 3 (0.73%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.83%) QA
2 12 (2.91%) PMO
3 9 (2.18%) GDPR
3 9 (2.18%) SLA
4 8 (1.94%) Data Quality
4 8 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.97%) Def Stans
6 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.73%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.49%) DO-178B
8 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.24%) GxP
9 1 (0.24%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.24%) IFRS
9 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (7.77%) Active Directory
2 31 (7.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.16%) Docker
4 8 (1.94%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.70%) vSphere
6 3 (0.73%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.49%) KVM
Systems Management
1 25 (6.07%) Ansible
2 15 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.16%) Terraform
4 12 (2.91%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (2.91%) Podman
5 3 (0.73%) MOM
5 3 (0.73%) SCCM
6 2 (0.49%) IBM BigFix
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.49%) PaperCut
6 2 (0.49%) SCOM
6 2 (0.49%) Tivoli
6 2 (0.49%) vRealize
6 2 (0.49%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.24%) Argo
7 1 (0.24%) Endace
7 1 (0.24%) Grafana
7 1 (0.24%) Istio
7 1 (0.24%) Kibana
7 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 70 (16.99%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.22%) VMware
3 29 (7.04%) Oracle
4 24 (5.83%) Alteryx
5 14 (3.40%) Cisco
6 13 (3.16%) SAP
7 11 (2.67%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.70%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.46%) F5
9 6 (1.46%) OneTrust
9 6 (1.46%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.21%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.97%) Adobe
11 4 (0.97%) Databricks
11 4 (0.97%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.97%) QinetiQ
12 3 (0.73%) ArcSight
12 3 (0.73%) IBM
12 3 (0.73%) Splunk
12 3 (0.73%) Zscaler