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 in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 21 15
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 +13
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 341 427 519
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 10.32% 7.55% 8.74%
As % of the General category 17.14% 15.41% 15.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 257 366
10th Percentile £234 £263 £340
25th Percentile £400 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.13% +11.16%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £676
90th Percentile £650 £717 £790
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 30 33
10th Percentile - £7.43 £13.90
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £21.05
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -59.61% +189.95%
75th Percentile £32.31 £27.67 £58.75
90th Percentile £70.07 £43.75 £60.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £19.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +66.67% -51.25% +21.21%

All General Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,989 2,771 3,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 60.22% 48.99% 58.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,240 1,508 2,306
10th Percentile £204 £213 £245
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £608 £627
90th Percentile £675 £688 £721
England median daily rate £517 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -3.00% -3.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 328 167
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.88 £15.21
25th Percentile £14.42 £18.35 £22.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.07% -10.00% +150.00%
75th Percentile £52.30 £61.60 £64.56
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.33 £73.73
England median hourly rate £27.13 £33.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -17.80% +10.00% +27.13%

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 8 July 2025.

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 8 July 2025.

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 8 July 2025. 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 +8 216 £500 -0.20% 289
Berkshire +6 162 £524 -10.81% 136
Hampshire +8 70 £515 -10.82% 136
Buckinghamshire 0 40 £393 +6.08% 82
Surrey +5 27 £415 +4.80% 92
West Sussex +8 15 £405 -4.71% 49
Oxfordshire +10 14 £375 -18.92% 76
Kent -8 5 £550 +6.54% 74
Home Counties - 3 £550 -
Sussex +6 2 - - 33
East Sussex -11 1 £375 +8.30% 33
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 12 (3.52%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (0.88%) Confluence
4 2 (0.59%) Anypoint
4 2 (0.59%) Apache
4 2 (0.59%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (0.59%) CMS
4 2 (0.59%) IIS
4 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.59%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.29%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.29%) Mule
5 1 (0.29%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 37 (10.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.93%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.17%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.29%) CATIA
6 1 (0.29%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (3.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
3 10 (2.93%) Oracle EBS R12
3 10 (2.93%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (1.76%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (1.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (1.17%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.88%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.59%) Maximo
7 2 (0.59%) Primavera
7 2 (0.59%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.29%) BPCS
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle ASCP
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle SCM
8 1 (0.29%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 56 (16.42%) Azure
2 51 (14.96%) AWS
3 32 (9.38%) Power Platform
4 16 (4.69%) GCP
5 13 (3.81%) SaaS
6 8 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.35%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.05%) OCI
8 6 (1.76%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.76%) Serverless
9 4 (1.17%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.17%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.17%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.17%) Azure Storage
9 4 (1.17%) Cloudflare
9 4 (1.17%) dbt
9 4 (1.17%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.17%) GitHub
9 4 (1.17%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (6.16%) Firewall
2 17 (4.99%) VPN
3 12 (3.52%) Network Security
4 8 (2.35%) SAN
4 8 (2.35%) WAN
5 7 (2.05%) NAS
6 6 (1.76%) MPLS
7 5 (1.47%) LAN
8 4 (1.17%) Intrusion Detection
8 4 (1.17%) Radio Access Network
8 4 (1.17%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.88%) BGP
9 3 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (0.88%) Wireless
9 3 (0.88%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.59%) Broadband
10 2 (0.59%) OSPF
10 2 (0.59%) SIGTRAN
10 2 (0.59%) SMS
10 2 (0.59%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (9.09%) Power BI
2 15 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (3.81%) Relational Database
4 11 (3.23%) Tableau
5 10 (2.93%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.35%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.35%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.47%) MySQL
8 4 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.88%) Crystal Reports
9 3 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.88%) Power Query
10 2 (0.59%) Big Data
10 2 (0.59%) Metadata
10 2 (0.59%) Qlik Sense
11 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.29%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 24 (7.04%) JIRA
2 15 (4.40%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.23%) Cucumber
4 10 (2.93%) GitLab
4 10 (2.93%) SonarQube
5 9 (2.64%) Git
5 9 (2.64%) REST Assured
5 9 (2.64%) Selenium
6 3 (0.88%) ERwin
7 2 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.59%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.29%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.29%) JUnit
8 1 (0.29%) Mockito
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.29%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.29%) Toad
8 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 203 (59.53%) Social Skills
2 80 (23.46%) Finance
3 31 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 20 (5.87%) Organisational Skills
5 19 (5.57%) Retail
6 14 (4.11%) Public Sector
7 11 (3.23%) Law
8 8 (2.35%) Automotive
8 8 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.05%) Legal
9 7 (2.05%) Marketing
10 6 (1.76%) Billing
10 6 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.47%) Agriculture
11 5 (1.47%) Police
12 4 (1.17%) Back Office
12 4 (1.17%) Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (21.99%) Analyst
2 29 (8.50%) Senior
3 24 (7.04%) Developer
4 21 (6.16%) Architect
5 19 (5.57%) Business Analyst
5 19 (5.57%) Consultant
6 18 (5.28%) Lead
7 17 (4.99%) Data Analyst
7 17 (4.99%) Project Manager
8 15 (4.40%) Network Engineer
9 13 (3.81%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (2.93%) Data Engineer
11 9 (2.64%) Senior Analyst
12 8 (2.35%) Financial Analyst
12 8 (2.35%) Resilience Manager
12 8 (2.35%) Service Manager
12 8 (2.35%) Support Engineer
13 7 (2.05%) Administrator
13 7 (2.05%) Network Architect
13 7 (2.05%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.28%) REST
2 10 (2.93%) Java EE
2 10 (2.93%) Web Services
3 9 (2.64%) ARM Templates
4 8 (2.35%) CSS
4 8 (2.35%) HTML
5 7 (2.05%) JSON
5 7 (2.05%) React
6 6 (1.76%) OAuth
7 5 (1.47%) Lightning Web Components
7 5 (1.47%) SOAP
8 4 (1.17%) .NET
8 4 (1.17%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.17%) Kafka
8 4 (1.17%) TensorFlow
8 4 (1.17%) XML
9 3 (0.88%) PyTorch
9 3 (0.88%) SAML
9 3 (0.88%) SAP Fiori
9 3 (0.88%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.28%) Management Information System
2 16 (4.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (3.52%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.23%) Data Centre
5 11 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.64%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.64%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (2.35%) Operational Technology
8 6 (1.76%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 5 (1.47%) CSOC
9 5 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (1.47%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.17%) Life Science
11 3 (0.88%) CMDB
11 3 (0.88%) Cyberattack
12 2 (0.59%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 28 (8.21%) Windows
2 11 (3.23%) Linux
3 5 (1.47%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.59%) Unix
4 2 (0.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.29%) Android
5 1 (0.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (53.96%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (14.66%) Agile
3 47 (13.78%) Migration
4 44 (12.90%) Validation
5 40 (11.73%) DevOps
6 38 (11.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 37 (10.85%) Business Intelligence
7 37 (10.85%) Decision-Making
8 34 (9.97%) Analytics
9 30 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (8.80%) Project Management
10 27 (7.92%) Data Migration
10 27 (7.92%) Roadmaps
11 26 (7.62%) ITIL
11 26 (7.62%) Time Management
12 25 (7.33%) Actionable Insight
13 24 (7.04%) Collaborative Working
13 24 (7.04%) Computer Science
13 24 (7.04%) Data Modelling
14 22 (6.45%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (17.89%) SQL
2 42 (12.32%) Python
3 30 (8.80%) Java
4 9 (2.64%) JavaScript
5 8 (2.35%) C#
5 8 (2.35%) PowerShell
6 7 (2.05%) R
7 5 (1.47%) Apex Code
7 5 (1.47%) C++
8 4 (1.17%) C
9 3 (0.88%) Scala
9 3 (0.88%) VBA
10 2 (0.59%) Bash
10 2 (0.59%) PHP
10 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.29%) DataWeave
11 1 (0.29%) Korn
11 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.29%) Ruby
11 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 69 (20.23%) Security Cleared
2 55 (16.13%) Degree
2 55 (16.13%) SC Cleared
3 21 (6.16%) Cisco Certification
4 18 (5.28%) ACCA
4 18 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (4.99%) DV Cleared
6 16 (4.69%) CIMA
7 15 (4.40%) CCNP
7 15 (4.40%) Master's Degree
8 13 (3.81%) AWS Certification
8 13 (3.81%) CCNA
8 13 (3.81%) CISSP
9 10 (2.93%) CISM
10 8 (2.35%) PMI Certification
10 8 (2.35%) PMP
11 7 (2.05%) GIAC
12 6 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.76%) CEH
12 6 (1.76%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (8.21%) Data Quality
2 26 (7.62%) QA
3 17 (4.99%) GDPR
4 14 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (4.11%) SLA
5 8 (2.35%) NIST
5 8 (2.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.76%) NCSC
7 5 (1.47%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.47%) PMO
8 3 (0.88%) ECSS
8 3 (0.88%) EU AI Act
8 3 (0.88%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.59%) GRC
9 2 (0.59%) IFRS
9 2 (0.59%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.29%) ITGC
10 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 16 (4.69%) Docker
2 10 (2.93%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.88%) vSphere
6 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.29%) Postfix
6 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.29%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 18 (5.28%) Kubernetes
2 15 (4.40%) Ansible
3 12 (3.52%) Terraform
4 9 (2.64%) Docker Swarm
4 9 (2.64%) Podman
5 5 (1.47%) SCCM
6 3 (0.88%) SCOM
6 3 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.59%) Amdocs OSS
7 2 (0.59%) CSIRT
7 2 (0.59%) Grafana
7 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.59%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.59%) vRealize
7 2 (0.59%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (0.29%) CASB
8 1 (0.29%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.29%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 63 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 36 (10.56%) Oracle
3 29 (8.50%) SAP
4 18 (5.28%) Cisco
5 15 (4.40%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.52%) Salesforce
7 10 (2.93%) Fortinet
8 8 (2.35%) Google
9 7 (2.05%) F5
9 7 (2.05%) IFS
9 7 (2.05%) Juniper
9 7 (2.05%) MuleSoft
9 7 (2.05%) Remedy
9 7 (2.05%) VMware
10 6 (1.76%) Citrix
10 6 (1.76%) Fujitsu
10 6 (1.76%) Workday
11 5 (1.47%) CheckPoint
11 5 (1.47%) NetApp
11 5 (1.47%) Zscaler