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

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 18 16
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +13
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 304 443 506
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 10.27% 7.89% 9.02%
As % of the General category 16.81% 15.89% 15.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 258 358
10th Percentile £250 £269 £344
25th Percentile £408 £380 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.54% -3.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £676
90th Percentile £650 £725 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 38 32
10th Percentile - £7.43 £15.27
25th Percentile £14.20 £13.10 £22.10
Median hourly rate £18.50 £18.18 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -66.19% +70.63%
75th Percentile £28.00 £28.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £43.15 £54.13 £60.00
England median hourly rate £31.50 £19.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.79% -55.81% +21.99%

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 1,808 2,788 3,273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 61.06% 49.66% 58.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,522 2,214
10th Percentile £213 £213 £239
25th Percentile £375 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £656 £688 £721
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 342 160
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.88 £15.75
25th Percentile £14.20 £18.32 £22.34
Median hourly rate £19.99 £45.00 £48.54
Median % change year-on-year -55.59% -7.29% +142.70%
75th Percentile £59.06 £61.30 £63.19
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.16 £74.10
England median hourly rate £28.00 £30.50 £31.96
% change year-on-year -8.20% -4.57% +48.65%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 +4 195 £538 +1.42% 290
Berkshire +3 152 £550 -5.25% 145
Hampshire +7 60 £533 -8.19% 183
Surrey +10 30 £383 -10.00% 73
Buckinghamshire -1 29 £464 +25.27% 71
Oxfordshire +8 14 £413 -15.38% 104
West Sussex +12 10 £444 +4.41% 69
Kent -2 6 £425 -20.19% 64
Home Counties - 3 - -
East Sussex -8 2 £419 +34.00% 33
Sussex +5 1 - - 49
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 6 (1.97%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.32%) Confluence
3 2 (0.66%) Anypoint
3 2 (0.66%) Apache
3 2 (0.66%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (0.66%) CMS
3 2 (0.66%) IIS
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.66%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.33%) IBM Domino
4 1 (0.33%) Mule
4 1 (0.33%) Mule ESB
Applications
1 22 (7.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (1.32%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe Captivate
6 1 (0.33%) CATIA
6 1 (0.33%) Trello
Business Applications
1 23 (7.57%) Oracle EBS
2 20 (6.58%) Oracle EBS R12
3 11 (3.62%) Maximo
4 10 (3.29%) Oracle ASCP
5 9 (2.96%) SAP S/4HANA
6 8 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (1.32%) Oracle Assets
7 4 (1.32%) Oracle Financials
7 4 (1.32%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 3 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.66%) Remedy ITSM
9 2 (0.66%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.66%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 1 (0.33%) BPCS
10 1 (0.33%) iTrent
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle SCM
10 1 (0.33%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 57 (18.75%) Azure
2 41 (13.49%) AWS
3 19 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 11 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (3.29%) SaaS
6 8 (2.63%) OCI
7 6 (1.97%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.97%) GCP
7 6 (1.97%) Serverless
8 5 (1.64%) Azure API Management
8 5 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.32%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.32%) Cloudflare
9 4 (1.32%) IaaS
10 3 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.99%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 20 (6.58%) Firewall
2 17 (5.59%) VPN
3 12 (3.95%) Network Security
4 8 (2.63%) WAN
5 7 (2.30%) MPLS
6 5 (1.64%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.32%) BGP
7 4 (1.32%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.32%) LAN
7 4 (1.32%) Radio Access Network
8 3 (0.99%) Broadband
8 3 (0.99%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.99%) Wireless
8 3 (0.99%) Wireshark
9 2 (0.66%) OSPF
9 2 (0.66%) SAN
9 2 (0.66%) SIGTRAN
9 2 (0.66%) SMS
9 2 (0.66%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.66%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (5.92%) Power BI
2 12 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.63%) Data Lake
3 8 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.30%) Relational Database
4 7 (2.30%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.64%) Tableau
6 4 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.32%) MySQL
7 3 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (0.99%) Power Query
7 3 (0.99%) SSDT
8 2 (0.66%) Big Data
8 2 (0.66%) Metadata
8 2 (0.66%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.33%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.33%) PowerPivot
9 1 (0.33%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 25 (8.22%) JIRA
2 15 (4.93%) Jenkins
3 13 (4.28%) Selenium
4 11 (3.62%) Cucumber
5 10 (3.29%) GitLab
5 10 (3.29%) SonarQube
6 9 (2.96%) REST Assured
7 7 (2.30%) Git
8 4 (1.32%) JUnit
9 3 (0.99%) ERwin
10 2 (0.66%) Appium
10 2 (0.66%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.66%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.66%) TestRail
11 1 (0.33%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.33%) Burp Suite
11 1 (0.33%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.33%) DbUnit
11 1 (0.33%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 192 (63.16%) Social Skills
2 57 (18.75%) Finance
3 23 (7.57%) Telecoms
4 18 (5.92%) Retail
5 16 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (3.62%) Marketing
7 10 (3.29%) Law
8 9 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (2.96%) Public Sector
9 8 (2.63%) Legal
9 8 (2.63%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.64%) Automotive
12 5 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.64%) Police
13 4 (1.32%) Agriculture
13 4 (1.32%) Billing
14 3 (0.99%) Banking
15 2 (0.66%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 66 (21.71%) Analyst
2 27 (8.88%) Senior
3 26 (8.55%) Consultant
4 21 (6.91%) Developer
5 19 (6.25%) Architect
6 16 (5.26%) Business Analyst
6 16 (5.26%) Oracle Consultant
6 16 (5.26%) Project Manager
7 15 (4.93%) Lead
7 15 (4.93%) Network Engineer
8 13 (4.28%) Data Analyst
8 13 (4.28%) Functional Consultant
8 13 (4.28%) Oracle Functional Consultant
9 12 (3.95%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.29%) Support Engineer
11 8 (2.63%) Resilience Manager
11 8 (2.63%) Security Analyst
11 8 (2.63%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (2.30%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.30%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.25%) REST
2 10 (3.29%) Java EE
2 10 (3.29%) Web Services
3 9 (2.96%) ARM Templates
3 9 (2.96%) JSON
4 8 (2.63%) CSS
4 8 (2.63%) HTML
5 7 (2.30%) OAuth
6 5 (1.64%) .NET
6 5 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.32%) SOAP
7 4 (1.32%) XML
8 3 (0.99%) Kafka
8 3 (0.99%) React
8 3 (0.99%) YAML
9 2 (0.66%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.66%) OpenID
9 2 (0.66%) RAML
9 2 (0.66%) RESTful
9 2 (0.66%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.92%) Management Information System
2 14 (4.61%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.28%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (3.62%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (3.62%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.29%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (2.96%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.63%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.63%) CSOC
7 8 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.30%) Operational Technology
8 7 (2.30%) Public Cloud
8 7 (2.30%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.64%) Data Structures
10 4 (1.32%) Cyberattack
10 4 (1.32%) Life Science
11 3 (0.99%) CMDB
11 3 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.66%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.24%) Windows
2 9 (2.96%) Linux
3 5 (1.64%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.99%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.33%) Android
6 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (59.87%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (16.45%) Agile
3 43 (14.14%) DevOps
4 39 (12.83%) Migration
4 39 (12.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 35 (11.51%) Project Management
6 32 (10.53%) Validation
7 30 (9.87%) Analytics
8 25 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
9 24 (7.89%) Roadmaps
10 23 (7.57%) Business Intelligence
10 23 (7.57%) Computer Science
10 23 (7.57%) ITIL
10 23 (7.57%) Project Delivery
11 22 (7.24%) CI/CD
11 22 (7.24%) Data Migration
11 22 (7.24%) SIEM
11 22 (7.24%) Test Automation
11 22 (7.24%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (17.43%) SQL
2 33 (10.86%) Python
3 23 (7.57%) Java
4 9 (2.96%) C#
4 9 (2.96%) PowerShell
5 8 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.32%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.32%) R
7 3 (0.99%) Scala
7 3 (0.99%) VBA
8 2 (0.66%) Bash
8 2 (0.66%) C++
8 2 (0.66%) PHP
9 1 (0.33%) C
9 1 (0.33%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.33%) Korn
9 1 (0.33%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.33%) Ruby
9 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 58 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 47 (15.46%) SC Cleared
3 40 (13.16%) Degree
4 21 (6.91%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 16 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (4.93%) CCNP
8 14 (4.61%) CISSP
9 13 (4.28%) CCNA
10 11 (3.62%) CISM
11 9 (2.96%) Master's Degree
11 9 (2.96%) PMP
12 8 (2.63%) GIAC
12 8 (2.63%) PMI Certification
13 7 (2.30%) AWS Certification
14 6 (1.97%) JNCIS
15 5 (1.64%) ACCA
15 5 (1.64%) CCIE
15 5 (1.64%) CEH
16 4 (1.32%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.55%) QA
2 18 (5.92%) Data Quality
3 17 (5.59%) SLA
4 11 (3.62%) GDPR
5 8 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.63%) NIST
6 6 (1.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (1.64%) NCSC
7 5 (1.64%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.99%) PMO
9 2 (0.66%) IFRS
10 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.33%) COBIT
10 1 (0.33%) COSO
10 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.33%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.33%) ITGC
10 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 17 (5.59%) Docker
2 9 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.99%) VMware NSX
4 3 (0.99%) vSphere
5 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.33%) Postfix
5 1 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 16 (5.26%) Ansible
1 16 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.28%) Terraform
3 9 (2.96%) Docker Swarm
3 9 (2.96%) Podman
4 4 (1.32%) SCCM
4 4 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.99%) SCOM
6 2 (0.66%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (0.66%) CSIRT
6 2 (0.66%) Grafana
6 2 (0.66%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.66%) vRealize
6 2 (0.66%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.33%) CASB
7 1 (0.33%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 51 (16.78%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.13%) Oracle
3 23 (7.57%) SAP
4 17 (5.59%) Cisco
5 10 (3.29%) Fortinet
6 9 (2.96%) ServiceNow
7 7 (2.30%) Juniper
7 7 (2.30%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.97%) Citrix
8 6 (1.97%) F5
8 6 (1.97%) Fujitsu
9 5 (1.64%) Adobe
9 5 (1.64%) CheckPoint
9 5 (1.64%) Google
9 5 (1.64%) IBM
9 5 (1.64%) VMware
9 5 (1.64%) Workday
9 5 (1.64%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.32%) Dell
10 4 (1.32%) HP