Analytical Thinking Contract Job Trends in the South East

Analytical Thinking
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 160 151 192
Rank change year-on-year -9 +41 +26
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 32 18 18
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.73% 0.48% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 0.54% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 13 13
10th Percentile £334 £300 £143
25th Percentile £370 £304 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £410 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -21.90% +20.00%
75th Percentile £528 £590 £650
90th Percentile £550 £598 £690
England median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% +4.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £44.11
25th Percentile - - £46.51
Median hourly rate - - £51.06
75th Percentile - - £61.79
90th Percentile - - £67.92
England median hourly rate £18.82 £25.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -24.72% -43.00% +41.48%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,726 3,307 4,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.28% 88.12% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,436 2,059 2,912
10th Percentile £221 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 125 234
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.33 £16.60
25th Percentile £17.00 £26.00 £25.43
Median hourly rate £22.50 £47.78 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.91% -10.69% +42.67%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.43 £65.71
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.95 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Thinking relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Analytical Thinking job vacancy trend in the South East

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytical Thinking.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in the South East over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the South East

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytical Thinking.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Analytical Thinking

Analytical Thinking
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 Thinking within the South East region over the 6 months to 19 December 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 +2 28 £430 -21.82% 5
Berkshire +6 26 £430 +39.72% 2
Hampshire - 3 £320 - 3
Surrey +4 1 - - 1
Buckinghamshire -1 1 £465 -21.19%
Oxfordshire - 1 £425 - 3
Analytical Thinking
England

Analytical Thinking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP QM
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (9.38%) Azure
3 2 (6.25%) Azure API Management
3 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Functions
3 2 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.25%) GitHub
3 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (6.25%) Serverless
4 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (46.88%) Network Security
2 2 (6.25%) SSL
3 1 (3.13%) Firewall
3 1 (3.13%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (87.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (3.13%) Billing
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) SIEM Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Analyst
5 2 (6.25%) Active Directory Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) SOC Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Administration Assistant
6 1 (3.13%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Head of Strategy
6 1 (3.13%) Senior
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) .NET
1 2 (6.25%) .NET Core
1 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
1 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
1 2 (6.25%) ASP.NET
1 2 (6.25%) GraphQL
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Graph
1 2 (6.25%) OAuth
1 2 (6.25%) OAuth2
1 2 (6.25%) OpenID
1 2 (6.25%) REST
1 2 (6.25%) SAML
2 1 (3.13%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (34.38%) Cyber Security Posture
2 5 (15.63%) Management Information System
3 4 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 2 (6.25%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.13%) Clustering
5 1 (3.13%) Insider Threat
5 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
2 2 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (71.88%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (53.13%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (50.00%) SIEM
4 12 (37.50%) Threat Detection
5 10 (31.25%) DevOps
5 10 (31.25%) Validation
6 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 8 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 7 (21.88%) Incident Response
8 6 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
8 6 (18.75%) High Availability
8 6 (18.75%) Load Testing
8 6 (18.75%) Performance Testing
8 6 (18.75%) Risk Analysis
8 6 (18.75%) Scenario Testing
8 6 (18.75%) Test Scripting
8 6 (18.75%) Verification and Validation
9 5 (15.63%) Analytics
10 4 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (12.50%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 23 (71.88%) Python
2 17 (53.13%) PowerShell
3 9 (28.13%) Kusto Query Language
4 7 (21.88%) SQL
5 2 (6.25%) Bash
5 2 (6.25%) C#
5 2 (6.25%) Java
5 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 20 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 16 (50.00%) CISSP
4 15 (46.88%) GIAC
5 14 (43.75%) CEH
6 6 (18.75%) AWS Certification
7 3 (9.38%) Degree
8 2 (6.25%) CFCE
8 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
8 2 (6.25%) GCFA
8 2 (6.25%) GCIA
8 2 (6.25%) GCIH
9 1 (3.13%) CCNA
9 1 (3.13%) CISA
9 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (3.13%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.25%) GDPR
2 2 (6.25%) HIPAA
2 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.25%) NIST
3 1 (3.13%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (31.25%) Kibana
2 4 (12.50%) QRadar
3 2 (6.25%) Terraform
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 1 (3.13%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) FireEye
1 10 (31.25%) Tanium
2 6 (18.75%) ArcSight
2 6 (18.75%) Splunk
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) LogRhythm
5 1 (3.13%) Cisco
5 1 (3.13%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.13%) Intel
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.13%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds