Analytical Thinking Contracts in the South East

Analytical Thinking
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 18 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 171 187
Rank change year-on-year +30 +16 +35
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 21 13 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.59% 0.27% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.33% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 19
10th Percentile £328 £261 £308
25th Percentile £400 £310 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £365 £475
Median % change year-on-year +36.99% -23.16% +11.76%
75th Percentile £538 £483 £619
90th Percentile £688 £560 £775
England median daily rate £500 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.27% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £62.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - +44.44% -
75th Percentile - £67.50 £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £25.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year +100.00% -43.00% +37.71%

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 3,187 3,992 4,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.90% 82.56% 89.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,983 2,442 3,352
10th Percentile £250 £255 £250
25th Percentile £400 £404 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% +3.60%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £665 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 315 236
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.38
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £21.18
Median hourly rate £21.90 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.81% +14.70% +94.17%
75th Percentile £51.00 £70.09 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.16 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.75 £40.55
% change year-on-year -41.17% +5.44% +50.28%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in the South East

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the South East

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 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the South East

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the South East

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 18 August 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 +20 17 £500 +9.29% 30
Berkshire +27 15 £500 +9.29% 15
Hampshire - 2 £308 - 6
Surrey +8 1 - - 5
Buckinghamshire +2 1 £525 - 10
West Sussex -2 1 - - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £675 - 7
Analytical Thinking
England

Analytical Thinking
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 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP QM
1 1 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) NAS
2 1 (4.76%) SAN
2 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 21 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (85.71%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.76%) Law
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
1 6 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (19.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Information Security Specialist
3 3 (14.29%) Information Specialist
3 3 (14.29%) Security Specialist
3 3 (14.29%) SIEM Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Payments Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Procurement Officer
5 1 (4.76%) Product Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) SAP QM Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Solutions Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Support Assistant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Management Information System
2 3 (14.29%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (42.86%) Validation
2 7 (33.33%) DevOps
2 7 (33.33%) High Availability
3 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
3 6 (28.57%) Load Testing
3 6 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 6 (28.57%) Risk Analysis
3 6 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 6 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 6 (28.57%) Verification and Validation
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (23.81%) Risk Management
5 4 (19.05%) Incident Response
5 4 (19.05%) SIEM
6 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (47.62%) SC Cleared
3 6 (28.57%) AWS Certification
4 4 (19.05%) CISSP
4 4 (19.05%) DV Cleared
4 4 (19.05%) GIAC
5 3 (14.29%) CEH
6 2 (9.52%) Degree
7 1 (4.76%) CFCE
7 1 (4.76%) CISA
7 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (4.76%) CRISC
7 1 (4.76%) GCFA
7 1 (4.76%) GCIA
7 1 (4.76%) GCIH
7 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) QA
2 3 (14.29%) NCSC
3 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.76%) ISO 31000
3 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.76%) NIST
3 1 (4.76%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) QRadar
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) ArcSight
2 4 (19.05%) Splunk
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (4.76%) Dell
3 1 (4.76%) F5
3 1 (4.76%) Isilon
3 1 (4.76%) LogRhythm
3 1 (4.76%) NetApp
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) Veeam
3 1 (4.76%) VMware