Analytical Skills Contracts in the South West

Analytical Skills
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 42 34
Rank change year-on-year +23 -8 +11
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 255 187 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 8.05% 5.14% 6.01%
As % of the General category 15.62% 10.39% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 144 146
10th Percentile £263 £333 £314
25th Percentile £318 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £608 £614 £600
90th Percentile £700 £678 £672
England median daily rate £538 £533 £525
% change year-on-year +0.84% +1.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 9 30
10th Percentile £11.83 £45.29 £31.01
25th Percentile £15.75 £51.19 £41.80
Median hourly rate £40.00 £56.30 £49.85
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +12.94% +66.17%
75th Percentile - £72.98 £55.42
90th Percentile £42.50 £73.58 £69.05
England median hourly rate £18.50 £35.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -47.89% -5.33% +78.57%

All General Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,633 1,799 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 51.56% 49.41% 51.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 1,324 1,326
10th Percentile £215 £275 £227
25th Percentile £410 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £486
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +11.05% +4.57%
75th Percentile £625 £632 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 132 135
10th Percentile £13.69 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £18.13 £39.04 £15.90
Median hourly rate £45.00 £61.10 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +37.30% +11.25%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.20 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.73 £63.69
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the South West

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the South West

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the South West

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the South West

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the South West

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +11 94 £538 +2.38% 43
Gloucestershire +33 50 £488 -11.36% 42
Bristol -5 31 £575 +21.05% 121
Somerset +16 28 £588 -9.62% 78
Devon +12 25 £318 +98.75% 35
Cornwall - 10 £150 - 8
Dorset -1 3 £175 -75.00% 27
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 38 (14.90%) Confluence
2 16 (6.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.57%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.78%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 39 (15.29%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (10.59%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (7.84%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.96%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.39%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (3.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.35%) SAP HCM
2 6 (2.35%) SAP HR
3 4 (1.57%) Remedy ITSM
4 3 (1.18%) ENOVIA
4 3 (1.18%) SAP PLM
4 3 (1.18%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.39%) Primavera
5 1 (0.39%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.39%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 25 (9.80%) Power Platform
2 22 (8.63%) Azure
3 12 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (4.31%) AWS
5 7 (2.75%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.78%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.39%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.39%) Azure App Service
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.39%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.39%) GCP
8 1 (0.39%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.39%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.39%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.39%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (8.63%) DNS
2 20 (7.84%) Network Security
3 16 (6.27%) DHCP
4 11 (4.31%) LAN
5 9 (3.53%) Firewall
5 9 (3.53%) SAN
5 9 (3.53%) VSAN
5 9 (3.53%) WAN
6 8 (3.14%) MPLS
6 8 (3.14%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (1.96%) Wireless
8 3 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.78%) Skype
9 2 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
9 2 (0.78%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (0.39%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.39%) NGFW
10 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.39%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (9.80%) Power BI
2 23 (9.02%) SQL Server
3 13 (5.10%) Tableau
4 12 (4.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 12 (4.71%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 12 (4.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.78%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.78%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.78%) Metadata
6 2 (0.78%) MySQL
6 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.39%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.39%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 66 (25.88%) JIRA
2 21 (8.24%) Bitbucket
2 21 (8.24%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (1.18%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.78%) JMeter
5 2 (0.78%) JUnit
5 2 (0.78%) LoadRunner
5 2 (0.78%) Selenium
6 1 (0.39%) Git
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
General
1 160 (62.75%) Social Skills
2 50 (19.61%) Finance
3 32 (12.55%) Public Sector
4 29 (11.37%) Presentation Skills
5 28 (10.98%) Aerospace
6 19 (7.45%) Military
7 12 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.92%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.92%) Telecoms
9 9 (3.53%) Electronics
9 9 (3.53%) Legal
10 7 (2.75%) Marketing
11 5 (1.96%) Banking
12 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.18%) Local Government
12 3 (1.18%) Retail
13 2 (0.78%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.39%) Advertising
14 1 (0.39%) Billing
14 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 60 (23.53%) Analyst
2 37 (14.51%) Lead
3 22 (8.63%) Developer
4 21 (8.24%) Service Analyst
4 21 (8.24%) Service Desk Analyst
5 20 (7.84%) Project Leader
6 19 (7.45%) Project Manager
7 18 (7.06%) Data Engineer
8 12 (4.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (4.31%) Architect
9 11 (4.31%) IT Analyst
10 10 (3.92%) Data Analyst
10 10 (3.92%) Network Engineer
10 10 (3.92%) Senior
10 10 (3.92%) Technical Support
11 9 (3.53%) Consultant
11 9 (3.53%) Test Engineer
12 8 (3.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 8 (3.14%) SOC Manager
12 8 (3.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.63%) .NET
2 21 (8.24%) .NET Core
3 6 (2.35%) Flash
4 3 (1.18%) PySpark
5 2 (0.78%) .NET Framework
5 2 (0.78%) React
6 1 (0.39%) Blazor
6 1 (0.39%) CSS
6 1 (0.39%) CSS3
6 1 (0.39%) HTML
6 1 (0.39%) HTML5
6 1 (0.39%) JSON
6 1 (0.39%) Kafka
6 1 (0.39%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.39%) pytest
6 1 (0.39%) REST
6 1 (0.39%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.39%) Vue
6 1 (0.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.24%) Management Information System
2 14 (5.49%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (5.49%) Clustering
2 14 (5.49%) Cyber Defence
3 11 (4.31%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.31%) Security Operations Centre
3 11 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (3.92%) PKI
5 9 (3.53%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (3.14%) Client/Server
6 8 (3.14%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.35%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.57%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.57%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.18%) Data Structures
10 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.78%) Blog
10 2 (0.78%) NHS
10 2 (0.78%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.39%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.98%) Linux
1 28 (10.98%) Windows
2 9 (3.53%) Unix
3 8 (3.14%) Windows Server
3 8 (3.14%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (1.18%) Kali Linux
4 3 (1.18%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.78%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.39%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (56.47%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (32.55%) Agile
3 50 (19.61%) Project Management
4 36 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 35 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
6 34 (13.33%) Project Delivery
7 27 (10.59%) Data Management
7 27 (10.59%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 26 (10.20%) PRINCE2
9 25 (9.80%) Cybersecurity
9 25 (9.80%) ITIL
9 25 (9.80%) Workshop Facilitation
10 24 (9.41%) Configuration Management
10 24 (9.41%) Project Planning
11 23 (9.02%) Deployment Automation
12 22 (8.63%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (8.24%) Commercial Awareness
13 21 (8.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (8.24%) Creative Problem-Solving
14 20 (7.84%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 36 (14.12%) Python
2 31 (12.16%) PowerShell
3 30 (11.76%) SQL
4 12 (4.71%) T-SQL
5 6 (2.35%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.57%) C
6 4 (1.57%) Java
7 3 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.78%) C++
8 2 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.78%) Perl
8 2 (0.78%) R
8 2 (0.78%) Scala
8 2 (0.78%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.39%) Bash
9 1 (0.39%) C#
9 1 (0.39%) ProC
9 1 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 154 (60.39%) Security Cleared
2 87 (34.12%) SC Cleared
3 71 (27.84%) DV Cleared
4 47 (18.43%) Degree
5 21 (8.24%) APMP
6 17 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (5.49%) CCNA
9 13 (5.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (3.92%) CISSP
11 9 (3.53%) Master's Degree
12 8 (3.14%) CCNP
12 8 (3.14%) CISM
12 8 (3.14%) MCSE
12 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (2.35%) MCSA
14 5 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
15 4 (1.57%) Chartered Engineer
15 4 (1.57%) OSCP
16 3 (1.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (12.16%) SLA
2 26 (10.20%) PMO
3 14 (5.49%) QA
4 12 (4.71%) NIST
5 8 (3.14%) NIST 800
6 5 (1.96%) Data Quality
6 5 (1.96%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.18%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.18%) GDPR
7 3 (1.18%) GRC
8 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.39%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.39%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.39%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.39%) RMADS
9 1 (0.39%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (10.59%) Active Directory
1 27 (10.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (3.92%) Virtual Servers
2 10 (3.92%) VMware NSX
3 8 (3.14%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (3.14%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.39%) Citrix Hypervisor
5 1 (0.39%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 20 (7.84%) Ansible
1 20 (7.84%) PowerCLI
2 17 (6.67%) SCCM
3 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Clustering
3 8 (3.14%) Nagios
3 8 (3.14%) NetBackup
3 8 (3.14%) vCenter Server
4 4 (1.57%) Terraform
5 2 (0.78%) MOM
5 2 (0.78%) Puppet
5 2 (0.78%) WSUS
6 1 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.39%) SCOM
6 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 53 (20.78%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.37%) Atlassian
2 29 (11.37%) VMware
3 20 (7.84%) Dell
3 20 (7.84%) SAP
4 19 (7.45%) HP
5 17 (6.67%) Cisco
6 8 (3.14%) Hitachi
6 8 (3.14%) NetApp
6 8 (3.14%) Splunk
7 4 (1.57%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.57%) Juniper
7 4 (1.57%) Remedy
8 3 (1.18%) Google
8 3 (1.18%) Oracle
9 2 (0.78%) Citrix
9 2 (0.78%) IBM
9 2 (0.78%) Nokia
9 2 (0.78%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.78%) Veeam