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 in the South West. 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 33
Rank change year-on-year +6 +15 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 183 254 188
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 10.68% 7.84% 5.53%
As % of the General category 18.28% 15.56% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 161 151
10th Percentile £323 £263 £350
25th Percentile £463 £315 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.52% - -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £618
90th Percentile £699 £700 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 23 8
10th Percentile £21.86 £11.80 £40.21
25th Percentile £29.97 £15.75 £52.98
Median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £61.15
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -34.59% +26.13%
75th Percentile £56.75 - £72.98
90th Percentile £68.00 £42.50 £73.88
England median hourly rate £31.50 £19.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year +65.79% -55.81% +21.99%

All General Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,001 1,632 1,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 58.40% 50.35% 48.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 982 1,221
10th Percentile £213 £233 £275
25th Percentile £363 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 275 110
10th Percentile £15.20 £13.69 £17.48
25th Percentile £18.28 £20.91 £37.50
Median hourly rate £33.42 £45.00 £59.90
Median % change year-on-year -25.73% -24.87% +42.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £69.69
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.90 £87.75
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 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 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 2025.

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 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
Wiltshire +7 82 £588 +11.90% 32
Bristol +29 35 £500 -4.76% 155
Gloucestershire -5 22 £525 +10.53% 127
Somerset -7 16 £633 +7.66% 79
Dorset +15 13 £550 +214.29% 25
Devon -4 4 £425 +139.44% 48
Cornwall 0 1 £625 +316.67% 5
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 33 (18.03%) Confluence
2 9 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.92%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.19%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.55%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.55%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 41 (22.40%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.55%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.55%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.09%) BASE24
3 1 (0.55%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 15 (8.20%) Power Platform
2 13 (7.10%) Azure
3 12 (6.56%) AWS
4 5 (2.73%) GCP
5 3 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.64%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.09%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.09%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.09%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.55%) dbt
7 1 (0.55%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.55%) Figma
7 1 (0.55%) Matillion
7 1 (0.55%) npm
7 1 (0.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.74%) VPN
2 12 (6.56%) DNS
3 11 (6.01%) Unified Communications
4 9 (4.92%) Skype
5 8 (4.37%) BGP
6 7 (3.83%) IPsec
6 7 (3.83%) MPLS
7 5 (2.73%) DHCP
8 3 (1.64%) Network Security
9 2 (1.09%) ATM
9 2 (1.09%) Firewall
9 2 (1.09%) iSCSI
9 2 (1.09%) SAN
9 2 (1.09%) WAN
10 1 (0.55%) LAN
10 1 (0.55%) OSPF
10 1 (0.55%) VLAN
10 1 (0.55%) VoIP
10 1 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.55%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.10%) Power BI
2 3 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.09%) NonStop SQL
3 2 (1.09%) SAP BW
3 2 (1.09%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.09%) Tableau
4 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.55%) Metadata
4 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.55%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (20.22%) JIRA
2 5 (2.73%) Bitbucket
2 5 (2.73%) Git
3 4 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.64%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.64%) GitLab
4 3 (1.64%) Selenium
5 2 (1.09%) SonarQube
5 2 (1.09%) webpack
6 1 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.55%) Gatling
6 1 (0.55%) JMeter
6 1 (0.55%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.55%) Snyk
6 1 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.55%) Storybook
6 1 (0.55%) TestRail
6 1 (0.55%) VersaTest
6 1 (0.55%) Vite
General
1 119 (65.03%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.13%) Public Sector
3 26 (14.21%) Finance
4 18 (9.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (6.01%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (6.01%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (5.46%) Local Government
6 10 (5.46%) Military
7 8 (4.37%) Legal
8 6 (3.28%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.73%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.64%) Banking
10 3 (1.64%) Electronics
10 3 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.64%) Marketing
10 3 (1.64%) Retail
11 2 (1.09%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.55%) Avionics
12 1 (0.55%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.55%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 32 (17.49%) Analyst
2 13 (7.10%) Service Manager
3 12 (6.56%) Lead
3 12 (6.56%) Senior
3 12 (6.56%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 11 (6.01%) Capacity Manager
5 10 (5.46%) Availability Manager
5 10 (5.46%) Capacity and Availability Manager
5 10 (5.46%) Project Manager
6 9 (4.92%) Business Analyst
7 8 (4.37%) Service Analyst
7 8 (4.37%) Service Desk Analyst
8 7 (3.83%) Consultant
8 7 (3.83%) Coordinator
8 7 (3.83%) Data Analyst
8 7 (3.83%) Developer
8 7 (3.83%) Network Engineer
8 7 (3.83%) Security Assurance Coordinator
9 6 (3.28%) Desktop Support
9 6 (3.28%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.56%) Flash
2 7 (3.83%) NETCONF
2 7 (3.83%) RESTCONF
3 5 (2.73%) CSS
3 5 (2.73%) HTML
3 5 (2.73%) RESTful
4 4 (2.19%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.64%) jQuery
6 2 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.09%) React
6 2 (1.09%) REST
6 2 (1.09%) SAP Fiori
7 1 (0.55%) EDI
7 1 (0.55%) Jest
7 1 (0.55%) Playwright
7 1 (0.55%) Redux
7 1 (0.55%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.55%) Vue
7 1 (0.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (13.11%) Management Information System
2 18 (9.84%) PKI
3 12 (6.56%) Clustering
4 10 (5.46%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.83%) Mainframe
6 5 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (2.73%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.64%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.64%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.09%) EMV
8 2 (1.09%) IBM Mainframe
8 2 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.09%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.55%) Blackberry
9 1 (0.55%) CMDB
9 1 (0.55%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.55%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.55%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.11%) Windows
2 13 (7.10%) Windows Server
3 9 (4.92%) Windows 10
3 9 (4.92%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (3.28%) zOS
5 5 (2.73%) Linux
6 3 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.09%) VMS
8 1 (0.55%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (51.91%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (36.61%) Service Management
3 54 (29.51%) ITIL
4 45 (24.59%) Agile
5 38 (20.77%) Critical Thinking
6 33 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (16.39%) System Testing
8 27 (14.75%) NsoIT
9 23 (12.57%) Validation
10 22 (12.02%) Data Analysis
11 21 (11.48%) Waterfall
12 20 (10.93%) Problem Management
12 20 (10.93%) Project Management
13 19 (10.38%) Customer Service
13 19 (10.38%) Quality Management
13 19 (10.38%) Statistics
14 18 (9.84%) ITSM
15 17 (9.29%) Business Intelligence
15 17 (9.29%) Incident Management
15 17 (9.29%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.38%) Python
2 15 (8.20%) PowerShell
2 15 (8.20%) SQL
3 9 (4.92%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.19%) Java
5 3 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (1.09%) Bash
6 2 (1.09%) COBOL
7 1 (0.55%) C
7 1 (0.55%) C++
7 1 (0.55%) Groovy
7 1 (0.55%) Ruby
7 1 (0.55%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 101 (55.19%) Security Cleared
2 83 (45.36%) SC Cleared
3 40 (21.86%) Degree
4 23 (12.57%) ITIL Certification
5 21 (11.48%) DV Cleared
6 20 (10.93%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (8.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 15 (8.20%) Master's Degree
9 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (7.10%) CISSP
11 12 (6.56%) CCNA
12 10 (5.46%) CCNP
12 10 (5.46%) MCSE
13 7 (3.83%) A+ Certification
14 6 (3.28%) IBM Certification
14 6 (3.28%) MCSA
15 5 (2.73%) CISA
16 3 (1.64%) CESG Certified Professional
16 3 (1.64%) ISTQB
17 2 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.56%) SLA
2 10 (5.46%) QA
3 8 (4.37%) JSP 440
4 7 (3.83%) RMADS
5 6 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.19%) NIST
7 2 (1.09%) Basel III
7 2 (1.09%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.09%) IFRS
7 2 (1.09%) IFRS 17
7 2 (1.09%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.55%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.55%) GDPR
8 1 (0.55%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.55%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.55%) PMO
8 1 (0.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (14.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (10.38%) VMware ESXi
3 15 (8.20%) Active Directory
4 12 (6.56%) VMware NSX
5 6 (3.28%) RACF
6 3 (1.64%) Docker
6 3 (1.64%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (7.10%) Ansible
1 13 (7.10%) vCenter Server
2 7 (3.83%) WSUS
3 5 (2.73%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.19%) Puppet
5 3 (1.64%) Automic
5 3 (1.64%) OPNET
5 3 (1.64%) Terraform
6 2 (1.09%) Grafana
6 2 (1.09%) SCOM
7 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.55%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.55%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.55%) SCCM
Vendors
1 39 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 28 (15.30%) Atlassian
3 26 (14.21%) VMware
4 22 (12.02%) Cisco
5 11 (6.01%) SAP
5 11 (6.01%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.28%) Ariba
6 6 (3.28%) IBM
7 4 (2.19%) SolarWinds
7 4 (2.19%) Veeam
8 2 (1.09%) HP
8 2 (1.09%) Remedy
8 2 (1.09%) Splunk
9 1 (0.55%) Dell
9 1 (0.55%) Juniper
9 1 (0.55%) Lotus
9 1 (0.55%) NEC
9 1 (0.55%) Oracle
9 1 (0.55%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.55%) Salesforce