Analytics Contracts in the South West

Analytics
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 67 87
Rank change year-on-year +15 +20 -24
Contract jobs citing Analytics 61 97 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.64% 3.03% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 3.65% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 70 71
10th Percentile £335 £325 £413
25th Percentile £406 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -6.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £655
90th Percentile £665 £700 £750
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 4
10th Percentile £25.05 - £15.58
25th Percentile £25.13 - £22.44
Median hourly rate £27.13 £25.00 £52.75
Median % change year-on-year +8.50% -52.61% +50.71%
75th Percentile £53.85 - £78.00
90th Percentile £68.76 £27.38 -
England median hourly rate £31.49 £30.37 £31.00
% change year-on-year +3.70% -2.03% -11.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Analytics 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the South West

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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 Analytics within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Bristol +18 26 £475 -20.83% 83
Gloucestershire +10 9 £625 +47.06% 65
Somerset -3 9 £450 -10.00% 34
Wiltshire +6 8 £538 +7.50% 17
Dorset +5 2 £700 +100.00% 15
Cornwall - 1 £350 - 2
Analytics
England

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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 7 (11.48%) SAS
2 2 (3.28%) Apache
2 2 (3.28%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.64%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.64%) Sketch
2 1 (1.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.67%) AWS
2 11 (18.03%) Azure
3 8 (13.11%) Matillion
4 7 (11.48%) Adobe Analytics
4 7 (11.48%) Snowflake
5 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
6 4 (6.56%) GCP
6 4 (6.56%) Google Analytics
7 3 (4.92%) SaaS
8 2 (3.28%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (3.28%) Google Ads
8 2 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (1.64%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.64%) dbt
9 1 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.64%) Figma
9 1 (1.64%) IaaS
9 1 (1.64%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) DNS
2 1 (1.64%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) LAN
2 1 (1.64%) Network Security
2 1 (1.64%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.31%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (11.48%) Relational Database
3 6 (9.84%) MongoDB
4 5 (8.20%) Power BI
5 3 (4.92%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (4.92%) GIS
5 3 (4.92%) Tableau
6 2 (3.28%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (3.28%) Hadoop
6 2 (3.28%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.64%) Big Data
7 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.64%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.64%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.64%) SAP HANA
7 1 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.92%) JIRA
2 2 (3.28%) Git
3 1 (1.64%) MLflow
3 1 (1.64%) Selenium
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
2 16 (26.23%) Finance
3 10 (16.39%) Marketing
4 9 (14.75%) Banking
5 7 (11.48%) Public Sector
6 5 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (6.56%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.28%) Legal
8 2 (3.28%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.64%) Advertising
9 1 (1.64%) Aviation
9 1 (1.64%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.64%) Local Government
9 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.64%) Publishing
9 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (16.39%) Data Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Senior
3 7 (11.48%) Analytics Manager
3 7 (11.48%) Data Analytics Manager
3 7 (11.48%) Data Manager
3 7 (11.48%) Developer
3 7 (11.48%) Insight Manager
3 7 (11.48%) Strategy Manager
4 6 (9.84%) Analyst
4 6 (9.84%) Architect
4 6 (9.84%) Senior Data Engineer
5 5 (8.20%) Consultant
5 5 (8.20%) Data Analyst
6 4 (6.56%) Lead
6 4 (6.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 4 (6.56%) Snowflake Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Administrator
7 3 (4.92%) Project Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) ServiceNow Administrator
7 3 (4.92%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) Kafka
2 3 (4.92%) PostGIS
3 2 (3.28%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.28%) REST
4 1 (1.64%) CSS
4 1 (1.64%) HTML
4 1 (1.64%) Middleware
4 1 (1.64%) NumPy
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.64%) Pandas
4 1 (1.64%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.64%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.64%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.64%) TensorFlow
4 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.28%) Replication
3 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (1.64%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.20%) Linux
2 3 (4.92%) Windows
3 1 (1.64%) Android
3 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.64%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (31.15%) ETL
2 12 (19.67%) Data Modelling
2 12 (19.67%) Migration
3 11 (18.03%) Data Analytics
3 11 (18.03%) Visualisation
4 10 (16.39%) Data Extraction
4 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (14.75%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (13.11%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (13.11%) Data Visualisation
6 8 (13.11%) Decision-Making
7 7 (11.48%) Agile
7 7 (11.48%) Business Transformation
7 7 (11.48%) Critical Thinking
7 7 (11.48%) Data Governance
7 7 (11.48%) Digital Banking
7 7 (11.48%) Digital Strategy
7 7 (11.48%) Storytelling
7 7 (11.48%) Web Analytics
8 6 (9.84%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 22 (36.07%) SQL
2 13 (21.31%) Python
3 9 (14.75%) R
4 3 (4.92%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.92%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.28%) Bash
5 2 (3.28%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.28%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.64%) Java
6 1 (1.64%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (1.64%) Perl
6 1 (1.64%) Ruby
6 1 (1.64%) VB
6 1 (1.64%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (39.34%) Security Cleared
2 21 (34.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.84%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.92%) Degree
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.64%) CISSP
6 1 (1.64%) MCITP
6 1 (1.64%) MCP
6 1 (1.64%) MCSA
6 1 (1.64%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) Def Stans
2 4 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.28%) GDPR
3 2 (3.28%) QA
4 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.64%) Basel III
4 1 (1.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.64%) GRC
4 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.64%) IFRS
4 1 (1.64%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.64%) IFRS 9
4 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.64%) NCSC
4 1 (1.64%) NIST
4 1 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (8.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.56%) Docker
3 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.64%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (3.28%) Kibana
1 2 (3.28%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.28%) logstash
1 2 (3.28%) Prometheus
1 2 (3.28%) Terraform
2 1 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.64%) Ansible
2 1 (1.64%) Grafana
2 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.64%) QRadar
2 1 (1.64%) SCCM
2 1 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (14.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) Adobe
3 7 (11.48%) Teradata
3 7 (11.48%) VMware
4 6 (9.84%) Google
5 4 (6.56%) Foundry
5 4 (6.56%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.92%) Databricks
7 2 (3.28%) ESRI
7 2 (3.28%) Oracle
7 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.64%) Apple
8 1 (1.64%) F5
8 1 (1.64%) HubSpot
8 1 (1.64%) McAfee
8 1 (1.64%) Palantir
8 1 (1.64%) SAP
8 1 (1.64%) Splunk
8 1 (1.64%) Symantec
8 1 (1.64%) Varonis