Analytical Thinking Contracts in the Thames Valley

Analytical Thinking
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 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 92 142 133
Rank change year-on-year +50 -9 +11
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 10 3 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.66% 0.11% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.13% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 15
10th Percentile £498 - £378
25th Percentile £557 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £100 £500
Median % change year-on-year +490.00% -80.00% +40.85%
75th Percentile £600 - £558
90th Percentile £609 - £810
South East median daily rate £590 £325 £488
% change year-on-year +81.54% -33.33% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in the Thames Valley

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Thinking in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the Thames Valley

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the Thames Valley

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Thinking in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the Thames Valley

Analytical Thinking
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire +21 7 £590 +490.00% 36
Oxfordshire - 2 £588 - 16
Berkshire +31 1 £500 - 27
Analytical Thinking
South East

Analytical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (70.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Lucidchart
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) ERwin
1 7 (70.00%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Electronics
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Data Modeller
2 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Business Process Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Information Security Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Information Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Process Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Analytics
2 7 (70.00%) Architecture Roadmap
2 7 (70.00%) BPMN
2 7 (70.00%) Data Architecture
2 7 (70.00%) Data Management
2 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
2 7 (70.00%) Roadmaps
2 7 (70.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) UML
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Cost Reduction
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Measurement
4 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) MBA
2 1 (10.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (10.00%) PMP
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
2 1 (10.00%) Six Sigma Green Belt
2 1 (10.00%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Sparx
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) SAP