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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 129 136
Rank change year-on-year +26 +7 +18
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 14 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.84% 0.27% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.31% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 11
10th Percentile - £379 £350
25th Percentile £475 £403 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £458 £530
Median % change year-on-year +14.75% -13.68% +47.22%
75th Percentile £600 £523 £650
90th Percentile £688 £554 £875
South East median daily rate £513 £365 £500
% change year-on-year +40.41% -27.00% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £65.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year - +44.44% -

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 1,530 2,238 2,701
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.22% 84.74% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 916 1,222 1,834
10th Percentile £300 £250 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £615
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 161 82
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.94 £19.25 £21.35
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% -4.04% +191.18%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £66.21
90th Percentile £82.40 £85.65 £75.60
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £50.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -52.00% - +118.91%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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
Berkshire +28 10 £500 +9.29% 7
Buckinghamshire +9 3 £600 - 4
Oxfordshire - 1 £675 - 9
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 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) NAS
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) SAN
1 1 (7.14%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) ERwin
2 2 (14.29%) PowerDesigner
General
1 14 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (85.71%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Cloud Engineer
1 5 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Information Security Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) Information Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) Security Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Data Modeller
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Procurement Officer
4 1 (7.14%) SOC Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) High Availability
2 6 (42.86%) Validation
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) End-to-End Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Load Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Performance Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Risk Analysis
3 5 (35.71%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
3 5 (35.71%) Test Scripting
3 5 (35.71%) Verification and Validation
4 4 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 3 (21.43%) Information Assurance
5 3 (21.43%) Information Security
5 3 (21.43%) Security Architecture
5 3 (21.43%) Security Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (21.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) AWS Certification
2 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) Degree
5 1 (7.14%) CFCE
5 1 (7.14%) CISSP
5 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (7.14%) GCFA
5 1 (7.14%) GCIA
5 1 (7.14%) GCIH
5 1 (7.14%) GIAC
5 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) QA
2 3 (21.43%) NCSC
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (7.14%) HIPAA
3 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.14%) NIST
3 1 (7.14%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Sparx
3 1 (7.14%) ArcSight
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco
3 1 (7.14%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (7.14%) Dell
3 1 (7.14%) F5
3 1 (7.14%) Isilon
3 1 (7.14%) LogRhythm
3 1 (7.14%) NetApp
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Veeam
3 1 (7.14%) VMware