Analytics Contracts in the Thames Valley

Analytics
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytics over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 39 47
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 120 148 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.55% 5.20% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.24% 5.66% 4.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 103 97
10th Percentile £263 £340 £403
25th Percentile £409 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% - -
75th Percentile £608 £600 £575
90th Percentile £612 £675 £613
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £501
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.10% +0.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 1
10th Percentile - £24.56 -
25th Percentile £41.25 £30.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £43.65 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -12.70% +17.65%
75th Percentile £48.19 £79.19 £52.50
90th Percentile £56.18 - -
South East median hourly rate £51.75 £32.30 £46.71
% change year-on-year +60.22% -30.85% -2.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,291 2,613 3,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 86.94% 91.78% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 1,814 2,089
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 63 84
10th Percentile £14.09 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +200.00% -16.86%
75th Percentile £64.57 £66.21 £24.06
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £64.46
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the Thames Valley

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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 Analytics within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Berkshire +1 93 £563 +7.14% 42
Buckinghamshire -1 20 £600 +33.33% 33
Oxfordshire +5 7 £313 -37.50% 45
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South East

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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 20 (16.67%) SAS
2 17 (14.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (4.17%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.83%) Drupal
5 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.83%) Moodle
5 1 (0.83%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.33%) SPSS
3 2 (1.67%) Sketch
4 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (30.83%) Azure
2 26 (21.67%) Snowflake
3 18 (15.00%) Entra ID
3 18 (15.00%) Power Platform
4 17 (14.17%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (14.17%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (13.33%) Azure Storage
6 8 (6.67%) AWS
6 8 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.17%) Azure Functions
8 5 (4.17%) Serverless
8 5 (4.17%) Smartsheet
9 4 (3.33%) Figma
10 3 (2.50%) Amazon S3
10 3 (2.50%) Azure Stack
11 2 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.67%) IaaS
11 2 (1.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (15.83%) Firewall
2 17 (14.17%) DNS
3 16 (13.33%) DHCP
4 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (28.33%) Tableau
2 18 (15.00%) Power BI
3 10 (8.33%) Crystal Reports
4 8 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (5.00%) Big Data
6 5 (4.17%) Data Lake
7 4 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (3.33%) Qlik Sense
7 4 (3.33%) Relational Database
8 3 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.50%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.50%) Impala
9 2 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.67%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.67%) Power Query
9 2 (1.67%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.67%) Sqoop
10 1 (0.83%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.83%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.67%) JIRA
2 3 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (0.83%) ERwin
3 1 (0.83%) MLflow
General
1 39 (32.50%) Analytical Skills
2 36 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 34 (28.33%) Finance
4 22 (18.33%) Legal
5 20 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 8 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (5.83%) Retail
8 4 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.50%) Banking
9 3 (2.50%) Marketing
9 3 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.67%) German Language
10 2 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.67%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (32.50%) Analyst
2 21 (17.50%) Data Analyst
2 21 (17.50%) Lead
3 18 (15.00%) Developer
4 16 (13.33%) Active Directory Support
5 14 (11.67%) Active Directory Specialist
5 14 (11.67%) Azure Specialist
5 14 (11.67%) Support Specialist
6 12 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Project Manager
7 8 (6.67%) Senior
8 7 (5.83%) IFS Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) HR Manager
9 6 (5.00%) Lead Data Analyst
10 5 (4.17%) Data Modeller
10 5 (4.17%) Product Manager
11 4 (3.33%) Architect
11 4 (3.33%) Report Developer
11 4 (3.33%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.17%) ARM Templates
2 5 (4.17%) PySpark
2 5 (4.17%) XML
3 4 (3.33%) D3.js
4 3 (2.50%) CSS
4 3 (2.50%) HTML
4 3 (2.50%) Kafka
5 2 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.67%) NumPy
5 2 (1.67%) Pandas
5 2 (1.67%) React
6 1 (0.83%) CSS3
6 1 (0.83%) HTML5
6 1 (0.83%) Twitter Bootstrap
6 1 (0.83%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.00%) Credit Risk
2 18 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (13.33%) PKI
4 5 (4.17%) Smart Meter
5 4 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.33%) Life Science
5 4 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.50%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.67%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.67%) Robotics
8 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.83%) BYOD
8 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.83%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.83%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.33%) Linux
1 22 (18.33%) Windows
2 16 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 16 (13.33%) Windows Server 2016
2 16 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
3 4 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.67%) Agile
2 33 (27.50%) Decision-Making
2 33 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (23.33%) Data Analytics
4 27 (22.50%) Actionable Insight
4 27 (22.50%) Data Modelling
5 25 (20.83%) DevOps
6 23 (19.17%) CI/CD
7 18 (15.00%) Identity Management
7 18 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (14.17%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (14.17%) ITIL
8 17 (14.17%) Log Analytics
8 17 (14.17%) Release Management
8 17 (14.17%) Service Management
9 16 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
9 16 (13.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 16 (13.33%) Privileged Identity Management
9 16 (13.33%) RBAC
10 15 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 38 (31.67%) SQL
2 17 (14.17%) Bicep
2 17 (14.17%) PowerShell
3 16 (13.33%) C#
3 16 (13.33%) VB
3 16 (13.33%) VBScript
4 12 (10.00%) Python
5 5 (4.17%) R
6 3 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.67%) Java
8 1 (0.83%) Bash
8 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (42.50%) Degree
2 18 (15.00%) DV Cleared
2 18 (15.00%) SC Cleared
2 18 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 16 (13.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.67%) IFRS
1 8 (6.67%) IFRS 9
2 5 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.17%) GDPR
3 2 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 18 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 16 (13.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 16 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 18 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 17 (14.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (14.17%) SCCM
3 16 (13.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (13.33%) SCOM
3 16 (13.33%) WSUS
4 3 (2.50%) Terraform
5 2 (1.67%) Ansible
5 2 (1.67%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.83%) Grafana
6 1 (0.83%) Graylog
6 1 (0.83%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (20.00%) Alteryx
2 23 (19.17%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.33%) IFS
4 5 (4.17%) Ab Initio
5 3 (2.50%) Databricks
5 3 (2.50%) Informatica
5 3 (2.50%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.67%) Cloudera
6 2 (1.67%) Oracle
7 1 (0.83%) Blackboard
7 1 (0.83%) BMC
7 1 (0.83%) Facebook
7 1 (0.83%) Google
7 1 (0.83%) Remedy
7 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.83%) Splunk
7 1 (0.83%) Twitter
7 1 (0.83%) Workday