Analytics Contracts in the Thames Valley

Analytics
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 33 41 41
Rank change year-on-year +8 0 +8
Contract jobs citing Analytics 79 118 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 5.23% 4.39% 5.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.63% 5.04% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 60 107
10th Percentile £400 £262 £340
25th Percentile £450 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +21.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £650 £613 £693
South East median daily rate £481 £550 £495
% change year-on-year -12.55% +11.11% -1.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £18.61 - £29.81
25th Percentile £23.65 £41.25 £32.30
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% -22.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile - £48.19 £79.19
90th Percentile - £56.18 -
South East median hourly rate £30.03 £51.75 £32.30
% change year-on-year -41.98% +60.22% -35.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 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%

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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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
Berkshire -4 50 £452 -19.60% 141
Buckinghamshire +15 21 £600 - 86
Oxfordshire +7 8 £600 +92.00% 67
Analytics
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 10 (12.66%) Confluence
2 9 (11.39%) SAS
3 6 (7.59%) Apache Spark
4 3 (3.80%) CMS
5 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.27%) Apache
6 1 (1.27%) IBM Domino
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.27%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (32.91%) Azure
2 14 (17.72%) Power Platform
3 12 (15.19%) AWS
4 9 (11.39%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (10.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (7.59%) GCP
7 5 (6.33%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (5.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (5.06%) Snowflake
9 3 (3.80%) AWS Data Pipeline
9 3 (3.80%) Azure Storage
9 3 (3.80%) Entra ID
10 2 (2.53%) Azure AKS
10 2 (2.53%) Azure API Management
10 2 (2.53%) Azure App Service
10 2 (2.53%) Azure Functions
10 2 (2.53%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (2.53%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (2.53%) PaaS
10 2 (2.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.53%) Firewall
1 2 (2.53%) Network Security
2 1 (1.27%) DHCP
2 1 (1.27%) DNS
2 1 (1.27%) Internet
2 1 (1.27%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (1.27%) IPFIX
2 1 (1.27%) LAN
2 1 (1.27%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.27%) SSL
2 1 (1.27%) VPN
2 1 (1.27%) WAN
2 1 (1.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.72%) Power BI
2 8 (10.13%) Big Data
3 7 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.59%) Data Lake
5 5 (6.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 5 (6.33%) Tableau
6 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.53%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.53%) Metadata
7 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.53%) Power Query
7 2 (2.53%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.27%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.27%) GIS
8 1 (1.27%) HBase
8 1 (1.27%) Impala
8 1 (1.27%) Parquet
8 1 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) ERwin
2 7 (8.86%) PowerDesigner
3 4 (5.06%) JIRA
4 3 (3.80%) Git
5 2 (2.53%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.27%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.27%) Postman
General
1 28 (35.44%) Social Skills
2 21 (26.58%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.92%) Telecoms
4 6 (7.59%) Finance
4 6 (7.59%) Marketing
5 5 (6.33%) Banking
5 5 (6.33%) Retail
6 4 (5.06%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.06%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Billing
7 3 (3.80%) Electronics
7 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.27%) Automotive
8 1 (1.27%) Games
8 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (18.99%) Analyst
2 13 (16.46%) Architect
3 9 (11.39%) Senior
4 8 (10.13%) Data Modeller
4 8 (10.13%) Lead
5 7 (8.86%) Data Architect
5 7 (8.86%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Business Analyst
6 5 (6.33%) Junior
6 5 (6.33%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Consultant
7 4 (5.06%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Credit Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Junior Scrum Master
8 3 (3.80%) Operations Manager
8 3 (3.80%) Risk Analyst
8 3 (3.80%) Scrum Master
8 3 (3.80%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.59%) PySpark
2 3 (3.80%) .NET
2 3 (3.80%) ARM Templates
2 3 (3.80%) SOAP
3 2 (2.53%) .NET Core
3 2 (2.53%) .NET Framework
3 2 (2.53%) ADO
3 2 (2.53%) Gherkin
3 2 (2.53%) Kafka
3 2 (2.53%) REST
3 2 (2.53%) RESTful
3 2 (2.53%) Web Services
4 1 (1.27%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.27%) JSON
4 1 (1.27%) OAuth
4 1 (1.27%) OpenID
4 1 (1.27%) React
4 1 (1.27%) SAML
4 1 (1.27%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Credit Risk
2 7 (8.86%) Data Structures
3 6 (7.59%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.80%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.53%) Learning Management System
5 2 (2.53%) Life Science
5 2 (2.53%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.53%) PKI
5 2 (2.53%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.53%) SCADA
6 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.27%) IoT
6 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.27%) Social Media
6 1 (1.27%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.33%) Linux
1 5 (6.33%) Windows
2 4 (5.06%) Unix
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.05%) Stakeholder Management
2 18 (22.78%) Data Modelling
3 17 (21.52%) Agile
3 17 (21.52%) Business Intelligence
3 17 (21.52%) Roadmaps
4 14 (17.72%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (16.46%) Data Management
5 13 (16.46%) DevOps
6 12 (15.19%) ETL
7 11 (13.92%) Actionable Insight
7 11 (13.92%) Data Architecture
8 10 (12.66%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (12.66%) Data Analysis
8 10 (12.66%) Data Governance
9 9 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (11.39%) Log Analytics
9 9 (11.39%) Scrum
9 9 (11.39%) Stress Testing
9 9 (11.39%) Validation
10 8 (10.13%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.91%) SQL
2 13 (16.46%) Python
3 5 (6.33%) C#
4 4 (5.06%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.80%) Bicep
6 2 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.53%) R
7 1 (1.27%) ABAP
7 1 (1.27%) Perl
7 1 (1.27%) VB
7 1 (1.27%) VBScript
7 1 (1.27%) XMLA
Qualifications
1 8 (10.13%) Degree
2 5 (6.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) PMI Certification
3 4 (5.06%) PMP
4 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.53%) CISSP
5 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.53%) GIAC
5 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) CEH
6 1 (1.27%) CISA
6 1 (1.27%) CISM
6 1 (1.27%) GCIA
6 1 (1.27%) GCIH
6 1 (1.27%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 1 (1.27%) MBA
6 1 (1.27%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (1.27%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (1.27%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.92%) Data Quality
2 9 (11.39%) IFRS
2 9 (11.39%) IFRS 9
3 6 (7.59%) QA
4 4 (5.06%) GDPR
4 4 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.80%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (2.53%) NIST
6 2 (2.53%) PMO
7 1 (1.27%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (5.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Flume
3 1 (1.27%) Docker
3 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (5.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.53%) QRadar
2 2 (2.53%) Terraform
3 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.27%) Ansible
3 1 (1.27%) CASB
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.27%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.27%) SCCM
3 1 (1.27%) SCOM
3 1 (1.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (26.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.92%) Databricks
3 7 (8.86%) Google
3 7 (8.86%) Sparx
4 5 (6.33%) ServiceNow
4 5 (6.33%) Splunk
5 4 (5.06%) SAP
5 4 (5.06%) Virgin Media
6 3 (3.80%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.53%) Adobe
7 2 (2.53%) Alteryx
7 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.53%) Snow
8 1 (1.27%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.27%) Forcepoint
8 1 (1.27%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (1.27%) Nexthink
8 1 (1.27%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.27%) Oracle
8 1 (1.27%) StreamSets