Analytical Skills Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 20 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,607 1,858 1,944
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.79% 7.78% 6.29%
As % of the General category 14.25% 13.79% 11.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 1,250 1,266
10th Percentile £275 £237 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £485 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.20% +4.86% +8.82%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £550
90th Percentile £700 £699 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 67 131
10th Percentile £11.75 £20.79 £12.25
25th Percentile £12.81 £22.95 £14.78
Median hourly rate £17.50 £49.57 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year -64.70% +52.99% +70.53%
75th Percentile £25.00 £58.67 £51.12
90th Percentile £43.75 £66.00 £56.70
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £43.86 £38.16
% change year-on-year -58.96% +14.95% +64.37%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,278 13,477 17,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.64% 56.43% 55.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,441 9,211 11,855
10th Percentile £205 £230 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,653 776 1,041
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +54.67% -4.79%
75th Percentile £53.75 £60.57 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.25 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
% change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South East 0 423 £537 +0.34% 592
North of England +5 332 £500 +5.26% 683
South West +24 260 £525 - 347
Midlands +1 233 £525 +11.70% 484
Scotland -3 214 £475 - 149
West Midlands +1 175 £550 +15.79% 290
North West +1 172 £488 +11.11% 368
Yorkshire +13 135 £514 -2.10% 247
East of England -6 112 £500 +33.33% 265
East Midlands +3 53 £450 - 194
Wales +9 33 £525 +16.67% 68
North East +24 24 £590 +124.76% 75
Northern Ireland +1 13 £419 -1.47% 39
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 4
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 84 (5.23%) Confluence
2 41 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 36 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.75%) Apache
4 12 (0.75%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.68%) SAS
6 9 (0.56%) Tomcat
7 8 (0.50%) IIS
8 7 (0.44%) CMS
9 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.25%) Appian
10 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.19%) Drupal
10 3 (0.19%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.19%) WebSphere Portal
11 2 (0.12%) Mule
11 2 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 191 (11.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 133 (8.28%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (2.92%) Microsoft Project
5 36 (2.24%) Spreadsheet
6 25 (1.56%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.50%) Acrobat
8 5 (0.31%) Sketch
9 4 (0.25%) SPSS
10 3 (0.19%) MicroStation
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.12%) InVision
12 1 (0.062%) Abaqus
12 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.062%) Autodesk Inventor
12 1 (0.062%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.062%) Simulink
12 1 (0.062%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 32 (1.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.87%) Oracle EBS R12
3 13 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.68%) Oracle ERP
4 11 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.62%) SAP HCM
6 9 (0.56%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.56%) SAP HR
6 9 (0.56%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.50%) Maximo
7 8 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.44%) Primavera
8 7 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
8 7 (0.44%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
10 5 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
10 5 (0.31%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.31%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.25%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 197 (12.26%) Azure
2 167 (10.39%) Power Platform
3 104 (6.47%) AWS
4 69 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 46 (2.86%) Snowflake
6 37 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (2.30%) GCP
7 33 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (1.62%) OCI
9 25 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (1.24%) Entra ID
11 19 (1.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 19 (1.18%) PowerApps
12 18 (1.12%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (1.12%) SaaS
13 16 (1.00%) SuccessFactors
14 14 (0.87%) Serverless
15 13 (0.81%) GitHub
16 12 (0.75%) Power Automate
17 11 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.80%) Network Security
2 47 (2.92%) Firewall
3 43 (2.68%) DNS
4 38 (2.36%) VPN
5 33 (2.05%) WAN
6 29 (1.80%) DHCP
6 29 (1.80%) LAN
7 26 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (1.37%) TCP/IP
9 21 (1.31%) SAN
10 19 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
11 18 (1.12%) VLAN
12 17 (1.06%) Internet
12 17 (1.06%) MPLS
13 15 (0.93%) HTTP
13 15 (0.93%) Wireless
14 11 (0.68%) BGP
14 11 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (0.56%) OSPF
15 9 (0.56%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (10.02%) Power BI
2 89 (5.54%) Tableau
3 53 (3.30%) SQL Server
4 38 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
5 33 (2.05%) Big Data
6 32 (1.99%) Relational Database
7 23 (1.43%) Oracle Reports
8 22 (1.37%) Data Mining
9 21 (1.31%) Data Lake
9 21 (1.31%) Metadata
10 19 (1.18%) NoSQL
10 19 (1.18%) Oracle Database
11 18 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 15 (0.93%) Hadoop
14 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 12 (0.75%) GIS
16 10 (0.62%) Power Query
17 9 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
18 8 (0.50%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 155 (9.65%) JIRA
2 63 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 42 (2.61%) Selenium
4 41 (2.55%) Git
5 26 (1.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 26 (1.62%) Cucumber
6 24 (1.49%) REST Assured
6 24 (1.49%) SonarQube
7 22 (1.37%) Bitbucket
7 22 (1.37%) GitLab
8 14 (0.87%) Oracle APEX
9 10 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (0.44%) Travis CI
11 6 (0.37%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.37%) Robot Framework
12 5 (0.31%) JMeter
12 5 (0.31%) LoadRunner
12 5 (0.31%) Visual Studio
13 4 (0.25%) JUnit
14 3 (0.19%) ERwin
General
1 921 (57.31%) Social Skills
2 339 (21.10%) Finance
3 193 (12.01%) Public Sector
4 94 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
5 86 (5.35%) Organisational Skills
6 85 (5.29%) Legal
7 67 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 59 (3.67%) Telecoms
9 56 (3.48%) Banking
10 47 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
11 46 (2.86%) Marketing
12 42 (2.61%) Retail
13 35 (2.18%) Aerospace
13 35 (2.18%) Military
14 27 (1.68%) Law
15 24 (1.49%) Local Government
16 23 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
17 22 (1.37%) Police
18 17 (1.06%) Electronics
19 16 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 388 (24.14%) Analyst
2 140 (8.71%) Lead
3 124 (7.72%) Architect
4 117 (7.28%) Developer
5 116 (7.22%) Senior
6 93 (5.79%) Data Analyst
7 84 (5.23%) Business Analyst
8 73 (4.54%) Consultant
9 72 (4.48%) Project Manager
10 51 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
11 48 (2.99%) Data Engineer
12 47 (2.92%) IT Engineer
13 39 (2.43%) Network Engineer
13 39 (2.43%) Service Analyst
14 36 (2.24%) Support Engineer
15 34 (2.12%) Field Engineer
16 33 (2.05%) Service Desk Analyst
17 32 (1.99%) Field Service Engineer
18 31 (1.93%) Senior Analyst
19 29 (1.80%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (3.05%) REST
2 40 (2.49%) .NET
3 32 (1.99%) HTML
4 30 (1.87%) CSS
5 25 (1.56%) Java EE
6 24 (1.49%) React
7 22 (1.37%) .NET Core
8 19 (1.18%) Kafka
9 16 (1.00%) Apache NiFi
9 16 (1.00%) Web Services
9 16 (1.00%) XML
10 13 (0.81%) JSON
11 12 (0.75%) ARM Templates
11 12 (0.75%) Middleware
11 12 (0.75%) PySpark
12 11 (0.68%) AngularJS
13 10 (0.62%) Node.js
13 10 (0.62%) Oracle Fusion
14 9 (0.56%) .NET Framework
14 9 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 161 (10.02%) Management Information System
2 94 (5.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 77 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
4 75 (4.67%) Product Ownership
5 37 (2.30%) Cyber Defence
5 37 (2.30%) Data Centre
6 29 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 25 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 24 (1.49%) Credit Risk
9 23 (1.43%) Onboarding
9 23 (1.43%) Security Operations Centre
10 22 (1.37%) Client/Server
11 21 (1.31%) Distributed Applications
11 21 (1.31%) Operational Technology
12 20 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.24%) Replication
13 19 (1.18%) CMDB
13 19 (1.18%) PKI
14 18 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
15 16 (1.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 193 (12.01%) Windows
2 120 (7.47%) Linux
3 58 (3.61%) Unix
4 52 (3.24%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 26 (1.62%) Apple iOS
7 22 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 21 (1.31%) Android
8 21 (1.31%) Windows 10
9 15 (0.93%) Mac OS
9 15 (0.93%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.37%) AIX
10 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.25%) Solaris
11 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.19%) Kali Linux
13 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.062%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.062%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 945 (58.81%) Problem-Solving
2 378 (23.52%) Agile
3 262 (16.30%) Project Management
4 193 (12.01%) Business Intelligence
5 174 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 170 (10.58%) Decision-Making
7 167 (10.39%) Analytics
8 159 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 147 (9.15%) DevOps
10 129 (8.03%) Customer Service
11 121 (7.53%) Computer Science
11 121 (7.53%) Cybersecurity
12 120 (7.47%) ITIL
13 112 (6.97%) Change Management
13 112 (6.97%) Data Analysis
14 96 (5.97%) Migration
14 96 (5.97%) Project Delivery
15 95 (5.91%) Service Management
16 86 (5.35%) Data Modelling
17 85 (5.29%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 202 (12.57%) SQL
2 150 (9.33%) Python
3 90 (5.60%) Java
4 72 (4.48%) PowerShell
5 44 (2.74%) JavaScript
6 24 (1.49%) C#
7 23 (1.43%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.18%) T-SQL
9 17 (1.06%) R
10 15 (0.93%) Scala
11 14 (0.87%) C
11 14 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 14 (0.87%) VBScript
12 11 (0.68%) Bash
13 9 (0.56%) Perl
13 9 (0.56%) Shell Script
13 9 (0.56%) VBA
14 8 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.50%) TypeScript
15 6 (0.37%) PHP
Qualifications
1 391 (24.33%) Security Cleared
2 316 (19.66%) Degree
3 230 (14.31%) SC Cleared
4 148 (9.21%) DV Cleared
5 77 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 50 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
8 41 (2.55%) Master's Degree
9 37 (2.30%) MCSE
10 34 (2.12%) CCNA
11 31 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (1.74%) CISSP
13 26 (1.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 25 (1.56%) APMP
14 25 (1.56%) CCNP
15 22 (1.37%) PMI Certification
16 20 (1.24%) PMP
17 19 (1.18%) MCSA
18 16 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
19 14 (0.87%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (5.04%) QA
2 68 (4.23%) SLA
3 60 (3.73%) Data Quality
4 52 (3.24%) PMO
5 43 (2.68%) GDPR
6 23 (1.43%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 19 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
9 14 (0.87%) NIST
10 13 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.50%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.44%) GxP
14 6 (0.37%) GRC
14 6 (0.37%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.31%) GAMP
16 4 (0.25%) Def Stans
16 4 (0.25%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 4 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 86 (5.35%) Active Directory
2 67 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.37%) Docker
4 16 (1.00%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.56%) VMware Workstation
6 9 (0.56%) vSphere
7 6 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.25%) Firmware
9 3 (0.19%) HDFS
9 3 (0.19%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.19%) OpenIDM
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.19%) SRDF
10 2 (0.12%) KVM
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.062%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 1 (0.062%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 79 (4.92%) Ansible
2 39 (2.43%) SCCM
3 32 (1.99%) Kubernetes
4 31 (1.93%) Terraform
5 26 (1.62%) NetBackup
6 25 (1.56%) Puppet
7 20 (1.24%) PowerCLI
8 18 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
9 15 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
10 12 (0.75%) Podman
11 11 (0.68%) Kibana
12 10 (0.62%) Grafana
12 10 (0.62%) Progress Chef
13 9 (0.56%) Nagios
13 9 (0.56%) Prometheus
14 8 (0.50%) logstash
14 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
15 6 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 6 (0.37%) vCenter Server
16 5 (0.31%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 321 (19.98%) Microsoft
2 102 (6.35%) SAP
3 96 (5.97%) Oracle
4 81 (5.04%) VMware
5 53 (3.30%) Cisco
6 43 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 36 (2.24%) Alteryx
8 33 (2.05%) Atlassian
9 32 (1.99%) Dell
9 32 (1.99%) Splunk
10 29 (1.80%) Salesforce
11 28 (1.74%) Google
12 26 (1.62%) HP
13 23 (1.43%) Red Hat
14 20 (1.24%) Citrix
15 18 (1.12%) Veritas
16 17 (1.06%) IBM
16 17 (1.06%) Juniper
17 15 (0.93%) Aruba
17 15 (0.93%) Brocade