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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 18 21
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,432 1,628 1,853
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.24% 7.83% 7.70%
As % of the General category 18.06% 14.31% 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 1,032 1,247
10th Percentile £225 £263 £247
25th Percentile £389 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £481
Median % change year-on-year -0.15% +4.11% +3.55%
75th Percentile £592 £613 £588
90th Percentile £665 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 163 65
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.75 £20.81
25th Percentile £18.50 £13.02 £23.15
Median hourly rate £24.76 £17.50 £49.57
Median % change year-on-year +41.49% -64.70% +54.30%
75th Percentile £52.31 £25.14 £58.75
90th Percentile £81.01 £43.75 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £18.00 £43.43
% change year-on-year +66.67% -58.55% +22.34%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 7,930 11,378 13,583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.25% 54.73% 56.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,906 6,510 9,286
10th Percentile £213 £205 £228
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £597 £600
90th Percentile £660 £688 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 1,648 782
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.40 £15.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.13 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% -7.91% +65.08%
75th Percentile £58.07 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £69.95
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
South East +9 341 £540 +0.59% 644
North of England +6 315 £475 -5.00% 795
Scotland +4 240 £463 -2.63% 172
Midlands +5 202 £469 -10.67% 535
North West +6 187 £500 +5.26% 487
South West +6 167 £550 +4.76% 356
West Midlands +3 158 £475 -13.64% 328
East of England +19 121 £500 - 292
Yorkshire +3 107 £450 -12.45% 230
East Midlands +4 43 £414 -9.26% 199
Northern Ireland +2 29 £450 +33.33% 71
Wales -3 24 £413 -21.43% 61
North East -3 19 £440 -25.42% 86
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 81 (5.66%) Confluence
2 52 (3.63%) SharePoint
3 25 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 9 (0.63%) IBM Domino
6 7 (0.49%) Apache
6 7 (0.49%) IIS
7 6 (0.42%) SAS
7 6 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.35%) CMS
8 5 (0.35%) IBM Notes
9 4 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.28%) CICS
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.21%) JBoss
10 3 (0.21%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.21%) WebSphere Application Server
11 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 119 (8.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 100 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
3 74 (5.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.96%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
6 6 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.21%) Trello
7 3 (0.21%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.14%) InfoPath
8 2 (0.14%) InVision
9 1 (0.070%) Adobe Captivate
9 1 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.070%) CATIA
9 1 (0.070%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 35 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
3 21 (1.47%) Oracle EBS R12
4 16 (1.12%) Maximo
5 13 (0.91%) Oracle ASCP
6 8 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
6 8 (0.56%) SAP HR
6 8 (0.56%) SAP Payroll
6 8 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 7 (0.49%) Oracle ERP
8 5 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
8 5 (0.35%) SAP EWM
8 5 (0.35%) Workday HCM
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
9 4 (0.28%) Oracle HRMS
9 4 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 4 (0.28%) SAP WM
10 3 (0.21%) SAP GTS
10 3 (0.21%) SAP LE
10 3 (0.21%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 216 (15.08%) Azure
2 148 (10.34%) AWS
3 108 (7.54%) Power Platform
4 69 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
5 50 (3.49%) GCP
6 31 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (2.09%) Entra ID
8 23 (1.61%) Amazon S3
8 23 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (1.40%) Power Automate
10 18 (1.26%) OCI
11 17 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
11 17 (1.19%) PowerApps
11 17 (1.19%) SaaS
11 17 (1.19%) Serverless
11 17 (1.19%) SuccessFactors
12 16 (1.12%) IaaS
13 15 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (0.84%) GitHub
14 12 (0.84%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 58 (4.05%) VPN
2 51 (3.56%) Network Security
3 45 (3.14%) Firewall
4 39 (2.72%) DNS
5 31 (2.16%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.61%) WAN
7 22 (1.54%) LAN
8 21 (1.47%) BGP
8 21 (1.47%) DHCP
9 18 (1.26%) HTTP
10 16 (1.12%) MPLS
10 16 (1.12%) OSPF
10 16 (1.12%) SSL
11 15 (1.05%) VLAN
12 14 (0.98%) SAN
13 11 (0.77%) FTP
13 11 (0.77%) NAS
13 11 (0.77%) SD-WAN
14 10 (0.70%) SMTP
15 9 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (6.49%) Power BI
2 54 (3.77%) Tableau
3 39 (2.72%) MongoDB
4 38 (2.65%) Relational Database
5 35 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 30 (2.09%) DB2
7 28 (1.96%) SQL Server
8 26 (1.82%) Big Data
9 25 (1.75%) Oracle Reports
10 22 (1.54%) Oracle Database
11 21 (1.47%) Hadoop
12 20 (1.40%) Data Lake
13 19 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
14 16 (1.12%) Metadata
15 13 (0.91%) NoSQL
16 11 (0.77%) MySQL
17 10 (0.70%) Data Mining
18 8 (0.56%) DynamoDB
19 7 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
19 7 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 120 (8.38%) JIRA
2 61 (4.26%) Git
3 51 (3.56%) Jenkins
4 39 (2.72%) JUnit
5 34 (2.37%) Selenium
6 25 (1.75%) GitLab
7 16 (1.12%) Cucumber
7 16 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 14 (0.98%) REST Assured
9 12 (0.84%) ERwin
10 10 (0.70%) JMeter
11 9 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.63%) PowerDesigner
12 8 (0.56%) Maven
13 7 (0.49%) TestRail
14 6 (0.42%) Bitbucket Server
14 6 (0.42%) LoadRunner
15 5 (0.35%) Mockito
15 5 (0.35%) Robot Framework
16 4 (0.28%) Appium
General
1 906 (63.27%) Social Skills
2 335 (23.39%) Finance
3 133 (9.29%) Public Sector
4 100 (6.98%) Banking
5 72 (5.03%) Telecoms
6 67 (4.68%) Organisational Skills
7 57 (3.98%) Legal
8 55 (3.84%) Retail
9 52 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (3.14%) Manufacturing
11 43 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 35 (2.44%) Marketing
13 31 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
14 29 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
15 27 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
16 23 (1.61%) Front Office
17 22 (1.54%) Investment Banking
18 21 (1.47%) Local Government
19 20 (1.40%) Automotive
20 19 (1.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 320 (22.35%) Analyst
2 122 (8.52%) Developer
3 121 (8.45%) Business Analyst
4 114 (7.96%) Senior
5 107 (7.47%) Architect
6 82 (5.73%) Consultant
7 71 (4.96%) Lead
8 52 (3.63%) Project Manager
9 51 (3.56%) Data Analyst
9 51 (3.56%) Support Engineer
10 41 (2.86%) Java Developer
10 41 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
11 32 (2.23%) Data Engineer
12 31 (2.16%) Oracle Consultant
12 31 (2.16%) Service Analyst
13 26 (1.82%) Service Desk Analyst
14 25 (1.75%) IT Manager
15 23 (1.61%) IT Support
16 22 (1.54%) Administrator
16 22 (1.54%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.65%) Spring
2 37 (2.58%) HTML
3 36 (2.51%) Kafka
4 35 (2.44%) REST
5 25 (1.75%) CSS
6 24 (1.68%) TensorFlow
7 23 (1.61%) RESTful
8 22 (1.54%) PyTorch
9 21 (1.47%) JMS
9 21 (1.47%) Middleware
10 19 (1.33%) LDAP
10 19 (1.33%) Pandas
10 19 (1.33%) React
11 17 (1.19%) .NET
11 17 (1.19%) Web Services
12 16 (1.12%) AngularJS
12 16 (1.12%) NumPy
12 16 (1.12%) scikit-learn
13 14 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
14 13 (0.91%) Matplotlib
Miscellaneous
1 103 (7.19%) Management Information System
2 60 (4.19%) Analytical Mindset
2 60 (4.19%) Data Centre
3 48 (3.35%) Data Structures
3 48 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
4 44 (3.07%) Product Ownership
5 36 (2.51%) Algorithms
6 34 (2.37%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 25 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
9 24 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 23 (1.61%) Operational Technology
11 22 (1.54%) Mainframe
12 21 (1.47%) Cloud Native
12 21 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
12 21 (1.47%) Equities
13 19 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
14 17 (1.19%) CMDB
15 16 (1.12%) Clustering
15 16 (1.12%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 156 (10.89%) Windows
2 106 (7.40%) Linux
3 40 (2.79%) Windows 10
3 40 (2.79%) Windows Server
4 29 (2.03%) Apple iOS
4 29 (2.03%) Unix
5 17 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (0.91%) Solaris
6 13 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (0.84%) Android
8 8 (0.56%) HPUX
8 8 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.49%) AIX
9 7 (0.49%) zOS
10 5 (0.35%) Windows 8
10 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (0.35%) Windows XP
11 4 (0.28%) Check Point GAiA
Processes & Methodologies
1 886 (61.87%) Problem-Solving
2 344 (24.02%) Agile
3 206 (14.39%) Project Management
4 180 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 165 (11.52%) Decision-Making
6 156 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 155 (10.82%) ITIL
8 148 (10.34%) Data Analysis
9 142 (9.92%) DevOps
10 132 (9.22%) Analytics
11 130 (9.08%) Migration
12 128 (8.94%) Computer Science
13 127 (8.87%) Change Management
14 117 (8.17%) CI/CD
15 114 (7.96%) Business Intelligence
16 110 (7.68%) Collaborative Working
17 106 (7.40%) Service Management
18 100 (6.98%) Time Management
19 96 (6.70%) Risk Management
20 94 (6.56%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 215 (15.01%) SQL
2 177 (12.36%) Python
3 82 (5.73%) Java
4 49 (3.42%) PowerShell
5 40 (2.79%) JavaScript
6 23 (1.61%) R
7 22 (1.54%) Shell Script
8 20 (1.40%) C#
9 15 (1.05%) Bash
10 14 (0.98%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.56%) C
12 7 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.42%) C++
13 6 (0.42%) Scala
13 6 (0.42%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.42%) VBA
14 5 (0.35%) ABAP
14 5 (0.35%) Perl
15 4 (0.28%) COBOL
15 4 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 245 (17.11%) Degree
2 232 (16.20%) Security Cleared
3 190 (13.27%) SC Cleared
4 73 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 53 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
6 51 (3.56%) Master's Degree
7 46 (3.21%) DV Cleared
8 42 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (2.79%) CISSP
10 38 (2.65%) ITIL Certification
11 34 (2.37%) CCNA
12 29 (2.03%) CCNP
12 29 (2.03%) PMI Certification
12 29 (2.03%) PMP
13 26 (1.82%) Azure Certification
14 20 (1.40%) CISM
15 19 (1.33%) AWS Certification
16 18 (1.26%) ISTQB
17 17 (1.19%) A+ Certification
17 17 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (8.94%) QA
2 82 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 47 (3.28%) SLA
4 34 (2.37%) GDPR
5 23 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
6 20 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.40%) NIST
7 19 (1.33%) PMO
8 17 (1.19%) Accessibility
8 17 (1.19%) PCI DSS
9 9 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.56%) GxP
11 6 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.42%) JSP 440
12 5 (0.35%) NCSC
12 5 (0.35%) RMADS
13 4 (0.28%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.28%) IFRS
13 4 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
14 3 (0.21%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 79 (5.52%) Active Directory
2 53 (3.70%) Docker
3 28 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.12%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.56%) RACF
7 8 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
10 4 (0.28%) Firmware
10 4 (0.28%) Postfix
11 3 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.21%) vSphere
12 2 (0.14%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.070%) Apache Flume
13 1 (0.070%) Time Sharing Option
13 1 (0.070%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 1 (0.070%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 65 (4.54%) Kubernetes
2 41 (2.86%) Ansible
3 29 (2.03%) Terraform
4 24 (1.68%) Oracle RMAN
5 22 (1.54%) SCCM
6 16 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
7 13 (0.91%) vCenter Server
8 12 (0.84%) NetBackup
9 10 (0.70%) Podman
10 9 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.63%) Puppet
11 8 (0.56%) Grafana
12 7 (0.49%) WSUS
13 6 (0.42%) Data Guard
13 6 (0.42%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 6 (0.42%) Prometheus
14 5 (0.35%) SCOM
15 4 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
15 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 276 (19.27%) Microsoft
2 122 (8.52%) Oracle
3 100 (6.98%) SAP
4 90 (6.28%) ServiceNow
5 52 (3.63%) Cisco
6 34 (2.37%) Google
6 34 (2.37%) VMware
7 32 (2.23%) IBM
8 29 (2.03%) Atlassian
9 28 (1.96%) Sybase
10 25 (1.75%) Citrix
11 23 (1.61%) Splunk
12 21 (1.47%) Fortinet
13 19 (1.33%) Dynatrace
14 18 (1.26%) Apple
15 16 (1.12%) Dell
15 16 (1.12%) HP
16 14 (0.98%) Juniper
16 14 (0.98%) Salesforce
17 13 (0.91%) Remedy