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 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,525 1,671 1,792
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.44% 7.85% 7.89%
As % of the General category 18.27% 14.72% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 997 1,028 1,215
10th Percentile £250 £270 £263
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £690 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 169 65
10th Percentile £15.12 £11.75 £20.69
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.75 £23.15
Median hourly rate £30.29 £17.50 £52.30
Median % change year-on-year +73.09% -66.54% +88.72%
75th Percentile £51.80 £25.36 £58.75
90th Percentile £81.01 £42.50 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £34.11 £19.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +79.53% -57.78% +38.04%

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 8,349 11,349 12,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 62.65% 53.34% 56.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,093 6,401 8,641
10th Percentile £213 £205 £230
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.62% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 653 1,716 734
10th Percentile £13.11 £12.50 £13.34
25th Percentile £15.62 £15.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £28.46 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.48% +3.49% +40.88%
75th Percentile £51.10 £53.19 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.50 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £31.92
% change year-on-year -6.67% -6.02% +40.31%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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
North of England +8 380 £469 -6.20% 1,190
South East +6 308 £501 -4.67% 1,832
Midlands +1 255 £425 -19.05% 613
North West +11 241 £475 -3.65% 721
Scotland +5 241 £475 +2.43% 368
South West +6 185 £550 +4.76% 548
West Midlands +4 183 £460 -12.38% 354
Yorkshire +6 127 £450 -10.00% 349
East of England +17 113 £500 +5.26% 389
East Midlands +9 71 £375 -16.67% 242
Northern Ireland +4 39 £523 +1.95% 103
Wales -14 16 £413 -2.94% 151
North East -7 13 £420 -26.96% 125
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 89 (5.84%) Confluence
2 43 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.11%) IBM Domino
4 16 (1.05%) Apache Spark
5 14 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
6 9 (0.59%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.52%) JBoss
7 8 (0.52%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.46%) Apache
8 7 (0.46%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 7 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
10 5 (0.33%) IBM Notes
10 5 (0.33%) SAS
11 4 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.26%) CICS
11 4 (0.26%) CMS
11 4 (0.26%) IIS
11 4 (0.26%) Skype for Business
12 3 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 141 (9.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 119 (7.80%) Microsoft Office
3 72 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 33 (2.16%) MS Visio
5 15 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.52%) Maya
7 5 (0.33%) Adobe Captivate
7 5 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.26%) NUKE
9 3 (0.20%) Trello
10 2 (0.13%) InVision
10 2 (0.13%) Simulink
10 2 (0.13%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.066%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.066%) CATIA
11 1 (0.066%) InDesign
11 1 (0.066%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.066%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.066%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 35 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 26 (1.70%) Oracle EBS
3 19 (1.25%) Oracle EBS R12
4 15 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.66%) Maximo
6 9 (0.59%) SAP Payroll
7 8 (0.52%) Oracle Assets
7 8 (0.52%) Payment Gateway
7 8 (0.52%) SAP HR
8 7 (0.46%) Oracle ASCP
8 7 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
9 6 (0.39%) Oracle HRMS
10 4 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 4 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
10 4 (0.26%) SAP IBP
10 4 (0.26%) SAP MM
10 4 (0.26%) SAP WM
11 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
11 3 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 191 (12.52%) Azure
2 174 (11.41%) AWS
3 126 (8.26%) Power Platform
4 62 (4.07%) GCP
5 50 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
6 32 (2.10%) SaaS
7 30 (1.97%) Amazon S3
8 27 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
9 26 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (1.44%) Entra ID
11 21 (1.38%) OCI
11 21 (1.38%) Serverless
12 20 (1.31%) PowerApps
13 18 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (1.18%) Power Automate
14 17 (1.11%) SuccessFactors
15 16 (1.05%) GitHub
15 16 (1.05%) IaaS
15 16 (1.05%) OpenShift
16 14 (0.92%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.20%) VPN
2 56 (3.67%) Firewall
3 51 (3.34%) Network Security
4 43 (2.82%) DNS
5 26 (1.70%) BGP
6 25 (1.64%) TCP/IP
7 21 (1.38%) WAN
8 20 (1.31%) DHCP
8 20 (1.31%) LAN
9 19 (1.25%) SSL
10 18 (1.18%) MPLS
10 18 (1.18%) OSPF
11 17 (1.11%) IPsec
12 14 (0.92%) HTTP
12 14 (0.92%) Unified Communications
12 14 (0.92%) VLAN
13 13 (0.85%) SAN
14 11 (0.72%) Skype
14 11 (0.72%) Wireless
15 10 (0.66%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (7.15%) Power BI
2 58 (3.80%) Tableau
3 46 (3.02%) Relational Database
4 45 (2.95%) MongoDB
5 42 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
6 36 (2.36%) DB2
7 28 (1.84%) Oracle Reports
8 26 (1.70%) SQL Server
9 25 (1.64%) Oracle Database
10 23 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
11 20 (1.31%) Big Data
11 20 (1.31%) Hadoop
12 18 (1.18%) NoSQL
13 17 (1.11%) Metadata
13 17 (1.11%) MySQL
14 14 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (0.85%) Data Lake
16 12 (0.79%) DynamoDB
17 10 (0.66%) Data Mining
18 9 (0.59%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 148 (9.70%) JIRA
2 73 (4.79%) Jenkins
3 64 (4.20%) Git
4 49 (3.21%) JUnit
5 40 (2.62%) Selenium
6 32 (2.10%) GitLab
7 22 (1.44%) Cucumber
8 20 (1.31%) SonarQube
9 16 (1.05%) Maven
10 15 (0.98%) REST Assured
11 13 (0.85%) Postman
12 12 (0.79%) JMeter
13 9 (0.59%) Bitbucket
14 7 (0.46%) Bitbucket Server
14 7 (0.46%) Gradle
14 7 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
15 6 (0.39%) Cypress.io
15 6 (0.39%) LoadRunner
15 6 (0.39%) TestRail
15 6 (0.39%) Xcode
General
1 951 (62.36%) Social Skills
2 392 (25.70%) Finance
3 144 (9.44%) Banking
4 120 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 62 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
5 62 (4.07%) Telecoms
6 55 (3.61%) Legal
7 52 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 51 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
9 45 (2.95%) Manufacturing
10 44 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
10 44 (2.89%) Retail
11 36 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
12 34 (2.23%) Automotive
13 32 (2.10%) Front Office
14 28 (1.84%) Marketing
15 26 (1.70%) Investment Banking
16 25 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
17 23 (1.51%) Law
18 18 (1.18%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 376 (24.66%) Analyst
2 141 (9.25%) Business Analyst
3 126 (8.26%) Developer
4 116 (7.61%) Senior
5 106 (6.95%) Architect
6 82 (5.38%) Lead
7 73 (4.79%) Consultant
8 70 (4.59%) Data Analyst
9 51 (3.34%) Java Developer
10 50 (3.28%) Project Manager
11 42 (2.75%) Support Engineer
12 34 (2.23%) Solutions Architect
13 30 (1.97%) Desktop Support
14 29 (1.90%) Network Engineer
14 29 (1.90%) Service Analyst
15 27 (1.77%) Desktop Engineer
16 26 (1.70%) Data Engineer
17 24 (1.57%) SAP Consultant
17 24 (1.57%) Service Desk Analyst
18 22 (1.44%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (3.41%) HTML
2 51 (3.34%) REST
3 49 (3.21%) Kafka
4 48 (3.15%) Spring
5 40 (2.62%) CSS
6 29 (1.90%) LDAP
7 26 (1.70%) RESTful
7 26 (1.70%) Web Services
8 25 (1.64%) JMS
9 22 (1.44%) SOAP
10 21 (1.38%) AngularJS
11 20 (1.31%) React
11 20 (1.31%) Spring Boot
12 18 (1.18%) TensorFlow
13 17 (1.11%) .NET
14 16 (1.05%) PyTorch
15 14 (0.92%) JSON
15 14 (0.92%) Pandas
16 13 (0.85%) Flash
16 13 (0.85%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 110 (7.21%) Management Information System
2 74 (4.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 61 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 57 (3.74%) Data Structures
5 51 (3.34%) Product Ownership
6 46 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
7 37 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
8 32 (2.10%) Algorithms
9 29 (1.90%) Onboarding
10 28 (1.84%) Equities
11 25 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
12 24 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
13 23 (1.51%) PKI
13 23 (1.51%) Virtual Team
14 21 (1.38%) Mainframe
15 20 (1.31%) Cloud Native
15 20 (1.31%) Security Posture
16 19 (1.25%) Operational Technology
17 18 (1.18%) Public Cloud
18 17 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 157 (10.30%) Windows
2 124 (8.13%) Linux
3 39 (2.56%) Windows 10
4 36 (2.36%) Apple iOS
5 34 (2.23%) Unix
5 34 (2.23%) Windows Server
6 19 (1.25%) Android
7 18 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (1.11%) Solaris
9 14 (0.92%) Windows Server 2012
10 11 (0.72%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.52%) HPUX
11 8 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.46%) zOS
13 6 (0.39%) Check Point GAiA
14 5 (0.33%) AIX
14 5 (0.33%) Windows 8
14 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 928 (60.85%) Problem-Solving
2 373 (24.46%) Agile
3 199 (13.05%) Project Management
4 192 (12.59%) ITIL
5 188 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 174 (11.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 164 (10.75%) Decision-Making
8 158 (10.36%) Data Analysis
9 151 (9.90%) DevOps
10 143 (9.38%) Migration
10 143 (9.38%) Service Management
11 138 (9.05%) Change Management
12 137 (8.98%) Business Intelligence
13 128 (8.39%) Analytics
14 127 (8.33%) Computer Science
15 126 (8.26%) CI/CD
16 118 (7.74%) Validation
17 111 (7.28%) Cybersecurity
18 106 (6.95%) Test Automation
19 104 (6.82%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 258 (16.92%) SQL
2 203 (13.31%) Python
3 121 (7.93%) Java
4 53 (3.48%) PowerShell
5 50 (3.28%) JavaScript
6 37 (2.43%) Shell Script
7 23 (1.51%) R
8 21 (1.38%) C#
9 17 (1.11%) Bash
10 16 (1.05%) PL/SQL
11 13 (0.85%) C++
12 10 (0.66%) TypeScript
13 9 (0.59%) Scala
14 7 (0.46%) C
14 7 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.39%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.33%) Objective-C
16 5 (0.33%) Swift
16 5 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 256 (16.79%) Degree
2 248 (16.26%) Security Cleared
3 200 (13.11%) SC Cleared
4 72 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 60 (3.93%) Cisco Certification
6 50 (3.28%) Master's Degree
7 48 (3.15%) DV Cleared
8 44 (2.89%) CISSP
8 44 (2.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
10 36 (2.36%) CCNP
11 33 (2.16%) CCNA
12 25 (1.64%) PMI Certification
12 25 (1.64%) PMP
13 24 (1.57%) AWS Certification
14 23 (1.51%) ISTQB
15 21 (1.38%) Azure Certification
16 20 (1.31%) CISM
17 18 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 15 (0.98%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (7.80%) QA
2 78 (5.11%) Data Quality
3 59 (3.87%) SLA
4 43 (2.82%) GDPR
5 25 (1.64%) NIST
6 23 (1.51%) Disclosure Scotland
7 21 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 18 (1.18%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.18%) PMO
8 18 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.98%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.52%) JSP 440
10 8 (0.52%) NCSC
11 7 (0.46%) GxP
11 7 (0.46%) RMADS
12 6 (0.39%) SEPA
13 5 (0.33%) Basel III
13 5 (0.33%) IFRS
14 4 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 67 (4.39%) Active Directory
2 53 (3.48%) Docker
3 40 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (0.98%) VMware NSX
6 8 (0.52%) Oracle RAC
6 8 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.39%) RACF
7 6 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.33%) Postfix
9 4 (0.26%) Firmware
10 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.20%) vSphere
11 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
11 2 (0.13%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.066%) Time Sharing Option
12 1 (0.066%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 59 (3.87%) Kubernetes
2 46 (3.02%) Ansible
3 34 (2.23%) Terraform
4 22 (1.44%) Oracle RMAN
5 21 (1.38%) SCCM
6 17 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
7 14 (0.92%) vCenter Server
8 11 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 11 (0.72%) Podman
9 10 (0.66%) Grafana
9 10 (0.66%) Puppet
10 9 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (0.59%) NetBackup
11 8 (0.52%) Data Guard
11 8 (0.52%) Prometheus
12 7 (0.46%) Microsoft Clustering
12 7 (0.46%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 7 (0.46%) WSUS
13 6 (0.39%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.39%) SCOM
Vendors
1 296 (19.41%) Microsoft
2 139 (9.11%) Oracle
3 109 (7.15%) SAP
4 107 (7.02%) ServiceNow
5 63 (4.13%) Cisco
6 42 (2.75%) VMware
7 37 (2.43%) IBM
8 36 (2.36%) Atlassian
9 32 (2.10%) Sybase
10 29 (1.90%) Google
11 23 (1.51%) Fortinet
11 23 (1.51%) Salesforce
12 22 (1.44%) Citrix
13 21 (1.38%) Apple
14 16 (1.05%) Adobe
15 15 (0.98%) Splunk
16 14 (0.92%) Workday
17 13 (0.85%) Commvault
18 12 (0.79%) Ariba
18 12 (0.79%) HP