Analytical Thinking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Thinking 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 269 337 366
Rank change year-on-year +68 +29 +11
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 67 62 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.30% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.35% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 40 52
10th Percentile £353 £179 £283
25th Percentile £411 £409 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.36% -3.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £659 £591
90th Percentile £738 £754 £688
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -5.68% +6.02% +1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile £30.19 £17.85 -
25th Percentile £32.72 £22.33 -
Median hourly rate £47.63 £24.65 -
Median % change year-on-year +93.20% - -
75th Percentile £70.06 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £79.18 £68.05 -
UK median hourly rate £49.50 £24.65 £43.86
% change year-on-year +100.81% -43.80% +137.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Thinking in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in the UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking
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 Thinking within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +20 16 £600 +26.32% 110
North West +17 13 £561 +18.16% 60
South East +52 12 £590 +81.54% 130
Midlands +4 12 £414 -12.84% 92
Scotland +22 11 £500 +2.04% 20
West Midlands -3 8 £565 +7.62% 49
East of England +32 7 £540 -22.86% 68
South West +48 5 £540 +20.94% 56
East Midlands +9 4 £412 +138.84% 37
Northern Ireland - 3 £300 - 5
Yorkshire +9 2 £700 - 40
Wales +1 1 £413 -2.94% 7
North East 0 1 - - 10
Analytical Thinking
UK

Analytical Thinking
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 11 (16.42%) Confluence
2 5 (7.46%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.49%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.49%) CMS
3 1 (1.49%) JBoss
3 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.49%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (8.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (7.46%) MS Visio
4 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.99%) Workday HCM
3 1 (1.49%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.46%) AWS
2 3 (4.48%) Azure
2 3 (4.48%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.49%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.49%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.49%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (1.49%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.49%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.49%) dbt
4 1 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.49%) GitHub
4 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.49%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.49%) OCI
4 1 (1.49%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) LAN
1 2 (2.99%) WAN
2 1 (1.49%) 4G
2 1 (1.49%) ADSL
2 1 (1.49%) Intranet
2 1 (1.49%) Network Security
2 1 (1.49%) PSTN
2 1 (1.49%) SDH
2 1 (1.49%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Tableau
2 3 (4.48%) Power BI
3 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.49%) Big Data
3 1 (1.49%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.49%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.49%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.49%) MySQL
3 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) ERwin
1 7 (10.45%) PowerDesigner
2 6 (8.96%) JIRA
3 1 (1.49%) Hudson
3 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.49%) Zephyr
General
1 67 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 50 (74.63%) Social Skills
3 21 (31.34%) Finance
4 6 (8.96%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (7.46%) Automotive
5 5 (7.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (7.46%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.97%) Marketing
6 4 (5.97%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.48%) Banking
7 3 (4.48%) Electronics
7 3 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Retail
8 2 (2.99%) Billing
8 2 (2.99%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.99%) Legal
8 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.49%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (28.36%) Analyst
2 16 (23.88%) Architect
3 12 (17.91%) Business Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (8.96%) Data Modeller
5 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Data Architect
6 4 (5.97%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Lead
7 3 (4.48%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.48%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Test Manager
8 2 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 2 (2.99%) Data Analyst
8 2 (2.99%) Programme Analyst
8 2 (2.99%) Retail Business Analyst
8 2 (2.99%) Workday Manager
9 1 (1.49%) Project Engineer
9 1 (1.49%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.48%) Middleware
2 1 (1.49%) .NET
2 1 (1.49%) Ajax
2 1 (1.49%) CSS
2 1 (1.49%) CSS3
2 1 (1.49%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.49%) HTML
2 1 (1.49%) HTML5
2 1 (1.49%) JAX-WS
2 1 (1.49%) JMS
2 1 (1.49%) jQuery
2 1 (1.49%) JSP
2 1 (1.49%) RESTful
2 1 (1.49%) SAP PI
2 1 (1.49%) Servlets
2 1 (1.49%) SOAP
2 1 (1.49%) Spring
2 1 (1.49%) Spring MVC
2 1 (1.49%) Struts
2 1 (1.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Data Centre
1 9 (13.43%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.45%) Data Structures
3 6 (8.96%) Replication
4 5 (7.46%) Industry 4.0
4 5 (7.46%) IoT
4 5 (7.46%) Mainframe
5 3 (4.48%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.99%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.99%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.49%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.49%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) HPUX
1 6 (8.96%) Linux
1 6 (8.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (8.96%) Solaris
1 6 (8.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.79%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (38.81%) Agile
2 26 (38.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (25.37%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (25.37%) Project Management
4 13 (19.40%) Roadmaps
5 12 (17.91%) Data Architecture
5 12 (17.91%) Decision-Making
5 12 (17.91%) Risk Management
6 11 (16.42%) Analytics
6 11 (16.42%) Data Management
7 10 (14.93%) DevOps
7 10 (14.93%) Process Management
8 9 (13.43%) Computer Science
8 9 (13.43%) Data Modelling
8 9 (13.43%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (11.94%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (11.94%) ITSM
9 8 (11.94%) Service Management
9 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.97%) Python
2 3 (4.48%) Java
2 3 (4.48%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.48%) SQL
2 3 (4.48%) VBA
3 2 (2.99%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (25.37%) Degree
2 8 (11.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (10.45%) Security Cleared
4 5 (7.46%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.97%) PMI Certification
6 3 (4.48%) PMP
7 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.99%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.99%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.49%) CCIE
8 1 (1.49%) CCIE Data Center
8 1 (1.49%) CCNP
8 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (1.49%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.49%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (1.49%) Six Sigma Black Belt
8 1 (1.49%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (1.49%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.93%) QA
2 8 (11.94%) Data Quality
3 4 (5.97%) PMO
4 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.49%) Def Stans
5 1 (1.49%) GxP
5 1 (1.49%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.49%) ISO 14001
5 1 (1.49%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.49%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.49%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (1.49%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (14.93%) Microsoft
2 9 (13.43%) SAP
3 7 (10.45%) IBM
3 7 (10.45%) Sparx
4 6 (8.96%) Sun
5 5 (7.46%) Unisys
6 3 (4.48%) Cisco
6 3 (4.48%) HP
7 2 (2.99%) Nokia
7 2 (2.99%) Workday
8 1 (1.49%) Adobe
8 1 (1.49%) Ariba
8 1 (1.49%) F5
8 1 (1.49%) Micro Focus
8 1 (1.49%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.49%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.49%) ServiceNow