Analytical Thinking Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Analytical Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 360 387
Rank change year-on-year +29 +27 -18
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 60 97 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.41% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.45% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 53 96
10th Percentile £179 £278 £303
25th Percentile £409 £411 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £570
90th Percentile £754 £708 £614
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 9
10th Percentile £17.85 - £12.25
25th Percentile £22.33 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £24.65 - £18.50
75th Percentile £65.00 - £31.85
90th Percentile £68.05 - £35.64
UK median hourly rate £24.65 £43.86 £18.50
% change year-on-year -43.80% +137.08% -61.49%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Analytical Thinking is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,415 21,396 27,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.71% 89.54% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,848 19,199
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,314 1,359
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.17
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.63 £14.04
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.21
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 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
Midlands +33 30 £475 +11.76% 13
West Midlands +27 25 £525 +23.53% 11
North of England +27 13 £475 -13.64% 34
North West +26 11 £475 +8.57% 16
South East +1 6 £325 -33.33% 21
East Midlands +25 5 £173 - 2
East of England +2 5 £700 +27.27% 8
South West +21 3 £447 -14.95% 19
Scotland +28 2 £490 -6.67% 8
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 14
North East - 1 - - 7
Wales - 1 £425 - 2
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 3 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.67%) Appian
2 1 (1.67%) SAS
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (3.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 6 (10.00%) SAP SD
2 5 (8.33%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (5.00%) SAP CO
3 3 (5.00%) SAP FI
3 3 (5.00%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (3.33%) SAP ERP
5 1 (1.67%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (1.67%) SAP MM
5 1 (1.67%) SAP SCM
5 1 (1.67%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.33%) OCI
1 5 (8.33%) Oracle Service Cloud
1 5 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (1.67%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (1.67%) Azure
3 1 (1.67%) BrowserStack
3 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.67%) SaaS
3 1 (1.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Serverless
3 1 (1.67%) SpeedCurve
3 1 (1.67%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Network Security
2 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Power BI
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.67%) Git
3 1 (1.67%) GoCD
3 1 (1.67%) Pa11y
3 1 (1.67%) TestCafe
General
1 60 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 33 (55.00%) Social Skills
3 21 (35.00%) Finance
4 6 (10.00%) German Language
4 6 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 4 (6.67%) Legal
6 4 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.67%) Publishing
7 3 (5.00%) French Language
7 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.33%) Law
8 2 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Banking
9 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.67%) Marketing
9 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Analyst
2 9 (15.00%) Senior
3 7 (11.67%) Architect
3 7 (11.67%) Business Analyst
4 6 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (8.33%) Insight Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) Report Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Process Analyst
6 4 (6.67%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Test Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Consultant
7 3 (5.00%) Lead
7 3 (5.00%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.33%) Head of IT
8 2 (3.33%) SAP FI Consultant
8 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
8 2 (3.33%) Security Manager
8 2 (3.33%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Support Officer
8 2 (3.33%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) Middleware
2 3 (5.00%) React
3 2 (3.33%) Jest
3 2 (3.33%) Node.js
4 1 (1.67%) .NET
4 1 (1.67%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.67%) HTML
4 1 (1.67%) JSON
4 1 (1.67%) RESTful
4 1 (1.67%) SOAP
4 1 (1.67%) Web Services
4 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.33%) Industry 4.0
3 5 (8.33%) IoT
3 5 (8.33%) SCADA
3 5 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (6.67%) Taxonomies
5 3 (5.00%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.67%) Clustering
7 1 (1.67%) CMDB
7 1 (1.67%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.67%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.67%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.67%) PMI
7 1 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Unix
2 3 (5.00%) Windows
3 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.33%) Agile
2 19 (31.67%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 15 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (21.67%) Project Management
5 12 (20.00%) ITIL
6 10 (16.67%) Roadmaps
6 10 (16.67%) Service Management
7 9 (15.00%) Business Transformation
7 9 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
7 9 (15.00%) Decision-Making
8 8 (13.33%) Customer Service
8 8 (13.33%) ERP
8 8 (13.33%) Project Delivery
8 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (11.67%) Change Management
9 7 (11.67%) Coaching
9 7 (11.67%) Critical Thinking
10 6 (10.00%) Test Automation
10 6 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (1.67%) C#
2 1 (1.67%) Java
2 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.67%) PHP
2 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (35.00%) Degree
2 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (5.00%) SAP Certification
4 2 (3.33%) MCSE
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.67%) CCNA
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.67%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.67%) PMP
5 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.67%) SLA
3 3 (5.00%) PMO
4 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.67%) GDPR
4 1 (1.67%) GxP
4 1 (1.67%) IFRS
4 1 (1.67%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (1.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) Grafana
1 1 (1.67%) Kibana
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (23.33%) SAP
2 9 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.33%) BMC
3 5 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) Adobe
5 1 (1.67%) IBM
5 1 (1.67%) OpenText
5 1 (1.67%) Pega
5 1 (1.67%) VMware