Analytics Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analytics
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytics over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 51 49
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytics 775 977 1,342
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.78% 4.16% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.48% 4.65% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 672 874
10th Percentile £338 £340 £358
25th Percentile £419 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% +2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £600
90th Percentile £725 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 31 37
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.21 £10.27
25th Percentile £21.35 £21.00 £21.04
Median hourly rate £25.00 £22.16 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -36.69% +52.91%
75th Percentile £43.75 £41.75 -
90th Percentile £59.73 £78.00 £40.95
UK median hourly rate £29.19 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.80% -8.57% +29.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Analytics 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 17,300 21,032 27,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.50% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,532 18,929
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
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 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,281 1,348
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.44 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.05
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the UK excluding London

Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in the UK excluding London

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the UK excluding London

Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in the UK excluding London

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the UK excluding London

Analytics
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 Analytics within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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 +4 202 £550 +10.00% 235
North of England -10 163 £500 -7.41% 316
Midlands +6 151 £570 +11.17% 190
West Midlands +13 119 £575 +9.52% 116
Scotland +14 106 £500 +2.56% 73
North West +3 104 £490 -3.21% 208
South West +24 95 £500 -6.98% 110
Yorkshire -12 56 £501 -7.31% 76
East of England +1 49 £498 -2.93% 84
East Midlands +16 32 £550 +22.22% 74
Wales +24 18 £550 -6.34% 21
North East +7 8 £710 +20.85% 33
Northern Ireland +4 3 £400 -3.03% 17
Analytics
UK

Analytics
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 26 (3.35%) SAS
2 25 (3.23%) Confluence
3 23 (2.97%) SharePoint
4 19 (2.45%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.81%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.81%) CMS
6 5 (0.65%) WordPress
7 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.39%) Drupal
7 3 (0.39%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.26%) Apache
8 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.13%) CICS
9 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.13%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.13%) Jadu
9 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.13%) Moodle
9 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 33 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.65%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.65%) SPSS
6 3 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.39%) Sketch
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
Business Applications
1 26 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.77%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 6 (0.77%) SAP FI-AP
4 5 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.65%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.52%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.52%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.39%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.26%) Maximo
7 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.26%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
7 2 (0.26%) RMDS
7 2 (0.26%) SAP CRM
7 2 (0.26%) SAP IS-U
8 1 (0.13%) SAP IBP
8 1 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.13%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 172 (22.19%) Azure
2 147 (18.97%) Power Platform
3 69 (8.90%) AWS
4 47 (6.06%) Snowflake
5 46 (5.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 31 (4.00%) Google Analytics
7 30 (3.87%) Azure Monitor
8 29 (3.74%) Microsoft 365
9 28 (3.61%) Serverless
10 22 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (2.84%) GCP
11 21 (2.71%) Entra ID
11 21 (2.71%) PowerApps
12 20 (2.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 20 (2.58%) OCI
13 17 (2.19%) Amazon S3
14 16 (2.06%) Azure Storage
14 16 (2.06%) Power Automate
15 14 (1.81%) SaaS
16 13 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 35 (4.52%) Firewall
2 24 (3.10%) DNS
3 22 (2.84%) WAN
4 21 (2.71%) DHCP
5 20 (2.58%) VPN
6 16 (2.06%) LAN
6 16 (2.06%) Network Security
7 10 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
8 9 (1.16%) MPLS
8 9 (1.16%) PBX
8 9 (1.16%) VoIP
8 9 (1.16%) WLAN
9 8 (1.03%) Internet
9 8 (1.03%) Intranet
9 8 (1.03%) SD-WAN
10 7 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (0.65%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.65%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (0.52%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (0.52%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (18.45%) Power BI
2 93 (12.00%) Tableau
3 72 (9.29%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (6.32%) Big Data
5 36 (4.65%) Data Lake
6 29 (3.74%) MySQL
7 27 (3.48%) SQL Server
8 24 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 23 (2.97%) Relational Database
10 19 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
11 18 (2.32%) Hadoop
12 16 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 13 (1.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 12 (1.55%) BigQuery
14 12 (1.55%) Metadata
14 12 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
15 10 (1.29%) Amazon Aurora
15 10 (1.29%) Crystal Reports
15 10 (1.29%) Impala
15 10 (1.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 51 (6.58%) JIRA
2 25 (3.23%) Git
3 19 (2.45%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.90%) Cypress.io
4 7 (0.90%) GitLab
5 6 (0.77%) JMeter
6 5 (0.65%) Postman
7 4 (0.52%) JUnit
7 4 (0.52%) kappa
8 3 (0.39%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.39%) LoadRunner
8 3 (0.39%) Maven
8 3 (0.39%) Selenium
9 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.26%) gulp
9 2 (0.26%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.26%) Storybook
10 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
10 1 (0.13%) MLflow
10 1 (0.13%) Travis CI
General
1 208 (26.84%) Social Skills
2 166 (21.42%) Analytical Skills
3 154 (19.87%) Finance
4 73 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 40 (5.16%) Marketing
6 36 (4.65%) Legal
7 32 (4.13%) Telecoms
8 27 (3.48%) Manufacturing
9 25 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 19 (2.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 19 (2.45%) Retail
11 18 (2.32%) Banking
11 18 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
12 13 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.90%) Military
14 6 (0.77%) Law
15 5 (0.65%) Automotive
15 5 (0.65%) Local Government
15 5 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 164 (21.16%) Analyst
2 103 (13.29%) Developer
3 94 (12.13%) Data Analyst
4 75 (9.68%) Architect
5 58 (7.48%) Lead
6 57 (7.35%) Senior
7 54 (6.97%) Data Engineer
8 33 (4.26%) Consultant
8 33 (4.26%) Project Manager
9 31 (4.00%) Data Architect
10 26 (3.35%) Azure Engineer
11 24 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
11 24 (3.10%) Support Specialist
12 23 (2.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 19 (2.45%) SOC Analyst
13 19 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.06%) Active Directory Support
15 15 (1.94%) Azure Specialist
16 14 (1.81%) Analytics Manager
16 14 (1.81%) Azure Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.71%) ARM Templates
1 21 (2.71%) Web Services
2 20 (2.58%) REST
3 19 (2.45%) HTML
4 15 (1.94%) CSS
4 15 (1.94%) React
5 14 (1.81%) XML
6 11 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
6 11 (1.42%) PySpark
6 11 (1.42%) Spring
6 11 (1.42%) Spring Boot
7 10 (1.29%) Apache NiFi
8 9 (1.16%) AWS CDK
8 9 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (1.16%) JSON
8 9 (1.16%) Kafka
9 7 (0.90%) .NET
9 7 (0.90%) Gherkin
9 7 (0.90%) Middleware
9 7 (0.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 46 (5.94%) Management Information System
2 37 (4.77%) Product Ownership
3 35 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (4.26%) Credit Risk
5 29 (3.74%) Security Operations Centre
6 25 (3.23%) CSOC
7 23 (2.97%) Data Centre
7 23 (2.97%) Data Structures
8 16 (2.06%) PKI
8 16 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 16 (2.06%) Social Media
9 15 (1.94%) Cyber Defence
10 14 (1.81%) Onboarding
11 12 (1.55%) Distributed Applications
11 12 (1.55%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
12 11 (1.42%) Life Science
13 10 (1.29%) Cloud Native
14 8 (1.03%) NHS
15 7 (0.90%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 61 (7.87%) Linux
2 52 (6.71%) Windows
3 18 (2.32%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.32%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (2.06%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (1.94%) Unix
6 10 (1.29%) Android
6 10 (1.29%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.77%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (25.68%) Business Intelligence
2 180 (23.23%) Data Analytics
3 168 (21.68%) Agile
4 136 (17.55%) Data Modelling
5 133 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
6 111 (14.32%) ETL
7 105 (13.55%) Visualisation
8 97 (12.52%) Data Analysis
9 86 (11.10%) Decision-Making
10 80 (10.32%) Actionable Insight
11 77 (9.94%) DevOps
12 76 (9.81%) Project Management
13 73 (9.42%) Migration
14 70 (9.03%) Continuous Improvement
14 70 (9.03%) Data Management
15 63 (8.13%) Dashboard Development
16 61 (7.87%) Data Science
16 61 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
17 58 (7.48%) Cybersecurity
17 58 (7.48%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 185 (23.87%) SQL
2 107 (13.81%) Python
3 34 (4.39%) Java
3 34 (4.39%) PowerShell
4 24 (3.10%) JavaScript
5 21 (2.71%) C#
5 21 (2.71%) R
6 20 (2.58%) Bicep
7 16 (2.06%) VB
7 16 (2.06%) VBScript
8 12 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 10 (1.29%) ABAP
9 10 (1.29%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.16%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.03%) Scala
12 7 (0.90%) Bash
12 7 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.90%) PHP
12 7 (0.90%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.77%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 142 (18.32%) Security Cleared
2 133 (17.16%) Degree
3 90 (11.61%) SC Cleared
4 66 (8.52%) DV Cleared
5 26 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 26 (3.35%) SANS
6 25 (3.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 11 (1.42%) CISSP
7 11 (1.42%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.16%) CCIE
8 9 (1.16%) CCIE Data Center
8 9 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
10 5 (0.65%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.52%) CCNP
11 4 (0.52%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.52%) PMP
12 3 (0.39%) CISM
12 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.94%) Data Quality
2 34 (4.39%) QA
3 21 (2.71%) GDPR
4 18 (2.32%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.68%) PMO
6 12 (1.55%) Actionable Recommendations
6 12 (1.55%) Disclosure Scotland
7 9 (1.16%) GxP
7 9 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.03%) IFRS
8 8 (1.03%) IFRS 9
9 6 (0.77%) NIST
10 5 (0.65%) GAMP
10 5 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.52%) NCSC
12 3 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.26%) SLA
14 1 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 22 (2.84%) Active Directory
1 22 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
2 19 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (1.68%) Docker
4 6 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.52%) HDFS
6 3 (0.39%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (3.87%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.61%) Grafana
3 23 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
4 18 (2.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (2.19%) SCCM
6 16 (2.06%) SCOM
6 16 (2.06%) WSUS
7 15 (1.94%) Terraform
8 9 (1.16%) Ansible
9 6 (0.77%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.65%) SysTrack
11 4 (0.52%) Graylog
11 4 (0.52%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 3 (0.39%) Kibana
12 3 (0.39%) Nagios
13 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.13%) Hadoop YARN
14 1 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.13%) Puppet
14 1 (0.13%) QRadar
Vendors
1 138 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.48%) SAP
3 47 (6.06%) Oracle
4 44 (5.68%) Google
5 38 (4.90%) Databricks
6 32 (4.13%) Alteryx
7 24 (3.10%) Atlassian
8 20 (2.58%) Splunk
9 18 (2.32%) Talend
10 17 (2.19%) Denodo
11 14 (1.81%) Adobe
11 14 (1.81%) IFS
11 14 (1.81%) Red Hat
11 14 (1.81%) Salesforce
12 13 (1.68%) Cisco
13 10 (1.29%) ServiceNow
14 8 (1.03%) Ab Initio
14 8 (1.03%) Ariba
15 7 (0.90%) Informatica
15 7 (0.90%) Palo Alto