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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 51 51
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytics 782 1,012 1,356
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.79% 4.24% 4.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.47% 4.73% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 697 879
10th Percentile £340 £340 £350
25th Percentile £423 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £623 £613 £600
90th Percentile £721 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 32 36
10th Percentile £13.50 £18.93 £10.21
25th Percentile £21.64 £21.00 £20.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £27.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -22.14% +49.29%
75th Percentile £43.75 £40.88 -
90th Percentile £58.95 £78.00 £49.31
UK median hourly rate £30.37 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -5.09% -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 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
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 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
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 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +3 201 £550 +10.00% 239
North of England -7 161 £500 -7.41% 327
Midlands +10 154 £575 +9.52% 198
West Midlands +11 122 £575 +6.88% 121
Scotland +8 111 £485 -0.51% 71
North West +3 103 £495 -1.00% 218
South West +33 98 £525 -4.55% 104
Yorkshire -21 53 £500 -7.41% 81
East of England -3 48 £498 -9.55% 92
East Midlands +11 32 £550 +15.79% 77
Wales +21 19 £550 -6.38% 25
North East +7 10 £477 -17.04% 29
Northern Ireland +5 3 £400 -3.03% 19
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 (3.32%) SAS
2 25 (3.20%) Confluence
3 23 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 18 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.92%) CMS
6 13 (1.66%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.64%) WordPress
8 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.38%) Drupal
8 3 (0.38%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.26%) Apache
9 2 (0.26%) GeoServer
10 1 (0.13%) CICS
10 1 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.13%) EPiServer
10 1 (0.13%) Jadu
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) Moodle
10 1 (0.13%) WebLogic
Applications
1 31 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.64%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.64%) SPSS
6 3 (0.38%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.38%) 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 27 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.77%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 6 (0.77%) SAP FI-AP
4 5 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
4 5 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.64%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.51%) SAP BPC
5 4 (0.51%) SAP MM
6 3 (0.38%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.38%) 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
1 173 (22.12%) Azure
2 147 (18.80%) Power Platform
3 73 (9.34%) AWS
4 49 (6.27%) Snowflake
5 43 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
6 32 (4.09%) Google Analytics
7 30 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
8 29 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
8 29 (3.71%) Serverless
9 22 (2.81%) OCI
10 21 (2.69%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (2.69%) Entra ID
10 21 (2.69%) GCP
10 21 (2.69%) PowerApps
11 19 (2.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 18 (2.30%) Amazon S3
13 17 (2.17%) Azure Storage
14 16 (2.05%) Power Automate
15 15 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.35%) Firewall
2 25 (3.20%) DNS
3 22 (2.81%) DHCP
4 18 (2.30%) WAN
5 17 (2.17%) VPN
6 16 (2.05%) LAN
6 16 (2.05%) Network Security
7 10 (1.28%) Intrusion Detection
8 9 (1.15%) MPLS
8 9 (1.15%) PBX
8 9 (1.15%) VoIP
8 9 (1.15%) WLAN
9 8 (1.02%) Internet
9 8 (1.02%) Intranet
10 7 (0.90%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (0.64%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (0.64%) Cisco Firepower
11 5 (0.64%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
13 3 (0.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (18.16%) Power BI
2 93 (11.89%) Tableau
3 73 (9.34%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (6.27%) Big Data
5 34 (4.35%) Data Lake
6 29 (3.71%) MySQL
7 26 (3.32%) SQL Server
8 23 (2.94%) Relational Database
9 22 (2.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 21 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
11 17 (2.17%) Hadoop
12 14 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
12 14 (1.79%) Metadata
13 13 (1.66%) Oracle Reports
14 12 (1.53%) Amazon Aurora
14 12 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (1.41%) BigQuery
15 11 (1.41%) NoSQL
16 10 (1.28%) Crystal Reports
16 10 (1.28%) Impala
Development Applications
1 50 (6.39%) JIRA
2 23 (2.94%) Git
3 20 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.28%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.02%) GitLab
6 6 (0.77%) JMeter
7 5 (0.64%) Postman
8 4 (0.51%) kappa
9 3 (0.38%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.38%) JUnit
9 3 (0.38%) LoadRunner
9 3 (0.38%) Maven
9 3 (0.38%) Selenium
10 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.26%) gulp
10 2 (0.26%) Storybook
11 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.13%) MLflow
11 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.13%) Travis CI
General
1 210 (26.85%) Social Skills
2 167 (21.36%) Analytical Skills
3 154 (19.69%) Finance
4 74 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 38 (4.86%) Marketing
6 36 (4.60%) Legal
7 32 (4.09%) Telecoms
8 27 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 24 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (2.69%) Retail
11 19 (2.43%) Pharmaceutical
12 18 (2.30%) Banking
12 18 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
14 7 (0.90%) Military
15 6 (0.77%) Automotive
15 6 (0.77%) Law
16 5 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
16 5 (0.64%) Local Government
16 5 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 164 (20.97%) Analyst
2 108 (13.81%) Developer
3 95 (12.15%) Data Analyst
4 77 (9.85%) Architect
5 58 (7.42%) Lead
5 58 (7.42%) Senior
6 57 (7.29%) Data Engineer
7 35 (4.48%) Project Manager
8 34 (4.35%) Consultant
9 32 (4.09%) Data Architect
10 25 (3.20%) Azure Engineer
11 24 (3.07%) Senior Analyst
11 24 (3.07%) Support Specialist
12 22 (2.81%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 19 (2.43%) SOC Analyst
13 19 (2.43%) Solutions Architect
14 16 (2.05%) Active Directory Support
14 16 (2.05%) Azure Specialist
15 15 (1.92%) SOC Engineer
16 14 (1.79%) Active Directory Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.07%) HTML
2 23 (2.94%) REST
3 20 (2.56%) ARM Templates
3 20 (2.56%) CSS
3 20 (2.56%) Web Services
4 19 (2.43%) React
5 15 (1.92%) XML
6 13 (1.66%) Spring
6 13 (1.66%) Spring Boot
7 12 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
8 11 (1.41%) AWS CDK
8 11 (1.41%) JSON
8 11 (1.41%) PySpark
9 10 (1.28%) Apache NiFi
10 9 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
11 8 (1.02%) Kafka
12 7 (0.90%) .NET
12 7 (0.90%) Middleware
12 7 (0.90%) OAuth
12 7 (0.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 48 (6.14%) Management Information System
2 37 (4.73%) Product Ownership
3 36 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
4 33 (4.22%) Credit Risk
5 32 (4.09%) Security Operations Centre
6 25 (3.20%) CSOC
7 23 (2.94%) Data Structures
8 22 (2.81%) Data Centre
9 17 (2.17%) PKI
10 16 (2.05%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
11 15 (1.92%) Onboarding
11 15 (1.92%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.79%) Social Media
13 12 (1.53%) Distributed Applications
14 11 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
14 11 (1.41%) Life Science
15 10 (1.28%) Cloud Native
16 8 (1.02%) NHS
17 7 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 58 (7.42%) Linux
2 53 (6.78%) Windows
3 18 (2.30%) Windows Server
3 18 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (2.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (1.92%) Unix
6 10 (1.28%) Android
6 10 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.77%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (25.58%) Business Intelligence
2 184 (23.53%) Data Analytics
3 172 (21.99%) Agile
4 141 (18.03%) Data Modelling
5 139 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
6 112 (14.32%) ETL
7 105 (13.43%) Visualisation
8 98 (12.53%) Data Analysis
9 87 (11.13%) Decision-Making
10 81 (10.36%) Actionable Insight
11 79 (10.10%) Project Management
12 77 (9.85%) DevOps
13 76 (9.72%) Migration
14 73 (9.34%) Data Management
15 69 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
16 63 (8.06%) Dashboard Development
17 62 (7.93%) Stakeholder Management
18 61 (7.80%) Cybersecurity
18 61 (7.80%) Data Science
19 58 (7.42%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 189 (24.17%) SQL
2 109 (13.94%) Python
3 37 (4.73%) Java
4 35 (4.48%) PowerShell
5 31 (3.96%) JavaScript
6 22 (2.81%) C#
7 21 (2.69%) R
8 19 (2.43%) Bicep
9 17 (2.17%) VB
9 17 (2.17%) VBScript
10 13 (1.66%) TypeScript
11 12 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 10 (1.28%) ABAP
12 10 (1.28%) Shell Script
13 8 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
13 8 (1.02%) PHP
13 8 (1.02%) Scala
14 7 (0.90%) Bash
14 7 (0.90%) T-SQL
15 6 (0.77%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 143 (18.29%) Security Cleared
2 137 (17.52%) Degree
3 95 (12.15%) SC Cleared
4 64 (8.18%) DV Cleared
5 30 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (3.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 26 (3.32%) SANS
7 14 (1.79%) CISSP
8 12 (1.53%) Master's Degree
9 10 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
10 9 (1.15%) CCIE
10 9 (1.15%) CCIE Data Center
10 9 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (0.90%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.51%) CCNP
12 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.51%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.51%) PMP
13 3 (0.38%) CISM
13 3 (0.38%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.27%) Data Quality
2 36 (4.60%) QA
3 22 (2.81%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.69%) GDPR
5 13 (1.66%) Disclosure Scotland
5 13 (1.66%) PMO
6 12 (1.53%) Actionable Recommendations
7 9 (1.15%) GxP
7 9 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (1.02%) IFRS
8 8 (1.02%) IFRS 9
9 6 (0.77%) NIST
10 5 (0.64%) GAMP
10 5 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.51%) NCSC
12 3 (0.38%) 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 23 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
2 22 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.92%) Docker
5 4 (0.51%) HDFS
6 3 (0.38%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 32 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 31 (3.96%) Grafana
3 24 (3.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (2.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 18 (2.30%) SCCM
6 17 (2.17%) SCOM
6 17 (2.17%) WSUS
7 13 (1.66%) Terraform
8 9 (1.15%) Ansible
9 6 (0.77%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.64%) SysTrack
11 4 (0.51%) Graylog
11 4 (0.51%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 3 (0.38%) Kibana
12 3 (0.38%) 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
1 136 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 58 (7.42%) SAP
3 49 (6.27%) Oracle
4 43 (5.50%) Google
5 38 (4.86%) Databricks
6 32 (4.09%) Alteryx
7 24 (3.07%) Atlassian
8 22 (2.81%) Splunk
9 17 (2.17%) Talend
10 16 (2.05%) Denodo
11 15 (1.92%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.79%) Adobe
12 14 (1.79%) IFS
12 14 (1.79%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.66%) Cisco
14 10 (1.28%) ServiceNow
15 9 (1.15%) Informatica
16 8 (1.02%) Ab Initio
16 8 (1.02%) Ariba
17 7 (0.90%) Palo Alto