Trend Analysis Contracts in the UK excluding London

Trend Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Trend Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Trend Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 379 383
Rank change year-on-year +57 +4 +61
Contract jobs citing Trend Analysis 17 20 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.096% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.11% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 41
10th Percentile £399 £334 £203
25th Percentile £488 £367 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £469 £500
90th Percentile £595 £526 £550
UK median daily rate £450 £481 £450
% change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £12.53 -
Median hourly rate £31.64 £18.27 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.23% -71.90% +182.61%
75th Percentile - £24.00 £65.75
90th Percentile - £39.27 -
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £24.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +31.83% -63.08% +182.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Trend Analysis 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 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
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 £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Trend Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Trend Analysis in the UK excluding London

Trend Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Trend Analysis in the UK excluding London

Trend Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Trend Analysis in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Trend Analysis in the UK excluding London

Trend Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Trend Analysis in the UK excluding London

Trend Analysis
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 Trend Analysis within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
East of England +34 8 £550 - 9
South West +45 5 £538 +60.93% 3
South East +41 4 £295 -19.62% 8
Trend Analysis
UK

Trend Analysis
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:

Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Power BI
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
5 2 (11.76%) Finance
6 1 (5.88%) Aviation
6 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Configuration Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Data Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Capacity Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Service Management Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Availability Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Budget Controller
4 1 (5.88%) Capacity and Availability Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Change Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Excel Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Facilities Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Operations Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) SQL Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.88%) CMDB
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) ITIL
2 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (35.29%) Service Management
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (23.53%) Analytics
4 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (23.53%) Change Management
4 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
4 4 (23.53%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (23.53%) Process Improvement
4 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (23.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (23.53%) Visualisation
5 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (17.65%) GAP Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Impact Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
5 3 (17.65%) ITSM
5 3 (17.65%) Major Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 5 (29.41%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) Degree
4 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) CISSP
5 1 (5.88%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (5.88%) GCFE
5 1 (5.88%) GCIH
5 1 (5.88%) GIAC
5 1 (5.88%) GREM
5 1 (5.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) SLA
3 1 (5.88%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) BMC
1 1 (5.88%) BT
1 1 (5.88%) Remedy