Analytical Skills Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 21 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,616 1,837 1,951
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.77% 7.60% 6.31%
As % of the General category 14.19% 13.48% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,030 1,234 1,262
10th Percentile £263 £235 £210
25th Percentile £397 £383 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £476 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.20% +2.97% +8.82%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £550
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 162 67 143
10th Percentile £11.75 £19.92 £12.25
25th Percentile £13.01 £22.95 £14.40
Median hourly rate £17.50 £47.73 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.34% +59.10% +51.90%
75th Percentile £25.00 £58.67 £48.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £66.00 £55.73
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -55.00% +14.29% +49.41%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills 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 common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,385 13,624 17,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.77% 56.35% 55.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,543 9,298 11,806
10th Percentile £205 £228 £208
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,634 801 1,052
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.44
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.85 £13.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.54 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +65.08% -7.50%
75th Percentile £51.75 £61.25 £35.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £54.83
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £21.86
% change year-on-year -18.57% +60.11% -2.84%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
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 Skills within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +1 417 £531 +0.24% 642
North of England +8 351 £500 +7.53% 791
South West +21 256 £530 +0.95% 383
Midlands -3 226 £525 +13.51% 471
Scotland -2 218 £484 +1.84% 133
North West +7 191 £481 +9.69% 476
West Midlands 0 170 £550 +15.79% 287
Yorkshire +12 134 £514 -2.10% 246
East of England -1 115 £494 +41.07% 327
East Midlands 0 50 £463 +12.12% 183
Wales +7 32 £525 +16.67% 72
North East +26 25 £590 +125.84% 76
Northern Ireland +4 15 £338 -20.59% 41
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 4
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
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 84 (5.20%) Confluence
2 44 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 37 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.05%) Apache
5 14 (0.87%) Tomcat
6 13 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 13 (0.80%) IIS
7 12 (0.74%) SAS
8 6 (0.37%) CMS
9 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
10 3 (0.19%) Appian
10 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.19%) IBM HTTP Server
10 3 (0.19%) nginx
10 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
10 3 (0.19%) WebSphere Portal
11 2 (0.12%) Drupal
11 2 (0.12%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.12%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 178 (11.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 139 (8.60%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (2.48%) Microsoft Project
5 33 (2.04%) Spreadsheet
6 24 (1.49%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.50%) Acrobat
8 5 (0.31%) Sketch
9 4 (0.25%) SPSS
10 3 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 3 (0.19%) MicroStation
11 2 (0.12%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.12%) InVision
12 1 (0.062%) Abaqus
12 1 (0.062%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.062%) Autodesk Inventor
12 1 (0.062%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.062%) Simulink
12 1 (0.062%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 29 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (0.99%) Oracle EBS R12
3 12 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 10 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
5 10 (0.62%) SAP HCM
6 9 (0.56%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.56%) SAP HR
6 9 (0.56%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.50%) Maximo
7 8 (0.50%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.43%) Primavera
8 7 (0.43%) SAP SD
9 6 (0.37%) Oracle Cash Management
9 6 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
10 5 (0.31%) SAP CO
10 5 (0.31%) SAP FI
10 5 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
11 4 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 201 (12.44%) Azure
2 167 (10.33%) Power Platform
3 106 (6.56%) AWS
4 70 (4.33%) Microsoft 365
5 46 (2.85%) Snowflake
6 37 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (2.04%) GCP
8 31 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
9 27 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
9 27 (1.67%) OCI
10 25 (1.55%) PowerApps
11 19 (1.18%) SaaS
12 18 (1.11%) Entra ID
13 17 (1.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 17 (1.05%) Power Automate
14 16 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (0.99%) SuccessFactors
15 14 (0.87%) GitHub
16 13 (0.80%) Serverless
17 11 (0.68%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.77%) Network Security
2 49 (3.03%) Firewall
3 46 (2.85%) DNS
4 37 (2.29%) VPN
5 32 (1.98%) WAN
6 31 (1.92%) DHCP
7 28 (1.73%) LAN
8 26 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 26 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (1.24%) HTTP
10 19 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
10 19 (1.18%) SAN
11 17 (1.05%) Internet
12 16 (0.99%) VLAN
13 14 (0.87%) MPLS
13 14 (0.87%) Wireless
14 11 (0.68%) Cisco Nexus
14 11 (0.68%) H.323
14 11 (0.68%) VSAN
15 8 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (9.84%) Power BI
2 87 (5.38%) Tableau
3 54 (3.34%) SQL Server
4 39 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 35 (2.17%) Big Data
6 32 (1.98%) Relational Database
7 25 (1.55%) Oracle Reports
8 22 (1.36%) Data Lake
8 22 (1.36%) Data Mining
9 20 (1.24%) Metadata
10 19 (1.18%) Oracle Database
11 18 (1.11%) NoSQL
11 18 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 14 (0.87%) Microsoft Analysis Services
14 13 (0.80%) Hadoop
15 12 (0.74%) GIS
16 10 (0.62%) Power Query
17 9 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
18 8 (0.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 151 (9.34%) JIRA
2 66 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 42 (2.60%) Selenium
4 39 (2.41%) Git
5 26 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 26 (1.61%) Cucumber
6 24 (1.49%) REST Assured
6 24 (1.49%) SonarQube
7 23 (1.42%) Bitbucket
8 22 (1.36%) GitLab
9 15 (0.93%) Oracle APEX
10 10 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
11 7 (0.43%) Travis CI
12 6 (0.37%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.37%) Robot Framework
13 5 (0.31%) JMeter
13 5 (0.31%) LoadRunner
13 5 (0.31%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.25%) JUnit
15 3 (0.19%) Cypress.io
General
1 914 (56.56%) Social Skills
2 330 (20.42%) Finance
3 198 (12.25%) Public Sector
4 85 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 84 (5.20%) Legal
6 79 (4.89%) Organisational Skills
7 70 (4.33%) Manufacturing
8 62 (3.84%) Telecoms
9 55 (3.40%) Banking
10 48 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
11 45 (2.78%) Marketing
12 40 (2.48%) Retail
13 35 (2.17%) Aerospace
13 35 (2.17%) Military
14 27 (1.67%) Law
15 23 (1.42%) Local Government
16 22 (1.36%) Police
17 21 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
18 19 (1.18%) Electronics
19 15 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 387 (23.95%) Analyst
2 130 (8.04%) Architect
2 130 (8.04%) Lead
3 117 (7.24%) Senior
4 115 (7.12%) Developer
5 92 (5.69%) Data Analyst
6 88 (5.45%) Business Analyst
7 76 (4.70%) Project Manager
8 73 (4.52%) Consultant
9 60 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
10 49 (3.03%) Data Engineer
11 47 (2.91%) IT Engineer
12 40 (2.48%) Service Analyst
13 36 (2.23%) Network Engineer
14 35 (2.17%) Support Engineer
15 34 (2.10%) Field Engineer
15 34 (2.10%) Service Desk Analyst
16 32 (1.98%) Field Service Engineer
17 30 (1.86%) Senior Analyst
18 29 (1.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (3.03%) REST
2 39 (2.41%) .NET
3 30 (1.86%) HTML
4 29 (1.79%) CSS
5 25 (1.55%) Java EE
6 21 (1.30%) .NET Core
6 21 (1.30%) React
7 20 (1.24%) Kafka
8 17 (1.05%) Apache NiFi
9 16 (0.99%) XML
10 15 (0.93%) Web Services
11 14 (0.87%) JSON
12 13 (0.80%) Middleware
13 12 (0.74%) ARM Templates
14 11 (0.68%) AngularJS
14 11 (0.68%) PySpark
15 10 (0.62%) Node.js
16 9 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
16 9 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
17 8 (0.50%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 167 (10.33%) Management Information System
2 94 (5.82%) Analytical Mindset
3 75 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
4 74 (4.58%) Product Ownership
5 37 (2.29%) Cyber Defence
6 34 (2.10%) Data Centre
7 28 (1.73%) Data Structures
8 27 (1.67%) Virtual Team
9 24 (1.49%) CMDB
9 24 (1.49%) Credit Risk
9 24 (1.49%) Security Operations Centre
10 23 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 22 (1.36%) Client/Server
11 22 (1.36%) Operational Technology
12 21 (1.30%) Distributed Applications
13 20 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.24%) PKI
13 20 (1.24%) Replication
14 18 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
15 17 (1.05%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 207 (12.81%) Windows
2 128 (7.92%) Linux
3 61 (3.77%) Unix
4 54 (3.34%) Windows Server
5 32 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 25 (1.55%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.49%) Windows 10
8 23 (1.42%) Windows Server 2012
9 20 (1.24%) Android
10 16 (0.99%) Windows 7
11 15 (0.93%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
13 5 (0.31%) AIX
14 4 (0.25%) Solaris
14 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.19%) Kali Linux
16 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 961 (59.47%) Problem-Solving
2 372 (23.02%) Agile
3 248 (15.35%) Project Management
4 190 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
5 175 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 173 (10.71%) Decision-Making
7 165 (10.21%) Analytics
8 160 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 150 (9.28%) DevOps
10 131 (8.11%) Customer Service
11 124 (7.67%) Computer Science
11 124 (7.67%) Cybersecurity
12 123 (7.61%) ITIL
13 115 (7.12%) Data Analysis
14 114 (7.05%) Change Management
15 100 (6.19%) Migration
16 98 (6.06%) Service Management
17 91 (5.63%) Project Delivery
18 86 (5.32%) Data Modelling
19 85 (5.26%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 203 (12.56%) SQL
2 140 (8.66%) Python
3 91 (5.63%) Java
4 73 (4.52%) PowerShell
5 41 (2.54%) JavaScript
6 26 (1.61%) PL/SQL
7 22 (1.36%) C#
8 19 (1.18%) T-SQL
9 17 (1.05%) Scala
10 14 (0.87%) C
10 14 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (0.87%) VBScript
11 13 (0.80%) R
12 11 (0.68%) Bash
13 9 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
13 9 (0.56%) Perl
13 9 (0.56%) Shell Script
14 8 (0.50%) Ruby
14 8 (0.50%) TypeScript
14 8 (0.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 389 (24.07%) Security Cleared
2 327 (20.24%) Degree
3 237 (14.67%) SC Cleared
4 141 (8.73%) DV Cleared
5 78 (4.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 52 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 48 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
8 40 (2.48%) Master's Degree
9 36 (2.23%) MCSE
10 34 (2.10%) CCNA
11 29 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
12 28 (1.73%) CISSP
13 27 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 23 (1.42%) CCNP
14 23 (1.42%) PMP
15 22 (1.36%) PMI Certification
16 19 (1.18%) MCSA
17 18 (1.11%) APMP
18 16 (0.99%) Azure Certification
19 15 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (5.20%) QA
2 68 (4.21%) SLA
3 63 (3.90%) Data Quality
4 46 (2.85%) PMO
5 35 (2.17%) GDPR
6 22 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 19 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 19 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
8 14 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.87%) NIST
9 9 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.50%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.43%) GxP
12 6 (0.37%) GRC
12 6 (0.37%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.31%) GAMP
14 4 (0.25%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.25%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.19%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 88 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 68 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.36%) Docker
4 18 (1.11%) VMware NSX
5 11 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.56%) VMware Workstation
6 9 (0.56%) vSphere
7 8 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.19%) Firmware
8 3 (0.19%) HDFS
8 3 (0.19%) OpenAM
8 3 (0.19%) OpenIDM
8 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (0.19%) SRDF
8 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.12%) KVM
9 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.062%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 83 (5.14%) Ansible
2 40 (2.48%) SCCM
3 33 (2.04%) Kubernetes
4 31 (1.92%) Terraform
5 30 (1.86%) Puppet
6 25 (1.55%) NetBackup
7 20 (1.24%) PowerCLI
8 18 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
9 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
10 14 (0.87%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.74%) Podman
12 11 (0.68%) Kibana
13 10 (0.62%) Grafana
13 10 (0.62%) Nagios
14 9 (0.56%) Prometheus
15 8 (0.50%) logstash
15 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
15 8 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.50%) vCenter Server
16 7 (0.43%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 321 (19.86%) Microsoft
2 102 (6.31%) SAP
3 99 (6.13%) Oracle
4 82 (5.07%) VMware
5 53 (3.28%) Cisco
6 48 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 39 (2.41%) Atlassian
8 36 (2.23%) Alteryx
9 31 (1.92%) Dell
9 31 (1.92%) Splunk
10 28 (1.73%) Red Hat
11 27 (1.67%) Salesforce
12 26 (1.61%) Google
12 26 (1.61%) HP
13 21 (1.30%) Citrix
14 17 (1.05%) Veritas
15 16 (0.99%) Juniper
16 15 (0.93%) Aruba
16 15 (0.93%) Avaya
16 15 (0.93%) IBM