Analytical Modelling Contracts

Analytical Modelling
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Analytical Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 545 685
Rank change year-on-year +58 +140 +122
Contract jobs citing Analytical Modelling 33 37 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.085% 0.055%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.098% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 18 15
10th Percentile £358 £434 £460
25th Percentile £450 £448 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.84%
75th Percentile £563 £950 £625
90th Percentile £725 £995 £878
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -12.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Analytical Modelling 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Analytical Modelling
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytical Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Modelling in the UK

Analytical Modelling
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Modelling.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Modelling in the UK

Analytical Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Modelling over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Modelling in the UK

Analytical Modelling
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Modelling.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Modelling in the UK

Analytical Modelling
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Modelling within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +52 30 £513 -6.82% 69
London +36 18 £550 -26.67% 53
Work from Home +35 12 £525 -41.67% 27
UK excluding London +55 8 £450 -5.26% 28
North of England +21 4 £429 +0.94% 4
North West +18 2 £513 +20.59% 2
North East +1 2 £358 -
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
Midlands - 2 £450 - 1
South West +46 1 £525 - 2
South East +36 1 £450 -10.00% 13

Analytical Modelling
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (9.09%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (33.33%) Azure
2 9 (27.27%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 7 (21.21%) Azure Data Factory
3 7 (21.21%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (15.15%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (9.09%) GCP
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Data Pipeline
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) dbt
7 1 (3.03%) Fivetran
7 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) Data Lake
2 9 (27.27%) Power BI
3 8 (24.24%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (15.15%) Tableau
5 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
6 3 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (9.09%) BigQuery
6 3 (9.09%) Metadata
6 3 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (6.06%) Apache Hive
7 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (6.06%) Dremio
7 2 (6.06%) Hadoop
7 2 (6.06%) MySQL
7 2 (6.06%) Spark SQL
7 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
7 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
8 1 (3.03%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) REST Assured
2 3 (9.09%) Visual Studio
3 2 (6.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (3.03%) ER Studio
4 1 (3.03%) ERwin
4 1 (3.03%) Git
4 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 24 (72.73%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (36.36%) Finance
3 8 (24.24%) Social Skills
4 6 (18.18%) Banking
4 6 (18.18%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.09%) Corporate Banking
5 3 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 3 (9.09%) Retail
5 3 (9.09%) Retail Banking
6 2 (6.06%) Legal
6 2 (6.06%) Police
6 2 (6.06%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.03%) Front Office
7 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Data Engineer
2 4 (12.12%) Data Modeller
2 4 (12.12%) Developer
2 4 (12.12%) Python Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) AWS Data Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) Data Scientist
3 3 (9.09%) Python Data Engineer
3 3 (9.09%) QA Tester
3 3 (9.09%) Tester
4 2 (6.06%) Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Python Developer
5 1 (3.03%) Applications Developer
5 1 (3.03%) Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Business Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Data Architect
5 1 (3.03%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Procurement Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) PySpark
2 5 (15.15%) TensorFlow
3 4 (12.12%) Gherkin
4 2 (6.06%) Pandas
4 2 (6.06%) scikit-learn
5 1 (3.03%) Great Expectations
5 1 (3.03%) MDX
5 1 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Algorithms
2 4 (12.12%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Credit Risk
3 2 (6.06%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Data Fabric
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Equities
4 1 (3.03%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.03%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) Data Modelling
2 14 (42.42%) Data Science
3 13 (39.39%) Analytics
4 12 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
4 12 (36.36%) Machine Learning
5 10 (30.30%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (27.27%) Predictive Modelling
7 8 (24.24%) Data Analytics
7 8 (24.24%) Data Engineering
7 8 (24.24%) Data Transformation
7 8 (24.24%) Decision-Making
7 8 (24.24%) ETL
8 6 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 6 (18.18%) ERP
8 6 (18.18%) Visualisation
9 5 (15.15%) Actionable Insight
9 5 (15.15%) Creative Thinking
9 5 (15.15%) Financial Modelling
9 5 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 26 (78.79%) SQL
2 20 (60.61%) Python
3 4 (12.12%) T-SQL
4 3 (9.09%) R
5 2 (6.06%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.03%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.06%) PhD
4 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CFA
4 1 (3.03%) CITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 4 (12.12%) QA
3 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (6.06%) GDPR
4 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Databricks
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) Cloudera
3 1 (3.03%) Google
3 1 (3.03%) SAP