Analytical Skills Contracts

Analytical Skills
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 20 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,291 3,496 4,301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.20% 8.01% 7.16%
As % of the General category 17.73% 13.76% 12.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,086 2,273 2,799
10th Percentile £296 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £638 £640 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £476
% change year-on-year -0.20% +5.20% +2.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 218 127
10th Percentile £15.36 £11.75 £21.15
25th Percentile £20.03 £13.50 £22.95
Median hourly rate £30.00 £18.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -55.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £56.00 £26.98 £58.67
90th Percentile £74.25 £47.50 £72.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.76 £17.50 £47.73
% change year-on-year +41.49% -63.34% +59.10%

All General Skills
UK

Analytical Skills falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,559 25,401 35,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.18% 58.21% 58.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,874 16,066 24,297
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £760 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 797 1,927 1,092
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.77 £13.50
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.41 £18.22
Median hourly rate £28.15 £28.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.23% -18.57% +60.11%
75th Percentile £56.00 £51.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.43 £27.50 £30.54
% change year-on-year -7.53% -9.95% +65.08%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +6 2,746 £525 -2.33% 8,961
London +5 1,496 £550 - 5,746
UK excluding London +7 1,430 £500 -0.20% 3,836
Work from Home +9 1,045 £538 +7.50% 3,753
South East +9 341 £526 -0.99% 1,004
North of England +4 312 £475 -5.00% 971
Scotland +6 236 £450 -6.98% 293
Midlands +6 206 £469 -10.67% 657
North West +6 185 £500 +3.90% 577
South West +5 169 £550 +3.77% 460
West Midlands +4 162 £475 -13.64% 400
East of England +17 121 £500 +1.27% 379
Yorkshire +2 107 £450 -12.45% 292
East Midlands +6 43 £414 -10.49% 242
Northern Ireland +2 28 £450 +33.33% 96
Wales -3 24 £413 -21.43% 71
North East -6 18 £450 -23.73% 111

Analytical Skills
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
1 141 (4.28%) Confluence
2 87 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 68 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 34 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 29 (0.88%) Apache
6 18 (0.55%) SAS
7 13 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 13 (0.40%) CMS
8 10 (0.30%) IBM Domino
8 10 (0.30%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.24%) GemFire
9 8 (0.24%) Oracle Coherence
9 8 (0.24%) WebSphere
10 7 (0.21%) IIS
11 6 (0.18%) JBoss
12 5 (0.15%) Drupal
12 5 (0.15%) IBM Notes
12 5 (0.15%) nginx
12 5 (0.15%) WebLogic
12 5 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 248 (7.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 149 (4.53%) Microsoft Office
3 130 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (1.94%) MS Visio
5 37 (1.12%) Microsoft Project
6 29 (0.88%) Trello
7 11 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 7 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
9 6 (0.18%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.18%) Sketch
10 4 (0.12%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.12%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.061%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.061%) InfoPath
11 2 (0.061%) InVision
11 2 (0.061%) Notepad++
11 2 (0.061%) Revit
12 1 (0.030%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.030%) CATIA
12 1 (0.030%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 89 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 35 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
3 22 (0.67%) Maximo
4 19 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.58%) Oracle EBS R12
5 14 (0.43%) SAP EWM
6 13 (0.40%) Oracle ASCP
7 11 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 11 (0.33%) SAP PP
7 11 (0.33%) Workday HCM
8 10 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
8 10 (0.30%) SAP FI
8 10 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 9 (0.27%) SAP CO
9 9 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
9 9 (0.27%) SAP HR
9 9 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
10 8 (0.24%) SAP ERP
11 7 (0.21%) Magento
11 7 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 514 (15.62%) Azure
2 397 (12.06%) AWS
3 266 (8.08%) Power Platform
4 142 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
5 134 (4.07%) GCP
6 86 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
7 65 (1.98%) SaaS
8 58 (1.76%) Entra ID
8 58 (1.76%) Serverless
9 55 (1.67%) Amazon S3
10 52 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
11 48 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
12 47 (1.43%) GitHub
13 43 (1.31%) Power Automate
14 40 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
15 38 (1.15%) PowerApps
16 34 (1.03%) OCI
16 34 (1.03%) Snowflake
17 32 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
18 30 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 109 (3.31%) Firewall
1 109 (3.31%) Network Security
2 78 (2.37%) VPN
3 58 (1.76%) DNS
4 50 (1.52%) BGP
5 45 (1.37%) TCP/IP
6 43 (1.31%) OSPF
7 38 (1.15%) WAN
8 37 (1.12%) DHCP
9 36 (1.09%) LAN
10 28 (0.85%) EIGRP
10 28 (0.85%) HTTP
10 28 (0.85%) Skype
11 27 (0.82%) SSL
12 23 (0.70%) VLAN
12 23 (0.70%) Wireless
13 22 (0.67%) MPLS
14 20 (0.61%) Wireshark
15 19 (0.58%) Internet
16 18 (0.55%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (7.23%) Power BI
2 132 (4.01%) Tableau
3 109 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
4 101 (3.07%) Relational Database
5 76 (2.31%) SQL Server
6 72 (2.19%) Big Data
7 63 (1.91%) PostgreSQL
8 61 (1.85%) MongoDB
9 53 (1.61%) Hadoop
10 49 (1.49%) DB2
11 48 (1.46%) Data Lake
12 39 (1.19%) Metadata
12 39 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
13 31 (0.94%) NoSQL
13 31 (0.94%) Oracle Database
14 27 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
15 24 (0.73%) Apache Hive
15 24 (0.73%) RDBMS
16 23 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
17 22 (0.67%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 264 (8.02%) JIRA
2 146 (4.44%) Git
3 124 (3.77%) Jenkins
4 66 (2.01%) JUnit
5 52 (1.58%) Selenium
6 43 (1.31%) GitLab
7 24 (0.73%) REST Assured
8 23 (0.70%) ERwin
9 22 (0.67%) Cucumber
10 21 (0.64%) Bitbucket
10 21 (0.64%) SonarQube
11 18 (0.55%) JMeter
12 17 (0.52%) Maven
13 14 (0.43%) Bitbucket Server
14 11 (0.33%) Cypress.io
14 11 (0.33%) LoadRunner
15 10 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
16 9 (0.27%) Postman
16 9 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
16 9 (0.27%) TeamCity
General
1 2,001 (60.80%) Social Skills
2 927 (28.17%) Finance
3 376 (11.43%) Banking
4 299 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 154 (4.68%) Investment Banking
6 150 (4.56%) Marketing
7 145 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
8 132 (4.01%) Retail
9 118 (3.59%) Legal
10 115 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
11 104 (3.16%) Front Office
12 101 (3.07%) Telecoms
13 91 (2.77%) Manufacturing
14 88 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 77 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
16 57 (1.73%) Financial Institution
17 55 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
18 40 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
19 37 (1.12%) Law
20 31 (0.94%) Billing
Job Titles
1 715 (21.73%) Analyst
2 403 (12.25%) Developer
3 301 (9.15%) Business Analyst
4 285 (8.66%) Senior
5 272 (8.26%) Architect
6 209 (6.35%) Consultant
7 182 (5.53%) Lead
8 145 (4.41%) Data Analyst
9 117 (3.56%) Project Manager
10 104 (3.16%) Data Engineer
11 102 (3.10%) Java Developer
12 75 (2.28%) Solutions Architect
13 69 (2.10%) Support Engineer
14 66 (2.01%) Senior Developer
15 57 (1.73%) Senior Analyst
16 54 (1.64%) Product Manager
16 54 (1.64%) SAP Consultant
17 52 (1.58%) C# Developer
17 52 (1.58%) Network Engineer
18 50 (1.52%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (3.98%) .NET
2 105 (3.19%) Kafka
3 87 (2.64%) HTML
4 73 (2.22%) React
5 68 (2.07%) CSS
6 67 (2.04%) REST
7 61 (1.85%) Spring
8 59 (1.79%) AngularJS
9 57 (1.73%) Web Services
10 47 (1.43%) PySpark
11 46 (1.40%) RESTful
12 45 (1.37%) ASP.NET
13 41 (1.25%) Middleware
14 38 (1.15%) TensorFlow
15 36 (1.09%) JMS
16 35 (1.06%) FastAPI
16 35 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
17 30 (0.91%) Django
17 30 (0.91%) SOAP
17 30 (0.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 176 (5.35%) Management Information System
2 151 (4.59%) Analytical Mindset
3 109 (3.31%) Data Structures
4 107 (3.25%) Product Ownership
5 94 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
6 83 (2.52%) Onboarding
7 82 (2.49%) Algorithms
8 77 (2.34%) Data Centre
9 67 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 60 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 58 (1.76%) Equities
12 56 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
13 54 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
14 45 (1.37%) Derivative
15 36 (1.09%) Security Posture
16 35 (1.06%) Cloud Native
17 30 (0.91%) CMDB
18 29 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
18 29 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
18 29 (0.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 230 (6.99%) Windows
2 193 (5.86%) Linux
3 77 (2.34%) Unix
4 49 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 47 (1.43%) Windows 10
6 46 (1.40%) Windows Server
7 26 (0.79%) Android
7 26 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 15 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
9 14 (0.43%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.40%) Solaris
11 12 (0.36%) Mac OS X
12 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.24%) AIX
13 8 (0.24%) HPUX
14 6 (0.18%) zOS
15 5 (0.15%) Windows 8
15 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.15%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,938 (58.89%) Problem-Solving
2 824 (25.04%) Agile
3 462 (14.04%) Project Management
4 453 (13.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 427 (12.97%) Analytics
6 389 (11.82%) Decision-Making
7 368 (11.18%) DevOps
8 342 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 334 (10.15%) Data Analysis
10 320 (9.72%) Computer Science
11 296 (8.99%) Migration
12 294 (8.93%) CI/CD
13 281 (8.54%) Business Intelligence
14 259 (7.87%) ITIL
15 252 (7.66%) Risk Management
16 248 (7.54%) Data Modelling
17 242 (7.35%) Change Management
18 213 (6.47%) Collaborative Working
19 211 (6.41%) Visualisation
20 204 (6.20%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 633 (19.23%) SQL
2 569 (17.29%) Python
3 268 (8.14%) Java
4 148 (4.50%) JavaScript
5 127 (3.86%) C#
6 98 (2.98%) PowerShell
7 68 (2.07%) TypeScript
8 60 (1.82%) C++
9 57 (1.73%) R
10 52 (1.58%) Bash
11 47 (1.43%) Shell Script
12 46 (1.40%) PL/SQL
13 41 (1.25%) Scala
14 24 (0.73%) C
15 19 (0.58%) VBA
16 16 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 15 (0.46%) ABAP
18 13 (0.40%) Ruby
19 12 (0.36%) Perl
20 10 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 614 (18.66%) Degree
2 486 (14.77%) Security Cleared
3 395 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 190 (5.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 105 (3.19%) Master's Degree
6 99 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
7 74 (2.25%) PMI Certification
8 73 (2.22%) CISSP
9 72 (2.19%) PMP
10 69 (2.10%) CCNP
11 57 (1.73%) DV Cleared
11 57 (1.73%) Microsoft Certification
12 52 (1.58%) AWS Certification
13 50 (1.52%) CCNA
14 44 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
15 41 (1.25%) CISM
16 40 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 39 (1.19%) Azure Certification
18 31 (0.94%) ISTQB
19 28 (0.85%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 266 (8.08%) QA
2 203 (6.17%) Data Quality
3 98 (2.98%) GDPR
4 60 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 59 (1.79%) SLA
6 56 (1.70%) NIST
7 53 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 53 (1.61%) PMO
8 32 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 23 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
9 23 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
9 23 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 22 (0.67%) HIPAA
11 19 (0.58%) GRC
12 13 (0.40%) GxP
12 13 (0.40%) MiFID
13 8 (0.24%) EMIR
13 8 (0.24%) IFRS
13 8 (0.24%) NCSC
13 8 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 127 (3.86%) Docker
2 126 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 41 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.55%) VMware NSX
6 15 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.43%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.30%) Firmware
9 9 (0.27%) RACF
9 9 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.24%) GridGain
10 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.12%) Postfix
12 4 (0.12%) vSphere
13 3 (0.091%) IAG
13 3 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.091%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.091%) OpenDJ
13 3 (0.091%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 148 (4.50%) Kubernetes
2 117 (3.56%) Ansible
3 89 (2.70%) Terraform
4 36 (1.09%) SCCM
5 34 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.79%) Grafana
8 23 (0.70%) Oracle RMAN
9 15 (0.46%) Puppet
9 15 (0.46%) vCenter Server
10 13 (0.40%) Prometheus
11 12 (0.36%) NetBackup
11 12 (0.36%) Progress Chef
12 11 (0.33%) Podman
12 11 (0.33%) WSUS
13 9 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
14 7 (0.21%) Argo
14 7 (0.21%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.18%) Data Guard
15 6 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 514 (15.62%) Microsoft
2 272 (8.26%) Oracle
3 233 (7.08%) SAP
4 155 (4.71%) ServiceNow
5 110 (3.34%) Cisco
6 105 (3.19%) Google
7 83 (2.52%) Salesforce
8 73 (2.22%) Databricks
9 61 (1.85%) IBM
10 52 (1.58%) VMware
11 47 (1.43%) Splunk
12 41 (1.25%) Sybase
13 39 (1.19%) Adobe
13 39 (1.19%) Atlassian
14 32 (0.97%) Fortinet
15 31 (0.94%) Apple
15 31 (0.94%) Workday
16 29 (0.88%) Dell
16 29 (0.88%) Juniper
17 28 (0.85%) Citrix