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 3 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 21 25
Rank change year-on-year +7 +4 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,182 3,471 4,457
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 10.94% 7.86% 7.13%
As % of the General category 17.37% 13.51% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,027 2,256 2,911
10th Percentile £285 £300 £290
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £527
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% -0.38% +0.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -0.77% +4.17% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 217 136
10th Percentile £15.24 £11.75 £21.00
25th Percentile £19.98 £13.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £18.35 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.86% -54.13% +23.46%
75th Percentile £55.25 £27.77 £61.04
90th Percentile £76.25 £46.26 £71.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.38 £17.50 £49.57
% change year-on-year +39.33% -64.70% +61.20%

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 18,315 25,690 36,698
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 62.96% 58.19% 58.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,738 16,325 25,359
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 718 1,861 1,135
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.78 £14.20
25th Percentile £18.92 £15.29 £18.13
Median hourly rate £29.00 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -25.71% +62.79%
75th Percentile £58.10 £50.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £30.76
% change year-on-year +10.00% -18.71% +70.86%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +7 2,657 £525 -2.33% 8,191
London +4 1,422 £550 - 5,134
UK excluding London +6 1,413 £496 -0.77% 3,681
Work from Home +7 1,042 £532 +6.30% 3,547
South East +6 346 £527 -1.03% 1,079
North of England +7 300 £475 -4.04% 927
Scotland +7 237 £450 -6.98% 288
Midlands +7 204 £463 -11.90% 553
North West +11 189 £496 +1.77% 568
West Midlands +5 156 £475 -9.52% 348
South West 0 154 £550 +3.77% 370
East of England +14 123 £525 +16.67% 371
Yorkshire -1 91 £450 -10.00% 265
East Midlands +9 47 £416 -13.61% 202
Wales +5 31 £406 -16.67% 94
Northern Ireland +2 25 £425 +26.87% 71
North East -8 18 £440 -21.78% 99

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
1 140 (4.40%) Confluence
2 97 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 61 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 37 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
5 23 (0.72%) Apache
6 18 (0.57%) SAS
7 17 (0.53%) CMS
8 8 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.25%) GemFire
8 8 (0.25%) Jupyter
8 8 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
8 8 (0.25%) Skype for Business
9 7 (0.22%) Drupal
9 7 (0.22%) IIS
10 6 (0.19%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 5 (0.16%) IBM Notes
12 4 (0.13%) JBoss
12 4 (0.13%) nginx
12 4 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 237 (7.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 150 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
3 124 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (1.95%) MS Visio
5 34 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
6 24 (0.75%) Trello
7 15 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.25%) Sketch
9 6 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.19%) Oracle Smart View
10 5 (0.16%) UserZoom
11 3 (0.094%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.063%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.063%) InfoPath
12 2 (0.063%) InVision
12 2 (0.063%) Notepad++
12 2 (0.063%) Revit
12 2 (0.063%) UXPin
13 1 (0.031%) Adobe Captivate
13 1 (0.031%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 79 (2.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 42 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
3 21 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
4 19 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
5 17 (0.53%) Maximo
6 15 (0.47%) SAP EWM
7 13 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
8 12 (0.38%) Oracle ASCP
9 11 (0.35%) SAP PP
9 11 (0.35%) Workday HCM
10 10 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 9 (0.28%) SAP CO
11 9 (0.28%) SAP FI
11 9 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
11 9 (0.28%) SAP HR
11 9 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
12 8 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
12 8 (0.25%) SAP ERP
12 8 (0.25%) SAP WM
13 7 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 525 (16.50%) Azure
2 394 (12.38%) AWS
3 261 (8.20%) Power Platform
4 154 (4.84%) Microsoft 365
5 132 (4.15%) GCP
6 85 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
7 68 (2.14%) Serverless
8 61 (1.92%) Amazon S3
9 58 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
9 58 (1.82%) Entra ID
10 56 (1.76%) SaaS
11 51 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
12 45 (1.41%) Power Automate
13 43 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
14 41 (1.29%) GitHub
15 39 (1.23%) PowerApps
16 38 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
17 32 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
18 30 (0.94%) OCI
19 28 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 114 (3.58%) Firewall
2 103 (3.24%) Network Security
3 74 (2.33%) VPN
4 56 (1.76%) DNS
5 52 (1.63%) BGP
6 43 (1.35%) TCP/IP
7 42 (1.32%) OSPF
8 37 (1.16%) WAN
9 34 (1.07%) DHCP
10 31 (0.97%) HTTP
11 29 (0.91%) EIGRP
11 29 (0.91%) LAN
12 27 (0.85%) MPLS
13 23 (0.72%) Wireless
14 22 (0.69%) SSL
15 21 (0.66%) VLAN
16 20 (0.63%) Internet
17 19 (0.60%) Skype
17 19 (0.60%) Wireshark
18 18 (0.57%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 234 (7.35%) Power BI
2 128 (4.02%) Tableau
3 112 (3.52%) Data Warehouse
4 97 (3.05%) Relational Database
5 80 (2.51%) SQL Server
6 73 (2.29%) Big Data
7 66 (2.07%) MongoDB
8 59 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
9 52 (1.63%) Data Lake
10 51 (1.60%) Hadoop
11 47 (1.48%) DB2
12 36 (1.13%) NoSQL
13 34 (1.07%) Metadata
14 27 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
14 27 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
14 27 (0.85%) RDBMS
15 25 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (0.72%) Oracle Database
17 20 (0.63%) Data Mining
17 20 (0.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 250 (7.86%) JIRA
2 133 (4.18%) Git
3 118 (3.71%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.70%) JUnit
5 46 (1.45%) GitLab
6 45 (1.41%) Selenium
7 23 (0.72%) ERwin
8 21 (0.66%) Cucumber
9 19 (0.60%) Bitbucket
9 19 (0.60%) REST Assured
10 15 (0.47%) JMeter
10 15 (0.47%) Maven
10 15 (0.47%) SonarQube
11 11 (0.35%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
13 9 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
13 9 (0.28%) Robot Framework
13 9 (0.28%) TestRail
14 8 (0.25%) Bitbucket Server
14 8 (0.25%) MLflow
General
1 1,963 (61.69%) Social Skills
2 852 (26.78%) Finance
3 344 (10.81%) Banking
4 298 (9.37%) Public Sector
5 149 (4.68%) Marketing
6 142 (4.46%) Investment Banking
7 136 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
8 128 (4.02%) Retail
9 110 (3.46%) Legal
10 107 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
11 104 (3.27%) Manufacturing
12 100 (3.14%) Telecoms
13 90 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 88 (2.77%) Front Office
15 74 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
16 58 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
17 47 (1.48%) Financial Institution
18 39 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
19 35 (1.10%) Military
20 34 (1.07%) Law
Job Titles
1 694 (21.81%) Analyst
2 376 (11.82%) Developer
3 284 (8.93%) Architect
4 283 (8.89%) Senior
5 282 (8.86%) Business Analyst
6 211 (6.63%) Consultant
7 176 (5.53%) Lead
8 150 (4.71%) Data Analyst
9 120 (3.77%) Project Manager
10 100 (3.14%) Data Engineer
11 88 (2.77%) Java Developer
12 82 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
13 69 (2.17%) Support Engineer
14 65 (2.04%) Senior Developer
15 56 (1.76%) Network Engineer
15 56 (1.76%) Senior Analyst
16 52 (1.63%) Tester
17 51 (1.60%) Functional Consultant
18 49 (1.54%) C# Developer
18 49 (1.54%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (4.02%) .NET
2 101 (3.17%) Kafka
3 85 (2.67%) HTML
4 77 (2.42%) React
5 68 (2.14%) CSS
6 58 (1.82%) Spring
7 53 (1.67%) AngularJS
8 52 (1.63%) REST
9 49 (1.54%) PySpark
10 48 (1.51%) RESTful
10 48 (1.51%) Web Services
11 43 (1.35%) Middleware
12 41 (1.29%) ASP.NET
13 36 (1.13%) FastAPI
14 34 (1.07%) JMS
15 33 (1.04%) XML
16 32 (1.01%) Django
17 31 (0.97%) .NET Core
17 31 (0.97%) TensorFlow
18 29 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 159 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 149 (4.68%) Analytical Mindset
3 114 (3.58%) Product Ownership
4 106 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 97 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
6 78 (2.45%) Onboarding
7 76 (2.39%) Data Centre
8 73 (2.29%) Algorithms
9 58 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 58 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 46 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
10 46 (1.45%) Derivative
10 46 (1.45%) Equities
11 43 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
12 41 (1.29%) CMDB
13 39 (1.23%) Security Posture
14 36 (1.13%) Cloud Native
15 31 (0.97%) Social Media
16 30 (0.94%) Virtual Team
17 29 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 227 (7.13%) Windows
2 177 (5.56%) Linux
3 78 (2.45%) Unix
4 55 (1.73%) Windows 10
5 49 (1.54%) Apple iOS
6 44 (1.38%) Windows Server
7 27 (0.85%) Android
8 21 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 14 (0.44%) Mac OS
10 13 (0.41%) Mac OS X
11 12 (0.38%) Solaris
11 12 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.31%) AIX
13 7 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
14 6 (0.19%) HPUX
15 5 (0.16%) CatOS
16 3 (0.094%) Windows 8
16 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.094%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,901 (59.74%) Problem-Solving
2 810 (25.46%) Agile
3 460 (14.46%) Project Management
4 431 (13.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 427 (13.42%) Analytics
6 364 (11.44%) Decision-Making
7 354 (11.13%) DevOps
8 331 (10.40%) Data Analysis
9 328 (10.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 311 (9.77%) Computer Science
11 298 (9.37%) Migration
12 287 (9.02%) Business Intelligence
13 282 (8.86%) CI/CD
14 266 (8.36%) ITIL
15 261 (8.20%) Data Modelling
16 238 (7.48%) Risk Management
17 217 (6.82%) Change Management
17 217 (6.82%) Visualisation
18 214 (6.73%) Collaborative Working
19 200 (6.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 616 (19.36%) SQL
2 560 (17.60%) Python
3 257 (8.08%) Java
4 146 (4.59%) JavaScript
5 119 (3.74%) C#
6 94 (2.95%) PowerShell
7 66 (2.07%) TypeScript
8 60 (1.89%) R
9 54 (1.70%) C++
10 49 (1.54%) Bash
11 47 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 45 (1.41%) PL/SQL
13 36 (1.13%) Scala
14 22 (0.69%) C
14 22 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 18 (0.57%) VBA
16 16 (0.50%) Ruby
17 15 (0.47%) Perl
18 13 (0.41%) ABAP
19 10 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 584 (18.35%) Degree
2 467 (14.68%) Security Cleared
3 380 (11.94%) SC Cleared
4 189 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 104 (3.27%) Master's Degree
6 102 (3.21%) Cisco Certification
7 79 (2.48%) PMI Certification
8 77 (2.42%) PMP
9 72 (2.26%) CCNP
10 71 (2.23%) CISSP
11 63 (1.98%) DV Cleared
12 60 (1.89%) AWS Certification
13 58 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
14 50 (1.57%) CCNA
15 46 (1.45%) Azure Certification
16 44 (1.38%) CISM
17 43 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 43 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
18 27 (0.85%) CEH
18 27 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 275 (8.64%) QA
2 203 (6.38%) Data Quality
3 89 (2.80%) GDPR
4 67 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 58 (1.82%) SLA
6 56 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 53 (1.67%) NIST
8 44 (1.38%) PMO
9 27 (0.85%) PCI DSS
10 25 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
11 22 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 21 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
13 18 (0.57%) GRC
13 18 (0.57%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.41%) GxP
15 12 (0.38%) MiFID
16 8 (0.25%) EMIR
16 8 (0.25%) ISO 9001
17 7 (0.22%) IFRS
17 7 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 137 (4.31%) Active Directory
2 124 (3.90%) Docker
3 44 (1.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.60%) VMware NSX
6 17 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.44%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.38%) Firmware
9 9 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.25%) GridGain
10 8 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
11 6 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (0.13%) RACF
13 3 (0.094%) IAG
13 3 (0.094%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 3 (0.094%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.094%) OpenDJ
13 3 (0.094%) OpenIDM
13 3 (0.094%) vSphere
14 2 (0.063%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 146 (4.59%) Kubernetes
2 118 (3.71%) Ansible
3 69 (2.17%) Terraform
4 45 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (1.16%) SCCM
6 26 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.72%) Grafana
8 17 (0.53%) Oracle RMAN
8 17 (0.53%) Puppet
8 17 (0.53%) vCenter Server
9 14 (0.44%) Progress Chef
10 13 (0.41%) NetBackup
11 12 (0.38%) WSUS
12 11 (0.35%) Prometheus
13 6 (0.19%) Argo
13 6 (0.19%) Data Guard
13 6 (0.19%) FortiGate
13 6 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 6 (0.19%) Podman
14 5 (0.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 511 (16.06%) Microsoft
2 258 (8.11%) Oracle
3 223 (7.01%) SAP
4 165 (5.19%) ServiceNow
5 111 (3.49%) Google
6 105 (3.30%) Cisco
7 91 (2.86%) Salesforce
8 72 (2.26%) Databricks
9 55 (1.73%) VMware
10 54 (1.70%) Splunk
11 49 (1.54%) IBM
12 45 (1.41%) Adobe
13 40 (1.26%) Atlassian
14 39 (1.23%) Sybase
15 34 (1.07%) Apple
16 30 (0.94%) CyberArk
16 30 (0.94%) Dell
16 30 (0.94%) Fortinet
17 29 (0.91%) Juniper
18 25 (0.79%) F5