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

6 months to
2 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 21 24
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,178 3,476 4,498
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 10.93% 7.86% 7.13%
As % of the General category 17.39% 13.51% 12.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,028 2,265 2,936
10th Percentile £287 £300 £293
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -0.94% +0.95%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £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 114 220 137
10th Percentile £15.36 £11.75 £20.80
25th Percentile £20.03 £13.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £18.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.65% -53.75% +23.46%
75th Percentile £55.19 £30.43 £60.55
90th Percentile £76.75 £46.20 £71.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.59 £17.72 £48.65
% change year-on-year +38.74% -63.58% +58.21%

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 18,280 25,730 37,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 62.87% 58.20% 58.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,719 16,376 25,600
10th Percentile £300 £269 £313
25th Percentile £406 £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 716 1,854 1,143
10th Percentile £15.00 £12.78 £14.23
25th Percentile £19.00 £15.38 £18.13
Median hourly rate £29.04 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -25.71% +62.79%
75th Percentile £58.62 £50.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 £30.88
% change year-on-year +10.00% -19.03% +71.54%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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% 8,164
London +4 1,425 £550 - 5,138
UK excluding London +6 1,412 £496 -0.77% 3,656
Work from Home +7 1,042 £530 +5.90% 3,445
South East +5 344 £526 -1.56% 1,091
North of England +6 299 £475 -4.04% 921
Scotland +8 236 £450 -6.25% 282
Midlands +6 205 £460 -12.38% 536
North West +7 189 £493 +1.14% 569
West Midlands +6 156 £475 -9.52% 338
South West -2 153 £550 +2.33% 363
East of England +14 126 £525 +16.67% 373
Yorkshire +1 90 £456 -8.75% 259
East Midlands +10 48 £414 -17.20% 194
Wales +6 31 £406 -26.14% 91
Northern Ireland +1 25 £425 +28.79% 69
North East -10 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
1 141 (4.44%) Confluence
2 96 (3.02%) 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 9 (0.28%) Jupyter
9 8 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 8 (0.25%) GemFire
9 8 (0.25%) Oracle Coherence
9 8 (0.25%) Skype for Business
10 7 (0.22%) Drupal
10 7 (0.22%) IIS
11 6 (0.19%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.16%) IBM Notes
13 4 (0.13%) JBoss
13 4 (0.13%) nginx
13 4 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 235 (7.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 145 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
3 125 (3.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.92%) MS Visio
5 33 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
6 24 (0.76%) 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 4 (0.13%) Chatbot
12 2 (0.063%) AutoCAD
12 2 (0.063%) InVision
12 2 (0.063%) Notepad++
12 2 (0.063%) Revit
12 2 (0.063%) UXPin
13 1 (0.031%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.031%) CATIA
13 1 (0.031%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 79 (2.49%) 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%) Workday HCM
10 10 (0.31%) SAP PP
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
13 7 (0.22%) FLEXCUBE
13 7 (0.22%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 524 (16.49%) Azure
2 396 (12.46%) AWS
3 262 (8.24%) Power Platform
4 150 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
5 133 (4.19%) GCP
6 84 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
7 67 (2.11%) Serverless
8 60 (1.89%) Amazon S3
9 59 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
10 58 (1.83%) Entra ID
11 56 (1.76%) SaaS
12 50 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
13 44 (1.38%) Power Automate
14 43 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
15 41 (1.29%) GitHub
16 39 (1.23%) PowerApps
17 38 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
18 32 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
19 30 (0.94%) OCI
20 29 (0.91%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 115 (3.62%) Firewall
2 104 (3.27%) Network Security
3 74 (2.33%) VPN
4 56 (1.76%) DNS
5 53 (1.67%) BGP
6 43 (1.35%) OSPF
6 43 (1.35%) TCP/IP
7 38 (1.20%) WAN
8 34 (1.07%) DHCP
9 31 (0.98%) HTTP
10 30 (0.94%) EIGRP
10 30 (0.94%) LAN
11 27 (0.85%) MPLS
12 23 (0.72%) Wireless
13 22 (0.69%) SSL
14 21 (0.66%) VLAN
15 20 (0.63%) Internet
16 18 (0.57%) SD-WAN
16 18 (0.57%) Skype
17 17 (0.53%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 235 (7.39%) Power BI
2 130 (4.09%) Tableau
3 113 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
4 97 (3.05%) Relational Database
5 80 (2.52%) SQL Server
6 73 (2.30%) Big Data
7 67 (2.11%) MongoDB
8 59 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
9 51 (1.60%) Data Lake
9 51 (1.60%) Hadoop
10 47 (1.48%) DB2
11 36 (1.13%) NoSQL
12 34 (1.07%) Metadata
13 27 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
13 27 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
13 27 (0.85%) RDBMS
14 25 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (0.72%) Oracle Database
16 20 (0.63%) Data Mining
16 20 (0.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 247 (7.77%) JIRA
2 131 (4.12%) Git
3 119 (3.74%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.70%) JUnit
5 47 (1.48%) GitLab
6 45 (1.42%) Selenium
7 23 (0.72%) ERwin
8 22 (0.69%) 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%) Appium
13 9 (0.28%) PowerDesigner
13 9 (0.28%) Robot Framework
13 9 (0.28%) TestRail
14 8 (0.25%) MLflow
General
1 1,957 (61.58%) Social Skills
2 856 (26.94%) Finance
3 344 (10.82%) Banking
4 299 (9.41%) Public Sector
5 150 (4.72%) Marketing
6 142 (4.47%) Investment Banking
7 134 (4.22%) Organisational Skills
8 128 (4.03%) Retail
9 111 (3.49%) Legal
10 106 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
11 105 (3.30%) Manufacturing
12 99 (3.12%) Telecoms
13 90 (2.83%) Front Office
13 90 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 76 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
15 57 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
16 47 (1.48%) Financial Institution
17 40 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
18 35 (1.10%) Military
19 34 (1.07%) Law
Job Titles
1 692 (21.77%) Analyst
2 376 (11.83%) Developer
3 284 (8.94%) Architect
4 283 (8.90%) Senior
5 280 (8.81%) Business Analyst
6 209 (6.58%) Consultant
7 175 (5.51%) Lead
8 154 (4.85%) Data Analyst
9 120 (3.78%) Project Manager
10 100 (3.15%) Data Engineer
11 88 (2.77%) Java Developer
12 83 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
13 68 (2.14%) Support Engineer
14 65 (2.05%) Senior Developer
15 57 (1.79%) Network Engineer
16 54 (1.70%) Senior Analyst
17 52 (1.64%) Tester
18 50 (1.57%) Functional Consultant
19 49 (1.54%) C# Developer
19 49 (1.54%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 128 (4.03%) .NET
2 102 (3.21%) Kafka
3 85 (2.67%) HTML
4 78 (2.45%) React
5 68 (2.14%) CSS
6 58 (1.83%) Spring
7 53 (1.67%) AngularJS
8 52 (1.64%) REST
9 48 (1.51%) PySpark
9 48 (1.51%) RESTful
9 48 (1.51%) Web Services
10 43 (1.35%) Middleware
11 41 (1.29%) ASP.NET
12 37 (1.16%) FastAPI
13 34 (1.07%) JMS
14 33 (1.04%) Django
14 33 (1.04%) XML
15 32 (1.01%) TensorFlow
16 31 (0.98%) .NET Core
17 29 (0.91%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 156 (4.91%) Management Information System
2 151 (4.75%) Analytical Mindset
3 114 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 105 (3.30%) Data Structures
5 95 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 78 (2.45%) Onboarding
7 76 (2.39%) Data Centre
8 72 (2.27%) Algorithms
9 59 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 58 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 46 (1.45%) Derivative
11 46 (1.45%) Equities
12 45 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
13 43 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
14 41 (1.29%) CMDB
15 40 (1.26%) Security Posture
16 36 (1.13%) Cloud Native
17 31 (0.98%) Social Media
17 31 (0.98%) Virtual Team
18 29 (0.91%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 223 (7.02%) Windows
2 178 (5.60%) Linux
3 78 (2.45%) Unix
4 55 (1.73%) Windows 10
5 48 (1.51%) Apple iOS
6 43 (1.35%) 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 1,900 (59.79%) Problem-Solving
2 814 (25.61%) Agile
3 459 (14.44%) Project Management
4 431 (13.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 429 (13.50%) Analytics
6 363 (11.42%) Decision-Making
7 354 (11.14%) DevOps
8 334 (10.51%) Data Analysis
9 329 (10.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 313 (9.85%) Computer Science
11 299 (9.41%) Migration
12 290 (9.13%) Business Intelligence
13 285 (8.97%) CI/CD
14 265 (8.34%) ITIL
15 260 (8.18%) Data Modelling
16 238 (7.49%) Risk Management
17 220 (6.92%) Visualisation
18 214 (6.73%) Change Management
18 214 (6.73%) Collaborative Working
19 198 (6.23%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 620 (19.51%) SQL
2 563 (17.72%) Python
3 259 (8.15%) Java
4 146 (4.59%) JavaScript
5 119 (3.74%) C#
6 93 (2.93%) PowerShell
7 67 (2.11%) TypeScript
8 62 (1.95%) R
9 54 (1.70%) C++
10 49 (1.54%) Bash
11 47 (1.48%) Shell Script
12 45 (1.42%) 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 12 (0.38%) ABAP
19 10 (0.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 586 (18.44%) Degree
2 463 (14.57%) Security Cleared
3 376 (11.83%) SC Cleared
4 191 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
5 104 (3.27%) Master's Degree
6 103 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
7 79 (2.49%) PMI Certification
8 76 (2.39%) PMP
9 72 (2.27%) CCNP
9 72 (2.27%) CISSP
10 63 (1.98%) DV Cleared
11 60 (1.89%) AWS Certification
12 58 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
13 51 (1.60%) CCNA
14 46 (1.45%) Azure Certification
15 44 (1.38%) CISM
16 43 (1.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 43 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
17 28 (0.88%) CEH
18 27 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (8.68%) QA
2 205 (6.45%) Data Quality
3 88 (2.77%) GDPR
4 67 (2.11%) Accessibility
5 58 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 58 (1.83%) SLA
6 53 (1.67%) NIST
7 45 (1.42%) PMO
8 27 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 25 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 21 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
12 18 (0.57%) GRC
12 18 (0.57%) HIPAA
13 13 (0.41%) GxP
14 12 (0.38%) MiFID
15 8 (0.25%) EMIR
15 8 (0.25%) ISO 9001
16 7 (0.22%) IFRS
16 7 (0.22%) NCSC
System Software
1 137 (4.31%) Active Directory
2 126 (3.96%) 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
1 147 (4.63%) Kubernetes
2 119 (3.74%) Ansible
3 69 (2.17%) Terraform
4 45 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 37 (1.16%) SCCM
6 26 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (0.72%) Grafana
8 17 (0.53%) Puppet
8 17 (0.53%) vCenter Server
9 16 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
10 14 (0.44%) Progress Chef
11 12 (0.38%) 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
13 6 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 507 (15.95%) Microsoft
2 257 (8.09%) Oracle
3 222 (6.99%) SAP
4 164 (5.16%) ServiceNow
5 112 (3.52%) Google
6 106 (3.34%) Cisco
7 91 (2.86%) Salesforce
8 73 (2.30%) Databricks
9 55 (1.73%) Splunk
9 55 (1.73%) VMware
10 50 (1.57%) IBM
11 46 (1.45%) Adobe
12 40 (1.26%) Atlassian
13 39 (1.23%) Sybase
14 32 (1.01%) Apple
15 30 (0.94%) CyberArk
15 30 (0.94%) Dell
15 30 (0.94%) Fortinet
16 29 (0.91%) Juniper
17 25 (0.79%) F5