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 have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 22 29 32
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,506 5,450 5,606
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.81% 7.10% 6.26%
As % of the General category 13.12% 11.99% 11.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,259 3,404 3,645
10th Percentile £279 £300 £281
25th Percentile £410 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £619
90th Percentile £750 £775 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 135 238
10th Percentile £16.25 £14.25 £12.29
25th Percentile £17.72 £22.46 £15.25
Median hourly rate £32.41 £35.00 £22.63
Median % change year-on-year -7.40% +54.70% -9.50%
75th Percentile £53.75 £58.13 £45.21
90th Percentile £72.00 £70.00 £53.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.12 £40.37 £20.03
% change year-on-year -37.78% +101.52% -14.40%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 26,723 45,446 47,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 59.54% 59.19% 53.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,712 31,074 32,877
10th Percentile £281 £315 £310
25th Percentile £420 £446 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £625
90th Percentile £750 £763 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,106 1,212 1,428
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.29 £13.25
Median hourly rate £31.86 £25.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +27.42% +28.07% -13.24%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £43.00
90th Percentile £71.28 £70.00 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £17.25
% change year-on-year +36.36% +27.54% -18.05%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 +5 2,982 £525 -4.55% 3,534
London +1 1,584 £550 -8.33% 1,508
UK excluding London +9 1,530 £500 +5.26% 2,209
Work from Home +9 1,266 £525 - 1,722
South East +6 412 £525 +5.00% 592
North of England +17 354 £500 +11.11% 594
North West +15 217 £495 +7.03% 366
Midlands +8 216 £550 +22.22% 377
South West +5 182 £575 +6.98% 249
Scotland -4 177 £478 +6.11% 145
West Midlands +19 153 £550 +22.22% 259
East of England +12 152 £425 -2.58% 237
Yorkshire +20 121 £525 +16.67% 163
East Midlands +7 61 £538 +19.44% 118
Wales -4 35 £450 - 43
Northern Ireland +14 33 £250 -41.18% 28
North East +29 17 £131 -69.18% 72

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
1 122 (3.48%) SharePoint
2 114 (3.25%) Confluence
3 51 (1.45%) Apache Spark
4 40 (1.14%) SAS
5 32 (0.91%) Apache
6 29 (0.83%) Tomcat
7 21 (0.60%) CMS
8 16 (0.46%) IIS
9 10 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
9 10 (0.29%) WebLogic
10 8 (0.23%) ThingWorx
10 8 (0.23%) WebSphere
11 7 (0.20%) Mendix
12 6 (0.17%) JBoss
12 6 (0.17%) Jupyter
12 6 (0.17%) MS Exchange
12 6 (0.17%) Oracle Workflow
12 6 (0.17%) Skype for Business
13 3 (0.086%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.086%) WordPress
Applications
1 292 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 253 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
3 131 (3.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 69 (1.97%) MS Visio
5 39 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 29 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
7 20 (0.57%) SPSS
8 19 (0.54%) Stata
9 6 (0.17%) Sketch
9 6 (0.17%) UXPin
10 5 (0.14%) Acrobat
10 5 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 4 (0.11%) Lectora
12 3 (0.086%) AutoCAD
12 3 (0.086%) Mathematica
12 3 (0.086%) Mingle
12 3 (0.086%) Revit
13 2 (0.057%) Photoshop
14 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
14 1 (0.029%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 52 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 39 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.46%) Dynamics AX
4 15 (0.43%) Endur
5 14 (0.40%) SAP FI
5 14 (0.40%) SAP WM
6 13 (0.37%) SAP MM
7 11 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
7 11 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.31%) SAP CO
7 11 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
7 11 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
8 10 (0.29%) Oracle Financials
9 9 (0.26%) SAP HCM
10 8 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
10 8 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
10 8 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 7 (0.20%) ION MarketView
11 7 (0.20%) Workfront
12 6 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 456 (13.01%) Azure
2 329 (9.38%) AWS
3 326 (9.30%) Power Platform
4 148 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
5 119 (3.39%) GCP
6 100 (2.85%) Dynamics 365
7 82 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
8 73 (2.08%) PowerApps
9 66 (1.88%) SaaS
10 61 (1.74%) GitHub
11 56 (1.60%) Power Automate
12 46 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
13 43 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
14 41 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
15 39 (1.11%) Amazon S3
16 37 (1.06%) Serverless
17 34 (0.97%) Entra ID
17 34 (0.97%) Snowflake
18 29 (0.83%) npm
19 26 (0.74%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 140 (3.99%) Firewall
2 84 (2.40%) VPN
3 66 (1.88%) Network Security
4 59 (1.68%) DNS
5 55 (1.57%) LAN
6 54 (1.54%) WAN
6 54 (1.54%) Wireless
7 47 (1.34%) TCP/IP
8 45 (1.28%) BGP
9 34 (0.97%) DHCP
10 33 (0.94%) OSPF
11 27 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
12 26 (0.74%) SAN
12 26 (0.74%) WLAN
13 24 (0.68%) HTTP
14 22 (0.63%) SSL
14 22 (0.63%) VLAN
15 20 (0.57%) Internet
15 20 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
16 18 (0.51%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 295 (8.41%) Power BI
2 144 (4.11%) Tableau
3 141 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
4 135 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 77 (2.20%) Big Data
6 66 (1.88%) Metadata
7 64 (1.83%) Relational Database
8 52 (1.48%) Data Lake
9 48 (1.37%) Hadoop
10 47 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
11 40 (1.14%) Power Query
12 37 (1.06%) NoSQL
13 34 (0.97%) MySQL
14 31 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
14 31 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 30 (0.86%) MongoDB
16 28 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 27 (0.77%) Data Mining
17 27 (0.77%) Oracle Database
18 25 (0.71%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 249 (7.10%) JIRA
2 87 (2.48%) Jenkins
3 60 (1.71%) Git
4 40 (1.14%) webpack
5 37 (1.06%) GitLab
6 31 (0.88%) Visual Studio
7 26 (0.74%) Cucumber
8 25 (0.71%) TeamCity
9 24 (0.68%) Selenium
10 23 (0.66%) Cypress.io
11 19 (0.54%) Bitbucket
12 16 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 14 (0.40%) JMeter
14 13 (0.37%) Maven
14 13 (0.37%) SonarQube
15 12 (0.34%) Subversion
15 12 (0.34%) Team Foundation Server
16 10 (0.29%) Postman
16 10 (0.29%) Robot Framework
17 9 (0.26%) Protractor
General
1 1,910 (54.48%) Social Skills
2 936 (26.70%) Finance
3 369 (10.52%) Public Sector
4 281 (8.01%) Banking
5 201 (5.73%) Presentation Skills
6 150 (4.28%) Marketing
7 149 (4.25%) Organisational Skills
8 147 (4.19%) Influencing Skills
9 128 (3.65%) Legal
10 118 (3.37%) Front Office
11 112 (3.19%) Retail
12 103 (2.94%) Manufacturing
13 95 (2.71%) Telecoms
14 75 (2.14%) Investment Banking
15 57 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
16 53 (1.51%) Financial Institution
17 41 (1.17%) Law
18 37 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
19 32 (0.91%) Local Government
20 30 (0.86%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 865 (24.67%) Analyst
2 377 (10.75%) Developer
3 369 (10.52%) Business Analyst
4 286 (8.16%) Architect
5 281 (8.01%) Senior
6 220 (6.27%) Consultant
7 202 (5.76%) Lead
8 153 (4.36%) Data Analyst
9 142 (4.05%) Project Manager
10 93 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
11 84 (2.40%) Senior Analyst
12 83 (2.37%) Data Engineer
13 75 (2.14%) Service Analyst
14 62 (1.77%) Data Architect
14 62 (1.77%) SAP Consultant
15 61 (1.74%) Support Engineer
16 56 (1.60%) IT Analyst
17 55 (1.57%) Administrator
18 46 (1.31%) Financial Analyst
19 43 (1.23%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (2.91%) .NET
2 93 (2.65%) REST
3 89 (2.54%) HTML
4 87 (2.48%) React
5 75 (2.14%) CSS
6 56 (1.60%) AngularJS
7 49 (1.40%) Web Services
7 49 (1.40%) XML
8 44 (1.25%) Node.js
9 43 (1.23%) JSON
10 39 (1.11%) WebSockets
11 36 (1.03%) RESTful
12 34 (0.97%) SOAP
13 33 (0.94%) Spring
14 32 (0.91%) .NET Framework
15 31 (0.88%) RxJS
16 30 (0.86%) Kafka
16 30 (0.86%) Middleware
17 28 (0.80%) Spring Boot
18 24 (0.68%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 223 (6.36%) Management Information System
2 166 (4.73%) Self-Motivation
3 159 (4.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 148 (4.22%) Product Ownership
5 94 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 74 (2.11%) Algorithms
7 63 (1.80%) Data Centre
8 62 (1.77%) Virtual Team
9 49 (1.40%) Data Structures
10 46 (1.31%) Cloud Native
11 44 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 41 (1.17%) Public Cloud
13 36 (1.03%) CMDB
13 36 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
14 35 (1.00%) PKI
15 34 (0.97%) Derivative
15 34 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
16 32 (0.91%) NHS
17 31 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
17 31 (0.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 316 (9.01%) Windows
2 176 (5.02%) Linux
3 105 (2.99%) Unix
4 85 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 61 (1.74%) Windows 10
6 58 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 27 (0.77%) Windows 7
9 24 (0.68%) Android
10 23 (0.66%) AIX
11 22 (0.63%) Mac OS
12 21 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
13 16 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
14 15 (0.43%) Ubuntu
15 13 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
15 13 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
16 12 (0.34%) Solaris
17 8 (0.23%) HPUX
18 7 (0.20%) VMS
18 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,841 (52.51%) Problem-Solving
2 908 (25.90%) Agile
3 526 (15.00%) Project Management
4 428 (12.21%) Analytics
5 393 (11.21%) Business Intelligence
6 384 (10.95%) Decision-Making
7 379 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
8 340 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 337 (9.61%) Computer Science
10 320 (9.13%) Data Modelling
11 315 (8.98%) Data Analysis
12 285 (8.13%) ITIL
13 264 (7.53%) Change Management
14 256 (7.30%) Migration
15 252 (7.19%) DevOps
16 246 (7.02%) Roadmaps
17 241 (6.87%) Visualisation
18 231 (6.59%) Project Delivery
19 210 (5.99%) Customer Service
20 209 (5.96%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 583 (16.63%) SQL
2 425 (12.12%) Python
3 196 (5.59%) Java
4 164 (4.68%) JavaScript
5 139 (3.96%) PowerShell
6 119 (3.39%) C#
7 81 (2.31%) R
8 70 (2.00%) TypeScript
9 61 (1.74%) C++
10 50 (1.43%) PL/SQL
11 45 (1.28%) Scala
12 36 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 34 (0.97%) T-SQL
14 29 (0.83%) Go
15 27 (0.77%) C
16 22 (0.63%) Bash
16 22 (0.63%) PHP
17 21 (0.60%) Ruby
18 16 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
18 16 (0.46%) Perl
Qualifications
1 739 (21.08%) Degree
2 516 (14.72%) Security Cleared
3 412 (11.75%) SC Cleared
4 214 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 118 (3.37%) Master's Degree
6 89 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 86 (2.45%) CISSP
8 74 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
9 65 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
10 60 (1.71%) Azure Certification
11 55 (1.57%) CISM
12 53 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
13 50 (1.43%) PMP
14 48 (1.37%) PMI Certification
15 45 (1.28%) CCNA
16 32 (0.91%) CCNP
17 30 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
17 30 (0.86%) MCSE
18 24 (0.68%) GIAC
19 23 (0.66%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (6.59%) QA
2 162 (4.62%) Data Quality
3 75 (2.14%) PMO
4 65 (1.85%) SLA
5 59 (1.68%) NIST
6 57 (1.63%) GDPR
7 50 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (0.71%) Accessibility
9 19 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
9 19 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 15 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
11 14 (0.40%) COBIT
12 13 (0.37%) NCSC
13 12 (0.34%) EMIR
13 12 (0.34%) HIPAA
13 12 (0.34%) ISO 9001
13 12 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 11 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27005
14 11 (0.31%) MiFID
15 10 (0.29%) IFRS
System Software
1 133 (3.79%) Active Directory
2 80 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (1.45%) Docker
4 34 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 16 (0.46%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.34%) RACF
8 12 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.29%) Oracle RAC
10 9 (0.26%) XenApp
11 8 (0.23%) vSphere
12 7 (0.20%) Firmware
12 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 3 (0.086%) Apache ZooKeeper
14 3 (0.086%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.086%) NFS
14 3 (0.086%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.057%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 78 (2.22%) Ansible
2 77 (2.20%) Kubernetes
2 77 (2.20%) Terraform
3 41 (1.17%) Progress Chef
4 40 (1.14%) Puppet
5 39 (1.11%) SCCM
6 33 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 26 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (0.60%) PowerBroker
8 21 (0.60%) SCOM
9 18 (0.51%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.48%) Grafana
11 12 (0.34%) NetBackup
12 11 (0.31%) Kibana
13 10 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 10 (0.29%) Data Guard
13 10 (0.29%) WSUS
14 9 (0.26%) CFEngine
14 9 (0.26%) Prometheus
15 8 (0.23%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 598 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 269 (7.67%) SAP
3 239 (6.82%) Oracle
4 125 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 101 (2.88%) Cisco
6 100 (2.85%) VMware
7 97 (2.77%) Google
8 61 (1.74%) Salesforce
9 53 (1.51%) IBM
9 53 (1.51%) Red Hat
10 50 (1.43%) Dell
11 47 (1.34%) HP
12 45 (1.28%) Splunk
13 44 (1.25%) Palo Alto
14 42 (1.20%) Databricks
15 37 (1.06%) Atlassian
16 29 (0.83%) Workday
17 27 (0.77%) Citrix
18 23 (0.66%) Adobe
18 23 (0.66%) Juniper