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 December 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 22 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,389 3,545 5,548
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.50% 7.80% 7.11%
As % of the General category 15.83% 13.09% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,951 2,283 3,450
10th Percentile £294 £281 £300
25th Percentile £399 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £663
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.90% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 137 139
10th Percentile £15.20 £16.40 £14.20
25th Percentile £19.96 £20.00 £22.24
Median hourly rate £24.18 £33.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.82% -4.29% +40.59%
75th Percentile £30.76 £54.00 £57.75
90th Percentile £58.18 £72.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.89 £25.12 £40.37
% change year-on-year -4.88% -37.78% +94.53%

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 21,403 27,085 46,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 59.97% 59.59% 59.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,677 17,972 31,613
10th Percentile £293 £283 £319
25th Percentile £413 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £761 £750 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.30% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 787 1,122 1,232
10th Percentile £15.20 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £31.88 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.74% +27.52% +28.14%
75th Percentile £53.75 £58.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.66 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -11.67% +36.36% +25.71%

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 December 2024.

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 December 2024.

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 December 2024. 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 2,877 £525 -0.57% 2,862
UK excluding London +7 1,550 £481 -3.90% 1,751
London +1 1,487 £550 - 1,260
Work from Home +5 1,083 £525 - 2,148
South East +8 414 £500 -3.15% 374
North of England +4 338 £475 -5.00% 495
Midlands +7 246 £484 -12.00% 360
North West +4 216 £458 -7.58% 324
West Midlands +5 185 £525 -4.55% 217
Scotland +12 179 £425 -10.53% 107
South West +6 163 £538 -6.52% 185
East of England -1 111 £450 +5.88% 185
Yorkshire -2 94 £500 -4.76% 118
East Midlands +3 59 £414 -22.98% 143
Wales +8 53 £456 +1.39% 53
Northern Ireland 0 49 £450 +80.00% 25
North East -1 27 £445 +239.69% 61

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
1 163 (4.81%) Confluence
2 146 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 58 (1.71%) Apache Spark
4 52 (1.53%) Apache
5 44 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
6 29 (0.86%) SAS
7 24 (0.71%) CMS
8 20 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
9 12 (0.35%) IIS
10 11 (0.32%) ArcGIS
10 11 (0.32%) Drupal
11 9 (0.27%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.24%) IBM Notes
12 8 (0.24%) WebSphere
13 7 (0.21%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2010
14 6 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
14 6 (0.18%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 6 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 249 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 165 (4.87%) Microsoft Office
3 103 (3.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 41 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
6 19 (0.56%) Trello
7 18 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
8 16 (0.47%) Sketch
9 15 (0.44%) Adobe XD
10 9 (0.27%) SPSS
11 6 (0.18%) Chatbot
12 5 (0.15%) AutoCAD
12 5 (0.15%) InVision
13 4 (0.12%) UserZoom
14 2 (0.059%) Acrobat
15 1 (0.030%) Photoshop
15 1 (0.030%) Revit
15 1 (0.030%) SOLIDWORKS
15 1 (0.030%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 78 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (0.74%) Oracle EBS
3 22 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.38%) Endur
5 11 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
5 11 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 10 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
6 10 (0.30%) Oracle Financials
7 8 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 8 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 8 (0.24%) SAP EWM
8 7 (0.21%) Maximo
8 7 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
8 7 (0.21%) SAP BPC
8 7 (0.21%) SAP CO
8 7 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
8 7 (0.21%) SAP IBP
8 7 (0.21%) SAP MDG
8 7 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 594 (17.53%) Azure
2 344 (10.15%) Power Platform
3 305 (9.00%) AWS
4 153 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
5 125 (3.69%) GCP
6 103 (3.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 96 (2.83%) Serverless
8 75 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
9 73 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
9 73 (2.15%) PowerApps
10 69 (2.04%) Power Automate
11 67 (1.98%) GitHub
12 56 (1.65%) Entra ID
13 55 (1.62%) SaaS
14 54 (1.59%) Azure Functions
15 50 (1.48%) Cloud Computing
16 45 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 42 (1.24%) Amazon S3
18 40 (1.18%) Snowflake
19 38 (1.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 112 (3.30%) Firewall
2 68 (2.01%) DNS
3 64 (1.89%) VPN
4 56 (1.65%) BGP
5 55 (1.62%) Network Security
6 45 (1.33%) TCP/IP
7 37 (1.09%) MPLS
8 36 (1.06%) WAN
9 34 (1.00%) DHCP
9 34 (1.00%) OSPF
10 33 (0.97%) LAN
11 27 (0.80%) Internet
11 27 (0.80%) VoIP
12 22 (0.65%) SD-WAN
13 20 (0.59%) IPsec
14 19 (0.56%) HTTP
15 18 (0.53%) VLAN
16 17 (0.50%) CTI
16 17 (0.50%) Ethernet
16 17 (0.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 311 (9.18%) Power BI
2 156 (4.60%) Tableau
3 130 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
4 127 (3.75%) SQL Server
5 79 (2.33%) Big Data
6 76 (2.24%) Relational Database
7 63 (1.86%) Data Lake
8 57 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
9 56 (1.65%) NoSQL
10 39 (1.15%) Hadoop
11 37 (1.09%) MongoDB
12 34 (1.00%) Power Query
13 30 (0.89%) RDBMS
14 25 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
14 25 (0.74%) DB2
15 24 (0.71%) BigQuery
15 24 (0.71%) Data Mining
16 22 (0.65%) MySQL
17 21 (0.62%) Oracle Reports
17 21 (0.62%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 248 (7.32%) JIRA
2 142 (4.19%) Git
3 79 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 56 (1.65%) Selenium
5 52 (1.53%) GitLab
6 23 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 16 (0.47%) Cucumber
8 15 (0.44%) Visual Studio
9 13 (0.38%) Appium
9 13 (0.38%) JUnit
9 13 (0.38%) LoadRunner
10 12 (0.35%) Postman
11 8 (0.24%) Cypress.io
11 8 (0.24%) ERwin
11 8 (0.24%) JMeter
11 8 (0.24%) Robot Framework
11 8 (0.24%) SoapUI
11 8 (0.24%) TeamCity
11 8 (0.24%) Zephyr
12 7 (0.21%) PowerDesigner
General
1 2,001 (59.04%) Social Skills
2 900 (26.56%) Finance
3 297 (8.76%) Banking
4 285 (8.41%) Public Sector
5 153 (4.51%) Marketing
6 127 (3.75%) Telecoms
7 114 (3.36%) Legal
8 113 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
9 109 (3.22%) Retail
10 107 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
11 90 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
12 83 (2.45%) Manufacturing
13 75 (2.21%) Investment Banking
14 61 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 51 (1.50%) Financial Institution
16 42 (1.24%) Billing
17 41 (1.21%) Front Office
17 41 (1.21%) Military
18 40 (1.18%) Local Government
19 39 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 732 (21.60%) Analyst
2 333 (9.83%) Developer
3 290 (8.56%) Senior
4 277 (8.17%) Architect
5 252 (7.44%) Business Analyst
6 235 (6.93%) Consultant
7 206 (6.08%) Lead
8 171 (5.05%) Data Analyst
9 153 (4.51%) Project Manager
10 124 (3.66%) Data Engineer
11 77 (2.27%) Solutions Architect
12 69 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
13 60 (1.77%) Administrator
14 56 (1.65%) Data Scientist
15 54 (1.59%) Network Engineer
16 45 (1.33%) Azure Engineer
16 45 (1.33%) Senior Developer
16 45 (1.33%) Support Engineer
16 45 (1.33%) Tester
17 43 (1.27%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 108 (3.19%) HTML
2 102 (3.01%) .NET
3 101 (2.98%) React
4 94 (2.77%) CSS
5 79 (2.33%) PySpark
6 67 (1.98%) Middleware
7 65 (1.92%) Kafka
8 51 (1.50%) REST
9 48 (1.42%) Node.js
9 48 (1.42%) RESTful
10 46 (1.36%) AngularJS
11 34 (1.00%) SOAP
12 30 (0.89%) Web Services
13 29 (0.86%) XML
14 28 (0.83%) .NET Framework
15 25 (0.74%) PyTorch
16 24 (0.71%) Spring
17 23 (0.68%) Django
18 22 (0.65%) Oracle Fusion
18 22 (0.65%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 215 (6.34%) Management Information System
2 149 (4.40%) Self-Motivation
3 135 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 125 (3.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 70 (2.07%) Virtual Team
6 68 (2.01%) Algorithms
7 66 (1.95%) Data Structures
8 64 (1.89%) Onboarding
9 57 (1.68%) Data Centre
10 54 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
11 49 (1.45%) CMDB
12 48 (1.42%) Security Posture
13 46 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
13 46 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 44 (1.30%) Public Cloud
15 42 (1.24%) Digital Media
16 40 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
17 38 (1.12%) Derivative
18 32 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
19 27 (0.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 236 (6.96%) Windows
2 123 (3.63%) Linux
3 109 (3.22%) Unix
4 48 (1.42%) Windows 10
5 47 (1.39%) Windows Server
6 46 (1.36%) Apple iOS
7 40 (1.18%) Android
8 26 (0.77%) Mac OS
9 19 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
10 14 (0.41%) Mac OS X
11 10 (0.30%) AIX
12 9 (0.27%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.15%) VMS
16 4 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
17 3 (0.089%) CentOS
17 3 (0.089%) Solaris
18 2 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
18 2 (0.059%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,959 (57.80%) Problem-Solving
2 787 (23.22%) Agile
3 529 (15.61%) Project Management
4 445 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
5 425 (12.54%) Analytics
6 372 (10.98%) Computer Science
7 354 (10.45%) Decision-Making
8 351 (10.36%) Business Intelligence
9 336 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
9 336 (9.91%) Data Analysis
10 307 (9.06%) Data Modelling
11 299 (8.82%) Migration
12 272 (8.03%) DevOps
13 268 (7.91%) ITIL
14 265 (7.82%) Change Management
15 255 (7.52%) Risk Management
16 236 (6.96%) CI/CD
17 228 (6.73%) Visualisation
18 216 (6.37%) Data Management
19 210 (6.20%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 614 (18.12%) SQL
2 605 (17.85%) Python
3 212 (6.26%) Java
4 178 (5.25%) JavaScript
5 122 (3.60%) R
6 94 (2.77%) C#
7 86 (2.54%) PowerShell
8 45 (1.33%) C++
9 40 (1.18%) TypeScript
10 39 (1.15%) Bash
11 38 (1.12%) Scala
12 35 (1.03%) Shell Script
13 34 (1.00%) PL/SQL
14 32 (0.94%) C
14 32 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 32 (0.94%) Perl
15 27 (0.80%) T-SQL
16 24 (0.71%) Go
17 20 (0.59%) VBA
18 18 (0.53%) PHP
Qualifications
1 757 (22.34%) Degree
2 462 (13.63%) Security Cleared
3 356 (10.50%) SC Cleared
4 231 (6.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 141 (4.16%) Master's Degree
6 96 (2.83%) CISSP
7 87 (2.57%) PMP
8 84 (2.48%) PMI Certification
9 71 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 69 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
11 62 (1.83%) CISM
12 52 (1.53%) DV Cleared
13 46 (1.36%) CCNP
14 45 (1.33%) Azure Certification
15 38 (1.12%) AWS Certification
16 31 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
17 28 (0.83%) CISA
18 26 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
19 23 (0.68%) CCIE
19 23 (0.68%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (7.88%) QA
2 176 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 79 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 76 (2.24%) GDPR
5 75 (2.21%) PMO
6 74 (2.18%) NIST
7 70 (2.07%) Accessibility
8 56 (1.65%) SLA
9 34 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 28 (0.83%) GRC
11 23 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
12 17 (0.50%) PCI DSS
13 16 (0.47%) ISO 9001
14 14 (0.41%) COBIT
14 14 (0.41%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.30%) IFRS
16 8 (0.24%) GxP
16 8 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
17 7 (0.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 7 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 153 (4.51%) Active Directory
2 115 (3.39%) Docker
3 44 (1.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 13 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 9 (0.27%) Firmware
8 7 (0.21%) BitLocker
8 7 (0.21%) HDFS
8 7 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 6 (0.18%) RACF
10 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.12%) vSphere
12 3 (0.089%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.059%) ACF2
13 2 (0.059%) IAG
13 2 (0.059%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.059%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 2 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.030%) OpenDJ
Systems Management
1 132 (3.89%) Kubernetes
2 84 (2.48%) Ansible
3 56 (1.65%) Terraform
4 51 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 49 (1.45%) SCCM
6 20 (0.59%) Grafana
7 19 (0.56%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.44%) Puppet
9 14 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.27%) NetBackup
12 8 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.21%) Control-M
13 7 (0.21%) logstash
13 7 (0.21%) OPNET
13 7 (0.21%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.21%) vRealize
13 7 (0.21%) WSUS
14 6 (0.18%) FortiGate
14 6 (0.18%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 628 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 233 (6.88%) Oracle
3 218 (6.43%) SAP
4 145 (4.28%) ServiceNow
5 92 (2.71%) Google
6 88 (2.60%) Salesforce
7 83 (2.45%) Cisco
8 72 (2.12%) Databricks
9 62 (1.83%) VMware
10 53 (1.56%) Atlassian
11 52 (1.53%) Adobe
12 47 (1.39%) Splunk
13 40 (1.18%) IBM
14 36 (1.06%) F5
15 30 (0.89%) CyberArk
16 28 (0.83%) Apple
17 27 (0.80%) Dell
18 25 (0.74%) Palo Alto
19 24 (0.71%) Alteryx
20 23 (0.68%) Genesys