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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 20 25
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,286 3,510 4,304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.24% 8.05% 7.21%
As % of the General category 17.80% 13.83% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,087 2,275 2,796
10th Percentile £296 £300 £300
25th Percentile £403 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £481
% change year-on-year -0.15% +4.11% +3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 219 124
10th Percentile £15.32 £11.75 £21.24
25th Percentile £20.00 £13.50 £23.05
Median hourly rate £30.00 £18.00 £43.43
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -58.55% +22.34%
75th Percentile £56.00 £26.98 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.75 £46.68 £72.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.76 £17.50 £49.57
% change year-on-year +41.49% -64.70% +54.30%

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 18,465 25,387 34,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.16% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,795 16,033 24,201
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% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,939 1,062
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £13.42
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £28.13 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.58% -7.91% +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 30 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 30 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 30 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 2,731 £525 -2.21% 5,724
London +5 1,484 £550 - 3,092
UK excluding London +8 1,432 £500 -0.15% 2,891
Work from Home +7 1,044 £538 +7.50% 2,751
South East +9 341 £540 +0.59% 649
North of England +6 315 £475 -5.00% 801
Scotland +4 240 £463 -2.63% 173
Midlands +5 202 £469 -10.67% 542
North West +6 187 £500 +5.26% 488
South West +6 167 £550 +4.76% 361
West Midlands +3 158 £475 -13.64% 332
East of England +19 121 £500 - 294
Yorkshire +3 107 £450 -12.45% 232
East Midlands +4 43 £414 -9.26% 203
Northern Ireland +2 29 £450 +33.33% 70
Wales -3 24 £413 -21.43% 63
North East -3 19 £440 -25.42% 89

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 (4.29%) Confluence
2 84 (2.56%) SharePoint
3 68 (2.07%) Apache Spark
4 33 (1.00%) 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
8 10 (0.30%) WebSphere
9 8 (0.24%) GemFire
9 8 (0.24%) Oracle Coherence
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
1 246 (7.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 148 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
3 129 (3.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 64 (1.95%) MS Visio
5 36 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
6 30 (0.91%) 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%) Notion
11 2 (0.061%) Revit
12 1 (0.030%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.030%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 90 (2.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 37 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
3 22 (0.67%) Maximo
4 21 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
5 18 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
6 14 (0.43%) SAP EWM
7 13 (0.40%) Oracle ASCP
8 11 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
8 11 (0.33%) SAP PP
8 11 (0.33%) Workday HCM
9 10 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
9 10 (0.30%) SAP FI
9 10 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 9 (0.27%) SAP CO
10 9 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
10 9 (0.27%) SAP HR
10 9 (0.27%) SAP Payroll
11 8 (0.24%) SAP ERP
12 7 (0.21%) Magento
12 7 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 514 (15.64%) Azure
2 399 (12.14%) AWS
3 261 (7.94%) Power Platform
4 141 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 135 (4.11%) GCP
6 85 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
7 65 (1.98%) SaaS
8 60 (1.83%) Entra ID
9 55 (1.67%) Amazon S3
9 55 (1.67%) Serverless
10 50 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
11 48 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
12 46 (1.40%) GitHub
13 40 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
13 40 (1.22%) Power Automate
14 35 (1.07%) OCI
14 35 (1.07%) PowerApps
15 34 (1.03%) Snowflake
16 32 (0.97%) AWS Lambda
17 30 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 109 (3.32%) Firewall
1 109 (3.32%) Network Security
2 79 (2.40%) VPN
3 57 (1.73%) DNS
4 49 (1.49%) BGP
5 44 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 43 (1.31%) OSPF
7 39 (1.19%) WAN
8 36 (1.10%) DHCP
8 36 (1.10%) LAN
9 28 (0.85%) EIGRP
9 28 (0.85%) HTTP
10 27 (0.82%) Skype
10 27 (0.82%) SSL
11 23 (0.70%) Wireless
12 22 (0.67%) VLAN
13 20 (0.61%) MPLS
13 20 (0.61%) Wireshark
14 19 (0.58%) Internet
15 18 (0.55%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 233 (7.09%) Power BI
2 132 (4.02%) Tableau
3 112 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
4 100 (3.04%) Relational Database
5 74 (2.25%) SQL Server
6 72 (2.19%) Big Data
7 61 (1.86%) MongoDB
7 61 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
8 55 (1.67%) Hadoop
9 51 (1.55%) DB2
10 46 (1.40%) Data Lake
11 39 (1.19%) Metadata
11 39 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
12 32 (0.97%) Oracle Database
13 30 (0.91%) NoSQL
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
1 262 (7.97%) JIRA
2 147 (4.47%) Git
3 126 (3.83%) Jenkins
4 66 (2.01%) JUnit
5 53 (1.61%) Selenium
6 42 (1.28%) GitLab
7 24 (0.73%) Cucumber
7 24 (0.73%) REST Assured
8 23 (0.70%) ERwin
9 22 (0.67%) 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
15 10 (0.30%) TeamCity
16 9 (0.27%) Postman
16 9 (0.27%) PowerDesigner
General
1 1,990 (60.56%) Social Skills
2 930 (28.30%) Finance
3 377 (11.47%) Banking
4 302 (9.19%) Public Sector
5 155 (4.72%) Investment Banking
6 148 (4.50%) Marketing
7 145 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
8 130 (3.96%) Retail
9 118 (3.59%) Legal
10 115 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
11 105 (3.20%) Front Office
12 99 (3.01%) Telecoms
13 92 (2.80%) Manufacturing
14 88 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 78 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
16 57 (1.73%) Financial Institution
17 54 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
18 40 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
19 36 (1.10%) Law
20 31 (0.94%) Billing
Job Titles
1 708 (21.55%) Analyst
2 401 (12.20%) Developer
3 297 (9.04%) Business Analyst
4 288 (8.76%) Senior
5 273 (8.31%) Architect
6 211 (6.42%) Consultant
7 182 (5.54%) Lead
8 144 (4.38%) Data Analyst
9 116 (3.53%) Project Manager
10 104 (3.16%) Data Engineer
11 102 (3.10%) Java Developer
12 74 (2.25%) Solutions Architect
13 69 (2.10%) Support Engineer
14 66 (2.01%) Senior Developer
15 59 (1.80%) Senior Analyst
16 54 (1.64%) Product Manager
16 54 (1.64%) SAP Consultant
17 52 (1.58%) C# Developer
18 51 (1.55%) Network Engineer
19 49 (1.49%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (3.99%) .NET
2 106 (3.23%) Kafka
3 89 (2.71%) HTML
4 74 (2.25%) React
5 71 (2.16%) CSS
6 68 (2.07%) REST
7 61 (1.86%) Spring
8 59 (1.80%) AngularJS
9 58 (1.77%) Web Services
10 46 (1.40%) ASP.NET
10 46 (1.40%) RESTful
11 45 (1.37%) PySpark
12 41 (1.25%) Middleware
13 38 (1.16%) TensorFlow
14 36 (1.10%) JMS
15 35 (1.07%) FastAPI
15 35 (1.07%) Oracle Fusion
16 31 (0.94%) XML
17 30 (0.91%) Django
18 29 (0.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 177 (5.39%) Management Information System
2 149 (4.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 107 (3.26%) Data Structures
4 106 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 90 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
6 84 (2.56%) Onboarding
7 81 (2.47%) Algorithms
8 77 (2.34%) Data Centre
9 68 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 61 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
11 58 (1.77%) Equities
12 56 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
12 56 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
13 45 (1.37%) Derivative
14 36 (1.10%) Security Posture
15 34 (1.03%) Cloud Native
16 30 (0.91%) Mainframe
17 29 (0.88%) CMDB
17 29 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
17 29 (0.88%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 231 (7.03%) Windows
2 193 (5.87%) Linux
3 79 (2.40%) Unix
4 50 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 46 (1.40%) Windows 10
5 46 (1.40%) Windows Server
6 27 (0.82%) Android
7 26 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 14 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 14 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 13 (0.40%) Solaris
10 12 (0.37%) Mac OS X
11 8 (0.24%) AIX
11 8 (0.24%) HPUX
11 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
12 7 (0.21%) zOS
13 5 (0.15%) Windows 8
13 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.15%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,935 (58.89%) Problem-Solving
2 822 (25.02%) Agile
3 460 (14.00%) Project Management
4 456 (13.88%) Stakeholder Management
5 423 (12.87%) Analytics
6 389 (11.84%) Decision-Making
7 369 (11.23%) DevOps
8 343 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
9 334 (10.16%) Data Analysis
10 319 (9.71%) Computer Science
11 299 (9.10%) Migration
12 295 (8.98%) CI/CD
13 277 (8.43%) Business Intelligence
14 258 (7.85%) ITIL
15 252 (7.67%) Risk Management
16 247 (7.52%) Data Modelling
17 242 (7.36%) Change Management
18 210 (6.39%) Collaborative Working
19 208 (6.33%) Visualisation
20 204 (6.21%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 633 (19.26%) SQL
2 565 (17.19%) Python
3 271 (8.25%) Java
4 148 (4.50%) JavaScript
5 130 (3.96%) C#
6 97 (2.95%) PowerShell
7 69 (2.10%) TypeScript
8 61 (1.86%) C++
9 57 (1.73%) R
10 52 (1.58%) Bash
11 47 (1.43%) Shell Script
12 46 (1.40%) PL/SQL
13 40 (1.22%) 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 (0.37%) Perl
20 10 (0.30%) PHP
Qualifications
1 608 (18.50%) Degree
2 487 (14.82%) Security Cleared
3 396 (12.05%) SC Cleared
4 189 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 104 (3.16%) Master's Degree
6 99 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
7 73 (2.22%) CISSP
8 72 (2.19%) PMI Certification
9 70 (2.13%) 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 40 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 40 (1.22%) Azure Certification
15 40 (1.22%) CISM
16 30 (0.91%) ISTQB
17 28 (0.85%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 267 (8.13%) QA
2 204 (6.21%) Data Quality
3 99 (3.01%) GDPR
4 60 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 60 (1.83%) SLA
5 57 (1.73%) NIST
6 53 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 52 (1.58%) PMO
8 32 (0.97%) PCI DSS
9 23 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
9 23 (0.70%) HIPAA
9 23 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 22 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
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
1 125 (3.80%) Docker
2 124 (3.77%) Active Directory
3 40 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (0.55%) VMware NSX
6 14 (0.43%) Hyper-V
6 14 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.30%) Firmware
7 10 (0.30%) RACF
8 9 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 8 (0.24%) GridGain
9 8 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.18%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.12%) Postfix
11 4 (0.12%) vSphere
12 3 (0.091%) IAG
12 3 (0.091%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 3 (0.091%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.091%) OpenDJ
12 3 (0.091%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 148 (4.50%) Kubernetes
2 116 (3.53%) Ansible
3 90 (2.74%) Terraform
4 35 (1.07%) SCCM
5 34 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 28 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
7 26 (0.79%) Grafana
8 24 (0.73%) Oracle RMAN
9 15 (0.46%) Puppet
10 14 (0.43%) vCenter Server
11 13 (0.40%) Prometheus
12 12 (0.37%) NetBackup
12 12 (0.37%) Progress Chef
13 11 (0.33%) Podman
13 11 (0.33%) WSUS
14 9 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
15 7 (0.21%) Argo
15 7 (0.21%) FortiGate
16 6 (0.18%) Data Guard
16 6 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 508 (15.46%) Microsoft
2 276 (8.40%) Oracle
3 233 (7.09%) SAP
4 154 (4.69%) ServiceNow
5 110 (3.35%) Cisco
6 103 (3.13%) Google
7 82 (2.50%) Salesforce
8 72 (2.19%) Databricks
9 62 (1.89%) IBM
10 51 (1.55%) VMware
11 45 (1.37%) Splunk
12 41 (1.25%) Sybase
13 39 (1.19%) Atlassian
14 38 (1.16%) Adobe
15 32 (0.97%) Fortinet
16 31 (0.94%) Apple
16 31 (0.94%) Workday
17 29 (0.88%) Dell
17 29 (0.88%) Juniper
18 28 (0.85%) Citrix