Analytical Skills Contract Job Trends

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 13 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 4,400 3,663 3,411
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 8.35% 11.21% 7.98%
As % of the General category 15.24% 17.78% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,614 2,303 2,133
10th Percentile £313 £294 £300
25th Percentile £403 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £613 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £472 £500
% change year-on-year -1.91% -5.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 154 198
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £11.77
25th Percentile £18.39 £19.79 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.48 £20.12
Median % change year-on-year +2.96% +71.39% -54.21%
75th Percentile £58.70 £56.00 £32.30
90th Percentile £78.55 £74.25 £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.00 £32.50 £18.18
% change year-on-year -10.77% +78.82% -48.07%

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 general skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 28,879 20,600 24,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 54.81% 63.03% 57.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,287 12,940 15,286
10th Percentile £313 £281 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £472 £490
% change year-on-year +5.93% -3.67% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,012 1,046 1,883
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.36 £12.99
25th Percentile £18.38 £16.33 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.22 £32.90
Median % change year-on-year +19.42% -17.27% +7.71%
75th Percentile £61.50 £53.25 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £71.88 £68.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £23.10 £32.12
% change year-on-year +40.69% -28.07% +23.52%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Analytical Skills relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Analytical Skills job vacancy trend in the UK

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Analytical Skills.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Analytical Skills

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 18 Contract Job 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 13 July 2026. 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 -8 3,841 £500 - 3,309
UK excluding London -9 2,232 £463 -1.91% 2,060
London -10 1,777 £525 -4.55% 1,761
Work from Home -6 1,355 £500 -4.76% 1,265
South East 0 644 £500 - 620
North of England -12 561 £445 -1.55% 466
Midlands -12 406 £464 +9.18% 278
West Midlands -13 294 £450 - 160
North West -12 286 £447 -4.69% 254
Yorkshire -12 240 £450 - 160
South West -13 234 £525 -3.67% 405
Scotland -8 211 £420 -11.58% 90
East of England -10 138 £509 +1.80% 162
East Midlands +1 106 £498 +32.67% 116
North East -6 39 £413 -2.94% 56
Wales +1 38 £488 +21.50% 32
Northern Ireland -12 17 £388 -26.19% 52
Channel Islands - 1 - -

Analytical Skills
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 214 (4.86%) Confluence
2 78 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 68 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 59 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
5 39 (0.89%) Apache
6 29 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.61%) CMS
7 27 (0.61%) SAS
8 19 (0.43%) Oracle Workflow
9 17 (0.39%) Jupyter
10 14 (0.32%) WebLogic
10 14 (0.32%) WebSphere
11 11 (0.25%) HCL Notes
12 8 (0.18%) ArcGIS
13 7 (0.16%) IIS
14 6 (0.14%) Appian
14 6 (0.14%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 6 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
15 5 (0.11%) OpenStack
16 3 (0.068%) Camunda
Applications
1 400 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 201 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
3 122 (2.77%) MS Visio
4 114 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 72 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
6 34 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
7 13 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.11%) CPLEX
9 3 (0.068%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.068%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.068%) Oracle Smart View
10 2 (0.045%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.045%) CATIA
10 2 (0.045%) Notion
10 2 (0.045%) Sketch
11 1 (0.023%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.023%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.023%) Lectora
11 1 (0.023%) MicroStation
11 1 (0.023%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 101 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
2 33 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
3 28 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 24 (0.55%) Remedy ITSM
5 18 (0.41%) iTrent
5 18 (0.41%) Primavera
6 17 (0.39%) Workday HCM
7 16 (0.36%) Aladdin
8 15 (0.34%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 14 (0.32%) Salesforce CRM
9 14 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 12 (0.27%) NetSuite
10 12 (0.27%) Oracle Payables
11 10 (0.23%) Finacle
12 9 (0.20%) Fidessa
13 8 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
13 8 (0.18%) SAP ERP
14 7 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
14 7 (0.16%) Oracle Financials
14 7 (0.16%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 765 (17.39%) Azure
2 552 (12.55%) AWS
3 491 (11.16%) Power Platform
4 195 (4.43%) GCP
5 180 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
6 164 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
7 141 (3.20%) GitHub
8 136 (3.09%) SaaS
9 121 (2.75%) Entra ID
10 77 (1.75%) Snowflake
11 71 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
12 65 (1.48%) Amazon S3
12 65 (1.48%) Serverless
13 62 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
14 59 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
15 49 (1.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 48 (1.09%) dbt
17 45 (1.02%) AWS Lambda
18 44 (1.00%) Power Automate
19 42 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 125 (2.84%) Firewall
2 100 (2.27%) DNS
3 76 (1.73%) VPN
4 74 (1.68%) Network Security
4 74 (1.68%) SAN
5 73 (1.66%) WAN
6 61 (1.39%) TCP/IP
7 51 (1.16%) LAN
8 49 (1.11%) DHCP
9 40 (0.91%) BGP
10 30 (0.68%) SD-WAN
11 29 (0.66%) MPLS
11 29 (0.66%) VLAN
12 28 (0.64%) Wi-Fi
13 26 (0.59%) Wireless
14 25 (0.57%) OSPF
15 22 (0.50%) HTTP
16 21 (0.48%) Internet
17 18 (0.41%) 5G
18 17 (0.39%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 446 (10.14%) Power BI
2 220 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 187 (4.25%) SQL Server
4 141 (3.20%) Tableau
5 138 (3.14%) Relational Database
6 132 (3.00%) Metadata
7 106 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
8 75 (1.70%) MongoDB
9 73 (1.66%) Data Lake
10 72 (1.64%) Big Data
11 65 (1.48%) NoSQL
12 53 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
13 45 (1.02%) Power Query
14 41 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 39 (0.89%) Oracle Database
16 38 (0.86%) MySQL
17 31 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
17 31 (0.70%) RDBMS
18 30 (0.68%) BigQuery
18 30 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 431 (9.80%) JIRA
2 208 (4.73%) Git
3 105 (2.39%) Jenkins
4 59 (1.34%) GitLab
5 58 (1.32%) Selenium
6 42 (0.95%) Postman
7 31 (0.70%) JUnit
8 30 (0.68%) REST Assured
9 29 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 25 (0.57%) Cucumber
11 22 (0.50%) JMeter
12 20 (0.45%) Maven
13 19 (0.43%) ERwin
13 19 (0.43%) Gradle
13 19 (0.43%) WebDriver
14 18 (0.41%) SonarQube
15 16 (0.36%) Bitbucket
15 16 (0.36%) Mockito
15 16 (0.36%) Oracle Forms
16 14 (0.32%) Zephyr
General
1 2,108 (47.91%) Social Skills
2 1,331 (30.25%) Finance
3 456 (10.36%) Public Sector
4 401 (9.11%) Banking
5 221 (5.02%) Documentation Skills
6 193 (4.39%) Organisational Skills
7 169 (3.84%) Legal
8 138 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
9 129 (2.93%) Manufacturing
10 128 (2.91%) Retail
11 126 (2.86%) Marketing
12 115 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
13 110 (2.50%) Telecoms
14 98 (2.23%) Front Office
15 84 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 83 (1.89%) Investment Banking
17 63 (1.43%) Law
18 54 (1.23%) Financial Institution
19 49 (1.11%) Local Government
20 46 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,076 (24.45%) Analyst
2 475 (10.80%) Business Analyst
3 392 (8.91%) Developer
4 362 (8.23%) Senior
5 330 (7.50%) Lead
6 312 (7.09%) Architect
7 254 (5.77%) Consultant
8 227 (5.16%) Data Analyst
9 216 (4.91%) Data Engineer
10 117 (2.66%) Project Manager
11 103 (2.34%) Senior Analyst
12 97 (2.20%) Support Engineer
13 86 (1.95%) Administrator
14 85 (1.93%) Data Scientist
15 75 (1.70%) IT Support
16 74 (1.68%) IT Engineer
17 66 (1.50%) Python Developer
17 66 (1.50%) Solutions Architect
18 63 (1.43%) Technical Analyst
19 59 (1.34%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (4.36%) REST
2 108 (2.45%) .NET
3 90 (2.05%) Kafka
4 87 (1.98%) RESTful
4 87 (1.98%) XML
5 82 (1.86%) JSON
6 80 (1.82%) Middleware
7 79 (1.80%) SOAP
8 70 (1.59%) HTML
9 65 (1.48%) Spring
10 62 (1.41%) Web Services
11 59 (1.34%) CSS
11 59 (1.34%) Pandas
12 55 (1.25%) PySpark
13 54 (1.23%) Spring Boot
14 50 (1.14%) React
15 43 (0.98%) AngularJS
15 43 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
16 39 (0.89%) Node.js
17 37 (0.84%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 375 (8.52%) Analytical Mindset
2 232 (5.27%) Product Ownership
3 201 (4.57%) Onboarding
4 163 (3.70%) Data Structures
5 153 (3.48%) Self-Motivation
6 133 (3.02%) Data Centre
7 129 (2.93%) Management Information System
8 119 (2.70%) Cloud Native
9 93 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
9 93 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
10 80 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 73 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
12 69 (1.57%) Algorithms
13 61 (1.39%) Security Posture
14 51 (1.16%) Operational Technology
15 50 (1.14%) Virtual Team
16 47 (1.07%) CMDB
17 42 (0.95%) Derivative
18 38 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
18 38 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 349 (7.93%) Windows
2 172 (3.91%) Linux
3 81 (1.84%) Unix
3 81 (1.84%) Windows Server
4 46 (1.05%) Windows 10
5 43 (0.98%) Android
6 37 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 35 (0.80%) Mac OS
8 18 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (0.30%) Solaris
10 12 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.25%) AIX
12 6 (0.14%) VMS
13 5 (0.11%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.11%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.11%) zOS
14 4 (0.091%) SUSE
14 4 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (0.091%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.068%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,245 (51.02%) Problem-Solving
2 1,102 (25.05%) Agile
3 921 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 861 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 725 (16.48%) Decision-Making
6 653 (14.84%) Analytics
7 618 (14.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 561 (12.75%) AI
9 523 (11.89%) Validation
10 521 (11.84%) Business Intelligence
11 520 (11.82%) Data Modelling
12 485 (11.02%) CI/CD
13 473 (10.75%) Migration
14 460 (10.45%) DevOps
15 372 (8.45%) Data Analysis
16 341 (7.75%) ITIL
17 336 (7.64%) Roadmaps
18 328 (7.45%) Project Management
19 322 (7.32%) Workshop Facilitation
20 318 (7.23%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 989 (22.48%) SQL
2 772 (17.55%) Python
3 249 (5.66%) Java
4 192 (4.36%) PowerShell
5 142 (3.23%) C#
6 135 (3.07%) JavaScript
7 75 (1.70%) PL/SQL
8 69 (1.57%) Bash
9 65 (1.48%) TypeScript
10 63 (1.43%) C++
11 57 (1.30%) R
12 55 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 40 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 29 (0.66%) Scala
15 23 (0.52%) C
16 20 (0.45%) Apex Code
16 20 (0.45%) VBA
17 18 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
17 18 (0.41%) Shell Script
18 16 (0.36%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 833 (18.93%) Security Cleared
2 547 (12.43%) SC Cleared
3 544 (12.36%) Degree
4 137 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 132 (3.00%) DV Cleared
6 130 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
7 108 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
8 103 (2.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 78 (1.77%) CISSP
10 69 (1.57%) CCNA
11 66 (1.50%) PMI Certification
11 66 (1.50%) PMP
12 62 (1.41%) Master's Degree
13 61 (1.39%) A+ Certification
14 57 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
15 56 (1.27%) MCSE
16 41 (0.93%) ACCA
17 40 (0.91%) CIMA
17 40 (0.91%) CISM
18 39 (0.89%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 485 (11.02%) Data Quality
2 300 (6.82%) QA
3 179 (4.07%) PMO
4 166 (3.77%) GDPR
5 104 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 98 (2.23%) SLA
7 85 (1.93%) NIST
8 73 (1.66%) Accessibility
9 45 (1.02%) GRC
10 44 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
11 36 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 28 (0.64%) PCI DSS
13 26 (0.59%) COBIT
14 23 (0.52%) GxP
15 21 (0.48%) ISO 20022
16 18 (0.41%) IFRS
17 17 (0.39%) NCSC
18 14 (0.32%) 21 CFR Part 11
18 14 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
19 13 (0.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 192 (4.36%) Active Directory
2 172 (3.91%) Docker
3 58 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 16 (0.36%) vSphere
6 14 (0.32%) Firmware
6 14 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 13 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
9 11 (0.25%) IAG
10 7 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
10 7 (0.16%) Postfix
10 7 (0.16%) vCloud
11 4 (0.091%) NFS
12 2 (0.045%) Apache ZooKeeper
12 2 (0.045%) EMC RecoverPoint
12 2 (0.045%) Squid
12 2 (0.045%) SRDF
13 1 (0.023%) UAG
Systems Management
1 176 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 141 (3.20%) Terraform
3 94 (2.14%) Ansible
4 89 (2.02%) Grafana
5 60 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 54 (1.23%) SCCM
7 48 (1.09%) Prometheus
8 30 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
9 27 (0.61%) Control-M
10 24 (0.55%) Nessus
11 18 (0.41%) IBM Guardium
11 18 (0.41%) Kibana
12 16 (0.36%) vCenter Server
13 15 (0.34%) SCOM
14 14 (0.32%) FortiGate
15 13 (0.30%) HP ALM
16 10 (0.23%) NetBackup
17 7 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 7 (0.16%) vMotion
18 6 (0.14%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 726 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 347 (7.89%) Oracle
3 282 (6.41%) SAP
4 244 (5.55%) ServiceNow
5 147 (3.34%) Databricks
6 118 (2.68%) Google
7 113 (2.57%) Salesforce
8 104 (2.36%) VMware
9 80 (1.82%) Cisco
10 79 (1.80%) Workday
11 74 (1.68%) Splunk
12 53 (1.20%) Dell
13 50 (1.14%) IBM
14 41 (0.93%) Dynatrace
15 34 (0.77%) Tenable
16 33 (0.75%) CyberArk
17 32 (0.73%) Informatica
18 30 (0.68%) Apple
18 30 (0.68%) MuleSoft
19 29 (0.66%) Fortinet