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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,408 3,439 4,138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 11.33% 7.91% 7.45%
As % of the General category 17.83% 13.90% 12.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,156 2,188 2,728
10th Percentile £296 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £408 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £739 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 217 130
10th Percentile £15.12 £11.75 £20.16
25th Percentile £20.71 £13.25 £21.77
Median hourly rate £34.11 £19.00 £43.43
Median % change year-on-year +79.53% -56.25% +33.63%
75th Percentile £56.00 £30.00 £58.32
90th Percentile £63.68 £46.89 £69.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.50 £16.89 £35.00
% change year-on-year +86.47% -51.74% +32.08%

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 19,118 24,739 32,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.54% 56.92% 58.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,002 15,479 22,432
10th Percentile £281 £275 £313
25th Percentile £401 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +0.09%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £771 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -4.08% -2.00% +3.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 930 2,004 1,013
10th Percentile £13.46 £12.78 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.51 £15.62 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.70 £31.13 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% +3.75% +25.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £67.81 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.34 £30.00 £25.60
% change year-on-year -18.87% +17.19% +28.00%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 2,836 £506 -3.62% 8,013
UK excluding London +6 1,543 £475 -5.00% 4,202
London +7 1,501 £550 - 4,365
Work from Home +7 1,056 £527 +5.35% 4,185
North of England +10 395 £468 -6.40% 1,090
South East +6 311 £500 - 1,130
Midlands +3 258 £425 -19.05% 683
Scotland +4 248 £471 +4.67% 289
North West +11 247 £475 -3.65% 625
West Midlands +1 183 £450 -14.29% 417
South West +5 182 £550 +4.76% 467
Yorkshire +3 138 £450 -10.00% 390
East of England +15 112 £500 +3.90% 427
East Midlands +9 74 £375 -16.67% 251
Northern Ireland +2 40 £523 +54.81% 84
Wales -14 16 £413 -21.43% 116
North East -10 11 £425 -26.09% 80

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
1 144 (4.23%) Confluence
2 68 (2.00%) SharePoint
3 67 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 26 (0.76%) Apache
5 24 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
6 18 (0.53%) IBM Domino
7 17 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
8 14 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 13 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
10 11 (0.32%) JBoss
10 11 (0.32%) SAS
11 9 (0.26%) CMS
11 9 (0.26%) WebSphere Application Server
12 8 (0.23%) GemFire
12 8 (0.23%) Oracle Coherence
12 8 (0.23%) Oracle Self-Service HR
12 8 (0.23%) Tomcat
13 7 (0.21%) Jupyter
14 6 (0.18%) WebLogic
15 5 (0.15%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 264 (7.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 164 (4.81%) Microsoft Office
3 130 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.79%) MS Visio
5 37 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
6 28 (0.82%) Trello
7 15 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 12 (0.35%) Maya
9 10 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
10 9 (0.26%) Chatbot
11 7 (0.21%) Adobe Captivate
11 7 (0.21%) AutoCAD
12 6 (0.18%) NUKE
13 3 (0.088%) Revit
14 2 (0.059%) Adobe XD
14 2 (0.059%) InVision
14 2 (0.059%) Notion
14 2 (0.059%) Simulink
14 2 (0.059%) Sketch
14 2 (0.059%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 109 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 28 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
3 21 (0.62%) Oracle EBS R12
3 21 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
4 18 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
5 16 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
6 15 (0.44%) Oracle BPM
7 14 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
8 13 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
9 12 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
9 12 (0.35%) SAP MDG
10 11 (0.32%) SAP FI
10 11 (0.32%) SAP HR
10 11 (0.32%) SAP PP
10 11 (0.32%) SAP VC
11 10 (0.29%) Maximo
11 10 (0.29%) SAP CO
11 10 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
11 10 (0.29%) SAP Payroll
12 9 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 484 (14.20%) Azure
2 440 (12.91%) AWS
3 289 (8.48%) Power Platform
4 145 (4.25%) GCP
5 104 (3.05%) Microsoft 365
6 92 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
7 74 (2.17%) SaaS
8 69 (2.02%) Amazon S3
9 64 (1.88%) GitHub
10 63 (1.85%) Serverless
11 56 (1.64%) Cloud Computing
12 54 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
13 53 (1.56%) Entra ID
14 47 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
15 41 (1.20%) PowerApps
16 38 (1.12%) OCI
17 37 (1.09%) Snowflake
18 32 (0.94%) Power Automate
19 31 (0.91%) dbt
20 29 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 111 (3.26%) Firewall
2 90 (2.64%) Network Security
3 79 (2.32%) VPN
4 54 (1.58%) DNS
5 46 (1.35%) BGP
5 46 (1.35%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.09%) LAN
6 37 (1.09%) OSPF
7 35 (1.03%) WAN
8 29 (0.85%) SSL
9 28 (0.82%) DHCP
9 28 (0.82%) Skype
10 27 (0.79%) Wireless
11 26 (0.76%) HTTP
12 25 (0.73%) EIGRP
13 22 (0.65%) VLAN
14 21 (0.62%) WebEx
15 20 (0.59%) Wireshark
16 19 (0.56%) Internet
17 18 (0.53%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (7.60%) Power BI
2 137 (4.02%) Tableau
3 130 (3.81%) Data Warehouse
4 109 (3.20%) Relational Database
5 87 (2.55%) SQL Server
6 68 (2.00%) MongoDB
6 68 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
7 61 (1.79%) DB2
8 60 (1.76%) Big Data
9 54 (1.58%) Hadoop
10 46 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
11 43 (1.26%) Metadata
12 40 (1.17%) NoSQL
13 37 (1.09%) Oracle Database
14 36 (1.06%) Data Lake
15 30 (0.88%) BigQuery
16 29 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
17 28 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
18 25 (0.73%) MySQL
19 24 (0.70%) Looker
Development Applications
1 308 (9.04%) JIRA
2 160 (4.69%) Git
3 153 (4.49%) Jenkins
4 87 (2.55%) JUnit
5 62 (1.82%) Selenium
6 53 (1.56%) GitLab
7 30 (0.88%) Maven
7 30 (0.88%) SonarQube
8 29 (0.85%) Cucumber
9 27 (0.79%) REST Assured
10 24 (0.70%) Bitbucket
11 19 (0.56%) Postman
12 18 (0.53%) JMeter
13 15 (0.44%) Bitbucket Server
13 15 (0.44%) IntelliJ
14 14 (0.41%) Cypress.io
14 14 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
14 14 (0.41%) TeamCity
15 13 (0.38%) ERwin
15 13 (0.38%) LoadRunner
General
1 2,029 (59.54%) Social Skills
2 1,082 (31.75%) Finance
3 433 (12.71%) Banking
4 262 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 161 (4.72%) Investment Banking
6 129 (3.79%) Front Office
6 129 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
7 116 (3.40%) Marketing
8 112 (3.29%) Retail
9 108 (3.17%) Legal
10 105 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
11 94 (2.76%) Manufacturing
12 93 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
12 93 (2.73%) Telecoms
13 87 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
14 71 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 66 (1.94%) Financial Institution
16 45 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
17 44 (1.29%) Automotive
18 38 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 799 (23.44%) Analyst
2 424 (12.44%) Developer
3 341 (10.01%) Business Analyst
4 304 (8.92%) Senior
5 253 (7.42%) Architect
6 210 (6.16%) Lead
7 200 (5.87%) Consultant
8 162 (4.75%) Data Analyst
9 131 (3.84%) Java Developer
10 119 (3.49%) Project Manager
11 96 (2.82%) Data Engineer
12 75 (2.20%) Senior Developer
13 68 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
14 66 (1.94%) Solutions Architect
15 65 (1.91%) SAP Consultant
16 57 (1.67%) Network Engineer
17 55 (1.61%) Support Engineer
18 51 (1.50%) Tester
19 46 (1.35%) Product Manager
20 44 (1.29%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (3.55%) Kafka
2 120 (3.52%) .NET
3 114 (3.35%) REST
4 94 (2.76%) HTML
5 82 (2.41%) Spring
6 78 (2.29%) CSS
7 72 (2.11%) AngularJS
8 69 (2.02%) React
8 69 (2.02%) Web Services
9 51 (1.50%) RESTful
10 43 (1.26%) JMS
11 42 (1.23%) LDAP
11 42 (1.23%) SOAP
12 40 (1.17%) ASP.NET
13 38 (1.12%) TensorFlow
14 36 (1.06%) Middleware
14 36 (1.06%) Spring Boot
15 35 (1.03%) PySpark
16 34 (1.00%) OAuth
16 34 (1.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 173 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 168 (4.93%) Analytical Mindset
3 120 (3.52%) Product Ownership
4 114 (3.35%) Data Structures
5 92 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 90 (2.64%) Algorithms
7 82 (2.41%) Onboarding
8 75 (2.20%) Data Centre
9 69 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
10 68 (2.00%) Equities
11 63 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 54 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
13 46 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
14 43 (1.26%) Virtual Team
15 41 (1.20%) Derivative
16 37 (1.09%) Market Risk
17 35 (1.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
18 32 (0.94%) Distributed Systems
19 30 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
20 29 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 240 (7.04%) Windows
2 228 (6.69%) Linux
3 87 (2.55%) Unix
4 48 (1.41%) Windows 10
5 44 (1.29%) Apple iOS
6 42 (1.23%) Windows Server
7 31 (0.91%) Android
8 27 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 17 (0.50%) Solaris
10 14 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (0.38%) Mac OS
12 8 (0.23%) HPUX
12 8 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.23%) zOS
13 6 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
14 5 (0.15%) AIX
14 5 (0.15%) CatOS
14 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2008
14 5 (0.15%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,979 (58.07%) Problem-Solving
2 856 (25.12%) Agile
3 487 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 426 (12.50%) Project Management
5 394 (11.56%) Decision-Making
6 390 (11.44%) DevOps
7 384 (11.27%) Analytics
8 364 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
9 332 (9.74%) CI/CD
10 330 (9.68%) Data Analysis
11 329 (9.65%) Migration
12 319 (9.36%) Business Intelligence
13 313 (9.18%) Computer Science
14 267 (7.83%) ITIL
15 259 (7.60%) Risk Management
16 245 (7.19%) Change Management
17 242 (7.10%) Validation
18 236 (6.92%) Data Modelling
19 218 (6.40%) Visualisation
20 214 (6.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 697 (20.45%) SQL
2 590 (17.31%) Python
3 355 (10.42%) Java
4 155 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 122 (3.58%) C#
6 105 (3.08%) PowerShell
7 73 (2.14%) TypeScript
8 71 (2.08%) Shell Script
9 70 (2.05%) C++
10 62 (1.82%) Bash
11 59 (1.73%) PL/SQL
12 57 (1.67%) R
13 36 (1.06%) Scala
14 27 (0.79%) VBA
15 21 (0.62%) C
16 15 (0.44%) ABAP
16 15 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 12 (0.35%) Go
18 9 (0.26%) Apex Code
18 9 (0.26%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 607 (17.81%) Degree
2 467 (13.70%) Security Cleared
3 373 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 181 (5.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 107 (3.14%) Master's Degree
6 90 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
7 68 (2.00%) CISSP
8 65 (1.91%) PMI Certification
9 64 (1.88%) CCNP
10 60 (1.76%) PMP
11 58 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
12 52 (1.53%) AWS Certification
13 50 (1.47%) DV Cleared
14 42 (1.23%) CCNA
15 39 (1.14%) CISM
16 38 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
17 35 (1.03%) Azure Certification
18 34 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 33 (0.97%) ISTQB
20 31 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 255 (7.48%) QA
2 198 (5.81%) Data Quality
3 97 (2.85%) GDPR
4 60 (1.76%) SLA
5 57 (1.67%) PMO
6 50 (1.47%) NIST
7 49 (1.44%) Accessibility
8 43 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 37 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 26 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
11 25 (0.73%) PCI DSS
12 23 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
13 18 (0.53%) HIPAA
14 16 (0.47%) GRC
14 16 (0.47%) MiFID
15 14 (0.41%) SEPA
16 12 (0.35%) IFRS
17 11 (0.32%) NCSC
18 10 (0.29%) GxP
19 9 (0.26%) Basel III
System Software
1 114 (3.35%) Docker
2 111 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 42 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
4 19 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (0.35%) VMware NSX
6 9 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
7 8 (0.23%) Firmware
7 8 (0.23%) GridGain
7 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
8 7 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.21%) RACF
9 5 (0.15%) Postfix
10 3 (0.088%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.088%) vSphere
11 2 (0.059%) IAG
11 2 (0.059%) NFS
11 2 (0.059%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 2 (0.059%) zsh
Systems Management
1 136 (3.99%) Kubernetes
2 104 (3.05%) Ansible
3 100 (2.93%) Terraform
4 41 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
5 32 (0.94%) Grafana
5 32 (0.94%) SCCM
6 29 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
7 22 (0.65%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.47%) Puppet
9 12 (0.35%) Podman
10 11 (0.32%) vCenter Server
11 9 (0.26%) Data Guard
11 9 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
12 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
12 8 (0.23%) NetBackup
12 8 (0.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 8 (0.23%) WSUS
13 7 (0.21%) FortiGate
13 7 (0.21%) Istio
Vendors
1 538 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 309 (9.07%) Oracle
3 251 (7.37%) SAP
4 176 (5.16%) ServiceNow
5 114 (3.35%) Cisco
6 93 (2.73%) Google
6 93 (2.73%) Salesforce
7 62 (1.82%) Databricks
8 61 (1.79%) IBM
9 51 (1.50%) VMware
10 49 (1.44%) Sybase
11 45 (1.32%) Splunk
12 41 (1.20%) Adobe
12 41 (1.20%) Atlassian
13 38 (1.12%) Workday
14 29 (0.85%) Apple
15 28 (0.82%) Fortinet
16 26 (0.76%) MuleSoft
17 25 (0.73%) Citrix
17 25 (0.73%) Juniper