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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,462 4,239 5,718
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.03% 7.30% 6.50%
As % of the General category 13.83% 12.48% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,764 3,695
10th Percentile £308 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.69%
75th Percentile £639 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £485 £463
% change year-on-year +3.25% +4.70% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 126 169
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.00 £12.70
25th Percentile £13.25 £22.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £43.86 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.96% +13.92% +67.39%
75th Percentile £28.26 £58.71 £52.56
90th Percentile £49.50 £72.98 £63.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.39 £49.57 £32.40
% change year-on-year -64.91% +52.99% +72.80%

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 25,035 33,973 49,462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.06% 58.48% 56.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,784 23,569 34,307
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £769 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,939 1,040 1,416
10th Percentile £12.77 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.92 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.16 £33.60 £21.92
Median % change year-on-year -10.24% +53.33% -2.60%
75th Percentile £52.78 £61.25 £47.23
90th Percentile £65.35 £72.50 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £29.00 £18.70
% change year-on-year -1.72% +55.08% -4.10%

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 8 May 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 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 18 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 8 May 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 +5 2,922 £538 +2.38% 3,738
UK excluding London +3 1,592 £501 +3.25% 2,473
London +4 1,477 £550 -4.35% 1,383
Work from Home +6 1,147 £500 -3.38% 1,402
South East -3 417 £537 +0.34% 556
North of England +5 327 £500 +5.26% 673
South West +21 260 £525 - 343
Midlands -1 233 £525 +10.53% 486
Scotland 0 214 £470 -1.05% 130
West Midlands +2 173 £538 +13.26% 291
North West +1 166 £488 +11.11% 357
Yorkshire +13 137 £514 -2.10% 244
East of England -4 108 £500 +33.33% 263
East Midlands +7 55 £450 - 196
Wales +13 33 £525 +13.51% 64
North East +22 23 £590 +124.76% 79
Northern Ireland 0 12 £500 +17.65% 33
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 4

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
1 140 (4.04%) Confluence
2 94 (2.72%) SharePoint
3 66 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 54 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 32 (0.92%) Apache
6 19 (0.55%) SAS
7 17 (0.49%) CMS
8 15 (0.43%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.32%) nginx
10 9 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 9 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
11 8 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
11 8 (0.23%) IIS
11 8 (0.23%) JBoss
11 8 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.14%) Appian
13 5 (0.14%) CICS
14 4 (0.12%) IBM Domino
14 4 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 324 (9.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 203 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
3 100 (2.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 67 (1.94%) MS Visio
5 60 (1.73%) Microsoft Project
6 51 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.32%) Sketch
7 11 (0.32%) SPSS
8 8 (0.23%) Acrobat
9 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.14%) InVision
11 4 (0.12%) Revit
12 3 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.087%) MicroStation
12 3 (0.087%) Windchill
13 2 (0.058%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.058%) Mingle
14 1 (0.029%) Trello
14 1 (0.029%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 67 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 31 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
3 28 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
4 25 (0.72%) Endur
5 23 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
6 22 (0.64%) Oracle EBS R12
7 18 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
8 17 (0.49%) Maximo
9 16 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
9 16 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 16 (0.46%) SAP HCM
10 15 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
10 15 (0.43%) SAP CO
10 15 (0.43%) SAP FI
10 15 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
10 15 (0.43%) SAP SD
11 13 (0.38%) Aligne
11 13 (0.38%) Oracle AGIS
11 13 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
11 13 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 503 (14.53%) Azure
2 352 (10.17%) Power Platform
3 292 (8.43%) AWS
4 148 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
5 114 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
6 112 (3.24%) GCP
7 77 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
8 71 (2.05%) PowerApps
9 64 (1.85%) Power Automate
10 60 (1.73%) Azure Data Factory
11 57 (1.65%) Serverless
11 57 (1.65%) Snowflake
12 53 (1.53%) GitHub
13 41 (1.18%) Entra ID
14 40 (1.16%) SaaS
15 36 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
15 36 (1.04%) OCI
16 27 (0.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 27 (0.78%) Azure Functions
17 26 (0.75%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 111 (3.21%) Firewall
2 93 (2.69%) Network Security
3 78 (2.25%) DNS
4 72 (2.08%) VPN
5 58 (1.68%) WAN
6 53 (1.53%) LAN
7 42 (1.21%) DHCP
8 40 (1.16%) Wireless
9 37 (1.07%) TCP/IP
10 34 (0.98%) BGP
11 33 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
12 30 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
13 27 (0.78%) MPLS
13 27 (0.78%) OSPF
14 24 (0.69%) VLAN
15 23 (0.66%) Cisco Nexus
15 23 (0.66%) Internet
15 23 (0.66%) SAN
16 22 (0.64%) HTTP
17 16 (0.46%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (9.68%) Power BI
2 166 (4.79%) Tableau
3 156 (4.51%) SQL Server
4 104 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 102 (2.95%) Big Data
5 102 (2.95%) Relational Database
6 82 (2.37%) Data Lake
7 66 (1.91%) NoSQL
8 50 (1.44%) Hadoop
9 46 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
10 45 (1.30%) Metadata
11 41 (1.18%) MongoDB
12 38 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 36 (1.04%) Data Mining
14 34 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
15 30 (0.87%) RDBMS
16 27 (0.78%) Oracle Database
17 25 (0.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 23 (0.66%) BigQuery
18 23 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 301 (8.69%) JIRA
2 113 (3.26%) Git
3 86 (2.48%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.68%) GitLab
5 56 (1.62%) Selenium
6 41 (1.18%) Cucumber
7 33 (0.95%) TeamCity
8 32 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 25 (0.72%) Cypress.io
10 25 (0.72%) REST Assured
11 24 (0.69%) SonarQube
12 21 (0.61%) webpack
13 20 (0.58%) Maven
14 14 (0.40%) JUnit
14 14 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
14 14 (0.40%) Visual Studio
15 13 (0.38%) Oracle Forms
16 12 (0.35%) Postman
17 11 (0.32%) JMeter
General
1 1,911 (55.20%) Social Skills
2 966 (27.90%) Finance
3 320 (9.24%) Public Sector
4 239 (6.90%) Banking
5 198 (5.72%) Presentation Skills
6 149 (4.30%) Marketing
7 145 (4.19%) Legal
8 140 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
9 122 (3.52%) Retail
10 101 (2.92%) Front Office
10 101 (2.92%) Manufacturing
11 98 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
12 92 (2.66%) Telecoms
13 63 (1.82%) Investment Banking
14 51 (1.47%) Law
15 46 (1.33%) General Ledger
16 44 (1.27%) Military
17 42 (1.21%) Local Government
18 38 (1.10%) Financial Institution
19 37 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 789 (22.79%) Analyst
2 406 (11.73%) Developer
3 267 (7.71%) Architect
4 257 (7.42%) Senior
5 249 (7.19%) Consultant
6 246 (7.11%) Business Analyst
7 222 (6.41%) Lead
8 169 (4.88%) Data Analyst
9 140 (4.04%) Project Manager
10 109 (3.15%) Data Engineer
11 103 (2.98%) Solutions Architect
12 73 (2.11%) Senior Analyst
13 65 (1.88%) Network Engineer
14 64 (1.85%) IT Engineer
15 58 (1.68%) Full Stack Developer
15 58 (1.68%) Service Analyst
16 55 (1.59%) Administrator
16 55 (1.59%) Support Engineer
17 53 (1.53%) Java Developer
18 52 (1.50%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.21%) React
2 98 (2.83%) REST
3 97 (2.80%) HTML
4 93 (2.69%) .NET
4 93 (2.69%) CSS
5 67 (1.94%) AngularJS
6 62 (1.79%) XML
7 58 (1.68%) Kafka
8 50 (1.44%) Web Services
9 43 (1.24%) JSON
9 43 (1.24%) Node.js
10 42 (1.21%) RESTful
11 39 (1.13%) Middleware
12 35 (1.01%) .NET Core
13 34 (0.98%) PySpark
14 29 (0.84%) Spring
15 27 (0.78%) WebSockets
16 25 (0.72%) Java EE
17 24 (0.69%) SOAP
18 22 (0.64%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 269 (7.77%) Management Information System
2 186 (5.37%) Analytical Mindset
3 143 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
4 133 (3.84%) Product Ownership
5 93 (2.69%) Data Structures
6 77 (2.22%) Algorithms
7 57 (1.65%) Data Centre
8 48 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 47 (1.36%) Derivative
10 46 (1.33%) Cyber Defence
11 42 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
12 38 (1.10%) Fixed Income
13 34 (0.98%) Virtual Team
14 32 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
15 31 (0.90%) Credit Risk
15 31 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 31 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
15 31 (0.90%) Renewable Energy
16 30 (0.87%) PKI
16 30 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 314 (9.07%) Windows
2 220 (6.35%) Linux
3 130 (3.76%) Unix
4 95 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.27%) Windows 10
6 39 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 37 (1.07%) Windows 7
8 36 (1.04%) Windows Server 2012
9 33 (0.95%) Apple iOS
10 30 (0.87%) Android
11 20 (0.58%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
12 12 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.20%) AIX
13 7 (0.20%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.20%) zOS
14 4 (0.12%) Solaris
15 3 (0.087%) Ubuntu
16 2 (0.058%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,970 (56.90%) Problem-Solving
2 864 (24.96%) Agile
3 530 (15.31%) Project Management
4 433 (12.51%) Business Intelligence
5 421 (12.16%) Analytics
6 357 (10.31%) Decision-Making
7 340 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 334 (9.65%) Computer Science
9 327 (9.45%) Stakeholder Management
10 319 (9.21%) DevOps
11 280 (8.09%) Data Modelling
12 269 (7.77%) Data Analysis
13 233 (6.73%) Migration
14 224 (6.47%) Visualisation
15 219 (6.33%) Change Management
16 217 (6.27%) Cybersecurity
17 212 (6.12%) Customer Service
17 212 (6.12%) ITIL
18 211 (6.09%) Roadmaps
19 190 (5.49%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 586 (16.93%) SQL
2 428 (12.36%) Python
3 248 (7.16%) Java
4 154 (4.45%) JavaScript
5 132 (3.81%) PowerShell
6 131 (3.78%) C#
7 68 (1.96%) TypeScript
8 61 (1.76%) Scala
9 57 (1.65%) PL/SQL
9 57 (1.65%) R
10 42 (1.21%) Shell Script
11 37 (1.07%) C++
12 36 (1.04%) T-SQL
13 34 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 30 (0.87%) Perl
15 21 (0.61%) Go
16 20 (0.58%) Bash
17 18 (0.52%) C
18 17 (0.49%) VBA
18 17 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 746 (21.55%) Degree
2 587 (16.96%) Security Cleared
3 383 (11.06%) SC Cleared
4 233 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 182 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 128 (3.70%) Master's Degree
7 85 (2.46%) CISSP
8 75 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 74 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
10 57 (1.65%) PMP
11 56 (1.62%) PMI Certification
12 49 (1.42%) CISM
13 46 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
14 45 (1.30%) MCSE
15 44 (1.27%) CCNA
16 39 (1.13%) CCNP
17 36 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
18 34 (0.98%) Azure Certification
19 30 (0.87%) APMP
20 26 (0.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (5.49%) Data Quality
2 189 (5.46%) QA
3 110 (3.18%) SLA
4 91 (2.63%) GDPR
5 87 (2.51%) PMO
6 50 (1.44%) NIST
7 47 (1.36%) Accessibility
8 34 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
9 33 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 22 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
12 14 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 14 (0.40%) NIST 800
13 13 (0.38%) EMIR
14 12 (0.35%) GAAP
15 11 (0.32%) GRC
15 11 (0.32%) ISO 20022
16 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
16 10 (0.29%) HIPAA
16 10 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 146 (4.22%) Active Directory
2 85 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (1.53%) Docker
4 21 (0.61%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.35%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.35%) vSphere
6 11 (0.32%) Firmware
6 11 (0.32%) HDFS
7 10 (0.29%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 10 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
9 6 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.14%) Snort
10 5 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.12%) KVM
11 4 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.087%) NFS
12 3 (0.087%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.087%) OpenIDM
12 3 (0.087%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 91 (2.63%) Ansible
2 81 (2.34%) Kubernetes
3 57 (1.65%) Terraform
4 53 (1.53%) SCCM
5 28 (0.81%) NetBackup
6 27 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 26 (0.75%) Puppet
8 23 (0.66%) Grafana
9 22 (0.64%) Prometheus
10 21 (0.61%) Kibana
11 20 (0.58%) PowerCLI
12 18 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
13 15 (0.43%) logstash
13 15 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
14 14 (0.40%) Podman
15 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
15 10 (0.29%) Nagios
15 10 (0.29%) Progress Chef
16 9 (0.26%) Consul
16 9 (0.26%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 677 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 280 (8.09%) Oracle
3 228 (6.59%) SAP
4 110 (3.18%) VMware
5 92 (2.66%) Cisco
6 82 (2.37%) Google
7 71 (2.05%) ServiceNow
8 63 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 58 (1.68%) Databricks
10 48 (1.39%) Splunk
11 44 (1.27%) Alteryx
12 39 (1.13%) Atlassian
12 39 (1.13%) IBM
13 37 (1.07%) Dell
14 31 (0.90%) HP
15 30 (0.87%) Red Hat
16 29 (0.84%) Adobe
17 26 (0.75%) Citrix
17 26 (0.75%) Juniper
18 25 (0.72%) F5