Analytics Contracts

Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytics over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 38 34 33
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +18
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,238 4,638 5,553
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.99% 6.04% 6.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.63% 6.70% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,536 3,153 3,810
10th Percentile £381 £400 £363
25th Percentile £463 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.22% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £650
90th Percentile £788 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £488
% change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 39 47
10th Percentile £17.73 £19.08 £15.00
25th Percentile £22.94 £25.88 £17.32
Median hourly rate £37.19 £35.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.26% +29.63% -18.71%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.88 £37.25
90th Percentile £74.78 £82.50 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £53.78 £30.33 £21.50
% change year-on-year +77.34% +41.05% -39.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,726 69,214 81,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.51% 90.15% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,590 47,923 56,854
10th Percentile £310 £338 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +5.26% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £623
90th Percentile £745 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,525 1,676 1,999
10th Percentile £14.45 £13.41 £11.99
25th Percentile £18.95 £17.56 £13.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +62.79% -17.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £46.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.73 £62.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.90 £32.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year +35.08% +80.56% -20.00%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytics.

Daily rate trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytics.

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
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 Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 -2 1,917 £575 - 2,357
London -8 1,188 £590 -1.67% 1,310
Work from Home +2 922 £550 - 1,183
UK excluding London -4 757 £550 +4.76% 1,178
South East +6 236 £575 +12.75% 322
North of England +7 154 £500 -4.76% 355
Midlands -5 121 £575 +9.52% 213
Scotland +4 98 £495 +4.21% 72
West Midlands -7 89 £575 +8.49% 143
North West +14 82 £510 -2.86% 213
Yorkshire +10 71 £500 -4.76% 108
South West -8 69 £605 +0.83% 105
East of England -11 66 £536 -2.50% 75
East Midlands +10 32 £500 -4.76% 70
Wales +6 22 £525 -9.09% 45
North East +10 4 £477 -6.84% 39
Northern Ireland -3 1 - - 7

Analytics
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 73 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 71 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
3 69 (3.08%) Confluence
4 58 (2.59%) Apache
5 55 (2.46%) SharePoint
6 49 (2.19%) CMS
7 38 (1.70%) Jupyter
8 32 (1.43%) SAS
9 18 (0.80%) WordPress
10 8 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.27%) MS Exchange
11 6 (0.27%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.22%) Drupal
13 4 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
13 4 (0.18%) JBoss
13 4 (0.18%) Joomla!
13 4 (0.18%) nginx
14 3 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
15 2 (0.089%) Apache Solr
15 2 (0.089%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 133 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 54 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (2.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.63%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (0.36%) Trello
6 8 (0.36%) UXPin
7 4 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 4 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.18%) SPSS
8 3 (0.13%) Camtasia
9 2 (0.089%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.089%) Stata
10 1 (0.045%) Adobe Captivate
10 1 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.045%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.045%) InVision
10 1 (0.045%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.045%) Sketch
10 1 (0.045%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 47 (2.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.71%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 14 (0.63%) SAP HCM
5 11 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 11 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
6 10 (0.45%) SAP BPC
7 9 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
8 7 (0.31%) Magento
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
8 7 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
9 5 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.22%) Shopify
10 4 (0.18%) Endur
10 4 (0.18%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 4 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 3 (0.13%) Adobe Campaign
11 3 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
11 3 (0.13%) SAP SD
11 3 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 612 (27.35%) Azure
2 415 (18.54%) Power Platform
3 341 (15.24%) AWS
4 177 (7.91%) GCP
5 127 (5.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 111 (4.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 93 (4.16%) Google Analytics
8 82 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
8 82 (3.66%) Serverless
9 79 (3.53%) Azure Monitor
10 59 (2.64%) SaaS
11 57 (2.55%) dbt
12 52 (2.32%) Amazon S3
13 51 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
13 51 (2.28%) Snowflake
14 47 (2.10%) Entra ID
15 45 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
16 38 (1.70%) PowerApps
17 36 (1.61%) Azure Storage
17 36 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 85 (3.80%) Firewall
2 34 (1.52%) DNS
3 24 (1.07%) Network Security
4 15 (0.67%) DHCP
4 15 (0.67%) Internet
5 12 (0.54%) Intranet
5 12 (0.54%) VPN
6 10 (0.45%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.40%) WAN
8 8 (0.36%) Intrusion Detection
8 8 (0.36%) LAN
8 8 (0.36%) SMS
9 6 (0.27%) FTP
10 5 (0.22%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (0.18%) HTTP
11 4 (0.18%) OSPF
12 3 (0.13%) 802.11
12 3 (0.13%) BGP
12 3 (0.13%) Broadband
12 3 (0.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 402 (17.96%) Power BI
2 279 (12.47%) Data Warehouse
3 184 (8.22%) Data Lake
4 151 (6.75%) Big Data
5 148 (6.61%) Tableau
6 143 (6.39%) SQL Server
7 86 (3.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 74 (3.31%) Metadata
9 70 (3.13%) NoSQL
10 66 (2.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 63 (2.82%) Relational Database
12 56 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
13 49 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
14 47 (2.10%) Hadoop
15 46 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
16 42 (1.88%) BigQuery
17 39 (1.74%) Star Schema
18 36 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
19 35 (1.56%) Data Mining
19 35 (1.56%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 132 (5.90%) JIRA
2 86 (3.84%) Git
3 75 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.94%) Visual Studio
5 19 (0.85%) Artifactory
6 16 (0.71%) GitLab
7 15 (0.67%) Subversion
8 14 (0.63%) Axure RP
8 14 (0.63%) ERwin
9 11 (0.49%) Cypress.io
9 11 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 10 (0.45%) MLflow
11 9 (0.40%) Bitbucket
11 9 (0.40%) Visual Studio Team System
12 8 (0.36%) Balsamiq
13 6 (0.27%) JMeter
13 6 (0.27%) TeamCity
14 5 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 5 (0.22%) Team Foundation Server
15 4 (0.18%) Maven
General
1 602 (26.90%) Finance
2 578 (25.83%) Social Skills
3 428 (19.12%) Analytical Skills
4 203 (9.07%) Banking
5 179 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 153 (6.84%) Marketing
7 101 (4.51%) Front Office
8 86 (3.84%) Legal
9 72 (3.22%) Retail
10 70 (3.13%) Investment Banking
11 68 (3.04%) Presentation Skills
12 49 (2.19%) Manufacturing
13 41 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
13 41 (1.83%) Publishing
14 40 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
15 36 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
16 33 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 31 (1.39%) Retail Banking
18 27 (1.21%) Back Office
19 26 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 381 (17.02%) Analyst
2 352 (15.73%) Developer
3 279 (12.47%) Architect
4 255 (11.39%) Data Engineer
5 228 (10.19%) Senior
6 136 (6.08%) Lead
7 134 (5.99%) Data Architect
8 120 (5.36%) Data Analyst
9 112 (5.00%) Consultant
10 107 (4.78%) Business Analyst
11 103 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
12 72 (3.22%) Project Manager
13 69 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
14 66 (2.95%) Software Engineer
15 63 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
16 60 (2.68%) Azure Data Engineer
17 55 (2.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
18 49 (2.19%) Designer
19 46 (2.06%) Senior Analyst
20 44 (1.97%) Business Intelligence Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (3.71%) HTML
2 82 (3.66%) Pandas
3 80 (3.57%) PySpark
4 76 (3.40%) React
5 74 (3.31%) NumPy
6 67 (2.99%) CSS
7 66 (2.95%) REST
8 61 (2.73%) .NET
9 51 (2.28%) Kafka
10 44 (1.97%) JSON
11 41 (1.83%) SciPy
12 39 (1.74%) gRPC
13 33 (1.47%) AngularJS
14 32 (1.43%) Node.js
14 32 (1.43%) Protocol Buffers
15 29 (1.30%) XML
16 28 (1.25%) Middleware
17 25 (1.12%) Redux
17 25 (1.12%) SAP Fiori
17 25 (1.12%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 86 (3.84%) Product Ownership
2 65 (2.90%) Algorithms
3 64 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 53 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
5 52 (2.32%) Data Structures
6 45 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 43 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
7 43 (1.92%) Social Media
8 41 (1.83%) Fixed Income
9 37 (1.65%) Derivative
10 36 (1.61%) Equities
11 35 (1.56%) Public Cloud
12 34 (1.52%) Credit Risk
13 32 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
14 30 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 24 (1.07%) Hedge funds
15 24 (1.07%) Life Science
16 22 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
17 21 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
18 20 (0.89%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 102 (4.56%) Windows
2 82 (3.66%) Linux
3 30 (1.34%) Unix
4 19 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 13 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 8 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.22%) HPUX
8 4 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.13%) Android
9 3 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.089%) AIX
10 2 (0.089%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.045%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.045%) Solaris
11 1 (0.045%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 585 (26.14%) Agile
2 545 (24.35%) Business Intelligence
3 464 (20.73%) Data Analytics
4 409 (18.28%) Data Modelling
5 330 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
6 305 (13.63%) Visualisation
7 287 (12.82%) ETL
8 255 (11.39%) DevOps
9 212 (9.47%) Data Analysis
9 212 (9.47%) Data Science
9 212 (9.47%) Decision-Making
9 212 (9.47%) Roadmaps
10 197 (8.80%) Data Management
11 188 (8.40%) Migration
12 185 (8.27%) Project Management
13 181 (8.09%) Stakeholder Management
14 175 (7.82%) Data Visualisation
15 170 (7.60%) Data Engineering
16 169 (7.55%) Data Governance
17 162 (7.24%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 669 (29.89%) SQL
2 557 (24.89%) Python
3 184 (8.22%) Java
4 149 (6.66%) JavaScript
5 96 (4.29%) PowerShell
6 95 (4.24%) C#
7 89 (3.98%) TypeScript
8 69 (3.08%) R
9 55 (2.46%) Scala
10 52 (2.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 48 (2.14%) C++
12 47 (2.10%) Bash
13 39 (1.74%) T-SQL
14 23 (1.03%) Go
15 22 (0.98%) PL/SQL
15 22 (0.98%) Shell Script
16 21 (0.94%) Ruby
17 19 (0.85%) VB
18 18 (0.80%) PHP
19 15 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 294 (13.14%) Degree
2 239 (10.68%) Security Cleared
3 214 (9.56%) SC Cleared
4 104 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 63 (2.82%) Master's Degree
6 59 (2.64%) Azure Certification
7 44 (1.97%) DV Cleared
8 23 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 23 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 21 (0.94%) CISSP
9 21 (0.94%) Numerate Degree
10 15 (0.67%) AWS Certification
11 13 (0.58%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 11 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
12 11 (0.49%) IBM Certification
13 10 (0.45%) PMI Certification
14 9 (0.40%) PhD
14 9 (0.40%) PMP
15 6 (0.27%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.27%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (8.94%) Data Quality
2 108 (4.83%) QA
3 50 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 37 (1.65%) GDPR
5 29 (1.30%) SLA
6 20 (0.89%) PMO
7 16 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.63%) NIST
9 11 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (0.45%) HL7
10 10 (0.45%) IFRS
10 10 (0.45%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 9 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
12 8 (0.36%) GRC
12 8 (0.36%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.36%) IFRS 9
13 7 (0.31%) GxP
14 6 (0.27%) COREP
System Software
1 77 (3.44%) Docker
2 63 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 36 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 3 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 3 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (0.089%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.089%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.089%) vSphere
8 1 (0.045%) HDFS
8 1 (0.045%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.045%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.045%) XenApp
8 1 (0.045%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 105 (4.69%) Terraform
2 95 (4.24%) Kubernetes
3 53 (2.37%) Ansible
4 35 (1.56%) Grafana
5 21 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 18 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 16 (0.71%) SCCM
8 15 (0.67%) Progress Chef
9 13 (0.58%) ITRS Geneos
9 13 (0.58%) Puppet
9 13 (0.58%) SCOM
9 13 (0.58%) WSUS
10 12 (0.54%) BladeLogic
10 12 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
11 11 (0.49%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.45%) Argo
12 10 (0.45%) Kibana
12 10 (0.45%) Kubeflow
13 5 (0.22%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.18%) Nagios
Vendors
1 370 (16.53%) Microsoft
2 192 (8.58%) Databricks
3 164 (7.33%) Google
4 163 (7.28%) SAP
5 136 (6.08%) Oracle
6 70 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 52 (2.32%) Adobe
8 44 (1.97%) ServiceNow
9 39 (1.74%) Splunk
10 36 (1.61%) IBM
11 32 (1.43%) Cognos
12 30 (1.34%) Informatica
13 25 (1.12%) Workday
14 20 (0.89%) Ariba
15 19 (0.85%) Cisco
15 19 (0.85%) Dynatrace
16 18 (0.80%) MuleSoft
17 14 (0.63%) Alteryx
18 13 (0.58%) Citrix
19 12 (0.54%) Red Hat