Analytics Contracts

Analytics
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 32 38 35
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytics 1,936 2,351 4,942
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 5.33% 5.03% 6.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.20% 5.68% 6.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,263 1,624 3,414
10th Percentile £356 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £548 £525
% change year-on-year -8.68% +4.29% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 85 46
10th Percentile £21.61 £17.98 £19.39
25th Percentile £27.00 £22.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.75 £35.63 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% -12.02% +48.00%
75th Percentile £60.23 £67.50 £60.56
90th Percentile £64.73 £76.80 £80.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £45.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +28.57% +40.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,229 41,401 72,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.00% 88.57% 90.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,779 27,961 50,649
10th Percentile £310 £312 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,105 1,582 1,722
10th Percentile £15.01 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.00 £18.93 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.03 £43.95 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.30% +25.57% +64.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £71.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £44.50 £28.91
% change year-on-year -21.35% +53.93% +60.61%

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 3 November 2024.

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 3 November 2024.

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 3 November 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 1,657 £550 -2.65% 824
London +7 1,101 £600 - 312
Work from Home +6 682 £550 - 1,231
UK excluding London -2 642 £500 -8.68% 603
North of England +4 149 £525 +1.55% 192
South East -9 148 £510 -7.27% 152
Midlands +11 113 £490 -10.91% 97
Scotland +19 106 £450 -8.16% 29
North West +16 94 £513 -6.82% 118
West Midlands +9 90 £500 -9.91% 71
South West -1 56 £538 -10.42% 55
Yorkshire -3 51 £550 +8.16% 45
East of England +17 49 £525 -4.55% 51
East Midlands -5 23 £455 -1.62% 26
Wales -4 18 £550 +4.76% 6
Northern Ireland +9 15 £525 - 33
North East -6 4 £648 +61.88% 30

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 95 (4.91%) Apache Spark
2 55 (2.84%) Confluence
3 52 (2.69%) Apache
3 52 (2.69%) SharePoint
4 48 (2.48%) Apache Airflow
5 41 (2.12%) SAS
6 40 (2.07%) CMS
7 16 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
8 12 (0.62%) WordPress
9 8 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 7 (0.36%) Drupal
10 7 (0.36%) Headless CMS
10 7 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.31%) WebSphere
12 5 (0.26%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.15%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.15%) Mule
13 3 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 3 (0.15%) WebLogic
14 2 (0.10%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 93 (4.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.72%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.46%) Sketch
6 8 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 8 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.41%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.31%) Trello
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Captivate
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.21%) InVision
9 3 (0.15%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.10%) UserZoom
11 1 (0.052%) Stata
11 1 (0.052%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 40 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 16 (0.83%) SAP MDG
4 14 (0.72%) Aladdin
5 12 (0.62%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 8 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 8 (0.41%) SAP ERP
6 8 (0.41%) Workfront
7 7 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 6 (0.31%) Adobe Campaign
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
8 6 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
9 5 (0.26%) Cognos Business Intelligence
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle Cash Management
9 5 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
9 5 (0.26%) SAP BPC
9 5 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 4 (0.21%) Endur
10 4 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
10 4 (0.21%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 525 (27.12%) Azure
2 346 (17.87%) Power Platform
3 316 (16.32%) AWS
4 162 (8.37%) GCP
5 117 (6.04%) Azure DevOps
6 99 (5.11%) dbt
7 91 (4.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 91 (4.70%) Snowflake
8 88 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
9 78 (4.03%) Google Analytics
10 72 (3.72%) Amazon S3
11 67 (3.46%) Serverless
12 57 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
13 56 (2.89%) GitHub
14 43 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
15 42 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
16 40 (2.07%) Entra ID
17 39 (2.01%) SaaS
18 36 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
18 36 (1.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.05%) Firewall
2 39 (2.01%) Network Security
3 21 (1.08%) WAN
4 18 (0.93%) DNS
5 14 (0.72%) VPN
6 13 (0.67%) DHCP
7 12 (0.62%) HTTP
8 11 (0.57%) Intrusion Detection
8 11 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.46%) SSL
10 8 (0.41%) CTI
10 8 (0.41%) TCP/IP
10 8 (0.41%) VoIP
11 7 (0.36%) DAB
12 6 (0.31%) LAN
13 5 (0.26%) Intranet
13 5 (0.26%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.21%) BGP
15 3 (0.15%) Internet
15 3 (0.15%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 328 (16.94%) Power BI
2 205 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
3 184 (9.50%) Tableau
4 164 (8.47%) Data Lake
5 163 (8.42%) Big Data
6 82 (4.24%) SQL Server
7 67 (3.46%) Relational Database
8 64 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
9 63 (3.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 62 (3.20%) BigQuery
11 52 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
12 50 (2.58%) Metadata
13 45 (2.32%) Hadoop
13 45 (2.32%) NoSQL
14 43 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
15 40 (2.07%) MySQL
16 38 (1.96%) Looker
17 37 (1.91%) Dremio
18 31 (1.60%) Data Mining
19 29 (1.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 113 (5.84%) JIRA
2 83 (4.29%) Git
3 46 (2.38%) Jenkins
4 35 (1.81%) GitLab
5 20 (1.03%) Bitbucket
6 10 (0.52%) Cypress.io
6 10 (0.52%) MLflow
7 9 (0.46%) Selenium
8 7 (0.36%) ERwin
9 6 (0.31%) JMeter
9 6 (0.31%) JUnit
9 6 (0.31%) Postman
10 5 (0.26%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.21%) Appium
11 4 (0.21%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (0.15%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.15%) Balsamiq
12 3 (0.15%) RStudio
12 3 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 535 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 520 (26.86%) Finance
3 394 (20.35%) Analytical Skills
4 190 (9.81%) Public Sector
5 173 (8.94%) Banking
6 149 (7.70%) Marketing
7 101 (5.22%) Front Office
8 61 (3.15%) Retail
9 59 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (2.32%) Investment Banking
11 41 (2.12%) Pharmaceutical
12 40 (2.07%) Influencing Skills
13 39 (2.01%) Telecoms
14 37 (1.91%) Legal
14 37 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
15 32 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 28 (1.45%) Publishing
17 21 (1.08%) Retail Banking
18 20 (1.03%) Advertising
19 17 (0.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 344 (17.77%) Analyst
2 246 (12.71%) Developer
3 231 (11.93%) Senior
4 212 (10.95%) Data Engineer
5 201 (10.38%) Architect
6 190 (9.81%) Lead
7 132 (6.82%) Data Analyst
8 129 (6.66%) Consultant
9 86 (4.44%) Business Analyst
10 61 (3.15%) Data Architect
11 59 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
12 58 (3.00%) Senior Analyst
13 52 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
14 48 (2.48%) Senior Developer
15 46 (2.38%) Data Scientist
16 39 (2.01%) Project Manager
16 39 (2.01%) Python Engineer
17 36 (1.86%) Analytics Developer
17 36 (1.86%) Product Owner
18 31 (1.60%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (5.89%) PySpark
2 73 (3.77%) Kafka
3 72 (3.72%) HTML
4 57 (2.94%) CSS
5 45 (2.32%) React
6 37 (1.91%) .NET
7 35 (1.81%) Pandas
7 35 (1.81%) REST
8 31 (1.60%) ARM Templates
9 27 (1.39%) AngularJS
9 27 (1.39%) RESTful
10 26 (1.34%) Web Services
11 25 (1.29%) Middleware
11 25 (1.29%) NumPy
12 23 (1.19%) Oracle Fusion
13 20 (1.03%) SciPy
14 19 (0.98%) JSON
14 19 (0.98%) YAML
15 18 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
15 18 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 129 (6.66%) Product Ownership
2 93 (4.80%) Management Information System
3 64 (3.31%) Fixed Income
4 57 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 53 (2.74%) Hedge funds
6 51 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 51 (2.63%) Derivative
7 50 (2.58%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 47 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
8 47 (2.43%) Social Media
9 39 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
10 38 (1.96%) Equities
11 29 (1.50%) Onboarding
12 26 (1.34%) Cloud Native
13 25 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
14 23 (1.19%) Mobile App
15 22 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
15 22 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
16 20 (1.03%) CMDB
17 19 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 100 (5.17%) Linux
2 74 (3.82%) Windows
3 42 (2.17%) Unix
4 14 (0.72%) Apple iOS
5 12 (0.62%) Windows Server
6 11 (0.57%) Android
6 11 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
7 9 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.21%) AIX
8 4 (0.21%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.15%) Solaris
9 3 (0.15%) VMS
10 2 (0.10%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.052%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (28.67%) Agile
2 437 (22.57%) Data Analytics
3 420 (21.69%) Business Intelligence
4 360 (18.60%) Data Modelling
5 335 (17.30%) Problem-Solving
6 273 (14.10%) ETL
7 260 (13.43%) DevOps
8 251 (12.96%) Visualisation
9 218 (11.26%) Data Science
10 209 (10.80%) CI/CD
11 206 (10.64%) Data Pipeline
12 203 (10.49%) Artificial Intelligence
12 203 (10.49%) Data Governance
12 203 (10.49%) Machine Learning
13 198 (10.23%) Data Engineering
14 192 (9.92%) Data Management
15 189 (9.76%) Decision-Making
16 185 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
17 184 (9.50%) Data Analysis
18 171 (8.83%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 644 (33.26%) SQL
2 535 (27.63%) Python
3 159 (8.21%) Java
4 110 (5.68%) JavaScript
5 62 (3.20%) R
6 54 (2.79%) C#
7 43 (2.22%) TypeScript
8 42 (2.17%) PowerShell
9 38 (1.96%) PL/SQL
10 34 (1.76%) Bash
10 34 (1.76%) Scala
11 31 (1.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 27 (1.39%) Bicep
13 22 (1.14%) T-SQL
14 20 (1.03%) C++
15 18 (0.93%) Kusto Query Language
16 15 (0.77%) Go
17 13 (0.67%) VB
18 11 (0.57%) VBA
19 10 (0.52%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 269 (13.89%) Degree
2 225 (11.62%) Security Cleared
3 166 (8.57%) SC Cleared
4 70 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 56 (2.89%) Master's Degree
7 43 (2.22%) Azure Certification
8 20 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (0.67%) CISSP
11 12 (0.62%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 10 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 10 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
13 9 (0.46%) PMP
14 8 (0.41%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.36%) CISM
15 7 (0.36%) PhD
16 5 (0.26%) CCA
16 5 (0.26%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (11.36%) Data Quality
2 70 (3.62%) QA
3 55 (2.84%) Accessibility
4 48 (2.48%) GDPR
5 25 (1.29%) Actionable Recommendations
6 23 (1.19%) PMO
6 23 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 19 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 18 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 13 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 11 (0.57%) GxP
11 10 (0.52%) HIPAA
11 10 (0.52%) NIST
12 9 (0.46%) GRC
13 7 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
15 4 (0.21%) IFRS
16 3 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.15%) IFRS 9
16 3 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 60 (3.10%) Docker
2 38 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 29 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 13 (0.67%) HDFS
5 12 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 11 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
7 7 (0.36%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.15%) ProxySG
8 3 (0.15%) RACF
9 2 (0.10%) Firmware
9 2 (0.10%) vSphere
10 1 (0.052%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 95 (4.91%) Terraform
2 87 (4.49%) Kubernetes
3 41 (2.12%) Grafana
4 22 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (1.08%) Ansible
6 19 (0.98%) SCCM
7 14 (0.72%) Kibana
8 13 (0.67%) logstash
9 12 (0.62%) SCOM
10 10 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 10 (0.52%) WSUS
11 8 (0.41%) Prometheus
12 7 (0.36%) Puppet
13 6 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.26%) McAfee ePO
15 4 (0.21%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.21%) Rancher
15 4 (0.21%) SysTrack
16 3 (0.15%) Oozie
17 2 (0.10%) Matomo
Vendors
1 286 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 186 (9.61%) Databricks
3 154 (7.95%) Google
4 130 (6.71%) Oracle
5 108 (5.58%) SAP
6 73 (3.77%) Adobe
7 68 (3.51%) ServiceNow
8 38 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 30 (1.55%) Alteryx
10 27 (1.39%) Bloomberg
10 27 (1.39%) Talend
11 23 (1.19%) IBM
12 20 (1.03%) Denodo
12 20 (1.03%) Splunk
13 18 (0.93%) Cisco
13 18 (0.93%) Cloudera
14 16 (0.83%) Cognos
15 14 (0.72%) BISAM
15 14 (0.72%) Concur
15 14 (0.72%) Red Hat