Complexity Analysis Contracts

Complexity Analysis (Analysis of Algorithms)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Complexity Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Complexity Analysis over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 676 839
Rank change year-on-year +100 +163 -178
Contract jobs citing Complexity Analysis 6 36 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.060% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.067% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 30 10
10th Percentile - - £551
25th Percentile £822 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £844 £750 £686
Median % change year-on-year +12.47% +9.29% +37.25%
75th Percentile £865 - £844
90th Percentile - - £891
UK excluding London median daily rate - £750 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Complexity Analysis 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 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

Complexity Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Complexity Analysis in the UK

Complexity Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Complexity Analysis in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Complexity Analysis in the UK

Complexity Analysis
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Complexity Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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 +121 5 £844 +12.47% 11
UK excluding London +30 2 - - 7
North of England - 2 - - 1
North West - 2 - - 1
Work from Home +120 1 - - 3
London +97 1 £844 +12.47% 4

Complexity Analysis
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (16.67%) KDB
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) CloudOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full Stack .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (16.67%) KDB Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) Jest
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (66.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Operations
2 4 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 4 (66.67%) Cyber Resilience
2 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (66.67%) Information Governance
2 4 (66.67%) Information Security
2 4 (66.67%) Open Source
2 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Use Case
2 4 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C
1 3 (50.00%) C++
1 3 (50.00%) Go
1 3 (50.00%) Java
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes