Trend Analysis Contracts

Trend Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Trend Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Trend Analysis over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 549 606 749
Rank change year-on-year +57 +143 -115
Contract jobs citing Trend Analysis 37 92 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.086% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% 0.18% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 62 77
10th Percentile £300 £203 £193
25th Percentile £400 £353 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +5.88% +34.92%
75th Percentile £604 £544 £538
90th Percentile £651 £700 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £444 £450 £400
% change year-on-year -1.39% +12.50% +128.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 4
10th Percentile - - £21.33
25th Percentile £12.53 - £21.76
Median hourly rate £24.00 £65.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -63.08% +182.61% +53.33%
75th Percentile £24.09 £65.75 £25.74
90th Percentile £36.33 - £28.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.27 £65.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -71.90% +182.61% +53.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Trend 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 37,097 52,247 79,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.81% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,888 36,212 55,718
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,719 1,895
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.23 £15.58
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Trend Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Trend Analysis in the UK

Trend Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Trend Analysis in the UK

Trend Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Trend Analysis over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Trend Analysis in the UK

Trend Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Trend Analysis in the UK

Trend Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Trend Analysis over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Trend Analysis in the UK

Trend Analysis
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Trend Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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 +76 36 £490 +8.89% 63
UK excluding London +32 21 £444 -1.39% 38
London +75 14 £578 +23.53% 30
South East +14 9 £367 -22.74% 5
North of England +24 6 £575 +100.00% 11
Yorkshire +23 4 - - 1
South West +12 4 £398 -34.98% 9
Work from Home +90 3 £400 -13.33% 30
East of England +3 3 - - 3
North West +20 2 £575 - 9
Midlands +29 1 £425 +13.33% 5
West Midlands +16 1 £425 +13.33% 2

Trend 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.70%) JBoss
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (18.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.70%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (2.70%) Softmar
2 1 (2.70%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.41%) AWS
3 1 (2.70%) dbt
3 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (2.70%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) DHCP
1 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Power BI
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.70%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.70%) Essbase
3 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Gatling
General
1 13 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.03%) Finance
3 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
4 8 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.11%) Banking
5 3 (8.11%) Law
5 3 (8.11%) Legal
5 3 (8.11%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.41%) Aerospace
6 2 (5.41%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.70%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Analyst
2 4 (10.81%) Lead
2 4 (10.81%) Portfolio Analyst
2 4 (10.81%) Service Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Audio Visual Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Senior
3 3 (8.11%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (8.11%) Telecoms Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Developer
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Portfolio Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Technology Director
5 1 (2.70%) Administrator
5 1 (2.70%) Audio Visual Support
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Continual Service Improvement Manager
5 1 (2.70%) PMO Lead
5 1 (2.70%) Product Management Director
5 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) HTML
2 2 (5.41%) Web Services
3 1 (2.70%) .NET
3 1 (2.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.70%) CMDB
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 2 (5.41%) Linux
3 1 (2.70%) AIX
3 1 (2.70%) Unix
3 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (21.62%) Agile
2 8 (21.62%) Decision-Making
2 8 (21.62%) ITIL
2 8 (21.62%) Project Management
3 7 (18.92%) Problem Management
3 7 (18.92%) Project Delivery
4 6 (16.22%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (16.22%) Service Management
4 6 (16.22%) Validation
5 5 (13.51%) Change Management
5 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (13.51%) Data Analysis
5 5 (13.51%) Incident Management
5 5 (13.51%) Roadmaps
5 5 (13.51%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (13.51%) Service Delivery
5 5 (13.51%) Strategic Planning
5 5 (13.51%) Time Management
6 4 (10.81%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) SQL
2 3 (8.11%) Java
3 2 (5.41%) C#
3 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.41%) Python
4 1 (2.70%) Bash
4 1 (2.70%) C
4 1 (2.70%) C++
4 1 (2.70%) Groovy
4 1 (2.70%) Perl
4 1 (2.70%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (32.43%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) Degree
3 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.81%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.62%) PMO
2 5 (13.51%) SLA
3 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
4 1 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Firmware
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (8.11%) MOM
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.70%) SCCM
2 1 (2.70%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle
3 3 (8.11%) Kofax
4 2 (5.41%) Remedy
4 2 (5.41%) Splunk
5 1 (2.70%) Cadence
5 1 (2.70%) Hyperion
5 1 (2.70%) Nexthink
5 1 (2.70%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) Symantec
5 1 (2.70%) Temenos
5 1 (2.70%) Twitter