Analytical Thinking Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Analytical Thinking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Analytical Thinking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 278 395
Rank change year-on-year +14 +117 +49
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 40 67 82
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.44% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.50% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 42 51
10th Percentile £272 £330 £381
25th Percentile £403 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +18.42% -7.32%
75th Percentile £628 £686 £581
90th Percentile £671 £710 £725
UK median daily rate £519 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -5.68% +6.02% +1.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £38.89 £13.76 -
25th Percentile £46.03 £17.69 £30.50
Median hourly rate £59.38 £24.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +142.35% -20.97% +93.75%
75th Percentile £73.03 £43.63 £31.50
90th Percentile £80.36 £54.95 -
UK median hourly rate £49.50 £24.65 £43.86
% change year-on-year +100.81% -43.80% +137.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Analytical Thinking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Analytical Thinking as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Analytical Thinking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Analytical Thinking.

Analytical Thinking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Analytical Thinking over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Analytical Thinking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Analytical Thinking.

Analytical Thinking hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Analytical Thinking over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Analytical Thinking hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Analytical Thinking
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (17.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (10.00%) SAP EWM
3 2 (5.00%) SAP SCM
3 2 (5.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (2.50%) Murex MxG2000
4 1 (2.50%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.00%) AWS
1 4 (10.00%) Azure
1 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.00%) Alation
2 2 (5.00%) dbt
2 2 (5.00%) GitHub
2 2 (5.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
3 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Storage
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.50%) OCI
3 1 (2.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (10.00%) Power BI
2 2 (5.00%) Data Vault
2 2 (5.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.50%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) ERwin
1 2 (5.00%) JIRA
1 2 (5.00%) PowerDesigner
1 2 (5.00%) Terragrunt
2 1 (2.50%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (65.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (20.00%) Automotive
4 5 (12.50%) Finance
4 5 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.50%) Manufacturing
6 2 (5.00%) Aviation
6 2 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Marketing
6 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.50%) Advertising
7 1 (2.50%) Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Billing
7 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Italian Language
7 1 (2.50%) Legal
7 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (27.50%) Analyst
2 10 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) Functional Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) SAP EWM Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) SAP Functional Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) Senior
5 2 (5.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Programme Analyst
5 2 (5.00%) SAP Architect
5 2 (5.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.50%) Administrator
6 1 (2.50%) Senior Manager
6 1 (2.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.50%) Django
2 1 (2.50%) EDI
2 1 (2.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Management Information System
2 6 (15.00%) IoT
3 5 (12.50%) Industry 4.0
4 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.50%) Digital Media
6 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Life Science
6 1 (2.50%) LIMS
6 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.50%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (37.50%) Agile
3 13 (32.50%) Decision-Making
4 12 (30.00%) Computer Science
5 11 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (22.50%) Project Management
6 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (20.00%) Analytics
8 7 (17.50%) Data Architecture
8 7 (17.50%) Process Management
9 6 (15.00%) Data Analysis
10 5 (12.50%) Business Transformation
10 5 (12.50%) CAFM
10 5 (12.50%) Change Management
10 5 (12.50%) Energy Management
10 5 (12.50%) Facilities Management
10 5 (12.50%) Informatics
10 5 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
11 4 (10.00%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) Python
2 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.00%) SQL
3 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 17 (42.50%) Degree
2 11 (27.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.00%) PMP
3 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.50%) SAP Certification
4 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) QA
2 4 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.00%) PMO
4 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.50%) COBIT
4 1 (2.50%) GDPR
4 1 (2.50%) GxP
4 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.50%) IFRS
4 1 (2.50%) IFRS 17
4 1 (2.50%) NIST
4 1 (2.50%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
1 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Terraform
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) HP ALM
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) SAP
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (5.00%) Sparx
4 1 (2.50%) comScore
4 1 (2.50%) Foundry
4 1 (2.50%) HP
4 1 (2.50%) Murex