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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 274 291 370
Rank change year-on-year +17 +79 +46
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 43 55 86
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.42% 0.38% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.43% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 36 58
10th Percentile £250 £298 £381
25th Percentile £276 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £491
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% +22.14% -6.43%
75th Percentile £573 £710 £588
90th Percentile £638 £753 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £15.15 -
25th Percentile £81.75 £21.19 -
Median hourly rate £83.50 £22.56 -
Median % change year-on-year +270.12% - -
75th Percentile £85.25 £23.94 -
90th Percentile - £47.07 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £24.65 £44.43
% change year-on-year +102.84% -44.52% +85.71%

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 9,332 12,732 21,621
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.78% 87.28% 89.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,321 8,571 15,258
10th Percentile £325 £325 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.93%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £751 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 553 521
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.17 £18.49
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.50 £26.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% -18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%

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 5 July 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
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 3 (6.98%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (9.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (13.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (9.30%) SAP EWM
3 2 (4.65%) SAP SCM
3 2 (4.65%) Shopify
4 1 (2.33%) Murex MxG2000
4 1 (2.33%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 9 (20.93%) AWS
2 6 (13.95%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) GitHub
4 4 (9.30%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.98%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.65%) Alation
6 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) BigCommerce
6 2 (4.65%) dbt
6 2 (4.65%) GCP
6 2 (4.65%) SaaS
6 2 (4.65%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.33%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (9.30%) Power BI
2 2 (4.65%) Data Vault
2 2 (4.65%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.33%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) IntelliJ
3 3 (6.98%) Maven
3 3 (6.98%) SonarQube
3 3 (6.98%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (6.98%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.65%) JIRA
4 2 (4.65%) Terragrunt
5 1 (2.33%) Android Studio
5 1 (2.33%) Gradle
5 1 (2.33%) JMeter
5 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (2.33%) Xcode
5 1 (2.33%) Zephyr
General
1 43 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (53.49%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Finance
4 4 (9.30%) Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Automotive
5 3 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Retail
6 2 (4.65%) Aviation
6 2 (4.65%) Investment Banking
6 2 (4.65%) Legal
6 2 (4.65%) Marketing
6 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Law
7 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (27.91%) Analyst
2 9 (20.93%) Business Analyst
3 6 (13.95%) Senior
4 5 (11.63%) Developer
5 4 (9.30%) Architect
5 4 (9.30%) Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) Functional Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) SAP Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) SAP EWM Consultant
5 4 (9.30%) SAP Functional Consultant
6 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.98%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Administrator
7 2 (4.65%) Data Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) SAP Architect
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) Spring Boot
2 3 (6.98%) J2EE
2 3 (6.98%) RESTful
3 2 (4.65%) .NET
3 2 (4.65%) Middleware
3 2 (4.65%) VML
4 1 (2.33%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.33%) ARM Templates
4 1 (2.33%) EDI
4 1 (2.33%) Jest
4 1 (2.33%) Kafka
4 1 (2.33%) React
4 1 (2.33%) React Native
4 1 (2.33%) Redux
4 1 (2.33%) REST
4 1 (2.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.65%) IoT
3 2 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.65%) Reinsurance
3 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.33%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (2.33%) Life Science
4 1 (2.33%) LIMS
4 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Unix
2 1 (2.33%) Android
2 1 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (69.77%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (25.58%) Continuous Improvement
2 11 (25.58%) Decision-Making
3 9 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (18.60%) Analytics
5 7 (16.28%) Agile
5 7 (16.28%) Computer Science
5 7 (16.28%) Data Analysis
6 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (13.95%) Project Management
6 6 (13.95%) Risk Management
7 5 (11.63%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.63%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (11.63%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (9.30%) Change Management
8 4 (9.30%) Critical Thinking
8 4 (9.30%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (9.30%) DevOps
8 4 (9.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) SQL
2 4 (9.30%) Java
2 4 (9.30%) JavaScript
2 4 (9.30%) Python
3 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.65%) Bash
4 2 (4.65%) Go
4 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.33%) C#
5 1 (2.33%) JSX
5 1 (2.33%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (23.26%) Degree
2 7 (16.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) QA
2 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.98%) PMO
4 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.33%) COBIT
4 1 (2.33%) GDPR
4 1 (2.33%) GxP
4 1 (2.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.33%) IFRS
4 1 (2.33%) IFRS 17
4 1 (2.33%) NIST
4 1 (2.33%) Solvency II
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) Terraform
2 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.65%) Grafana
3 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.33%) Ansible
4 1 (2.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 10 (23.26%) SAP
2 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.65%) Adobe
3 2 (4.65%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (4.65%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.65%) Sitecore
3 2 (4.65%) Splunk
4 1 (2.33%) Databricks
4 1 (2.33%) Foundry
4 1 (2.33%) HP
4 1 (2.33%) Murex
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle