Analytical Skills Contracts in England

Analytical Skills
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,923 3,596 4,598
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.95% 7.34% 6.56%
As % of the General category 13.66% 12.39% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,897 2,372 2,977
10th Percentile £310 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.42% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £651 £663 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 116 158
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.35 £18.53
Median hourly rate £18.43 £40.00 £37.83
Median % change year-on-year -53.94% +5.74% +84.52%
75th Percentile £32.88 £57.63 £52.36
90th Percentile £47.88 £66.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £43.86 £36.50
% change year-on-year -58.96% +20.16% +58.70%

All General Skills
England

Analytical Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,396 29,018 39,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.20% 59.25% 56.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,789 20,378 27,740
10th Percentile £280 £313 £316
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,786 948 1,301
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.09 £14.75
Median hourly rate £30.75 £32.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +51.16% -4.17%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £46.72
90th Percentile £65.50 £70.94 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £33.91 £22.00
% change year-on-year -11.06% +54.14% -2.22%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in England.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in England.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytical Skills within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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
London +4 1,475 £550 -4.35% 1,300
South East -2 419 £538 -1.24% 571
North of England +2 329 £500 +5.26% 672
South West +21 261 £525 - 340
Midlands +2 233 £525 +11.70% 480
West Midlands +1 174 £544 +14.53% 283
North West -3 166 £488 +10.80% 370
Yorkshire +12 138 £514 -2.10% 232
East of England 0 107 £500 +33.33% 269
East Midlands +5 54 £450 +5.88% 198
North East +22 23 £590 +124.76% 77
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 129 (4.41%) Confluence
2 71 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 67 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 45 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.92%) Apache
6 18 (0.62%) SAS
7 16 (0.55%) CMS
8 11 (0.38%) Tomcat
9 9 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
10 8 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
10 8 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2010
10 8 (0.27%) nginx
11 7 (0.24%) IIS
12 6 (0.21%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.17%) Appian
13 5 (0.17%) JBoss
13 5 (0.17%) WebSphere
14 4 (0.14%) Drupal
14 4 (0.14%) IBM Domino
15 3 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 264 (9.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 192 (6.57%) Microsoft Office
3 79 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 59 (2.02%) MS Visio
5 56 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
6 51 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
7 9 (0.31%) SPSS
8 7 (0.24%) Sketch
9 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
10 4 (0.14%) Revit
11 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
11 3 (0.10%) InVision
11 3 (0.10%) MicroStation
11 3 (0.10%) Windchill
12 2 (0.068%) Mingle
13 1 (0.034%) Abaqus
13 1 (0.034%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.034%) Chatbot
13 1 (0.034%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.034%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 58 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (0.92%) Dynamics AX
3 21 (0.72%) Endur
4 19 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.55%) Oracle EBS R12
6 14 (0.48%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 14 (0.48%) SAP HCM
7 13 (0.44%) Aligne
7 13 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
7 13 (0.44%) SAP CO
7 13 (0.44%) SAP FI
7 13 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
7 13 (0.44%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.41%) SAP SD
9 11 (0.38%) Maximo
10 10 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
10 10 (0.34%) SAP ERP
10 10 (0.34%) SAP HR
11 9 (0.31%) Remedy ITSM
12 8 (0.27%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 443 (15.16%) Azure
2 302 (10.33%) Power Platform
3 246 (8.42%) AWS
4 136 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
5 103 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
6 97 (3.32%) GCP
7 71 (2.43%) Dynamics 365
8 63 (2.16%) PowerApps
9 56 (1.92%) Serverless
10 55 (1.88%) Power Automate
11 50 (1.71%) Azure Data Factory
12 47 (1.61%) Snowflake
13 46 (1.57%) GitHub
14 41 (1.40%) Entra ID
15 37 (1.27%) SaaS
16 34 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
17 27 (0.92%) Azure Functions
18 26 (0.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 24 (0.82%) Amazon S3
20 22 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 82 (2.81%) Firewall
2 72 (2.46%) DNS
3 68 (2.33%) Network Security
4 65 (2.22%) VPN
5 55 (1.88%) WAN
6 48 (1.64%) LAN
7 40 (1.37%) DHCP
8 35 (1.20%) Wireless
9 31 (1.06%) TCP/IP
10 30 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
11 29 (0.99%) BGP
12 27 (0.92%) MPLS
13 23 (0.79%) OSPF
14 22 (0.75%) Cisco Nexus
14 22 (0.75%) Intrusion Detection
15 20 (0.68%) HTTP
16 19 (0.65%) VLAN
17 14 (0.48%) SAN
17 14 (0.48%) SSL
18 13 (0.44%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 290 (9.92%) Power BI
2 138 (4.72%) Tableau
3 137 (4.69%) SQL Server
4 90 (3.08%) Big Data
5 88 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
5 88 (3.01%) Relational Database
6 73 (2.50%) Data Lake
7 62 (2.12%) NoSQL
8 41 (1.40%) Hadoop
8 41 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
9 39 (1.33%) MongoDB
10 33 (1.13%) Data Mining
11 32 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (1.03%) Metadata
13 25 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 22 (0.75%) RDBMS
15 20 (0.68%) BigQuery
15 20 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 17 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
17 16 (0.55%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 270 (9.24%) JIRA
2 102 (3.49%) Git
3 82 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 54 (1.85%) GitLab
5 52 (1.78%) Selenium
6 39 (1.33%) Cucumber
7 33 (1.13%) TeamCity
8 30 (1.03%) Bitbucket
9 28 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 25 (0.86%) REST Assured
11 24 (0.82%) Cypress.io
11 24 (0.82%) SonarQube
12 21 (0.72%) webpack
13 20 (0.68%) Maven
14 15 (0.51%) JUnit
15 14 (0.48%) Visual Studio
16 13 (0.44%) Appium
17 12 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
18 11 (0.38%) Postman
19 10 (0.34%) CircleCI
General
1 1,617 (55.32%) Social Skills
2 839 (28.70%) Finance
3 236 (8.07%) Public Sector
4 215 (7.36%) Banking
5 175 (5.99%) Presentation Skills
6 135 (4.62%) Marketing
7 111 (3.80%) Retail
8 109 (3.73%) Legal
9 105 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
10 99 (3.39%) Front Office
11 92 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
11 92 (3.15%) Manufacturing
12 83 (2.84%) Telecoms
13 61 (2.09%) Investment Banking
14 45 (1.54%) Law
15 42 (1.44%) Military
16 39 (1.33%) Financial Institution
17 37 (1.27%) General Ledger
18 35 (1.20%) Aerospace
19 34 (1.16%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 645 (22.07%) Analyst
2 364 (12.45%) Developer
3 218 (7.46%) Architect
4 210 (7.18%) Consultant
5 209 (7.15%) Senior
6 201 (6.88%) Business Analyst
7 182 (6.23%) Lead
8 136 (4.65%) Data Analyst
9 122 (4.17%) Project Manager
10 99 (3.39%) Data Engineer
11 80 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
12 70 (2.39%) Senior Analyst
13 59 (2.02%) Network Engineer
14 56 (1.92%) Full Stack Developer
15 52 (1.78%) Service Analyst
16 51 (1.74%) Java Developer
17 50 (1.71%) Support Engineer
18 48 (1.64%) IT Engineer
19 47 (1.61%) Data Scientist
20 46 (1.57%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (3.35%) React
2 93 (3.18%) REST
3 88 (3.01%) .NET
4 82 (2.81%) HTML
5 78 (2.67%) CSS
6 63 (2.16%) AngularJS
7 55 (1.88%) XML
8 48 (1.64%) Kafka
9 42 (1.44%) JSON
10 41 (1.40%) Web Services
11 37 (1.27%) Node.js
12 35 (1.20%) RESTful
13 32 (1.09%) .NET Core
14 31 (1.06%) PySpark
15 27 (0.92%) Middleware
15 27 (0.92%) WebSockets
16 25 (0.86%) Java EE
17 23 (0.79%) Spring
18 22 (0.75%) SOAP
19 20 (0.68%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 220 (7.53%) Management Information System
2 153 (5.23%) Analytical Mindset
3 122 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 118 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
5 89 (3.04%) Data Structures
6 74 (2.53%) Algorithms
7 49 (1.68%) Data Centre
8 46 (1.57%) Derivative
9 43 (1.47%) Cyber Defence
10 41 (1.40%) Onboarding
11 38 (1.30%) Fixed Income
12 33 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
13 32 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
13 32 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 31 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 28 (0.96%) PKI
16 27 (0.92%) Distributed Applications
17 26 (0.89%) CMDB
17 26 (0.89%) Hedge funds
17 26 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 267 (9.13%) Windows
2 198 (6.77%) Linux
3 100 (3.42%) Unix
4 80 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 45 (1.54%) Windows 10
6 38 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 36 (1.23%) Windows 7
8 33 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 30 (1.03%) Apple iOS
10 28 (0.96%) Android
11 13 (0.44%) Mac OS
12 11 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
13 10 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.24%) Kali Linux
14 7 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.17%) zOS
16 4 (0.14%) AIX
16 4 (0.14%) Solaris
17 3 (0.10%) CentOS
17 3 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,646 (56.31%) Problem-Solving
2 744 (25.45%) Agile
3 441 (15.09%) Project Management
4 377 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
5 343 (11.73%) Analytics
6 307 (10.50%) Decision-Making
7 305 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 287 (9.82%) DevOps
9 276 (9.44%) Stakeholder Management
10 255 (8.72%) Computer Science
11 245 (8.38%) Data Modelling
12 225 (7.70%) Data Analysis
13 202 (6.91%) Migration
14 198 (6.77%) Change Management
15 191 (6.53%) ITIL
16 190 (6.50%) Roadmaps
17 189 (6.47%) Visualisation
18 186 (6.36%) Customer Service
19 166 (5.68%) CI/CD
20 164 (5.61%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 506 (17.31%) SQL
2 389 (13.31%) Python
3 229 (7.83%) Java
4 136 (4.65%) JavaScript
5 129 (4.41%) C#
6 123 (4.21%) PowerShell
7 66 (2.26%) TypeScript
8 54 (1.85%) R
9 53 (1.81%) Scala
10 38 (1.30%) C++
10 38 (1.30%) PL/SQL
11 35 (1.20%) Shell Script
12 34 (1.16%) T-SQL
13 29 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 22 (0.75%) Perl
15 20 (0.68%) Bash
15 20 (0.68%) C
15 20 (0.68%) Go
16 17 (0.58%) VBScript
17 16 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 600 (20.53%) Degree
2 501 (17.14%) Security Cleared
3 309 (10.57%) SC Cleared
4 169 (5.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 169 (5.78%) DV Cleared
5 91 (3.11%) Master's Degree
6 61 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
7 59 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
8 52 (1.78%) CISSP
9 41 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 37 (1.27%) CCNP
10 37 (1.27%) PMI Certification
11 35 (1.20%) MCSE
11 35 (1.20%) PMP
12 33 (1.13%) CCNA
13 30 (1.03%) CISM
13 30 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
14 27 (0.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 25 (0.86%) APMP
16 23 (0.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (5.92%) Data Quality
2 154 (5.27%) QA
3 109 (3.73%) SLA
4 80 (2.74%) PMO
5 73 (2.50%) GDPR
6 38 (1.30%) NIST
7 34 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
8 29 (0.99%) Accessibility
9 26 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 22 (0.75%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.44%) EMIR
12 11 (0.38%) GRC
12 11 (0.38%) NIST 800
13 10 (0.34%) MiFID
14 9 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
14 9 (0.31%) ISO 20022
15 8 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 8 (0.27%) GxP
15 8 (0.27%) HIPAA
15 8 (0.27%) IFRS
System Software
1 144 (4.93%) Active Directory
2 85 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 54 (1.85%) Docker
4 20 (0.68%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.41%) vSphere
6 11 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.34%) HDFS
7 10 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 9 (0.31%) Firmware
8 9 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
9 7 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.14%) KVM
12 3 (0.10%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.10%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.10%) OpenIDM
12 3 (0.10%) SRDF
13 2 (0.068%) NFS
13 2 (0.068%) Snort
Systems Management
1 90 (3.08%) Ansible
2 79 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 53 (1.81%) Terraform
4 44 (1.51%) SCCM
5 29 (0.99%) Puppet
6 26 (0.89%) NetBackup
7 24 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 23 (0.79%) Grafana
9 22 (0.75%) Prometheus
10 20 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
10 20 (0.68%) PowerCLI
11 17 (0.58%) Kibana
12 14 (0.48%) logstash
12 14 (0.48%) Podman
13 13 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
14 12 (0.41%) Progress Chef
15 10 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
16 9 (0.31%) Consul
16 9 (0.31%) Nagios
17 7 (0.24%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 573 (19.60%) Microsoft
2 195 (6.67%) SAP
3 192 (6.57%) Oracle
4 109 (3.73%) VMware
5 83 (2.84%) Cisco
6 66 (2.26%) ServiceNow
7 64 (2.19%) Google
8 55 (1.88%) Salesforce
9 53 (1.81%) Databricks
10 39 (1.33%) Splunk
11 35 (1.20%) Alteryx
11 35 (1.20%) IBM
12 33 (1.13%) Atlassian
13 32 (1.09%) HP
14 29 (0.99%) Dell
15 27 (0.92%) F5
15 27 (0.92%) Red Hat
16 26 (0.89%) Citrix
17 22 (0.75%) Juniper
18 20 (0.68%) Bloomberg