Analytical Thinking Contracts in England

Analytical Thinking
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Analytical Thinking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Thinking over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 470 504
Rank change year-on-year +74 +34 -7
Contract jobs citing Analytical Thinking 135 171 282
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.37% 0.35% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.39% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 94 179
10th Percentile £272 £399 £355
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +0.96% +9.47%
75th Percentile £681 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £838 £741
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £516
% change year-on-year - +1.69% +9.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 9
10th Percentile £18.97 £26.46 £12.25
25th Percentile £22.33 £37.65 £12.75
Median hourly rate £24.65 £43.86 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.80% +39.24% -34.44%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.02 £32.75
90th Percentile £67.91 £63.91 £51.92
UK median hourly rate £24.65 £43.86 £31.50
% change year-on-year -43.80% +39.24% -34.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Analytical Thinking 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Analytical Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Thinking in England

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Thinking in England

Analytical Thinking
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Thinking in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in England

Analytical Thinking
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Thinking in England

Analytical Thinking
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Thinking in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Thinking in England

Analytical Thinking
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 Thinking within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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 +86 71 £575 +2.22% 80
Midlands +33 30 £475 +5.56% 26
West Midlands +30 25 £525 +16.67% 16
North of England +34 13 £475 -12.64% 52
North West +28 11 £475 -3.80% 26
South East +14 8 £265 -47.00% 36
East Midlands +17 5 £173 - 10
East of England -2 5 £700 +40.00% 14
Yorkshire +8 1 - - 19
South West +3 1 - - 18
North East - 1 - - 11
Analytical Thinking
UK

Analytical Thinking
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 5 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.22%) Confluence
3 2 (1.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.48%) SAS
4 1 (0.74%) Appian
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (10.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (8.89%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (5.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.22%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.48%) Mingle
6 1 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.74%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (5.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (5.19%) SAP SD
3 5 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (2.22%) SAP CO
4 3 (2.22%) SAP FI
4 3 (2.22%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (2.22%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (1.48%) Endur
5 2 (1.48%) SAP ERP
5 2 (1.48%) SAP SCM
6 1 (0.74%) Eikon
6 1 (0.74%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.74%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.74%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.74%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 16 (11.85%) Azure
2 12 (8.89%) AWS
3 11 (8.15%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.19%) GCP
5 5 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.70%) OCI
5 5 (3.70%) Oracle Service Cloud
5 5 (3.70%) PaaS
6 4 (2.96%) SaaS
7 3 (2.22%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.22%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 2 (1.48%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.48%) Figma
8 2 (1.48%) IaaS
8 2 (1.48%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.74%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.74%) Serverless
9 1 (0.74%) SpeedCurve
9 1 (0.74%) Unqork
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.22%) DNS
1 3 (2.22%) Firewall
1 3 (2.22%) Network Security
2 2 (1.48%) Intranet
2 2 (1.48%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.48%) VPN
3 1 (0.74%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 11 (8.15%) Power BI
3 6 (4.44%) SQL Server
4 5 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.96%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (2.22%) PostHog
6 3 (2.22%) Tableau
7 1 (0.74%) Big Data
7 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.74%) Impala
7 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (0.74%) MS Access
7 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.74%) SAP BW
7 1 (0.74%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Navigator
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (7.41%) JIRA
2 9 (6.67%) Git
3 3 (2.22%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.48%) Axure RP
4 2 (1.48%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.48%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.48%) FitNesse
4 2 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.48%) Maven
4 2 (1.48%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.48%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.74%) GoCD
5 1 (0.74%) Pa11y
5 1 (0.74%) TestCafe
5 1 (0.74%) Toad
General
1 135 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 79 (58.52%) Social Skills
3 39 (28.89%) Finance
4 8 (5.93%) Manufacturing
5 6 (4.44%) Banking
5 6 (4.44%) German Language
5 6 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (3.70%) Legal
6 5 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.96%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.96%) French Language
7 4 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.96%) Marketing
7 4 (2.96%) Publishing
8 3 (2.22%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.22%) Retail
9 2 (1.48%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 28 (20.74%) Analyst
2 14 (10.37%) Architect
3 13 (9.63%) Business Analyst
3 13 (9.63%) Developer
3 13 (9.63%) Senior
4 10 (7.41%) Site Engineer
4 10 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 9 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 8 (5.93%) Consultant
6 8 (5.93%) Python Engineer
7 6 (4.44%) Lead
8 5 (3.70%) Business IT Analyst
8 5 (3.70%) Incident Manager
8 5 (3.70%) Insight Analyst
8 5 (3.70%) IT Analyst
8 5 (3.70%) IT Business Analyst
8 5 (3.70%) Java Developer
8 5 (3.70%) Java Engineer
8 5 (3.70%) Report Analyst
9 4 (2.96%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.15%) RESTful
2 10 (7.41%) Kafka
3 9 (6.67%) HTML
3 9 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
4 7 (5.19%) CSS
4 7 (5.19%) JSON
4 7 (5.19%) Middleware
5 5 (3.70%) XML
6 4 (2.96%) .NET
6 4 (2.96%) Node.js
6 4 (2.96%) Spring
6 4 (2.96%) Swagger
7 3 (2.22%) Django
7 3 (2.22%) Flask
7 3 (2.22%) Hibernate
7 3 (2.22%) React
8 2 (1.48%) Drools
8 2 (1.48%) Jest
8 2 (1.48%) OpenID
8 2 (1.48%) XACML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.63%) Management Information System
2 12 (8.89%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 10 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 10 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.93%) IoT
5 7 (5.19%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.70%) Data Centre
6 5 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.70%) Industry 4.0
6 5 (3.70%) SCADA
6 5 (3.70%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (2.96%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.22%) Taxonomies
9 2 (1.48%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.48%) Derivative
9 2 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.74%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (6.67%) Linux
2 6 (4.44%) Windows
3 5 (3.70%) Unix
3 5 (3.70%) Windows 10
4 4 (2.96%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (49.63%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (31.85%) Agile
3 27 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 27 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (16.30%) Critical Thinking
5 20 (14.81%) Project Management
6 18 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 18 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (12.59%) Decision-Making
8 15 (11.11%) ITIL
8 15 (11.11%) Microservices
9 14 (10.37%) DevOps
9 14 (10.37%) ERP
10 13 (9.63%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (9.63%) Change Management
11 12 (8.89%) Risk Management
12 11 (8.15%) CI/CD
12 11 (8.15%) Customer Service
13 10 (7.41%) Project Delivery
13 10 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (14.81%) Java
2 15 (11.11%) Python
3 14 (10.37%) SQL
4 11 (8.15%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 7 (5.19%) C++
6 7 (5.19%) Go
7 4 (2.96%) C#
8 3 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.22%) PHP
8 3 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.48%) Perl
9 2 (1.48%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.48%) R
10 1 (0.74%) ABAP
10 1 (0.74%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 38 (28.15%) Degree
2 15 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.70%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.22%) CISSP
4 3 (2.22%) SAP Certification
4 3 (2.22%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.48%) MBA
5 2 (1.48%) MCSE
5 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.48%) PhD
5 2 (1.48%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.74%) APMG
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.74%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.74%) CCNA
6 1 (0.74%) MCP
6 1 (0.74%) MCSA
6 1 (0.74%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.44%) Accessibility
1 6 (4.44%) QA
1 6 (4.44%) SLA
2 5 (3.70%) PMO
3 1 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.74%) GxP
3 1 (0.74%) IFRS
3 1 (0.74%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (6.67%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 4 (2.96%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.48%) Docker
4 1 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.74%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 10 (7.41%) Grafana
2 9 (6.67%) Consul
2 9 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 9 (6.67%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.22%) SCCM
4 2 (1.48%) PingFederate
4 2 (1.48%) Podman
4 2 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.74%) Kibana
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (23.70%) Microsoft
2 23 (17.04%) SAP
3 11 (8.15%) Oracle
4 9 (6.67%) SaltStack
5 5 (3.70%) BMC
6 4 (2.96%) CA
6 4 (2.96%) VMware
7 3 (2.22%) Adobe
7 3 (2.22%) Qualys
7 3 (2.22%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.48%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.48%) OpenText
8 2 (1.48%) Ping Identity
8 2 (1.48%) Splunk
8 2 (1.48%) Workday
9 1 (0.74%) Ariba
9 1 (0.74%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.74%) Pega
9 1 (0.74%) Reuters
9 1 (0.74%) ServiceNow