Analytical Skills Contracts in the South East

Analytical Skills
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 18 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 416 500 505
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 7.48% 8.61% 6.51%
As % of the General category 14.76% 14.73% 11.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 370 326
10th Percentile £270 £324 £250
25th Percentile £405 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £540 £481
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% +12.26% +1.32%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £575
90th Percentile £725 £784 £672
England median daily rate £538 £535 £525
% change year-on-year +0.47% +1.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 27 26
10th Percentile £7.43 £19.49 £12.25
25th Percentile £13.05 £22.16 £13.59
Median hourly rate £18.18 £53.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.03% +42.67% +39.59%
75th Percentile £24.28 £58.67 £48.13
90th Percentile £53.88 £62.40 £60.39
England median hourly rate £18.50 £37.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year -50.99% +0.67% +78.57%

All General Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,818 3,395 4,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 50.68% 58.43% 54.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,547 2,311 2,800
10th Percentile £205 £244 £212
25th Percentile £355 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £721 £660
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 327 167 217
10th Percentile £12.93 £18.40 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -21.57%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.56 £32.50
90th Percentile £70.07 £72.98 £48.75
England median hourly rate £30.16 £33.82 £21.50
% change year-on-year -10.82% +57.30% -4.44%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the South East

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the South East

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the South East over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the South East

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the South East

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the South East over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the South East

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Thames Valley +4 242 £525 - 236
Berkshire -1 186 £575 +9.52% 100
Hampshire -4 106 £596 +8.41% 135
Buckinghamshire +12 47 £370 -26.00% 66
Surrey -5 38 £463 -22.92% 69
Kent +3 10 £533 +34.81% 47
West Sussex +2 10 £425 -5.56% 33
Oxfordshire +4 9 £488 -25.00% 72
East Sussex +3 8 £313 -55.36% 29
Middlesex +4 4 £275 -64.52% 3
Sussex - 1 £600 -
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 23 (5.53%) Confluence
2 12 (2.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.92%) SAS
4 5 (1.20%) SharePoint
5 3 (0.72%) Appian
6 2 (0.48%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.48%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.48%) nginx
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.24%) Apache
7 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.24%) CMS
Applications
1 34 (8.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (6.73%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.72%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.72%) Sketch
5 3 (0.72%) SPSS
6 2 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.24%) Abaqus
Business Applications
1 11 (2.64%) Oracle EBS R12
2 10 (2.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (1.68%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.44%) Primavera
4 6 (1.44%) SAP ERP
5 5 (1.20%) Maximo
6 3 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
7 2 (0.48%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.24%) Epicor Tropos
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
8 1 (0.24%) SAP LE
8 1 (0.24%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.24%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 81 (19.47%) Azure
2 30 (7.21%) Power Platform
3 28 (6.73%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (6.49%) AWS
4 27 (6.49%) Snowflake
5 16 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 15 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 14 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
7 14 (3.37%) Entra ID
8 12 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (2.88%) Serverless
9 10 (2.40%) Azure Functions
10 5 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.20%) SaaS
10 5 (1.20%) Smartsheet
11 4 (0.96%) Azure Cognitive Search
11 4 (0.96%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (0.96%) Figma
11 4 (0.96%) Power Automate
11 4 (0.96%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.88%) Firewall
2 11 (2.64%) Network Security
3 10 (2.40%) DNS
3 10 (2.40%) WAN
4 9 (2.16%) DHCP
4 9 (2.16%) VPN
5 6 (1.44%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (1.20%) MPLS
6 5 (1.20%) Wireless
7 4 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (0.96%) Internet
7 4 (0.96%) Radio Access Network
8 3 (0.72%) BGP
8 3 (0.72%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (0.72%) Remote Desktop
8 3 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (0.72%) SSL
9 2 (0.48%) 2G
9 2 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.48%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.69%) Tableau
2 30 (7.21%) Power BI
3 13 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.88%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.20%) Data Mining
6 4 (0.96%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (0.96%) Power Query
6 4 (0.96%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 3 (0.72%) Data Lake
7 3 (0.72%) MySQL
7 3 (0.72%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.72%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (0.48%) Big Data
8 2 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.48%) PowerPivot
8 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.24%) Couchbase
9 1 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (9.62%) JIRA
2 36 (8.65%) Selenium
3 27 (6.49%) Jenkins
4 26 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 24 (5.77%) REST Assured
5 24 (5.77%) SonarQube
6 16 (3.85%) Git
7 15 (3.61%) GitLab
8 9 (2.16%) Oracle Forms
9 6 (1.44%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.48%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio
11 1 (0.24%) ERwin
11 1 (0.24%) JUnit
11 1 (0.24%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.24%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.24%) TestNG
11 1 (0.24%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.24%) Xcode
General
1 234 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 79 (18.99%) Finance
3 37 (8.89%) Legal
4 23 (5.53%) Telecoms
5 20 (4.81%) Law
6 19 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (4.33%) Retail
8 15 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (3.13%) Military
9 13 (3.13%) Police
9 13 (3.13%) Public Sector
10 12 (2.88%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.68%) Marketing
13 6 (1.44%) Billing
14 4 (0.96%) Local Government
15 3 (0.72%) Banking
15 3 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.72%) Electronics
16 2 (0.48%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 95 (22.84%) Analyst
2 41 (9.86%) Developer
2 41 (9.86%) Lead
3 40 (9.62%) Architect
4 29 (6.97%) Consultant
5 28 (6.73%) Solutions Architect
6 27 (6.49%) Java Architect
7 24 (5.77%) Java Solutions Architect
7 24 (5.77%) Senior
8 21 (5.05%) Data Analyst
9 19 (4.57%) Functional Consultant
10 18 (4.33%) Project Manager
11 17 (4.09%) Java Engineer
12 16 (3.85%) Full Stack Developer
13 14 (3.37%) Test Engineer
14 13 (3.13%) Oracle Consultant
14 13 (3.13%) Oracle Functional Consultant
15 12 (2.88%) Business Analyst
16 11 (2.64%) Integration Engineer
16 11 (2.64%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (6.97%) REST
2 25 (6.01%) Java EE
3 19 (4.57%) HTML
4 16 (3.85%) CSS
5 13 (3.13%) React
6 12 (2.88%) .NET
6 12 (2.88%) ARM Templates
7 11 (2.64%) AngularJS
8 8 (1.92%) ASP.NET
9 7 (1.68%) ASP.NET MVC
9 7 (1.68%) Node.js
10 5 (1.20%) EDI
10 5 (1.20%) XML
11 4 (0.96%) Web Services
12 3 (0.72%) .NET Framework
12 3 (0.72%) D3.js
12 3 (0.72%) JSON
12 3 (0.72%) PySpark
12 3 (0.72%) SOAP
13 2 (0.48%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 46 (11.06%) Product Ownership
2 26 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 17 (4.09%) Credit Risk
4 13 (3.13%) Client/Server
4 13 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (2.16%) Data Centre
6 9 (2.16%) PKI
7 6 (1.44%) CCTV
7 6 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.20%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (0.96%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.96%) Operational Technology
9 4 (0.96%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.72%) Cyberattack
10 3 (0.72%) Life Science
10 3 (0.72%) SCADA
10 3 (0.72%) Wiki
11 2 (0.48%) Biopharmaceutical
11 2 (0.48%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 58 (13.94%) Windows
2 33 (7.93%) Linux
3 30 (7.21%) Windows Server
4 20 (4.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 11 (2.64%) Unix
7 5 (1.20%) Windows 7
7 5 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (0.96%) Android
9 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.48%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (62.26%) Problem-Solving
2 112 (26.92%) Agile
3 80 (19.23%) DevOps
4 77 (18.51%) Decision-Making
5 51 (12.26%) Project Management
6 47 (11.30%) Analytics
6 47 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 45 (10.82%) Test Automation
8 43 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
9 33 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
10 32 (7.69%) Customer Service
11 29 (6.97%) Continuous Integration
12 28 (6.73%) Actionable Insight
13 27 (6.49%) Data Analysis
13 27 (6.49%) GAP Analysis
13 27 (6.49%) Translating Business Requirements
14 25 (6.01%) Scrum
14 25 (6.01%) Software Architecture
14 25 (6.01%) Software Engineering
15 24 (5.77%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 55 (13.22%) Java
2 49 (11.78%) SQL
3 42 (10.10%) Python
4 21 (5.05%) JavaScript
5 20 (4.81%) PowerShell
6 14 (3.37%) VBScript
7 12 (2.88%) C#
8 10 (2.40%) C
9 7 (1.68%) PL/SQL
10 6 (1.44%) PHP
11 5 (1.20%) ProC
11 5 (1.20%) Shell Script
11 5 (1.20%) VBA
12 4 (0.96%) R
13 3 (0.72%) Scala
14 2 (0.48%) Ada
14 2 (0.48%) Bash
14 2 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.48%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 118 (28.37%) Security Cleared
2 86 (20.67%) Degree
3 61 (14.66%) SC Cleared
4 49 (11.78%) DV Cleared
5 14 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 9 (2.16%) MCSA
7 9 (2.16%) MCSE
8 8 (1.92%) Master's Degree
9 7 (1.68%) CCNP
10 6 (1.44%) ACCA
10 6 (1.44%) CIMA
11 5 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.96%) A+ Certification
12 4 (0.96%) CCNA
12 4 (0.96%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.96%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.72%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (5.77%) QA
2 12 (2.88%) PMO
3 10 (2.40%) GDPR
4 9 (2.16%) SLA
5 8 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.96%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.72%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.48%) DO-178B
9 2 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.24%) GxP
10 1 (0.24%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.24%) IFRS
10 1 (0.24%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (7.93%) Active Directory
2 31 (7.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.13%) Docker
4 8 (1.92%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.68%) vSphere
6 3 (0.72%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.48%) KVM
Systems Management
1 25 (6.01%) Ansible
2 15 (3.61%) Kubernetes
3 13 (3.13%) Terraform
4 12 (2.88%) Docker Swarm
4 12 (2.88%) Podman
5 3 (0.72%) MOM
5 3 (0.72%) SCCM
6 2 (0.48%) Endace
6 2 (0.48%) IBM BigFix
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.48%) PaperCut
6 2 (0.48%) SCOM
6 2 (0.48%) Tivoli
6 2 (0.48%) vRealize
6 2 (0.48%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.24%) Argo
7 1 (0.24%) Grafana
7 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) QRadar
7 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 69 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.13%) VMware
3 29 (6.97%) Oracle
4 24 (5.77%) Alteryx
5 15 (3.61%) Cisco
6 13 (3.13%) SAP
7 11 (2.64%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.68%) F5
8 7 (1.68%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.44%) OneTrust
9 6 (1.44%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.20%) CheckPoint
11 4 (0.96%) Adobe
11 4 (0.96%) Databricks
11 4 (0.96%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.96%) QinetiQ
11 4 (0.96%) Splunk
12 3 (0.72%) IBM
12 3 (0.72%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.72%) Zscaler