Analytical Skills Contracts in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 19 25
Rank change year-on-year +5 +6 +1
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 249 247 257
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 9.54% 8.72% 7.25%
As % of the General category 17.18% 14.15% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 175 150
10th Percentile £248 £363 £313
25th Percentile £363 £450 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £544 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +20.78% -3.49%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £530 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -3.64% +15.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 12
10th Percentile £14.50 £18.38 £12.07
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.06 £12.25
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% +76.92% +0.15%
75th Percentile £46.25 £26.69 £13.19
90th Percentile £58.25 £28.82 £50.88
South East median hourly rate £18.00 £53.75 £30.31
% change year-on-year -66.51% +77.36% +12.80%

All General Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,449 1,745 2,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 55.54% 61.57% 60.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 1,153 1,393
10th Percentile £205 £280 £213
25th Percentile £325 £400 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £590 £610 £575
90th Percentile £663 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £490 £500 £498
% change year-on-year -2.00% +0.50% +5.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 42 67
10th Percentile £17.57 £18.50 £11.12
25th Percentile £22.52 £22.13 £13.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £30.65 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.98% +75.14% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.00 £64.88 £22.24
90th Percentile £75.77 £75.58 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £45.00 £47.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.26% +137.50% -26.25%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the Thames Valley

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 20 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
Berkshire -2 188 £578 +5.05% 111
Buckinghamshire +18 53 £375 -25.00% 65
Oxfordshire +6 8 £488 -20.41% 69
Analytical Skills
South East

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 9 (3.61%) SAS
2 7 (2.81%) Confluence
3 4 (1.61%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.20%) Appian
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 27 (10.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (10.04%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.81%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (1.20%) SPSS
5 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.80%) Sketch
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (4.42%) Oracle EBS R12
2 10 (4.02%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 7 (2.81%) Primavera
4 6 (2.41%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (2.01%) Maximo
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.40%) Epicor Tropos
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.40%) PeopleSoft HRMS
7 1 (0.40%) SAP PLM
7 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 55 (22.09%) Azure
2 24 (9.64%) Snowflake
3 23 (9.24%) Power Platform
4 20 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (6.43%) AWS
6 13 (5.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 13 (5.22%) Azure Data Factory
6 13 (5.22%) Azure Monitor
6 13 (5.22%) Serverless
7 12 (4.82%) Azure Functions
8 10 (4.02%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.01%) Smartsheet
10 4 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.61%) Power Automate
11 3 (1.20%) Figma
11 3 (1.20%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.20%) SaaS
12 2 (0.80%) PaaS
13 1 (0.40%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.81%) VPN
2 5 (2.01%) WAN
3 4 (1.61%) Firewall
4 3 (1.20%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.20%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.20%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (0.80%) Intranet
6 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.40%) LAN
6 1 (0.40%) LTE
6 1 (0.40%) MPLS
6 1 (0.40%) Network Security
6 1 (0.40%) SSL
6 1 (0.40%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.85%) Tableau
2 23 (9.24%) Power BI
3 12 (4.82%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.61%) Big Data
4 4 (1.61%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.61%) Data Mining
4 4 (1.61%) Power Query
4 4 (1.61%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 3 (1.20%) PowerPivot
5 3 (1.20%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
7 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.40%) Impala
7 1 (0.40%) Looker
7 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.40%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 32 (12.85%) Selenium
2 25 (10.04%) Cucumber
2 25 (10.04%) Jenkins
3 24 (9.64%) JIRA
3 24 (9.64%) REST Assured
3 24 (9.64%) SonarQube
4 14 (5.62%) Git
5 13 (5.22%) GitLab
6 9 (3.61%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (1.20%) Robot Framework
7 3 (1.20%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.80%) Postman
8 2 (0.80%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.40%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.40%) ERwin
9 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.40%) MLflow
9 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.40%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.40%) Xcode
General
1 134 (53.82%) Social Skills
2 52 (20.88%) Finance
3 32 (12.85%) Legal
4 22 (8.84%) Telecoms
5 20 (8.03%) Law
6 15 (6.02%) Retail
7 13 (5.22%) Police
8 11 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (4.02%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.81%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.81%) Marketing
11 6 (2.41%) Banking
12 5 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.20%) Automotive
14 3 (1.20%) Billing
14 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 2 (0.80%) Environmental Health
15 2 (0.80%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.80%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 79 (31.73%) Analyst
2 29 (11.65%) Developer
2 29 (11.65%) Lead
3 25 (10.04%) Consultant
4 21 (8.43%) Data Analyst
5 19 (7.63%) Functional Consultant
5 19 (7.63%) Senior
6 17 (6.83%) Java Engineer
7 13 (5.22%) Full Stack Developer
7 13 (5.22%) Oracle Consultant
7 13 (5.22%) Oracle Functional Consultant
8 12 (4.82%) Azure Developer
9 10 (4.02%) Project Manager
10 9 (3.61%) Financial Analyst
11 8 (3.21%) Oracle P2P Consultant
12 7 (2.81%) Architect
12 7 (2.81%) Business Analyst
12 7 (2.81%) Product Analyst
12 7 (2.81%) Project Planner
13 6 (2.41%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.04%) Java EE
1 25 (10.04%) REST
2 15 (6.02%) React
3 12 (4.82%) ARM Templates
4 10 (4.02%) HTML
5 9 (3.61%) CSS
6 4 (1.61%) .NET
7 3 (1.20%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.20%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.20%) D3.js
7 3 (1.20%) EDI
7 3 (1.20%) Node.js
7 3 (1.20%) PySpark
7 3 (1.20%) XML
8 2 (0.80%) ASP.NET MVC
9 1 (0.40%) jQuery
9 1 (0.40%) NumPy
9 1 (0.40%) Regular Expression
9 1 (0.40%) RESTful
9 1 (0.40%) Smarty
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.83%) Credit Risk
2 15 (6.02%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.82%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (2.81%) Client/Server
4 7 (2.81%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.01%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.61%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.20%) CCTV
7 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.20%) Life Science
7 3 (1.20%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.20%) SCADA
7 3 (1.20%) Wiki
8 2 (0.80%) Biopharmaceutical
8 2 (0.80%) PMI
8 2 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.40%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.64%) Windows
2 12 (4.82%) Linux
3 9 (3.61%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (2.01%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.40%) Android
7 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.40%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (55.02%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (26.10%) Decision-Making
3 63 (25.30%) DevOps
4 62 (24.90%) Agile
5 40 (16.06%) Analytics
6 37 (14.86%) Test Automation
7 29 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (11.24%) Technical Leadership
9 27 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
10 26 (10.44%) Actionable Insight
10 26 (10.44%) Continuous Integration
11 25 (10.04%) Software Architecture
12 24 (9.64%) Project Management
13 23 (9.24%) Software Engineering
14 21 (8.43%) Change Management
15 20 (8.03%) Dashboard Development
16 19 (7.63%) Data Protection
17 17 (6.83%) CI/CD
17 17 (6.83%) Project Delivery
18 16 (6.43%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.65%) Python
2 30 (12.05%) Java
3 27 (10.84%) SQL
4 9 (3.61%) JavaScript
4 9 (3.61%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.21%) VBScript
6 5 (2.01%) C
7 4 (1.61%) R
7 4 (1.61%) VBA
8 3 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.80%) C#
9 2 (0.80%) PHP
9 2 (0.80%) Scala
10 1 (0.40%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 59 (23.69%) Security Cleared
2 42 (16.87%) Degree
3 39 (15.66%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.43%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.41%) ACCA
5 6 (2.41%) CIMA
6 4 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.61%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.20%) CCNA
7 3 (1.20%) CCNP
7 3 (1.20%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.80%) MBA
8 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.80%) PgMP
8 2 (0.80%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.40%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.23%) QA
2 12 (4.82%) GDPR
3 6 (2.41%) SLA
4 4 (1.61%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (1.20%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) IFRS
6 1 (0.40%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 13 (5.22%) Active Directory
2 12 (4.82%) Docker
3 10 (4.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (9.64%) Ansible
2 13 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 13 (5.22%) Terraform
3 12 (4.82%) Docker Swarm
3 12 (4.82%) Podman
4 2 (0.80%) SCOM
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 41 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 24 (9.64%) Alteryx
3 17 (6.83%) Oracle
4 13 (5.22%) Salesforce
5 10 (4.02%) VMware
6 6 (2.41%) OneTrust
7 4 (1.61%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.61%) Cisco
7 4 (1.61%) Databricks
7 4 (1.61%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.61%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.61%) Splunk
8 3 (1.20%) Apple
8 3 (1.20%) BT
8 3 (1.20%) OpenText
9 2 (0.80%) Adobe
9 2 (0.80%) SAP
10 1 (0.40%) Ericsson
10 1 (0.40%) IBM
10 1 (0.40%) PeopleSoft