Analytical Skills Contracts in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 20 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 0
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 1,592 1,837 1,926
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.77% 7.86% 6.33%
As % of the General category 14.31% 13.94% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 999 1,234 1,251
10th Percentile £281 £250 £213
25th Percentile £400 £400 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £486 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% +2.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £550
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 66 128
10th Percentile £11.75 £20.74 £12.29
25th Percentile £12.75 £22.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.29 £48.65 £31.85
Median % change year-on-year -64.47% +52.75% +72.16%
75th Percentile £25.27 £58.71 £50.95
90th Percentile £43.75 £66.00 £57.02
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £43.86 £35.50
% change year-on-year -58.96% +23.55% +54.72%

All General Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 11,126 13,178 16,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.32% 56.40% 55.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 8,992 11,677
10th Percentile £205 £230 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £690 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,651 757 1,033
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.19 £14.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £30.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +57.89% -4.88%
75th Percentile £53.88 £61.06 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.74 £68.75 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £34.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -11.29% +54.55% -2.22%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Analytical Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK excluding London

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East -2 419 £538 -2.27% 579
North of England +2 330 £500 +5.26% 671
South West +19 261 £525 - 343
Midlands +2 233 £525 +10.53% 507
Scotland -2 209 £475 - 123
West Midlands 0 174 £544 +14.53% 300
North West -2 166 £488 +10.17% 367
Yorkshire +12 139 £514 -2.10% 236
East of England 0 107 £500 +33.33% 264
East Midlands +5 54 £450 +5.88% 208
Wales +12 33 £525 +23.53% 64
North East +20 23 £590 +47.50% 74
Northern Ireland -3 11 £425 - 28
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 6
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 86 (5.40%) Confluence
2 42 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 40 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.75%) Apache
5 11 (0.69%) Apache Spark
5 11 (0.69%) SAS
6 8 (0.50%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.44%) CMS
7 7 (0.44%) IIS
8 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.25%) Appian
9 3 (0.19%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.19%) Drupal
9 3 (0.19%) IBM HTTP Server
9 3 (0.19%) nginx
9 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.19%) WebSphere Application Server
9 3 (0.19%) WebSphere Portal
10 2 (0.13%) IBM Domino
10 2 (0.13%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 185 (11.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 123 (7.73%) Microsoft Office
3 47 (2.95%) Microsoft Project
4 45 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 37 (2.32%) Spreadsheet
6 22 (1.38%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.50%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.25%) Sketch
8 4 (0.25%) SPSS
9 3 (0.19%) MicroStation
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.13%) InVision
11 1 (0.063%) Abaqus
11 1 (0.063%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.063%) Autodesk Inventor
11 1 (0.063%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.063%) Simulink
11 1 (0.063%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 37 (2.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
2 14 (0.88%) Oracle EBS R12
3 12 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 10 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
4 10 (0.63%) SAP HCM
5 9 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
5 9 (0.57%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.57%) SAP HR
5 9 (0.57%) Teamcenter
6 8 (0.50%) Maximo
7 7 (0.44%) Primavera
7 7 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
7 7 (0.44%) SAP CO
7 7 (0.44%) SAP FI
7 7 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
7 7 (0.44%) SAP SD
8 6 (0.38%) Oracle Cash Management
9 5 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
10 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 193 (12.12%) Azure
2 168 (10.55%) Power Platform
3 103 (6.47%) AWS
4 64 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
5 46 (2.89%) Snowflake
6 40 (2.51%) GCP
7 38 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (2.20%) Azure Data Factory
9 26 (1.63%) OCI
10 25 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (1.32%) Entra ID
12 19 (1.19%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 19 (1.19%) PowerApps
13 18 (1.13%) SaaS
14 17 (1.07%) Azure Monitor
15 16 (1.01%) Serverless
15 16 (1.01%) SuccessFactors
16 14 (0.88%) GitHub
17 12 (0.75%) Azure Functions
17 12 (0.75%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 59 (3.71%) Network Security
2 47 (2.95%) DNS
2 47 (2.95%) Firewall
3 37 (2.32%) VPN
4 33 (2.07%) WAN
5 31 (1.95%) DHCP
6 29 (1.82%) LAN
7 26 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (1.51%) TCP/IP
9 21 (1.32%) SAN
10 19 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
10 19 (1.19%) VLAN
11 17 (1.07%) MPLS
12 16 (1.01%) HTTP
12 16 (1.01%) Internet
13 15 (0.94%) Wireless
14 11 (0.69%) BGP
14 11 (0.69%) Cisco Nexus
14 11 (0.69%) SSL
15 9 (0.57%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 162 (10.18%) Power BI
2 89 (5.59%) Tableau
3 53 (3.33%) SQL Server
4 39 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
5 34 (2.14%) Big Data
6 28 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 24 (1.51%) Data Lake
8 22 (1.38%) Oracle Reports
9 21 (1.32%) Data Mining
10 20 (1.26%) NoSQL
11 19 (1.19%) Oracle Database
12 18 (1.13%) Metadata
13 17 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 14 (0.88%) Hadoop
15 14 (0.88%) Microsoft Analysis Services
16 12 (0.75%) GIS
17 11 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
18 10 (0.63%) Power Query
19 8 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 154 (9.67%) JIRA
2 64 (4.02%) Jenkins
3 44 (2.76%) Selenium
4 42 (2.64%) Git
5 28 (1.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 26 (1.63%) Cucumber
7 24 (1.51%) GitLab
7 24 (1.51%) REST Assured
7 24 (1.51%) SonarQube
8 22 (1.38%) Bitbucket
9 14 (0.88%) Oracle APEX
10 10 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
11 9 (0.57%) Travis CI
12 8 (0.50%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.38%) Robot Framework
14 5 (0.31%) JMeter
14 5 (0.31%) LoadRunner
14 5 (0.31%) Visual Studio
15 4 (0.25%) JUnit
16 3 (0.19%) ERwin
General
1 910 (57.16%) Social Skills
2 337 (21.17%) Finance
3 184 (11.56%) Public Sector
4 95 (5.97%) Presentation Skills
5 85 (5.34%) Legal
6 84 (5.28%) Organisational Skills
7 66 (4.15%) Manufacturing
8 58 (3.64%) Banking
9 55 (3.45%) Telecoms
10 49 (3.08%) Marketing
11 43 (2.70%) Retail
12 41 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
13 36 (2.26%) Military
14 35 (2.20%) Aerospace
15 27 (1.70%) Law
16 24 (1.51%) Local Government
16 24 (1.51%) Pharmaceutical
17 22 (1.38%) Police
18 17 (1.07%) Electronics
18 17 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 378 (23.74%) Analyst
2 133 (8.35%) Lead
3 121 (7.60%) Developer
4 120 (7.54%) Architect
5 118 (7.41%) Senior
6 89 (5.59%) Data Analyst
7 77 (4.84%) Business Analyst
7 77 (4.84%) Consultant
8 71 (4.46%) Project Manager
9 51 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
10 48 (3.02%) Data Engineer
11 45 (2.83%) IT Engineer
12 39 (2.45%) Network Engineer
13 36 (2.26%) Service Analyst
14 34 (2.14%) Support Engineer
15 32 (2.01%) Field Engineer
15 32 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
16 31 (1.95%) Service Desk Analyst
17 30 (1.88%) Field Service Engineer
17 30 (1.88%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (3.08%) REST
2 42 (2.64%) .NET
3 29 (1.82%) HTML
4 28 (1.76%) CSS
5 27 (1.70%) React
6 25 (1.57%) Java EE
7 23 (1.44%) .NET Core
8 20 (1.26%) Kafka
9 18 (1.13%) XML
10 16 (1.01%) Web Services
11 15 (0.94%) Apache NiFi
12 14 (0.88%) JSON
13 12 (0.75%) ARM Templates
13 12 (0.75%) Middleware
13 12 (0.75%) PySpark
14 11 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (0.63%) .NET Framework
15 10 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
16 9 (0.57%) ASP.NET
16 9 (0.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 156 (9.80%) Management Information System
2 90 (5.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 79 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 71 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
5 38 (2.39%) Data Centre
6 37 (2.32%) Cyber Defence
7 29 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 24 (1.51%) Credit Risk
8 24 (1.51%) Virtual Team
9 22 (1.38%) Client/Server
9 22 (1.38%) Onboarding
9 22 (1.38%) PKI
10 21 (1.32%) Distributed Applications
10 21 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
10 21 (1.32%) Operational Technology
10 21 (1.32%) Replication
10 21 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
11 18 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (1.01%) Clustering
12 16 (1.01%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 188 (11.81%) Windows
2 120 (7.54%) Linux
3 56 (3.52%) Unix
4 55 (3.45%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.76%) Apple iOS
6 27 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 25 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
8 22 (1.38%) Android
9 21 (1.32%) Windows 10
10 15 (0.94%) Mac OS
10 15 (0.94%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.38%) AIX
11 6 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
12 5 (0.31%) Solaris
13 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.19%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.13%) CentOS
15 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
16 1 (0.063%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 930 (58.42%) Problem-Solving
2 375 (23.56%) Agile
3 258 (16.21%) Project Management
4 193 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
5 181 (11.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 170 (10.68%) Decision-Making
7 166 (10.43%) Analytics
8 163 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 148 (9.30%) DevOps
10 123 (7.73%) Customer Service
11 120 (7.54%) ITIL
12 115 (7.22%) Change Management
12 115 (7.22%) Computer Science
13 114 (7.16%) Cybersecurity
14 106 (6.66%) Data Analysis
15 95 (5.97%) Migration
15 95 (5.97%) Service Management
16 93 (5.84%) Project Delivery
17 88 (5.53%) Roadmaps
18 86 (5.40%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 210 (13.19%) SQL
2 155 (9.74%) Python
3 93 (5.84%) Java
4 78 (4.90%) PowerShell
5 42 (2.64%) JavaScript
6 27 (1.70%) C#
7 23 (1.44%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.19%) T-SQL
9 16 (1.01%) C
9 16 (1.01%) R
10 14 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 14 (0.88%) VBScript
11 13 (0.82%) Bash
11 13 (0.82%) Scala
12 9 (0.57%) Perl
12 9 (0.57%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.57%) VBA
13 8 (0.50%) TypeScript
14 6 (0.38%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 388 (24.37%) Security Cleared
2 308 (19.35%) Degree
3 229 (14.38%) SC Cleared
4 147 (9.23%) DV Cleared
5 74 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 53 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 50 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
8 41 (2.58%) Master's Degree
9 40 (2.51%) MCSE
10 34 (2.14%) CCNA
11 28 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
12 27 (1.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 26 (1.63%) CISSP
14 25 (1.57%) APMP
14 25 (1.57%) CCNP
15 20 (1.26%) MCSA
15 20 (1.26%) PMI Certification
16 18 (1.13%) PMP
17 16 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
18 14 (0.88%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (4.65%) QA
2 68 (4.27%) SLA
3 55 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 52 (3.27%) PMO
5 42 (2.64%) GDPR
6 23 (1.44%) Accessibility
7 19 (1.19%) Actionable Recommendations
8 17 (1.07%) Disclosure Scotland
9 14 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 14 (0.88%) NIST
10 9 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.44%) GRC
12 7 (0.44%) GxP
13 6 (0.38%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.31%) GAMP
15 4 (0.25%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.25%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 4 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 89 (5.59%) Active Directory
2 69 (4.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (1.51%) Docker
4 16 (1.01%) VMware NSX
5 10 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
6 9 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.57%) VMware Workstation
6 9 (0.57%) vSphere
7 7 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.31%) Firmware
9 3 (0.19%) HDFS
9 3 (0.19%) OpenAM
9 3 (0.19%) OpenIDM
9 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
9 3 (0.19%) SRDF
9 3 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.13%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.13%) KVM
10 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.063%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 80 (5.03%) Ansible
2 39 (2.45%) SCCM
3 34 (2.14%) Kubernetes
4 33 (2.07%) Terraform
5 26 (1.63%) NetBackup
5 26 (1.63%) Puppet
6 20 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
6 20 (1.26%) PowerCLI
7 15 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.82%) Kibana
9 12 (0.75%) Grafana
9 12 (0.75%) Podman
10 11 (0.69%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.69%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.63%) logstash
12 9 (0.57%) Nagios
13 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Clustering
14 6 (0.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 6 (0.38%) vCenter Server
15 5 (0.31%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 313 (19.66%) Microsoft
2 106 (6.66%) SAP
3 96 (6.03%) Oracle
4 84 (5.28%) VMware
5 53 (3.33%) Cisco
6 37 (2.32%) ServiceNow
7 34 (2.14%) Alteryx
7 34 (2.14%) Splunk
8 32 (2.01%) Atlassian
8 32 (2.01%) Dell
9 31 (1.95%) Salesforce
10 29 (1.82%) Google
11 26 (1.63%) HP
12 24 (1.51%) Red Hat
13 19 (1.19%) Citrix
14 18 (1.13%) Veritas
15 17 (1.07%) IBM
15 17 (1.07%) Juniper
16 15 (0.94%) Aruba
16 15 (0.94%) Brocade