Analytical Skills Contracts

Analytical Skills
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 29
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,494 4,293 5,757
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 8.05% 7.27% 6.49%
As % of the General category 13.84% 12.43% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,244 2,795 3,719
10th Percentile £306 £300 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.25%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £485 £463
% change year-on-year +3.20% +4.86% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 127 173
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.25 £22.50 £18.62
Median hourly rate £18.00 £43.86 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -58.96% +14.95% +64.37%
75th Percentile £26.98 £58.67 £51.75
90th Percentile £47.63 £72.98 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £49.57 £32.40
% change year-on-year -64.70% +52.99% +70.53%

All General Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 25,243 34,529 49,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.17% 58.46% 56.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,931 23,943 34,598
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £768 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,945 1,058 1,430
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.98 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.60 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.96% +48.16% -2.22%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £58.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -2.59% +54.67% -4.79%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the UK

Analytical Skills
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 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
England +5 2,947 £538 +2.38% 3,887
UK excluding London +2 1,607 £501 +3.20% 2,553
London +4 1,491 £550 -4.35% 1,468
Work from Home +7 1,162 £500 -3.29% 1,471
South East 0 423 £537 +0.34% 593
North of England +5 332 £500 +5.26% 686
South West +24 260 £525 - 347
Midlands +1 233 £525 +11.70% 485
Scotland -3 214 £475 - 148
West Midlands +1 175 £550 +15.79% 290
North West +1 172 £488 +11.11% 371
Yorkshire +13 135 £514 -2.10% 247
East of England -6 112 £500 +33.33% 265
East Midlands +3 53 £450 - 195
Wales +9 33 £525 +16.67% 68
North East +24 24 £590 +124.76% 75
Northern Ireland +1 13 £419 -1.47% 39
Isle of Man - 2 £388 - 4

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 142 (4.06%) Confluence
2 93 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 63 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 54 (1.55%) Apache Spark
5 33 (0.94%) Apache
6 19 (0.54%) SAS
7 17 (0.49%) CMS
7 17 (0.49%) Tomcat
8 11 (0.31%) nginx
9 10 (0.29%) IIS
10 9 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 9 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
11 8 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
11 8 (0.23%) JBoss
11 8 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 6 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 5 (0.14%) Appian
13 5 (0.14%) CICS
14 4 (0.11%) IBM Domino
14 4 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 334 (9.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 215 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
3 109 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 72 (2.06%) MS Visio
5 60 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
6 49 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
7 11 (0.31%) Sketch
7 11 (0.31%) SPSS
8 8 (0.23%) Acrobat
9 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 5 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.14%) InVision
11 4 (0.11%) Revit
12 3 (0.086%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 3 (0.086%) MicroStation
12 3 (0.086%) Windchill
13 2 (0.057%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.057%) Mingle
14 1 (0.029%) Autodesk Inventor
14 1 (0.029%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 61 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 30 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
3 28 (0.80%) Dynamics AX
4 26 (0.74%) Endur
5 22 (0.63%) Oracle EBS R12
5 22 (0.63%) Oracle Payables
6 17 (0.49%) Maximo
6 17 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
7 16 (0.46%) Oracle General Ledger
7 16 (0.46%) SAP HCM
8 15 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
8 15 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 15 (0.43%) SAP SD
9 13 (0.37%) Aligne
9 13 (0.37%) Oracle AGIS
9 13 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
9 13 (0.37%) SAP CO
9 13 (0.37%) SAP FI
9 13 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
9 13 (0.37%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 511 (14.63%) Azure
2 352 (10.07%) Power Platform
3 298 (8.53%) AWS
4 154 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
5 113 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 112 (3.21%) GCP
7 76 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
8 71 (2.03%) PowerApps
9 66 (1.89%) Power Automate
10 59 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
11 57 (1.63%) Snowflake
12 55 (1.57%) Serverless
13 54 (1.55%) GitHub
14 44 (1.26%) SaaS
15 39 (1.12%) Entra ID
16 37 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
17 35 (1.00%) OCI
18 28 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
19 26 (0.74%) Amazon S3
19 26 (0.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 116 (3.32%) Firewall
2 94 (2.69%) Network Security
3 77 (2.20%) DNS
4 75 (2.15%) VPN
5 59 (1.69%) WAN
6 53 (1.52%) LAN
7 42 (1.20%) Wireless
8 41 (1.17%) DHCP
9 39 (1.12%) TCP/IP
10 34 (0.97%) BGP
10 34 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
11 30 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
12 28 (0.80%) OSPF
13 26 (0.74%) HTTP
13 26 (0.74%) MPLS
14 24 (0.69%) Internet
14 24 (0.69%) VLAN
15 22 (0.63%) Cisco Nexus
15 22 (0.63%) SAN
16 16 (0.46%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 335 (9.59%) Power BI
2 166 (4.75%) Tableau
3 156 (4.46%) SQL Server
4 107 (3.06%) Relational Database
5 103 (2.95%) Data Warehouse
6 101 (2.89%) Big Data
7 80 (2.29%) Data Lake
8 63 (1.80%) NoSQL
9 50 (1.43%) Hadoop
10 49 (1.40%) Metadata
11 45 (1.29%) PostgreSQL
12 40 (1.14%) MongoDB
13 39 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 36 (1.03%) Data Mining
15 34 (0.97%) Oracle Reports
15 34 (0.97%) RDBMS
16 27 (0.77%) Oracle Database
17 26 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 23 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
19 22 (0.63%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 309 (8.84%) JIRA
2 115 (3.29%) Git
3 86 (2.46%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.63%) GitLab
5 54 (1.55%) Selenium
6 40 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 34 (0.97%) TeamCity
8 32 (0.92%) Bitbucket
9 27 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 25 (0.72%) REST Assured
11 24 (0.69%) Cypress.io
11 24 (0.69%) SonarQube
12 22 (0.63%) webpack
13 20 (0.57%) Maven
14 14 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
15 13 (0.37%) JUnit
15 13 (0.37%) Oracle Forms
15 13 (0.37%) Visual Studio
16 11 (0.31%) Postman
17 10 (0.29%) JMeter
General
1 1,929 (55.21%) Social Skills
2 975 (27.90%) Finance
3 323 (9.24%) Public Sector
4 237 (6.78%) Banking
5 199 (5.70%) Presentation Skills
6 151 (4.32%) Marketing
7 146 (4.18%) Legal
8 142 (4.06%) Organisational Skills
9 122 (3.49%) Retail
10 105 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
11 103 (2.95%) Front Office
12 101 (2.89%) Manufacturing
13 96 (2.75%) Telecoms
14 63 (1.80%) Investment Banking
15 51 (1.46%) Law
16 46 (1.32%) General Ledger
17 44 (1.26%) Military
18 42 (1.20%) Local Government
19 39 (1.12%) Financial Institution
20 35 (1.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 800 (22.90%) Analyst
2 403 (11.53%) Developer
3 271 (7.76%) Architect
4 254 (7.27%) Business Analyst
4 254 (7.27%) Senior
5 250 (7.16%) Consultant
6 230 (6.58%) Lead
7 170 (4.87%) Data Analyst
8 142 (4.06%) Project Manager
9 108 (3.09%) Data Engineer
10 103 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
11 71 (2.03%) Senior Analyst
12 68 (1.95%) IT Engineer
13 63 (1.80%) Network Engineer
14 60 (1.72%) Support Engineer
15 59 (1.69%) Service Analyst
16 56 (1.60%) Administrator
17 54 (1.55%) Full Stack Developer
18 53 (1.52%) IT Analyst
19 52 (1.49%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (3.18%) React
2 102 (2.92%) HTML
3 100 (2.86%) REST
4 99 (2.83%) CSS
5 92 (2.63%) .NET
6 70 (2.00%) AngularJS
7 60 (1.72%) XML
8 56 (1.60%) Kafka
9 48 (1.37%) Node.js
10 47 (1.35%) Web Services
11 42 (1.20%) JSON
12 41 (1.17%) RESTful
13 38 (1.09%) Middleware
14 35 (1.00%) .NET Core
15 34 (0.97%) PySpark
16 28 (0.80%) Spring
16 28 (0.80%) WebSockets
17 25 (0.72%) Java EE
18 23 (0.66%) SOAP
19 22 (0.63%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 272 (7.78%) Management Information System
2 189 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 147 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
4 129 (3.69%) Product Ownership
5 93 (2.66%) Data Structures
6 78 (2.23%) Algorithms
7 56 (1.60%) Data Centre
8 49 (1.40%) Onboarding
9 47 (1.35%) Derivative
10 46 (1.32%) Cyber Defence
11 43 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
12 38 (1.09%) Fixed Income
13 35 (1.00%) Virtual Team
14 33 (0.94%) Security Operations Centre
15 32 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
15 32 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
16 31 (0.89%) Credit Risk
16 31 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 31 (0.89%) PKI
16 31 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 322 (9.22%) Windows
2 222 (6.35%) Linux
3 132 (3.78%) Unix
4 93 (2.66%) Windows Server
5 46 (1.32%) Windows 10
6 41 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 37 (1.06%) Windows 7
8 35 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
9 31 (0.89%) Apple iOS
10 29 (0.83%) Android
11 20 (0.57%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
12 12 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
13 7 (0.20%) AIX
13 7 (0.20%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.20%) zOS
14 4 (0.11%) Solaris
15 3 (0.086%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.029%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,993 (57.04%) Problem-Solving
2 873 (24.99%) Agile
3 536 (15.34%) Project Management
4 433 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
5 419 (11.99%) Analytics
6 360 (10.30%) Decision-Making
7 345 (9.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 338 (9.67%) Computer Science
9 328 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 320 (9.16%) DevOps
11 278 (7.96%) Data Modelling
12 274 (7.84%) Data Analysis
13 233 (6.67%) Migration
14 223 (6.38%) Visualisation
15 222 (6.35%) Customer Service
15 222 (6.35%) Cybersecurity
16 221 (6.33%) Change Management
17 218 (6.24%) ITIL
18 209 (5.98%) Roadmaps
19 189 (5.41%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 584 (16.71%) SQL
2 428 (12.25%) Python
3 245 (7.01%) Java
4 157 (4.49%) JavaScript
5 132 (3.78%) C#
6 131 (3.75%) PowerShell
7 71 (2.03%) TypeScript
8 62 (1.77%) Scala
9 59 (1.69%) R
10 58 (1.66%) PL/SQL
11 41 (1.17%) Shell Script
12 38 (1.09%) C++
13 37 (1.06%) T-SQL
14 34 (0.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 30 (0.86%) Perl
16 21 (0.60%) Go
17 20 (0.57%) Bash
18 17 (0.49%) C
18 17 (0.49%) VBA
18 17 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 759 (21.72%) Degree
2 593 (16.97%) Security Cleared
3 389 (11.13%) SC Cleared
4 235 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 182 (5.21%) DV Cleared
6 127 (3.63%) Master's Degree
7 86 (2.46%) CISSP
8 80 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 74 (2.12%) Cisco Certification
10 59 (1.69%) PMI Certification
10 59 (1.69%) PMP
11 48 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 47 (1.35%) CISM
13 45 (1.29%) CCNA
14 44 (1.26%) MCSE
15 40 (1.14%) CCNP
16 37 (1.06%) Azure Certification
17 36 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
18 30 (0.86%) APMP
19 26 (0.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (5.55%) QA
2 190 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 110 (3.15%) SLA
4 91 (2.60%) GDPR
5 89 (2.55%) PMO
6 48 (1.37%) NIST
7 47 (1.35%) Accessibility
8 35 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
9 31 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 21 (0.60%) PCI DSS
11 19 (0.54%) Disclosure Scotland
12 14 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 13 (0.37%) EMIR
13 13 (0.37%) NIST 800
14 12 (0.34%) GAAP
15 10 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
15 10 (0.29%) GRC
15 10 (0.29%) HIPAA
15 10 (0.29%) ISO 20022
15 10 (0.29%) MiFID
System Software
1 145 (4.15%) Active Directory
2 84 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 53 (1.52%) Docker
4 21 (0.60%) VMware NSX
5 12 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.34%) vSphere
6 11 (0.31%) Firmware
6 11 (0.31%) HDFS
7 10 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.26%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 9 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
9 6 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.14%) Snort
10 5 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.11%) KVM
11 4 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
12 3 (0.086%) NFS
12 3 (0.086%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.086%) OpenIDM
12 3 (0.086%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 92 (2.63%) Ansible
2 80 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 57 (1.63%) Terraform
4 53 (1.52%) SCCM
5 28 (0.80%) NetBackup
6 27 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (0.77%) Puppet
7 24 (0.69%) Grafana
8 21 (0.60%) Kibana
8 21 (0.60%) Prometheus
9 20 (0.57%) PowerCLI
10 18 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
11 15 (0.43%) logstash
11 15 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
12 14 (0.40%) Podman
13 11 (0.31%) FortiGate
13 11 (0.31%) Progress Chef
14 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
14 10 (0.29%) Nagios
15 8 (0.23%) Consul
Vendors
1 690 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 280 (8.01%) Oracle
3 221 (6.33%) SAP
4 108 (3.09%) VMware
5 93 (2.66%) Cisco
6 82 (2.35%) Google
7 75 (2.15%) ServiceNow
8 63 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 57 (1.63%) Databricks
10 50 (1.43%) Splunk
11 45 (1.29%) Alteryx
12 40 (1.14%) Atlassian
13 39 (1.12%) IBM
14 37 (1.06%) Dell
15 31 (0.89%) HP
15 31 (0.89%) Red Hat
16 29 (0.83%) Adobe
17 28 (0.80%) Juniper
18 27 (0.77%) Citrix
19 24 (0.69%) F5