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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 3,436 4,163 5,877
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 7.94% 7.47% 6.66%
As % of the General category 13.87% 12.76% 11.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,197 2,744 3,755
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £743 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 223 124 161
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.11 £12.88
25th Percentile £13.25 £22.44 £15.80
Median hourly rate £19.00 £44.50 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year -57.30% +36.50% +45.18%
75th Percentile £28.75 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £47.30 £71.38 £64.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.39 £51.15 £27.71
% change year-on-year -66.00% +84.58% +49.78%

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 24,777 32,618 50,237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.22% 58.55% 56.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,531 22,606 34,931
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
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 £769 £781 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,998 995 1,403
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £30.06 £31.92 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +41.87% +6.89%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £67.38 £71.27 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £27.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +3.35% +41.03% +2.63%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 8 June 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 2,934 £525 -0.94% 3,842
UK excluding London +3 1,659 £500 - 2,589
London +3 1,417 £550 -4.35% 1,288
Work from Home +4 1,090 £500 -4.76% 1,376
South East -3 451 £525 -4.55% 597
North of England +2 349 £500 +2.88% 717
Midlands +1 252 £525 +10.53% 497
South West +19 250 £525 -4.55% 366
Scotland 0 203 £463 -3.39% 142
West Midlands 0 187 £525 +8.53% 289
North West +3 179 £488 +3.45% 424
Yorkshire +8 143 £500 -4.76% 222
East of England -2 110 £475 +18.75% 276
East Midlands +2 60 £450 -4.00% 209
Wales +16 35 £425 +21.43% 54
North East +17 25 £575 +41.54% 85
Northern Ireland +2 19 £513 +79.82% 33
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
1 148 (4.31%) Confluence
2 95 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 65 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 57 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 40 (1.16%) Apache
6 23 (0.67%) SAS
7 21 (0.61%) CMS
8 15 (0.44%) Tomcat
9 10 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
10 9 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
10 9 (0.26%) nginx
11 8 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
11 8 (0.23%) IIS
11 8 (0.23%) WebSphere
12 7 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
12 7 (0.20%) JBoss
13 6 (0.17%) Oracle Self-Service HR
14 5 (0.15%) Appian
14 5 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 307 (8.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 194 (5.65%) Microsoft Office
3 96 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 61 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
5 56 (1.63%) MS Visio
5 56 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.32%) Sketch
7 10 (0.29%) SPSS
8 8 (0.23%) Acrobat
9 6 (0.17%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.17%) Trello
10 5 (0.15%) InVision
11 4 (0.12%) MicroStation
11 4 (0.12%) Windchill
12 3 (0.087%) AutoCAD
13 2 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.058%) Autodesk Inventor
13 2 (0.058%) Chatbot
13 2 (0.058%) Mingle
13 2 (0.058%) Revit
Business Applications
1 67 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 32 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
3 27 (0.79%) Dynamics AX
4 23 (0.67%) Oracle EBS R12
4 23 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
5 22 (0.64%) Endur
6 18 (0.52%) Oracle Receivables
7 17 (0.49%) Maximo
8 16 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
8 16 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
9 15 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 15 (0.44%) SAP CO
9 15 (0.44%) SAP FI
9 15 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
10 14 (0.41%) Oracle AGIS
11 13 (0.38%) Aligne
11 13 (0.38%) SAP HCM
11 13 (0.38%) Teamcenter
12 12 (0.35%) SAP SD
13 11 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 548 (15.95%) Azure
2 353 (10.27%) Power Platform
3 289 (8.41%) AWS
4 149 (4.34%) Microsoft 365
5 122 (3.55%) GCP
6 117 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 83 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
8 67 (1.95%) PowerApps
9 64 (1.86%) Power Automate
10 62 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
11 59 (1.72%) GitHub
12 56 (1.63%) Snowflake
13 46 (1.34%) Serverless
14 45 (1.31%) SaaS
15 44 (1.28%) Entra ID
16 35 (1.02%) OCI
17 33 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
18 28 (0.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 28 (0.81%) Azure Functions
19 26 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 111 (3.23%) Firewall
2 85 (2.47%) Network Security
3 80 (2.33%) DNS
4 73 (2.12%) VPN
5 49 (1.43%) DHCP
6 47 (1.37%) WAN
7 44 (1.28%) LAN
8 42 (1.22%) TCP/IP
9 35 (1.02%) Wireless
10 33 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
11 31 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (0.81%) BGP
13 27 (0.79%) MPLS
14 26 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
14 26 (0.76%) VLAN
15 25 (0.73%) Internet
16 24 (0.70%) HTTP
17 23 (0.67%) OSPF
18 21 (0.61%) SAN
19 19 (0.55%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 336 (9.78%) Power BI
2 169 (4.92%) Tableau
3 150 (4.37%) SQL Server
4 106 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
5 99 (2.88%) Big Data
5 99 (2.88%) Relational Database
6 86 (2.50%) Data Lake
7 72 (2.10%) NoSQL
8 49 (1.43%) Hadoop
9 43 (1.25%) Metadata
10 41 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
11 38 (1.11%) MongoDB
12 34 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
13 33 (0.96%) Data Mining
14 32 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 29 (0.84%) RDBMS
16 28 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 26 (0.76%) Oracle Database
18 22 (0.64%) MySQL
19 21 (0.61%) GIS
Development Applications
1 302 (8.79%) JIRA
2 137 (3.99%) Git
3 92 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 64 (1.86%) Selenium
5 61 (1.78%) GitLab
6 41 (1.19%) Cucumber
7 37 (1.08%) Bitbucket
8 29 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 26 (0.76%) TeamCity
10 25 (0.73%) REST Assured
11 24 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 20 (0.58%) Cypress.io
13 17 (0.49%) JUnit
14 14 (0.41%) JMeter
14 14 (0.41%) Postman
14 14 (0.41%) Visual Studio
14 14 (0.41%) webpack
15 13 (0.38%) LoadRunner
16 12 (0.35%) Maven
16 12 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
General
1 1,890 (55.01%) Social Skills
2 973 (28.32%) Finance
3 313 (9.11%) Public Sector
4 250 (7.28%) Banking
5 189 (5.50%) Presentation Skills
6 150 (4.37%) Marketing
7 130 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
8 126 (3.67%) Legal
9 124 (3.61%) Retail
10 101 (2.94%) Manufacturing
11 90 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
12 88 (2.56%) Telecoms
13 78 (2.27%) Front Office
14 57 (1.66%) Investment Banking
15 48 (1.40%) General Ledger
16 45 (1.31%) Law
17 43 (1.25%) Local Government
18 42 (1.22%) Financial Institution
19 41 (1.19%) Military
20 40 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 789 (22.96%) Analyst
2 408 (11.87%) Developer
3 268 (7.80%) Architect
3 268 (7.80%) Senior
4 252 (7.33%) Consultant
5 229 (6.66%) Business Analyst
6 214 (6.23%) Lead
7 175 (5.09%) Data Analyst
8 139 (4.05%) Project Manager
9 107 (3.11%) Data Engineer
10 104 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
11 86 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
12 69 (2.01%) Network Engineer
13 64 (1.86%) Full Stack Developer
14 60 (1.75%) IT Engineer
15 56 (1.63%) Java Developer
16 55 (1.60%) Service Analyst
17 53 (1.54%) Administrator
18 52 (1.51%) Support Engineer
19 48 (1.40%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (2.91%) React
2 98 (2.85%) .NET
3 97 (2.82%) HTML
4 95 (2.76%) REST
5 88 (2.56%) CSS
6 65 (1.89%) XML
7 63 (1.83%) Kafka
8 59 (1.72%) AngularJS
8 59 (1.72%) Web Services
9 53 (1.54%) RESTful
10 50 (1.46%) Middleware
11 47 (1.37%) JSON
12 35 (1.02%) .NET Core
12 35 (1.02%) PySpark
13 34 (0.99%) Spring
14 30 (0.87%) Node.js
15 28 (0.81%) SOAP
16 26 (0.76%) Spring Boot
17 25 (0.73%) Java EE
18 24 (0.70%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 262 (7.63%) Management Information System
2 171 (4.98%) Analytical Mindset
3 148 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
4 127 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 101 (2.94%) Data Structures
6 78 (2.27%) Algorithms
7 61 (1.78%) Data Centre
8 49 (1.43%) Cyber Defence
9 48 (1.40%) Derivative
10 44 (1.28%) Onboarding
11 43 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
12 39 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 38 (1.11%) Security Posture
14 33 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
14 33 (0.96%) Fixed Income
15 32 (0.93%) Credit Risk
15 32 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
16 31 (0.90%) Virtual Team
17 29 (0.84%) Distributed Applications
17 29 (0.84%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 314 (9.14%) Windows
2 222 (6.46%) Linux
3 134 (3.90%) Unix
4 97 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 39 (1.14%) Windows 10
6 35 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 35 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 34 (0.99%) Android
7 34 (0.99%) Windows 7
7 34 (0.99%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (0.41%) Mac OS
9 10 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
10 8 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (0.20%) AIX
11 7 (0.20%) zOS
12 6 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.15%) Kali Linux
13 5 (0.15%) Solaris
14 3 (0.087%) VMS
15 2 (0.058%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,950 (56.75%) Problem-Solving
2 832 (24.21%) Agile
3 500 (14.55%) Project Management
4 431 (12.54%) Business Intelligence
5 407 (11.85%) Analytics
6 368 (10.71%) Computer Science
7 347 (10.10%) DevOps
8 342 (9.95%) Decision-Making
9 331 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 322 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 276 (8.03%) Data Modelling
12 250 (7.28%) Data Analysis
13 232 (6.75%) Migration
14 226 (6.58%) Change Management
15 213 (6.20%) Cybersecurity
16 211 (6.14%) Visualisation
17 204 (5.94%) CI/CD
18 200 (5.82%) Customer Service
19 199 (5.79%) ITIL
20 196 (5.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 605 (17.61%) SQL
2 458 (13.33%) Python
3 253 (7.36%) Java
4 152 (4.42%) PowerShell
5 148 (4.31%) JavaScript
6 128 (3.73%) C#
7 59 (1.72%) R
8 58 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 54 (1.57%) TypeScript
10 52 (1.51%) Scala
10 52 (1.51%) Shell Script
11 47 (1.37%) C++
12 37 (1.08%) T-SQL
13 34 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 31 (0.90%) Perl
15 26 (0.76%) C
16 25 (0.73%) Go
17 23 (0.67%) Bash
18 18 (0.52%) VBScript
19 17 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 767 (22.32%) Degree
2 554 (16.12%) Security Cleared
3 339 (9.87%) SC Cleared
4 243 (7.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 190 (5.53%) DV Cleared
6 136 (3.96%) Master's Degree
7 78 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 76 (2.21%) CISSP
9 70 (2.04%) Cisco Certification
10 57 (1.66%) PMP
11 56 (1.63%) PMI Certification
12 46 (1.34%) MCSE
13 45 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
14 41 (1.19%) CCNA
14 41 (1.19%) CISM
15 35 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
16 34 (0.99%) Azure Certification
16 34 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
17 33 (0.96%) CCNP
18 31 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 177 (5.15%) QA
3 115 (3.35%) SLA
4 103 (3.00%) GDPR
5 88 (2.56%) PMO
6 59 (1.72%) NIST
7 46 (1.34%) Accessibility
8 41 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 40 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 22 (0.64%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
11 16 (0.47%) HIPAA
12 15 (0.44%) NIST 800
13 12 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 12 (0.35%) GAAP
14 11 (0.32%) EMIR
14 11 (0.32%) GRC
15 10 (0.29%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
16 8 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 158 (4.60%) Active Directory
2 89 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 78 (2.27%) Docker
4 18 (0.52%) VMware NSX
5 17 (0.49%) vSphere
6 14 (0.41%) HDFS
7 12 (0.35%) Firmware
8 11 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 11 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 10 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
10 9 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
10 9 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 9 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
11 8 (0.23%) BitLocker
12 5 (0.15%) Snort
13 4 (0.12%) KVM
14 3 (0.087%) OpenAM
14 3 (0.087%) OpenIDM
14 3 (0.087%) SRDF
15 1 (0.029%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 99 (2.88%) Ansible
1 99 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 66 (1.92%) Terraform
3 53 (1.54%) SCCM
4 32 (0.93%) Puppet
5 27 (0.79%) Grafana
5 27 (0.79%) NetBackup
6 26 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 24 (0.70%) Kibana
8 22 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
9 21 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
10 19 (0.55%) PowerCLI
11 18 (0.52%) logstash
12 14 (0.41%) Podman
12 14 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
13 12 (0.35%) Progress Chef
14 11 (0.32%) Consul
15 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Clustering
15 10 (0.29%) Nagios
16 8 (0.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 695 (20.23%) Microsoft
2 273 (7.95%) Oracle
3 217 (6.32%) SAP
4 111 (3.23%) VMware
5 86 (2.50%) Google
6 84 (2.44%) Cisco
7 79 (2.30%) ServiceNow
8 72 (2.10%) Salesforce
9 55 (1.60%) Databricks
10 52 (1.51%) Splunk
11 48 (1.40%) Alteryx
12 44 (1.28%) IBM
13 40 (1.16%) Atlassian
13 40 (1.16%) Dell
14 32 (0.93%) F5
15 30 (0.87%) Red Hat
16 29 (0.84%) Adobe
17 28 (0.81%) HP
18 24 (0.70%) Citrix
19 21 (0.61%) Juniper