Analytics Contracts

Analytics
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Analytics skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytics over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 38 31
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,106 3,242 5,522
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.83% 5.43% 6.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.60% 6.04% 6.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,419 2,272 3,833
10th Percentile £358 £360 £400
25th Percentile £450 £458 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £653
90th Percentile £788 £788 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.34% +2.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 54 65
10th Percentile £15.32 £20.69 £11.30
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.16 £21.04
Median hourly rate £30.37 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% -8.57% +29.63%
75th Percentile £46.25 £52.56 £46.12
90th Percentile £71.00 £77.40 £65.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.26% -22.14% +52.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Analytics is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

Analytics
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytics over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytics in the UK

Analytics
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Analytics within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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
England -3 1,764 £550 - 2,060
London -3 1,039 £575 -4.17% 1,052
Work from Home +6 834 £550 +1.85% 915
UK excluding London 0 776 £525 +2.34% 1,082
South East +3 197 £550 +11.11% 222
North of England -10 162 £500 -6.98% 346
Midlands +6 147 £583 +11.05% 195
West Midlands +12 119 £575 +6.88% 120
Scotland +9 117 £500 +4.33% 83
North West +4 103 £500 - 228
South West +22 96 £513 -6.82% 108
Yorkshire -21 54 £500 -7.41% 82
East of England -7 47 £500 -6.98% 101
East Midlands +11 28 £613 +28.95% 75
Wales +21 20 £550 -4.30% 29
North East +9 10 £477 -17.04% 39
Northern Ireland +7 3 £400 -3.03% 17

Analytics
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 59 (2.80%) SharePoint
2 55 (2.61%) Apache Spark
3 47 (2.23%) Confluence
4 42 (1.99%) Apache Airflow
5 37 (1.76%) CMS
6 33 (1.57%) SAS
7 32 (1.52%) Apache
8 22 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 8 (0.38%) WordPress
11 4 (0.19%) Drupal
11 4 (0.19%) govService
12 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.095%) Apache Solr
13 2 (0.095%) CICS
13 2 (0.095%) GeoServer
13 2 (0.095%) Headless CMS
13 2 (0.095%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.095%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.76%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.38%) SPSS
7 5 (0.24%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.19%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.19%) Sketch
9 2 (0.095%) Adobe Illustrator
9 2 (0.095%) Simulink
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe Premiere
10 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.047%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.047%) InVision
10 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 48 (2.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 25 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
3 19 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.57%) Oracle EBS R12
5 11 (0.52%) Oracle 11i
6 10 (0.47%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 10 (0.47%) SAP FI-AP
7 8 (0.38%) Shopify
8 7 (0.33%) Adobe Campaign
8 7 (0.33%) Endur
8 7 (0.33%) NetSuite
8 7 (0.33%) SAP ERP
9 6 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
9 6 (0.28%) SAP BPC
10 4 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Cash Management
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
10 4 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
10 4 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 4 (0.19%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 514 (24.41%) Azure
2 349 (16.57%) Power Platform
3 303 (14.39%) AWS
4 154 (7.31%) GCP
5 117 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 115 (5.46%) Google Analytics
7 89 (4.23%) Snowflake
8 83 (3.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 71 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
10 67 (3.18%) Serverless
11 63 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
12 45 (2.14%) Microsoft 365
13 43 (2.04%) GitHub
14 42 (1.99%) dbt
15 41 (1.95%) Adobe Analytics
16 40 (1.90%) SaaS
17 37 (1.76%) Amazon S3
18 33 (1.57%) AWS Lambda
18 33 (1.57%) PowerApps
19 31 (1.47%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 56 (2.66%) Firewall
2 36 (1.71%) Network Security
3 31 (1.47%) DNS
4 25 (1.19%) DHCP
5 21 (1.00%) Intranet
5 21 (1.00%) VPN
5 21 (1.00%) WAN
6 19 (0.90%) LAN
7 13 (0.62%) Internet
8 11 (0.52%) VoIP
9 10 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
10 9 (0.43%) Cisco ISE
10 9 (0.43%) MPLS
10 9 (0.43%) PBX
10 9 (0.43%) WLAN
11 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
12 5 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (0.24%) Cisco Firepower
12 5 (0.24%) LTE
12 5 (0.24%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 336 (15.95%) Power BI
2 245 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
3 165 (7.83%) Tableau
4 123 (5.84%) Data Lake
5 122 (5.79%) Big Data
6 77 (3.66%) SQL Server
7 55 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 54 (2.56%) NoSQL
9 52 (2.47%) BigQuery
10 51 (2.42%) Azure SQL Database
11 49 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
12 47 (2.23%) Relational Database
13 45 (2.14%) Looker
14 38 (1.80%) Metadata
15 35 (1.66%) MySQL
16 33 (1.57%) KDB
17 28 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
18 26 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 25 (1.19%) Delta Lake
20 24 (1.14%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 98 (4.65%) JIRA
2 72 (3.42%) Git
3 50 (2.37%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.66%) Cypress.io
4 14 (0.66%) GitLab
4 14 (0.66%) Postman
5 13 (0.62%) JMeter
6 11 (0.52%) Subversion
7 9 (0.43%) Artifactory
7 9 (0.43%) Visual Studio
7 9 (0.43%) Visual Website Optimizer
8 8 (0.38%) MLflow
9 7 (0.33%) Selenium
10 6 (0.28%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.28%) ERwin
10 6 (0.28%) LoadRunner
10 6 (0.28%) Maven
10 6 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (0.24%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.19%) Cucumber
General
1 583 (27.68%) Social Skills
2 498 (23.65%) Finance
3 412 (19.56%) Analytical Skills
4 173 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 148 (7.03%) Marketing
6 121 (5.75%) Banking
7 91 (4.32%) Front Office
8 88 (4.18%) Retail
9 70 (3.32%) Legal
10 68 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
11 59 (2.80%) Manufacturing
12 56 (2.66%) Telecoms
13 48 (2.28%) Investment Banking
14 37 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 34 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
15 34 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
16 21 (1.00%) Advertising
17 17 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
18 16 (0.76%) Local Government
19 15 (0.71%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 360 (17.09%) Analyst
2 309 (14.67%) Developer
3 244 (11.59%) Architect
4 221 (10.49%) Data Engineer
5 205 (9.73%) Senior
6 156 (7.41%) Lead
7 153 (7.26%) Data Analyst
8 100 (4.75%) Data Architect
9 99 (4.70%) Consultant
10 80 (3.80%) Project Manager
11 78 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
12 63 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
13 58 (2.75%) Business Analyst
14 54 (2.56%) Software Engineer
15 51 (2.42%) Azure Data Engineer
16 50 (2.37%) Senior Analyst
17 48 (2.28%) Analytics Manager
18 43 (2.04%) Data Manager
19 40 (1.90%) Data Analytics Manager
19 40 (1.90%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (3.32%) PySpark
2 67 (3.18%) HTML
3 59 (2.80%) REST
4 58 (2.75%) React
5 55 (2.61%) .NET
6 54 (2.56%) CSS
7 45 (2.14%) JSON
8 37 (1.76%) Web Services
9 35 (1.66%) Pandas
9 35 (1.66%) XML
10 32 (1.52%) Middleware
11 31 (1.47%) Kafka
12 27 (1.28%) ARM Templates
13 26 (1.23%) Node.js
13 26 (1.23%) NumPy
14 25 (1.19%) gRPC
15 22 (1.04%) Protocol Buffers
16 21 (1.00%) .NET Core
16 21 (1.00%) AngularJS
17 20 (0.95%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 107 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 101 (4.80%) Product Ownership
3 62 (2.94%) Fixed Income
4 59 (2.80%) Algorithms
5 58 (2.75%) Data Structures
6 52 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
7 51 (2.42%) Derivative
7 51 (2.42%) Equities
8 48 (2.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 41 (1.95%) Security Operations Centre
10 39 (1.85%) Credit Risk
11 37 (1.76%) Onboarding
12 33 (1.57%) Social Media
13 32 (1.52%) Hedge funds
14 31 (1.47%) Data Centre
14 31 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
15 30 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
16 28 (1.33%) Security Posture
17 25 (1.19%) CSOC
17 25 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 115 (5.46%) Windows
2 102 (4.84%) Linux
3 40 (1.90%) Unix
3 40 (1.90%) Windows Server
4 20 (0.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (0.62%) Android
7 11 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.47%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.14%) zOS
11 2 (0.095%) VMS
11 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.047%) CentOS
12 1 (0.047%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (23.46%) Agile
2 479 (22.74%) Business Intelligence
3 442 (20.99%) Data Analytics
4 387 (18.38%) Data Modelling
5 346 (16.43%) Problem-Solving
6 292 (13.87%) ETL
7 248 (11.78%) Visualisation
8 216 (10.26%) DevOps
9 206 (9.78%) Data Management
10 205 (9.73%) Data Analysis
11 199 (9.45%) Decision-Making
12 195 (9.26%) Data Science
13 182 (8.64%) Project Management
14 180 (8.55%) Migration
15 173 (8.21%) Roadmaps
16 172 (8.17%) Data Engineering
17 165 (7.83%) Data Pipeline
18 158 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
19 157 (7.45%) Actionable Insight
20 154 (7.31%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 571 (27.11%) SQL
2 455 (21.60%) Python
3 149 (7.08%) Java
4 124 (5.89%) JavaScript
5 98 (4.65%) C#
6 70 (3.32%) PowerShell
7 56 (2.66%) TypeScript
8 54 (2.56%) Scala
9 46 (2.18%) C++
10 45 (2.14%) R
11 34 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 28 (1.33%) Bash
12 28 (1.33%) Bicep
13 25 (1.19%) T-SQL
14 20 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
15 19 (0.90%) Shell Script
16 18 (0.85%) ABAP
17 16 (0.76%) VB
17 16 (0.76%) VBScript
18 14 (0.66%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 302 (14.34%) Degree
2 288 (13.68%) Security Cleared
3 226 (10.73%) SC Cleared
4 85 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 71 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 60 (2.85%) Master's Degree
7 36 (1.71%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.61%) CISSP
9 26 (1.23%) SANS
10 25 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 19 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
12 18 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (0.76%) PMI Certification
14 14 (0.66%) Numerate Degree
14 14 (0.66%) PMP
15 13 (0.62%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (0.62%) Cisco Certification
16 9 (0.43%) CCIE
16 9 (0.43%) CISM
16 9 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (9.16%) Data Quality
2 91 (4.32%) QA
3 45 (2.14%) Accessibility
4 35 (1.66%) GDPR
5 24 (1.14%) PMO
6 20 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
7 16 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 15 (0.71%) SLA
9 13 (0.62%) NIST
10 12 (0.57%) IFRS
11 11 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
12 10 (0.47%) GxP
13 8 (0.38%) IFRS 9
13 8 (0.38%) NCSC
14 6 (0.28%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 5 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 5 (0.24%) GAMP
15 5 (0.24%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.19%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 45 (2.14%) Docker
2 41 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 27 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 23 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
5 7 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) HDFS
7 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.095%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.095%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.095%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.047%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.047%) NFS
9 1 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.047%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.047%) XenApp
9 1 (0.047%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 78 (3.70%) Terraform
2 66 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.66%) Grafana
4 27 (1.28%) Ansible
5 26 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 21 (1.00%) SCOM
7 19 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 19 (0.90%) SCCM
8 17 (0.81%) WSUS
9 11 (0.52%) ITRS Geneos
10 9 (0.43%) BladeLogic
11 8 (0.38%) Prometheus
12 6 (0.28%) SysTrack
13 5 (0.24%) Nagios
14 4 (0.19%) Graylog
14 4 (0.19%) Trend Micro Deep Security
15 3 (0.14%) Kibana
15 3 (0.14%) Matomo
15 3 (0.14%) Nessus
15 3 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 363 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 171 (8.12%) Databricks
3 164 (7.79%) Google
4 137 (6.51%) SAP
5 128 (6.08%) Oracle
6 79 (3.75%) Adobe
7 48 (2.28%) Salesforce
8 43 (2.04%) Splunk
9 37 (1.76%) Alteryx
10 35 (1.66%) Informatica
11 34 (1.61%) ServiceNow
12 29 (1.38%) Atlassian
13 23 (1.09%) Optimizely
14 22 (1.04%) Dynatrace
15 21 (1.00%) Ariba
16 20 (0.95%) Cisco
16 20 (0.95%) Talend
17 18 (0.85%) OpenAI
18 17 (0.81%) Citrix
18 17 (0.81%) Red Hat