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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 38 33
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Analytics 2,121 2,936 5,384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 4.93% 5.24% 6.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.76% 5.84% 6.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,447 2,057 3,786
10th Percentile £356 £350 £400
25th Percentile £438 £460 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £509 £516 £513
% change year-on-year -1.45% +0.68% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 57 72
10th Percentile £15.32 £21.00 £14.68
25th Percentile £25.00 £22.16 £31.69
Median hourly rate £30.37 £32.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% -7.71% +29.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £74.75 £78.48 £67.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £31.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.63% -10.00% +62.79%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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 -3 1,804 £550 - 2,233
London 0 1,058 £575 -4.17% 1,174
Work from Home +5 801 £550 +2.33% 1,050
UK excluding London +5 790 £509 -1.45% 1,092
South East +1 204 £540 +8.00% 250
North of England -9 178 £501 -8.17% 339
Midlands +6 143 £550 +6.28% 191
North West +6 112 £500 -4.76% 236
West Midlands +12 111 £550 +4.76% 113
Scotland +15 106 £491 -1.70% 79
South West +33 101 £531 +3.66% 113
Yorkshire -10 62 £507 -7.40% 76
East of England +5 49 £500 - 98
East Midlands +1 32 £475 +5.56% 79
Wales +26 18 £550 -3.46% 18
North East +4 7 - - 32
Northern Ireland +4 5 £400 -5.88% 19

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 70 (3.30%) Apache Spark
2 55 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 46 (2.17%) SAS
4 43 (2.03%) Confluence
5 38 (1.79%) Apache
6 34 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
6 34 (1.60%) CMS
7 29 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 9 (0.42%) WordPress
10 5 (0.24%) Headless CMS
11 4 (0.19%) govService
12 3 (0.14%) Drupal
12 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.094%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.094%) CICS
13 2 (0.094%) GeoServer
13 2 (0.094%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.094%) Sitecore CMS
14 1 (0.047%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 77 (3.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.71%) Chatbot
5 15 (0.71%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.38%) SPSS
7 7 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
8 6 (0.28%) Sketch
9 5 (0.24%) CPLEX
9 5 (0.24%) Photoshop
10 3 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 2 (0.094%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.094%) Simulink
11 2 (0.094%) Trello
12 1 (0.047%) Adobe Premiere
12 1 (0.047%) Adobe XD
12 1 (0.047%) InVision
12 1 (0.047%) Stata
12 1 (0.047%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 44 (2.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 15 (0.71%) Oracle EBS
4 10 (0.47%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 10 (0.47%) SAP FI-AP
5 7 (0.33%) Endur
5 7 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 7 (0.33%) Shopify
6 6 (0.28%) SAP BPC
6 6 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 5 (0.24%) MIS ActiveH
7 5 (0.24%) NEC Housing
7 5 (0.24%) OpenLink RightAngle
7 5 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
7 5 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
8 4 (0.19%) Adobe Campaign
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle 11i
8 4 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 4 (0.19%) SAP MM
8 4 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 530 (24.99%) Azure
2 331 (15.61%) Power Platform
3 317 (14.95%) AWS
4 163 (7.69%) GCP
5 110 (5.19%) Azure Data Factory
6 108 (5.09%) Google Analytics
7 95 (4.48%) Snowflake
8 81 (3.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 74 (3.49%) Serverless
10 67 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
10 67 (3.16%) Azure Monitor
11 48 (2.26%) Microsoft 365
12 47 (2.22%) Amazon S3
13 45 (2.12%) GitHub
14 42 (1.98%) SaaS
15 38 (1.79%) dbt
16 36 (1.70%) Entra ID
17 34 (1.60%) PaaS
18 33 (1.56%) Cloud Computing
19 31 (1.46%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 55 (2.59%) Firewall
2 35 (1.65%) DNS
2 35 (1.65%) Network Security
3 30 (1.41%) DHCP
3 30 (1.41%) WAN
4 26 (1.23%) VPN
5 21 (0.99%) LAN
6 20 (0.94%) VoIP
7 18 (0.85%) Intranet
8 14 (0.66%) Intrusion Detection
9 12 (0.57%) Internet
10 10 (0.47%) SD-WAN
11 9 (0.42%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (0.42%) CTI
11 9 (0.42%) MPLS
11 9 (0.42%) PBX
11 9 (0.42%) WLAN
12 7 (0.33%) TCP/IP
13 6 (0.28%) HTTP
13 6 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 320 (15.09%) Power BI
2 246 (11.60%) Data Warehouse
3 185 (8.72%) Tableau
4 151 (7.12%) Big Data
5 139 (6.55%) Data Lake
6 83 (3.91%) SQL Server
7 65 (3.06%) Amazon Redshift
7 65 (3.06%) Relational Database
8 61 (2.88%) BigQuery
9 55 (2.59%) NoSQL
10 52 (2.45%) Azure SQL Database
11 44 (2.07%) Looker
12 43 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
13 40 (1.89%) MySQL
14 39 (1.84%) Hadoop
15 37 (1.74%) KDB
16 33 (1.56%) Metadata
17 32 (1.51%) Amazon Athena
17 32 (1.51%) Data Mining
18 27 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 99 (4.67%) JIRA
2 88 (4.15%) Git
3 60 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 21 (0.99%) GitLab
5 18 (0.85%) Postman
6 17 (0.80%) Cypress.io
7 14 (0.66%) JMeter
8 13 (0.61%) Selenium
9 11 (0.52%) Subversion
9 11 (0.52%) Visual Studio
10 9 (0.42%) Artifactory
11 8 (0.38%) JUnit
11 8 (0.38%) MLflow
11 8 (0.38%) Visual Website Optimizer
12 6 (0.28%) Appium
12 6 (0.28%) ERwin
12 6 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (0.24%) Bitbucket
13 5 (0.24%) Cucumber
13 5 (0.24%) Robot Framework
General
1 608 (28.67%) Social Skills
2 517 (24.38%) Finance
3 408 (19.24%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 143 (6.74%) Marketing
6 131 (6.18%) Banking
7 94 (4.43%) Retail
8 89 (4.20%) Front Office
9 76 (3.58%) Legal
10 72 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
11 60 (2.83%) Telecoms
12 55 (2.59%) Manufacturing
13 43 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
13 43 (2.03%) Investment Banking
14 42 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 39 (1.84%) Pharmaceutical
16 25 (1.18%) Advertising
17 15 (0.71%) German Language
18 14 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
19 13 (0.61%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 392 (18.48%) Analyst
2 297 (14.00%) Developer
3 254 (11.98%) Architect
4 215 (10.14%) Data Engineer
5 199 (9.38%) Senior
6 164 (7.73%) Data Analyst
7 160 (7.54%) Lead
8 109 (5.14%) Consultant
9 98 (4.62%) Data Architect
10 75 (3.54%) Azure Engineer
11 71 (3.35%) Project Manager
12 67 (3.16%) Business Analyst
13 64 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
14 52 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
15 50 (2.36%) Software Engineer
16 48 (2.26%) Azure Data Engineer
17 45 (2.12%) Analytics Manager
18 40 (1.89%) Product Manager
18 40 (1.89%) Product Owner
19 39 (1.84%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (3.58%) PySpark
2 75 (3.54%) HTML
3 60 (2.83%) .NET
4 59 (2.78%) CSS
5 57 (2.69%) React
6 55 (2.59%) Middleware
7 53 (2.50%) REST
8 50 (2.36%) Web Services
9 43 (2.03%) JSON
9 43 (2.03%) Kafka
10 34 (1.60%) ARM Templates
10 34 (1.60%) Pandas
10 34 (1.60%) XML
11 27 (1.27%) .NET Core
12 25 (1.18%) RESTful
13 24 (1.13%) AngularJS
14 22 (1.04%) Node.js
14 22 (1.04%) NumPy
15 19 (0.90%) FastAPI
15 19 (0.90%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 118 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 114 (5.37%) Product Ownership
3 71 (3.35%) Fixed Income
4 65 (3.06%) Data Structures
5 63 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
6 58 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 56 (2.64%) Derivative
8 54 (2.55%) Algorithms
9 52 (2.45%) Equities
10 43 (2.03%) Credit Risk
11 41 (1.93%) Hedge funds
12 37 (1.74%) Social Media
13 34 (1.60%) Onboarding
14 31 (1.46%) Data Centre
14 31 (1.46%) Security Operations Centre
15 28 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
16 27 (1.27%) Cloud Native
16 27 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
17 25 (1.18%) CSOC
18 24 (1.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 130 (6.13%) Windows
2 125 (5.89%) Linux
3 47 (2.22%) Unix
4 45 (2.12%) Windows Server
5 23 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 20 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
7 17 (0.80%) Android
8 15 (0.71%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.38%) Windows 10
11 3 (0.14%) VMS
11 3 (0.14%) zOS
12 2 (0.094%) ThreadX
12 2 (0.094%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.047%) AIX
13 1 (0.047%) CentOS
13 1 (0.047%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.047%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 536 (25.27%) Agile
2 464 (21.88%) Data Analytics
3 455 (21.45%) Business Intelligence
4 375 (17.68%) Data Modelling
5 354 (16.69%) Problem-Solving
6 286 (13.48%) ETL
7 244 (11.50%) Visualisation
8 240 (11.32%) DevOps
9 213 (10.04%) Data Science
10 206 (9.71%) Data Analysis
11 204 (9.62%) Data Management
12 197 (9.29%) Decision-Making
13 176 (8.30%) Data Pipeline
14 172 (8.11%) CI/CD
14 172 (8.11%) Data Engineering
15 171 (8.06%) Computer Science
16 170 (8.02%) Project Management
17 169 (7.97%) Roadmaps
18 167 (7.87%) Machine Learning
19 164 (7.73%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 613 (28.90%) SQL
2 487 (22.96%) Python
3 141 (6.65%) Java
4 117 (5.52%) JavaScript
5 100 (4.71%) C#
6 74 (3.49%) PowerShell
7 51 (2.40%) R
8 50 (2.36%) TypeScript
9 47 (2.22%) C++
10 45 (2.12%) Scala
11 34 (1.60%) Bicep
12 32 (1.51%) Bash
13 30 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 24 (1.13%) T-SQL
15 23 (1.08%) VB
16 20 (0.94%) ABAP
16 20 (0.94%) VBScript
17 18 (0.85%) PL/SQL
18 16 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
19 15 (0.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 336 (15.84%) Degree
2 282 (13.30%) Security Cleared
3 205 (9.67%) SC Cleared
4 99 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 88 (4.15%) DV Cleared
6 74 (3.49%) Master's Degree
7 39 (1.84%) Azure Certification
8 29 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 26 (1.23%) SANS
10 24 (1.13%) CISSP
11 22 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (0.80%) Numerate Degree
12 17 (0.80%) PMI Certification
13 16 (0.75%) PMP
14 15 (0.71%) AWS Certification
15 13 (0.61%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (0.57%) PhD
17 11 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 10 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
19 9 (0.42%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 203 (9.57%) Data Quality
2 96 (4.53%) QA
3 47 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 47 (2.22%) GDPR
4 26 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
5 22 (1.04%) PMO
6 16 (0.75%) SLA
7 15 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 14 (0.66%) HIPAA
8 14 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 13 (0.61%) NIST
10 12 (0.57%) IFRS
11 11 (0.52%) GxP
12 10 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
13 8 (0.38%) NCSC
13 8 (0.38%) SOC 2
14 7 (0.33%) IFRS 9
14 7 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 5 (0.24%) GAMP
System Software
1 55 (2.59%) Active Directory
2 44 (2.07%) Docker
3 32 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
4 27 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 9 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (0.28%) HDFS
7 5 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.14%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.094%) Firmware
9 2 (0.094%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.047%) NFS
10 1 (0.047%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 90 (4.24%) Terraform
2 69 (3.25%) Kubernetes
3 35 (1.65%) Grafana
4 30 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 27 (1.27%) Ansible
5 27 (1.27%) SCOM
6 22 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 22 (1.04%) SCCM
6 22 (1.04%) WSUS
7 10 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
8 9 (0.42%) BladeLogic
9 6 (0.28%) Nagios
9 6 (0.28%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.24%) SysTrack
11 4 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (0.19%) Trend Micro Deep Security
12 3 (0.14%) Graylog
12 3 (0.14%) Kibana
12 3 (0.14%) Matomo
12 3 (0.14%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 370 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 172 (8.11%) Google
3 163 (7.69%) Databricks
4 133 (6.27%) SAP
5 119 (5.61%) Oracle
6 70 (3.30%) Adobe
7 48 (2.26%) Salesforce
8 45 (2.12%) Alteryx
9 36 (1.70%) ServiceNow
10 30 (1.41%) Atlassian
10 30 (1.41%) Splunk
11 28 (1.32%) Cisco
12 23 (1.08%) Talend
13 22 (1.04%) Informatica
14 20 (0.94%) Optimizely
15 19 (0.90%) Ariba
15 19 (0.90%) Denodo
15 19 (0.90%) Red Hat
16 17 (0.80%) OpenAI
17 16 (0.75%) Citrix