Quantitative Analysis Contracts

Quantitative Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Quantitative Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Quantitative Analysis over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 638 772
Rank change year-on-year +56 +134 -60
Contract jobs citing Quantitative Analysis 20 57 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.10% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 44 64
10th Percentile £241 £474 £150
25th Percentile £296 £556 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £675 £475
Median % change year-on-year -39.26% +42.11% +95.88%
75th Percentile £450 £915 £688
90th Percentile £500 £984 £893
UK excluding London median daily rate £298 £550 £463
% change year-on-year -45.82% +18.92% +200.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £27.65
25th Percentile - - £30.88
Median hourly rate £10.42 - £37.50
75th Percentile - - £44.25
90th Percentile £24.53 - £47.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £10.42 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Quantitative Analysis 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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Quantitative Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Quantitative Analysis in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Quantitative Analysis in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quantitative Analysis over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Quantitative Analysis in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Quantitative Analysis in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Quantitative Analysis over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Quantitative Analysis in the UK

Quantitative Analysis
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quantitative Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +59 17 £410 -41.43% 37
Work from Home +96 10 £410 -27.11% 15
London +43 10 £430 -42.67% 30
UK excluding London +46 7 £298 -45.82% 10
Midlands - 3 £375 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £375 - 2
Scotland +39 2 £221 -63.17% 1
East of England - 2 - - 1

Quantitative Analysis
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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
1 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.00%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (5.00%) dbt
3 1 (5.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Power BI
2 3 (15.00%) Tableau
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) QlikView
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
4 4 (20.00%) Law
4 4 (20.00%) Legal
5 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (10.00%) Banking
7 1 (5.00%) Games
7 1 (5.00%) Humanities
7 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (5.00%) Marketing
7 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (5.00%) Public Speaking
7 1 (5.00%) Retail
7 1 (5.00%) Social Science
7 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Functional Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Accountant
4 1 (5.00%) Blockchain Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (5.00%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Report Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Research Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) BREW
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Derivative
1 2 (10.00%) Equities
2 1 (5.00%) Blockchain
2 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (5.00%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 5 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 5 (25.00%) Economics
3 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (20.00%) Market Research
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Analytics
4 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (15.00%) SDLC
5 2 (10.00%) Mathematics
5 2 (10.00%) Project Management
5 2 (10.00%) Quantitative Research
5 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (10.00%) Statistical Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Statistics
5 2 (10.00%) Time Management
5 2 (10.00%) Validation
5 2 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) R
4 1 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Degree
2 6 (30.00%) Master's Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Postgraduate
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (15.00%) IFRS
3 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (5.00%) FINREP
4 1 (5.00%) GDPR
4 1 (5.00%) IFRS 9
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.00%) Databricks
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Sage