Analytical Skills Contracts in England

Analytical Skills
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Analytical Skills over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 25 28
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 2,879 3,542 4,676
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 7.90% 7.35% 6.64%
As % of the General category 13.59% 12.41% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,878 2,355 3,011
10th Percentile £307 £312 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% +1.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 111 158
10th Percentile £11.75 £21.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.16 £18.53
Median hourly rate £18.50 £35.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.89% -10.13% +92.68%
75th Percentile £32.75 £57.50 £53.45
90th Percentile £47.09 £66.00 £65.44
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £40.25 £39.50
% change year-on-year -55.28% +1.90% +74.05%

All General Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 21,189 28,537 40,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.17% 59.22% 56.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,657 20,045 28,012
10th Percentile £281 £315 £316
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £789 £760
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,777 918 1,295
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.47 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.43 £18.09 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.12 £32.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +48.84% -2.27%
75th Percentile £51.91 £60.68 £47.50
90th Percentile £66.45 £70.38 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Analytical Skills in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Analytical Skills in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in England

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +3 1,440 £550 -4.35% 1,572
South East -1 414 £534 -2.85% 726
North of England +3 335 £500 +5.26% 736
South West +20 254 £525 - 327
Midlands +1 231 £525 +10.53% 516
West Midlands 0 174 £532 +11.89% 309
North West -1 168 £475 +6.74% 381
Yorkshire +13 143 £503 -4.29% 270
East of England -1 104 £500 +33.33% 283
East Midlands +1 52 £450 +2.86% 208
North East +18 22 £590 +45.23% 91
Analytical Skills
UK

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 136 (4.72%) Confluence
2 70 (2.43%) SharePoint
3 63 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 45 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 27 (0.94%) Apache
6 18 (0.63%) SAS
7 16 (0.56%) CMS
8 11 (0.38%) Tomcat
9 8 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
10 7 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
10 7 (0.24%) IIS
11 6 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 6 (0.21%) nginx
12 5 (0.17%) Appian
12 5 (0.17%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.14%) Drupal
13 4 (0.14%) IBM Domino
13 4 (0.14%) JBoss
14 3 (0.10%) WebLogic
Applications
1 262 (9.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 191 (6.63%) Microsoft Office
3 78 (2.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 57 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
4 57 (1.98%) MS Visio
5 51 (1.77%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (0.31%) SPSS
7 7 (0.24%) Sketch
8 5 (0.17%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.14%) Revit
10 3 (0.10%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.10%) InVision
10 3 (0.10%) MicroStation
10 3 (0.10%) Windchill
11 2 (0.069%) Mingle
12 1 (0.035%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 1 (0.035%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.035%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.035%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.035%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 58 (2.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 27 (0.94%) Dynamics AX
3 21 (0.73%) Endur
4 19 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
5 16 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
6 14 (0.49%) SAP CO
6 14 (0.49%) SAP FI
6 14 (0.49%) SAP FI/CO
7 13 (0.45%) Aligne
7 13 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 13 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 13 (0.45%) Teamcenter
8 12 (0.42%) SAP HCM
8 12 (0.42%) SAP SD
9 11 (0.38%) Maximo
10 10 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
10 10 (0.35%) SAP ERP
11 8 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
11 8 (0.28%) Primavera
11 8 (0.28%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 447 (15.53%) Azure
2 311 (10.80%) Power Platform
3 239 (8.30%) AWS
4 133 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
5 104 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
6 102 (3.54%) GCP
7 74 (2.57%) Dynamics 365
8 65 (2.26%) PowerApps
9 56 (1.95%) Power Automate
10 50 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
10 50 (1.74%) Serverless
11 48 (1.67%) GitHub
12 45 (1.56%) Snowflake
13 40 (1.39%) Entra ID
14 36 (1.25%) SaaS
15 34 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
16 27 (0.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 27 (0.94%) Azure Functions
17 22 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
18 20 (0.69%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 72 (2.50%) Firewall
2 69 (2.40%) DNS
3 65 (2.26%) VPN
4 63 (2.19%) Network Security
5 50 (1.74%) WAN
6 46 (1.60%) LAN
7 41 (1.42%) DHCP
8 33 (1.15%) TCP/IP
8 33 (1.15%) Wireless
9 28 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (0.94%) MPLS
11 26 (0.90%) BGP
12 22 (0.76%) Intrusion Detection
12 22 (0.76%) OSPF
13 21 (0.73%) Cisco Nexus
14 20 (0.69%) HTTP
14 20 (0.69%) VLAN
15 15 (0.52%) SSL
16 14 (0.49%) Internet
17 13 (0.45%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 298 (10.35%) Power BI
2 141 (4.90%) Tableau
3 136 (4.72%) SQL Server
4 89 (3.09%) Big Data
5 87 (3.02%) Relational Database
6 80 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
7 70 (2.43%) Data Lake
8 62 (2.15%) NoSQL
9 39 (1.35%) Hadoop
9 39 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
10 36 (1.25%) MongoDB
11 31 (1.08%) Data Mining
11 31 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 30 (1.04%) Metadata
13 25 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 22 (0.76%) RDBMS
15 19 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
15 19 (0.66%) SQL Server Analysis Services
16 18 (0.63%) BigQuery
17 17 (0.59%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 273 (9.48%) JIRA
2 112 (3.89%) Git
3 89 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.98%) GitLab
5 54 (1.88%) Selenium
6 38 (1.32%) Cucumber
7 31 (1.08%) TeamCity
8 30 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 29 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 25 (0.87%) REST Assured
11 24 (0.83%) SonarQube
12 22 (0.76%) Cypress.io
13 19 (0.66%) webpack
14 15 (0.52%) JUnit
14 15 (0.52%) Maven
15 13 (0.45%) Appium
15 13 (0.45%) Postman
15 13 (0.45%) Visual Studio
16 12 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
17 11 (0.38%) CircleCI
General
1 1,593 (55.33%) Social Skills
2 833 (28.93%) Finance
3 231 (8.02%) Public Sector
4 214 (7.43%) Banking
5 166 (5.77%) Presentation Skills
6 128 (4.45%) Marketing
7 111 (3.86%) Retail
8 106 (3.68%) Legal
9 101 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
10 92 (3.20%) Front Office
11 89 (3.09%) Manufacturing
12 88 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
13 81 (2.81%) Telecoms
14 58 (2.01%) Investment Banking
15 44 (1.53%) Law
16 42 (1.46%) Military
17 41 (1.42%) Financial Institution
18 38 (1.32%) General Ledger
19 35 (1.22%) Aerospace
20 33 (1.15%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 640 (22.23%) Analyst
2 363 (12.61%) Developer
3 216 (7.50%) Architect
4 209 (7.26%) Consultant
5 208 (7.22%) Senior
6 196 (6.81%) Business Analyst
7 176 (6.11%) Lead
8 138 (4.79%) Data Analyst
9 122 (4.24%) Project Manager
10 92 (3.20%) Data Engineer
11 80 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
12 70 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
13 60 (2.08%) Full Stack Developer
14 55 (1.91%) Network Engineer
15 50 (1.74%) Support Engineer
16 49 (1.70%) Java Developer
16 49 (1.70%) Service Analyst
17 47 (1.63%) IT Engineer
18 44 (1.53%) Administrator
19 43 (1.49%) Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (3.27%) React
2 91 (3.16%) .NET
3 90 (3.13%) REST
4 80 (2.78%) HTML
5 74 (2.57%) CSS
6 57 (1.98%) AngularJS
7 55 (1.91%) XML
8 48 (1.67%) Kafka
9 42 (1.46%) JSON
10 41 (1.42%) Web Services
11 38 (1.32%) RESTful
12 32 (1.11%) .NET Core
13 30 (1.04%) Node.js
14 29 (1.01%) Middleware
14 29 (1.01%) PySpark
15 25 (0.87%) Java EE
15 25 (0.87%) WebSockets
16 23 (0.80%) Spring
17 22 (0.76%) SOAP
18 19 (0.66%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 217 (7.54%) Management Information System
2 149 (5.18%) Analytical Mindset
3 119 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 118 (4.10%) Self-Motivation
5 90 (3.13%) Data Structures
6 70 (2.43%) Algorithms
7 48 (1.67%) Data Centre
8 46 (1.60%) Derivative
9 43 (1.49%) Cyber Defence
10 41 (1.42%) Onboarding
11 36 (1.25%) Fixed Income
12 34 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 33 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
14 32 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
15 29 (1.01%) Virtual Team
16 27 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
16 27 (0.94%) PKI
17 26 (0.90%) Hedge funds
18 25 (0.87%) CMDB
18 25 (0.87%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 260 (9.03%) Windows
2 193 (6.70%) Linux
3 99 (3.44%) Unix
4 79 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 44 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 35 (1.22%) Windows 7
7 34 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
8 32 (1.11%) Apple iOS
9 31 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 28 (0.97%) Android
11 11 (0.38%) Mac OS
12 8 (0.28%) Windows Server 2008
13 7 (0.24%) Kali Linux
13 7 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
14 6 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.17%) zOS
16 4 (0.14%) AIX
16 4 (0.14%) Solaris
17 2 (0.069%) CentOS
17 2 (0.069%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,609 (55.89%) Problem-Solving
2 736 (25.56%) Agile
3 432 (15.01%) Project Management
4 378 (13.13%) Business Intelligence
5 338 (11.74%) Analytics
6 296 (10.28%) Decision-Making
6 296 (10.28%) DevOps
7 292 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 271 (9.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 256 (8.89%) Computer Science
10 242 (8.41%) Data Modelling
11 220 (7.64%) Data Analysis
12 199 (6.91%) Migration
13 195 (6.77%) Change Management
14 188 (6.53%) Visualisation
15 181 (6.29%) Customer Service
15 181 (6.29%) Roadmaps
16 174 (6.04%) ITIL
17 173 (6.01%) CI/CD
18 163 (5.66%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 503 (17.47%) SQL
2 391 (13.58%) Python
3 226 (7.85%) Java
4 135 (4.69%) JavaScript
5 134 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 127 (4.41%) C#
7 63 (2.19%) TypeScript
8 53 (1.84%) R
9 48 (1.67%) Scala
10 42 (1.46%) Shell Script
11 39 (1.35%) PL/SQL
12 38 (1.32%) C++
13 36 (1.25%) T-SQL
14 31 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 23 (0.80%) Bash
16 22 (0.76%) Perl
17 20 (0.69%) C
17 20 (0.69%) Go
18 17 (0.59%) VBScript
19 16 (0.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 591 (20.53%) Degree
2 485 (16.85%) Security Cleared
3 295 (10.25%) SC Cleared
4 174 (6.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 172 (5.97%) DV Cleared
6 91 (3.16%) Master's Degree
7 59 (2.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 57 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
9 51 (1.77%) CISSP
10 40 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
11 36 (1.25%) MCSE
12 35 (1.22%) PMI Certification
13 34 (1.18%) PMP
14 32 (1.11%) CCNP
15 31 (1.08%) CISM
16 30 (1.04%) CCNA
16 30 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
17 28 (0.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 25 (0.87%) APMP
19 22 (0.76%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (5.84%) Data Quality
2 153 (5.31%) QA
3 108 (3.75%) SLA
4 81 (2.81%) PMO
5 78 (2.71%) GDPR
6 39 (1.35%) NIST
7 35 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
8 29 (1.01%) Accessibility
9 25 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 22 (0.76%) PCI DSS
11 13 (0.45%) EMIR
12 12 (0.42%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.38%) GRC
13 11 (0.38%) NIST 800
14 10 (0.35%) MiFID
15 9 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
15 9 (0.31%) ISO 20022
16 8 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 8 (0.28%) GxP
17 6 (0.21%) IFRS
System Software
1 140 (4.86%) Active Directory
2 85 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 64 (2.22%) Docker
4 17 (0.59%) VMware NSX
5 13 (0.45%) vSphere
6 11 (0.38%) Hyper-V
7 10 (0.35%) HDFS
7 10 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
8 9 (0.31%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 9 (0.31%) Firmware
8 9 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
9 8 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
11 4 (0.14%) KVM
12 3 (0.10%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.10%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.10%) OpenIDM
12 3 (0.10%) SRDF
13 2 (0.069%) Snort
13 2 (0.069%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 95 (3.30%) Ansible
2 89 (3.09%) Kubernetes
3 54 (1.88%) Terraform
4 44 (1.53%) SCCM
5 33 (1.15%) Puppet
6 26 (0.90%) NetBackup
7 24 (0.83%) Grafana
8 23 (0.80%) Prometheus
9 21 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
9 21 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
10 20 (0.69%) PowerCLI
11 18 (0.63%) Kibana
12 15 (0.52%) logstash
13 14 (0.49%) Podman
14 12 (0.42%) Progress Chef
14 12 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
15 10 (0.35%) Microsoft Clustering
15 10 (0.35%) Nagios
16 9 (0.31%) Consul
17 8 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 577 (20.04%) Microsoft
2 193 (6.70%) Oracle
3 191 (6.63%) SAP
4 106 (3.68%) VMware
5 74 (2.57%) Cisco
6 67 (2.33%) Google
7 63 (2.19%) ServiceNow
8 53 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 51 (1.77%) Databricks
10 39 (1.35%) Splunk
11 36 (1.25%) Alteryx
12 34 (1.18%) IBM
13 32 (1.11%) Atlassian
14 29 (1.01%) HP
15 28 (0.97%) Dell
16 26 (0.90%) Citrix
16 26 (0.90%) F5
17 25 (0.87%) Red Hat
18 22 (0.76%) Juniper
19 20 (0.69%) Bloomberg