Analytical Skills Contracts in the North of England

Analytical Skills
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Analytical Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 21 24 29
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Analytical Skills 335 353 441
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 7.23% 6.30% 6.17%
As % of the General category 13.16% 11.30% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 232 283
10th Percentile £325 £288 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% +2.78%
75th Percentile £580 £540 £538
90th Percentile £638 £638 £600
England median daily rate £532 £533 £525
% change year-on-year -0.14% +1.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 11 41
10th Percentile £11.69 £23.15 £10.75
25th Percentile £12.88 £31.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.11 £35.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.11% +40.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £27.18 £52.56 £48.56
90th Percentile £44.78 £56.40 £51.75
England median hourly rate £18.50 £35.50 £39.50
% change year-on-year -47.89% -10.13% +92.68%

All General Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 2,546 3,123 3,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 54.93% 55.74% 50.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,495 2,144 2,567
10th Percentile £270 £300 £208
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +7.37% +7.95%
75th Percentile £586 £600 £563
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 94 186
10th Percentile £12.11 £14.08 £11.19
25th Percentile £13.30 £16.85 £14.73
Median hourly rate £16.06 £24.08 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -33.29% +25.90% +4.27%
75th Percentile £33.91 £35.02 £34.05
90th Percentile £48.75 £53.24 £55.36
England median hourly rate £30.12 £32.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -5.88% +48.84% -2.27%

Analytical Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Analytical Skills in the North of England

Analytical Skills
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West -1 168 £475 +6.74% 382
Yorkshire +13 143 £503 -4.29% 270
North East +18 22 £590 +45.23% 92
Analytical Skills
England

Analytical Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 16 (4.78%) Confluence
2 5 (1.49%) Apache
2 5 (1.49%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.90%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.60%) IBM Notes
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.60%) Mule
4 2 (0.60%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) IIS
5 1 (0.30%) JBoss
5 1 (0.30%) nginx
5 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 31 (9.25%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (8.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (4.18%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (3.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (2.69%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.90%) MicroStation
7 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 10 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.90%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.30%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 45 (13.43%) Azure
2 41 (12.24%) AWS
3 40 (11.94%) Power Platform
4 28 (8.36%) GCP
5 16 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (2.69%) GitHub
7 9 (2.69%) Kong
7 9 (2.69%) PowerApps
8 6 (1.79%) Apigee
8 6 (1.79%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.49%) SaaS
10 4 (1.19%) Google Analytics
11 3 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.90%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (0.90%) IaaS
11 3 (0.90%) PaaS
11 3 (0.90%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.60%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.67%) TCP/IP
1 19 (5.67%) VLAN
2 15 (4.48%) DNS
3 13 (3.88%) LAN
3 13 (3.88%) VPN
4 12 (3.58%) Firewall
4 12 (3.58%) WAN
4 12 (3.58%) Wi-Fi
5 10 (2.99%) HTTP
6 9 (2.69%) SSL
7 6 (1.79%) BGP
7 6 (1.79%) OSPF
8 5 (1.49%) DHCP
8 5 (1.49%) HTTPS
9 4 (1.19%) MPLS
9 4 (1.19%) Value-Added Service
9 4 (1.19%) Wireshark
10 3 (0.90%) BIG-IP
10 3 (0.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (0.90%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (11.34%) Power BI
2 14 (4.18%) Tableau
3 12 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.28%) Data Lake
4 11 (3.28%) Relational Database
5 9 (2.69%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (2.69%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.19%) Big Data
6 4 (1.19%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.19%) Metadata
6 4 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
7 3 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (0.90%) GIS
7 3 (0.90%) QGIS
7 3 (0.90%) Spatial Data
8 2 (0.60%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.60%) MySQL
8 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (6.87%) Git
2 18 (5.37%) JIRA
3 16 (4.78%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 9 (2.69%) CircleCI
4 9 (2.69%) GitLab
4 9 (2.69%) Travis CI
5 3 (0.90%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.90%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.60%) Liquibase
6 2 (0.60%) Log4j
6 2 (0.60%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.30%) GoCD
7 1 (0.30%) Pa11y
7 1 (0.30%) Postman
7 1 (0.30%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.30%) Selenium
7 1 (0.30%) TestCafe
7 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 188 (56.12%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.12%) Finance
3 46 (13.73%) Public Sector
4 17 (5.07%) Banking
4 17 (5.07%) Manufacturing
5 16 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (2.99%) Legal
6 10 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 8 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.79%) Police
11 5 (1.49%) Retail
11 5 (1.49%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.19%) Marketing
13 3 (0.90%) Local Government
13 3 (0.90%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.60%) Billing
14 2 (0.60%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 62 (18.51%) Analyst
2 29 (8.66%) Senior
3 25 (7.46%) Business Analyst
4 22 (6.57%) Developer
5 17 (5.07%) Architect
6 16 (4.78%) Lead
7 14 (4.18%) Capacity Manager
7 14 (4.18%) Consultant
7 14 (4.18%) Data Analyst
8 13 (3.88%) Network Engineer
9 12 (3.58%) Availability Manager
9 12 (3.58%) Capacity and Availability Manager
9 12 (3.58%) IT Engineer
9 12 (3.58%) Storage Engineer
10 10 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
10 10 (2.99%) Support Engineer
11 9 (2.69%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (2.39%) Coordinator
12 8 (2.39%) Data Engineer
12 8 (2.39%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.99%) Kafka
1 10 (2.99%) XML
2 9 (2.69%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (2.69%) JSON
2 9 (2.69%) YAML
3 8 (2.39%) Web Services
4 6 (1.79%) ActiveMQ
5 5 (1.49%) .NET
5 5 (1.49%) GraphQL
5 5 (1.49%) React
5 5 (1.49%) REST
5 5 (1.49%) RESTful
5 5 (1.49%) Swagger
6 4 (1.19%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.19%) FastAPI
6 4 (1.19%) gRPC
6 4 (1.19%) JWT
6 4 (1.19%) Node.js
6 4 (1.19%) OAuth
6 4 (1.19%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 42 (12.54%) Management Information System
2 19 (5.67%) Replication
3 18 (5.37%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (3.58%) CMDB
5 12 (3.58%) Data Structures
6 10 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.69%) NHS
8 8 (2.39%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.49%) Life Science
10 4 (1.19%) Reference Data
10 4 (1.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.90%) Derivative
11 3 (0.90%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.90%) EMC VNX
11 3 (0.90%) Lidar
11 3 (0.90%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 43 (12.84%) Windows
2 31 (9.25%) Linux
3 9 (2.69%) Windows 10
4 8 (2.39%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.39%) Windows Server
5 6 (1.79%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.19%) Unix
7 3 (0.90%) AIX
7 3 (0.90%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.90%) Solaris
7 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.30%) Android
9 1 (0.30%) VMS
9 1 (0.30%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.30%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (61.19%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (20.00%) Agile
3 58 (17.31%) Project Management
4 46 (13.73%) Service Management
5 44 (13.13%) Change Management
6 42 (12.54%) Business Intelligence
7 40 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 38 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (10.15%) Mentoring
10 31 (9.25%) Customer Service
10 31 (9.25%) Quality Management
11 30 (8.96%) CI/CD
11 30 (8.96%) ITIL
12 27 (8.06%) DevOps
12 27 (8.06%) Service Delivery
12 27 (8.06%) Statistics
13 25 (7.46%) Data Protection
14 24 (7.16%) Data Modelling
15 23 (6.87%) Analytics
16 22 (6.57%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (12.84%) SQL
2 37 (11.04%) Python
3 22 (6.57%) PowerShell
4 12 (3.58%) Java
5 11 (3.28%) Bash
6 8 (2.39%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.79%) C#
8 5 (1.49%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.49%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.19%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.19%) VB.NET
9 4 (1.19%) VBA
10 3 (0.90%) ActionScript
10 3 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.60%) Perl
11 2 (0.60%) R
11 2 (0.60%) Scala
11 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.30%) ABAP
12 1 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 46 (13.73%) Degree
2 44 (13.13%) Security Cleared
3 33 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
5 9 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.79%) CCNA
8 5 (1.49%) CCNP
8 5 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.19%) CCIE
9 4 (1.19%) MCSE
9 4 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (1.19%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.19%) VCAP
10 3 (0.90%) OSCP
10 3 (0.90%) PMP
11 2 (0.60%) ACCA
11 2 (0.60%) CIMA
11 2 (0.60%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.37%) Data Quality
2 17 (5.07%) GDPR
3 16 (4.78%) QA
4 10 (2.99%) SLA
5 6 (1.79%) GxP
6 5 (1.49%) GAMP
7 4 (1.19%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.19%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.19%) PMO
8 3 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.30%) COREP
10 1 (0.30%) HL7
10 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (5.97%) Docker
2 14 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.90%) SRDF
5 2 (0.60%) HDFS
5 2 (0.60%) vSphere
6 1 (0.30%) Firmware
6 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.30%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 37 (11.04%) Ansible
2 29 (8.66%) Puppet
3 20 (5.97%) Kubernetes
4 15 (4.48%) NetBackup
5 13 (3.88%) Terraform
6 10 (2.99%) Grafana
6 10 (2.99%) Kibana
6 10 (2.99%) Progress Chef
7 9 (2.69%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (2.69%) logstash
7 9 (2.69%) Prometheus
8 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 8 (2.39%) SCCM
9 6 (1.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 3 (0.90%) EMC TimeFinder
11 2 (0.60%) HP Quality Center
11 2 (0.60%) Nagios
11 2 (0.60%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.30%) CFEngine
12 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 55 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.97%) SAP
2 20 (5.97%) ServiceNow
3 16 (4.78%) Cisco
4 15 (4.48%) Veritas
5 14 (4.18%) Brocade
5 14 (4.18%) VMware
6 13 (3.88%) Citrix
7 12 (3.58%) Aruba
8 11 (3.28%) 3Com
8 11 (3.28%) Google
8 11 (3.28%) Juniper
8 11 (3.28%) Meraki
8 11 (3.28%) Splunk
9 8 (2.39%) SolarWinds
10 7 (2.09%) IBM
10 7 (2.09%) Oracle
11 6 (1.79%) Apple
11 6 (1.79%) Solace
12 5 (1.49%) Salesforce